Rot
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here, a gift for the journey ahead 🫴🫐🗡️🧦
social experiment using procreate.
social experiment using procreate.
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Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, archeologists are arguing, in the process they pioneered the basic mechanics that eventually made cart wheels possible. arstechnica.com/science/2024...
Key wheel ideas may have come from weaving
The tools used to make threads could have seeded concepts that eventually led to the wheel.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, archeologists are arguing, in the process they pioneered the basic mechanics that eventually made cart wheels possible. arstechnica.com/science/2024...
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"Other countries have social safety nets; the US has women."
Four years ago, that quote of mine went massively viral, maybe because it captured the crushing weight of what so many women had long been holding, plus the impossibility of holding even more without support as the pandemic dragged on. 1/
Four years ago, that quote of mine went massively viral, maybe because it captured the crushing weight of what so many women had long been holding, plus the impossibility of holding even more without support as the pandemic dragged on. 1/
November 18, 2024 at 12:19 AM
"Other countries have social safety nets; the US has women."
Four years ago, that quote of mine went massively viral, maybe because it captured the crushing weight of what so many women had long been holding, plus the impossibility of holding even more without support as the pandemic dragged on. 1/
Four years ago, that quote of mine went massively viral, maybe because it captured the crushing weight of what so many women had long been holding, plus the impossibility of holding even more without support as the pandemic dragged on. 1/
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another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces.
all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.
all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.
November 13, 2024 at 1:52 PM
another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces.
all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.
all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.