hey, i don't know if any active folks are still following me here but i am maybe back on tumblr but made a new account since the archive of this one makes me feel really dysphoric. maybe check me out over there. okie bye
My good friend Noah released his binder drafting and sewing tutorial this week! He doesn’t have a Tumblr, so I said I would post it for him.
“This digital drafting tutorial guides you to create a custom chest binder based on your own measurements. The easy to follow tutorial includes instructions for how to create a crop top length binder with several style and finishing options. The two binder styles addressed in the tutorial are most similar in fit to Underworks and GC2B binders. An add-on for full length binders will become available in the future.”
It’s taken him over a year to design this tutorial, and it’s really thoughtfully written. The tutorial requires some knowledge of sewing stretch knits, but I think it’s doable if you have never drafted before. It’s on sale for the month of April for $10 usd, and then will go up to $15.
Ah yes, artistic standards, a completely measurable value with absolutely objective certainty. Typically measured in Giga Van Gogh’s, if I’m not mistaken.
My neighbour who moved in maybe 6 months ago has seasonal pieces of embroidery she hangs on her door. I waited too long to find out her name, so I’m leaving a couple embroidery transfers under the door with a little note that says “Hi neighbour! I embroider too! Every time someone sees your door they say “What are the odds?””
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Tens of thousands of government forces in riot gear patrol Indian-controlled Kashmir. Streets lined with shuttered sh
The communication blackout — with landlines, cellphones and internet all down — means that people within Kashmir can’t call one another or speak to friends and relatives outside the region, relying only on limited cable TV and local radio reports.
In a nationally broadcast address Thursday night, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government made the move to free the region of “terrorism and separatism.” He added that the situation will soon “return to normal gradually,” although he gave no specifics.
At the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital in Srinagar, doctors told The Associated Press on Thursday that at least 50 people had come in with wounds from pellet guns and rubber bullets, the ammunition security forces often use to disperse protests.
Razir Mir, 32, described hearing a loud bang on Monday and opening his front door to find his wife, Rabiya, “face down on the street. Blood was pouring from her eyes,” he said.
Rabiya, who was left with blurred vision, said that after hearing the government’s announcement that Kashmir’s special status had been stripped, she thought to buy vegetables, anticipating a long curfew period in Srinagar.
“The moment I came out from my house, the soldiers out there shot at my direction,” she said, as the couple’s 2-year-old cried.
Rubeena Mehraj from central Kashmir was convalescing at the hospital after giving birth.
“When I called for an ambulance, I started traveling to Srinagar because I was expecting, but the ambulance was stopped at so many (checkpoints) along the route that I gave birth inside the vehicle,” Mehraj said.
Outside the busy hospital, people struggled to communicate with family and neighbors.
A woman peering out of a window asked a group of reporters if they could find out about a sick person from a family living nearby. “We’ve no contact,” the middle-aged woman said before she could give her name as soldiers ordered journalists to move on.
No news was coming from elsewhere in the tense region.
Police and paramilitary officials enforcing the restrictions said they were clueless about how long the curfew would continue. “We know only about what’s going on in the street we’re deployed. We don’t know how it is in the next street,” said a police official in Srinagar’s city center who could not be named in accordance with standard practice.
Adding on to my silence as someone who is half kashmiri (we all live in Delhi we migrated): i can't talk about this at any media platform without being labeled as terrorist aligned. even tumblr is risky. Please non kashmiris reblog because we cannot speak up so easily without our community shunning us.
Not the version made out of bamboo. Not the option made out of recycled material.
Not buying it.
If you have to get it, get it used. This is clothes, housewares, furniture… all of it. It’s true that lots of modern consumer goods are just straight up Made To Break, but it’s also true that Stuff is so cheap that we seldom make an effort to repair it, (or that that repair is fucking impossible) and we just get a new one. When you get something used, all that carbon spent to manufacture it is already usually decades spent in the atmosphere, and it’s often much closer to you physically than wherever is selling new.
Don’t. Buy. New. You have a thrift store around you. There’s Kijiji in your area. If you want to buy clothes, thredup lets you sort by any category you can fucking imagine.
Is it inconvenient? Sure. The adjustment from a wildly disposable consumer lifestyle to a sustainable one is gonna pinch. But it’s doable. And you should be doing it. And we’re all going to have to I carried a bookshelf home on public transit.
it concerns me that people really don’t know that adhd isn’t a personality type or behavioral problem.
adhd isn’t someone who’s personality is driven by fun and disorder.
adhd is someone who’s brain goes all over the place looking for dopamine, because it doesn’t make or register enough of it, and when it finds a source of dopamine, it hyperfixates on it. it’s about deregulation of attention as well as emotions.
it’s not a person who can’t behave. a person with adhd can look like a lot of things. misconceptions about what adhd looks like kept me from even looking for a diagnosis, and it also kept myself and others (professionals, even) from taking my suspicions seriously.
everyone’s encouraged to reblog, but if you don’t have adhd, keep your additions to the tags.
Smart people can have ADHD. And a lot of the time, they compensate for the ADHD with intelligence- until they reach the point where they just can’t overcome it anymore, which is why a lot of gifted + ADHD people have good grades their whole lives and then “suddenly” crash and burn. For some it’s college, for some it’s grad school, for some it’s postgrad or professional exams like the bar. Whenever the things they have to do can no longer be brute-forced at the last minute.
ADHD is often lumped in with learning disabilities but it’s really a DOING disability. We know what we should do. Probably we know six ways to do it. The trouble is actually getting our brains to activate so we CAN do it. Sometimes it’s like you’re being controlled by aliens or something because you say “I need to do X” and you’re going to do it and you just. Don’t.
Hey @botanyshitposts are you familiar with this action botany youtuber. I think he might be an alternate universe time-travelling version of you. He is just so jazzed about these pretty tiny plants growing on a scree field.
ahhhh i’ve had so many people message me about this guy and i’m subscribed but haven’t been able to binge all his stuff yet!!! for those not acquainted this is the youtube channel ‘Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t’, wherein a botanist with a very strong bronx accent gushes over plants he finds and plant science in general and it’s PEAK botany content
also it’s been a while since i’ve boosted some other casual botany education sources, so for anyone interested in stuff like this i’m also going to plug the podcast ‘In Defense of Plants’, where the host brings on botany professionals and researchers each episode to talk about their jobs and projects, which is also very good although a little more formal. also, the book ‘The Plant Messiah’ by KEW botanical horticulturist Carlos Magdalena is really great in both the realms of botanical science and nonfiction adventure, and it’s one i recommend for people looking for some more casual botanical reading!
tbh the best way that i explain to other people what it feels like to live with an anxiety disorder is the one time when i had to get a fingerprint and background check done for a job and i, someone who has never received so much as a speeding ticket my whole life, spent thirty minutes panicking that i would fail because i might secretly be a criminal and have no idea
The one fuckin time I went through security without worrying about something stupid, I realized at the gate that the last time I had used that backpack was for camping and I still had a whole-ass machete in it. Security did not flag it and that made me anxious for a whole other reason