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Say what you want, but all I see is…dragon scale gloves.
Friend was getting frustrated at hand sewing because the polyester thread was twisting a lot, so I gave him some cotton thread and he went wow this is so much better. now I'm wondering if perhaps a lot of the people who hate hand sewing have never tried it with a well behaved thread. If you've only ever hand sewn with polyester thread try cotton or silk, or linen with some beeswax! (And read this blog post with more advice.)
I have given similar advice in regard to machine sewing--cheap polyester thread creates varying levels of frustration that nicer polyester thread does not, and I wonder how many people who have problems with machine sewing are actually dealing with uncooperative thread.
(I discovered this on accident, when I switched from my usual Saba or Gutermann thread to a no-name 2/$1 store brand thread that once was my main thread, thinking it was nothing more than a silly act of nostalgia, but, no. All of the issues I used to have sewing knits immediately reappeared. I switched to a better thread--in a worse color match--and the problems vanished. And I'd thought the problems with sewing knits had gone away because my sewing skills had improved! Nope! It was spending more money on thread!)
This is giving me flashbacks to the time in the 2010s when I thought I'd save time and money by picking up some cheap off-brand thread at the convenient SAS Fabrics (a discount mill-end store). I went from having no trouble sewing a nice seam to have endless and varied problems.
That also reminds me that at some point, I'll need to side-eye the current thread stash, as all but two spools are from my mother's stash, so they are a minimum of six years old, probably much older. Here, therefore, is a link on how to test if your thread is too old. (It's one thing I don't buy at estate sales!)
Even though you may think that buying a large box of vintage thread on sale sounds like a like your saving money, it may turn out to be quit
I like old thread, but I do always pull on it to make sure it's strong enough! I figure if it can last for decades in a garment there's no reason a properly stored thread can't last just as well on the spool. And the weaker stuff is great for hand basting, so I keep it too, as long as it's a decently smooth cotton. (At my first tailoring job I learned that you can actually buy specially made hand basting thread that's designed to break easily so it's easier to pull out.)
But oogh, yeah not the cheap fuzzy stuff. If a bunch of secondhand thread comes with any of those thin cheaply made spools that have that very visible fuzziness they get tossed immediately. Serger thread is the only stuff that's allowed to look like that!

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The satirical research field "parachute use to prevent death and major trauma" is such a goldmine. The two major publications
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC300808/
and
https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
are pretty much perfect satire of the way pseudo-skeptics dismiss domain experts and demand "hard evidence" in the form of exclusively flawless double-blind controlled studies, while clearly demonstrating that they have no idea what that entails, or what the limitations of RCTs are.
wild way to say "kill yourselves"
But the randomized control trial that was actually performed (second link) found no evidence that parachutes prevent mortality! (because they could only recruit people willing to jump off small, landed aircraft)
Okay wait how did you leave out:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a medical intervention justified by observational data must be in want of verification through a randomised controlled trial.
Salt levels critical.
The relevance to parachute use is that individuals jumping from aircraft without the help of a parachute are likely to have a high prevalence of pre-existing psychiatric morbidity. Individuals who use parachutes are likely to have less psychiatric morbidity and may also differ in key demographic factors, such as income and cigarette use. It follows, therefore, that the apparent protective effect of parachutes may be merely an example of the “healthy cohort” effect.
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and of course those of us eu fans joking about wilderness years 2 KNOW that we’re not gonna get wilderness years 2 - that the circumstances of the late 80s, the bbc’s sincere belief that the franchise of doctor who was basically worthless to the general public, resulted in them allowing new and unheard-of writers - in comics, novels, audio - to create some of the best sci-fi that ever resulted from doctor who. now, since dw has proved it can make money on a tv revival, along with the 21st century late capitalist landscape and its love of dragging dead horses around and being rabidly protective of its dead horses’ IP, it’s highly unlikely we will get this era of joyous, low budget creative freedom again. of COURSE we know all or this. it’s just that wilderness years 2 jokes are really funny. ok now everyone have a singalong to doctor in distress, put on big finish’s Storm Warning, throw your hair up in a messy bun and we, the doctor who fanbase, can avenge ncuti gatwa together
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okay so spock (the alien in blue) essentially goes into heat. like literal heat like an animal. Anyway, spock’s in bloodlust in this episode and must go back to vulcan to have sex with his finace (or someone. but its supposed to be his fiance) or he’ll literally die. this is called pon farr and some backstory spock is half human and thought he wouldnt go through pon farr so he abandoned his HOT fiance to fuck around in space except oops pon farr happens so. he and kirk (in yellow getting his tits cut open, he’s also spocks captain and best friend) and their other friend mccoy go to vulcan so he can have sex with his fiance or get married or whatever so he doesn’t die. but then spock’s fiance (t’pring) is like no i dont want to marry spock i want to have him fight someone to death (which she can do) and spock at this point is fully in the ‘blood lust’ and is basically not in his right mind and doesnt get what’s happening. and t’pring picks kirk to be her ‘champion’ in the fight (her logic is that if spock dies in the fight she doesnt have to marry him and if kirk dies, spock will be so upset with her he won’t marry her anymore anyway). anyway kirk doesnt know that its a fight to the death and so he’s like of course i’ll do this fight if it’ll help spock and then he gets told it’s a fight to the death and he goes WHAT and right afterwards spock slices his titties open like in the gif. also eventually spock and kirk roll around in the sand and kirk fakes his death and THIS somehow knocks spock out of his blood lust and he goes back to the ship super sad bc he’s killed his ‘best friend’ only to discover kirk’s alive and we see one of his biggest smiles of the series (a big deal bc spock is vulcan and they dont show emotion). anyway this aired as the season opener in 1967. know your history and all that happy pride
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Midnight Pals: Backrooms
Kane Pixels: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the backrooms Pixels: it's filmed entirely in the Hilton Stamford Hotel in Stamford Connecticut Pixels: if you know you know
Poe: we lost too many good people there King: i think mark danielewski is still lost in the lamp room
Pixels: so this story takes place in 1990 Grady Hendrix: radical, dude Pixels: because we want the gritty analog camcorder found footage aesthetic Hendrix: [flips skateboard] bitchin'!
Pixels: it's about a failing furniture store owner who discovers a secret dimension of free, self-replicating furniture Pixels: just the thing you would think he would need to revitalize his failing business Pixels: but it doesn't go there
Pixels: its called the backrooms and it's a labyrinth of random, procedurally generated backrooms King: Oh! is it reflective of the furniture store guy's mental state? Pixels: haha what no this isn't silent hill
Pixels: the backrooms is symbolic of our inability to break out of patterns of self-defeating behavior Pixels: or maybe it's indicative of our destructively sentimental attachment to place Pixels: there hasn't been such a melange of random thematically resonant imagery since A Cure for Wellness
Pixels: the furniture store owner decides to explore but there's danger in the backrooms Koontz: he should call on the backrooms red cross Pixels: the what Koontz: they have a partnership with the Backroom colonists at M.E.G. and the Republic of Aurielle Pixels: Pixels: what
Koontz: you know, the republic of Aurielle Koontz: they're only one of the biggest factions in the backrooms Koontz: a polity going back to the Korthie Casiagen War Pixels: Poe: oh yeah dean is really into the lore Poe: he's been reading the backrooms wiki Pixels: the backrooms what
Poe: yeah there's a whole wiki Poe: kids love lore so they made a enough to fill a wiki Pixels: oh cool Pixels: cool cool cool Pixels: cuz yeah cuz there's nothing that really improves liminal horror like overexplaining it
Koontz: anyway, you might encounter entity 76 (The Dribbler) on level 97 but you won't have to worry if you picked up the power up (fragmented doedecahedron) on level 45 Pixels: Koontz: but first you'll want to obtain the dreamstone (object 98) from the sayer of time (entity 12) Pixels:
Koontz: of course if you make it to level 186, you might encounter the katanga chancellor (POI 68) or the electric tastemaster (entity 9740) or skibiddi toilet (POI 53) or maybe even hazbin hotel (entity 96453) Pixels: Pixels: you shouldn't let dean go on the internet Barker: i've been saying that!

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My finished trapunto quilted gambeson for Vax! It was so cool to take techniques I learned on my Galadriel gambeson and dial them up further for this design!
As Vax is associated with ravens, I designed various wing and feather motifs wrapping around the body, a stylised raven skull in the back, and then added his “threads of fate” in hand stitched gold embroidery ribbon.
freud really did oedipus so dirty. like i get that you're trying to come up with a deeply terrible psychological framework regarding sexual abuse, but oedipus very much did not want to fuck his mom OR kill his dad. like, the entire myth is predicated on this. an "oedipal complex" should be someone who is hellbent on avoiding fucking their mom.
i just feel like oedipus is mostly treated as vaguely taboo, like he's a fucked up monster, and NOT like he's basically the same as any other greek hero. he's roughly as moral and strong and clever and whatever as achilles or jason or hercules or whatever, he just ALSO is a guy the gods fucking hated.
actually its kinda fitting that freud made so many theories that mostly tried to link socially deviant behavior and weird fetishes and sexual abuse, and he decided to name that shit after a guy who very notably did not engage in weird fetishes or sexual abuse and had nothing but wholesome filial love for the people who raised him, but was doomed to be thought of that way anyway by his people. basically anyone with an "oedipus complex" didnt actually have that shit going on either, freud was just a hack.
anyway here's my new mental health framework: cassandra complex, where you just fucking lie all the time and everyone knows it and hates you for it.
yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the doctor down the street who gives me my T shots in a clinic so small that it's just two rooms was excited for me when she said my voice had dropped yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the receptionist who could see that I was a man didn't bat an eyelash when I asked to see the gynecologist and called me sir when he asked how I wanted to pay yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the barber cuts my hair exactly how I want it and never gave me strange looks for being in a men's salon not even back when I didn't pass as one
yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my friends have always gendered me correctly and stick to it even when it confuses other people and my friend's little sibling calls me older brother in Kannada yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my dog learned my new name quicker than the humans and she runs to give me a kiss when she's told to without being confused about who's being referred to
yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I can feel the Adam's apple growing in my throat and my muscles getting stronger, and my smile more real and I'm growing a beard, and I talk more freely
yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I'm here, and I'm alive, and so are you and there are good people, people who care and don't let them make you forget that-- you are not alone.
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it's healthy for academics to have professional feuds. enrichment activity
Holy shit. "The demese ef the Ne'enderthels: Wes lengege a fecter?" published in the Science magazine
short but sweet

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In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, there’s Dr. Joseph M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun), I don’t know as much about him since the 4th and 5th seasons aren’t out yet, but he’s cool. There’s also a Black nurse, ensign Dana Gamble, they have a father-son relationship. Dr. M’Benga also has a daughter, she creates a fantasy world for one episode, The Elysian Kingdom iirc. Dr. M’Benga is as fleshed out as all the other characters except for maybe Pike, Batel, and Noonien-Singh. SNW generally does a good job with its characters of color, it has good representation in that direction.
^ his wedding guest outfit. I gotta say the costume designers have been amazing
^ in the fantasy episode
bonus Lt. Nyota Uhura in the same episode bc her outfit rocks and I could also yap about her for a long time but I’m assuming you know about her (or at least her when played by Nichelle Nichols bc she’s pretty famous) v
So Handsome! That was a good color combo for him. And aight now! That actress is ACTING! The INTENSITY! I LOVE IT!
Alt-text: Post from Amanda Hu
"Friendly reminder that anti-intellectualism is an authoritarian tactic that is used to control a population by robbing people of the tools to understand and solve problems, foster innovation and build up communities. Education gives people power to improve their conditions."
This is an area where John Ralston Saul was just plain wrong. He pooh-poohed the very idea of anti-intellectualism, claiming that every parent wants a better life for their children, and everyone knows that education is the best way to achieve that better life.
Sadly, we can see that for very authoritarian groups, this is simply not the case. Authoritarians think it's more important for their children to be controlled than for them to be happy and safe.
Even authoritarians who say that they want their kids to have a better life have alarming ideas about what "better" means, like "I want my daughters to grow up to be obedient teenage wives without being contaminated with the poison of feminism!"