Crossword Man @crosswordman@qoto.org

@kristinHenry relevant XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/977

Many folks, including me, had a lot of questions after the news of Silicon Valley Bank’s implosion landed. In my piece today, I explain as best I can, given that I’m not an economist or banker, what happened, what it means, and what’s next. Hope it’s helpful! https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/what-many-including-me-didnt-at-first?sd=pf

Bellingcat is hiring!

Our Investigative Tech Team develops tools for open source investigations and explores tech-focused research techniques.

You can learn about three open positions with the Tech Team in the thread below: 👇

Hello from Point 5 again! 😃

Also I ended up matching my sweater to the flowers in the @CMSexperiment control room 😄

Office Party. With cats.
#bengalcat #bumcopy #cats

Kona wanted to celebrate @AmyJSchneider's CHICAGO GUIDE TO COPYEDITING FICTION with me! She thought it was hers and gave it a few licks of enthusiasm.

I'm thrilled about this book. As a fiction editor, I follow Chicago style, but it's so nice to have an official guide specific to fiction editing! Plus, I'm stoked that (a) I'm included in the acknowledgments, (b), I'm listed as a conscious language resource, and (c) I'll be getting the book signed at ACES next week! Congratulations, Amy! ♥️

The next batch: these take maybe half an hour each, Yellow 3x3” Post-it Notes, 4H pencil, Microns, and Copics. #art #drawing #sketching #comics

Part of my ‘permitted exercise’ series during Covid #photography #foto #arte #fotografia #fotografie #BlackAndWhite #photographyisart #photo #Monochrome #bW
#BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhoto #PhotoOfTheDay #photos #Photographie #MastoArt #art #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #bnw #artwork
#WomensArt
#mastodon #landscape #buyartnotcandy #artonmastodon #believeinfilm #35mm #film #filmphotography

I'm non-binary which means I have to compile my gender from source

Arms and legs done! :D All that's left now is the mane and tail, and it'll be finished. :da_la:

Anyone have any name suggestions?

(Knitted with KnitPicks Wool of the Andes Superwash worsted, pattern here: https://www.knitpicks.com/nilla-the-unicorn/p/14787D )

@knitting #Knitting #FibreArts #FiberArts #Unicorn

susurro: I whisper
st! (shh!) Minimus is whispering commissa (secrets) into the auris (ear) of a friendly ursus (bear).
Minimus met this bear at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. (https://mastodon.world/@morethanadodo)
#LatinVerbs

Haven't updated the computer lab pics in awhile...

Mornin’. Didn’t realise a formal #introduction was de rigueur on here - my bad. I’m the Bee Guy - the founder of the first and only native wild bee sanctuary on the planet - The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland. Not for profit social enterprise 24/7 365 advocating for our native wild bees. Not about honey bees - they’re fine. Only on here for the #bees & #planet. Heart on my sleeve, head in the stars, feet in a muddy puddle. Big plans. Need your support. Thoughtful brave disruption. Language matters.1/n

Glen Whitney and Alex Kontorovich are planning an art/science exhibit of polyhedra, arranged in space according to their numbers of vertices, edges, and faces. Euler's formula means that they will all lie in a plane!

They are looking for contributors to make polyhedra for the exhibit, in as many media as possible. Details at http://polyplane.org.

Since the plane V - E + F = 2 has only a finite area inside the bounds of the planned exhibit, there is a signup system - act quick to reserve your chunk of airspace!

Did you know the Girl Scouts have a comic artist badge? One more reason to love that organization. Anyway, happy #GirlScoutDay
PS- If you want to see something cool, check out how Heroic Girls, Empire's Comic Vault, and and artist Justin Greenwood put together an event that taught Girl Scout Cadettes about comic book creation. https://www.empirescomics.com/blog/girl-scouts-comic-books-sacramento

Traction Control is OOoooff #dog #dogs #dogsOfMastodon #derpsAndFloofs

Today's progress was way less than I would have liked.

I had to redo the same seam five times today (twice by hand) because I kept messing it up in different ways. Hours of wasted effort. Very frustrating.

But I got the front and back boning channels in. Tomorrow, the remaining boning channels, eyelets, and stitching the whole mess together.

#Sewing #Corsetry #18thCentury

Every now and then I despair of the wide swaths of concrete in our world, then I remember how delighted I was when I first visited Joe in NYC and learned the biggest city in America is actually rather lush where there is a spot to grow in, and full of lovely surprises like that entire house that was lost to ivy. All camera angles just looked like a lump of ivy, then there was this:
(check out the lichens on the bumper)
#nature #lichensubscribe

Repair-mongers, remakeries & repair shops: Eavesdrop on this chat with Bath Share & Repair, The Restart Project, The Edinburgh Remakery and The General Store, Selkirk

As they explore how community repair is reimagining high streets, and making it as easy and normal to fix and share as popping out to pick up a loaf of bread!

https://therestartproject.org/podcast/high-street/