Mastodawn

Combined the visit with a wonderful spinners' day in Arnhem. So nice to meet other people with the same weirdo hobby in person. Thank you for good company @MarieLouise .
#HandSpinning

Elizenery🔻6h ago

Visited a replica (?) in the Open Air Museum in Arnhem of a hut that belonged to the grandfather of my grandmother. He sold goods to fishermen and bought fish that he then sold in the city. On weekdays he lived in this hut just outside Amsterdam in a location now fully absorbed by the city. In the weekend he was with his wife and children in a nearby village and settled the bills with the fishermen. He sold the hut to the museum when he pensioned at high age in 1917.

Elizenery🔻8h ago

Claire 16h ago

I want to try to help my wife with switching from threads to fedi (we've talked about it and she's open to the idea), and am trying to prep an initial follow list for her to get started.

Something I'd love to include would be accounts posting about ballet (or professional dance in general), but I'm having a hard time finding such accounts.

Anyone know if they exist?

#BoostsWelcome #ballet #dance

Elizenery🔻9h ago

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Madeleine Morris 13h ago

I remember watching a very wizened old tailor in Ho Chi Minh City sew an extra piece of the woven fabric of a suit into the inside jacket pocket.

Invisible mending techniques used to be very, very common in Asia, and you need a generous piece of the same fabric to weave it into place to cover a hole or tear.

I am sure he's passed on now, but that little act lives on in me.

Elizenery🔻9h ago

Ruth Mottram 11h ago

Interesting #Radiolab on #electricity + cattle, a follow up on a #Zetland piece.

I remain a bit sceptical about the idea of stray voltage affecting cows. It seems very implausible and there are surely other factors to consider. But a quick web search gives lots of hits.

It may be a thing and it may also be a case of mass hysteria among farmers (the mobile phone towers and cancer scare also sprang to mind). And it might be a third effect. Or all three?

But I think it's going to be something we hear more of as the #GreenTransition gets going...

Radiolab: The Resistance of a Cow

Episode webpage: https://radiolab.org/podcast/the-resistance-of-a-cow

The Resistance of a Cow

There’s something rotten in the cows of Denmark. And Minnesota. And Wisconsin. And Idaho. What could cause a previously thriving herd of majestic dairy cattle to stop drinking water a...

Radiolab Podcasts | WNYC Studios

Elizenery🔻9h ago

stux⚡️9h ago

Otterly adorable

Elizenery🔻9h ago

Anna Miriamsdochter 16h ago

Contactadvertentie in Trouw van een vrouw die een man zoekt die kan breien en dansen. Dansende mannen mogen zich bij mij melden voor een spoedcursus breien

Elizenery🔻17h ago

Tweede Kamer Documenten Bot 1d ago

Nou het had meer voeten in de aarde dan ik hoopte, maar ontoegankelijke/niet doorzoekbare PDFs worden nu binnen minuten automatisch verbeterd. Eerst deed ik dit af en toe handmatig. Zoekopdrachten zullen nu sneller meldingen opleveren voor dit soort (WOO-)documenten.

Elizenery🔻17h ago

Mother Bones 1d ago

#Via rahaeli / rahaeli
1:11 PM · Apr 18, 2026

"Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN."

https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/recording-lets-you-hear-delta-blues-legend-robert-johnson-in-stunning-clarity.html

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Robert Plant, and Bob Dylan have never hesitated to acknowledge his influence.

Open Culture

Elizenery🔻17h ago

Cats of Yore 1d ago

The back of this one says “Shy’s and Donna’s familys [sic]. Summer 1951”

Pronouns	she/her
Fiberarts	#crochet, #HandSpinning, #knitting
Location	#Rotterdam, Netherlands, Europe