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Eleazar San Millan

i feel like i’m getting resocialized like a feral cat. what the fuck

You immediately stop aging and become immune to disease and mortal injury. no secret "catch." it is permanent.

Froy Gutierrez | A BOOK OF (2022)

eric romaguera at stone studio by jack junk

Rocks and moss, Skottvången Sweden.

I feel like if you are going into any research field with fibers or textiles or anything you should make it a priority to be well informed on fiber and textile arts.

Like I’ve mentioned before I’m in a medical research field where we rarely deal with nanofibers but I do interact with other researchers who do and so many of them would be helped out if they knew fiber/textile stuff.

(Also for reference the fiber researchers I personally know are all men who don’t have any “craft” background in fiber/textile art and one woman that does, she is largely excluded from this but this also goes out to women(although a weird amount of female researchers/medical people are into fiber arts, the moment there’s some free time in the lab the majority of the women are bringing out crochet hooks and knitting needles and cross stitch and all kinds of stuff it’s great but off topic))

But like one guy was bragging about how he’s inventing this brand new never before seen nano fiber spinning technique and no one has ever thought of this ever and he’s so smart and unique and like… it was in fact a drop spindle that had been modified to work with nanofibers. Like it’s cool that you modified it that’s amazing props to you but I feel like some time could have been shaved off if you knew what drop spindles were and could use that as a base instead of having to reinvent the wheel bc fiberarts aren’t taught in engineering/physics/miomechanics.

Similarly I was talking to a guy who was working on some textile nanofiber tech and he was complaining about how it’s hard to get enough of the fibers to touch skin without making the garment expensive bc those particular fibers are pricey to manufacture, and he was really amazed when I suggested a twill or satin weave to increase the amount of fibers on the backside of the fabric and therefore touching the wearer without adding in more fibers. Actually almost every textile nanofiber researcher I’ve interacted with is exclusively using a plain weave when some weaves might be more effective. Now k don’t know if the fibers will still work in that weave but they didn’t either bc they had never thought about it and now they have a new idea to test.

This is nothing against those people this isn’t common knowledge so if you don’t have a specific background you don’t know what you don’t know, I just think that like craftwork knowledge should be pushed more if you’re in a field related to it or it should be more normalized to like consult with crafts people more. Back to the nanofiber researcher who knows about sewing, she’s actually pretty well known for influential work the she herself admits was her manipulating the the strands of the nanofiber to simulate a bias cut but within each individual strand. Amazing stuff btw I cannot comprehend how she did that so cool. Yall should look at nanofibers it’s so cool.

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD DAVRIN & ASSAN

One of the craziest things about Dragon Age (and this might help those of you who don’t go here kind of understand what people are yelling about in the coming months) is its lore. But I don’t mean that in the way you’re probably thinking.

I mean, quite literally, the way it presents its lore to you. In picking up notes and books as you go along and sifting through the codex, the game effectively asks you to act as an anthropologist. You’re met with a host of primary and secondary sources, some many hundreds of years apart from one another, written by anyone from the highest Chantry scholar to John Farmer, and you’re meant to constantly be questioning every piece of information you’re given. What biases are present in what I’m reading? What is fact and what is complete fabrication and what is, potentially, a slightly twisted version of a fact? How does one source potentially contradict another? The lore is one giant mystery-puzzle that you get to piece together across three games, and what conclusions you draw are going to be entirely different from someone else’s, and so on.

And yet, the series still does something even cooler than any of that. You realize, at a certain point, that this idea you have been engaging with on a meta-level — this idea that history is biased and fallible, that it’s written by colonizers and conquerers, genocidal racists and religious zealots, that the ability to control historical narrative is the prize you win for spilling the most blood — that idea is one of, if not perhaps THE most important, overarching theme of the series. The way that we remember history — what we remember and what we don’t, and why — and the impact that has on people on a sociological, political, cultural and psychological level, on both a macro and micro scale. It’s the entire thesis of the series’ main villain’s whole motivation.

And there’s gonna be a lot of people that don’t care about all that but me personally it makes me want to gnaw on a cinder block and scratch at my walls

like why did they decide to make the new covers so fucking ugly??

i feel ill.

surviving the current age of internet means saying no to subscriptions and premiums for basic features. you must endure the inconvenience of not being able to use every server emoji in discord. you must build the patience to find alternatives like NewPipe so you can listen to music on youtube while your phone screen sleeps. do Not give these corporations your limited disposable income. tiktok not letting me view videos on my phone without downloading the app? i will outlast tiktok and the execs will be remembered as dull,disgusting capitalists. listen to me, listen to me. if you do not know how to pirate shows from hulu, learn. if you can't pirate it, it is not worth the money to rent it. please i'm on my hands and knees. do not accept this form of internet.

Your companions will have their own rooms in your headquarters known as the Lighthouse. But who do you think sleeps in each room?

Dropping this here for anyone who may not already know about it. paywallreader.com

A gift for you

Teeny tiny pineapple block quilts by artist Amy Pabst

Here's some with my hand to give you an idea of scale on each block:

I did get to chat a little with Amy while she was in her gallery zone. She said she works often with silks, including reclaimed ones, and she finger presses her work rather than using an iron. The pastel rainbow piece above is called Soft Pride, measures 41cm x 41cm, has 11,925 pieces, and took her about 4 weeks to make. She does not use a magnifying glass while she works, relying purely on her eyesight, but she does make sure to take regular eye rest breaks every 10-20 minutes.

Sharp Dressed Man; 33cm x 33cm, 5,700 pieces.

I love kids they’re all like.. “when i grow up i’m gonna be an astronaut and a chef and a doctor and an olympic swimmer” like that self confidence! That drive! That optimism! Where does it go

“I don’t know what my goals are, no. Thanks for asking.”

Glen Martin Taylor, “but i am safe in here.”

"How to look good in a dress" or, you know, whatever you want to wear!

(I am definitely not the best person to talk about this, but here we are.)

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