She/her. Art, sewing, people, history, science, human rights, sustainability & nature fan, serial perfectionist. Anachronistic goth, gray ace gay, cat mom. Chronically ill, disabled, ND. Traditional media artist, dressmaker, crafter, photographer. Alt text enthusiast. Fuck AI! Profile pic: Photo portrait of white woman wearing a ginger wig in a Victorian do, with round rose gold glasses and a white high neck blouse, pale blue eyes and kind gaze. Header: Green pine needles with water droplets. Location: Finland Languages: Finnish, English Haunted by the ghosts of: Latin, Swedish, German Status: Freshly in my Linux era
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Last Notes npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Choose a small act of service being magically done and delivered to you: npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia An idle poll, about Linux and Mastodon (other Fediverse flavours available)... Did Mastodon make you install Linux? npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia A poll, about socks! 🧦 You are obligated to wear a whimsical, colourful pair of socks with a cute pattern. What are you going for? I implore you to boost this very important research, should it please you! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia This is just after I fed all four of them some tube treat, and all but Karvinen waiting patiently for their turn, all of them quite close to each other. Apparently tube treat is enough to broker peaceful relations! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Multi-cat! Several cats, all on the desk at once! #Cats #VisitingSir #TripleCat https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/487/037/124/680/336/original/0e3af0997ca4bc49.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia The cat photos will continue, for morale purposes. A napping littlest sir, preparing for summer by shedding his fur everywhere. #Cats https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/482/786/413/270/322/original/c4d703b33779897f.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia He's got some good stripes, the boy npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Common Boy Interlude: My cats continue being quite cute and sweet, even if the guest star gets more posting for now. 😄 #Cats https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/482/332/427/422/634/original/916f85b220498339.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Just moments after I told him not to drop the seam ripper off the desk, and moments before he did: #Cats https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/459/626/825/891/100/original/0e83668aa054b654.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Quick! A benevolent house fairy, a kotitonttu, is going to take care of one thing in your household in exchange for a platter of pastries! Which one is it? npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia A poll, about hobbies! If you could, easily and without a bonkers cost, with a good and patient instructor, with all the requisite supplies, and also magically had the time... Which of these would you want to try? npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Friends, enemies, strangers and everyone in between! How're you feeling on this fine Thursday? npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia A poll, about walking and sound! When you're at home, do you walk quietly in order to not make a bunch of noise with your steps? Just noticed, after doing an annoyed turn and going back to the kitchen to pick up utensils because I forgot them, that I've been living so long in mid and high rises that I walk quietly and on tiptoe in deference to the neighbours even when I'm not paying attention to it. And that it would be unimaginable not to do so! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Some sun cats for you, while I languish in the throes of Books Disease. Please enjoy so at least one of us has use of the serotonin! #Cats https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/364/658/314/595/188/original/6263729ac68265b2.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia I don't remember where exactly I got it from, probably some book of Slavic origin, but I did use to drink tea with jam sometimes. It's quite nice, makes it sweet and adds a berry or fruit flavour, and the jam makes pretty swirls of colour and light as it dissolves. Completely unknown to me how common it is! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia A poll, about tea! 🫖 Does jam belong in tea? For example a dollop of raspberry jam in black tea. npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia I am having some plumbers over and Pörri, the littlest sir, is having some thoughts and emotions about it. #Cats https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/289/675/645/827/517/original/f764f67df5520ed1.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Finnish speaking comrades! Lend me an example of your favourite and possibly most incomprehensible bit of local dialect and its translation! Just for funsies! Example and suggestion of form: "Alakkonää?" which is transformed by dialect from "Alkaisitko sinä minua?" and meaning: "Would you please cordially agree to play with me right now or at a later time, perhaps today after school?" #Finnish #Languages #Äidinkieli_Iäti #Suomi npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Last night in the middle of the night Karvinen fell off the cat tree and brought the padding of the tree with him, and I left it on the floor because it was the middle of the night... And thus Pörri got to experience the joy of being the happiest little trip hazard he's ever been. 😹 #Cats https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/250/359/988/755/551/original/ea83c072cb8c952f.