Archive.is link..

Personally, I always used to carry a paperback with me and would read in the odd moments that this writer seems to recall as being so dull and soul destroying. I still do carry e-books on my phone of course and use them in exactly the same way - but also with the option of doomscrolling, of course.

As for TV, I was never one for TV - or radio - as background noise. With fiends, I had a bit of reputation of going round and turning such things off when I entered the room, so that we could talk without distraction. I would ask them first, of course.

It is pretty clear that this is a joke sign/poster - akin to “you don’t have to be crazy to work here but it helps” and so on.

A) I have never touched tumblr.

B) I first heard it around 30 years back, so a little before tumblr.

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

You can’t get a lot cooler than that.

I have three "!subscribe pending"s in my list after a session of joining a few days back. For me, they are showing up in my sidebar and I can post to them as usual, it seems. It is just that they don’t change from ‘pending’.

Presumably this was not a single snow crystal, but an agglomeration. More details on large snowflakes here.

There is https://beehaw.org/c/creative which seems to be fairly active and certainly includes some knitters.

!map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz looks interesting.

!ukcasual@lemmy.world might become a pleasant UK based one

Museums - particularly local/folk museums.

As a kid my dad would drag me around them. I was born fairly late in his life, so he would be reminiscing about various things on display but I had no context for them and so no real interest. Maybe I would find a couple of the large items something to play with or on etc.

Later they started to be come more interesting, once I developed an interest in history and then they started to have a value as a resource on low/intermediate tech solutions to actual things I was doing. And then I started to notice items in the displays that my grandparents and then parents actually owned and used…

These days I am starting to find things on display that I used myself at the start of my working life.

I am rather surprised and disappointed with Waldinger’s conflation of introversion and ‘being shy’ here. It does not inspire me to seek out his book.