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Textile artist, writer, permaculturalist, medieval re-enactor, nerd. I write about fashion history and textile crafts at the intersections of permaculture, sustainability, equitable tech, & neurodivergence. They/them.
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My elder kid adores this series, and especially the part where the adults actually give a crap about the kids they're in charge of. He called me "a less ginger Jupiter North" the other day and I take that compliment gladly.
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...I read that reply twice and it made zero sense both times. I just. Whut? What does this person think an Indies author *is*??
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I already work a basically full time job keeping a house full of disabled people (including me) alive, healthy and educated. I have zero interest in adding more work on top of that, even if it would theoretically pay better.
Being properly compensated for what I already do would be great though.
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Right, got it. But what does the pink smoke mean?
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*glances at WIP list* uh, "on the go" on the go, or "total in some stage of completion" on the go?
Properly active, I average 3-5 at a time - easy sock, hard sock, easy big thing, hard big thing. The number in hibernation tends to vary considerably by how bad the last case of Startitis was.
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Yes, it's called "print out a keyboard layout like they had in typing class in school and keep it with your computer as a reference guide". Between that and daily ±15-30 min practice sessions with an online typing tutor, I really was back to normal in a month or so.
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I prop the iPad/kindle on a recipe book holder that I bought at Ikea and knit, knit away. Until the page needs turning at least. I rarely read physical books any more, since I can't make the font big enough to not give me a headache.
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Pretty much, yeah. I *had* to learn to touch type because the letters didn't match what was on the keyboard any more (except the precious, wonderful A and M keys, anyway).
I've recently gotten super bougie and bought myself a keyboard cover for my Macbook, and boy oh boy is it nice.
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Sounds similar to what I was managing when I first switched over. It was a humbling demonstration of just how deep muscle memory goes.
I was mostly fine after a month, but I wouldn't say I got the last ±10% of my old speed back until a year in. Though happily, I'm now faster than I was with QWERTY.
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I think if I regularly used any programs that were heavy on mouse use (eg image editing), I'd quickly end up in the deep end of the Fancy Keyboard Tricks pool with combos and macros and such all set up on the non mouse side of the board. Luckily I'm mostly a writer so I can get away without it.
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More that because some of them are more awkward, especially one handed, I don't tend to reach for a mouse to point and click my way out of things that I can get done with my hands still on the keyboard. Pretty sure the split board will turn that up to 11 - no finger bumps to find the home row again.
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Yeah it took me a good month or more to switch to Dvorak when I finally made the leap years ago. I wasn't a great touch typist before so luckily I didn't suffer speed loss from the transition. And I use WAY more keyboard shortcuts now, since as you've noticed some combos just don't work as nicely.
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(It's Dvorak with a few extra modifications to the layout because I use square brackets waaaaay more often than the function keys, and I didn't care for the way the base modifiers were set up on the thumb sweep.)
Anyway here's to spending a month not knowing where my Shift key is!
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Look even being an academic outlier I found the actual writing soooo much easier than the research, the citations, the bibliography, the turning the damn thing in on time, the getting the printer to please just work already dammit, the working out what the teacher actually wanted the report to be...
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I scrolled past an article talking about this WRT things like business and science conferences earlier today - basically nobody wants to go to the US unless they absolutely have to, and when they're saying that about business stuff, you know it's serious.
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Some states already have reductions - South Australia has a stamp duty concession for first home buyers, but it's only for new builds. Which locks a LOT of people out of home ownership and makes it easier for investors to buy established properties.
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OK but that bunny is amazing so clearly reading instructions is overrated.
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Twenty minutes to warp 31 ends. Sewing thread is so much less fiddly than other yarns.
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Pilates achieved. Procrastination on loom warping has now commenced.
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Sometimes you need the distance of things coming from a neutral third party to make it feel more legitimate/give you permission to actually believe or act on it. Though I think that some people do go to tarot readers because they're both cheaper, & in some circles less stigmatised, than therapy.
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Ooh I didn't know about this, thank you! That's my evening viewing sorted 😁
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They certainly have the correct number of fingers!
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I can't understand the doomerism mindset. It seems to go so far beyond nihilism that it's a different thing altogether.
Thank you for posting about your work, by the way. It's been great to read. Even if I don't always understand the science behind it completely, it's overall accessible and clear.
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There are so many countries that use that data for their own climate modelling, too. I don't have words for how bad this is.
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I realise this is probably supposed to be derogatory, but my ex is a professional tarot reader and he went and got a diploma in counselling so he could better help his clients. He's far from an outlier in that respect. Tarot is unequivocally a better choice for relationship advice than ChatGPT.
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There are so many bad assumptions baked into that plan. Big Yikes.