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I had a civil engineering prof spend a whole weeks homework on “sometimes the best solution is to do nothing”. It wasn’t written into the homework, it was the explanation afterwards of why all the active solutions were wrong. I think someone in the back actually fell off his chair when the enlightenment hit. @jrconlin@mindof.jrconlin.com

For sighted users, scrolling and mouse-clicking pushed out learning keyboard shortcuts pretty quickly. I know people who don’t even know about tabbing through a form. Similar psychology? It does not help that operating systems and applications never cooperated very well on either standard shortcuts, or being able to remap them. @gins@mastodon.gamedev.place @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social

I want a solid-dish-soap holder that’s a cross between an ancient oil lamp and a ginger grater. Pottery, toothy interior to grip the soap, pouring spout for using soap-drips as liquid soap, and a handle so I don’t put my hands in the soap. Enough roughness on the underside to attach counter-protecting feet. Went looking, did not find, maybe a #pottery enthusiast or potter here makes one. Or could!

I don’t eat a lot of meat and when I do I pretty much lick the dishes clean, which likely makes my dishes easier. There’s a little bottle of Dawn under the sink for outlier meals that leave solid grease. @mlanger@mastodon.world

It’s too strong for my hair, but their Sal Suds has been my fave for greywater conscious dishes for decades. Not solid though! @mlanger@mastodon.world

oh yes! I lived on bicycle streets in Berkeley, open to but inconvenient for cars, and that was great. Grid access for bikes and wheelchairs and feet, so nothing was far away; cars moving slowly trying to get out. And we got to see people learning to bicycle. Kids every year, generally a few adults, one year an elderly couple who were sooo anxious to start and so energetic at the end. I hear the Barcelona superblocks manage the same, grid connectivity for people, limited cars. @Kimberley@ecoevo.social

But also possible that this is mixed up with apocalyptic fantasies driving the endeavor Maybe a version of “help I’m trapped in a fortune cookie factory “? @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

I’m looking for a reference work on collecting small seeds. How early you can pick pods that shatter easily, tricks for containing seeds that you can’t pick pre shatter, how much a species? genus? is prone to inbreeding depression. book or Extension publication, preferably. My current best is _Creative Propagation_, Thompson. #gardening #botany #MarketGarden

Sociology, not microbiology: “Diseases of despair differ from diseases of poverty because poverty itself is not the central factor. Groups of impoverished people with a sense that their lives or their children's lives will improve are not affected as much by diseases of despair. Instead, this affects people who have little reason to believe that the future will be better.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_of_despair @oheso@ieji.de @carrideen@c18.masto.host @RachelThornSub@famichiki.jp

Or - I’m taking this literally - Diderot’s Encyclopedie? Lots of topics, lots of images. Big love for Dürer’s Great Turf but not sure how I’d tie it to infosec. Maybe because it isn’t tied to infosec… @HauntedOwlbear@eldritch.cafe

Did it help them when you told them that? It seems to me that journal clubs are supposed to demonstrate some of this but that they are vulnerable to fear of looking slow. @albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz

How rich am I? Still eating last year’s dried plums While this year’s ripen. What wealth is sure? None; drought, fire, exhaustion, hurt Could still take the crop. #poetry #gardening

It gets more so Before Peacock Parent , fintech in “the casino industry “ at a company founded by her mother I do not think we are the target audience @cluelesstoshika@famichiki.jp @FlockOfCats@famichiki.jp

Sometimes Romantic ethnonationalists in the 1840s @elilla@transmom.love @PotDeFleur@ludosphere.fr

Yes! Not letting bullies benefit by dumping on others means all kinds of non-bullies can get on with doing the work and getting pay and respect for it. And not having to put up with bullies. The mass in the middle has to understand that not having to work under bullies at all is _vastly better_ than the moments of bullies throwing us a crumb and beating up somebody else instead. @irene@discuss.systems @device@infosec.exchange @GeePawHill@mastodon.social

AIUI Project Gutenberg has a stable URI for each work, with an “ebook number” built in. And they keep old versions, when they fix errata, so URI and date should be enough to retrieve exactly what you read . Maybe @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social can refine this? just from volunteering at Distributed Proofreaders I ran across enough edge cases inherited from the printed works to make a “Fallacies Programmers Believe About Books”. https://www.pgdp.net/c/ @weirdfish@literatur.social @kallekn@mastodonsweden.se @gisiger@nerdculture.de @bookstodon@fedigroups.social

one of the old reasons to have a shallow pool on the sun side of the house was to bounce more low winter light through the windows. @peterbrown@mastodon.scot @RealJournalism@mastodon.social

Comedy and fanfic sounds like a wonderful combination Our hobbies don’t overlap much but I know I’ve seen people here who share yours! Have you found some relevant hashtags to follow? You can follow hashtags before you follow people. Useful for the shy Welcome! @shiratorii@urusai.social

Even nastier assumption: they’re okay with having some programmer employees who will always take the fall in lawsuits. @svavar@masto.svavar.com @rysiek@mstdn.social

Lemma: we need to tax property owners for the Georgist costs of maintaining the locale because cost of maintenance goes up with cost of housing. THEREFORE it is ESPECIALLY fair to tax unrealized stock market wealth. @beckett@triangletoot.party

