Raphael Luckom

@[email protected]
114 Followers
123 Following
658 Posts
Personal sitehttps://raphaelluckom.com
Pronounshe/him
LocationMassachusetts, US
Raphael LuckomJul 12, 2025
One thing I have learned about making clothes patterns is: do not include seam allowance in your patterns. When you trace the patterns, it is 1000% more useful to have a (washable) line *where you need to put the stiches* than it is to have a nice straight line at the very edge of the seam allowance where it's (hopefully) going to be completely hidden in the seam. It works fine to freehand your seam allowance after the pattern is drawn if you want a line to cut on.
Raphael LuckomMay 6, 2025
With all respect to Stevie Wonder, "I believe when I fall in love this time it will be forever" would be AT BEST an underwhelming line.
Raphael LuckomFeb 26, 2025
I don't really do film photography but one thing about it that seems magical is being able to upgrade or downgrade the sensor in your camera every 24 pictures or so.
Raphael LuckomSep 16, 2024

Sometime in the early 2000s:

Reporter: "Congratulations, Mr. Gibson! You've achieved a deep moment of cultural relevance! You have the chance to add something to the popular consciousness! What do you think it's going to be?"

William Gibson: "I *really* want everyone to know what 'liminal' means."

Show threadRaphael LuckomSep 13, 2024
Anyway I was thinking about the beginning of Moby Dick where Ishmael describes the sailors he sees carrying their canvas sacks to and from the ships, and I was wondering what the carpenter would be carrying in that moment of moving from one situation to another.
Show threadRaphael LuckomSep 13, 2024
Also also, you would certainly have learned to use the ship itself for many operations (holding, pressing, lifting, measuring...) and you would have adjusted and learned from and used and modified whatever the previous carpenter had left behind in the ship's structure.
Raphael LuckomSep 13, 2024
I wonder if the ship's carpenter during the age of sail would have had their own tools or used ones provisioned with the ship. It must have been a very efficient toolset, but also after 3 years voyage or so you'd probably have a number of new tools made while underway that you wouldn't necessarily want to part with and have to make again.
Raphael LuckomSep 13, 2024
Show threadvapid consumerSep 13, 2024
@raphaelluckom dogwood! The trees in my neighborhood that I usually nab a few from (nobody even knows they're edible) just didn't produce this year 🤷
Raphael LuckomSep 13, 2024
It is officially weirdfruit season at my house.
Raphael LuckomSep 11, 2024
Sarah Jamie LewisSep 11, 2024

I really try to like Firefox, but the last 5 minutes really captures the kind of papercut that happens often:

- I open a new tab and firefox informs me it has updated itself and needs to restart and won't allow any further operations until it does so.
- Fine, I close and restart.
- I reopen Firefox to find a brand new sponsored weather widget on my otherwise blank new tab page - from a source I would never otherwise visit.

Thanks for breaking my flow and the privacy breach, I guess.