#restoration of old buildings

[arc-hus]

Reichenberg Conversion, Taufers im Münstertal, Italy - Werner Tscholl

[divinekangaroo]

Not to mention the immense irony that the 'farewell' speech Tommy gives to his family opens exactly as would a politician’s speech about honouring his promises.

Emotion the enemy of oratory, etc.

[anemonator]

I’ve been reading some theories on the status of Grulovia twenty years after the deluge, and speculation seems to range from “it no longer exists” to “it got invaded again” but sometimes I think about the idea of the Grulovia that lived. The Grulovia that survived. The Grulovia that clung on by the skin of its teeth, took every bit of stolen wealth that the Maliks couldn’t take with them, and used it to rebuild. The Grulovia that beat the odds.

I can only imagine what kind of country it would be like. A country of those who stayed behind, of those who wouldn’t - or couldn’t - leave for greener pastures. A country equal parts traumatized, hopeful, and vindicitve. A country with a fear and distrust of psychics that is both deeply unfair and deeply understandable. A country trying to reinvent itself even as it’s still digging itself out of the ice, half trapped in the past and half desperately running from it.

This is all just speculation on my part, of course, but I personally think that, in a hypothetical “Return to Grulovia” storyline, a place like that makes for a much more interesting setting than an uninhabited frozen wasteland. It becomes a lot harder to confront the ghosts of your mistakes when it turns out those ghosts never actually died.

[tovaicas]

anyways my friends activated my conlang brain and I've made smth insane as usual

red is influences, blue is Elezen-family languages, green is like a mix bc I see the Alliance cities as having a trade language (that critically is limited to them).

I see Duskwight as a separate language from Black Shroud Elezen (but sharing a lot - easy enough to learn for those speakers). Coerthan and all its derivatives are a whole different language under the Elezen umbrella and isn't mutually intelligible with BSE. Because they split so early, they probably don't share much more than root words and etymologies; within the same family so not difficult to learn for other speakers of Elezen languages, but very distinctly different.

(also I'm not listing them but the branches extend to include other diaspora Elezen languages)

[bluedesignwall]

While I was out running Hubby was installing the heater control panel into the Cortina. It was not co-operating and Hubby had taken some chunks out of his fingers trying to get all the clips in place. When I got home the car was built. Yes it is all built. Seventeen years from a pile of boxes and a bare body to a complete car. Wow what an achievement. There are now tidy up jobs to be done which he will work on over the next couple of weeks and then he will take it for a warrant of fitness. Once it is warranted we will be free to roam.

[dimalink]

Cleaning the metal

So, at the village, sometimes I do something, it happens, this summer. And, I transport there all details of old computer by firm Nixdorf. I and my brother, we take all the things apart, we deconstruct computer. And in this state – we check all details. To search for rust. It is lots of rust. And transport to the village all the details. To remove rust. I do remove from rust with a special cleaning tool. Brother buy it. It helps. It removes rust very good.

I think, I can remove rust. And I do not know, can I do it till the end of summer. When I do remove rust – I put on gas mask. And hands are defensed with rubber gloves. And, at first, I with brush do lubricate with a cleaning tool. And after - with metal toothbrush I start to rub.

And, it is lots of rust, of course. But, as I think, I can do it more or less. In some places where, rust is not deep – everything is easy and fast. And, there are places with rust that built in deep into metal. So, in this case it is much more difficult.

So, I need to push with power. And it has such orange layer inside. And, it is goes out as a crumbling dust. And in places where it is easy to remove rust – it reminds dust, or better to say, dirt, and with a water and cleaning tool remove it.

I take a notice, that some parts of computer case, are easy to bend.  And I need to think - can I to make metal more strong. And to think – what to do with power block. All upper layer is in rust. I think, it is possible to remove rust. And inside everything looks in a good state. So, I think I need another power block case.

And, in main, I can say, it is goes good. Remove from rust. As, I finish I,t I think what to do next.

Computer case is normal. In some places, it is not durable. And in some place, it will stay with rust, but a little of rust points. And main rust layer - it can be removed from details. It is for sure.

And what to do with case for power adapter I do not know. It is someway all in rust. And can it be a stronger, more durable metal case. So, it is interesting. And I do not have answers yet. First, I remove everything from rust.

Small moment. It is a message from a summer period. It is published now. As I find a time for it. Slowly I am restoring my old computer.

Dima Link is making retro videogames, apps, a little of music, write stories, and some retro more.

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[kimvvantae]

it’s so fun to read things i’ve written some time ago and don’t remember very well. it’s like i’m reading someone else’s work. like okayyyy past me you kinda ate that !