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia It's just a Tuesday and I am once again struck by how I'm just using Linux now? After the slight hassle of setting it up (wow my brain does not like new things sometimes) after install with the help of a friend, I've just been using it? All my things, I'm doing them? Everything works, there's barely been any problems and none that a rolling back to earlier snapshot didn't fix, and I've even now used a video editing software after years of not doing that? It's nice. #Linux #LinuxMint #EndOf10 npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia There's this old Finnish measurement of distance, peninkulma. It's about 10 kilometres, and is said to come from the old form of the word dog peni, and kuuluma, the distance you can hear a sound at... So it can be said that it's about a cool 10 kilometres that you could hear the bark of a Finnish Spitz, and this feels very accurate based on every one of them I've met 😅 npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia They're very very pretty and potentially very very good dogs, in general. But it's regrettably easy to ruin them, and they're very very loud. Wikipedia: “The breed barks at anything perceived to be out of the ordinary. -- The Finnish Spitz can bark as many as 160 times per minute.” npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia I and a bunch of friends were staying at a criminally badly run rented forest cottage somewhere in Lapland. Criminally quite literally, it was very negligent and terrible because it was an exploitative and money laundering operation by the local rented cabins and AirBnB mafia! Eventually someone called the lads on us, and then we were running away through cellars and the snow and such because who knows what they were going to do to us, but the four rough looking men caught up anyway. Two of them had dogs, and they were restless. Me, suddenly overcome by Presence of Dog: "Oh, sweeties, it's okay! It's okay! Are you rattled because you did such a good job of tracking us and didn't get thanked or treats yet! Good dogs!" One of the men discreetly and subtly gives his lovely Finnish Spitz some treats from a pocket, dead silent. The other man is also silent, but instead drags his barking German shepherd to his flank by the collar. I instantly deem this first man probably not a bastard and the second man almost certainly a bastard. This second man and his two friends no longer existed to me except as vaguely threatening background noise. Dog! The rest of my friends then worriedly looked on as I started telling the Spitz what a good dog it was while not trying to touch or get closer, and started asking what its name was and so on. I swear, I'm even more like this when I'm asleep! 😆 npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia I have been to mother's, and you know what time it is! Rudolf time! Gaze upon his beautiful beautiful eyes 😭 #Cats #VisitingSir https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/228/370/887/872/276/original/0bf0b1aa9f4c52e2.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia You are being offered the strength and constitution of an ox, but as a side effect you're also going to grow to be a big big lad, lass or other, with a big honking pair of horns atop your head, and become a pure herbivore. Would you? npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Apply the cuddles to the cat for emotional wellbeing benefits. Directly to the surface of the cat! The cuddles, apply them, onto the cat. Gently hold, pet if desired. Results may vary but soft and warm, good for brain. #Cats npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Ah, the brain. So melty. Am too awake to take a nap and too tired to do anything. The caffeine does nothing and I'm already so bored of just watching things... Sleep deprivation, it does not agree with me npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Bonus points for every time the person they're accusing of using AI to write SOME BASIC FUCKING ELOQUENCE is a person of colour, or speaking with an accent, or anything other than a pearl or tweed clad white academic. The words! You can just words good if you learned and/or taught yourself to! Read a fucking book! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia It's raining and I slept badly so let me vent about AI for a bit: Absolutely infuriated by these Teflon-brained fucking children commenting "sounds like AI wrote that" on any bit of vaguely clever wording of some garden variety thoughts and observations, mostly on YouTube... You undereducated fucking dollops of half formed consciousness! You miserable little baby shits! I've been writing in multiple languages for decades longer than slop machines have existed, and I'm not even someone who spent their lives writing, it doesn't sound like AI, THE AI SOUNDS LIKE US. Ah you bastards. 🙃 #FuckAI npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Related but not, a tree poll! 🌳 Considering how many people would like to turn the Tree Ray on themselves, what kind of tree would you like to be? npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia "Hey, what's up, Sini?" Oh, nothing. Just watching some Last Week Tonight and daydreaming about turning a bunch of people into trees 🫠 npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Kerv, trying to telepathically convey his deep need for my afternoon snacks, also. #Cats https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/199/410/060/590/432/original/c4fb8ba4702405b8.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Last cat post of the night: From this morning I think (time is a soup) as I observed Karvinen being proficient with Pillow Technology. #Cats https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/178/132/074/722/684/original/ff343cdf8cb55802.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia "But Sini, how heavy are the boys when all three fall asleep on top of your legs?" Well. Yes. Certainly. #Cats #TripleCat https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/177/555/893/325/900/original/4689075d6c17d30b.jpg https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/177/555/815/379/078/original/1ca20f704fcad054.