Scott Ketcham

Seek the light in times of darkness.
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24.01.2025 20:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So You Want to Go Help after a Major Disaster… TLDR: Check with organizations before you just go to see how best to support ongoing efforts! Some great ones are local Mutual Aid Networks…

I'm going to be writing something up on the LA fires, but first I updated this article I wrote on Medium almost a decade ago: medium.com/@nickheyming...

17.01.2025 18:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Mutual Aid LA Network Mutual Aid LA Network is a connector and information hub for mutual aid efforts across Los Angeles.

If you're wanting to volunteer or donate for the LA fires, check out the mutual aid map and spreadsheet: mutualaidla.org
Don't send donations unless you know they're needed!

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Can We Blame Prop. 13 for the LA Fires? (And So Much More?) I think we can.  Proposition 13 made it harder, much harder, to raise taxes of any kind in California, and limited property taxes and reass...

Greg Pierce, a researcher at the UCLA, water resources and urban planning, echoed the concerns over water systems that are designed for urban fires, not fast-moving wildfires. But redesigning water systems to take on wildfire would be enormously expensive.

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A. 150M voted 90M didnt.
no mandatory voting. Laws that prevent voting rights..if we had mandatory voting and a legal voting holiday we would have an engaged pdidn't.
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06.12.2024 15:17 — 👍 33    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Dissapointing that you are posting AI shots. Support loving artists.

03.12.2024 22:18 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Its also too big. Diaspointing that they are posting ai

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This a kimono using the landed patches and chain stitch to unify. I saw a great show on indigo and fabric art this weekend. Some many inspirations

03.12.2024 15:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What is BORO | Story from Fabrics in Japan Upcycle, Sustainability, and Slow Fashion. I enjoy many words related to Boro recently. Then, what is BORO? Here is my understanding as a Sashiko artisan.

I'd suggest looking at Japanese boro stitching design for inspiration. Firefighter coats and other versions of fabric wabi sabi. You can think of it as organically growing along with you
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03.12.2024 15:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Today is about slowing down. Making a good soup.
Savoring the contrast between a cold day and a warm meal.
Filling my cup, so can have something to give.

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