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i live spitting distance from an international model toy store (like gundams) and they stock the one piece grand ship collection models, in my grandfather era fr just me and some tweezers against the world, then they go on the model ship shelf 😎👍🏽
Jun 28, 2024
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May 7, 2025
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I’ve just been so fascinated by old decrepit dollhouses forgotten by time. I’ve been looking into and getting supplies to start building my own too.
Jan 30, 2025
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earlier this week i woke up having suddenly remembered a particular toy i loved when i was really small and somehow managed to find it by guessing the brand and finding one of their 90's catalogs??😅 far easier than expected given that i only knew for certain that it had a turtle in it (attached is my lousy drawing of it as i saw it in my memory). hoping it's buried deep in my dad's basement cus i would love to have it as a conversation piece & they're like $70 on ebay now LOL
Jun 30, 2025
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a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
