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weeaboo hipster trash living in the Frigid Northern Wastelands of the US

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Who wants to go on a roadtrip to piss on said grave? Up yours, Plato.

The Solarpunk Survey 2024 (leidenuniv.eu.qualtrics.com)

Hello everyone! For my bachelor’s thesis, I am making a survey to find out what Solarpunks think of the movement, the genre and the community. I believe Solarpunks are often curious about the thoughts of others in the community, so I think this could be another instance to promote discussion and interesting conversations...

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I got into solarpunk mostly because I’m too butch for cottagecore, but I might be too granny to satisfy the punk requirements. I wanna stay on my couch and knit, you guys, I’m so tired.

These scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used (arstechnica.com)

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and chisels and used those tools to perform tasks that might have been typical for that era. The resulting fractures and wear enabled...

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Even if it’s not unusual, it’s still cool. I need a video essay, stat.

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Strawberries is top of my list of things to start when I’m in a better situation to garden. Gotdamn squirrels got em when I tried before, and the maintenance guys just kicked over the barren-looking pots (tried to garden on the communal stoop since I don’t have a balcony or private patio, did not work).

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Look at that, they don’t spend the majority of their lives grinding to keep capitalism afloat. Sounds nice.

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This is the kind of thing I think about to get the useful bits out of the “touch grass” meme.

Unfortunately I’m not very good at it and time isn’t real until the stores put out the commercialized holiday crap: It’s only really summer when the 4th of July kitsch is put out on the shelves. It sucks and I want to be better about it.

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Another reason to eat the rich: so they don’t hoard culturally important shit.

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I am a fan of replicas that I can put my grimy tourist hands all over.

What is your preferred material for interchangeable needles?

I still consider myself somewhat of a recent knitter and while I’ve tried a few materials I’ve not quite settled on any particularly. I got the cheapest set of interchangeable needles I could get locally (KnitPro Trendz) which is acrylic and I already had to buy a spare because I broke one needle when I accidentally sat on...

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I started with bamboo needles because I had a hard learning curve for knitting, but now that I’ve leveled up I’m thinking about getting a metal set, especially in the smaller sizes. I have hopes that it’ll help my gauge issues, but chances are it won’t help that much :(

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I’m ready to defend my girl KonMari.

The TL;DR of this article is that KonMari method doesn’t work for the author. Author feels defensive about her collection of sentimental items and wants more advice about organizing than KonMari offers.

Maybe this book isn’t helpful for some people. That’s okay. Doesn’t mean you need to do clickbait libel to my girl with “debunk.”

Families will change dramatically over the years to come, says study (phys.org)

The number of relatives that an individual has is expected to decrease by more than 35% in the near future. At the same time, the structure of families will change. The number of cousins, nieces, nephews and grandchildren will decline sharply, while the number of great-grandparents and grandparents will increase significantly....

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Babies? In THIS economy?

But jokes aside, I wonder how this would stack up against pre-Industrialized society, what with the high infant/child mortality. And at least Catholics let women fuck off to the nunnery if the whole maternity thing didn’t appeal to them. One way that medieval Catholics were weirdly more progressive than most flavors of Protestants.

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If I remember my Navajo mystery novels correctly, this is specifically because the Navajo/Dinee consider corpses to be ritually unclean. I guess the equivalent would be taking powdered human waste up to the moon and flinging it around just to say there’s human DNA on the moon (I’m sure all the moon missions left their waste behind anyway, there’s already human DNA up there).

Prodigy out on Netflax and I'm happy to see Janeway done decently

sustained fangirl squeeingI’m only about eight episodes in, but gAwD, it’s amazing what studios can do when they actually do long-term planning. Consistent characterization that isn’t just smashing foils together like Tuvok and Neelix or Tom and Harry? More than 4 recycled plots? YAY BOSS BAE JANEWAY. Unfortunately,...

Shaggy dog yarn: Study unravels history and demise of long-haired canine (phys.org)

A little-known dog lineage with fur so thick it was spun into blankets was selectively bred for millennia by Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest until its rapid demise following European colonization, a study in Science showed Thursday....

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I wonder if it was more like sheep wool or alpaca wool.

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I wondered what the heck a “true” saddle was supposed to be, but it looks like they roughly defined it as a treed (wooden frame) saddle with stirrups attached. I can’t seem to parse whether the tree came before the stirrup – it’s implied but not stated – but it looks like a single mounting stirrup was invented before paired riding stirrups. I’ve seen a Native American (Cherokee? IIRC dated about Removal Time) saddle that was basically just a tree, presumably used with blankets above and beneath for comfort, without any indication of rings for girth or stirrup attachment, but that doesn’t rule out looping them through the gap between the tree bars (where the spine floats underneath). It was/is a trend within the last decade or so to use a treeless saddle for more “natural” horsemanship (whatever that means), and I’m sitting here wondering what that means for stirrup attachment. Layered on top of the girth, I hope, for stability. Gonna go fall down the google-hole.

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In the interest of horse-girl infodumping, I recall seeing some at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, OK, and luckily they have some pics for their online collection, thank you Gilcrease.

This one is the one I remembered offhand, with a high pommel and cantle (turns out it’s not Cherokee): collections.gilcrease.org/object/84987

Here’s one that used antler for the pommel and cantle, which I thought was neat: collections.gilcrease.org/object/84984

This one actually has stirrups, looks like the girth attachments are more sophicated than my Dunning-Kruger ass imagined, but the stirrup leathers are, in fact, looped over each of the wooden bars: collections.gilcrease.org/object/84985

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As ironic as it is to purchase yon library-economy-promoting book, our comrades still need that cash money to function in real life. And this indie ebook is significant cheaper than the last mainstream ebook I bought.

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maybe too this will offset all my Kindle recommendations from the trash romance novels I borrowed via Kindle on my library’s ebook app. I don’t actually want to purchase trash romance novels, thank you, just trash slice-of-life isekai manga

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Crisis averted, my dude pulled the other cat bed out of the hall closet. But why was it in the hall closet?

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Yeah, the sticky thing is that money is a useful, often convenient social construct, but I am not educated enough to know if it’s possible to effectively uncouple it from the baggage of capitalism.

Like how marriage can be a useful legal construct, buuuuuuut most of that is about property rights, and originates from when women WERE the property to be regulated. :/

Walden by Henry David Thoreau (www.gutenberg.org)

I’ve read a few books about simple living/minimalism but I just finished ‘Walden’ and wow… it’s beautiful. Many patient observations of simple natural phenomenon are wonderful meditations and potent lessons. It seemed just as relevant to present times as to when it was written. I finished feeling like there’s so much...

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Entirely possible I’m misremembering something I read for class as far as housekeepers, but chances are strong that he sent out his laundry, because laundry was heavy work.

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lol, even better

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