God's Favorite Fool

I'm gonna tell you something that a lot of you won't like, because I've had this conversation many times before so I'm familiar with the reactions, but if you live in a so-called "first-world" country you are still and have always been benefitting from colonialism. The rights and nice every day things you have, your walkable, environmentally "friendly" cities, train systems, etc. are things that turn into privileges in those other category countries and your country and your government are directly responsible for it. In my case, I'm from Mexico, and right now the local people of the Bahía de Ohuira, in Sinaloa, are fighting against attempts by swiss-german company PROMAN AG to build an ammonia factory in its territory, threatening local wild life and local people's livelihoods under the old lie of foreign investment as progress.

Yesterday people, particularly indigenous communities who are leading the project against the ammonia factory because they are the most affected, went to protest in front of the German embassy and I hope they fucking listen and take their trash away.

“I thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.” <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.

Go to the inaugurations of littlely known artists’ exhibitions.

Don’t mind if I do!

one time a pal of my pals was having a tough time selling their work in an art exhibit and called us up on the last day, ‘us’ being about 8 students who were Very hungry and also bored. We put on the nicest/artsiest clothes we had available (one dude had a legit fancy suit and put on some shades which were Bright Pink he looked like a movie star I swear) and rolled up to the show in pairs, separately. Fine Art Pal has some nice paintings! but nobody is really paying attention to them, so after getting some fancy cheese cubes in a manner that did not betray that we were actually a ravenous pack of starving students we casually wander around the show and then, fairly individually, drift to a stop by their work. Some of us even walked away, then came back a bit later ‘captivated’ by the art (it was actually really nice but recall we were all poor as shit and this was a help hustle). Our group’s interest naturally caught other folks, and eventually there was a small clump of about 15 people musing over this art, and within ten minutes the biggest piece had been snatched up by a shrewd investor. by the end of the exhibit every single piece was sold. It helped pay off the artist’s student debt and on that success they got into another exhibit! They’ve been doing well ever since.

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

So my bone needle actually came this evening (yay!) and I’ve started trying this for real. It clicks in my brain way easier than crochet does. I’ve gotta work up the muscle memory but I think I can do this.

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

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Question 3/3

Should I be saving my money for a down payment on a house and getting rid of furniture so I have less to move? Yes. And also yes.