@playinprogress@assemblag.es
@playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

playinprogress

@playinprogress@assemblag.es

ex HistSci ex care worker nursing chestnuts. draws a lot and gardens. my father might have been the first person to print the word "hacking" in a German publication, which honestly explains a lot. bisexual burnt out autistic

they/them & she/her

searchable

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

playinprogress, to art
@playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

I know many people find that Xitter has become an unreadable grifter nazi hell hole, but I just looked at my timeline over there, the "Following" one, and it was so full with beautiful that I got sad. Filling my feed with just a shitload of amazing art from past and present is one of the things I have not been able to recreate over here, not nearly to the same degree. And yes I know about the relevant hashtags and art focused servers and all that.

playinprogress,
@playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

...but afaict especially the art history bots that I love so much are just not here. There were a whole bunch of them a while ago at arthaus.social, but that somehow fell asleep, and I have not seen any similar endeavors anywhere since 😢 I dearly miss my daily dose of Zinaida Serebriakova, or Fantin-Latour, or anyone propagating Stephen Ellcock's curations, or the artistsofcolour account, or all the art accounts retweeting each others' most beautiful images.

playinprogress,
@playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

It's a bit funny to me that as many people had been calling Xitter a "hellsite" already for years, it was actually easier for me to fill my feed with things that give me joy over there than it is here. And somehow also less aggressively depressing things. Yes, I put quite a bit of thought & effort into how I curated things over there. I do the same here. But somehow here is harder for me.

playinprogress,
@playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

@levampyre Oh yes, the gardeners are here! What I am missing is really specifically the art stuff described above.

Also, thank you <3

playinprogress, to random
@playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

"When Extinction Rebellion blockaded Rupert Murdoch’s Broxbourne print works in 2020, the use of tensegrity towers made it almost impossible for police to dismantle the blockade safely.... The structures’ beauty is that they can be premade, packed and transported in relatively compact form, and then speedily unfurled in all their cop-confusing glory."

👉...maybe all that Buckminster Fuller nerdery will come in handy some time after all...👈

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/06/tunnels-treehouses-tensegrity-towers-protest-architecture-ucla-

playinprogress, to random
@playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

Today was the first time I planted potatoes in shorts and a tank top at 25 °C. Before it used to be basically the first thing to do in the garden, yes when the ground had thawed and all that, but usually really quite miserable wet cold weather still. It is still the first thing we did in the garden. Some of the difference is that I am just a bit later with it this year, but some of it is that the first weekend of April feels like fucking June already.

This world is so weird now.

kissane, to random
@kissane@mas.to avatar

So granted, I’m coming down from a fever, but I feel increasingly committed to the idea that the hollowness and repulsiveness at least some people identify in prompt-generated art is the opposite number of the species of thing Christopher Alexander considered most central, and I mean that in the most rigorous and least woozy way.

Niche post, deeply felt.

playinprogress,
@playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

@kissane this toot is still echoing in my head

AdaraAstin, to random
@AdaraAstin@smutlandia.com avatar

I wonder sometimes if men's suits genuinely look good, or if they just seem good due to the combination of status marker and social conditioning.

It's hard to separate social constructs from perception and taste.

playinprogress,
@playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

@AdaraAstin @prettyhuman do I have a pink suit for you (not the same material though, this one is sparkly...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YHVC1DcHmo

playinprogress, to random
@playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

sunday morning prayers

Jon Batiste - Freedom
https://youtu.be/3YHVC1DcHmo

playinprogress,
@playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

Blanche Ellis - No Hurry, I live Here

https://youtu.be/kIz9K-1CjfI

playinprogress, to random
@playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

The thing that strikes me most in that Guardian article about plastic that is doing the rounds, is that the dominance of single use plastics themselves was in no way an accident or simple myopia, but intentionally promoted because more profitable.

It's been planned obsolescence all along.

I would call it a crime if it wasn't so very legal.

And now it is so hard to imagine a world without it. What a mind fuck.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-plastics-producers-report

neurovagrant, to random
@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org avatar

deleted_by_author

    •
    playinprogress,
    @playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

    @neurovagrant I moved in with my dad a few years ago, which worked well for a while because we are both autistic in similar ways, mostly stick to ourselves, don't meddle etc. etc. But now that his cognitive decline is worsening and he gets confused a lot more, this "keeping out of each other's hair" approach does not work anymore, and wow is it stressing me out.

    playinprogress, to random
    @playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

    Ok das hat zwischen Anfaellen von "wenn schon dann richtig" und "ups, es passieren ja auch noch andere Dinge im Leben" etwas laenger gedauert als gedacht, aber. Die Fahne haengt! Und zwar richtig 😊 . Rundum mit Hutband verstaerkt und jedes Loch genietet und zu meiner Ueberraschung ist die Fahne auch noch groesser im Verhaeltnis zum Scheunentor als ich geschaetzt hatte 😁

    playinprogress,
    @playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

    Backstory: https://assemblag.es/@playinprogress/111205404334975380

    TarkabarkaHolgy, to random Hungarian
    @TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social avatar

    you walk the books to the library for supervised visitation so you can check them out again

    playinprogress,
    @playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

    @TarkabarkaHolgy There should be a provision about number of years a book has to continuously live with you after which it becomes legally yours. Because some of these tomes have practically merged with my shelf by now.

