Patterfly

For something like computers, this looks like how pricey "gAmiNG" laptops look all fancy but fall apart in about the same timeframe as the lower end laptops for students. But if you've ever handled the sort of laptops for banks or businesses, you'd wonder why laptops can't all be like this. People swear by Lenovo Thinkpads for a reason. Dell's Latitude (general productivity) and Precision (has the power of a gaming laptop but far less bs) lines, HP's probooks, all feel really nice and last for-fucking-ever. But you can't buy them in a store even if you wanted one.

So the trick is to buy what big organizations are buying, but you likely gotta get 'em secondhand when the orgs are done with them. For basic clothes, mil surplus might be a good port of call, for technology see an e-waste recycler or sometimes government auction (you just gotta know what to ask for; ThinkPads, Dell Latitude/Precision, HP Probook/Zbook). Otherwise try to thrift old, pre-enshitification items. The blanket I had as a kid is still going strong and has lived to bury multiple sets of newer bedding (which have worn thin and torn). Kitchen items, see if you can shop at a restaurant supplier.

Secondly, it cures in air alone, no oven or kiln required, and unlike clay it has microscopic shrinkage between wet and dry, so you can pack it around glass or whatever. When she says you can stand on this stuff, yes, you can (though for very large sculptures or very narrow sections of a sculpture, she recommends adding a metal armature for extra strength). It is impervious to water, so it can go outside in any weather, and any metal armature encased inside it won't rust

Additionally, Pal Tiya Premium can be added to at any point in the curing process, even weeks or months later, so you can make a sculpture in several pieces and, like with a mold, remove the foil core you sculpted on so you can use it again and again (though you have to add a sacrificial layer of foil between the core foil-sculpture and the Pal Tiya (see the videos on the youtube channel about it). You can color it with oxides, concrete stain, inks, or acrylics, including exterior-grade house paint so your sculptures can go outside.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

Supporters of India's youth-led Cockroach movement said Tuesday they will continue their protest in New Delhi, refusing to leave their sit-in site a day after police used tear gas and batons to disperse thousands of them as they tried to march toward Parliament. Hundreds of protesters camped at Jantar Mantar, a designated protest site, under heavy police presence, saying they would stay until Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns over alleged failures in India's examination system. "We are going to continue our protest," said Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, which emerged just two months ago. The movement, drawing students, professionals and families, marks a rare public challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's government in its third term, reviving criticism over its handling of dissent and its use of force to respond to protests. [...] Sona Bisht, a 20-year-old student who was part of the protest, said the confrontation strengthened her resolve. "If the government thinks that doing this with Gen Z, they can stop us, then that won't happen. We are here talking about education, talking about securing our future. And till the time our demands are not met, we will not move from here," she said.

"Definitions developed thus far about youth, like the Gen Z narrative, have largely been linked to roles attributed by the dominant system. The rulers have invented a whole range of terms — rebellious, irresponsible, apolitical, extremist, consumerist — not to understand youth, but to neutralize it. They know as well as we do that whoever wins over the youth wins over society. [...] Thus the question is not whether youth is powerful, but in whose interest this power is directed. Today’s uprisings — such as those in Nepal, Bangladesh, Madagascar, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco, and beyond — demonstrate that youth continues to emerge as a decisive actor. Young women like Deniz Ciya have proven this with their lives. These uprisings are not expressions of generational temperament. These „Gen Z uprisings“ are expressions of a social force confronting structural crisis inherent in the current system. [...] Recent youth uprisings — whether in the form of environmental justice protests, labor movements, or uprisings against authoritarian governments — are proof that youth worldwide are not only responding to a set of circumstances; they are consciously and collectively rejecting the narratives that seek to define them. Thus, it is crucial to analyze what transpired, and draw lessons from these uprisings, particularly in the context of building a global youth democratic confederalism. For the power of youth movements is interconnected, despite being geographically distant." — "Beyond "Gen Z": Defending Revolutionary Youth Spirit" by Lêgerîn

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his clothes are dirty and torn and his hair is in tangles but she knows he must be someone important, perhaps the son of a noble family from one of the towns along the border with barizhan. She knows it from the way he speaks to the way he holds himself and right down to his soft, elegant fingers with their perfectly laquered nails.

