finn

@finn@sfba.social

Berkeley native, theoretical tech worker, casual generalist artist, anxious but friendly. I like making things and spoiling my perfect cat. They/them.

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Bronwyn, to random
@Bronwyn@sfba.social avatar

My student (8 years old) is thinking of “bad ideas that sound good” (we’re working on ideas for that and “good ideas that sound bad” (controlled burns for forest fires).

What other ideas do you all have?

finn,

@Bronwyn "letting someone shine lasers into your eyes" could be either one depending on whether the someone is a licensed eye surgeon or not

"training a cat to use a toilet" is also sort of both; it's apparently actually quite doable, but you should not teach it to flush because then it gets to watch the loud swirly water whenever it wants and cats don't know anything about water conservation

finn,

@Bronwyn "looking directly at an eclipse" sounds like a good idea if no one has explained why it's not yet

borrowing from calvin and hobbes, setting the microwave for twice as long just to make sure the popcorn all pops

finn,

@Bronwyn luckily you have the internet and we're a lot like third graders

finn,

@Bronwyn I'm riffing in a thread with some friends haha. they add: connecting household appliances to the internet (sounds good, is bad), keeping a great dane or a greyhound in a small apartment (sounds bad, is good).

"burying a raw fish for several months and then eating it" is another ambiguous one depending on how scandinavian you are

finn,

@Bronwyn friend who has a knitting machine suggests: having a knitting machine 😂

finn,

@Bronwyn I nudged them back to the other category, good but sounds bad, and got:

  • welding on a pressurized natural gas line (it's too concentrated to explode)

  • riding your bike in the middle of the traffic line, when there's no bike lane (it's way safer than riding along the edge of the parked cars, or on the sidewalk)

  • sharpening your knives to avoid knife injuries

finn, to random

a sleepy #caturday question mark

finn, to random

a couple of months ago, @terri posted about a thermal paper instant print camera and I thought "that sounds fun" and went about my day

a few weeks later, looking for a present for my inner artist child, I picked one up. and loved it! went on a photo walk every day for the first week and irregularly afterwards -- it's still in my daily bag. I collected some of my faves in daily sketchbook pages, and then started thinking about putting a few more of them together in one place

I've been practicing investing more time in my creative projects, and especially in letting my art be messy and imperfect, and showing it off anyway

y'know what's good for that? scissors, glue, and staples.

several scraps of beautiful handmade paper with different patterns and textures, spread around a photocopy of those scraps
flats for a quarter-page-sized booklet -- that is, pieces of letter paper with four smaller pages glued to each, upper ones upside down. each little page has a shaded or textured background. all of them have photos glued to them, including some of the ones from the earlier picture; some also have words. the ones we can see are: - the reflection of a lamp post in a long puddle - the cherry blossoms from before, with the text: "no festival here? / no one told / the cherries" - a Little Free Library on the sidewalk, half hidden by foliage, with the text: "Poet's Corner / books around / every tree" - the pier photo from earlier - a "speed bumps ahead" sign in front of a partly cloudy sky, with the text: "stood in the street / to take this-- / don't tell my mom" - a closeup of the radial leaves of a succulent that someone who knows succulents could probably identify - a dense cluster of daisies. the background pair on this one has hand drawn flowers - the sundial photo from earlier a couple more pages are visible behind these and there are some stacks of paper and index cards barely in frame

finn,

AND SO

this lil collection of photos and poems is coming soon to an indie bookstore zine rack near you, at least if you live near me.

no software was harmed in the making of this layout (and it shows). I really underestimated how exhausting it would be to do this by hand, but I'm glad I did it once. next time I'll let the computer help a little more!

finn,

these are now on sale at Pegasus in downtown Berkeley! just in time for their Independent Bookstore Day event on Saturday -- win fabulous prizes while supporting your local booksellers and artists ❤️ https://www.pegasusbookstore.com/bookstore_day_2024

#Berkeley #EastBay #zines

the zine opened to a two page spread with a medium gray background. on the left, a portrait oriented photo of the trunk and inner branches of a thick knotty tree, with the caption: merry eyes, rustling laugh: the median oak on the right, a landscape oriented photo of a Speed Bumps Ahead road sign, with dramatically shaded clouds behind it. the caption is: stood in the street to take this-- don't tell my mom

Axiom, to random
@Axiom@fiberart.club avatar

Does anyone have a link to a daily/weekly/monthly chore list that's more realistic for people with ADHD?

