Category: Wonderings
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Local is your world
On my little island, where the roads fall into the sea, local council matters a hell of a lot. We don’t have alternative routes when landslips block a road. We rely on our local services because that’s all there is. Sadly, I’m having to imagine what an inept Reform council will do to an already…
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Women are not OK
Every woman I know is running a household, holding down a full-time job, working out career paths for her children in the age of technofeudalism, listening to an audiobook of the 18th century journal of a plantation-owner’s wife, planning a family reunion, donating money to amputees in Palestine, taking supplements to protect against osteoporosis, putting…
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April makes and mends
Spent the Easter weekend clearing out the only way I know keeps me engaged: work work work, find fun thing and play with it, work work work, play as needed, work…and repeat. The great thing about this is I got so much mending done over the four days. I finished like five WIPs and did…
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March makes and mends
Less writing and more making recently. I have to say, since I’ve been majorly cutting back on buying clothes, I’ve done a lot more playing within my existing wardrobe. I’ve got four storage boxes of mending and alterations waiting for my attention, so I could ‘shop’ every day for months just by adding a couple…
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Stop the slop: good news in the human-AI balance
This week I’ve seen quite a bit of noise about how our culture is starting to set its boundaries with AI. Governments are moving very slowly on legislation (OMG guess who gives them loads of money?????), so the rest of us are having to take things into our own hands. Here’s some human-first doings. Human…
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