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the ability to always be at a comfortable temperature while outside
no chafing ever again

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summer sufferers poll: would you rather have…
the ability to repel all bugs so they can’t touch/bite/sting you
the ability to always be at a comfortable temperature while outside
no chafing ever again
what about a shapeshifter who’s bad at it. shapeshifter who can never quite get the nose right. shapeshifter who always makes flipped faces because they’re doing adjustments in the mirror. shapeshifter with same face syndrome. shapeshifter who always dips further into the uncanny valley than they want. shapeshifter who can mimic a single celebrity completely perfectly but struggles to recreate anyone else.
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Great point! :)
I wonder if it's a self-protective instinct too? They're not going to like me anyway, but at least this is because of something I've deliberately done. It gives him a feeling of control. He might not even be consciously aware that's part of the reason he's doing it.
Let’s be clear, Ilya would never be consciously aware of anything he does. It’s vibes-only.
No, not this time friend! This is Parents and Family. That self awareness is a defense mechanism that he learned as a child and will never fully let go of! 🎉
Fair!
god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies
George Tiller was murdered 13 years ago today (May 31 2022)
People noting this anniversary reminding me again that it is such an insane failure of the pro-choice movement that we do not as a nation think of George Tiller as a civil rights hero and additionally a martyr at the level of MLK Jr. or a Kennedy. So, you know, do your part, etc.
“It is my fundamental philosophy that patients are emotionally, mentally, morally, spiritually and physically competent to struggle with complex health issues and come to decisions that are appropriate for them.” – George Tiller, MD
“It is my fundamental philosophy that patients are emotionally, mentally, morally, spiritually and physically competent to struggle with com
wayback machine version of the linked piece above, since the PRH website one seems to no longer work
Happy Pride Month to all of my fellow aces!! 🖤🩶🤍💜
Patagonia is posting notes app social media half-added apologies over their lawsuit 😭😭😭
i mean. i’ll always side with the human over the company anyway. but these are markedly different
The one on the sticker is actually a flipped and cropped version of this Patagonia logo
has anyone else noticed that it feels really good to accelerate in a vehicle and really bad, painful even, to hit the brakes
even simply releasing the accelerator is a deeply uncomfortable sensation and should be avoided at all costs
40 is the most natural, most human speed at which to drive through residential areas
I dunno 40 km/h seems pretty reasonable for a residential area
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Starting my speech at the Omelas city council with a child acknowledgement statement
Copyright governs who has the "right" to produce and distribute "copies" of books/music/movies/creative works. This is where fair use doctrine applies, because most creative works are referential by nature.
Weird Al is allowed to parody everything because he's operating under copyright law, not trademark law.
Trademark governs who can "trade" under what "mark" i.e. the brand identity of a company. Companies don't own their trademarked word forever, but they maintain the exclusive right to sell things under that brand in their specific market sector. Patagonia doesn't own the name of a geographical region, they just own the right to be the only company using that name to sell clothing and outdoor gear.
A drag queen name can be a parody of a clothing and outdoor gear company.
A company's trademarked logo can be used in parody creative works, with more leeway if it's not for commercial purposes. Trademark parody is allowed! Patagonia has been aware of and allowed Pattie Gonia's trademark parody for years.
Trademarks are specific to market sector. Actress Chase Infiniti could start a makeup line named after herself and her trademark would not infringe on the Infiniti car brand because they are different markets and there is no risk of confusion. Pattie Gonia could probably trademark her name to sell frozen veggie burgers and Patagonia would not care.
Drag queen Jan Sport did a collab with JanSport bags. What Jan Sport almost certainly did not do is independently apply to register "Jan Sport" as a trademark in order to sell bags on her own, because that would infringe on JanSport's own trademark in the bag market sector.
What Pattie Gonia is not allowed to do -- the thing that Pattie Gonia actually did do and is being sued for -- is apply to register "Pattie Gonia" as a trademark to sell clothing, because apparently Pattie is in talks with North Face and HydroFlask to sell "Pattie Gonia"-branded gear. These companies probably won't finalize anything unless Pattie shows that she actually owns the trademark. Unfortunately, "Patagonia" is already a registered trademark in the clothing market sector, and these two names are too similar to exist in the same sector (see: "likelihood of confusion" legal standard).
Your drag queen name can parody a clothing company. You can parody the trademarked logo of a clothing company. But you cannot use the same name to then go on to also become a clothing company.