And yet there's no arrogance in the way he begs her to help his two bodyguards. He promises he'll do anything to pay her back. He says that they had asked for help at the noble manor in the center of town and had been turned away.

She agrees to help him, ushers them up into one of their empty rooms, has one of her sons fetch an old sheet to rip up into bandages, and sends the other one running to fetch a cleric of csaivo.

He scribbles a hasty letter and sends it off with one of the couriers from town, and then all that's left is to wait. She agrees to let him help around the inn - not because she needs it, but because she knows he would otherwise spend his days pacing the small room he shares with his guards, worrying over their state.

It's a long two weeks that they wait, during which time his guards drift in and out of consciousness, spending their few waking moments fretting over their lordling and trying to drag themselves out of bed to carry out their duty of protecting him.

And then, on one quiet day while she and the young lord are working in companionable silence in the kitchen, they hear a great clamour from the entrance of the inn, and they go rushing out to see the source of the commotion.

Her heart jumps into her throat as she sees a group of guards come pouring into her inn, bristling with weapons and ready for a fight. They're dressed in the livery of the drazhada, and she doesn't even have time to wonder at their presence here before their eyes alight on the young lord at her side.

"Serenity!" shout several voices at once, and she stares in stunned silence as three figures break away from the group to come rushing up to the young lord.

One of them is a secretary, eyes wide and full of desperate relief as he reaches out to clasp his lord's, his emperor's, hands tightly in his own.

The other two, a soldier and a maza, must be his nohecharei. As are, she realizes with a start, the two men upstairs.

The maza looks her emperor over with a critical eye, and she remembers hearing somewhere that the woman was a cleric of csaivo.

"Our firsts?" asks the soldier once he gets the reassurance from his partner that their emperor is in good health.

"Upstairs," says the emperor. "They're safe."

There's several sighs of relief, not just from the two nohecharei, but also from the rest of the guards

The emperor turns to look at her then, and there's a heartstopping moment where she remembers that she had had him running errands for her these past two weeks, and she wonders if she will be executed for her sins.

Instead, the young emperor smiles gently at her, and pushes past his guards to stand in front of her.

you know that your boss the lord chancellor is ambitious, and since you've read his letter you know he's stalling the proper procedures, possibly deliberately, and will certainly try to benefit from the power vacuum and presumable incompetence of said emperor—the only thing you, or anyone, know about him is vague rumors that he might be insane.

you arrive at the place and it's the most badly lit, cramped, dilapidated, drafty, horrible manor you have ever delivered to. the person who is presumably your new emperor greets you half-dressed in dirty clothes. he is barefoot, his hair is not even braided, and he is accompanied by a man who is possibly drunk and blatantly contemptuous to both of you.

despite this ridiculousness, you follow the proper protocols (as much as there are protocols for this situation) and get your letter delivered. the emperor proves himself less Maybe Actually Feral and more just... possibly terrified, most especially of his guardian. while you are processing this you are informed that you are to escort the two of them back to court on the same airship by which you arrived, which you have to know was not part of the lord chancellor's plan and may very well lose you your job.

this might as well happen, i guess. it's not like you really have a choice. maybe you can just scurry away once you arrive at court—oh the emperor wants you to show him around. OH he wants to know who you are. like actually you think he might care about you. ok new plan. fuck your job, fuck the lord chancellor, this guy is your life now.

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tags roundup:

#diversity win??? #woahhh I forgot about him #this is how I found out. I hate it here #this is the end of the ethuveraz and a disgrace to his late serenity's memory #woaw #ENJOY BEING A BARIZHAN COLONY THOU ELVISH BASTARDS #prev: well no bc it's not like the great avar gaf about him either #who the fuck is archduke maia??? #aww he's only 18 :( #is he the one everyone says is crazy.....? #this is like a wonder tale talk about a comeback #this is a disaster #COOL #ok I guess #EMPRESS CHENELO AVENGED‼️ #dost thou think we can pray in the bariheise style now #I have never heard of this man before in my life

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😎 aveyyyyio

Edrehasivar better than me coz if I'd been in relegation my whole life in genteel poverty with some random and my whole family hated me or didn't gaf about me and I never got formally presented at court and everyone said I was mad or inbred I would have ascended to the throne and started killing everyone responsible

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op I see thine point but most of the people responsible are very much now dead. like that literally is how we got here

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Anonymous said:

