Anne

please tell the fruit scientists to start working on an apple with no core next. after that they should make a very large grape

I've just ordered a certified translation of a Latin text. It's 2026 so this can be done fully online

ok so I did just watch the "game changer" episode of "parlor room", where they play the currently on kickstarter board game. and my opinion is, I don't think I want to play this game, it's not that different and special than other party games. But they were joking about doing expansions. If this is the original flavor game, what I want to play is the "Thirsty Sword Lesbians" flavored expansion.

made another T-shirt today! I think it's worse than the first one but this is the placement that worked with the fabric I had left. Which is better?

excited to report that my merino wool shrunk by only 3" across the entire fabric width (about 55-60"?) when I machine washed a strip in a delicates bag on cold. Which is good enough that I threw the next chunk in the machine similarly as pre-treatment before I cut and sew.

https://anne.loves.technology/blog/tech/2026/05/23/guelph-lecture.html A blog post about a talk I saw

15.5 hours later, the shirt I made is wearable! Only thing left is maybe adding a pocket. I learned a lot about construction and am happy with how it came out!

pattern: https://helensclosetpatterns.com/, Cameron
fabric: https://graylinelinen.com/, bought in person in NYC circa 2018
buttons: https://www.decousuca.com/
workshop: https://rosewood-stitches.square.site/

@coral@kind.social For a while I split the difference and had a driver's license with x and a passport with my birth sex, under the idea that I could present the right thing in each moment. Never really worked out like that but it was a theory that I'd be more likely to encounter a hostile passport control border guard than a hostile local traffic cop? Everything is in my birth sex now as I was forcibly re-gendered when moving internationally - they only accepted passport as valid identity proof at the dmv here.

Learned how to sew a buttonhole on a sewing machine today! Reading the manual helped a lot. I made 5 test ones on my scrap fabric and then 8 real ones on my shirt. I am about 14 hours into shirt construction and only the button attachment, hole opening, and pocket attachment are left.

If you're wondering why I've been packing the car for the last two hours: we simply cannot go on a two day camping trip that's 35 minutes away without bringing at least seven musical instruments and four swords

@leonardr@wandering.shop https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79298

@stylus@social.afront.org I haven't lived in NYC for a bit but I agree it looks safe

Bonus tips to consider for NYC interactions:

• Walk with purpose
• Don't look at strangers too long
• If a stranger looks at you too long, you can look angry or blank at them (think "resting bitch face")
• If someone on the street is asking you for something, say "sorry, can't help you", keep walking, do not slow down (use judiciously)
• If you choose to sit on the train next to the door in touristy parts of Manhattan, keep a close hand on your possessions (wallet, bag, phone), don't use laptop
• Don't ask strangers to watch things for you
• If you're waiting for the train and a car is completely empty at a normal time of day / not at the end of the line, do not enter that car, walk to the next one over. There's a reason it's empty.
• If someone on the train is yelling about you/at you ignore it. don't escalate.
• Let people exit the train before you enter it, stand to the side of the door to wait

I love NYC! have a great time!

@astory@tilde.zone I'm not the target audience here, I don't think, because every reaction I had on reading this involves trying to exploit the vegetable loophole that I feel this opens. Can you eat slightly more of the boiled vegetables and make up for it? Maybe there's some nutritional yeast or flaxseed to add? If you deep fry them does it negate the benefits you get from not boiling or is it more like boiling in oil? Is freeze drying the anti boiling?

@ashley@digipres.club we never should have told the unicode consortium about emoji, the 2015 spec was the end of an era for little pictures made with ascii art

@maya wait does he find that or does he find that some female customers in Virginia are more positive when filling out survey forms overall. like did he get the actual tip data or did he assume that nobody lies on surveys to look good. not to be "economics research is fake" but... perhaps, economics research is in fact fake?

@maya ok but now i want to put hot dogs in a normal toaster