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Months after a viral haka was performed in New Zealand parliament, the controversial bill that sparked it has now been defeated. The Treaty Principles bill sought to redefine the which is New Zealand's founding document. The bill was brought by ACT Party leader David Seymour, who believed the current interpretation of the treaty gave more rights to Māori people than non-Māori New Zealanders. After two years of debate and nationwide protest, the bill was voted down by all but one party.

Since I’m pre-t I still have my period but since I’m socially out as trans I use men’s bathrooms. One time at the college the family bathroom was taken and so I went into the men’s room to do my business. I tried opening the little pad as quietly as I could manage, but the rustling and ripping sound still happened. I froze in silence because I didn’t know if the other guy in the men’s room heard it or not.

Then after a little bit of silence I hear…

“Who has a bag of chips?”

And in a panic I just whisper back to him “I’m not sharing.”

I've been overthinking this like oof but I have added the listing for the shirt now!! I'm doing it!

Also the shirt material feels frickin great.

like people want to think any disabled person who is after money is morally suspect some way, because they're not asking for "treatments" or "accommodations" like a lot of our issues can be fixed way more easily with money. can't drive? paying for a taxi is often one of the more accessible alternatives. can't cook? you can pay more to have prepared food delivered to you. food restrictions? that food straight up costs more money. can't clean? you can pay for someone to do that. house inaccessible? having (lots) of money can help with that, you get the gist.

A few days (weeks? what is time..) ago I posted about paper corset samples based on historic patterns. This was one of them, and very unique given its horizontal and simple piecing. I played around with it some and here were my results...

I had to widen the original pattern quite a lot, because it was made for a 22"/24" waist or something much much too small for me. I lengthened them slightly too but clearly not enough because this was basically an underbust corset on me lol.

I added a bunch of fabric to the top edge and like a dozen of gores. Ended up overcompensating as you can see by how the top and bottom touch at the back and how it gapes everywhere else.

I went through a couple rounds of removing more and more volume until it looks more acceptable. You can see how it is following the line of my stomach now and the gap at the back is more even (though obviously not perfect).

I cut away a lot of what I added to the top in the process and wasn't totally sure how to move forward. But I knew another mockup was required so figured I'd transfer the changes to paper and go from there.

I ended up using the original pattern (well not original original, the wider, longer, version I used to make the mockup above) and following the top and bottom lines pretty closely, as well as the curvature against the middle section (which remained unchanged through all of what you see above) while also adding a bit more volume.

And this was the result. A bit of an improvement, I think, lol. Going to add a bit more room to the top since there is a bit of spillage and a bit more room in the hips at the side.

I also took it in at the bottom of the centerback and let it out slightly at the top, so hopefully it will be more even. I think I will make the center portion like 1/4" narrower which should improve the shape, but might make the gap uneven again since the fat has to go somewhere.

Anyway, that is a worry for another day.

"I review books for a living, and I’ve noticed a worrying trend of what I call “instagramming the Holocaust.” (1 / 9)"

"Bestselling novels about the Holocaust tend to be “uplifting” and sentimental. They have romantic subplots. Jewish characters only exist to be rescued by the (often American) protagonist. The cinematic, three-act structure culminates in a redemptive ending."

"What these books offer (and they sell in the millions) is a sanitized version of the Shoah in which brave Americans bravely battle Hitler, the reader learns a lesson about Kindness and Not Being Prejudiced, and there are no sticky questions about who did the killings, and why."

"Jewish novelist Dara Horn has observed that memoirs and novels written by actual Holocaust survivors typically don’t sell—because there are no pat resolutions, no redemptions, no heartwarming moments where the Jewish prisoners see the good in their Nazi captors."

"Anne Frank’s (excellent) diary became the entry point into the Holocaust for most of us because she had not yet experienced the worst of it – because she hadn’t yet learned that some people aren’t “truly good at heart.” It’s just safe enough not to disturb us."

"And we love “uplifting” Holocaust novels because we don’t want to be disturbed, not really. This is the real reason why books like Maus offend the sensibilities of middle-class parents, because they bear witness to a truth about human nature that we don’t want to confront."

"And the “message” of the Holocaust is not that people are truly good, or that we need to be kind and tolerant (though that is true). The message is that six million people were murdered, and millions of ordinary folk were complicit, and millions of others looked away."

"This compulsion to sanitize the past, to sanitize the world, is one of the overlooked roots of white nationalism. We want to seal ourselves away from the experiences of others because we fear what they might say to us. We want reality to be pastel-hued and instagram-filtered."

That’s the world’s most successful chef putting himself in a position to learn from chefs around the world in world-class restaurants, grandmother’s houses, in a cramped make-shift kitchen on a rocking and speeding steam train, and more. He doesn’t shy away from learning from people who’ve never been in the remote vicinity of a culinary arts school or run a “professional” kitchen.