Hankenstein

Today I have a three hour booking and then am driving down to my sisters beach house with the Lover for three nights which I am STOKED for, but travel is always a bit of extra stress, packing, texting back and forth to figure out whose packing what, what scenes do we want to do with such a stretch of time and space...

Lost my mind a little and added (if my math is correct) 5,615 beads to Nim Teasdale's Odenwald pattern. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!

The goal was “soothingly weighted but not uncomfortable to wear, even as someone with chronic pain.” It could have been a little heavier, so maybe I’ll make a shawl with larger beads another time, but I’m very pleased with this one. I used size 6/0 seed beads, applied as I go with a .6mm crochet hook.

Yarn-wise, used 2 cakes of YarnArt Flowers. I knitted the fully purple sections from both, then knitted all the way through the yellow-oranges with a single ball. When I hit the beginning of red-oranges, I used yarn from both cakes, alternating between them. (Not the entirety of both, I played it by ear to make sure I made it through the full rainbow.)

I do have edited charts with bead placements. I will only share them with Nim's permission.

We gotta stop self-censoring in a way that capitulates to shareholders and greedy capitalists

We need the weight and impact of the actual words that are being needlessly censored. Kill kill die death murder suicide rape predator assault kill death dying. None of that unalived grape sewerslide bullshit here. Say The Word.

Also we already HAVE euphemisms for death! Pass on. No longer with us. Kicked the bucket. Sleeping with the fishes. Six feet under.

Why aren't people using those huh. They flow far better than the clunky childish self-censorship version 'unalive'.

It doesn't escape my notice that the type of people self-censoring about the subject of death and sexual assault also often happen to be the ones who feel entirely too comfortable throwing around stigmatizing mental health terms and the R slur for fuck's sake. So you'll call autistic people a slur, but saying someone died or got raped is too much for you? Grow the fuck up, dear gods.

Eridian OC named THINGS. She is in charge of miscellaneous items in Grace's biodome and gets MAD AS HELL when he doesn't ask her for stuff.

Transcript/video description:

A puppet eridian from Project Hail Mary. She is about the size of a small cat. She is bright pink with orange spots and covered around her carapace and arms with bead bracelets, bells and random things like strips of duct tape and plastic.

As she is moved, the bells on the puppet are jingling constantly

I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!

I'll share some of the info below:

Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.

What to do?

-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides

- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!

To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!

Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!