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Interesting, thanks for sharing! I was taking Loratadine against allergies for years. Not anymore, the allergies have sorted themselves out. Now my bones are coming apart. I can hear them rattling every month when my period comes around. Not funny, but quite funny.

Left, middle and right. There’s a scroll wheel but that stopped working and it ended up being non-essential. The wheel itself turned out to be too flimsy. Next time a working scroll wheel would be cool!

Yes, but first I have to build a few and test them - they are result of a few years experimenting and thinking about the problem from the perspectives of ease of building and using it, repairability, flexibility, price … It has the option to stack frames as high as practical and cover a stack of frames with either mosquito/flynet or shading fabric or a combination of both, and add any heat source to the bottom of a stack. The current heat would be great for drying all sorts of stuff and put this to the test, but unfortunately the same heat is crap for any mental and physical activities, so this project has been progressing slowly. But it is one of the parts of my small gardening and processing cycle. Equally slow is my documentation of this cycle. I’ll try to come up with a drawing of this idea!

That is true. Whenever I see these designs I feel like I would like to develop a hybrid model - to use with either solar heat or other heat sources when needed.

Or for a low low tech solution, a drying rack that can handle a fire under it. Things will be smoked rather than dried, but that’s not necessarily a disadvantage.

You can build stackable wooden frames, staple a net curtain to them and put them in the sun, or use those plastic fruit boxes, always covered with a net on top against insects. Placing your frames or boxes on or between rocks provides extra heat after sunset. Or the extra lazy method: place your drying net under a fruit tree, wait for fruit to drop, drag into sun or halfshade as is convenient.

When energy is low and overwhelm is much the simplest solutions are often the best.

And for indoor drying in winter a repurposed shoe shelf (or yet more stackable boxes) placed near your radiator might do the trick.

Eastern Europe and Russia: grey filter

Modern reincarnation of Ea-Nasir: ‘Muahahar, this time I’m going to add a symbol to my copper products and reduce the copper content gradually! And I’ll paint my symbol onto every wall and draw it onto the tablets in people’s homes! Once they notice the shitty quality they will have forgotten that better copper existed.’

In this contribution we analyze the process by which the commodity itself—decorated pottery vessels—was developed >into a brand not by added symbols but on the virtue of its visual identity, material consistency, technological continuity, >centralized production, export circulation, local imitation, intentional commercial scope, and cultural reputation.

not by added symbols

What we have today are fake brands - what we would like to have again are brands that show their identity by being good quality in the first place.

Smell, fuzziness, colour, texture. And also guts of steel and an unholy track record of dumpster diving and self sufficiency - I had to learn how to trust my senses.

How many flying arrows can you count? Now calculate your probability of survival!

This is what I do diligently when I see a slow thumbnail and have a second to spare. I hope others do the same and we vote this shit into oblivion.

Brewing is a manual activity, I’m really glad about any analog activity with no software, apps or screen involved. Sure, you can, but don’t feel obliged.

Monstrance for me please (it’s transparent, plus look at them tiny legs!)

Dieser Witz verstößt gegen das Lustigkeitsverhütungsgesetz Paragraph 3 Absatz 4. Wir nehmen Sie daher vorläufig in Haft. Sie können gegen Ihre Verhaftung Widerspruch einlegen. Füllen Sie dazu Formular 5 in 6-facher Ausfertigung aus und händigen Sie das unterschriebene Dokument noch vor Ablauf der wöchentlichen Frist in der Schreibstube ein.

Not ‘study’ as in seriously learn, but as in reading interesting articles (the scientific article rather than a pop science article or a meme, but I’ll happily take all of these).

I study collapse situations in history to better understand what’s going on around me. It’s strangely soothing to find out others have been through this before.