Prince Idra is the rightful Emperor

⚰️ witnessforthedeadfandoms answered:

Oh so thou'rt massive on child cruelty and the death of child emperors??? that's what thou'rt saying?? thou wants Prince Idra to be a child emperor and then be murdered by a power hungry regent?? wowwwwwwww #problematic

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Anonymous said:

suspicious that the Emperor and his other sons ALL got taken out at once, leaving the throne clear for Archduke Maia, no?? Like it's.... Convenient. Wouldn't you say

⚰️ witnessforthedeadfandoms answered:

Not really no

#thou didst all jump like fleas to the next conspiracy I see 🙄

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⚔️ valmatasreturn reblogged courtpollsandbrackets follow

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#so is this how the corazhas make decisions now or??? #anyway. CSETHIRO SWEEP

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🤲🏻 honourofcsethio follow

tbh we think everyone saying that edrehasivar is going to be a disaster of an emperor is being really fatalistic... like YEAH he looks like a panic attack had a wish granted to be a real boy but we think he can do some real good :(

🕰️ likeclockwork

lol sorry but that skinny kid would have to bridge the istandaärtha to win my confidence

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🚨| As agreed by the Corazhas this morning, Dach'osmin Csethiro Ceredin is engaged to the Emperor Edrehasivar VII and will become Empress Csethiro, Ethuverazid Zhasan

#edit: please stop tagging this 'can Edrehasivar fight' someone's gonna construe it as a threat on the Emperor's life and things have been tense enough lately #second edit: WE GET IT, A LOT OF THEE HAD A CRUSH ON HER AT LEAST THOU DOST GET TO SEE HER ALL THE TIME NOW

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🎶 operasdaily follow

Opera of the Day: The Autumn Archduke is an old warhorse by Ebrezhanar. It concerns the sudden ascension to the throne of the Archduke Aizhevea (later Edrethelema III) after the tragic deaths of his father, older brother, and his sister's son in a fire at the imperial palace. It maps the early years of his reign, including how the incident partially inspired his designs for the new structure of the Untheileneise Court. It was popularly performed in Lohaiso ten years ago, but has not been significantly revived since this period.

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this happened to my buddy Edrehasivar Zhas

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scream apparently in the flop coup they tried to send the emperor to be a votary of csethio??? this just in, 'get thee to a nunnery' is NOT just for noblewomen #equality

🪻lazinessoftanvero

reading through the whole report on the attempt now and losing my shit... skill issue of the highest level imagine thy coup fails because thy 14 year old prince and 18 year old emperor unionise against thee and thou cannot do shit because teenager 1 and teenager 2 are the two most powerful men in the court... biggest cringefail coup of all time

#say the prayer of compassion for the dead for chavar and sheveän's egos because they won't survive this

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😎 aveyyyyio

anyone else think the couriersdaily account is kinda being really excessively hype about eshevis tethimar getting killed in that assassination attempt. like... real, but also. diva... the attempt on the emperor's life......

#though I presume if they're shitposting the emperor is probably fine #given couriersdaily is almost certainly run by... Thou Knowest... #maybe it's like a diary for them #all the shit you can't say on the day job mer ai-- I mean couriersdaily?

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😎 aveyyyio reblogged couriersdaily

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this is so fucking disrespectful... we don't know what we expected from baseborn couriers like thee but eshevis tethimar was a respected member of the tethimada whatever he ALLEGEDLY tried to do to the emperor. now he's in ulis's hands so thou shouldst really at least TRY to have some dignity and compassion

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#see???? #btw don't open the notes it's the archipelagar wars in there

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🫀 zhelsu-no34

Othala Celehar: h-

Me:

#prelate of ulis... a good one... looks good in the coat of office...

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🗣️ untheileneisecourtconfessions

went on a date with some random osmer and he admitted to having some tiny part in the tethimadeise conspiracy to try and impress me and idk if he was lying or not but he was pissing me off so I called the untheileneise guard on him and ate his dessert once they hauled him off lol

#plus I go to salons with the zhasan sometimes #and I think she would have snapped my head off my neck if she'd found out he said that and I did nothing

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🌽 orshansmazei reblogged amalomemes

#he comes into the sanctuary I work at and walks around in circles sometimes #he looks haggard too. poor thing 😭 #I know someone at the laundresses who is convinced he only has one coat

His Serenity Edrehasivar VII