Hortense @Hortense@qoto.org
Fiber person, particularly knitting, particularly Herbert Niebling patterns. Also, rabid atheist, liberal left, sci-fi, fantasy, opinionated to the nth degree. I'm an old peacenik. I stand with poor people, and I'm tired of poor people being demonized by the extreme right. Also, I'm in a mood at the moment and I have no more fucks to give.
Joined Nov 2022
@admm Thanks! I'm not much into quilts, but there's a lot of math in knitting. At least in knitting design there is a lot of math. I'm not necessarily looking for another group, I just wanted to be sure it's OK for me to be in this one.
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Well my Twitter account got permanently suspended. Last thing I said was this
@dyedgrey Thanks! I'll stick around.
@lapis The knitting dude bros! I love them. The gift that keeps on giving. Laughing at them got me through most of this year. Laughing at Elon Musk may get me through the rest of the year. They are related, although the dude bros aren't as rich as elon.
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@Hortense I’m not sciency myself. I think it’s good to have you here! The more backgrounds the better.
I have seen some art and philosophy posters on qoto so it can be anything you want.
@derickflorian Thanks! I'm not an artist, either, just a hobbyist who loves fiber-related skills. I learned to knit then went down the rabbit hole into spinning and weaving and prepping raw fleece for spinning. So, ancient skills, not modern skills. Still, it's all very interesting. I imagine some of the archaeologists in this group could weigh in on the history of thread, which is absolutely fascinating.
So, I joined QOTO because I like sciency things and couldn't find any other appealing group. But I think I may be in the wrong group. I think this group is for actual, you know, scientists.
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Got to admit I'm having a hard time curating a feed on Mastodon, or rather, finding the time and muse to curate a feed.
I was always the guy who never had music play lists, or paid for music streaming services like Spotify or Deezer. Looking up music, picking it out, adding them to play lists, creating multiple ones... All that just couldn't keep up with "I'm going to enter what I want in that very moment into the YouTube search bar". Creating a feed on Mastodon feels the same, head space wise.
I'd have to look up specific has tags because I can't just enter random terms in the search, and hope the other person actually used hashtags. There is no algorithm that would help me find content once I got around to find a few artists and scientists and the likes. So that falls entirely to the user, which has its positives, but causes me to feel the same way about it than the music playlist.
I also don't feel like posting a lot here - I consciously joined a STEM server because I love to read about all that science stuff. But looking at my Twitter feed, I barely post about them myself. Should I have multiple Mastodon accounts, one for searching, one for posting, and sync them? I'm a bit lost. And rather feel like creating a music playlist.
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@matt_zucker I think you’d enjoy my cross stitch project I spent all of Lockdown 1 doing (65k stitches) I watched a lot of tv
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Here’s my #Introduction now I’ve come over from the dark side in the #TwitterMigration. I’m a freelance writer and an editor specialising in food and drink, who originally trained as an archaeologist. I’m an addicted knitter and I love my garden. I live in Wales between the mountains and the sea, still defiantly describe myself as European.
#archaeology #history #ancienthistory
#books #reading #writing
#knitting #wool #sheep #ravelry
#Wales #Annibyniaeth #politicsUK
@birdiefire Yes, a long tv series, each book has enough going on to be several episodes. I'm not familiar with young British actors, so I don't have a favorite for Peter Grant. I did think the beautiful young black woman with the long hair on the most recent GBBO would be a perfect Beverly Brook. I can't remember names, sorry! Bad with names.
@birdiefire Do you suppose they'll ever film the stories? I think it could be better than Dr. Who.
@Pat Funny! That never occurred to me. I mean Wool! other fibers too, but wool is my favorite.
Also, although I'm an old woman, I'm kind of a fangirl for #DimashQudaibergen
Did a search, couldn't find anyone else with a Dimash hashtag.
New here. I'm interested in all sorts of things, but particularly in finding fiber enthusiasts.
#ravelry #HerbertNiebling #knitting #atheists #dropspindles #sci-fi #RiversofLondon
Fiber person, particularly knitting, particularly Herbert Niebling patterns. Also, rabid atheist, liberal left, sci-fi, fantasy, opinionated to the nth degree. I'm an old peacenik. I stand with poor people, and I'm tired of poor people being demonized by the extreme right. Also, I'm in a mood at the moment and I have no more fucks to give.
Joined Nov 2022
