A throwback Thursday snapshot from graduation ('89). I'm on the right next to my friend John. Just LOOK at the hair!

#ThrowbackThursday

We spent our Sunday leveling the ground and assembling this outdoor "closet". Now all of the long handle tools have a home. Also topped off the dirt levels in our planters getting ready for this years garden. Yay!

#homeimprovement #Gardening

- I spent Saturday block printing about 130 small cloth bags that will be used a site tokens for an upcoming event. I still need to heat set the ink. Then I will put 3 "medieval" style "coins" (they are plastic toy coins) in each. Each person arriving to the event will get 1 bag of coins in order to give 1 coin to each of their favorite bardic performers throughout the event. The bard with the most coins at the end will win "Mob's Choice" and a small prize.

Here's the calendar entry for the event:
baronyofthreemountains.org/eve…

I will spend the day Saturday helping people with fabric block printing. Might even get to play with these new ones I bought recently!

#MySCA #SCA #BlockPrinting #FabricStamping #woodblock

I've been trying to write a bit to share with my friends about how happy I am with Friendica as my replacement for Facebook and other closed social media platforms. This person basically said everything I planned to say. While the instance I'm on doesn't seen to have the Wordpress or Tumblr plugins (which I would love), the value of streamlining my BlueSky, Pixelfed, and Mastodon in HUGE! Anyway, sharing this until I can spend some time on my WordPress blog to write up something more in depth.

blog.elenarossini.com/the-futu…

#friendica #Mastodon #bluesky #Social Media

The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: Friendica)

A "show and tell" of my favorite features of Friendica, which has fast become my favorite place in the Fediverse

^{Elena Rossini}

As I go through and remove my content from Facebook post by post, picture by picture - I find that for every 1 picture or post I save, I probably delete 20-30 without saving or reposting. Much of it just isn't interesting anymore and has no specific significance to me now. Or with some photos that were so bad due to an old phone with crappy camera (and I posted TOO many pics in the heat of the moment) - just best to delete them and not re-share them now on other platforms.

#musing

This came up when someone mistakenly called scotch eggs - deviled eggs. Then I got to thinking about what a great thing to mix the two! Turns out someone else thought of it too!

leaandjay.wordpress.com/2012/0…

Deviled Scotch Eggs

O thou! whatever title suit thee,– Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie! Wha in yon cavern, grim an’ sootie, Clos’d under hatches,  Spairges about the brunstane cootie To scaud po…

^{Lea & Jay}

The place closed in 1996. This was something of a farewell concert. Wish I could have been there. Really do miss that place!

#TheatreOrgan #PipeOrgan #portland #pdx #OrganGrinder

pipedreamsfilm.com/blog/the-or…

The Organ Grinder "Farewell Concert"

On January 30, 1996, five days before the Portland Organ Grinder closed, three performers entertained the audience: Paul Quarino, Donna Parker, and Jonas Nordwall.

^{Pipe Dreams and Pizza Crusts}

#Ukraine #IStandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini

What she describes is farther into radical fundie land than my upbringing, but it still very much applies. This is some of the garbage we are fighting against in this country. Too many people believe like this and there is a 0% chance of you having any kind of dialogue with them. Everything becomes "demons" and "Satan" if it threatens their core beliefs. And yes, it takes YEARS to un-brainwash yourself from it.

jesspiper.substack.com/p/demon…

Demonic Yoga

Indoctrination on your dime

^{Jess Piper (The View from Rural Missouri by Jess Piper)}

I saw this posted in reference to "wokeness" on a tv show and loved how succinct it was!

"There are two sexualities, straight and political. There are two genders, male and political. There are two races, white and political. etc"

The truth of Christo-fascist Amerika.

#political #musing #truth

I started out thinking I would make a quick post about my exploration of other social media platforms - and realized it needed to be a long form article. I also realized it would take more time than I have tonight to complete. So I have a partial draft saved on my Wordpress blog. I'll link/share once it is written.

Thinking about it... if I was still using Facebook for this kind of stuff, I'd have probably fired off a poorly written run-on paragraph about it anyway. Then even more run-on paragraphs in the comments trying to explain the stuff I didn't explain well in the original post.

Maybe it is better this way lol

This is a test to see how posting a long format post from Friendica is handled in BlueSky. Friendica is interesting. The user interface is more like Facebook (from 10 years ago). It is Federated, so I can follow everyone I follow on Mastodon. But is also has a plug in for BlueSky, so I am seeing BlueSky posts inline with Mastodon stuff. And it posts automagically BlueSky.

The down side is that the settings and preferences are tricky (well more like VERY detailed) to set up. It is not what I call "Grandma friendly". But it has things like Photo Albums, Groups, and a Calendar. And best of all - long format posting capability.

#Friendica #TestPost