Welcome to the Open Stitch Dictionary. This site aims to be a complete, creative commons reference for stitches for crochet, knitting, embroidery, and other types of needlework. We currently in beta and registration is closed, but information will be added soon.
We live in a world where the lines between marketing and journalism are constantly blurred. Sometimes content drives marketing; sometimes marketing drives content. Trying to find an objective middle? Now that’s hard. But there was once a time when the objective middle was much more obvious, where you knew what you were getting. So, where did the lines begin to blur? One could point to the infomercials of the ’90s or native advertising of the 2010s, but the point where things got really interesting might have come in the form of a trend that explicitly merged art and commerce in a way that ensured we’d never again be able to tear them apart. Today’s Tedium discusses the “magalog,” an unholy merger of content and sales that once dominated the marketing world.
The Classics Club is a club created to inspire people to read and blog about classic books. There’s no time limit to join and you’re most welcome, as long as you’re willing to sign up to read and write on your blog about 50+ classic books in at most five years. The perk is that, not only will you have read 50+ incredible (or at the very least thought-provoking) works in five years, you’ll get to do it along with all of these people. Join us! We’re very friendly.
Japanese pixel art website; click "icon" to get to the stuff you can download.
No Photoshop, no rendering, no cheating
Only working computers
What you see on screen was actually on the screen (no overlays, no copy and paste, etc.)All images on this page are available under Creative Commons license — feel free to use them!
This is a fun digital versionof the classic design book, A Dictionary of Color Combinations. If you're a designer then you might also want to grab these Figma/Sketch files with the color combos, too: https://hexpot.com/blog/sanzo-wada-color-combinations
A donation of scans from the brilliant instagram account Transit Tickets (go follow!). Tony found these in Tokyo, dug out of piles of paper and added to his collection. They were issued in the early 1980s, Showa Era 56/57. These were used to get entry into a train station.
Vintage Japanese train tickets!
An independent publishing house focused on telling great science fiction and fantasy stories with queer elements and under-represented people.
Let’s outlive some motherfuckers this year
This font used on the gateposts of the former Haghill Public School in the East End of Glasgow is just superb. Designed by A. Lindsay Miller and built in 1904, the school was demolished in 2022, but it's hoped some of the original features will be incorporated in the affordable housing planned for the site.
When we lose old building, we lose not just the walls and the roof, but also all the other little design details which makes each building unique, like these sculpted signs, and once they're gone, they are lost forever as they're often left undocumented.
Streaming the Best of the "Seeburg 1000 Background Music Library" Playing 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Indieart.support is managed by independent artists. We have been entrusted with the valuable artist directory curated from 2022-2024 by the operator of Radio Free Fedi. For the moment our goal is to continue to maintain this directory, and to add discovery features to help artists be found by listeners, readers, watchers, and other artists.
Maybe for you, it didn’t start on Twitter. Maybe was forums or the blogosphere or Reddit. Maybe it was Facebook with terrible people from high school or TikTok with people who hate you for liking a thing, or not liking it enough. But we built the machines around our weird amygdalas and then we went inside them and now the machine is no longer confined to a stack of software + policy + vibes; we carry it in ourselves. We haunt each new place we enter. We can feel this happening in our bodies, which is why touch grass is so accidentally real.
We shape our structures and afterward our structures shape us, but the we of the first clause and the us of the second are not the same.
Site directory!
Bookshelf Town is designed to be a pleasant place to document your reads and share them with your friends. Nothing more nothing less - just a cozy spot to visit.
A fun design but maybe not if you read more than like 50 books-- the book stacks get real uneven and you have to scroll forever
We proposed this project in the fall of 2023 based on our shared sense that the Fediverse’s history of resilience and expansion positions it as one of our best chances to allow more people to maintain strong social connections online while escaping the behavioral manipulation, pervasive surveillance, and capricious governance that characterizes large-scale centralized social platforms.
Initial research question: “What are the most effective governance and administration models/structures in place on medium-to-large sized Fediverse servers, and what infrastructural gaps (human and digital) persist?”
Our rationale at the project’s outset: “The Fediverse’s rapid expansion brings both opportunities and multifaceted risks. Our research seeks to identify current server administrators’ most promising models for mitigating those risks and outline the biggest and most important gaps in risk mitigation, with the aim of helping the broader Fediverse level up governance quickly, safely, and collaboratively.”
When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.
Could be useful for fandom things (online conventions?)-- if someone is private and doesn't want their stuff added to, like, fanlore with their name attached to it, then this rule could be a good starting point to make people more comfortable talking in a group setting.
Welcome to Elpis, a place of articles, interesting materials and links that I hope be useful for you. This magazine is in continuous development, slowly but surely, and our main goal is to inform and educate. We'll show that there is an alternate path to development, which is not limited to endless upgrades for the sake of the process itself, or to the accumulation of resources without a set goal. After all, you can be content with little, and achieve a lot.
Re:wild Your Campus is spearheading a nationwide movement for pesticide-free, climate resilient, regenerative campus grounds. Starting with these places of living and learning, we are creating a new way of living in sync with nature.
Since my original report about all this came out last week, I've interviewed people involved in running the 2025 Seattle Worldcon to pull together a clearer picture of what exactly happened. Based on these interviews, it appears the use of ChatGPT was indeed limited to the vetting of panelists. However, I also learned the use of ChatGPT was not initially approved by Worldcon leadership. Instead, a lower-level Worldcon volunteer decided on their own to use the generative AI program. This was done in the belief the program could complete a time-intensive project when there were not enough volunteers to complete the job manually.
From last year's debacle