Tessera

May finished

A tapestry loom warped with white cotton thread. There is a small rectangle weaving consisting of a background of deep green, a yellow square in the middle, and two lighter greens as stripes crossing over the background and the yellow square. Below it is the top of another small weaving in various shades of blue.

may, started late even though I made my sketch like three days in. But finally some progress.

nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 5mo ago

every few days I wonder why I keep this account going, but hey, here's some garden pics. it's taken three years to figure out how to grow well in this miserable intense heat hell hole, but I'm finally getting enough veggies that it is actively impacting my grocery budget in a positive way. woo.

Three small eggplants, a cross between black beauty and the long skinny asian eggplants. And 7 stalks of white chard. All harvested from a raised bed garden.

A grey metal raised bed, with a large net structure surrounding it. The netting has been opened to the side on the left and right like a stage play curtain. There are two different eggplant varieties, three tomatoes, and four shishito plants alongside some chard, some basil some garlic chives and a few arugula and pak choi plants.

🌖 Amberspire is OUT NOW! 🌇 A dice driven science fantasy city builder. Grow your city atop a mausoleum moon, interact with strange weather and ecology, gain influence to make deals with powerful off-world factions, experience the history of a future city. PC, Mac, Steam Deck s.team/a/3350750

nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Amberspire is out TOMORROW, on Steam, for PC Mac and Steam Deck. It's a science fantasy city builder with increasingly abstract dice, esoteric and powerful factions, and an ecology atop a mausoleum moon.

Amberspire on Steam

A science fantasy dice city builder. Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flouris...

store.steampowered.com

I have been looking forward to Amberspire since it was announced and the fact that I can spend the night before reading a PHYSICAL MANUAL for it that is one hundred and forty six (!!!!!) glorious pages is just truly delightful. Can’t wait to make my weird city of weirdos!!!!!!!

Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

this is so cool, it’s just so astonishingly my shit. gimme gimme

ANNOUNCING: Swords Against Beginner's Box Replica Edition Coming in June, this is a reproduction of a specific, incomplete, unplayable copy of this 1979 game found at an estate sale in 2016, including replicas of personal effects of the former owner.

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 6mo ago

important archival work tbh

El Faro, creator of the Mission burrito, might close after a rent hike. It should be preserved, argues critic Cesar Hernandez — even if the burrito is not what it used to be.

My garden seems happy, we’ve had more rain this last week than the entire last few months.

Close up of a yellow Cherokee purple tomato flower on a green tomato plant branch.

Close up of two white shishito pepper flowers on bright green pepper plants.

A very fuzzy Italian mini eggplant plant with three flowers forming. The plant is attached to a dark green plant stake.

A picture of a happy garden in a grey raised bed. There are three tomato plants visible, two eggplants, some shishito peppers, radishes, and an assortment of greens and herbs as well. The garden is surrounded by a large netted structure with the netting open at the time of the photo.

happy new earl and MIKE day to all who celebrate, mikelikesrap.bandcamp.com/album/pompei...

POMPEII // UTILITY, by Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & SURF GANG

33 track album

mikelikesrap.bandcamp.com

I really miss walking to my community garden plot in my beautiful neighborhood taking detailed photos of flowers.

A flowe with scraggly petals around a brown center, the petals are red near the center changing to yellow at the tips.

A small rose like bud in a reddish pink with white edges on a few petals, barely starting to expand into the full flower.

A deep dark black velvet textured flower in bright sun.

A striking red flower with some faint yellow in the center and green leaves and grass in the background.

Dragging an Ox thru Water@dragginganox.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 7mo ago

balm for my tired body and mind, thank god for music

RE: https://pnw.zone/@dragginganox/116223780138210555 "WHOLE EARTH CATALOGED" - https://cataloged.earth/ - https://bandwagon.fm/6941bda1b589b37a3c0acb15

I play heavy board games so this should not be intimidating. AND YET. This is really not even that complicated as hex and counter goes but it’s such a different beast, with different aims and incentives. After 2x through the rules I realized I just needed to set it up and start moving things around!

The hex and counter wargame Reds! About the Russian civil war set up on a table in the initial state to start the game.

yesterday i planted my garden, and today my quads hurt. I think three years in I am finally starting to understand the bizarre texas split season. A race from March to early June. Keep stuff alive through hell season, then in late August you get a garden again.

A raised garden bed surrounded by cedar mulch. The bed has 9 plants plus many seeds planted. A bunch of pipes are visible from a six foot tall net structure to discourage birds and deer.

Is 44 too late to make a five year plan to pivot your career? Asking for a mildly desperate and somehow still burnt out “friend”.

first dragging, now ALSO a new horse lords?!!? god bless music horselords.bandcamp.com/album/demand...

Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!, by Horse Lords

12 track album

horselords.bandcamp.com

cannot believe in this miserable year we are so lucky to get a new dragging an ox thru water record, bright beautiful glowing spot in the storm, whole.cataloged.earth/excerpt/

"Tracing the Orders"

whole.cataloged.earth

this post is mostly for @jessrock.bsky.social but I am still loving my charmera and am so thankful you posted about it, recent things.

a white house in the foreground, and plant covered sand dunes in the background in front of a beach in texas, with waves and a blown out sunny sky, taken with a toy camera.

a toy camera photo of rocks in the foreground in front of small waves coming in on a beach

a toy camera image with washed out color and too bright light from the sun, the sandy beach in the foreground with seaweed scattered around, and small waves coming in on the water.

A very large shark with its mouth open made of unknown materials. The mouth is large enough for adults to walk into, and the body serves as a hallway up to a t shirt and souvenir shop at a texas beach.

noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 8mo ago

january and february successfully woven on the tapestry diary before the end of each month, moving through mud but we get things done, some things

a 6” by 3” tapestry woven in yellow, with a blue stripe with black and red. a small white rectangle at the end of the stripe.

a 6” x 3” tapestry with a dark blue and back background. The center consists of three rectangles of white, in three sizes smallest on the left, middle twice as wide as the left most, rightmost twice as wide as the middle. In the center of the white rectangles is a shape resembling a slightly abstracted stick or tree in winter depending on its orientation, woven in brown.

I somehow did not realize that jam, like preserved fruit, is a core system in Midnight Muscadines. What a delight ttrpgs are.

noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 8mo ago

spent a lot of today trying to make sense of a tapestry I’ve been thinking about for many months. not sure I fully figured it out, but progress I think.

a small wooden tapestry peg loom with white gray and black yarn. various papers both printer paper and tracing paper with sketched design ideas for a tapestry.

tracing paper and a grid notebook open on a wooden desktop with a pencil and a circular sewing tape measure on the notebook. the papers all have various sketches for tapestry designs.

friday

a sepia toned photo that resembles an old disposable camera image of trees missing their leaves in winter

An image of the game Soviet Dawn and a hand reaching on top of the board placing a deck of cards. All with a sepia toned filter.

spending my evening remembering what feels like a different life lived by a different human, getting very stoned, listening to stuff like this, then making my own versions with a tiny tape player, autoharp, motors from cellphones and stuff i made from sculpy erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/open

open, by Matt Davis/Phil Durrant/Mark Wastell

2 track album

erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com

In other bw mental health news I have started a rewatch of White Collar which is a great sign that Im just desperate for anything familiar and comforting. Nothing like some guilty pleasure copaganda about a con man and art forger.