ask me about mutually orthogonal Latin squares

call me Clementine. she/her, bi, jewish. 20. I love math!!! I don't post about it much but I think ppl should know. BLM. I stand with Palestine. trans rights are human rights. currently into: M*A*S*H, quilting.

[omtai]

Im sorry I didn’t reply to your message for three weeks. I did not forget about it infact I thought about it regularly every day. It will happen again

[vincentbriggs]

Cleaned/oiled/reassembled all the Bernina bits and it worked right away! The tab on the bobbin winder wasn't lining up with the bobbin, but I just bent it a little and now it's good. I didn't have to do anything to the timing because I was unable to remove the bit that holds the bobbin case, so I had to clean it in place as best I could.

The 2 needles it came with aren't flat shank or round shank, but a mostly round shank with a groove, which I'd never seen before. Aside from the groove they're the same size as DBX1 needles, which are easy to get. The industrial I use at my alterations job takes them, but I also had a pack of my own that I'd mistakenly bought while trying to find needles to fit my serger. The hole in the needle bar had a tiny little nubbin on the inside (for the needle shank groove) which was evidently made by sticking a small bit of wire through a hole drilled in from the outside. I sheared off the nubbin and now it fits DBX1's!

It came with 3 bobbins and I have some more bobbins I bought from a junk shop that might perhaps fit, but I haven't tested them yet. I also haven't got the drop feed to work (possibly because I wasn't doing it correctly) but those are problems for later when it has a power source.

The machine head was the easy part, and the treadle table will need a lot more work. The metal plate under the machine needs de-rusting, stripping, and repainting. The wood needs refinishing, and part of the veneer is chipped and has been filled extremely sloppily. The bottom drawer is so firmly stuck you'd think it was glued in place. Part of the cast iron treadle base has broken, and it's not one that's essential for running the machine, but I really would like to fix it too.

[genericpuff]

house of leaves is like the monster mash in that you don't actually get to hear the song or see the dance called 'the monster mash', you're just told about it through a song describing the monster mash and you just have to take their word for it

[memorycycle]

these teenagers and their dog are trying ruin our money laundering business. no tony put the gun down were doing this the old fashioned way. were gonna dress up as monsters and scare them

[cassdrawsthings]

I think at the end of the day a lotta folks are uncomfortable with the idea that they're capable of causing harm to others even when they're vulnerable, and rather than cope with the fact that they have a terrifying amount of agency to do both good and bad in the world and are enabled and encouraged to do bad things to others by complex systemic power structures, they just fall back on bullshit explanations about why that couldn't possibly apply to them because they're trans men or they're neurodivergent or they're bald or their cousin married a woman from the Philippines once or whatever. Because it's easier to exempt yourself from having agency than it is to acknowledge that a real society exists round you.

[angelicguy]

trolly problem is soo easy. kill the one guy instead of the three guys. thats three more people to work at my sandwich shop PJ Crustlys

[evilscientist3]

California quail we're unforgettable,

Black head with big feather on top

[nivmizzetparun]

i feel like despite being an incredibly politically motivated group that maybe 1 out of 50 trans people actually attempt to understand any sort of political subject at all. which is why we have so many anarchists presumably

[camelidae]

If you’ve been wondering why getting a dragon as your wizardly familiar is so often discouraged, please understand that it isn’t so much that alchemical experiments and curious dragons don’t mix, it’s that they WANT to mix SO badly.

[nixos-linux-official]

Replaces your ε with ϵ

[complex-variable]

Replaces your ϵ with ∈

[godelitonthemountain]

Replaces your ∈ with ∃

[nixos-linux-official]

Replaces your ∃ with E

[qazxwecvr]

Replaces your ∫ with S

[circlesquarestar]

Replaces your S with Σ

[anglaised]

[piglii]

hey real quick can anybody help me find this image that I’ve seen before here on tumblr. it looks like this

the button doesn’t necessarily say “Elucidate the Rapture” but it does say something that’s kind of lengthy and has religious connotations. the woman pushing the button has an expression of indescribable smugness. there might be other buttons on the machine (?) she is pressing.

