clew @clew@octodon.social
Math, soil, ecology, feminism, material history, literature of the long nineteenth, waltz, polka, leavened bread. Seattle and parts northwest.
By 35, retirement experts recommend being 25.
@KthulhuKat I quite liked the ride-through Dairy Queen.
If you have recently achieved something you wanted, or even if you have just ticked something off your to-do list, did you take a few seconds to congratulate yourself? Have you told yourself that you’ve done a good job?
If you ever feel overwhelmed by your shortcomings, remember not to focus on the negative stuff only, but also to celebrate your achievements, even when they’re small!
@katebowles The book that popularized "meritocracy" as an idea has about the same warning, iirc.
For odd reasons I’m reading Drucker’s Concept of the Corporation (1946).
What he explains well is that in a culture trained to view job and economic advancement as the only source of dignity, inevitably the majority would experience corporate working life as demoralising.
I think we could have paid more attention to this bit.
@ada _Trouble and Her Friends_ or indeed most of Melissa Scott's work. And she's been writing for a while so there's a deep backlist. Not all queer female specifically, all queer in some way I think. Always fun.
My new personal rule: Unless the actual, physical, IRL plants are watered I am not allowed to play Stardew Valley. 🤔 🙃
@allan ack, no way to report not getting the alert? Was there a positive sign from the alert, like "click through to this url to be logged"?
@22 Also, I kind of want a center wheel barrow, though I don't need anything so big.
What made you curious about the interregnums?
Today I'm appreciating Alicia Garza's (co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter) keynote at the Allied Media Conference: https://alliedmedia.org/news/2017/09/05/alicia-garza-speaks-building-power-amc2017-opening-ceremony
"It won't be easy. We will disappoint each other. Make each other mad. We will hurt each other and we will make mistakes. We will disagree. Building a movement across difference for the sake of our collective transformation is that task of our generation and the generations that we will fight for to succeed us."
What are you appreciating today?
@22 podcast, graphic novel, scholarly work -- *one* of these should be comfortable!
Oh, and this is loosely related except it does cover an interregnum and anyway I love it: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbarrow.html
Three Kingdoms is an enormously confusing story in itself -- I just sort of float along and trust the reader to remind me where we last met the character who just popped up and betrayed someone. (Lots of betrayals. Maybe they slow down near the end? I'm not there yet.)
OK, friends, this is social.yyy.scot, social media for folk in Scotland. It will run until the 30th June, and then the folk who use it will have a vote on whether it's worth keeping.
@advicepig Oh, yeah, that one ranges from annoying ("pretend you're happy so we don't feel guilty!") to deeply uncooperative ("You said you felt happy last time! And I'm not happy this time so this can't be a fair decision!")
I feel the tradeoff for the `loser' not sulking or re-litigating is the `winners' not pretending it was a decision with no costs.
@22 There's a graphic novel series that is simplified compared to Mote but not frivolous, and there's a wonderful podcast of someone reading The Romance of the 3 Kingdoms and explaining the confusing bits. It's like having your really nice older cousin readin to you over the summer, or something. Respectively
http://stonebridgestore.squarespace.com/shop/understanding-china-through-comics
@22 I really like Mote's _Imperial China 900-1800_ for this. It covers the regnums :) as well as the interregnums, but I think you need that to make sense of either.
Does anyone wanna ride bikes around and do openstreetmap stuff this weekend in #seattle? Need an excuse for directed exploration
I just got the anniversary notice that I've been working here for ten years. Which means ten years ago, we took a major step in our Salmon Plan to move back to my spouse's birthplace to have children and die.
@generica gravity boots and the upside-down desk 😂
If I were any good at Photoshop I would make up the fake Kickstarter now
@KevinCarson1 Yes, I'm hoping they last well enough that I can just shift different materials onto them.
Which will go much better with standardized beds, which has not previously been my style. Am putting triangles of cover crops and pollinator attractors etc. in the gaps.
