You can see the brand name on the top shelf, so that's a constant memory, and they will reuse the other parts that I didn't need.
Here is a clip that shows more about the company: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uqb...
As I funnel my creativity into writing books now, rather than making music, I thought it would be a nice thing to make it into a bookshelf. It went to carpenters, who made it to my specifications. This is the result:
So I did some searching and I found Pianos Recycled, where they take your piano and make it into a new, bespoke piece of furniture. Mike set up the company when he saw a piano being destroyed and thrown into landfill.
The Metamorphosis of a Piano.
This is my lovely old Thurmer piano, which I learnt on, from age 5 to 18.
I hadn't played it for years, it sat in a corner, and it was time to let it go.
But you can't give pianos away here in Melbourne; there are just so many. 1/...
PhD opportunity! Work with Ruth Balint and @juliekalman.bsky.social
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Doppelganger from Melbourne
Lovely watching this from England
It's wild that there appears to be more current concern for the Lost Library of Alexandria than for the British Library. The BL's crisis exemplifies the accelerating destruction--through apathy as much as by design--of human knowledge & learning. I'm not even being dramatic.
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The State Library of Victoria is facing massive cuts to its expert librarian workforce - the people who make the library such a great and popular resource for researchers, schoolkids, students and the general public. You can sign this petition against cuts to this analogue treasure.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a)
Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less." She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards. They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it. This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil. The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option. "We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents. "We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
... and outsources the admin to the academics.
No, but you can gold plate it.
Still open! Come and work with me on Asterix, the greatest comic book series ever written:
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Might I suggest
Motherfucking wind farms…
My current workplace.
My English husband just admitted that he prefers vegemite to marmite, and my work is done.
Exactly
I don't disagree, but I would prefer that you not hijack my post. Thanks.
There is a PhD scholarship on offer for someone to come and work on Asterix, with me, at Monash:
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Solidarity, Nick. This is outrageous.
I think of writing like taking a little piece of coloured foil, like the wrapping on a chocolate Easter egg, and smoothing it out, over and over, until there are no wrinkles left. (Smoothing coloured foil is, indeed, something I also like to do).
50 years since Goscinny died.
I look forward to reading it!
Hit me up for recipe ideas! (Also, yum).
I am delighted to announce that, having spent three years faffing about trying to work out how to start my book, I have commenced writing chapter 1.
And many congratulations to @brionyneilson.bsky.social!