[piglii]

FOUND IT

[andmaybegayer]

Oh this is only the first image in the Eschatron 9000 Series

[andmaybegayer]

and the finale, because of the Tumblr image limit

[piglii]

thanks this is part of an even grander incomprehensibleness than I could have expected

[a-third-attempt]

I cannot believe that this is a website where you can ask “hey i think i saw a weird image once” and put a bad stick figure drawing of it and someone will be like “oh yeah that’s the first installment of a 12-part post-ironic apocalypse fever dream photoshop series” and just hand you a dozen of the most unhinged images you’ve ever seen in your life, that still have a better three act structure than most modern cinema

[flurgerbla]

I dont think thats the whole photoset…. I found one more

But from what i can gather thats Crystal Thierry, also known as page73girl. Who seems to have been a model for the now defunct biggestletdown.com…

But i have no idea when the eschatron 9000 pictures were made or for that matter the original photos that were used to make it

[mckitterick]

this is far more than “random person in 2005ish creates surreal visual narrative” - let’s go deeper down the rabbit hole, shall we?

to Immanentize the Eschaton means to bring about utopian conditions and create heaven on Earth

the phrase is first cited in the Discordian religious text, Principia Discordia (1963), for whom Discord (aka Eris) is goddess:

the first line of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s 1975 The Illuminatus! trilogy: “It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.”

in Frederik Pohl’s The Eschaton Sequence (1997 - 1999), the human race is caught up in a galactic war between two alien races attempting to immanentize the eschaton

in Ken Macleod's The Stone Canal (1997), one of the chapters is “Another crack at Immanentising the Eschaton”

Crystal Thierry’s (aka the modern Discordia / Eris) narrative lives in esteemed company

[dectech]

here’s what the warning in the image says btw because i wanted to read it but it was too blurry so i had to spend several minutes hunting for a version with better resolution, so I’m posting it here so nobody else has to make that same journey

“DO NOT OPERATE THE ESCHATRON 9000 UNLESS YOU’RE REALLY, REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT DESTROYING THE WORLD”

[mckitterick]

also just noticed the labels on the dials on the left side of the device’s control panel:

“MAYHEM” and “DESTRUCTION” are both turned all the way up

[dee-the-red-witch]

As they should be. Can’t make paradise without scrambling a few universes.

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign(s)

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

You definitely don’t get content like this on other webbed sites and apps

[beanytuesday]

Animal Crackers for Zoologists

[regging]

eating disorders and abortions are two things that are like, spoken about in most mainstream discourse as though they are pretty rare and aberrant, but then when you’re actually friends with a lot of women you come to find out that they are extremely extremely common and kind of banal & mundane

[lakevida]

"magic isnt real" ok lol so explain how that djinn from chicago and some unnamed second party were able to close the sandstorm portal in time

[lakevida]

...?

[schizomutual]

oh those are my tags! im kinda getting beaten up by something rn but hes one of my ghost boyfriends, oceans of time is my tag for our relationship. it comes from the bram stoker's dracula quote "i have crossed oceans of time to find you". hes 103 years older. sorry for any confusion

[lakevida]

ohh okay

[urie]

im about to catsit next month for a (lovingly) crazy woman who is so deeply obsessed with her cat's care its touching truly. he needs insulin shots and she is telling me that shes going to send voice notes to my phone of her saying "copo! baby! its time for your insulin!" "come here handsome!" "its insulin time sweetie!" so that he feels safe getting his insulin from a stranger. im like girl i love it. i love this

[woman-respecter]

it’s so hard for me to listen to heartbroken/angry breakup songs by straight men bc no matter how good the song is i’ll be like i’m not sure if i fully believe you. let’s hear her side of the story.