[ipodkisser]

alsooo god i've made myself have a crush on a building that doesn't even exist😭 i mean they exist in my head but that's kinda silly... tbh i might make them as an oc that could work

[msbarrows]

I hate this. Have spent many hours since yesterday evening trying to re-acquire my squid ship and the damned thing just will. NOT. spawn.

I eventually started taking my usual screenshots of passing starships to keep track of how many different ones I’ve seen. I’m up to 20. There’s only 21 starships per star system, so yes, I have literally seen every one except the squid ship respawn. Multiple times even.

I’m especially kicking myself because:

I do backups semi-regularly, but only discovered last night that my current backup batch wasn’t backing up my appdata directories (under which the saves are stored).

I’ve thought several times since acquiring it that “oh yeah, I should use the save editor to check and note down what the seed value for this starship is, so I can give it to myself on future saves if I want it again badly enough”, and then never did that thing.

I cannot express my loathing for NMS having overwritten my manual save strongly enough. What am I going to have to do, backup the saves before every play session just in case!? Because I will do that thing but it will annoy the crap out of me every time I run that batch.

[mohamed-mikki]

Help Mohamed To Survive and Restore His Life

Hello Everyone... I am Mohamed Mikki From Gaza, Palestine. 24 years old, my life has been difficult since I was young, when I was 17 years old, I lost my father, and with my determination to build my future, I decided to continue my education in the field of multimedia technology and develop my skills through many courses in the same field, and I was working alongside my studies to cover my expenses in the field of graphic design, I was preparing myself to establish my life and future.

My Father:

When I try hard and acheived success in my university college :

When I start my own work:

But the war in Gaza, especially in the north, brought with it a great tragedy, the war destroyed my home, my university, and my work, I was in the north, and I was displaced to the south where I faced famine and moved from one place to another in search of safety.

I have lived countless difficult and painful days during my many attempts to escape death, bombing, and destruction. In my places of displacement that the army says are safe but are never, life has become limited to escaping danger and searching for food among the rubble of destroyed homes.

My dream now is to travel abroad to continue my education, develop my skills, survive, and build my future that has been destroyed, as for the past nine months I have been unemployed due to the war conditions and the power and internet outage since the first day of the war, in addition to the frequent movement from one place to another to escape the war machine, missiles and death, as there was no stability for the absent work conditions.

Here your generosity can make a big difference, your support will help me rebuild my life and continue my education and will provide me with the opportunity to escape the circle of danger and destruction and strive towards a future full of hope and potential.

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Breakdown of Expenses

Rafah/Egypt crossing: $5000

Minimum Living Costs: $3000/per month

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@northgazaupdates2

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Mohamed Mikki

[pollywiltse]

I believe this isn't paywalled, since I read it on my phone. (Or it depends on the browser? Firefox Focus, check. Safari with no adblocker, check. Firefox in private browsing mode with ublock origin, sadness.)

Scroll about halfway down to the picture of the little wax figures.

How is André's hat staying on?!

Also, Tallmadge's face is passable, André looks about fifty, and I don't know what's going on with Simcoe but his face is very disturbing. We'll give them Sally and Robert Townsend since I don't think there are good pictures of either of them, though Robert's face looks like a sculpture of Chris Kattan by someone who isn't very good at sculpting. (Now mentally replace Robert Townsend in every scene in Turn with Mango.) Also I don't know what's going on with André's right hand, but typically I think it is the left hand that goes on the neck of the air guitar.

Also please note the visible bulges in Tallmadge's, Simcoe's, and André's breeches. (And possibly Townsend's, but it's harder to tell.....Uh, pun not intended.)

At least André's uniform is the right colors though. And that's probably about the correct height difference between him and Tallmadge.

[arc-hus]

Marble Quarry Renovation, Arzo, Italy - Enrico Sassi

https://enricosassi.ch/en/enrico-sassi-homepage/

[selfhelpradio]

emptied out

[betterworldinitiative]

Radical action requires radical creativity, and vice-versa. What does that new world look like? Are we ready? Many of us are feeling like we’re going crazy at this moment in time. This means we’re leveling up.

[husseinabdeldayem]

طرق وأنواع ترميم المباني القديمة

ترميم المباني هو عملية تجديد وإصلاح المباني القديمة أو التالفة بهدف استعادة وظيفتها الأصلية والحفاظ على قيمتها التاريخية والثقافية والجمالية. يعتبر ترميم المباني جزءًا أساسيًا من مجال الهندسة الإنشائية و المعمارية والحفاظ على التراث، حيث يسعى المهندسون والمختصون إلى تحقيق توازن بين الحفاظ على السمات الأصلية للمبنى وتحديثه لتلبية الاحتياجات الحديثة من خلال طرق وأنواع ترميم المباني القديمة.

[reasonsforhope]

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

--

I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.