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Have been reading with kitty companionship happening right next to me. Littlest sir and orangest sir had such a long cuddle and Karvinen applied such a Long Bath that I have like 40 of nearly identical photos to these! #Cats https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/159/600/170/147/648/original/a4d8ae878391f7ed.jpg https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/159/599/890/362/396/original/6df68b59fdfccb74.jpg https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/159/599/905/819/477/original/cebb19764b89a3eb.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Compelled to post this old post I found in my folder of random good images: #DeepSpaceNine #StarTrek https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/086/622/886/981/910/original/2cc11a33dc808a89.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia I bet he thinks this is just what we do in the mornings. A part of the daily routine. Depending on his restlessness levels he's either doing crime while yelling for me to feed him, or trying to scamper onto my shoulder, or just making sure I know he exists and that he absolutely must lick my forearms and neck. In any case, usually it makes the process of getting dressed that much delayed... npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Every morning we have these negotiations with Karvinen. I'm standing there and trying to get my clothes on, as he's demanding something. Not pictured: Him trying to climb me as I was standing there in just the shirt. "Mother, the attention. Mother! Mother look at me! Mother, the attention!" #Cats https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/029/117/107/237/573/original/d43ec707cfd161ca.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Always a bit surprising when someone I've previously not seen the face of has a face. And a reasonably handsome one, too! Nice. 😄 Good luck with the series, I hope people enjoy watching it as much as you enjoyed making it! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Musti was doing his own version of cat tablet stand last night. Not quite as pure in form, but appreciated nonetheless. #Cats https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/995/581/121/215/436/original/0bbb3849a2d34574.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia For bonus points: Pratchett, upon being asked if it was a trans allegory, said he hadn't thought of it as such at the time, but that everyone was welcome to read it as such and trans rights in any case. Good Sir Terry ❤️ npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia (There's also the whole Death series, wherein Reaper Man is one of my favourites and about life, death, love and harvest. Among other things. Impossible to boil them down into short explanations, there's always multiple things and levels going on at once!) npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Going Postal is both one of my favourite books and also my favourite film adaptation. Hogfather (film) is quite good, though not my favourite. The books are much better because of how complex and vibrant they are, and they'd have been better off making mini series with infinity budget out of them. But yeah, love Going Postal. npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia The quote from the book is a little bit different, but boils down to the same thing. Show me one atom! 🔥 npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Really depends on the book, especially the earlier stuff is slightly more difficult to get into. His language and style and historical references really tickles my brain, but what people usually love about him is the absolute humanity and very sharp observations about people and things, and some of the most hardcore philosophies gently wrapped into a nice puffy coat of humour. One of my favourite quotes: "Death: What would have happened if you hadn't saved him? Susan: Yes. Death: The sun would not have risen. Susan: Then what would have happened? Death: A mere ball of flaming gas would have illuminated the world. Susan: Alright, I'm not stupid. You're saying that humans need fantasies to make life bearable? Death: No. Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies. Susan: So we can believe the big ones? Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty, that sort of thing. Susan: Well, they're not the same at all. Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged. Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what's the point? Death: My point exactly. You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?" npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia I've done one of four patches and somehow it's taking absolutely forever. And on a day when I don't have patience for something to take forever? And this is the simplest possible patch, even. Suboptimal. Taking a break, then doing another one I guess. npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia The texture is going to be not smooth after patching it, and probably embroidering the patches, but. Not an issue if it's just decorative and not for sleeping! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia I think, that for my emotional wellbeing, I'm going to try mending this very old pillowcase for a little bit, instead of tackling the mountain of other things I should be doing. It's one of my favourites and that's why it's falling apart, but I figure it could become a cute decorative pillow, now. I also have exactly four of these little scrap pieces left over from a quilt! #VisibleMending https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/950/326/979/063/977/original/a43c9395a3418045.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia A little poll, about disability and media! 