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🧶💾 Punch cards aren’t just relics of computing—they’re still powering knitting machines today! Discover how hobbyists & archivists are preserving this blend of tech + textile. ⁠

🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/12/vanishing-culture-punch-card-knitting/
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🕳️ #VanishingCulture⁠

Quote tile with white text on an orange background: “[Knitting punch cards] are also, in the age of seemingly-endless proprietary software and terms and conditions, refreshingly punk, in a minimal computing, open-source sort of way…”

Nichole Misako Nomura
Digital humanities scholar

February 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM

Kate

@homemadeprozac.bsky.social

bagel bread was a success--tough flipping it over + getting it out of the water bath though!

February 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM

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Brendel

@brendelbored.bsky.social

I think the general internet argument view of “you have emotion about this event har har, you’re triggered, you have an emotional response to cruelty har har” has been a complete disaster for humanity both for the person being told that and for the person saying it

February 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM

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columbo screenshots

@columboscreens.bsky.social

February 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM

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ex-Lethality Jane

@lethalityjane.bsky.social

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM

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Mia Sato

@miasato.bsky.social

The CFPB just won $120 million for CashApp users who were victims of fraud and who CashApp basically ignored when they needed help. The CFPB is like the most powerful Karen you wish you knew when a company fucks you over. Ask yourself why rich people want it gone

www.theverge.com/2025/1/17/24...

Cash App fined $255 million in back-to-back settlements

Most of it is going to Cash App’s customers.

www.theverge.com

February 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM

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Pete Woods

@thatpetewoods.bsky.social

Your reminder that fame is not wealth and America is broken.

Mainstream people know him as the cabbie from SCROOGED, but he’s a prolific musician and entertainer who has been at the heart of music since the late ‘70s.

variety.com/2025/music/n...

David Johansen, New York Dolls Co-Founder, Suffering From Stage 4 Cancer, Seeks Donations for Health Care

David Johansen, the sole surviving founder of the New York Dolls and a solo artist, is suffering from stage four cancer and seeks financial aid.

variety.com

February 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM

Kate

@homemadeprozac.bsky.social

list of sounds in movies that Maris + Lilith do *not* like:

- the soundtrack for The Shining
- mandrakes screaming in Harry Potter
- Ludo summoning rocks in Labyrinth