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Devine Lu Linvega

Two days to kill before the tide turns and allows us to cross the rapids.

Devine Lu Linvega

So, @abnercoimbre kindly asked me to come talk with Handmade Seattle again this year.

In response to the recent mass layoffs and crumbling tech landscape, Abner suggested that I come present some thoughts I might have on different ways to adapt and live.

See you there 🌻 Nov 20-22nd, 2024

wiki.xxiivv.com/site/talk.html

Devine Lu Linvega

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Millay photographed by Arnold Genthe in 1914 in Mamaroneck, New York
Devine Lu Linvega

When we changed our mainsail in 2019, we kept the old battens. We've used them for a variety of projects over the years.
More recently, we used some as a way to keep the books from falling out when sailing.

A makeshift library in a sailboat made out of plastic crates, filled with books and boxes,with old mainsail battens used to keep books from falling out.
David JONES

@rek a padlock on one end would also protect the books from any stowaway book thieves.

Devine Lu Linvega

We often get asked how we spend our times during long transits, there's ALWAYS something to fix.

Our raincoats(Guy Cotton & Grundens) both came with the same defect, because that's what you get when you buy things nowadays.

Both can't tighten the hood because one is missing terminating to the chord, the other straight up doesn't have tensioners.

So that's what we do underway, we harvest parts from other things, and fix stuff.

Devine Lu Linvega

It surprised me to see that I could just pull the chord terminators on the Grundens coast(orange) straight out, they didn't bother making a knot inside the things. It's so common that we have to "finish up" the products that we get. It's like these clothes are in Beta, and we patch them upstream with fixes.

Devine Lu Linvega

Per BBC: "Saudi authorities have permitted the use of lethal force to clear land for a futuristic desert city being built by dozens of Western companies, an ex-intelligence officer has told the BBC.

Col Rabih Alenezi says he was ordered to evict villagers from a tribe in the Gulf state to make way for The Line, part of the Neom eco-project.

One of them was subsequently shot and killed for protesting against eviction. " #dystopia #SaudiArabia

AI6YR

BBC: "He said the April 2020 order stated the Huwaitat was made up of "many rebels" and "whoever continues to resist [eviction] should be killed, so it licensed the use of lethal force against whoever stayed in their home"." #dystopia

AI6YR

Per BBC: "Saudi authorities have permitted the use of lethal force to clear land for a futuristic desert city being built by dozens of Western companies, an ex-intelligence officer has told the BBC.

Col Rabih Alenezi says he was ordered to evict villagers from a tribe in the Gulf state to make way for The Line, part of the Neom eco-project.

One of them was subsequently shot and killed for protesting against eviction. " #dystopia #SaudiArabia

Devine Lu Linvega

We motored out of Ballet Bay in a calm, but I could see a dark blue band on the water way ahead, a look through the binoculars revealed a few whitecaps. Um, there was plenty of wind out there! We expected little to no wind, but got 15-20 knots on the nose, like yesterday (forecast called for 5-15 knots). This wind permitted an afternoon of close-hauled sailing to our next anchorage :>!

We're now anchored in Sturt Bay on Texada Island, with plans to leave tomorrow for Desolation Sound.

Devine Lu Linvega

*jankenpon to figure out who gets to leave the blankets to put a log in the stove*

[DATA EXPUNGED]
Devine Lu Linvega

A concatenative programming capable of running Factor's implementation of the Y combinator, hosted on the 300 lines implementation of Modal, by @typeswitch and @capital:
concatenative.org/wiki/view/Mo

Capital

@neauoire I still cannot get over how clean @typeswitch's implementation was. I should add my sierpinski triangle to this page. Really show off that there isn't limits to how high it can build.

Devine Lu Linvega

Started documenting the various parts of the rewrite computer, with example that show how mouse events are handled, and how pixels are drawn on the screen.
wiki.xxiivv.com/site/thuesday

A pretty round gradient and a bit of code that generated it.
Devine Lu Linvega

Sigil 2 (Learning)

4" x 4"
Acrylic, Charcoal, Graphite, Collage, Gold Leaf
Wood Panel

A Wormrōte sigil meaning 'learning' is highlighted with a star in gold leaf. A faint collage of hymns is scattered in the background, and the edges of the round panel are gilt in gold leaf.
R E K

@helveticablanc Gold leaf looks so fun to work with. A friend of mine used it a lot on her personal works too, been a fan since then :>!
The texture of traditional works is so damn satisfying. Beautiful work, as always.

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Comrade Weez

@afif He's absolutely right about everything he says in this. Except for one thing.

If Trump wins, there won't be any more elections. Israel will have carte blanche for wholesale genocide, in daylight, with gas chambers.

Abstaining, voting 3rd party or voting for Trump all have the same effect.

I will be voting for Biden on the least-worst principle.

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