📹 🎮 📖 If you're disabled, let's just say enough that it is a constant presence in your life whether or not you have a piece of paper saying so... Have you ever seen, read, heard etc. a piece of media that made you go: "That's me. They get it!" npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Not joking about the tablet stand, either. I don't have one, but Pörri managed to employ Cat Physics in just the right way to prop himself and the tablet up, and then just fell asleep like that. Amazing. npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia My tablet stand was pretty sleepy, I think. ...ENHANCE! #Cats https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/923/418/274/907/284/original/dfa70725a3505884.jpg https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/923/418/237/883/985/original/b66af49a563e358e.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia There's so many interesting things out there and only so much time and brain! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia I'm not very familiar with the stars and planets in the sky, or at least where and when they show up, but I have this vague feeling that it's often Venus on these skies? npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia This was on the 17th of October in 2017, if the metadata is correct, and it might be! I remember seeing this many many mornings, but usually with clouds which made the city lights haze up the whole sky. 🤔 npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Reorganising some of my files, came upon this 2017 photo named "good morning, moon" and I think it looks pretty nice. Finland being Finland, seven in the morning apparently looked like this when I lived very high up. Good morning, tiny moon! Good morning, probably some planet! #Photography #Moon https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/904/976/717/347/232/original/9be7074b3c1fcc2a.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Tämä on tämmönen että vielä saattaa laittaa ruokaan ilman että on hyvin varovainen, pretty nice. Se on se 11/10 vähän sellanen että ottaa riskejä jos annostelee vähänkään huolimattomasti 😁 npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia I may be Finnish and used to Real Winter, but let it be said that my personal limit is at -30C and the forecasted -32C to -35 Celsius is too cold! Too cold! #Weather #Finland npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia A small man, in my bin of ironing! #Cats https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/804/148/187/752/634/original/8f3958f25a8bd8e7.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Ihastuttava tuike silmissä! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia One of the good things about feline assistants, in addition to the morale bonus, is that whenever you need to find your scissors all you need to do is check under the cat, and they'll be under the cat. #Sewing #SewingWithCats npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Excerpt, foreword: "It is not the most cheerful thing in the world to look over a wardrobe full of old dresses, and to decide how they can be made over so as to do duty for another season. There are those that are so torn and worn that it seems impossible to do anything with them. There are others so soiled that they must be, either cleaned or dyed, and still others that seem hopeless cases, because they are so cut up into ruffles and trimmings, that to make them over in anything like the present style is discouraging from the very thought of the managing and the piecing that must be done. Yet one must take hold of the matter boldly and look the situation right in the face." npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Thinking about this old book I read, "How to make over old dresses" by Augusta Prescott, 1892. In it she tells us how to take apart, wash, possibly re-dye and then make a new dress out of an old one... And past the whole of "a good housewife simply must properly clothe her legion of children" it's fascinating. How much effort went into it, because if you weren't rich, that was good fabric and you had to make do! https://archive.org/details/how-to-make-over-old-dresses/mode/2up #OldManuals #Victorian #Sustainability #Sewing npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Have I posted this? I don't think I've posted this. A sir, napping. #Cats https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/725/111/022/559/869/original/3e4e77bb02f5270f.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Kerv is being very helpful. #SewingWithCats https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/691/036/225/823/367/original/e3ce8757ed71b346.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia The tea itself is quite nice. Certainly nice enough that I'm on my third cup, past the desire for caffeine but enjoying the taste. npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia My little cast iron teapot is so little it makes my little teacup look enormous. 😆 https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/650/045/465/244/897/original/d09af549a9693f73.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Ooh. Am I gonna heat up and brew in the cast iron teapot for this? I think I shall! https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/649/976/390/109/027/original/e96b3c8c53b162be.jpg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia A random curiosity poll, about emigration! 🏡 If you could, right at this very second, without any kind of legal difficulty, myriad hoops to jump through, quarantine of pets or paying for the move and travel, or worrying about a job… Move to a remarkably sleepy little Finnish town with mostly grandmothers, old aunties and uncles, broke students and old disused farms? The rent is very little and you could buy an entire house or apartment for as little as 25k euros. There’s not much to do, but the forests, lakes and rivers are everywhere, and the internet is good. npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia I am not tamperelainen and can only speak from personal experience and through the shared experiences of my aunt who is, but gosh heck. It's just a perfect word, formed in a perfect way. Language, what a thing! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia 😬 That's worrisome even without any further data! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia It was an easy fix and should be alright now, but I was correct to live in fear and distrust because water is a force to be respectful of, and though we have conquered it to a great decree, it's an uphill battle, water is vengeful and we must stay vigilant 🌊 npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia SOMETHING IS LEAKING. Of course it is npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Yesterday Pörri hid all day in the bed while I managed the installing of a new bathroom sink. Today he is traipsing around playing while I am firmly remaining in bed. 😐 https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/224/685/555/456/770/original/e6360fb059a4dc63.mp4 npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Hello, hi! If it pleases you, please briefly describe to me one of your favourite memories that cost absolutely nothing or practically nothing, but has stuck with you! Peak broke life, I could say. I'll start with that one time me and a friend climbed on top of a roof (via ladders and walkways, not the tiles, the roof was safe) at four in the morning to drink over-brewed cheap tea from a thermos, talked and looked at the clouds instead of sleeping. npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia 4th day using Linux. I've not yet connected my printer, but pretty much everything else I've got... And I'm just doing my usual things without issue, and that's with some slightly niche requirements from my computer. If I was just browsing, listening to music, doing emails and instant messaging I'd barely notice the difference. If you mostly do only that and are still hesitant, don't be! Sure, have someone help install it for you, but after that you're golden. #Linux #LinuxMint npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Well, it's done. I of course cannot be arsed to take proper photos of it right away, but there's now a new hat. I couldn't put the bee brooch on it, so I put in some little bead dragonflies instead! Overall it's quite sparkly and has a bunch of stuff on it, and now I have yet another medium to large hat to choose from for my hatting needs. #Millinery #HistoryBounding https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/114/297/799/351/056/421/original/2e7847dece4527fc.jpeg https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/114/297/803/805/532/217/original/9125a2410da73e2f.jpeg https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/114/297/803/716/565/234/original/232c6a8c4aaacdcf.jpeg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia (Multiple choice. The word count has gotten away from me again, you can maybe determine from context clues how difficult it is for me to be succinct. Anyway, boost should you like to!) npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Relaxing and dismantling a linen shift that tore in three different parts of the back during the night. (Again I question what I do in my sleep!) Into one pile go the nice big rectangles of still good fabric, to become parts of garments. Into one small pile go the little rectangles of still good fabric, to become patches for mending. And into a third little pile go all the cut off seam allowances, becoming cat toys. #ReduceRepairReuseRecycle npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia I am rewatching the hat pin video, on Nebula, as a treat! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Like... Look. Look! That's almost exactly like some of the patterns on Late Victorian menswear, especially trousers! Way too thick for trousers like this, but the pattern and colour! 😂 When a gentleman would go "I would like to let off and go wild, but work as an accountant" which is, funnily enough, a lot of my specific vibe sometimes! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Burn test says it's wool and acrylic, with maybe the majority being acrylic... But enough wool in it that it acts like boiled and brushed wool. I am... Seriously trying to fight the urge to make another coat or jacket. Such a pretty fabric! And quite substantial! #Sewing https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/114/024/476/195/282/686/original/f564dde59c816e33.jpeg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Oh yeah, that's the one! I think other people also chimed in about issues they'd had? Certainly a handful of people having trouble out of thousands not having any, but it stuck to me. npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Hey, Fediverse hive mind. What's the non-scumbag cloud back-up solution these days? I don't mind paying something for it, but I'd love it to be European and compatible with whatever Linux I'm moving onto some time later, preferably. And not come with some kind of horseshit AI assistant that either does nothing or hoovers up everything I put on there. Does a good option like that exist? npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia It's all sewn down with machine basting stitches now, so it's not perfect nor can be, but you can see the fit well enough to unpick where necessary etc. Also I've been using a different colour thread for the gathering stitches, the basting, the stay-stitches and the actual stitching. So I can see what the bloody hell line of sewing I'm actually looking at! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia #CinnamonLinenSkirt update: This is just after one day of hung to stretch. The hem was even and it's already warped and shifted enough to no longer be even at all! Ideally I'll even out the hem in a couple of days, but this is precisely why you leave long coats, jackets and skirts to settle before you hem them. #Sewing https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/669/496/987/204/216/original/efcf15a4b75e7a18.jpeg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Anyway, pay workers more, make them feel appreciated. Don't take away even the simplest and most traditional of comforts because it saves a bit of money, you'll never make them feel like you care about them ever again. 