In order to maintain their own trademark, Patagonia must sue for trademark infringement. If they don't sue, and Pattie Gonia gets her own trademark, Pattie could sue Patagonia for infringement on her trademark. You can see why Patagonia won't be dropping this suit no matter how much you harass them.
Yes, Pattie's legal fees to fight this will cost more than the $1 she's being sued for. Pattie could also not fight this, withdraw her trademark application, not spend any money, and carry on being an environmental activist drag queen named Pattie Gonia. She would probably be better off making nice with Patagonia in the hopes of a Jan Sport-esque deal where Pattie designs an exclusive fabric and Patagonia maintains the trademark, but apparently Pattie's legal team has been sassing off to Patagonia in their communications for years, has applied for a trademark they should 100% know they'll never get, and has now decided to play the victim on social media just in time for Pride month, so I don't know how likely that is. I guess we'll see!
This is mostly correct, but I’d like to offer a small correction. The product deal with Hydroflask and North Face apparently occurred in 2022, and HydroFlask got Patagonia involved to make sure everything was in the clear. It seems like Patagonia was very agreeable about everything at the time, and only asked that Pattie Gonia and her partners avoid using the Patagonia logo and font or similar images, and to avoid putting the words “Pattie Gonia” on any products. This is the email exchange from 2022, from the recent Patagonia trademark complaint, including Pattie Gonia apparently agreeing to the limitations.
The new conflict is from Pattie Gonia using the Patagonia imagery and the Pattie Gonia name on her own merchandise. This is the email Patagonia sent, with the images they feel conflict with the 2022 agreement.
Pattie responded to that by disagreeing that she had broken any agreement, and also obliquely threatening to expose Patagonia for making tactical gear for the US military?
It’s possible that Patagonia understood the terms from 2022 to be a good-faith ongoing agreement about keeping the brands separate, and Pattie interpreted it as an agreement limited to the now-ended North Face and Hydroflask collaboration. It’s also possible that Pattie Gonia didn’t believe she was actually agreeing to anything at all, since her responses were very neutral, though positive in tone, up until 2025. The email chain does, however, show what I think is a very clear effort on Patagonia’s part to protect their trademark while also showing support and goodwill towards Pattie in her use of the Pattie Gonia stage persona.
i can’t get over dean carving wood over a waste bin and completely missing it.
This is a man who has never had to peel a vegetable and it shows
I love grabbing a power drill and a circular saw and just building shit. If I had an unlimited wood budget I would never stop making stuff. I should've gone into the trades.
You can just be like "I want some shelves" and measure all the different parts of your shelves and then screw them all together at the correct angles and bam. You've got shelves now. You can make cupboards, too. Walls. Tables. Stairs. If you want something in your house you just out the materials in the right place and you have that thing now.
Unfortunately, the materials are very expensive, but you can't have everything.
Also sometimes you have to lay concrete which fucking sucks to do by hand.
This is what learning to sew feels like too!
I see clothes I like and I can just make them?? Can't find a blanket I like?? Make it!
Blows my mind every time, I recommend everyone learns a skill like this because realising you can just make shit is so freeing
Sewing machine is a terrifying beast that cannot be reasoned with
You don't have to reason with the sewing machine. Just keep your hands out from under the needle. I've never even heard of anyone who was harmed by a sewing machine. If I, who literally cannot see in straight lines, can sew safely, anyone can.
Whatever scares you about a craft will stop scaring you once you learn the basics.
I don't hurt myself on sewing machines I just end up with a nest of tangled threads and broken dreams. I don't think I have ever correctly threaded the bottom part first go. Diagrams do not help. A sewing machine is a beast of broken needles and tangled fragments of cotton snapping under mysterious and seemingly unsolvable tension problems.
If the nest of tangled thread is underneath the fabric, it’s probably the top thread that was threaded incorrectly. Or the bottom was threaded correctly but on the wrong class bobbin. If you’ve got the right top thread and the right bobbin type, you might have a ghost in the machine. Ghosts love tangling threads.
this is yearly trend for me to ask this here, so which one's the best summer fruit?
watermelon
mango
repairing a little friend :)
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I’ve been rereading Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor the last couple of days, and I adore this book so much. I love Maia. I love Csevet. I love Csethiro (you have got to love a girl whose kneejerk first response to both coup attempts against her unwanted husband was a fervent desire to swordfight the perpetrators, because how dare they). I deeply love Vedero, too. And poor Idra.
On rereading, though, I came across the section near the end where Maia, on his first birthday as Emperor, comes downstairs to the absolutely titanic pile of presents and letters: