Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@yaelwrites I C

@yaelwrites Of course! It's rusty!

@yaelwrites I'd like to think that I'm constantly adding improvements and bug fixes (and sadly sometimes regressions) to my version.

I've crossed another #weaving milestone: I now have an account on the Scottish Tartans Authority so I can get accurate tartan threadcount information.

@ajmartinez Much faster than I expected. The set up and finishing took about as much time as the actual weaving.

@cameron Thank you! I'm pleased with how it came out.

Now the scarf is off the loom and I just finished the edges. Now it just needs a hand wash and it will be done. #weaving

Making progress on the scarf. This pattern calls for sparse spacing in the weft (6ppi) with a finer yarn and it's weird seeing these gaps. Apparently it all fills in when off the loom and washed. #weaving

This was after I had to undo half my warping work to center it, and tangled the yarn while rewinding it on the original skein. I spent at least an hour untangling and rewinding all 250 yards into a ball so it wouldn't tangle again.

In a warp zone. #weaving #scarf

@girthychode No, this is by design:
https://puri.sm/posts/opt-in-no-ads-and-no-tracking-solve-a-lot-of-problems-in-society/

@kop316 HUGE! Thank you SO much for all your work on this!

@rastinza Sure thing! I'll probably start it in a week or so after I get to a good stopping point in Durant Vol III.

Pretty excited to start this book. I've found the quality of translation really matters and this most recent translation of We is supposed to be the best.

"Farmers have already told us that they’re buying older tractors to avoid the software repair restrictions that manufacturers like Deere put in place." https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxd8wy/the-used-tractor-market-is-far-wilder-than-the-used-car-market

@Thalass Yeah, pushing a safety razor hard enough against my skin to roll that roller runs counter to everything I know about safety razor shaving.

@yaelwrites That was one of the more interesting (and more personally nostalgic) parts of Snowden's autobiography. He, like me, came of age online in the late `90s and observed that the prevalence of anonymous forums and chat allowed him to try out a new idea or belief and be able to abandon it (by switching to a new persona) once he found it didn't hold up. Now such explorations online are tied to your identity and follow you forever.