Whistle Through The Silver

this was so hard to narrow down. truly. how delightful that there are so many amazing queer books to keep adding to the collection

Breaking from the Frame - slow burn! lesbian romance! 1969!

Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die - cowardly knight! prophecy! “in which many dangerous and homosexual things happen"

Crafting for Sinners - craft store! evil megachurch!

Tears in the Grass - intergenerational survival & courage

Slant - AIDS activism, Irish lesbians

Full metal indigiqueer - “a world where making love is akin to making live”! poetry! unearthing bones!

Four Minutes - post communist Bulgaria. bureaucratic horrors

Floodlines - multigenerational, intimate & epic, Iraqi-British sisters, art & memory

Local Fires - short stories! debut! wales!

Heap Earth Upon It - from the author of Sunburn!!

A Black Queer History of the United States - what it says on the tin. read this!

Steppe - russia? long haul trucking? bitter father/daughter relationships? read Steppe.

you can find all these & more in the ‘just added’ section of QLL’s libby

Hmmm I'm more German than I expected (as far as I know, I'm 0% German)

*reluctant sigh*

*scrolls back up*

With the new Harry Potter series she will be making a reported $20 million per-season renewal + other performance dependent royalties. She has been open across multiple interviews regarding her intentions to use said funds to push forth even more trans targeted legislation in the years to come.

This isn’t a “she gets paid no matter what” situation. The more eyeballs on this show the more money she has to actively harm vulnerable communities. By engaging with it you are directly supporting this and otherwise making a conscious choice to consume HP over doing the literal very least possible to not destroy the lives of trans people across the world.

If my stating the objective facts above upsets you then feel free to unfriend and move along. Your nostalgia-goggles feelings for a tired, problematic franchise mean nothing to me compared to the welfare of my trans friends and loved ones."

If you care more about badly written children's books and imaginary wizards more than you do about real people in the real world do it far the fuck away from me.

Don't try to be in my life.

NOT

WATCH

A perpetually WIP tale of political intrigue, magic. Flashbacks, old enemies, new friends, and true love. Set in Season 2 with a slight resemblence to the show. Multiple plot lines. OCs, and re-examined charecters bring an entirely new dynamic to Storybrooke.

A reluctant savior, an ex-evil queen, a werewolf-waitress, an adventurous librarian, a loyal warrior, and a princess in search of an identity all come together for an epic adventure that Storybrooke may not survive.

Explicit scenes and triggers will be noted per chapter as applicable. Updates are a bit spotty.

Mister Rogers says that when terrible things happen, to look for the helpers. This is so important to me, I have the tattoo. Terrible things are happening. I’m upset. And I’m angry. And I’m so sad. While I am looking for the helpers, I am also doing my best to be a helper. I have to be honest: when a domestic terrorist organization, created and unleashed on us by our own government, are…

@whistlesilver asked: Character A must spend time alone in a shared home for a longer than normal period of time. The quiet time gives them a chance to reflect on all the ways their love, B, fills their world

I'm begging of you, please don't take my man

Long ago you went away, and where thou dwellest none can say,

1) Binary files are 1s and 0s

2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches

You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…

You can knit Doom.

However, after crunching some more numbers:

The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…

3322 square feet

The idea of a “binary code” was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:

Here’s Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, you’ll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.

This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer. 

But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine. 

Here’s a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and here’s a nice little diagram explaining how it works:

But what if you don’t just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!

Here’s an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,

and as you can see, the holes (or 0′s) told the machine not to knit the ground color (1′s) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.

Wires going through magnets.  This is how all of the important early digital computers stored information temporarily.  Each magnetic core could store a single bit - a 0 or a 1.  Here’s a picture of a variation of this, called rope core memory, from one NASA’s Apollo guidance computers:

You may think this looks incredibly handmade, and that’s because it is.  But these are also extreme close-ups.  Here’s the scale of the individual cores:

The only people who had the skills necessary to thread all of these cores precisely enough were textile and garment workers.  Little old ladies would literally thread the wires by hand.

With a Jacquard loom instead of painstakingly picking up every little thread by hand to weave in a pattern, which is what folks used to do for brocades in Ye Olde Times, this basically automated that. Essentially all you have to do to weave here is advance the punch cards and throw the shuttle. SO EASY. 

ALSO, it’s not just “little old ladies sewed the first spacesuits,” it’s “the women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed.” Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras. Bra-makers sent us to the moon. 

And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldn’t use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if you’re within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, you’re usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC. 

Here are the punch cards:

Some of these looms take up to 1600 spools. That is necessary to make their many different patterns.  Here are some patterns:

How many punchcards per pattern?

 This many:

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by AiKat (OldEmeraldEye)

Déanann Emma iarracht Lá Vailintín a dhéanamh mar a bhí beartaithe. Millteoir foláireamh, ní dhéanann sé.

Words: 302, Chapters: 1/?, Language: Gaeilge

Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F

Characters: Emma Swan, Evil Queen | Regina Mills, Henry Mills (Once Upon a Time)

Relationships: Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Emma Swan

Additional Tags: Family Fluff, Humor, Family, Translation, Gaeilge | Irish Language