Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 14, 2020The future never arrives with the aesthetics of anybody who’s been actually preparing for it even if it’s a functional equivalent338129
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 14, 2020Exhibit A: colorfully home-made domestic cozy Etsy masks where all the preppers were prepping grimdark80s tacticool madmaxterminatorQuote TweetVenkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 14, 2020This but with hello kitty aesthetics rather than 80s grimdark would be a winning product twitter.com/DavidSacks/sta…3225
astrokiwi@mastodon.nz@astrokiwi·Apr 14, 2020Replying to @vgrI always did think it hilarious when maker culture thought it was reinventing crafting1
astrokiwi@mastodon.nz@astrokiwi·Apr 14, 2020Replying to @vgrFor folks who went flat tack into bunting, this is just another pattern, and they sure have the fabric to make it happen11
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @astrokiwiI have no idea what that means but I believe you 😂5:38 AM · Apr 14, 20201 Like
astrokiwi@mastodon.nz@astrokiwi·Apr 14, 2020Replying to @vgrI feel like the majority of tech folks not intersecting with crafting folks means a lot get missed. Standard practise in e.g. quilting (my patch) is to run quite a large stash of fabric. Cue apocalypse, sew all the things1