repairman, writing about Material Culture https://xitter.cf/t.co/XyfKl4XKzg

in loco harmonium
Joined January 2022
Replying to @Rusty_Swarf
We're all surrounded by clutter, and it's not particularly our fault, it's a historical phenomenon, downstream of the Industrial Revolution and the Consumer Value System. Nevertheless it is our problem.
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avoid complex webs of secrets in general ...
Here’s the hard-won survival advice: - keep bathing regularly - use a mirror before leaving the house - dress simpler than you think - use short words and bulletpoints when communicating with normal people, and get someone else to read over important stuff - do your loving in the present not the sentimental past - abstain from plotting revenge - if you cannot forgive, forget - you may have noticed something hidden but its probably not all about you - that person was already annoyed before you got there - avoid making complex webs of secrets - try starting sentences with close people with “the thing i really am avoiding to tell you, is….”
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This is a design criticism tweet.
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I'm embarrassed to call myself a half-assed organization guru because I am not actually good at this. Throwing things away is hard. Today I'm trying to envision the end goal which is to have SPACE. Clear space is a valuable thing.
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Tools reshape our character. What does using tools we don't understand do to us? Does it teach us to trust, or teach us to flail?
flipped through tools of conviviality and many words in order to say that 1) limitless expansion of machine type tools actively destroys virtuous human inclinations & our ability to exercise them 2) we need new tools that encourage these inclinations i.e reformed institutions
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silly project, I made yoga blocks from figured cottonwood
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based yankee doodle
Colorful covers of today’s Saturday magazines:
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1/ This morning I revisited Venkat's "On the Unraveling of Scripts" (2013)
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We the people don't need new tools, we don't need procedures, we don't even need security and prosperity. What we need is catharsis.
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This is a job for fiction.
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