I want to do a better job of taking care of my home, but I can only find lists that are like "daily chores: clean the entire house top to bottom" and that's just not gonna happen for me.

finn,

@Axiom this isn't a list rec but I found the book How to Keep House While Drowning really helpful for how to think about questions like that. it has a practical and nonjudgmental approach; stuff needs cleaned when it's keeping you from using or enjoying your space, not when it's been x time. (but the author also likes having fixed times for things and shares how she does that)

terri, to FiberArts
@terri@social.afront.org avatar

Glorious chunky handspun colour 2 is ready for its bath! 💕

#spinning #fiberarts @fiberarts #100DayStashDown

finn,

@terri @fiberarts oooh I love this color

terri, to knitting
@terri@social.afront.org avatar

#yarnuary prompt: "who do you make things for?" -- mostly for myself, but I used to make something for my grandmother every Christmas before she passed. She used to crochet all the grandkids a new hat/mitt/scarf set every year to match our (80's neon) snowsuits as we grew, so it was fun to design and make things for her. Plus, as she started to get dementia she often worried about being forgotten, and there's nothing quite like "I made this" to help reinforce that I was thinking about her every day as I knit.

Here she is wearing one of my presents, with several of her own afghans visible in the photo too.

#knitting @knitting

finn,

@terri @knitting I love how your design complements her work, another way it shows you were really thinking about her

terri, to knitting
@terri@social.afront.org avatar

Some of my favourite colours of this set are coming up soon!

I'm up to day 15 of 21 in this solstice countdown. Had to take a break because it turns out knitting it on a shorter cable wasn't great for my hands, but after a rest and an ergonomic fix I'm back at it!
💛💕🧡💛💚🩵

Yarn: 🦄 My Little Yarnicorn Winter Solstice countdown from Teal Torch Knits

Pattern: 🌈 modified Iridian by Yeonee Makes. I made the brioche more complicated because I like brioche patterning and dislike counting. The fancier of the two stitch patterns is from the Madrona Cowl by Pdxknitterati

#BriocheKnitting #knitting @knitting

finn,

@terri @knitting aaaa the colorrrs

finn, to random

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME AND NIKITA OKHOTIUK #SanJoseSharks

finn, to random

thinking about how monarch butterflies' migration takes longer than their individual lifespans

imagine being born knowing you Must Travel West, and dying without ever being West Enough, nor knowing anyone who'd ever seen where you started or where you were going

finn, to random

on the way to the tiny coffee shop in the park, hoping I was still in time for the breakfast burrito popup, I passed a local pottery sale including wild clay and glazes, a couple guys setting up to play mtg on a picnic blanket, and a lion with a wizard hat and a guitar singing about climate action.

tell me you live in Berkeley without telling me you live in Berkeley

finn,

(I love my neighborhood)

finn,

I'm rounding it out by bringing my knitting, btw. I have a couple more indoor things to do today but my kitchen is clean and my part tracks are rehearsed, so I'm getting some sunshine in

finn,

"what are you rehearsing?" why, I'M GLAD YOU ASKED

Oakland Gay Men's Chorus opens its 25th season in a couple weeks with ✨❄️ Make The Yuletide Gay. ❄️✨ we have shows in Oakland and Walnut Creek again, plus a sneak preview in Alameda.

all our shows this year have sold out and this one is well on its way already. tickets here! https://www.oaklandgmc.org/tickets

(tag spam: #Oakland #WalnutCreek #Alameda #EastBay #Music #LiveMusic #LGBT #LGBTQ did I miss any? lol)

finn,

real talk for folks this is important to: venues notwithstanding, this is not a particularly religious show. it's mostly secular Christmas music, including some unfamiliar arrangements of familiar melodies (ever heard Deck the Halls in 7/8 time?) and a beautiful Hannukah song I bet you've never heard before (because it was written in 2021). we will wish you blessings but assume nothing about your faith.

this is in the same spirit as the chorus itself, which despite the name is open to all singers in the tenor-bass range and has no expectations about your gender or sexuality. (I was pleasantly surprised how not weird it is to be trans here.) if that sounds fun, the next round of low-pressure auditions is in January: https://www.oaklandgmc.org/auditions

(especially if you're a low tenor! we are mighty but outnumbered. 😂)

finn, to knitting

finished this over the weekend and finally got a chance to take a decent photo. not too dang bad for my first #knitting project imo. 😎

finn,

@kurobita that's so pretty! love your color choices

finn,

@kurobita ohh I'm always eyeing those. still a great yarn choice with this pattern, it gives some variety without distracting from the stitch variety (like a denser variegated would imo)

eniatitova, to bookstodon
@eniatitova@sfba.social avatar

I started a thing! a new ritual? a project?

I borrow a lot of books from the library after placing a hold, so even though I pick them up at my home library, they’re originally from other branch libraries in the @sfpl system.

so going forward, I’m going to start returning them to their branch libraries of origin until I’ve visited all the different locations.

today: returning Hernán Díaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Trust to the Excelsior branch. It’s the best thing I’ve read this year.

@bookstodon

finn,

@eniatitova @bookstodon what a cool building! how did you like the book? I assume I read it at some point but not recently (and I didn't see the recent film)

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