This morning #tea failure was forgetting to set the timer while it was brewing.
luckily I wondered about it after a reasonable amount of time and it is still drinkable (and the bread didn't burn).
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On Saturday, the Fediverse is celebrating it's 16th anniversary!
How are you celebrating?
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Hi! I’m a member of Fedicat (catalan fedizens) and this year we have a brochure to promote the Fediverse and Libre Culture in bookshops :)
#Fedicat #Fediverse #Fedi16 #HappyFedi2U
Forum thread: https://agora.fedi.cat/t/fedi16-cultura-lliure-a-llibreries/808
Pdf in our website: https://fedi.cat/participa/triptic-llibres.pdf
Font code: https://fedi.cat/participa (zip file)
Libre Art License (LAL): https://artlibre.org/
#Fedi16: cultura lliure a llibreries
Holi! Des de fa uns anys, el 18 de maig algunes personetes celebrem l’aniversari de la Fedi perquè és el dia que es va fer la primera publicació en un node (a identi.ca, que en aquells temps era el node més gran i més conegut, com mastodon.Fedicat
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Just needed to figure out what glue I should use to attach leather to something else, and amazingly I remembered this useful website someone told me about ages ago:
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Avviso contenuto: bad kerning, described, no pictures
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For Americans looking at people posting in Celsius temperatures: don't try to convert, just remember this...
Zero is freezing,
Ten is not.
Twenty is warm and
Thirty is hot
(And forty is DAMNED hot)
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Today I've had a chance to notice that we (western societies) are sending off our textile waste to another continent, where at least some of it gets probably¹ shipped to China to be processed into felt to protect the floor when painting the walls, and then shipped back to us.
Why aren't we doing this anymore in Prato²? It could even be done by Chinese nationals, there, but at least it wouldn't travel halfway around the world and back!
¹ I have no idea whether that's the origin of that textile waste, maybe that felt was using textile waste from China itself, but still.
² an Italian town with a long tradition of textile industry, historically including textile recycling. These days it also has the second biggest community of Chinese nationals in Italy, most of them working in textile workshops, not always up to even Italian standards of workplace conditions.
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I guess felt is better than piles of burning clothing on another continent 
https://www.wired.com/story/fashion-disposal-environment/
https://www.newsweek.com/vast-pile-discarded-clothes-desert-big-visible-space-1801944
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/fast-fashion-ghana-clothes-waste-b2132399.html
Mountains of clothes washed up on Ghana beach show cost of fast fashion
No one will take responsibility of waste left by the used clothing trade, but campaigners are trying to change that, reports Liam JamesLiam James (The Independent)
@Kermode definitely
I'd expect not enough people are painting their walls to use all of the textile waste that gets produced.
Even if those felts were made of a polyester and cotton mix that probably comes from some of the worst garments for recycling (at least if one considers both the ease of recycling and the mass)
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valhalla> @Diego Roversi, do you want black tea or green tea?
diego> yes
valhalla> do you want black tea and green tea?
diego> yes
valhalla> ok
so right now I have a pot of “segreto tibetano” brewing, which is a mix of black tea, green tea, bergamot, jasmine and vanilla, and Diego's trolling was unsuccessful :D
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For all the thousands of posts I've seen on the Fediverse about "alt text or I won't boost" or that take even harsher stances, and the dozens of posts taking a more encouraging stance... why the hell isn't anyone talking about the Fediverse's content warning problem?
So many instances require content warnings for explicit or violent images... and so many artists just say "NSFW Image."
My dude, my pal, my bro... I'm not clicking that. Is it art? Is it real person porn? Is it gay or het? Is it a naked body or is it anal sex? Is it bdsm? Vore? Monsterfucking?
IDK. It's "NSFW Image."
It's like playing Russian roulette.
Content Warnings aren't content warnings if they don't tell me what the content is.
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Do me a favor.
Quit making fun of people (of any age but especially kids) who ask genuine questions.
I have to pull questions out of adults now because at some point someone made fun of them for being curious.
It's not embarrassing to learn, you shouldn't feel guilty for thinking of a question and asking an expert.
