popple's hopples

Goodmorning to the Anthropic Claude AI training scraper that suddenly decided to request 660 thousand pages (exactly the number I had remaining on the starter plan) and brought Pikiwedia down. 

Sudden switch from diverse user agents like chrome, safari, messenger preview to Just Claudebot. I'm not even mad though, this is maybe the funniest thing possible, because I've inadvertently poisoned their training data with thousands of fucked up articles with normal urls. 

to try and answer some of the questions people have asked:

1) i am as bewildered about how i’ve managed this as you all are. i’ve comfortably done a light fingering/heavy lace 3ply before, but this is uhhh. new.

2) the fibre is a 25% penduncle silk/75% superfine merino commercial mix, and it’s extremely soft and extremely fine and extremely easy to draft, which i think helps with the fine-ness. i’m spinning on a small whorl, treadling pretty fast, and with basically no tension on the bobbin because otherwise it snaps the thread.

(relatedly, as someone who habitually spins pretty fine: when i bump into people who struggle with it, the issue is very often that they have their tension up way too high.)

3) this is what the singles look like (with the 3ply on the far left for comparison):

to my eye, they look like they should be plying up thicker, but! i guess not!

bonus picture of the yarn so far, which really does not capture the colour (green-grey-cream) of the subtle lustre of it well at all:

trouble getting in the mood today, but I did pet the fiber a great deal and technically spun a tiny bit to hold the line.

It’s chanterelle season!🎉🥳🎊

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