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I really wish I'd known about this deck during its funding.

Doesn't it scream for some patterned Mylar foiling?

I don't know if this will be useful to anyone, but... I find that Miniflux is maybe a little too "minimalist" and "opinionated" for my taste? Anyway, I've got a few Tampermonkey userscripts for it now and this is the first one I've cleaned up.

The other puts sort buttons on the feed page for absolute number of unread entries descending, and unread:read ratio descending. If anyone wants that one I'll clean it up and put it up too.

Does anyone know good resources around framing this whole thing positively emotionally? All the news coverage and even health guidance I see makes me want to emit a low, ceaseless gurgling sound. Even the "aren't our health workers brave" aspect makes me despair at how poorly we're handling the safety net of it all.

This conforms with two working hypotheses I'm rolling around in my head:

• Everyone should have access to something like a dacha
• Air pollution is one of the biggest evils people don't get upset enough about

A friend has promised me (animal) bones, and I'm very excited. A number of them will have to go into storage for a while as I don't have the display space one would wish for - - but ever since visiting the Capuchin Crypt in Rome I've been enchanted by the aesthetic potential of the 3d forms (and 2d cross sections) of vertebrae.

And how do we call attention to aestheticize an object, if not with gold leaf?

If this author is full of it, please do let me know, but... This was a fascinating read.

Linguists in the age of nationalism had real influence in a way that's nearly unimaginable today, because the accompanying standardization handed people useful tools they had a reason to wield. It reminds me of the Korean alphabet. See also the creation of modern Hebrew. What are the conditions today that could use new tools? This wiki points to some grassroots innovation around the digital world and Cyrillic....

I wonder why it is that Irish lace crochet now mostly seems to be done by Russian-speakers? Anyway, there are some really gorgeous examples on Instagram that I'm terribly jealous of. I've made an account on Ravelry and have a simple trim I'm going to attempt!

I moved in with someone who lives in a new condo building. Naturally everyone here picked shiny new appliances which means a gas stove. It's a highrise, so the weak hood vent just disperses the air around the condo. New construction means some LEED standard or other means there are only two small windows that open somewhat to the outside. In order for the HVAC's fan to run, it has to be attempting to change the temperature; there is no steady temperature fan-on option.

I also bought an air sensor because of CO2 concerns... but it also measures VOCs and particulates.

And oh my.

How does this not freak other people out?? Is it just that no one is measuring levels of indoor air pollution? If it's this bad in a bougie environment, couldn't it be so much worse for other homes?

Is anyone working on legislation to require vents to the outside?

One almost feels uncomfortable being so aware of the romantic purpose of all those who'd stayed in the room before you--I mean, not that that isn't many hotels, but I just don't see how you'd avoid thinking about it in these rooms. But oh the bathtubs...

Well if this isn't just the most cursed news I'll get all day. Dear God.

I don't want to live in a city divorced from reality. I really don't want to live in a city that brings in an underclass from its exurbs to work its shitty jobs during the day. And yet, I look around...

I don't own this book, but I adore everything I've seen from it.

We really lost something when we began to pretend we could wall off death.

I am truly delighted by this (and the mechanics are interesting). This is the silver lining to wildfires I never expected. Fog is lovely and I always hope for more than I get; this weekend was a joy for me.