Posts by sewblue@sfba.social
(DIR) Post #AyynEbgx9BOuCAZOdc by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-10-07T22:23:05Z
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@futurebird I joke that I engineer the most hardest of subjects: people.Engineering stuff is easy. People is hard.
(DIR) Post #Az6KlvLhjvVrJMqSMS by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-10-11T13:41:52Z
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@futurebird When I was having sciatica issues TENS was a godsend.Did not help with full blown sciatica bit it would help if I felt that little precursor twinge. Hey, that muscle reeeeeally wants to starts seizing around that nerve. Let's zap it until it changes its mind.
(DIR) Post #Az6TdWRDNFgnK0UVFI by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-10-11T15:21:12Z
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@futurebird Nah. Nothing was awakened.I'm the kind of dork that already watched this guy.
(DIR) Post #AzOqakuWu3gn8A8Cg4 by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-10-20T12:03:12Z
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@futurebird What make a city infastructure feel alive to me is that it is an amalgam of different choices layered over hundreds of years. Thousands of tiny choices: how thick to make a window frame, how tall above street level is the main floor. Buildings built by individuals then repurposed, styles changing over time. Untold layers built up over decades.A single mind, or even a team of minds, is not able to replicate decades of choices, to capture that humanity. Sterility reigns because it's easier to use standardized forms. Function becomes less important than ease of decision making.Planned cimmunities like this is always about control. One mind making the choices, either to earn money off the venture or control people. Everything else is window dressing, a sales job.
(DIR) Post #AzT7Fe6zSiolodJrJw by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-10-22T13:28:44Z
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@futurebird It's not made sense to me either.As a company, I sell stock once, and in return I need to pay a form a sort of interest payment, a dividend, paid in perpetuity, with a crap ton of rules and regulations now guiding my operations? It's not a loan or a bond, but still a form of debt. I got the cash infusion one,It makes zero for most corporations except for the people who become rich off the process. Obligations for a cash infusion that may have occurred a generation ago, or more. It makes sense for an operation with massive infastructure needs, where the capital needs are huge. Shipping, railroads, electricity etc. For a company with mostly IP? Someone got rich.It is a leash on a corporation, to allow an outsider to profit from someone else's work effort.
(DIR) Post #AzTAAtesX5koRmb5jE by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-10-22T14:01:29Z
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@futurebird I think Wall Street and the very would scream bloody murder at that idea. Because it a tax they would have to pay. So much of what they do is short term speculation.
(DIR) Post #AzXQsRkI34HgWAkwnA by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-10-24T15:27:16Z
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@futurebird It likely depends on the printer and how it operates.At work printers were like this, put in an entire rehm of paper once with minimal fussing worth it. It preferred paper straight from the factory, basically. My printer at home? You've got to do batches far smaller than the printer can take and fan them or first to minimize them sticking together. Otherwise you will 2 pages through with each page, or it will jam.
(DIR) Post #AzYBMVc8pF355xDYCe by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-10-25T00:08:18Z
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@futurebird Here in San Francisco you learn to judge people by the Patagonia vest they are wearing.
(DIR) Post #AzZRfu57sBMuuG0MNM by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-10-25T14:45:50Z
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@futurebird Halloween seems to be outpacing Christmas in terms of decore. So many houses go all out for Halloween but maybe just a few lights and a blow up figure at Christmas. Those giant skeletons are such a flex. Where do you store them off season? How do you have room?
(DIR) Post #Azi0KLqF84SxQEKrA0 by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-10-29T16:28:46Z
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I finished it! Only took staying up until 1 am because the last bit of trim fought me. But it is done, and kiddo was glowing. I copied a gown from 1865, but changed the colors to suit the "emo Victorian vibe" kiddo was going for. The changeable taffeta glows shocking red in the sunlight, but the black undertones come out otherwise. Got a lot of smiles walking through San Francisco this morning. #Sewing #HistoricalCostuming #SanFrancisco
(DIR) Post #B06BQ7STde5faemtG4 by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-11-08T14:22:45Z
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@futurebird Not to defend him, but Trump is likely severely dyslexic. In an era where kids were just tormented for it. It probably contributed to honing his bullying skills early, to force other kids to do his work for him if a bribe didn't work. A lot of severe dyslexics take pride in rejecting education because it can be a truly awful experience for them. It is easier to reject education than accept, as someone who is intelligent outside their disability, that you are as broken as the schools are telling you. When my kid got into a school for dyslexia within weeks it was like I had a different kid. School was suddenly something she could excel in.If you want a contrast to Trump for a dyslexic with grace, look to Gavin Newsom. He can't read a teleprompter fast enough for a speech. But he got specialized tutoring as a kid and a family who helped. Unaddressed dyslexia has life long impacts. It doesn't excuse Trump's but gives context to how deeply he rejects even the concept of education.
