Adriana Knouf

Frank Malina - Wikipedia

The case of Frank Malina is instructive. He was living in France when his passport was canceled due to HUAC investigations. He eventually got French citizenship, but I don't know what happened immediately after the passport was revoked.

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By my reading, in the case of the NL, to have a canceled passport would be a violation of the residence permit. What repercussions that would have would likely be contingent on whether a bureaucrat would have any leeway in deciding things.

Given that IE is in the EU, I imagine it would be similar.

I was wondering that same thing starting on 20 January 2025. And have been waking up everyday since wondering it. I have been able to get no definite information, and when I asked such a question on an expat group I'm in I started a flame war.

Terra incognita indeed.

The same thing could be said for other forms of accessible design practices that should be ingrained in people from the beginning.

Is it, uhh, normal for a US military vehicle to have a marking resembling a Christian cross on the driver's door?

Asking for a friend.

It's 2025 and we still don't have a good way to annotate the electronic text we read. Especially one that is self-hosted and not dependent on a startup who will eventually sell my data to someone else.

Sigh.

Rant off :)

Yes, I use Calibre, yes, I use KOReader, yes I know all about the various syncing methods available.

I really wish that instead of wasteful LLM development, techies worked on solving the seemingly simple problem of merging annotations of EPUBs when you are reading and annotating those EPUBs across multiple devices.

the dovetails, I'm quite happy with how this turned out, especially how smooth the piece is without using any sandpaper at all.

This thing should last a hundred years or more with just occasional maintenance of reapplying the finish every few decades or so.

3/4 view of the altar stand, finished

Side view of the altar stand, finished

Other side view of the altar stand, finished

Top view of the altar stand, finished, showing the extensive grain pattern

Back to the stand, finished now!

All edges were gently rounded using the spokeshave...they're not "perfect" roundovers but I like it that way.

Four coats of boiled linseed oil over two days. Renaissance wax for sealing. I think the wax and my smoothing plane is what gives the shininess of the

Commission, and are ultimately forgotten.

I am having a harder and harder time with this.

Considering again the permacomputing principles ( https://permacomputing.net/principles/ ), including the poetic sister0 principles ( https://permacomputing.net/sister0/ ), it makes me more and more incensed the ways in which contemporary arts funding for art/tech projects (in Europe at least)

the "messiness" in them :)

Slightly larger sapeli wood platform than the last time.

Closeup of left-hand dovetails on the top.

Closeup of one side of dovetails, showing my attempt at stuffing the gaps with shavings.

Closeup of the other side of dovetails, showing my attempt at stuffing the gaps with shavings.

Back at it! Making a slightly larger platform this time as a gift. I'm showing all of the messiness here, pre-final planing and finish. I tried a different way of chiseling out the waste but still had some rather large gaps on my pin boards. I think I just need to adjust the intensity of my mallet

enshittification of the internet.

I had noticed that access to the Worldcat database had recently been impossible if I was using my Proton VPN. Like, completely blocked (no captcha even offered). I finally got fed up and messaged them. This is the response I got:

"All VPNs that are classified as an anonymizer are currently

who is the contemporary heir to Semiotexte(e) and Autonomedia? Who is consistently publishing weird, surprising, undomesticated theory from outside the academy?

I had an icky feeling when I first heard Jensen give a presentation, and when I learned he hated trans people it all made sense.

Maksim tells me he has developed a kinship with the transgender detainees in particular, who he says face brutal harassment from both guards and fellow inmates. “I’ve befriended several,” he says. “But here, especially for trans people… just disappear. One day they’re here, the next day, no one knows. Were they deported? Released? No one tells us.” In that landscape of indifference, Maksim has found a kind of resistance in solidarity. He is part of a small community of queer detainees who take care of each other. “I’d be happy if America wants to deport me,” he says. “Just not to Russia. Mexico would be fine.”

Reading this interview with Maksim Borisov, a gay Russian dissident who sought asylum in the US last year only for ICE to arrest and detain him in February.

He's currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says "trans people… just disappear."

Opinion | Trump's message to trans people is clear: Detransition, or potentially die My question to everyone reading this is: When is enough enough?

For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid.

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Venus of Willendorf

Man with an old roman hand plane, early 16th century, painting

Wooden tools, early 16th century, painting

Old roman hand plane, early 16th century, painting

Saw some cool art. And some hand planes in a painting.

months.

Approximately 260 x 95 x 60 mm.

Small sapeli platform with dovetailed ends finished in boiled linseed oil, 3/4 view

Small sapeli platform with dovetailed ends finished in boiled linseed oil, closeup of tails on the left side top

Small sapeli platform with dovetailed ends finished in boiled linseed oil, closeup of pins on left side side

Small table/platform complete!

As I was learning dovetails this weekend I was like, "why don't I try and make a small dovetailed platform in some of the sapeli offcuts I have from Quanto Canto? How hard can that be?"

(If you don't know, sapeli is a very hard, dense wood, harder than hard maple,

share another small "piece" made at the weekend...and the wood really shows off there.

Completed, fully dovetailed carcass. And its square!

Closeup of through dovetails on the bottom of the carcass.

Through dovetails at the top of the carcass.

Closeup of through dovetails on the bottom of the carcass, other side.

The carcass is dovetailed and assembled!

Somehow the entire thing is square too :)

My dovetail skills are improving, slowly. I'd say that out of all the dovetails in this piece maybe 2-3 of them are really good :) But a lot of the gaps will disappear once I do the final planing.

Tomorrow I'll

As far as I've learned (and only through online videos), when honing you're continuously polishing the front, then the back, of the tool. Each step pushes the burr to the other side (front to back, etc), until the burr comes off. Noticing the burr when on the strop definitely improved my sharpening.

That's what I've heard lots of people calling it :) so I presume so? Not sure what the history of the phrase is...as I'm learning there are lots of strange locutions in English woodworking speak.

metal being pushed torwards the cutting edge as you move the tool on an abrasive surface. The last step, honing, attempts to "massage" the burr off (called "chasing the burr") so that you can have the sharpest edge possible.)

Extreme closeup of a burr massaged off my chisel

Sharpening nerdiness ahead, so please move on if you're not interested :)

This, my friends, is a burr. First time I've gotten a continuous burr off my chisel while honing on the strop. I was pleased :)

(For those who don't know, a burr is what is created when sharpening and honing, as it's the

pins...hopefully third time is indeed a charm.