aethervision

@aethervision@universeodon.com

Mark Anderson. Forger of image, sound and iron. Co-proprietor of AnderWolfe Farmstead & Forge in Amboy, WA. In past lives, I've worked in most aspects of book publishing (Bookpeople, Ten Speed Press, University of California, Insight Editions, Parallax) as a designer and sales/marketing guy. Moved to video production for tech and mostly worked with VMware. Now I'm building a farmstead and forge in Southern Washington and making knives and other tools in addition to digital sparklies.

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RickiTarr, to random
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The French will talk about how Americans eat unsophisticated and unhealthy food, and then eat a baguette with a chocolate bar stuffed in it.

aethervision,

@RickiTarr Have you ever tried to work a full day on a breakfast of Gitanes and black coffee? A body needs the essential carbs and sugar to make it to that Royal with cheese waiting for you at lunch.

hacks4pancakes, to random

I know I’ve said this before, but as someone who goes into industrial process environments a lot, the lack in of decent ppe, especially FR gear, that properly and safely fits feminine bodies is a frigging travesty. It’s one of those things that actually leads to a culture of poor safety, because nobody really talks about it - guys typically don’t think about people wearing a bra or hairpins and how they could melt to a person in an industrial accident, and women feel like they have to shut up and be one of the guys. And almost everything that fits better requires a lengthy online order from backstock.

Anyway if you are planning on working in that space and aren’t a men’s size M-XXL like nearly all the gear, I’m always available to talk.

aethervision,

@hacks4pancakes My wife and I blacksmith and tend to goats and chickens. I’m 5’10” and she’s 5’. Her gear typically costs three times what mine does, when an equivalent is available at all.

Edited to show that my wife is 5 feet, not 5 inches, tall.

flexghost, to random
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ALL HAIL!

SAMUEL ALITO'S MOM'S SATANIC ABORTION CLINIC™

Clinic now open in New Mexico

Services include free online medical screenings and virtual appointments, discreet delivery with a $90 pharmacy fee, ans a dedicated 24/7 patient hotline

Brought to you by the good folks at The Satanic Temple

https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/samuel-alitos-moms-satanic-abortion-clinic

aethervision,

@flexghost They are quite simply crushing it with the merch. 10/10, no notes. https://thesatanictemple.com/products/tst-health-big-paw-brown-bear

Hey_Beth, to random
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    aethervision,

    @Hey_Beth The lead scientists on the board freaked out that their creation would kill people so they fired the shallow frat bro running the joint until they found out that everyone hated them for firing the frat bro so they tried to take it back because they’d rather have people die than be hated but everyone hates them now and they are sad.

    GottaLaff, to random
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    I just got a private message that I was being Trumpian for using mocking nicknames, that liberals shouldn't resort to demeaning names like I've used.

    Should I stop? Is it Trumpian? Because honestly, I'm offended. My stuff is so tame. I'm hardly in his insulting league, but if I am, tell me.

    aethervision,

    @GottaLaff Please don't. Mockery is often one of the sharpest tools of civic discourse.

    georgetakei, to random

    I don’t get it. Biden has done a fantastic job as president and seen us through some of the toughest times in recent history. The economy is strong, unemployment is at 60-year lows, inflation is tamed. But there are people calling for that youngster to drop out? (I have 6 years on him…) Why aren’t they calling on the guy who’s been indicted in four places and charged 91 times to drop out?

    aethervision,

    @georgetakei The problem is Biden isn’t enough of an autocrat for 1/2 the progressive movement.

    arstechnica, to random
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    Toxic toddler fruit pouches: “Extremely high” lead levels sicken 7 in 5 states

    Three brands of apple cinnamon fruit pouches have now been recalled.

    https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/toxic-toddler-fruit-pouches-extremely-high-lead-levels-sicken-7-in-5-states/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    aethervision,

    @arstechnica But if we take lead out of our children’s diets, where will we get the next generation of conservative deep thinkers? It isn’t like lead is in paint anymore thanks to the nanny state.

    GottaLaff, to random
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    Sometimes I get so overwhelmed I can’t stand it.

    I never, ever would have suspected growing up that in my “golden years,” I’d be consumed by the real and present dangers of catastrophic climate change and fascism in this country.

    Still fighting like hell, but that’s not the point of this post, so no need to tell me to “keep fighting, don’t give up.”

    I’m allowed, as you are, to feel scared, alarmed, overwhelmed sometimes.

    This is one of those times.

    aethervision,

    @GottaLaff As a member of Gen X, I find it gratifying that everything we thought would go wrong with the world did, in fact, go wrong, but that doesn’t mean I want to live in it.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    HAPPY ART SHOW SUNDAY!

    Drop a picture, video, link, or toot of something you created into the comments. Anything goes, just have fun!

    “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?” – George Bernard Shaw

    A photo I took of my best friend Cam surrounded by pumpkins, mums and straw bales

    aethervision,

    @RickiTarr Here are a couple things I created.
    As a blacksmith: Kitchen and farm knives and other tools, particularly the small cleavers.
    As a designer: I did a series of luggage tags and souvenirs during covid for destinations that don’t exist yet. My thinking was since no one was going anywhere, they might as well pretend to go somewhere new.

