Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

@lapis d'ya know if there's instances that are dedicated to, like, sciency stuff

@pettancow bleh. is it old

@lapis like, how does it work? there are "instances"?

@maple huh, I don't use earbuds or headphones too often but I'll have to see if they ever pick up something like that

@maple shit really? you pick up local radio or whatever?

@Zelli *sighs* still jonesing a bit to try Skyline chili on spaghetti

@pandora_parrot cool I will look into it

there's also Plume, Friendica, maybe other stuff..

@pandora_parrot aw it's closed. but what is it? what's the engine

@maple neutral trans stories, I guess

still haven't heard from anyone about Plume or other ActivityPub blogging stuff

does nobody here use that shit?

@kara_dreamer@plural.cafe @KaylinEvergreen Chara, would you please slap some sense into this dork

I have a silly dream of making a paper machine, something I could feed with clean cotton rag and it would pulp it and extrude sheets. that's getting a bit ambitious considering we've never built any machine that wasn't in kit form :=/

I'm a sucker for ooold books about, like, how to do practical stuff like make paint and soap and inks and stuff like that. all the things we've gotten super used to as commercial products

(like...we assume we're _always_ gonna get that stuff at the supermarket or in a convenient yellow Amazon tote or whatever, right? well...maybe not for much longer...)

here's a favorite, "Henley's Recipes"

https://archive.org/details/henleystwentieth53143gut

kinda want this but then I would have to figure out how I would actually use it

it'd probably just become another lump of useless technology in the basement

@KaylinEvergreen @kara_dreamer@plural.cafe nope

(I'm responding cuz Kara ain't getting notifications from anyone outside plural.cafe)