Liz McFarland

Glowies Light yourself up with this fun rechargeable jewelry!  These neon-like pieces last for 12 hrs on a single charge.  Excellent for raves, parties, festivals, Burning Man, or just your normal everyday we...

Glowies are now available online! This is our new line of rechargeable jewelry made out of fun LED shapes. We can make any as a necklace, earrings, or lobster claws for clipping onto hoops (great for folks who put hoops thru their gauges). www.alpenglowindustries.com/collections/...

This sucks! Over the years I’ve learned not to expect much from my alma mater, but this is just spineless.

Welcome : CRASH Space

Hello world! We are a community makerspace for artists, hackers, programmers, and builders. Come visit us in LA or check out blog.crashspace.org to learn more.

I do! I’ll message you on discord.

Beyond excited to say that I've been writing on this and it truly rocks. Don't take my word for it, let Iggy Pop tell you:

Ahh that’s so cool!

Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.

Pretty amazing that nonprofit Watch Duty -- which says it has 150 volunteers working around the clock to track wildfires -- has become the most trusted source of information on LA fires. Operated by retired/volunteer firefighters, dispatchers, and reporters. Real people.

www.watchduty.org

Last night I wanted to watch a screwball comedy but @micahmcfarland.bsky.social wanted to watch 12 Angry Men, so we compromised and watched Jurassic Park 3.

Anyway there’s a lot of great stuff there and a lot of other cool exhibits. Don’t sleep on the Autry.

A large touch screen with the words “Global Westerns”

A screen that reads: JAPAN Samurai films such as those of Akira Kurosawa were influenced by and influencers of Westerns around the world. Seven Samurai (1954) was remade as The Magnificent Seven (1960) in the U.S., Sholay (1975) in India, and elsewhere through film history. A similar "building the team" plot appears in the self-proclaimed "Ramen Western" comedy Tampopo (1985), in which a team including the cowboy milk-truck driver Goro works to build a successful ramen shop. Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) also adopts a food metaphor (sukiyaki is a hot-pot dish) to pay homage to Italian and American Westerns and titles. Its epic story is set in the frontier town of Yuta, Nevata.

A vaporwave-themed interactive trivia station.

A tan suit and cowboy hat with rhinestones and orange appliqué.

And I always appreciate a good Nudie suit.

Especially loved this Cabinet of Wild West Wonders.

My parents are visiting so I’m playing tour guide this week. Really loved the Imagined Wests exhibit at the Autry museum. theautry.org/exhibitions/...

It’s the worst! We dealt with something similar a few months ago and it’s so stressful. I hope the fumigation works and you’re living bug free soon!

Thanks! It’s such a great design.

A PCB badge with red and blue LEDs and “I Voted! text printed on the front.

I’ve been meaning to post more maker-y things on here, so here’s my @alpenglow.bsky.social I Voted! badge that I made a few weeks ago at a CRASH soldering hangout.

Thea is an artist, engineer, writer, and open-source advocate. She creates synthesizers and builds engaging developer experiences. She's currently serving on... Supercon 2023: Thea Flowers - The Absurd Idea of Rendering KiCAD Projects on The Web

👀 The recording of my talk about KiCanvas from Hackaday's Superconference is finally up!

Check out "The Absurd Idea of Rendering @kicad.bsky.social Projects on the Web" 👇

youtu.be/WAbutgTGjWg?...

The Life and Death of Hollywood, by Daniel Bessner Film and television writers face an existential threat

As everyone's saying, this is a banger of an article. Private equity is eating everything, it's the cordyceps of every business it blights.
harpers.org/archive/2024...

Doing my part to heal the generational divide (I taught an intern how to use Google search operators).

The playbook they ran against abortion is now being run against gender-affirming medical care and will be used against birth control. Oklahoma just proposed a bill to limit IUDs this week.

You need to defend trans people's health care like your birth control depends on it.

I think before we get too caught up in what Bluesky should or shouldn’t be we should soberly acknowledge what it is: a retirement home for 2000s forum millennials

So cute! What filament did you use for the green part of the tree?