woman-shaped person, she/her/hers are fine, terfs/swerfs/exclusionsts will be blocked. i simply do not care about shipping discourse and purity culture wars bc i have other things to worry about and assimilation is not my goal.
a common throughline in shit i like is understanding how and why systems work and fail. i do my best to have unique and blockable tags per fandom. popular tags include:
#tuesday again no problem- a weekly roundup where i talk about what iâve been reading/watching/playing/making/listening to
#evil lair llc - shit i do to my apartment/various non-textile hacky nonsense
#mackintosh my little black cat. mack for short.
#phil short for philip marlowe, my little tabby cat. not a thought in her beautiful empty head.
#maps charts and graphs/ #and lists and flags - bureaucratic & simplified representations of information
#technology and you - dumb hardware mostly
#better living through the scientific method- science communication (mostly astronomy hoax debunking), shit i think is neat, early- to mid-century physical sciences lab aestheticsÂ
#my one true love is the sky - astronomy shit
#cowboyblogging general western stuff/#ainât that a kick in the head - stuff tangential to a Fallout: New Vegas/The Good The Bad and the Ugly crossover you can read on ao3 here
#textile crimes - i was a textile lead at a makerspace and iâve never really grown out of playing with string
#good lines - art i think is neat
#answered - ask memes mostly if u wanna go ahead and block that
#capitalism and you the stupidest tech finance shit imaginable from when i used to do market research for video games
elsewhere:
ao3: sictransitgloriamundi
discord: girlfriendsofthegalaxy#5949 (mutuals only pls)
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had to go to dave and buster's for a birthday party and i think it is one of the circles of hell
listening: on her majesty's secret service feat. propellerheads
reading (article): decade-long fraud by market survey firm a 'gut punch' for researchers, retraction watch
reading (book): karen memory by elizabeth bear
watching: a pair of bonds: on her majesty's secret service and the man with the golden gun.
playing: fo3
making: fishtank update
smallest guy in the world alert
listening
this is off a 1998 album of bond theme remixes. most of them are not very interesting, except for this one which does remix the theme and the (very good) score from the film. composer john barry was a huge influence on pixar's the incredibles and was pixar's first choice, but declined because "he did not wish to duplicate the sound of his older work". fair! valid!
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reading (article)
Credit: AndreyPopov/iStock In April 2025, David Victorson, a psychologist at Northwestern University in Chicago, was polishing several manus
as a survey-taker and market-research-board-participant for fun money, i was already half convinced that it's all bullshit and could not possibly result in actionable data but was happy to take their money. well.
Because recruiting subjects to meet the requirements for certain projects could be challenging, the companyâs founders soon came up with a scheme to generate fabricated data for the clients, according to prosecutors. Employees and their friends and family members would sometimes take the surveys themselves for payment, or they would recruit bogus survey participants from the United States, Serbia, India and Brazil, who they dubbed âants.â Court records indicate that legitimate survey data were often mixed with their âant farmâ data â a process they dubbed âscrambling the eggs.âÂ
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reading (book)
"You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I'm one of the girls what works in the HĂ´tel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. HĂ´tel has a little hat over the o like that. It's French, so Beatrice tells me."
Set in the late 19th centuryâwhen the city we now call Seattle Underground was the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade routes, would-be gold miners were heading to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront, Karen is a young woman on her own, is making the best of her orphaned state by working in Madame Damnable's high-quality bordello. Through Karen's eyes we get to know the other girls in the houseâa resourceful groupâand the poor and the powerful of the town. Trouble erupts one night when a badly injured girl arrives at their door, begging sanctuary, followed by the man who holds her indenture, and who has a machine that can take over anyone's mind and control their actions. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the next night brings a body dumped in their rubbish heapâa streetwalker who has been brutally murdered.
Bear brings alive this Jack-the-Ripper yarn of the old west with a light touch in Karen's own memorable voice, and a mesmerizing evocation of classic steam-powered science.
karen memory by elizabeth bear (my beloved) is a 2015 steampunk romp set in seattle. there IS an airship and there is a submersible. it is exactly whatever you're thinking of when you hear "steampunk novel set in gold rush seattle". sometimes the heart wants what the heart wants, and the heart wanted a fun easy silly canonically bisexual romp this weekend.
big on sex work is work, big on women without the vote navigating politics, some deftly handled bits where karen has to unpack her own bigotry and assumptions. if we still made steampunk movies this would have a lot of elements of a revisionist western.
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watching
confining myself to ad-free platforms (kanopy, yewchube) and physical media bc it is still an election year in tx and i enjoy not being blasted with transphobia and xenophobia every ad break.
watched on her majesty's secret service (1969, dir. Hunt). this is the favorite bond movie of one of my favorite video game professionals (rob zacny) and i get it. this is a top tier dad movie. a great comfort movie to have on while you fall asleep upright on the couch on sunday afternoon. got really mad about how my dvd copy did NOT!!!! have english subtitles but DID have french and spanish??? and then sort of laughed at myself bc the dialogue has never mattered not once in a james bond film.
this is a really, really pretty travel film. i had some climate despair bc i don't think this is a movie you could make today. not enough snow in the entire world.
lazenby is so classically handsome in this movie it almost makes up for the fact that he does not know what to do with his face not once not ever. diana rigg on the other hand is a joy to watch as always. she has so much to do and has so much fun in this one, she is my favorite bond girl so far
i do like how everyone involved said "we don't want to do another gadget film" but compensated by including silly goose behavior like: villain losing a live grenade in the bottom of a bobsled as he is frantically trying to bobsled away from bond. henchman being turned into a fine pink mist bc he fell under a snow-clearing machine. a chicken allergy being cured by hypnosis.
and then i watched the man with the golden gun (1974, dir. hamilton) bc it's the other bond movie i have on dvd. it is going right back to the thrift. the less said about this the better. not a good martial arts film. not a good comedy. not a good bond film. the best parts are whenever christopher lee is on screen chewing the scenery and the very tense stalk-hunt-kill sequence in a carnival funhouse. however, the entire time we were in the funhouse i was thinking "i wish i was watching the opening of return of sabata".
like. why put a slide whistle over one of the sickest car stunts ever
the only other bit i liked was the MI6 headquarters on a half-sunken ocean liner, which made for very fun dutch angle sets. now if only we used that for some sort of interesting thematic statement
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playing
gigantohumongous update in genshin tomorrow so i'm going to be insufferable about it for a bit.
still in fo3 while we wait. not as good as the "theoretical degree in physics" line but it did get a sensible chuckle out of me.
got reilly's rangers off the hotel roof. forgot about the stupid fucking terminal entries where she's dithering about sleeping with one of the rangers. this is extremely 2008 video game writing.
fucking around near the top of the map, donovan reillysrangers zoomed by, chased by three super mutants, and got got before i could help him. according to reddit this is one of the random encounters you can roll??? and if he makes it he says how he used the geomapper to track you down????
really the goal of rescuing the rangers was getting fancy combat armor so i could put charon in better armor. he was in enclave power armor bc he kept fucking dying and we kept coming across lone enclave soldiers. side note i don't think you should be able to use the repair skill to fix up power armor! i think you should have to take it to the brotherhood! or the enclave! why would a vaultie know this!!!
also ran across paradise falls. also also found the temple of the union. so i do have to clean out paradise falls and the lincoln memorial so my guys can be safer.
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making
went to an aquarium store that i think is going to be my go-to aquarium store. HUGE, everyone looked really healthy, bettas in individual 5-gallon tanks, people under thirty-five both working and shopping, no old men staring or following me around. got some java fern i will attach to the driftwood at a later date and some assorted crypts that will live in their pots for now, bc they are a little fussy, this tank is still cycling, and i want to be able to yoink them out quickly if they start melting. it is less murky and less tannin-y in real life it is simply the soft lighting in my room and the very pale walls
had to go to dave and buster's for a birthday party and i think it is one of the circles of hell
listening: on her majesty's secret service feat. propellerheads
reading (article): decade-long fraud by market survey firm a 'gut punch' for researchers, retraction watch
reading (book): karen memory by elizabeth bear
watching: a pair of bonds: on her majesty's secret service and the man with the golden gun.
playing: fo3
making: fishtank update
smallest guy in the world alert
listening
this is off a 1998 album of bond theme remixes. most of them are not very interesting, except for this one which does remix the theme and the (very good) score from the film. composer john barry was a huge influence on pixar's the incredibles and was pixar's first choice, but declined because "he did not wish to duplicate the sound of his older work". fair! valid!
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reading (article)
Credit: AndreyPopov/iStock In April 2025, David Victorson, a psychologist at Northwestern University in Chicago, was polishing several manus
as a survey-taker and market-research-board-participant for fun money, i was already half convinced that it's all bullshit and could not possibly result in actionable data but was happy to take their money. well.
