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mem_somerville

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Scientist. Lacemaker. Special fan of Ipswich Lace.

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Sheril, to random
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Do you have a favorite species?

Mine is currently the wombat.

mem_somerville,
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@Sheril Potatoes.

MissingThePt, (edited ) to random
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With Ronna McDaniel vacating the RNC Chair in a pivotal election year, a savvy and universally-respected political operative is needed who is as acclaimed for being a brilliant strategist as a keen tactician.

By chance, the obvious candidate is available and sitting ready to answer the call.

mem_somerville,
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@MissingThePt Can we buy a Cameo with him applying for the job??

mem_somerville, to random
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I'm trying to clean out some space in the bookshelves (for the new-to-me lace books, of course...). I came across this one, which accompanied a TV series back in the day.

It was really illuminating about the reality of pre-modern life.

A point they make tho: absolutely nothing used to go to waste. But it was someone's job to deal with that nasty waste product, whatever it was....

mem_somerville, to Teachers
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LOL. The have done an acoustic version of their "workers song" for the in that are on .

I have their last album in my car, it's great stuff for driving and singing by yourself, with more union ballads.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2w_R9eu6PB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

mem_somerville, to random
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This really is a story that feels like old . This guy was my alderman for years, and I was not sorry to see him go.

But the rest of the story...zoiks.

https://commonwealthbeacon.org/politics/the-last-of-somervilles-old-guard/

mem_somerville, to random
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Wow. That's creepy and fascinating.

"Scientists document first-ever transmitted ’s cases, tied to no-longer-used medical procedure"

https://www.statnews.com/2024/01/29/first-transmitted-alzheimers-disease-cases-growth-hormone-cadavers/

mem_somerville, to Lace
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I was watching a video about the project by Maggie Hensel-Brown, and the needle lacers offered a bunch of good texts about stitches and styles.

After I quickly bought some used books... I added all of the ones I could find to the @wikipedia page.

And I absolutely love that 17th century unfinished project, so I added it to the page too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_lace

mem_somerville, to FiberArts
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Hey historians: do you have any links on embroidery? This remarkable piece just showed up on reddit and I've never seen anything like it.

And I trawl a lot of museum archives.

https://redd.it/1act656

mem_somerville,
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@NatureMC Acrostic is the letters in a line. In this case, the first letter of each row of text spells that woman's name out.

I had to take the image and adjust the contrast to see it properly.

I know of whitework in general, but the lettering on this was the special part.

mem_somerville, to TeslaMotors
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You want an #EV, but you don’t own a house. Here’s how to charge it.

It’s possible to charge an EV even if you don’t live in a single-family home with a garage. Here are the options.

#ElectricVehicles #ClimateChange #ElectrifyEverything #GiftedArticle

https://wapo.st/3Sxpgiw

mem_somerville, to random
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I'm so chuffed to hear Steve Kornacki get the NH town names right. He just nailed "Berlin" and got Merrimac right.

I heard someone earlier say "Merry Mack" and my neurons seized up.

He grew up in Northern MA.

mem_somerville,
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I have mixed feelings about the . I don't want Haley to do well, but I don't want this to be over yet either. She can still land some punches if she keeps going.

This might be the best outcome.

mem_somerville, to random
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Alarming 45-fold rise in in Europe - WHO

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68068226.amp

Daojoan, to random
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The great irony of modern copyright law is that the creators it is designed to protect lack the means to benefit from it in practice. While copyright theoretically grants rights to artists and authors, enforcing those rights is only possible by navigating a complex legal system that depends on significant financial resources for legal representation.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/copyright-is-both-vital-and-obsolete

mem_somerville,
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@Daojoan Another problem with Substack: they let people steal artwork and let the author lie about it after I filed a DMCA.

I don't have the money to fight Substack lawyers.

QasimRashid, to random
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Nikki Haley's family could only immigrate because Black civil rights leaders reformed America's racist immigration laws in 1965 to allow Asians to immigrate. Her father then taught at an HBCU.

For her to ignore slavery as the root of the civil war & now claim America was never at all racist is a level of anti-Black racism we typically only see from actual Nazis & KKK members. Truly horrifying.

mem_somerville,
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@QasimRashid I live in the Boston media market, and when her new ad for "Live free or die" came out last night--my eyeballs rolled pretty far back in my head....

caseynewton, to random
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Platformer is leaving Substack https://www.platformer.news/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack

mem_somerville,
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@caseynewton If anyone is looking for the next reason to leave Substack--a conspiracy theorist stole images of mine to use in his nutter subscriber newsletter. I tried to DMCA it--he lied and they let him.

He steals cartoon art, graphic art, and photos all the time. They don't care.

But they have a copyright legal team for their writers....

Jus' sayin'.....

mem_somerville, to random
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Librarians are the best humans, IMHO.

" faced spate of insults. Thousands of people came to his defense."

https://wapo.st/3TUvCK8

mem_somerville, to random
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I wasn't relying on the NYT snow predictions, but I wanted to see how well they did.

It's not good. Do not rely on NYT predictions for a number of things, this included. I joked to my housemate that this was worse that their election ones.

mem_somerville, to random
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Crisis averted. We have fully charged floppy fish in case of a power outage.

We will have cat entertainment tomorrow even if the power goes out.

mem_somerville,
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@ai6yr It has a remote too! You can distract the cat from a distance and make it flop or stop. Genius.

mem_somerville, to random
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LOL. Youse guys: we're "charming". This is pronounced chah-min, of course.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/1/4/what-happened-when-this-charming-town-found-out-its-actually-illegal

mem_somerville,
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I wish these pieces would say more about what we already have here. The most common house type here is already the 2-family, which is not typical for most of America. Next are the famous 3-deckahs, of course.

We have density built in and were still failing at it.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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Drop one of your family secrets.

mem_somerville,
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@cstephens2 @BlackAzizAnansi My impression is that eventually he knew--but they died a over a decade before I was even born, and I don't remember my mom relaying that part. I wonder if my older siblings know... I should ask.

mem_somerville, to SciComm
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Alas. I used to champion @TheConversationUS for , but their anti-agriculture stuff is atrocious.

The Conversation Gets it Wrong on

They are the definition of agnotology here--deceptively hiding facts and even the term . Shame on The Conversation. It's not the first of their and efforts on , though.

https://theness.com/neurologicablog/the-conversation-gets-it-wrong-on-gmos/

mem_somerville,
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@TheConversationUS @TheConversationUK It appears to me on the US site.

mem_somerville, to history
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So for folks who do and historical crafts: if you were asked by a small museum for your "daily rate", what would be a good number?

I don't want to undercut craftspeople who do this for income. And I don't want to make it out of reach for a small museum.

This is in New England, US--near Boston.

Any ideas? Pointers?

mem_somerville,
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For anyone following along to this discussion--I found a different local museum director to ask. This was a helpful anchor: they have a standard value for an hour of volunteer time. Currently that's $31.80.

So you could add your skills/gear/etc on top of that as a ballpark, anyway.

https://independentsector.org/blog/independent-sector-releases-new-value-of-volunteer-time-of-31-80-per-hour/

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