jonobie

ifixcoinops, 5 days ago to random

I've got a row of LEDs running across the front of my house that I turn on and reprogram at Halloween and winter solstice time, and I'd like to run them in Pride too but

1. I've probably only got a couple of years before people start making Assumptions about my lights having Pride flag colours rather than Progress flag colours, but
2. I don't have any brown LEDs

Fedi, how are you handling progress colours with RGB LEDs this year? Bonus points for folks running a single LED line 'cause that's what I'm doing, post pics pls!

jonobie, 5 days ago to random

Been annoyed with Doodle's more and more aggressive "pay us" stance recently, so went searching for some sort of alternative. I'm #polyamorous, working in a community of polyamorous people. Scheduling is a PAIN without polls, and also, I don't need to schedule so many meetings that it's worth paying what Doodle wants.

I'm pleased to report that Framadate (https://framadate.org/abc/en/) appears to be an awesome and free alternative. That, amusingly, I'm now going to go give money to.

jonobie, 6 days ago to random

I have a scab on my elbow because I … leaned too hard or long on it, and my skin just decided to give up in that spot?

Middle aged bodies are weird and fragile in more ways than I expected.

jonobie, 6 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to history

This is absolutely fantastic: Greek soldiers donned ancient Mycenaean armor and ran around reenacting battle techniques from the Iliad so that researchers could determine if the 51 pound pile of metal was intended to be ceremonial or actually used. They have photos! The solider looks like a steampunk robot! I love when #reenactment is used as part of #history research.

Also I’m laughing at what the #HistoryBounding version might be…

Gift link to the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/science/ancient-greek-armor-marines-study.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x00.V8nM.70WyHlk023IB&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&u2g=i

ninawillburger, 6 days ago to Archaeology

For #FindsFriday an elaborate Greek gold hairnet with garnet inlays, dating from the 3rd century BC, an older medallion of Medusa was reused in the centre.
From Taras (Tarento, Italy).

On display at Altes Museum, Berlin.

📷 taken by me

#Archaeology

jonobie, 6 days ago to random

I’m so ridiculously excited that I realized the providence of “still tied to the apron strings” as a weaving term meaning that it’s not done yet because it’s still attached to the loom.

jonobie, 6 days ago to FiberArts

Now that I (finally) have my 32" walnut stained Kromski loom put together [swoon, it is SO PRETTY] and have gotten the texsolv apron strings, I wanna warp and go!

...But now I'm waiting on warp separators. Grumble-mumble-being-patient-sucks.

What do y'all have on your loom right now or doing for craft? Pretty pictures will surely tide me over until Monday.

#weaving #fiberarts #craft