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Literally me:
This is the only reason for UF to actually be ranked number 1
reminder that "allies welcome" was once secret code for "those not out yet can still participate without putting themselves at risk", and for those who aren't out yet to comfortably exist in these spaces you have to let allies exist in those spaces too.
this is also important for queer people who don't know anyone else there. let them bring their friend, even if the friend is cishet. many would rather not go at all, rather than go somewhere alone.
Few wars are won without allies
I took a Language and Violence class in undergrad in which the professor had us interrogate the violent metaphors that are so prevalent in the English language, and to create alternatives (my favorite was "to cook two meals in one pot" instead of "k*ll two birds with one stone").
So when I see this language, I wonder how we can reframe this and leave the violence to those who are also filled with hatred. We can and should do better.
Some ideas:
Few houses are built without assistants.
Meals are better shared.
Communities are made of many.
If we're talking about inviting allies as a way to allow closeted folx a safe space, calling it a war doesn't feel like the most inviting.
There's more:
āBeware of Artistsā - Actual poster issued by Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1950s, at height of the red scare.

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hot take: the problem isnt the manic pixie dream girl. its the boring ass moody emotional leech guy she always gets paired with. we need more manic pixie dream characters. just give them partners who are as great as them or let them be happy alone! no more smart, beautiful, optimistic, kind girls getting paired with actual mosquitoes of men!
Also: make some manic pixie dream boys. If I wanna see romance maybe I wanna see a giddy boy full of positive energy who tells you fun facts about the constellations. Stop teaching boys they have to be moody and sad and they have to find salvation in a dream girl, this is how you breed Bad Men.
titanic
*whispers* holy shit
this is Newt Pulsifer, in Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens
So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:
1) Binary files are 1s and 0s
2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches
You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purlsā¦
You can knit Doom.
However, after crunching some more numbers:
The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom beingā¦
3322 square feet
Factoring it outā¦302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.
Hi fun fact!!
The idea of aĀ ābinary codeā was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:
Hereās Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, youāll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.
This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer.Ā
But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine.Ā
Hereās a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and hereās a nice little diagram explaining how it works:
But what if you donāt just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!
Hereās an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,
and as you can see, the holes (or 0ā²s) told the machine notĀ to knit the ground color (1ā²s) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.
tl;dr the textiles industry is more important than people give it credit for, and I would suggest using a machine if you were going to try to knit almost 3 megabytes of information.
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Someone port Doom to a blanket
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It goes beyond this. Ā Every computer out there has memory. Ā The kind of memory you might call RAM. Ā The earliest kind of memory was magnetic core memory. Ā It looked like this:
Wires going through magnets. Ā This is how all of the important early digital computers stored information temporarily. Ā Each magnetic core could store a single bit - a 0 or a 1. Ā Hereās a picture of a variation of this, called rope core memory, from one NASAās Apollo guidance computers:
You may think this looks incredibly handmade, and thatās because it is. Ā But these are also extreme close-ups. Ā Hereās the scale of the individual cores:
The only people who had the skills necessary to thread all of these cores precisely enough were textile and garment workers. Ā Little old ladies would literally thread the wires by hand.
And thanks to them, we were able to land on the moon. Ā This is also why memory in early computers was so expensive. Ā It had to be hand-crafted, and took a lot of time.
(little old ladies sewed the space suits, too)
Fun fact: one nickname for it was LOL Memory, forĀ ālittle old lady memory.ā
I mean letās also touch on the Jacquard Loom, if you want to get all Textiles In Sciencey. It was officially created in 1801 or 1804 depending on who you ask (although you can see it in proto-form as early as 1725) and used a literal chain of punch cards to tell the loom which warps to raise on hooks before passing the weft through. It replaced the āweaver yelling at Draw Boyā technique, in which the weaver would call to the kid manning the heddlesĀ āraise these and these, lower these!ā and hope that he got it right.Ā
With a Jacquard loom instead of painstakingly picking up every little thread by hand to weave in a pattern, which is what folks used to do for brocades in Ye Olde Times, this basically automated that. Essentially all you have to do to weave here is advance the punch cards and throw the shuttle. SO EASY.Ā
ALSO, itās not justĀ ālittle old ladies sewed the first spacesuits,ā itāsĀ āthe women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed.ā Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras. Bra-makers sent us to the moon.Ā
And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldnāt use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if youāre within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, youāre usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC.Ā
The women who made the spacesuits were BADASSES. (and yes, Iāve tried to get Space-X to hire me more than once. They donāt seem interested these days)
This is fascinating. I knew there was a correlation between binary and weaving but this just takes it to a whole nother level.Ā
Iām in Venice, Italy several times a year (lucky me!) and last year I went on a private tour of the Luigi Bevilacqua factory. Founded in 1875, they still use their original jacquard looms to hand make velvet. Here are the looms:
Here are the punch cards:
Some of these looms take up to 1600 spools. That is necessary to make their many different patterns.Ā Here are some patterns:
How many punchcards per pattern?
Ā This many:
Modern computing owes its very life to textiles - And to women. From antiquity weaving has been the domain of women. Sure, we remember Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr, but whileĀ Joseph Marie JacquardĀ gets all the creditĀ for his loom, the operators and designers were for the most part women.
Iāve seen this cross my dash a few times, but Iāve never watched the video before. Maybe I just didnāt pay attention when I was a kid, but I donāt remember ever seeing just how the Jacquard loom works. I just knew that the punch cards controlled which threads were raised. Itās cool to see the how, not just the what.
Donāt hide this in the tags, @drylime :D
I am never not amused by the overlap of textiles and technology. Also the fact that a huge number of fiber arts people I know are either in tech or math themselves or their partner is (myself included - husband is a programmer).
A concept: mermaids in wheelchairs
Another: shapeshifters with stretch marks
Religious vampires trying to find ways to balance their ideologies with their needs
Sirens learning sign language so they can communicate without enchanting anyone
Disabled fairies who canāt fly pushing for accessibility
Spirits helping save people from fires and other natural disasters because they can access areas too dangerous for the living
Dragons becoming foster parents and providing super safe homes for āhordesā of children until they grow up
Female werewolves with facial hair and body hair not letting anyone make them feel bad about it
Fae snatching children from abusive homes and raising them in safety while the changeling wreaks havoc
Liberated genies using their power to fight for human rights
Witchy cooking shows where witches try to make specific potions or find creative magical solutions to problems
Psychic psychologists and medical doctors who are able to figure out exactly how to help even if their patient is non-verbal, young, or afraid of being honest because theyāre with an abuser
Psychic teachers knowing just what to do to help students with learning disabilities
Yes please.Ā
I just slammed the reblog button so hard my phone broke.
Hell hound service animals
THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL
HELLHOUND SERVICE DOGS
Leprechauns paying off overdue school lunch fees and student loans and rent/utility bills for charitable organizations.Ā
GriffonsĀ policing wildlife preserves and hunting down poachers.
Selkies teaming up with the Coast Guard for search and rescue efforts.
Brownies visiting the homes of people with chronic fatigue to help catch up on chores.
All of this yes
Vampire hematologists that can smell if somethingās wrong with your blood.
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Everyoneās got somebody.
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead. A human with a brain and a heart and a desire to be uplifted, rather than a customer with a credit card and an inchoate āneedā for āstuff.ā A mallāthe shopsāare places where your money makes the wealthy wealthier. But a library is where the wealthyās taxes pay for you to become a little more extraordinary, instead. A satisfying reversal. A balancing of the power.
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when i watch old movies iām constantly surprised by how much acting has improved. not that the acting in the classics is bad, itās just often kind of artificial? itās acting-y. itās like stage acting.
it took some decades for the arts of acting and filmmaking to catch up to the potential that was in movies all along; stuff like microexpressions and silences and eyes, oh man people are SO much better at acting with their eyes than they were in the 40ā²s, or even the 70ā²s.
the performances we take for granted in adventure movies and comedies now wouldāve blown the criticsā socks off in the days of ācasablancaā.
thereās a weird period in film where you can see the transition happening.Ā right around the fifties, I think.Ā the example my prof used when i learned about it was marlon brando inĀ āa streetcar named desireā - he was using stanislavski acting methods and this new hyper-realistic style and most or all of his costars were still using the old, highly-stylized way of acting. it makes it way more obvious how false it is.
i even noticed it in āthe stingā, which was 1973. i actually think they used it on purpose to get the viewer fished in by the second layer of the con; the grifters at the bookieās were acting like they were acting, and the grifters playing the feds were acting for reals. if youāre used to setting your suspension of disbelief at the first setās level, then the second set are gonna blow right past you.
or possibly the guys playing the grifters playing the feds just happened to be using the realistic style for their own reason, and it coincidentally made the plot twist work better. but i like to think it was deliberate.
i was thinking about this again, and when you know what to look for, itās really obvious: old movies are stage acting, not movie acting. it just didnāt really occur to anyone to make the camera bend to the actors, rather than the other way around. just image search old movie screenshots and clips and gifs, youāll see it. the way people march up to their mark and stand there, the way they deliver their lines rather than inhabiting the character. the way theyāre framed in an unmoving center-stage.
this is a charming little tableau, quirky and unexpected, but itās a tableau. it lives in a box.
now, i usually watch action movies, and i didnāt think it was fair to compare an action movie with what appears to be an indoor sort of story, but i do watch some comedy tv. so i looked for a brooklyn 99 gif with a similar framing, intending to point out that the camera moves, and the characters arenāt stuck inside the box. but i couldnāt even find the framing. they literally never have all the characters in the same plane, facing the camera, interacting only within the staging area. even when theyāre not traveling, theyāre moving around, and they treat things outside the āstageā as real and interact with them, even if itās only to stare in delighted horror.
as for action, it took a while for the movies to figure out what, exactly they wanted to show us, and how to act it. hereās a comedy punch:
here, also, is a comedy punch:
the first one looks like a stage direction written on a script. the second one looks like your friends horsing around and being jerks to each other. the first one is just not believable. the physics doesnāt work. the reaction is fakey. everyoneās stiff. even the movement of the camera is kind of wooden. the second one looks real right down to the cringe of his shoulder, and the camera feels startled too.
iām not saying this to dis old movies, iām just fascinated and impressed by how much the art has advanced!
Iām going to bed, but I also want to say that I think, without actually bothering to explore it and make sure, that thereās been a similar shift in comics, probably related to the shift in acting/camera work. And I think you still see remnants of old āstage actingā comics in the three-panel style set ups (you might still see it in long form comics, but youād probably call it bad composition)
Now can someone explain why people in old films talked Like That
Yāall, THATāS HOW PEOPLE TALKED.
Seriously, I used to work in a sound studio, and one series of projects required us to listen to LOTS of old audio recordings. Not of anything special - just people talking.
AND THEY TALKED LIKE THAT.
It was so fucking wild to hear just a couple of people being like,
āWELL HI THERE JEANINE, HOW ARE YOU TODAY?ā
āOH, NOT TOO BAD, JOE, THOUGH MY HUSBANDāS BEEN AWAY ON BUSINESS FOR A FEW WEEKS AND I MISS HIM SOMETHING TERRIBLE.ā
āWELL ITāS A HARD THING, JEANINE, BUT YOUāLL GET THROUGH IT.ā
āWELL I SUPPOSE IāVE GOT TO, HAVENāT I JOE?ā
All in that piercing, strident, rapid-fire style we associate with the films of the era. If youāve watched lots of old movies you can imagine the above in that speech pattern.
I donāt know if people talked like that because it was in movies but I suspect itās the other way around.
Same goes for the UK - When they made the TV series The Hour, set in the 1950s, they had to tell the very well spoken, privately educated Dominic West to tone down his imitation of a 1950s newsreader because being accurate would have sounded toĀ a 2011Ā TV audience as if he was doing a parody.Ā When you watch Brief Encounter theyāre not speaking like that because they canāt act, theyāre speaking like that because it was the norm on screen. It now sounds unnatural because itās not the norm any more.
Obviously there were people with regional accents and who didnāt speak in a heightened manner, but they didnāt get to be on TV or in movies unless they were villains. (And usually the villains were putting it on, like Richard Attenborough in Brighton Rock. Sure, he was Richard Attenborough, but he was brought up in the Midlands, and by the on-screen standards of the time, that was common.)
Even the Queenās very posh accent has changed over the last 50 years and become āmore common"Ā - check out newsreel footage etc for proof - and recordings of her father are almost like someone from a foreign country (well, it is the past).
There is, for many film historians/critics, an actual turning point from mannered, theatrical, orĀ āoverplayedā acting on screen to naturalistic/American Method realism on screen. It happens in the 1954 movie On the Waterfront, during a traveling shot in which Marlon Brandoās character and Eva Marie Saintās character are walking together. Eva Marie Saint accidentally drops her glove in the middle of the scene. Marlon Brando instinctively picks it up as his character, and continues the dialog, all the while playing with the gloveāturning it about, trying it on, etc. Eva Marie Saint stuck with him, never broke, and the director didnāt callĀ ācut.āĀ
Before that scene in that movie, if an actor dropped a prop by accident, they would have re-shot the sceneābecause Brando mostly disappeared out of frame as he bent down to pick up the glove, and (as is explained above) movies were framed to keep the people in the scene in the frame. I
tās a pretty famous scene in movies because Brandoās character doesnāt give the glove back, but instead uses it to amplify what the two characters are experiencing, naturally and without artifice. It is, for all intents and purposes, the exact moment that screen acting changed.
Okay, but hereās the thing about television specifically: given the size of TV screens when they first came out? Stage acting was the only thing that could be READ. Watch Star Trek: TOS on a modern screen and it looks absurdly overacted. Film of the same era is not, and yet the TV is.
And thatās not a fault of the actors; they were all very capable of naturalistic film acting (yes, even Shatner) ā as the later movies would bear out. Itās because they were acting for the small screen, not the big one.
Stage acting and stage makeup is what it is because people are far enough away from the stage that you have to cake on the makeup garishly and exaggerate the hell out of your for it to be VISIBLE. And in early television? Yeah, those constraints actually very much applied. You could move the camera, sure, but the quantity of visual information you could send was just damned limited.
if i had to get in a fistfight with any member of the fellowship it would be Frodo because i would easily win
all i am saying is that he would ostensibly be the easiest one to take on in a fight given that heās like three feet tall and has led a life of (physical) leisure compared to all of the others due to his standing as a gentlehobbit
legolas, aragorn, and gimli are all used to combat, sam works as a gardener, merry and pippin often gallivant off and get into mischief so they have the advantage of experience in whatever it is theyāve gotten up to/would possibly fight dirty, gandalf is gandalf so while weapons are out of the question i suppose that depends on if magic is involved. i donāt think i could take him without magic even if he IS old because heās a very large guy, but maybe
it would be my knuckles against Frodoās baby soft poet hands, plus iāve got the additional height and fighting experience. i just think that he would be the easiest to win against in hand-to-hand combat out of the rest of them. also he isnāt real so he canāt offer a rebuttal to my claim
youāre absolutely correct BUT wanting to fight Frodo makes you a monster D:
this has nothing to do with WANTING to fight Frodo, i just think he would be easiest for me to beat in a fight with no weapons. unless he utilized his very large feet, but i think heās too polite to do that because itās a fist fight and that would be considered playing dirty
for someone who doesnāt want to fight Frodo you sure have put a lot of thought into fighting Frodoā¦ā¦ā¦.
OP is wrong though: you fight Pippin.
First off, Pippin has it coming, so you wonāt be fighting your conscience at the same time.
Secondly, Pippin is a spoiled rich kid. Heās no less gentry than Frodo is, but Frodo works out and is shown to have better stamina, at least at the outset. Pippin is also both the stupidest and the slowest of the hobbits. They both nearly beat one (1) troll, so thatās comparable, but Pippin appears not to have got a single hit in against the orcs that captured them while Merry was cutting off hands like a boss. Pippin also straight-up tell Bergil that heās not a fighter.
Also thereās a nonzero chance that Frodo will just straight up curse you (if the guilt of fighting Frodo isnāt enough if a curse by itself).
And, of course, if you try to fight Frodo, you will 100% end up fighting Sam, and he will wreck you (and youāll deserve it, you monster)
Also: if you fight Frodo youāll have a very angry Sam & possibly also the entire Fellowship to deal with BUT if you fight Pippin they will probably cheer you on.
Bold of you to assume one could attempt to fight Pippin and NOT instantly be killed by Boromir.
So hereās the thing - you absolutely DO NOT want to try and fight Frodo or Pippin because they are going to be protected by the rest of the Fellowship, which basically existsĀ toĀ stop asshole Big People from picking on the hobbits. Folk might talk a big game but when the chips are down, you are not going to lay a single hand on any of the hobbits. Either youāll find yourself immediately fighting all four of them or else youāll move to land your first hit and suddenly Aragorn will side-tackle you into the trees. And he probably hits like a freight train tbh.
So hereās what you do:
You fight Legolas.
The thing about fist-fighting Legolas of course is that you will lose. This is not a fight youāre gonna win no matter what. But Legolas has his standing competition with Gimli, so once the challenge is issued, heās not gonna let anyone elseĀ step in and fight you either. No one is liable to volunteer on his behalf, either, so you will only end up fighting the one member of the fellowship. If you are lucky he might also take his shirt off. Bonus!
Anyway.
Legolas willĀ mop the floor with you, but heās also already convinced youāre weaker than him anyway because youāre not an elf, so heās gonna go kind of easy on you. And when you lose he will be all snide and superior about it, which means everyone in the fellowship is gonna sympathize with you, and Gimli will probably challenge him on your behalf afterwards, but hereās the key thing:
You will have lost a fist-fight to an immortal warrior prince.
Thatās a way better loss to cop to than that time you tried to fistfight a pudgy gentlehobbit and got beaten to the point of unconsciousness by his gardener, yeah?
so guess who needs a haircut
god *bless* this harry potter
when my family went to disney world we went on the haunted mansion ride and this actor dressed as a skeleton came up to our cart and got right in my three year old brothers face and whispered āare you scared?ā and my brother kissed him on the nose and the guy laughed so hard he had to leave

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