Random Musings

So there's two species of sea lion in North America: the California sea lion, ranging along California (including Baja) but not ranging into the north coast or into oregon

Weird vagrant species happen from time to time, but this is just a particularly funny instance of a highly social species getting very lost, and just trying to blend in with its closest nearby relatives

I’m kinda surprised that nalbinding isn’t as popular as crochet and knitting tbh because it has an even lower barrier of entry tools wise and unlike crochet and knitting it makes fabric that you can cut.

Nalbinding aka needle binding is when you use yarn and a big sewing needle to make fabric btw

Yeah I hadn’t heard of it until recently and I ordered a big bone needle for myself to try it out and that should be arriving soon.

You also don’t need a bunch of different sized needles for nalbinding or whatever. The size of the stitch is controlled either completely freehand or by pulling it against one of your fingers. Most people who have a lot of nalbinding needles seem to either have tried out wood, bone, and metal ones to see which kind they liked or they enjoy carving wood or bone and like making their own needles as an extra hobby.

I found this channel by a nice man who makes up close tutorials

oh fuck i listened to a podcast that was interviewing him and the process he went through to make this bread, ologies with allie ward like he went through full on clean room levels of prep to ensure that this was 100% yeast from old egypt and had to bend over backwards to ensure everything involved was uncontaminated he then revealed that the original xbox logo...

for anyone (like myself) curious if this was real or not, it is! This photo was taken in the infrared spectrum, not in visible light, which explains both the high degree of illumination despite being on the night side of the planet (IR light shows heat, and Venus is very very very hot), and why the cloud layers look unusually well-defined for Venus. As a result of being in IR, this image is also using false-color, is cropped to focus on the planet, and it's been edited to really highlight the detail, but it's all still very much real, and the level of editing is well in line with that expected in astrophotography. Here's the original image, directly from JAXA's website: