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Kes, they/them, early thirties, I finally updated my header. Ish.

[thescrappile]

Everyone look at my son doing his favourite activity!!!

[roboticchibitan]

Making your own clothes truly is like eating the fae's food because

Once you realize you can have any item you want in any color you want you become a menace to society. I have bright purple pants. I have bright turquoise pants. My new Look is "crazy bright hand embroidered pants, plain black T shirt" or brightly colored everything because my goal in life is to be as obnoxious to look at as possible

Once you've tasted THESE pockets, you can never go back

(Pants pattern those pockets come from link to page that includes plus size grading tutorial link because I know y'all are gonna ask)

I regularly carry around in these pockets

Small A7 notebook I use to write things down in so I don't forget them as a brain fog backup brain

Mini pencil to use w notebook

Handkerchief

Glasses cleaning cloth

Glasses lens wipe (up to 3)

Lactaid (up to 4 individually packaged chewable tablets)

Carmex lip balm (the in a little pot kind)

Measuring tape (flexible for sewing kind, 60"/150cm long, button retraction, sooo useful to have on you all the time. My hot butch preparedness thing. Impresses people every time)

Small pair of folding scissors (comes in soooo handy)

Pocket rock (rn it's a garnet cube)

I feel like I am forgetting something but don't feel like getting up to check

I have also either previously all the time carried or on occasion added

Small A7 sketchbook I made myself

16 oz water bottle (full)

And man it really is like having plenty of good food around you and starving anyway because you cannot go back to the way things were. I have items from indie designers that have decent sized pockets for ready made clothes but they piss me off because I can't put a whole saddlebag's worth of stuff in them without stuff falling out.

When I make the clothes, I decide how big the pockets are. I am limited only by the strength of my waistband. Truly this is power.

[roboticchibitan]

Thing I forgot: phone

Have added today to the things I usually carry: this folding bluetooth keyboard I got to use w my phone because I have fucked up hands that bend in ways they are not supposed to when holding a phone which results in typing on one being very painful for me. It's about 6" x4" or 15cm x 10cm and has plenty of space in my right pocket which up until now just held my phone

This thing rules. Hands hurt way less using it. Accessibility win!!!

[peach-pot]

maybe I like talking about the weather okay…… it’s not awkward to me. we’ve both been outside today and the sun and clouds were there too, let’s discuss.

[kushblazer666]

[flowercrownsylveon]

[dogpuppy]

[chickenmim]

Dude... allow me to add to your trove.

I have a folder of these on my phone... I'm not sure what that says about me!

[teaboot]

This has always bothered me too and it didn't make sense until someone older told me that when they were growing up "scare quotes" were used the way we used *asterisks* or ALL CAPS for emphasis

[saprophilous]

Piece I drew a while ago for Roberto Molinari’s original work. Inks on paper then digitally colored.

[herpsandbirds]

Malayan Slug-Snake (Asthenodipsas malaccanus), family Pareidae, Yala, Thailand

photograph by Leah Khananashvili

[cleverreports]

We report: later on, when we think back to this moment, we remember how cold and windy it was. The colder it got, the brighter the sunset was. We were standing in the half-empty car park, and the scale of the sky above us made us feel so small, crushed under the light.

[guloguloenthusiast]

separate lamb appreciation post :') they were in lambie jail together while mamas got shorn so they didn't get smooshed in the shearing pen

[proteusolm]

Eepy

[proteusolm]

Chicken leg technique.

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

art by Curtis Lanaghan

[hollowforms]

showing off our blue suede shoes

[hideki-koga]

ブロンズトキ（Glossy Ibis）

[probablyasocialecologist]

AI-generated prose reads well enough at first glance that it is no surprise to find it mesmerizing the uninitiated. With experience, teachers—specifically teachers of writing—can help students learn the telltale signs of machinic production: the vague but verbose claims, illogical juxtapositions, and confident assertions unmoored from specific evidence or context. Writing well, with or without AI mediation, also requires the significant linguistic facility and judgment that novice writers, by definition, may lack. Indeed, when untrained students rely on AI, the results often mimic the lowest common denominator of internet writing: formulaic structures, vacant generalizations, logorrheic signposts and transitions, redundant recapitulations, and telegraphed metaphors that echo the churn of clickbait journalism and recipe blogs. To credulously extoll these tools as “revolutionary” is, among other things, to diminish our expectations for anything like revolution. It is also to confuse human intelligence with statistical modeling.

Ricky D'Andrea Crano, A Pedagogy of the Inevitable

[manipulated-pieces]

Why is it easier and more comfortable to sit in a position that actively damages my joints than it is to just sit with okay posture. Why does my body crave its own destruction

[crowboy-bebop]

mysterious stick appears out of thin air............

(hellgate osprey livestream)

[all-mammal-creechur]

Little Red Kaluta Dasykaluta rosamondae

A marsupial native to dry grasslands of northwest Western Australia. Kaluta live and forage on the sandy soil of the Pilbara, the west of the Little Sandy Desert and parts of the Carnarvon Basin, searching for invertebrate prey (such as the centipede in the photo) amongst the dense and tough mounds of spinifex.

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