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I see this sign so often
There was a big graffiti mural on the outside wall of this race track where people would bring their suped up street cars, that said "the place for bogans to blow a tranny".
I also used to get my hair cut at Tranny's Hair Dresser (she was Vietnamese and that had been her nickname since the 70's)
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CRIMINAL MINDS 2.21 — "Open Season"
Yes yes yes this scene thank you for the tag, heehehehe
It’s funny because this scene must be based on the memoir Special Agent by Candis DeLong. In it she describes being out looking at clothes at a department store on lunch break with another female agent and overhearing a conversation between a man and a woman in which he says he’s an FBI agent. They peer around some clothes racks thinking that they’re going to see one of their fellow agents trying to get a date, and when they don’t recognize the guy they go over and pretend to be interested in the big strong FBI agent themselves and ask to see his badge. The guy actually pulled out a fake badge, whereupon they said “Huh, that doesn’t look anything like ours…”, produced their own badges and arrested him for impersonating an FBI agent. (I remember this bit from a 25 year old book because I actually stole it myself for a fic)
Exquisite. Glorious. 10/10 thank you for sharing.
There has been an uptick in the number of websites selling pirated pdf quilt patterns. Some take your money and give you nothing and some will send you the stolen pdf pattern. It is super easy to be tricked and the websites are only going to get better at looking legit. Here are a few tips for spotting scammy websites: 1. First, most designers sell their pdf patterns on their website or Etsy. Designers will sometimes contract with large established online shops to sell the pdf on their site, but it is not common. If you see a pdf pattern you like, but aren't sure the website is legit, do a search for the pattern and purchase it directly from the designer. 2. Pay attention to the logo and name of the shop. If the name and logo doesn't seem quilt or fabric related, slow down and take a closer look. 3. Look at the other products being sold. If the quilt pattern is listed with a mix of garden gnomes, necklaces, novelty socks, and headphones, that is a good sign it is a pirated pattern. Legit quilt shops do not carry a wide variety of non-fabric related merchandise. 4. Many scam sites advertise steep discounts or abnormally low prices. If the price seems to good to be true, slow down and double check the website before you purchase.
I received this info from Leila Gardunia, a quilter and designer.
Modern Scrappy and Foundation Paper-Pieced Quilt Patterns and Tutorials by Leila Gardunia
A personal addition to this:
A lot of pattern scammers are using AI to "design" quilt patterns. It's most evident in foundation paper piecing listings i've seen on etsy. I've shared a few posts regarding the problem, but the short version is read the reviews, and examine the pictures closely. See if seamlines vanish or fade, if fabrics blend in to each other, and if the lines make sense. Oh, and the price. A pattern for a queen size quilt made with complex blocks shouldn't be less than $60 USD. I've seen then for less than $10 USD, and close inspection showed my suspicions were correct. If uncertain, don't buy it. I have a post pinned with links to legitimate designers.
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You are 60% water and every lake, river, pond, swamp, creek, and ocean you encounter wants to reclaim it desperately. Be careful out there.
Good, I hope it haunts everyone about to enter a body of water so bad that they wear a life jacket. 🙌
Every single person I knew (past tense) who has drowned was "a strong swimmer." Water in the wild does not care how good you are at swimming.
I mean this with all due respect:
You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.
Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.
Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.
If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.
You may be unable to return to shore. Rescue may be unable to find you quickly.
Scheduling this for when weather starts warming up. Be careful swimming this summer
Any reasonably strong swimmer can in fact pass a skill check against rip currents! The trick is not trying—and inevitably failing—to pass a strength check first.
If caught in a rip current, stay calm and float. This is much easier if you are wearing a life jacket. Wait until you stop getting pulled away from shore. Swim at a comfortable pace parallel to shore for 0.1–0.25 miles (1500–4000m). Then turn and swim comfortably toward shore. The waves should help push you. If you're not making headway, go parallel to shore a little farther and try again. If you're a really poor swimmer, just float and wait—the water is moving that way, slowly, and your job is just to not run out of gas before you get back to the beach.