    On the other hand, I love my library and do not want it to be diminished in the slightest!

    levampyre, to random German
    @levampyre@chaos.social avatar

    Ich habe nach langer, langer Zeit mal wieder ein Update in unserem Blog gepostet. Es herrschte ja neulich Verwirrung, ob wir denn nun schon draußen leben oder nicht und was jetzt mit unserem Haus ist und so weiter. Enjoy! https://levampyre.de/blog/?p=248

    playinprogress,
    @playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

    @levampyre mein herzliches Beileid re: die 50%. Ich habe heute gerade meine riesige Queerflag/antifaschistische Propaganda fuers Scheunentor endlich von der Aenderungsschneiderei geholt. Da wurde ringsum nochmal mit Hutband verstaerkt, jetzt kann ich die Loecher reinnieten und vielleicht naechste Woche endlich aufhaengen...

    mishellbaker, to random
    @mishellbaker@wandering.shop avatar

    Question for you:

    What are some things you enjoy about winter?

    playinprogress,
    @playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

    @mishellbaker how the dark makes the world feel more quiet, making it easier to delve deeper into the things I love doing

    playinprogress, to gardening
    @playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

    In other words, 2020 might have been a good year to start not just because a bunch of humans had more free time during spring, but also because whatever they planted that year was actually more productive than usually...

    https://www.newscientist.com/article/2403856-plants-are-more-productive-on-weekends-thanks-to-cleaner-air/

    playinprogress, to transit
    @playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

    I have spent some time in shops recently for reasons, among the shops one that claims to be Germany's largest, and have been kinda shocked about the lack of color choice for bike helmets. I always gravitate towards what I then realize is the kids' section 😅

    This frustrated me enough that I went looking for actually colorful options for adults, and found these: https://www.melon-helmets.com/collections/all

    Just posting this as a PSA + note to future self, I don't even need a new helmet atm 🙃

    HeavenlyPossum, to random

    Comrades.

    I’ve been down lately. A bad cold. The darkness of winter setting in. The horrors of the world. A thousand trolls in my mentions. excusing horrific violence.

    Please. Some good news. Of any kind, at any scale. Just share some good shit. Tell me about your rays of sunshine.

    My family adopted a calico kitten recently and she’s the best thing since sliced bread, sweet and adorable and playful and affectionate.

    playinprogress,
    @playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

    @HeavenlyPossum I planted 300 tulips last week in a place where many many people will see them next spring (old formerly abandoned garden plot at the side of a main road), and I will be able to give gifts of tulip bouquets, too, and stand in the middle of them getting high on colors when the sun shines.

    Also, apparently Portugal just did a test run of running on exclusively renewable energy for 6 days.

    inquiline, to random
    @inquiline@union.place avatar

    You can take the person out of the 90s but not the 90s out of the person, I guess. Gave myself an extremely DIY haircut yesterday. Surprisingly pleased with it. Up next: rooting around for my flannels?

    playinprogress,
    @playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

    @inquiline @carrideen *cough in self-cut home-bleach

    jack, to random
    @jack@berlin.social avatar

    "I've arrived at a conclusion that the only way forward is to trim. Take the curatorial scissors, and cut out all the components of the modern web that are not immediately conductive to having—in essence—a nice reader mode."

    https://branchingpaths.garden/grazing-the-web/

    playinprogress,
    @playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

    @jack "All progress requires sacrifice, and I am gladly sacrificing advertisers."

    I might want to have that sentence on a t-shirt or sticker somewhere...

    tante, to random
    @tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar

    The whiplash one who's kinda embedded in German and international leftist communities is really brutal.

    playinprogress,
    @playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

    @tante ich fühle dies

    levampyre, to random German
    @levampyre@chaos.social avatar

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Ich will irgendwas kaputt schlagen! Oder anzünden. Oder vielleicht auch jemanden. 🔥🧨🤬

    playinprogress,
    @playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

    @levampyre
    Elsterglanz -
    Kaputtschlaahn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXfvPWSnkM0

    levampyre, to gardening German
    @levampyre@chaos.social avatar

    Habe am meinen ersten und letzten Muscade de Provence rechtzeitig vor dem Frost heute Nacht geerntet. Laut Anleitung reift er nach der Ernte noch nach. Der gewählte Standort war im Sommer deutlich zu trocken. Die Pflanze brauchte ewig, bis sie abging und hat erst ab September mit Beginn der Regenzeit so richtig bemerkt, dass sie noch am Leben ist und das ja mal ausnutzen könnte.

    playinprogress,
    @playinprogress@assemblag.es avatar

    @levampyre mir ging es mit meinen kuerbissen aehnlich, nur dass bei uns der regen schon im august kam. Aber bis dahin hatten die noch kaum strecke gemacht. Also, so wirklich gar nicht.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • anitta
  • ethstaker
  • DreamBathrooms
  • InstantRegret
  • magazineikmin
  • tester
  • khanakhh
  • everett
  • thenastyranch
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • tacticalgear
  • kavyap
  • osvaldo12
  • JUstTest
  • mdbf
  • GTA5RPClips
  • ngwrru68w68
  • provamag3
  • Durango
  • rosin
  • cisconetworking
  • normalnudes
  • modclub
  • megavids
  • cubers
  • Leos
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •