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Category: Make

Plywood and Threaded Rod Shelves

I sheet of plywood, 8 threaded rods, and 64 sets of nuts, lock washers, cut washers, and fender washers. Now the Millenium Falcon has a place to land in the workshop.

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Ryan Boren DIY, Make, Workshop Leave a comment July 12, 2013July 12, 2013 1 Minute

Brass, Crystallized Golden Citrine, and Blue Brown Jasper Necklace

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Ryan Boren Jewelry, Make, Photos 1 Comment June 24, 2013 1 Minute

Rummage Sale Nautics

My six year old is collecting parts for a boat at rummage sales and thrift shops. Here’s his latest haul. I think we’ll build a small simbo style boat out of a single sheet of plywood while he continues collecting parts for the big boat that he’ll someday live on.

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Ryan Boren Make, Photos Leave a comment June 24, 2013June 24, 2013 1 Minute

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Press Secretary Jen Psaki demonstrates candorous professionalism in the first White House press briefing. So refreshing to see a pro at work. Psaki ably handles some really dull questions.

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I updated “Just Sayin’” with four new quotes: You cannot counter structural inequality with good will. You have to structure equality. Source: An “Active Learning” Kit: Rationale, Methods, Models, Research, Bibliography | HASTAC We are all accountable to the urgent work of building a more just, more equitable world Source: Apple launches major new Racial […]

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We are all accountable to the urgent work of building a more just, more equitable world Source: Apple launches major new Racial Equity and Justice Initiative projects to challenge systemic racism, advance racial equity nationwide – Apple True that. I might add that line to my “Just Sayin’” list. See also: Equity Literate Education: Fix […]

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That’s who Sam Vimes is. He helps people who have nowhere else to go. — The Watch S1E1 I watched the first two episodes of “The Watch” and enjoyed them enough , with reservations about the tinkered characters. Mild character development spoilers: I wish they’d dial back the Jack Sparrow in Vimes. He started his […]

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I don’t follow dance and pop very closely, so I was only vaguely aware of Dua Lipa until recently. I started listening through her catalog after watching her recent Tiny Desk Concert. Such a great session. I’m hooked. I keep coming back to it to buoy my mood. I love how forward the background singers […]

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I updated “Bring the backchannel forward. Written communication is the great social equalizer.” with selections from “The evolution of evolution | Autistic Collaboration” and “Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman”. Over the last 200 years, starting with the deployment of the first electrical telegraphs, human societies have been incrementally equipped with […]

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Currently reading: i wandered, lost: poems Digital Sociologies DisCrit—Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education so you see i’m not woke being black in america means you don’t get to sleep Source: Daniele, Kristina Brooke. i wandered, lost: poems (p. 13). Kristina Brooke Daniele. Kindle Edition. DisCrit empathizes with John Powell’s words, “I feel […]

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For me and many other LGBT individuals with autism, the internet has been a socialising goldmine, filling in the gap left by our inability to engage with other LGBT spaces. Online, tone of voice and nonverbal facial expressions are removed as factors from understanding conversational intent, with words alone explaining intent. Social media allows me […]

Neurominorities, Spiky Profiles, and the Biopsychosocial Model at Work

I’m making my way through my second read of the very interesting ”Neurodiversity at work: a biopsychosocial model and the impact on working adults”. There is a lot to digest. It offers: definitions of neurotypical and neurodivergent based on spiky versus flat profiles a taxonomy and timeline of neurominorities an evolutionary critique of the psychomedical […]

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Hannah Gadsby on social anxiety, social exhaustion, routine, masking, autism and gender norms, being perceived as angry, getting feedback, observing patterns, competition, autistic stereotypes, processing time, autistic appreciation of comedy, diagnosis and misdiagnosis, functioning labels, toxic masculinity, thinking in terms of neurobiology instead of gender, eugenics, patriarchal devices, storytelling, comedy and trauma, neurodivergence in comedy, […]

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