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First one is a scan of the pencil sketch I did using 6B pencil. The second is a copy of the drawing I printed and worked over with blue watercolour pencils and diluted black acrylic paint.
hi everyone. my blue spotted ray is done
just in case anyone forgot how wildly colorful Georgian interiors could be, even among the working class to the wealthy:
and EVEN WHEN things were more muted/neutral, the neutrality was OFFSET by ACCENT COLORS and HIGH CONTRAST between the wood tones and everything ELSE
ALSO AMERICAN COLONIAL INTERIORS POPPED OFF, Y'ALL (IN TERMS OF COLOR/COZINESS)
PEOPLE USED WHITEWASH AND COLORFUL TRIM OR EVEN JUST COLORFUL FURNITURE IF THEY COULD AFFORD TO DO SO
AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON FRENCH AND BRITISH AND AMERICAN WALLPAPERS
"ELIZABETH" YOU CRY, "WHY ARE YOU BEING SO EXTRA THIS MORNING?! IT'S MONDAY"
Because, my friend, my war on GREIGE will NEVER end.
Historic interiors were filled with LIFE and LIGHT and COLOR. ALWAYS HAVE BEEN.
Part of the reason we don't see a lot of textile art is because, frankly, textiles tend to degrade over time - especially ones that had utility! And yes, pigments and weaving and dying all boosted the expense of things, when we were finally reliably block-printing fabrics and broad reams of paper, it was no longer just the wealthy who could afford pretty patterns!
In the Americas, a far wider variety of pigments also became available because of the abundance of... well, a shitton of flora and minerals, some of which weren't as common in Europe.
WHY THE HIGHLIGHTER COLORS? you ask.
CANDLES.
Those colors reflect candlelight and natural sunlight REALLY WELL.
Humans LOVE bright colors, it's NOT just a thing for kids. We live in a brilliant, vibrant, multifaceted world. We ALWAYS have.
(STOP MAKING YOUR HISTORIC SIMS 4 BUILDS BE BLAND. STOP IT.)
On the subject of Colonial America: don't forget, even if you couldn't afford wallpaper, wall stenciling might still be in reach!
(If ever you have the opportunity to visit the Stencil House at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont (pictured above at 3, 4, and 5), I highly recommend.)
And that's before you get into American painted murals:
Embrace the decorative arts, folks!
#how long have we been holding on to this one?
i’ve had this queued for 365 days
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Animals with Watermelons
the fucking parrot
just a bunch of doodles from the past weeks
figuring out how to draw them again
I'm really jealous of this one tiny feature of the Japanese tax system called furusato nozei which is the "hometown tax." Basically you can choose to pay like, some locality taxes to your hometown rather than say, just the big city you currently live in, AND, as a bonus, some of that tax money can be exchanged for select goods from the locality you're paying taxes to.
So if you live in Tokyo, you can delegate some of your tax money to like, another prefecture instead.
So you get like, a "gift" box of stuff from that town. It's not actually a gift, you're getting the item at a slightly higher than retail price, but it's from the tax money you already paid. So it FEELS like a gift. AND you can tell that other place that you want your tax money to go to like, x or y specific thing.
Example 1 (music loud unfortch) and example 2
And I just think this would be fun to do in the US, maybe on a state level (+ inclusive of reservation funding) Imagine being like "yeah I grew up in Arizona so I'm sending some of my state tax money there and telling them that I want it to go to education. and in return they're going to send me a box with some jars of prickly pear jelly, a bag of masa, a bolo tie, a bag of oranges, and a USB drive."
I'm very jealous.
This becomes a lot more meaningful and sad of a feature when you remember that the main reason for the hometown tax is that the demographic collapse of Japan combined with the emptying of its rural areas as older people die and younger people move to cities has resulted in many rural municipalities becoming insolvent.
Handmade creations distributed to raise funds for charity prompt complaints to police
Some appear to have been made from Nicholson Baker’s 1994 erotic novel The Fermata, with at least one containing sexually explicit passages. Some of those who received the hedgehogs defended the man who made them, saying only some contained explicit content and it was just a mistake. One woman said her four-year-old was “absolutely obsessed” with her paper creation, which was made using pages of Rosemary Enright’s The Walled Garden. “Oversight? Yes,” she added. “I don’t believe [there was] any malicious intent.” Others were eager to get their hands on a hedgehog. “Who’s the old guy making them? I want one,” said one man, commenting on the Wirral Globe story. “It would be especially fun if it was made from an erotic novel. If anyone knows him, tell him I’ll pay postage.”
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please excuse my grandpa in the background but here’s poncho enjoying her thanksgiving superworms
i will NOT excuse your grandpa he is INTEGRAL to my enjoyment of this video
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