mending’s all done

I wouldn’t normally bother mentioning “Hey, I did all the mending late this afternoon” but the only reason I even found it again was because I was doing some reorganisation a couple of weeks ago, found the stack of things to mend, and put them into the project storage and management system I keep talking about.

And so today I had about the right amount of spare time and pulled out my sewing kit and the project box with all the little things that needed small amounts of work – the most complicated was replacing a bra strap – and got it done in about an hour and a half.

The bra had been queued up for about three years. Because it got lost, because it was just sitting in a pile in the closet.

Goddamn I can get a lot done with a good management system

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Check out this black PHA’s variable glossiness

I play sometimes with PHA filaments – they’re a lot more temperature resistant and/but also more flexible / less rigid – but I haven’t had a black before, and check out the change from glossy to matte depending upon printing temperature. I haven’t seen this in any PLA – and I hadn’t seen it in natural or wood-infill PHA either. but I pulled back out my white PHA tower and there it is, albeit much less obvious.

White PHA, black PHA, and black PLA temperature towers laid flat next to each other. The black PHA in particular is glossy at 220°C, becoming fully matte at 205°C.

PHA typically needs a 0.6mm nozzle, but I’ve found 0.5mm nozzles work with 0.4mm slicing and you get better bridging that way. People have been kind of moving lately to 0.6mm nozzles lately so it’s not a big deal either way, but it’s a nice little trick for that little bit of extra precision – though with this black I think 0.6mm should be the rule, there’s clearly some occasional issue with the 0.5mm. Not enough to cause a jam, but enough to flaw the otherwise lovely matte surface.

I’ve had issues with matte black PLA in the past, so now I’m wondering if this will work for my matte black needs. I hope so. Matte black prints are gorgeous.

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twitter coverage meta

Trying to figure out whether Musk deciding to end user blocking in discussion with fascists on Musk Twitter is worth a standalone update. And whether this counts as that already.

Ending blocking (but leaving muting) would mean that not only will you be unable to block harassment of yourself – even if you’re still able to mute it – fash and other systematic hate campaigns will be able to use your twitter to harass everyone who follows you by flooding every post you make with fash shit, gore, pr0n, whatever. No one would be able to look at replies to your tweets since it would all be unblockable bluecheck abuse.

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