    2 small cleavers I made
    A luggage tag for a space elevator car operating from Africa to Geostationary orbit.
    A sweatshirt for the Rohan Cycling Team, an artefact from 5th age Middle Earth.

    nixCraft, to random
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    Math people 😂

    aethervision,

    @nixCraft It looked for a second like cake was going to turn into pi.

    catsalad, to random

    Don't get offended if someone calls you a plateau. It's the highest form of flattery...

    aethervision,

    @catsalad Mesa what you did there.

    RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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    Americans, when they see something from another country that they like: This is ours now, it belongs to us. Pretty sure we thought of it.

    aethervision,

    @RickiTarr @maya_b I was in my 20s before I learned non-catholics ate fish sticks. I could never understand eating the things unless the alternative, as my grandparents assured me, was eternal damnation for eating meat on a Friday.

    coloradosun, to random
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    A paradox exists in paradise.

    Too many people living in ski towns suffer with mental health problems, including a staggering number who’ve died by suicide in recent years, when it seemed they should be having the time of their lives.

    A new documentary, “The Paradise Paradox” co-produced by Bode Miller, explores mental health in the high country. A major part of the movie is a story about Eagle County’s unbelievable success at tackling the mental health crisis.

    Read: https://coloradosun.com/2023/10/31/new-movie-highlights-high-country-mental-health/?utm_content=bufferc0a0c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

    A woman with her hands in her pockets poses for a photo
    A group of young people talk while painting pumpkins
    A woman sits at a table, talking to someone

    aethervision,

    @coloradosun Cue the song “Is That All There Is?”

    cstross, to random
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    REMINDER: ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and other large trained neural models are NOT "artificial intelligence", they're just stochastic parrots, remixing and regurgitating what they've been fed. There's no theory-of-mind involved, so no understanding: there's no "there" there. (A real live parrot exhibits more intelligence than this.)

    Don't call it AI; call it parrot-tech. That way you'll have a better perspective on what it can (and can't) do.

    aethervision,

    @cstross I like James Whittaker’s crack that AI stands for Algorithmically Intensive.

    JamesGleick, to random
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    Here is the first act of the new right-wing Republican leadership of the House: As a condition of aiding Israel, they insist on defunding the IRS’s ability to go after rich tax cheats.

    Not sure why that isn’t getting bigger play in the mainstream press.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/31/israel-ukraine-congress-senate-austin-blinken/a47a753e-77a2-11ee-97dd-7a173b1bd730_story.html

    aethervision,

    @JamesGleick Hmmm…continue spending while defunding the agency that helps assure the government is funded…sure, I see no problem at all with this well thought through scheme.

    taylorlorenz, to random
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    Ok grandpa let’s get you to bed

    Musk saying cis is a slur

    aethervision,

    @taylorlorenz The guy is a real cis-pool.

    MeanwhileinCanada, to random
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    Hey, quit saying bad things about our wildlife!

    • Raccoons are clever
    • Squirrels are resourceful
    • Deer are gentle
    • Geese...
    • Foxes are beautiful
    aethervision,

    @MeanwhileinCanada What’s your position on beavers?

    MeanwhileinCanada, to random
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    An owl stole a child's stick horse and flew around with it.

    Photos by Eric Lind

    aethervision,

    @MeanwhileinCanada The birth of Quidditch.

    cstross, to random
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    Looking at social media rn and I keep seeing articles about: ever larger, ever more-expensive cars, SUVs and trucks out-selling smaller vehicles, rants calling for the abolition of public transport, hate campaigns directed at cyclists, an insistence that driving is the ONLY valid form of transport—

    The car industry is panicking. End of fossil fuel burners plus €10,000 for a car-sized battery pack equals end of a viable motoring economy (cheap second-hand cars can't exist in an EV future).

    /1

    aethervision,

    @cstross @zdl Living in a rural county in SW Washington (Clark), people are looking for a $40K-$50K EV that can tow a 1,500-2,000 pound trailer and has a 300 mile range. Anything else isn’t really a solution.

    aethervision,

    @zdl @cstross With respect, I think the US Electoral College and its net impact on US climate policy and that resulting impact on the global tenacity to deal with climate change begs to differ. I don’t expect anyone outside the US to get what I mean, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong.

    aethervision,

    @zdl @cstross Probably not but here goes: in order for the declaration of independence to be signed in the late 18th century, a series of compromises were baked into the American Constitution. The leading one is that rural areas have an outsized amount of influence over the legislative goings on in the US. I hope I don’t have to explain much about the influence the US economy has on the global economy nor its ability to deal with climate change.

    aethervision,

    @zdl @cstross At current. The American automotive industry is completely dependent on truck production, notably, rural and commercial truck production. Because of that the American economy is not going to allow for a solution that doesn’t address that market. Does that make it any clearer?

    aethervision,

    @zdl @cstross Neither is being pedantic, but somehow you don’t let it stop you and I, for one, salute your bravery. You’ve managed to stoke poor reading comprehension into a formidable case of outrage. Perhaps you should avail yourself of your fainting couch.

    aethervision,

    @zdl @cstross I appreciate the offer but since you’ve already used the other end so thoroughly, I’ll have to pass. Mind the splinters, stardust, they can infect mucous tissue like nobody’s business.

    aethervision,

    @zdl @cstross Who said I ever left. The guards miss you, by the way. Apparently the suction you can generate through being so fucking vacuous has a positive side benefit.

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