If you punch two holes in the bottle cap, you could sew everything. For adhering to the hair clip, you'd wrap the thread multiple times around the non movable part, and of course beads string just fine. The bow you can sew directly through the middle and that has the added bonus of keeping it from unraveling.

I like it, it's really cute!

Hate the sin, not the sinner, though. I also get really upset about consumerist culture, but I try not to take it out on the people who enjoy it. It's really the capitalists at the top of the chain that are pushing all that crap, and they do it because they love money. If the world were better, and there were more responsible ways to enjoy that sort of thing, I think most people would jump on it.

Beautiful work! Also a lovely bike.

I'm also tempted to add "Hey yo dawg, we heard you like bikes..."

Fuck yes, libraries are awesome, and I'm so glad that people are turning back to them.

BTW, this is a good reminder to patronize your local branch today and, if possible, throw some money their way.

Awesome work, and thank you for sharing the process! I like collecting these off-brand MP3 players from years ago, and there's just not that much information on how to do these upgrades/fixes these days.

I've got a NOMAD Zen Xtra but haven't done much with it yet. The battery's borked and I haven't worked out an easy work flow for getting stuff on it just yet. One day...

Ok, I've actually used Bookshop.org, so I don't know how I forgot it!

I'll add Libro.fm as well--I'm not an audiobook fan myself, so I tend to forget those. I'm pleasantly surprised to see it's an employee-owned business!

Awesome, I love that you can get used books through them!

Everyone's challenges are different, but for me it's usually fruits being stolen by birds and squirrels, and pests eating up leaves before any of the fruits have been produces.

Only two things have worked for the pests: one is rotating crops. The pests show up, lay eggs in the spot where the plant is, and then they hatch the next season, so I try to plant in different areas each time. This doesn't work for tomatoes, who like being planted in the same spot each year, but I have a different solution for that.

Once I've got leaves coming up, and as soon as I see they're nibbled on, I take a piece of cardboard from a shipping box, and cut it about 6" square. Then on one side, cut up into the middle, and cut a circle about 1 cm in diameter. Twist the cardboard so that you can get it around the plant, and let the plant grow up through the hole. You'd think that 1cm would be large enough for the bugs to get through, or that they'd be able to fly around and above it, but I guess my bugs are just really fucking dumb. It's stopped the nibbling in 100% of the cases I've deployed it, so this is currently my favorite solution.

For the squirrels and birds I use bird netting. I usually stick PVC pipes about 3-4 ft. in height at the corners of my beds, and then drape the netting over them. The sides can be weighted down with stones/heavy objects, or you can tie it to fencing or whatever you have. I do have to move it aside when harvesting or weeding, but it's not a big time sink for me.

Thank you! That's actually where I've posted this request, but...I forgot it's federated everywhere. Looks like I'm still getting used to Lemmy instances and how they work, LOL!

I hadn't thought of it that way! I'll definitely submit if I can come up with something I'm satisfied with.

I may do so--being new I wanted to make sure I wasn't copying anyone's existing work.

Yeah, that's basically it. It's fiction that features a future in which people are adapting to climate change and focuses on sustainable living and technologies. A few years back you wouldn't have found anything searching for solarpunk fiction, but it seems to have been gaining popularity lately. I've always enjoyed speculative fiction, and I agree with you that we need more protopians in our collective imagination.