Because recruiting subjects to meet the requirements for certain projects could be challenging, the companyâs founders soon came up with a scheme to generate fabricated data for the clients, according to prosecutors. Employees and their friends and family members would sometimes take the surveys themselves for payment, or they would recruit bogus survey participants from the United States, Serbia, India and Brazil, who they dubbed âants.â Court records indicate that legitimate survey data were often mixed with their âant farmâ data â a process they dubbed âscrambling the eggs.âÂ
-
reading (book)
"You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I'm one of the girls what works in the HĂ´tel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. HĂ´tel has a little hat over the o like that. It's French, so Beatrice tells me."
Set in the late 19th centuryâwhen the city we now call Seattle Underground was the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade routes, would-be gold miners were heading to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront, Karen is a young woman on her own, is making the best of her orphaned state by working in Madame Damnable's high-quality bordello. Through Karen's eyes we get to know the other girls in the houseâa resourceful groupâand the poor and the powerful of the town. Trouble erupts one night when a badly injured girl arrives at their door, begging sanctuary, followed by the man who holds her indenture, and who has a machine that can take over anyone's mind and control their actions. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the next night brings a body dumped in their rubbish heapâa streetwalker who has been brutally murdered.
Bear brings alive this Jack-the-Ripper yarn of the old west with a light touch in Karen's own memorable voice, and a mesmerizing evocation of classic steam-powered science.
karen memory by elizabeth bear (my beloved) is a 2015 steampunk romp set in seattle. there IS an airship and there is a submersible. it is exactly whatever you're thinking of when you hear "steampunk novel set in gold rush seattle". sometimes the heart wants what the heart wants, and the heart wanted a fun easy silly canonically bisexual romp this weekend.
big on sex work is work, big on women without the vote navigating politics, some deftly handled bits where karen has to unpack her own bigotry and assumptions. if we still made steampunk movies this would have a lot of elements of a revisionist western.
-
watching
confining myself to ad-free platforms (kanopy, yewchube) and physical media bc it is still an election year in tx and i enjoy not being blasted with transphobia and xenophobia every ad break.
watched on her majesty's secret service (1969, dir. Hunt). this is the favorite bond movie of one of my favorite video game professionals (rob zacny) and i get it. this is a top tier dad movie. a great comfort movie to have on while you fall asleep upright on the couch on sunday afternoon. got really mad about how my dvd copy did NOT!!!! have english subtitles but DID have french and spanish??? and then sort of laughed at myself bc the dialogue has never mattered not once in a james bond film.
this is a really, really pretty travel film. i had some climate despair bc i don't think this is a movie you could make today. not enough snow in the entire world.
lazenby is so classically handsome in this movie it almost makes up for the fact that he does not know what to do with his face not once not ever. diana rigg on the other hand is a joy to watch as always. she has so much to do and has so much fun in this one, she is my favorite bond girl so far
i do like how everyone involved said "we don't want to do another gadget film" but compensated by including silly goose behavior like: villain losing a live grenade in the bottom of a bobsled as he is frantically trying to bobsled away from bond. henchman being turned into a fine pink mist bc he fell under a snow-clearing machine. a chicken allergy being cured by hypnosis.
and then i watched the man with the golden gun (1974, dir. hamilton) bc it's the other bond movie i have on dvd. it is going right back to the thrift. the less said about this the better. not a good martial arts film. not a good comedy. not a good bond film. the best parts are whenever christopher lee is on screen chewing the scenery and the very tense stalk-hunt-kill sequence in a carnival funhouse. however, the entire time we were in the funhouse i was thinking "i wish i was watching the opening of return of sabata".
like. why put a slide whistle over one of the sickest car stunts ever
the only other bit i liked was the MI6 headquarters on a half-sunken ocean liner, which made for very fun dutch angle sets. now if only we used that for some sort of interesting thematic statement
-
playing
gigantohumongous update in genshin tomorrow so i'm going to be insufferable about it for a bit.
still in fo3 while we wait. not as good as the "theoretical degree in physics" line but it did get a sensible chuckle out of me.
got reilly's rangers off the hotel roof. forgot about the stupid fucking terminal entries where she's dithering about sleeping with one of the rangers. this is extremely 2008 video game writing.
fucking around near the top of the map, donovan reillysrangers zoomed by, chased by three super mutants, and got got before i could help him. according to reddit this is one of the random encounters you can roll??? and if he makes it he says how he used the geomapper to track you down????
really the goal of rescuing the rangers was getting fancy combat armor so i could put charon in better armor. he was in enclave power armor bc he kept fucking dying and we kept coming across lone enclave soldiers. side note i don't think you should be able to use the repair skill to fix up power armor! i think you should have to take it to the brotherhood! or the enclave! why would a vaultie know this!!!
also ran across paradise falls. also also found the temple of the union. so i do have to clean out paradise falls and the lincoln memorial so my guys can be safer.
-
making
went to an aquarium store that i think is going to be my go-to aquarium store. HUGE, everyone looked really healthy, bettas in individual 5-gallon tanks, people under thirty-five both working and shopping, no old men staring or following me around. got some java fern i will attach to the driftwood at a later date and some assorted crypts that will live in their pots for now, bc they are a little fussy, this tank is still cycling, and i want to be able to yoink them out quickly if they start melting. it is less murky and less tannin-y in real life it is simply the soft lighting in my room and the very pale walls
no worse feeling that going on some subculture fashion clothing website and seeing the size chart runs from extra small to petite to pequeĂąo to microscopique. yeah here at DeathKillFuckShadow Fantastique Cloth Imaginations i think youâll find that we see the world a bit difference⌠we have bleak brutal imaginations⌠what if blood and fangs were COOL⌠but we cannot in our most tortured imaginations picture a woman who has a stouter frame than the fucking Insulindian Phasmid
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mackintosh is slowly grasping the concept of play with another cat. i think. this is significantly less fraught than slappyfeet usually is. like sheâs not Thrilled but sheâs not totally and completely convinced phil is going to kill her until near the end of the video
Do you need affordable sewing supplies? Do you want to help cut down on waste and fast fashion?
Do yourself a favor and check out Swanson's Fabrics! The physical location is in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, USA, but the online shop will ship to you!
I can't remember who first told me about Swanson's, but they're a textile thrift shop that collects and repurposes donations of unused sewing supplies. Their physical location, The Stash House, offers community sewing resources and a studio. For non-locals (such as myself), their online shop offers fabrics, patterns, and notions. The shop restocks on Thursdays, and they have a constantly-rotating collection of items. If you like thrifting secondhand craft materials, Swanson's is for you!
Via their official "about" page:
Swansonâs Fabrics and notions are gifts from retired sewing stashes. They are the fabrics and supplies that sewers and fiber-artists naturally accumulate. I had a suspicion that the reason we all collect so much is that we didnât have a place âgood enoughâ to take it. So I made the place. Turns out I was right, and thanks to my community (and yours) of makers and crafters, I can resell these fine materials at a low, approachable cost.
ALL FABRICS ARE $5.00/yd, NO MATTER WHAT THEY ARE MADE OF. REALLY. I MEAN IT. I KNOW. UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE!
As we come to grips with the climate crisis, interrupted supply lines, and our dependency on slave-labor in far away countries to produce our cotton and fiber goods, we need another way to approach the fabrics in our lives.
We have a massive resource of textile goods in our country and it is time to tap into it. Our attics, basements, thrift-store donation bins, and dumpsters are brimming with discarded fabrics. It is time to start making and trading for the things we need, and stop buying so much new stuff we donât. We need to see ourselves as trash-rich.
Customers at Swansonâs can pay for goods and services with goods and services. I accept trade of sewing and fiber supplies/materials, and trade for help in the shop.
I hope to inspire you to make your own clothes, to mend the ones you have, to shop second-hand and alter things to your taste. There is a lot of power in dressing yourself. Custom is king, and you canât have a revolution in your masterâs clothesâŚ.
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-Kathryn
The CovidSafeCosplay blog and its admin are unaffiliated with Swanson's Fabrics, and are simply sharing the resource.
Do you have a favorite place to get your crafting supplies? Share in the comments or via a reblog! Bonus points for those that prioritize sustainability, accessibility, community, and trade.
Lots of cities / areas have stores who also sell repurposed or donated fabrics! Hereâs one directory of creative reuse stores. (Though âcreative reuseâ is usually the key search term)
I get most of mine at Scrap in Ann Arbor (they also sell some items online) and New City Sewing Center in St. Louis.
stupid little tabby thatâs been bothering my girls hustled past my car with a big ol wound on his hock so if i can get him into a carrier we will be visiting the county shelterâs after hours injured animal intake this weekend
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