If you don't publish a salary range with your job listing, we assume you pay minimum wage. Even if you call the job Super Senior Director of Really Impressive Things. #NotApplying
I'm looking to pay an #embroidery#artist to convert a graphic into a layered #digital embroidery file. This is for baseball hats I'm going to gift to my grad school classmates & teachers at graduation this year. I'll need the file BY MARCH so I can send off to my local embroidery shop.
I know translating an image into embroidery is a true artform. I really need your creative expertise & skills.
@Bender If you're looking for other options, there's also a commission section on the Artisan's Cooperative Discord. There are quite a number of fibre artists there.
💧 Do you know where the water from the property you're on right now ends up? What creek or river is your property connected to?
Can the property soak up rain from heavy storms? Or is the site mostly paved, causing water to flood streets & overwhelm sewers? 🌊 Does the water sweep up pesticides or fertiliser as it does?
Find out where all that ends up using the link below - it might be in the water you drink & shower in. 🚿
Everything that ends up in the water that leaves your property (eroded dirt, pesticides, fertilizers, heat - all of which can harm tiny stream creatures, harm the fish that eat them, harm the birds and mammals that eat the fish, and harm us when drinking or showering) winds up in someone's water source.
And everything that your neighbors do upstream (sometimes hundreds of miles upstream) wind up in yours.
Since I'm now in my last semester of grad school for my Master of Landscape Architecture degree, I'm going to begin sharing pieces of my capstone project on here regularly.
I welcome all your comments, feedback, suggestions, references to related projects and people, and encouragement!
First up, my project title -
WATERSHED NEIGHBORHOODS:
Exploring Community-Building as a Method for Stormwater Management and Ecological Restoration
I refuse to be pessimistic about our climate future. Pessimism breeds inaction.
I'm changing my career to focus on designing ecologically restorative spaces and places.
I'm not asking you to change careers, but to simply:
• write letters often to elected officials
• plant some native species in your yard
• and to ask yourself: "Is this good for the environment? For my community? For our health?" with every purchase and action you take.
#PODCASTS I LOVE
Please share yours in the comments! 🤓
Ologies w/ Ali Ward
Irreverent interviews with experts on the natural world & all areas of scientific study https://www.alieward.com/ologies
Tech Won't Save Us w/Paris Marx
Critical coverage of the dark side of the tech industry & ways to fight for better outcomes https://www.techwontsave.us/
On The Media w/ Brook Gladstone
Exploring how the media covers headline stories & why they don't cover other stories of importance https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm
More evidence that carbon offsets are a fantasy. Unless your carbon solution reduces or prevents emissions in the first place, it's not actually solving anything.
When I was studying theater in my mid-20s, my scene partner and I were disagreeing on our characters - we were traveling singing minstrels (Shakespeare) and I thought our characters were bad singers who sang anyway because people would pay us to stop singing. My scene partner thought our characters were good singers who found their life's calling.
We couldn't come to an agreement so went to our director and explained our motivational conflict.
@Bender Yeah, it feels like it's intentionally confusing. But as far as I can tell, everyone actually working on Firefox is employed by the Corporation. Money flows from the Corporation to the Foundation, not the other way.
@Bender I'm not saying you shouldn't donate to the Mozilla Foundation, a lot of their work seems good and valuable. I am saying that I do not see any evidence that money donated to the Mozilla Foundation directly helps Firefox, so if you want to financially support Firefox, I don't think donating to the Foundation accomplishes that.
I also think it's shameful that they have not clarified this situation, because I think many donations to the Foundation are from people wishing to help Firefox.
This site is FASCINATING! Gives real-time energy usage, source mix, and emissions for much of the globe. Current electricity cost, too! A link to this is going on my desktop.
• companies weren’t willing to continue operating the plants. It wasn’t economic to do so. Nor is it economic to build new ones.
• politicians weren’t finding a solution to waste storage.
• importing uranium from Russia is politically contentious, especially when you’re winding down gas imports.
Our weird New Year's day custom is the Mummers' Parade. Groups of people from all walks of life and from around the region wake up at 5am, dress up in ridiculous outfits, and strut up Broad Street while a live band of weird instruments (tubas, banjos, glockenspiels, etc.) accompany them.
This image is from the winning String Band team last year (there are 5 divisions, with the String Bands and the Fancy Brigades being the two with the best production values).
The most paradigm-shifting idea I was introduced to in 2023 was (to paraphrase):
History isn't the study of the past, it's the study of why the world is the way it is today.
And it makes me want to read more history in 2024. Geologic history. Natural History. Prehistoric history. Cultural history...
I don't know who to attribute this thought to, but it's too good not to share. If anyone knows who said this, please reply and I'll edit this post to add attribution.
Any speakers of Lenape out there who can translate the word "Wawayanda"? It's a name associated with a region near north NJ / southern NY.
It's generally understood by laypeople (white folk) in the northeast that "wawa" means "wild goose", but not sure if that's truly accurate (doesn't show up in the Lenape Nation's official online dictionary) or what the second half of the word might mean.
EDIT: The name of the town Wawa is in turn derived from the Ojibwe word we'we (pronounced "way-way") meaning snow goose, despite the company's image of a Canada goose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawa_%28company%29
That said, if you search for wawa in the Lenape dictionary you linked, you get a phrase / long compound word containing "wawa", translated as "you people brought him"?