Crossword Man @crosswordman@social.cleverlibre.org

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/

In case you’re wondering how much snow has fallen in the Sierra Nevada… A friend shared this photo of a gentleman shoveling snow off his ROOF in Quincy, California.

A formative moment for me as a young man was the day some older friends at Colby College, in Maine, took me to see the Gravity Monument on campus.

Colby was one of 14 schools to get a monument from the Gravity Research Foundation, an organization established by Roger Babson (founder of Babson College) seeking ways to harness gravity to reduce airplane accidents.

There is #wierdness in this world and it makes me happy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Research_Foundation

Official English version is now available: https://konkludenz.de/en/data-leak-the-legacy-of-the-historically-grown-charging-infrastructure-for-electric-cars-why-arent-we-getting-away-from-it-anytime-soon/

Finished at last. Behold the rainbow feetsies! #knitting

#SilentSunday

King Alfred’s Cakes, Scarlet Elfcup, and Oakmoss all on our woodland walk this morning.
#fungi #woodlandtrust

Nature is incredible!

Happy birthday to #LizaMinnelli who's 77 years young today 🥳 ✨

#HappyBirthday #MastoArt #Clay

One thing I love about Science is that the more of it you study the more you see repeating patterns. Today's drawing is influence by both Chemistry and Neuroscience.

Here's a work-in-progress shot.

#inkyDays #ink #drawing #art #GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt #algorithm #wip #SciArt #Science #MastoArt

Alaska kids are pretty resilient and won't let snow get in their way of playing basketball. A friend of mine took this photo in a neighborhood park.
#Alaska #AlaskaLife

I've been a professional musician since the end days of selling CDs, and I would like to say that having experienced the decline of CD sales because of piracy transition into the paid streaming era it's unambiguous that musicians were better off when mostly everyone was pirating and then some people bought CDs or other merch out of a desire to support vs today when everyone pays a nominal fee to a corporation that pays us nothing and also satisfies their desire to support despite not actually offering support.

I would much rather you pirate anything I have made or worked on vs listening on streaming services, which are an objective nightmare for musicians. Even if you never intend to spend a penny, normalizing piracy is better for us than normalizing the current capitalist-realism nightmare where you get whatever you want and also get to relax into the fiction that you aren't exploiting musicians because you pay the price of one album per month to a giant corporation so you can feel ok about it.

Caterpillar Cat

(8X10 print of acrylic painting, ships free in USA)

#cat #art #artbooster #weirdwave #agblend13 #acrylicpainting