The heads screw in why aren’t they all sold with separate heads and handles so everyone’s handle fits them? Snath it up, people! @ifixcoinops@retro.social

I’ve been figuring out how to sing that so it stays a waltz Obvs there should be a big swoopiness in the music to allow a measure of reverse turns there @RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo @Bumblefish@mastodon.scot @pisscotheque@godforsaken.website

@cohanf@mastodon.online maybe I can organza-bag entire plants? One of the seed pods I’m trying is about 2mm across and contains (briefly) dozens of seeds Transplant somewhere topped w very clean compost and let it self seed? (Thinking to myself) only good for growing every year

Coffeehouses! (The ones about coffee, not hash.) I could see people who weren’t even my friends YET @burnitdown@beige.party @srtcd424@mas.to @mark@tacobelllabs.net @evacide@hachyderm.io

Gimbal, banner, wind vane @20002ist@thepit.social @SuperMoosie@mastodon.au @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

for the hat trick, possible to reify the nation, the ethnicity, and the tradition in one go @elilla@transmom.love @PotDeFleur@ludosphere.fr

Is it next to one of the city stops of the summer Metro buses to trailheads? (If it’s the one I know of, it is, but maybe there’s more than one!) @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

“Cool” is the opiate of the classes! Overengineering is also bad engineering! And, to get back to judging cultural cohesion, regulatory and cooperative infrastructure might be a _better_ measure than Big Projects. No kickbacks, no lobbyists. @thias@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop @gatesvp@mstdn.ca

It’s also dumb on completely selfish grounds because *their* data leaks stuff about everyone around them; eventually, almost everyone. @veronica@explains.social

cut to aerial shot of tractor mowing pattern with tight right and left turns @RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo @Bumblefish@mastodon.scot @pisscotheque@godforsaken.website

All the US ones I knew lived in the temporarily-unfashionable cities, where rent was cheap for coffeehouse and its clientele alike. Along with DIY music and theater. @burnitdown@beige.party @srtcd424@mas.to @mark@tacobelllabs.net @evacide@hachyderm.io

Do they smell sweet to match their name? Or maybe that’s the fruit? @wplalonde@lgbtqia.space

Charlaine Harris’ _A Secret Rage_ @JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw

@trachelipus@masto.ai UGH UGH Much commiseration am thinking, would I want to use a synthetic tarp on poison ivy? Sure I want to kill it, but the whole thing about my use of tarps is that I reuse them over and over, and I don't want to worry about urushiol (?) on the tarps BALES of plain cardboard on the baleful vine?

That's a great game for everywhere. I especially want to think about the definition of "impressive"; needs to be results not amount-of-resources-used. The bike lanes of Paris might qualify, for instance. @thias@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop @gatesvp@mstdn.ca

I have sort of a "civil disobedience" reasoning about plastic soil covers -- you don't need it unless you need it enough to use it uncovered. Which will remind you to remove it as soon as possible and plant something you want into the bare soil! But oh my gosh, people refusing to understand that weed seeds will grow in anything they use as mulch, there will be no "no weeding" outdoors space... this is why to take up gardening, have something to aim for not just attack. @trachelipus@masto.ai

Explain more? If it makes sense for 50,000 people, why not build one in each neighborhood of 50,000? District heat/cooling with ground loops moving heat around between seasons seems pretty hopeful, for example. Not free, but keeps people healthy using less than it takes now. No? @jcrabapple@dmv.community @newstik@social.heise.de

Sounds like a Peertube job? I haven’t done that though! If you want to literally just share them here, I often see links to YouTube, they play fine inside my scroll in the web interface @tansy@wandering.shop

Their names are too soft-sell to be safe to use. Parasitism. The zombie state. The spoils system. @gilduran@journa.host

Presumably Seed Savers also though maybe deep in the… uh… cottage flowers https://seedsavers.org/learn/seed-saving/ @MPaola@ecoevo.social

The final heavy result did have links back to sources though? (What a joy to have end users who want really good results!) @kfm@mastodon.social @tom@labyrinth.social @b0rk@social.jvns.ca

Aw jeez thinking about a public project near me that is a decade into meetings and it just gets more and more unrealistic How to undo? What systems have worked? I feel like my state used to work better, how wrong am I? @fesshole@mastodon.social

Any unscented un-moisturizing soap works I think. Slightly hippie stores make specific dish bars, but I’m happy with the big unscented bars of Dr Bronners. Microbiologist here recently pointed out that soap is more directly damaging to more microbes than detergents are. That sounds like a good reason for soap to me! @mlanger@mastodon.world

I would go even further: _translatio studii_ was and is powerful because it is always imperfect transmission. At each handoff we decide which parts of the old ways are useful or not. @pevinkinel@mastodon.social @akareilly@hachyderm.io

What was the answer? @clark@hachyderm.io @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

Do you know how they manage pavement-heaving by the roots? @CathyTuttle@social.ridetrans.it

RICE in England? Did it ripen??? Also, congratulations! @MyWildlifeAllotment@mastodon.online

I’m impressed that paper stops anything measured in sheets not bundles — I’m currently having flailed-once blackberries try to punch through landscape fabric by regrowing. And occasionally succeed, dang it, pale and eerie though they are. It’s a race with the pullerbear. @trachelipus@masto.ai