(DIR) Post #B0Ay6PP8sUTlqOIYeO by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-11-12T17:13:28Z
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@futurebirdWtF is up with these percentages? 105% response rate to your quiz!
(DIR) Post #B0PEyMIX7X1jZFMyUi by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-11-19T14:28:30Z
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@futurebird I moved into a big, 1930's house (housing market crash deal) that literally trippled my floor space. 1100 sq ft to 3500 sq ft.I lived there for 5 years before I realized my furniture didn't have to be against the wall in the lining room. That it was awkward because I had zero clue on how to deal with large spaces.Now that I live in a too big house, design recommendations make sense. They are aimed at people with too much space and too much money. The one thing I've found with design is to repeat colors and motifs. Don't go crazy with picking the perfect thing, pick a theme and stick with it. I worked with a designer to flip my hoarder's aunt's condo for sale. Learned a lot, how to make stuff look great for cheap. Over thinking, overbuying are the death. Like your cabinets, we dressed up the underfloor on the carpeted stairs and made them pretty.The condo next door spent oodles and didn't sell.
(DIR) Post #B0S0riyhqnSMfb6EPw by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-11-20T22:34:33Z
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@futurebird Open shelves are for homes that need to look like sets, or where you don't actually live. Like an vacation rental.
(DIR) Post #B0VZOXhileHxAzr4me by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-11-22T15:45:36Z
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@futurebird @IngaLovinde @lianna Depends on where you shop frankly. Where I live we have a couple of antique stores that are little more than thrift stores. I have bought some really interesting unique pieces in decent shape over the years. Like an amazing small art deco bar cabinet. Higher end stores in the Bay Area shop there to resell at higher prices for the kind of people you mention. My uncle owns one of those high end antique stores. As he puts it, he wants to make the most money he can for the least amount of work so prices everything to the max. These days though he buys most his stuff off Facebook by from people who don't know what they are selling.
(DIR) Post #B0aXNUmyBJdFonMPse by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-11-25T01:16:33Z
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@futurebird I watched my 14 struggle not to ugly cry during Les Mis last month at the death of that little boy on stage. I've never seen her get that emotional watching a movie.
(DIR) Post #B0db224KkUnPxFNp2W by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-11-26T12:41:27Z
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@futurebird I hate debt with a passion and have successfully avoided it, outside the normal big ticket items like cars. Growing up my parents got trapped in debt. The airforce base closed where we lived and we had to move for unrelated reasons. The local housing market tanked and the house would not sell, and rents collapsed too. They racked up debt while covering 2 mortgages until the house finally sold. At the time to me as a teen the debt was an impossibly high number, and it scared me. We live waaaaay under our means so we can afford a school for dyslexia my kid. College may be cheaper if they go to a state school. But we are doing it without debt, and that is what matters.
(DIR) Post #B0fw6Ggip8cZo67UzQ by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-11-27T15:47:01Z
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@futurebird The problem is finding modern products that are actually durable.Most are cheap plastic crap designed to be replaced in 10 years.
(DIR) Post #B1HJgtb77hUIhbRrpw by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-12-15T16:35:44Z
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@futurebird Oh interesting. Kiddo got popcorn at an event over the weekend. Thought the cheese/carmel mix was unusual, didn't realize it was a Chicago "thing." Didn't catch the label though.It's made it to San Francisco theaters.
(DIR) Post #B1sSfIU9yXI6DQmSEi by sewblue@sfba.social
2026-01-02T14:40:39Z
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@futurebird I do a lot of professional engineering writing and editing. We get trained in school to write essays, to fluff a barely there concept into paragraphs. But outside of a classroom that is rarely good writing. I have to train people not to "show their work," because it makes difficult concepts harder to understand. Technical writing is different. AI text is all confidently written fluff. Very little substance. Verbosity that hides vapidity.Good on you for getting through to your mom. She is flexing from an area where writing is more technical to where writing is trying to evoke emotion.That has got to be a tough transition. Maybe a creative writing class to build the skill set?