4/4 npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia One of your coworkers is a chaos fairy named Tölli, who lets his friends call him Hut. He is autistic and deeply prefers the relative calm, quiet and structure of a professional kitchen in full swing to regular chaos fey life. Tomorrow you plan to take him to a human library, have him meet a therapy dog, and absolutely blow his mind. He needs it, poor dear. npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia You've been hired to do the catering for chaos fey. It's silly good money, even at your level of professional cook and pastry chef, and you have plenty of help. All you have to do is make sure that every item of food is as difficult and perplexing to eat as possible, while still being edible. You're not quite sure why, but are culturally sensitive enough to know that this is just something that is appropriate for a gathering of this type, a wedding-funeral. (It's unclear at this point for whom which will be, but someone will get married and someone will get buried, sometimes the same person.) What's your tactic, going forth? #SpeculativeRealityPolls npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia I've a nice horror actual play podcast on and am leisurely sewing the underside of the binding. Stopped to take this photo of the amusing amount of hardware currently on my right hand. An open adjustable brass thimble and a silver splint ring to support the joint of my pointer finger. If you're doing a lot of sewing by hand you sometimes need a bit of help! #Sewing #HandSewing https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/447/777/139/068/094/original/acaa0f3b8458f2c2.jpeg npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia In Finnish the expression when you accidentally button your shirt up with the wrong button to the wrong buttonhole, thus offsetting the whole thing is "in the way of the drunkard's buttons" or juoponnapissa. If there's a fun English expression for the same thing, I don't know it. If your language has any fun expression for it, I also do not know it, and would like to know! #Language npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia This poll brought to you by me reading and thinking about how I would personally perish if I had to touch multiple sticky things. Anything else I could live with! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Overnight stay in non-home location, a poll! So. For some reason you absolutely must stay the night in a furnished apartment, not yours, with everything you may need, and nothing actively dangerous to you in there. But it's uncomfortable and you need to bathe, eat, relax and sleep. Which of these options would you not want to tolerate for even a night? Pick the one that would bother you the most! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia I don't object to the attire, I object to operating a tonne of steel and vehicular manslaughter just to fetch something you can literally hold in one hand, presumably right after waking up. That you could make at home instead. ...Also, you do know that people in Europe also bathe, put on makeup, do their hair, and often wear yesterday's clothes? Right? npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia They *could* be composted or recycled, but are not, because it would be expensive and fiddly and require much more work, and there's much more precious and time sensitive things to compost and recycle. It's just a marketing gimmick. And I'd prefer they'd make some kind of basic cup of coffee at home, with some sweetener and blanching if they so please... And then pick up the fancy thing on their way to wherever they're actually going, instead of driving back and forth while half awake! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia And it was a comment on a post about Starbucks being terrible, their CEO being terrible, and them doing terrible union busting! And this... This is what someone chose to write as a JUSTIFICATION to get Starbucks even though they thought they probably shouldn't? I am... Collapsing into a black hole. Just. Fuck. npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia I have just read this sentence: "Usually I pick up Starbucks for my morning coffee because it's closer than my local coffee shop and I don't have to put on real clothes to drive through it..." And I'm just. Staring into the distance in European. You DRIVE to get COFFEE before putting on your CLOTHES? You can't be bothered to put on clothes because you haven't had your morning coffee but you will DRIVE to a fully another location that isn't YOUR FUCKING HOUSE to get it??? You will operate. The machinery! On the roads, that you share with other people! To drive to a location?? When you could just make it at home?? I try not to judge but, dear reader, I am fucking judging 😶 npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia My favourite type of voice is either someone chatting away nonsense conversationally, or a very matter of fact and slightly monotone voice like: "Today I would like to talk to you about cardboard." And then when I listen to it, I'll think "cardboard is fucking fascinating" but fall asleep all the same! npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia A poll about voices! So let's say you have insomnia and really need to use the sleep, so you put on a video, show or podcast to fall asleep to. Is it a feminine or masculine voice that you seek out for it's brain wrinkle soothing qualities, apart from the actual content? npub1v8s439l4v52frhjempn9cpv9jldgse86a9wpnzdsx09tgdf48v6stcu5an Sini Tuulia Honestly I'm so mad about all the other plant species that we could be using for clothes but that weren't as easy to do colonialism with, and thus fell out of common use. 😶 Ramie, hemp, bamboo and linen are just the most common ones I remember off the top of my head!