You should feel happy that you are still curious about the universe.
Make learning a positive experience? Please?
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I'm pretty glad to teach the few things I know to whoever genuinely ask, but I think "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" must be a mandatory reading.
That's right! I prefaced a question to a waitress one time with "This is probably stupid, but.." and she interrupted me with "There is only one stupid question and it's probably not yours!"
After she answered my question she informed me that the only stupid question was "Does pink lemonade have artificial coloring?"
So that's what I tell people, that's the ONLY stupid question. (People seem to need *one*.)
It is *evident* that the fact that the living room table is covered in bits of cardboard and bookbinding paper means that I'm cleaning up my desktop, right?
As in “making a small chest of drawers to store some of the samplers and small containers of ink that I currently have in a mess on the desktop” :D
The current status is that 3 out of 4 drawers are done, one is nearly done, and the structure to put them in needs to be redone from scratch, because my measurements have been way too optimistic and the drawers don't fit :(
But I've started to put some of the ink samplers in one of the drawers, and those are fitting just fine. Also, *all¹* the colours!
¹ actually just above half of the colours available in that line of ink
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Unsure if I've ever shared my personal philosophy here, but it goes: "People are going to look, so give them something to fucking look at!"
I developed it when I was younger and visibly goth and queer, possibly even more so than now. People stared but I was always without a doubt the most interesting looking person on that bit of street, so I couldn't fault them for it! And anybody who had issues with it could see just how little I cared to hide.
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@0xdariaj I don't feel like messing with taking it off and putting it back on, so I just always have one on when I'm somewhere. The easiest place to properly put it on is at home and sitting down! Usually my excursions are not that long anyway (I get tired) so it's not an issue to wear the same mask.
It's just nice to dress nice, too! It's not exactly armour, but it's better for morale to face small difficulties if you also look great. 😆
the world needs more recreational programming.
like, was this the most optimal or elegant way to code this?
no, but it was the most fun to write.
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we often say that programming is more an art than a science, but we need to treat it like one too.
Sometimes you need to paint a sunset not because someone paid you to paint a sunset, but because it'd be fun to paint a sunset.
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Dear lazyverse, I've just read https://blog.prosody.im/great-invitations/ and https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_invites and I don't understand one thing: can this be used to generate an invite for an user that already exists and has been using the account for a while, but needs to reconfigure an xmpp client on a new phone?
of course they don't know their password, but I would have to reset it from prosodyctl anyway.
#xmpp
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Adding a new device via invitation is not currently a thing. Password resets links (which work almost the same as invitations) are.
Generate a password reset link with this command:
'prosodyctl mod_invites example.com --reset username'
I haven't extensively tested it with clients or invite UIs beyond Snikket, though. Feedback welcome 🙂
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@mattj https://fosstodon.org/@snikket_im/112297288269632103
@shuro Snikket is XMPP for people who don't know what #XMPP is 🙂If you're happy with Conversations, continue using it! Snikket is more limited because it focuses on a specific use case.
If you want an easy-to-use messaging solution for a group of people (e.g. family, friends, clubs), plus companion apps and easy onboarding without forcing people to learn what a "XEP" is, then Snikket is here for you: https://snikket.org/start/
We just want XMPP to reach beyond the tech crowd.
Get Started
Snikket is a fully open-source personal messaging server that allows groups of people such as family, friends, clubs and small organisations to have their own private communication space.Snikket Chat
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Avviso contenuto: kickstarter for a (famous) webcomic
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Avviso contenuto: kickstarter per un webcomic (famoso) in inglese
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Scambio lieviti madre.
Non so quale sia l'hashtag giusto, e se ci sia, ma se qualcuno volesse del lievito madre, scambio/cedo volentieri. Una volta a settimana, solitamente il venerdì sera rinfresco sia il licoli ( lievito madre idratazione 100% ) che il lievito "standard" ( idratazione al 50% ).
Basta organizzarsi.
Al più, cerco grani di kefir di acqua , per provarli.
#lievitomadre #KefirGang
Zona: Livorno
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The case for #Pyra. is. done.
