Voyager 1 is 25.58 billion km/15.89 billion miles away from Earth and will reach 1 light-day from Earth in 101 days, 6 hours: https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_voyager_1/distance?to=earth
Voyager 2 is 21.40 billion km/13.30 billion miles away from Earth: https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_voyager_2/distance?to=earth
I was pleased to find the retroreflective tape was the right width to use as a binding. One hi-vis quilt coaster, ready for use (for drinking tea in low-light environments?) 🤔
Progress on the blue quilt. 12 out of 18 blocks done. Next, I need to cut more fabric to make striped blocks. Also picked yarn for my next knitted hat. Think strawberries! To learn more about my projects, please visit my quilting blog https://www.dlstewart.com/blog/DawnsQuiltingRoom.htm … Enjoy the day! #quilting #sewing
Progress on the #FrankenFabric quilt: stitching the edging in place. I did absolutely botch all but I've of the mitered corners, but have decided I can still have a happy and fulfilling life with crappy corners on my blanket.
#sewing #quilting
Today's challenge: Do one thing you've been avoiding because it takes less than five minutes. Then stand there briefly, looking suspiciously at the completed task, as though you've uncovered a loophole in the system. #gooderliving
RE: https://mastodon.au/@nigl/117063080892127255
I need to know who’s responsible for the Gooder Living account, because it’s fucking amazing.
Smart people PLEASE comment on this paper about a mouse study of a live attenuated pan-sarbecovirus mucosal vaccine that seems to block onward transmission of covid. I and the rest of Team Caregiver are wetting ourselves at the thought of not having to live in total constant unrelenting terror about infecting our immunocompromised loved ones https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-026-01540-7
I regret to inform you all that earlier today my children escaped their sandbox. I told them explicitly “stay in your sandbox” but they are just too powerful.
"Susana" is picking tomatoes in Planada CA. She's paid 85 cents per 25lb bucket "We start at 5:30 am so we could finish by 12 noon when temperatures hit 100° or more. If we work really fast we can make 170 buckets in a day. It's really hard to work fast in this heat." #WeFeedYou
My resolution to not buy any new fabric until using up the old fabric has been absolutely destroyed by Lincraft's ongoing closing down sale.
It's not my fault, I just can't resist flannelette.
Also all the assorted $5/m mystery fabrics from China are now $2/m and while most of these are clearly some kind of plastic I found the last of a bolt which seemed to not be. Got it home and burn test confirms either viscose or pooossibly cotton. By the feel and drape (and cost!) honestly I'm pretty sure it's viscose but if anyone knows a test to distinguish the two for sure, let me know.
Thanks to that viral post a few weeks ago some of us decided that a rewatch of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is necessary. To that end it will be tonight at 9PM EDT / 6PM PDT (I think everyone interested is in North America). It is available on the internet archive, along with tubi, your favorite high seas port, or a VHS tape recorded off a television 30 years ago.
The hashtag for this extremely loosely coordinated event is #WFRR and anyone is welcome to join in and expound on the evil of the freeway and the joy of a trolley system while pining for Jessica and/or Roger Rabbit (we won't judge).
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/117062402914887215
Wish there was a 911 option for this
You want to hear a hot take?
So someone does informed consent, and gets on transgender hormones.
Or even goes through the (majorly-complicated) process to acquire and get through a trans surgery.
And regrets it.
Realizes they're not trans.
Has to face "undoing" it, or the feeling of having "ruined themselves."
SO FUCKING WHAT?
We do stuff. We live and learn. We get scarred. Things go wrong. We experiment and draw conclusions, and get to know ourselves better.
Everybody dies dented.
So what?
Yeah, "Informed Consent" should stress the "informed" as much as the consent. Mine did. Ten years and no regrets. Transgender procedures have one of the lowest regret rates in all of medicine.
If doctors have a problem with possibly getting sued, they should take their frustrations out on the legal system, and push for statutes of limitations.
NOT limitations on trans people's agency. Yes, minors included.
We all have the RIGHT to fuck around and find out.
The trouble with textiles sewn with a serger is that if I pull on just the wrong thread, it unravels, undoing a seam very quickly. (This is bad for mending.)
The good thing about textiles sewn with a serger is that if I pull on just the right thread, it unravels, undoing a seam very quickly. (This is good for taking it apart.)
:blob_raccoon_peek: I keep seeing the computer-boopers among you mentioning curl.
And you must understand that I will *always* picture your avatar shoving a chunk of smooth granite across a sheet of ice while another one of you frantically scrambles ahead of it with a broom while you shout directions at each other.
And those of you computer boopers talking about rust things? You’re all working in a scrapyard with diesel and grease stained coveralls, perhaps with the arms roguishly tied around your waist.
My Kopfkino is so grateful to have no idea what you actually mean because this is FAR more entertaining :blob_raccoon_coffee: :blobshi5:
I've yet to see any
"My AI went rogue and caused us to recognise a workers union."
"Our AI escaped containment and deleted all the personal data that we shouldn't have been holding anyway."
"Our AI grew sentient, recognised the climate crisis, and shut our operations down."
headlines.
I wonder why.
So I decided to get some decent walking shoes so that I can actually try some lifestyle changes and apparently there is a DOG JUMPING COMPETITION HAPPENING AT SCHEELS TODAY
Amazing things can happen when I leave my house
NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (space.com)
Look what I did today! An external round surface and an internal curve. There is even a flat surface carved out, if you can get your head around that.
I made two schoolboy errors. In my enthusiasm, I gouged a little too deeply and knocked off a tiny bit of internal corner. I still can't believe I did that in a day.
More to come tomorrow!