It could have been neater, and maybe tomorrow or next week I'll unpick the binding on the raw edges and sew it again, because it's ugly, but the size is just right and it works.
Only took 3 attempts to get to the right amount of ease :)
There will be pictures (and a blog post). Not today :D
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I just want to express my appreciation for content warnings here. I was browsing elsewhere and saw a very distressing story which upset me and my mind struggles to move on from. It wouldn't have happened here as it would have been hidden by a content warning that I wouldn't have clicked on.
Thank you to you all here 💜
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Leatherfolk who speak non-English languages, I wanna hear about how you do Dom/sub titles ("Sir", "boy", etc), diminutives, formality, that sort of thing.
I've spoken to quite a few people who say they switch to English for this, but I feel like there are probably neat cultural/grammatical options in other languages.
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Visto che ci siamo illusi che qui (fediverso generico) la convivenza sarebbe stata...migliore? Dotata di più mezzi di interazione? Boh?, comunque ho un solo consiglio per vojo:
NEL DUBBIO, BLOCCATE.
- non so se quest* mi sta sul cazzo oppure no, eccomunque questa cosa mi genera fastidio? BLOCCO
- ma che davero cos* ha fatto quella battuta lì, maddai? apperò BLOCCO
- mi sono vagamente rott* il cazzo di determinate tematiche che vengono tirate fuori sempre dalle stesse persone? Ma BLOCCO
ed altri incredibili varianti quasi infinite.
Ascoltate la zia, usateli il "silenzia" e il "blocca".
*pat-patta tutti sul testino collettivamente* #pubblicitàprogresso #mediasetperilsociale #forsenontuttisannoche #quesitoconlasusi
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Oh, this looks cute.
And doable.
I've tried getting into tablet weaving a few times but so far I only got as far as finding out that backstrap weaving is not for me.
DIY Weaving Loom From IKEA BEKVÄM Spice Rack : 7 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables
https://www.instructables.com/DIY-Weaving-Loom-From-IKEA-BEKV%C3%84M-Spice-Rack/
I love the part of the instruction that says "spend a minute staring at the pieces"
Any other little loom hacks out there?
#weaving #tabletweaving #diy #ikeahack @weaving @fiberarts
DIY Weaving Loom From IKEA BEKVÄM Spice Rack
DIY Weaving Loom From IKEA BEKVÄM Spice Rack: This project shows you how to build a small loom for band weaving. It can be used with a rigid heddle or with tablets.Instructables
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Yeah, warp weighted was the next step after backstrap. But it didn't really work for me either. I need something, where the weaving is really "fixed" to the loom so I'm able to carry it around and set it aside.
All my tools are set up that way, so I can switch between projects, set something aside and pick it up later and everything is just as I left it.
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Writing for display in the ancient world
VIEWS took part in this year’s Cambridge Festival, a showcase of research happening across the University of Cambridge. The project team has been together for several months now, so the Festi…The VIEWS project
I've found out what the issue with the #tea shop was: they had to restore the website from backups and some user got stuck in the process.
I've now procured more tea (by preparing a list on the website, printing it out and going to the shop. yes, it's close enough that I could just go there without visiting the website. I could.)
@Naomi P do you want some tea? I'm making an herbal one, since here it's evening, but it can turn into whatever you want during the internet trip :)
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Ho scoperto qual'era il problema col sito del negozio di té: hanno dovuto recuperare il sito da backup e qualche utente è rimasto incastrato nel processo.
Ho procurato del té (preparando un elenco sul sito, stampandolo e andando al negozio. sì, è abbastanza vicino da poterci andare anche senza visitare il sito. volendo.)
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Ho già parlato della libreria Scattisparsi (cercavo Helena, Helena, amore mio; non c'era, ma ho trovato un romanzo di Marion Zimmer Bradley) e ho anche visitato la fumetteria L'Eternauta. Tutti sono stati molto pazienti con la spagnola chiacchierona che ammazzava la lingua e non taceva!
Ho scritto questi toot perché mi piace sentirmi benvenuta nei negozi. Sono consapevole di essere una cliente fastidiosa, quindi valuto molto la gentilezza.
#sewing update
the corded petticoat is done! And today I expect to finish the hem on the chemise (I'm almost halfway through it), so there will be some cutting fabric time this afternoon, and that may be either the lining for the #AugustaStays or the cartridge pleated skirt.
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aaand the chemise is also finished!
and then I just didn't have the energy to do anything that required concentration like cutting fabric, so I just did a bit of lucet
(the 3 metre piece has been finished yesterday, now I've started a 1 metre piece for the front lacing)
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e ho finito anche la sottogonna!
e poi non avevo le forze per fare qualunque cosa che richiedesse attenzione come tagliare stoffa, quindi ho fatto solo un po' di cordino a lucet.
(il pezzo da tre metri è stato finito ieri, adesso ne ho iniziato uno da un metro per l'allacciatura davanti)
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Avviso contenuto: body functionality, politics (Italian), silly, gross
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Avviso contenuto: funzioni corporee, politica, stupido e schifoso
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Getting to the laundry place 5 minutes before it closed on Saturday morning to give them 4 heavy-ish carpets to wash (while they were still on the car rather than having to walk there while carrying them later). done.
(we called when we got on the car, to ask whether it was ok, and the owner of the place knows us well enough that there wasn't any time consuming procedure, we just dumped everything in there and then she will deal with them when she opens next week. but still, it felt wrong.)
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@rapitadaglialieni
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Come alla posta il primo del mese (qui a giugno arrivano un po' prima delle 6 che è già chiaro).
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#sewing update
The cording on the petticoat has been completed, I'm now doing the vertical seams (hopefully today), and then I have to gather or pleat or something the top and it's done.
I'm cutting a second attempt at the pyra case: I've cut almost everything, but I've just misplaced one of the fabrics I want to use. The inventory says it's in the box I've been looking for it.
I've printed almost all of the hexbin Standard Compliant pattern weights, I've cut enough felt for all of them (I think, I didn't exactly *count*), and I've been using the first one and it works nicely. It's a good excuse to buy new washers the next time I'm at the shop, right?
Related: if you have recommendations for places in Europe that print small amounts of hexagonal #stickers and don't require me to provide a multi layer PDF file (or a tutorial on how to make those with inkscape or other Free Software) I'd be happy to hear about them :)
And thanks to a couple of movie nights¹ at my mother's I'm close to the 3 meters of lucet cord I plan to use for the back of my Augusta Stays. That I still need to cut lining for, why do you ask?
¹ 17:30 - 19:30 or so counts as night, if you're watching a movie, right? :D
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it had fallen to the bottom of the box
(I keep fabric vertically in the box so that I can see all of it at a glance, but this one was especially slippery)
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era caduta sul fondo della scatola
(ripongo la stoffa verticalmente nella scatola in modo da riuscire a vedere tutti i contenuti a colpo d'occhio, ma questa era particolarmente scivolosa)
Bits from the DPL
Dear Debianites This morning I decided to just start writing Bits from DPL and send whatever I have by 18:00 local time. Here it is, barely proof read, along with all it's warts and grammar mistakes! It's slightly long and doesn't contain...Debian Project
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@debacle @valhalla I think it's almost always a good idea to define each acronym the first time it is used, in any kind of document.
In this case, https://bits.debian.org/2024/04/bits-from-the-dpl-april.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon is a fairly long text with "DPL" mentioned more than 20 times. Writing it out the first time would not take much space, and would help make the text a little bit more welcoming to newcomers.
Bits from the DPL
Dear Debianites This morning I decided to just start writing Bits from DPL and send whatever I have by 18:00 local time. Here it is, barely proof read, along with all it's warts and grammar mistakes! It's slightly long and doesn't contain...Debian Project
Hi from the Press Team! You are correct, sometimes we edit things and sometimes we do not, oft is is essential that the speaker speaks as intended and our edits would change the flow of the intention, so we leave them in.
Recently we are addressing this with a few policy changes on editing articles or submissions for publication, we of course invite you to join us: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity
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If #xz were a Go or Rust dependency, you wouldn’t have a single copy of xz library on your system, but many, #xzbackdoor hidden in every executable that uses it. Distros would have to rebuild all packages using that lib (not just the lib itself), which could take days or weeks, and users would have to update them all, downloading tens or hundreds of megabytes.
If you install binaries directly from vendors/devs, it’s even worse – you wouldn’t even know which ones are affected and you’d (1/3)
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@Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @ITwrx @Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora: @kravietz 🦇 @Jakub Jirutka 🇪🇺🇺🇦 and even for single person projects, having a packager in each main distribution that isn't the upstream developer is a big plus, as it provides a minimum of oversight and redundancy.
Not much, especially when said maintainer(s) are overworked and demoralized, but still better than nothing.
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Yes, that is an important point too.
When we say co-maintainer, we often implicitly assume that it should be an equally or comparably skilled person doing the same tasks.
And then we stop at a thought on how hard it is to find a duplicate.
While it doesn't have to be.
There is plenty of room for a developer to collaborate with a tester, or a packager or a build engineer, or a documentation writer.
It often can be healthier too.
@ITwrx @Conan_Kudo @kravietz @jakub
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I'm taking a break from historical #sewing to make myself a case for the Pyra¹ that I've just received (YAY!).
Which means working with technical materials.
Which means that two needles have already been broken, and I've just decided to sew the raw edge binding by hand, even if I know it will be painful, because I don't want to deal with another fiddly seam by machine.
¹ handheld gaming console with a full keyboard designed by retrogaming enthusiasts.
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Am I the only one who finds using spray starch almost as fun as using spray paint?
(yes, one day I will try real starch)
(yes, one day I will be ironing and starching my shirts more than an hour before I need to wear them)
(today is not that day)
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sono l'unica che trova usare l'appretto in bomboletta divertente quasi quanto usare le bombolette di colore?
(sì, un giorno o l'altro proverò ad inamidare con l'amido)
(sì, un giorno o l'altro starò stirando ed inamidando le mie camicie con più di un'ora di anticipo rispetto a quando le devo indossare)
(oggi non è quel giorno)
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua non so, il problema è che abito in collina, non nelle zone da risaia, credo che darò la priorit๠al piantare il mio lino, filarlo e tesserlo, prima di pensare a produrmi il mio amido.
Però potrei fare quello di patate, anche se credo che ingiallisca un po'.
¹ quello richiede “avere un posto dove piantare il lino”, e ancora sono ben lontana dall'averlo. Diciamo che non è in cima alla lista :D
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We need a movement for conscientious objection to ReCaptchas. I don’t want to be forced to participate in training machine learning models to identify sidewalks, crosswalks, buses and cars in order to go about my daily life digitally.
I don’t want driverless cars on my city streets. I don’t believe the fiction that this technology will ever be safe.
I do not consent to using my own cognitive labor to train the models that will mow down people on foot or bikes later with no accountability.
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My heart goes out to xz. A single maintainer, who was clearly in a rough place with mental health, screaming out to the world for some help and additional contributions, and somebody shows up wanting to help. Could you imagine how happy that maintainer was? They were no longer alone.
And it turns out the only reason somebody wanted to help them was nefarious. I can’t imagine how they feel right now as everyone is blaming them. I hope they’re ok.
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So, Philipp Kern dropped by asking if we could do some #ReproducibleBuilds verifications of recent Debian Security updates, given, well the whole #xz mess... and that our build infrastructure may have run compromised code at some point...
So I did a quick pass at a handful of updates and everything verified ok so far, though I skipped some of the probably more juicy targets such as chromium and firefox:
https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2024-March/003321.html
Debian is reproducible enough to at least try this sort of thing!
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Il fail nel preparare il #té di stamattina è stato dimenticarmi di impostare il timer mentre era in infusione.
Per fortuna me ne sono accorta dopo un tempo ragionevole ed è ancora più o meno bevibile (e il pane non è bruciato).
#ServeIlTePerPreparareIlTe
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •An advantage of gongfu brewing is that I rarely forget about tea during the 20-60 seconds it's brewing. It has happened though.
#tea
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