mission control

spaceflight is a serious business

[systlin]

So my sister wants to start sewing more, because

a. She’s 5′ 11″ and can never find pants long enough for her legs or shirts long enough for her arms.

b. She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

c. She’s a biologist and would physically fistfight microplastics if given half a chance

So her gift from mom and dad for her birthday was a sewing machine. Not a super expensive one but a good solid serviceable one.

And recently she asked “So where do I GET wool or linen and thread that isn’t polyester” and mom was like ‘go ask your sister’

And I, of course, crashed into the group text like “GET A PEN I HAVE WEBSITES FOR U” and honestly I’m thrilled about this

[systlin]

“Where did u get all this”

“Bets, u know I’m a 15th degree blackbelt of buying shit on the internet”

“oh yeah tru”

[hermesmuse]

Op can may we inquire about the website list

[systlin]

Linen; https://www.graylinelinen.com/

cotton and Silk thread; https://redrockthreads.com/

Linen thread and wool fabric; https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/ (they’ve got wool stuffs and worsted wool fabric for $15 a yard! I just got three yards of navy worsted wool I’m making a constellation winter skirt from)

More linen thread and wool; https://wmboothdraper.com/ (just ordered wool broadcloth to make a coat)

Silk fabric (THE best place to get silk lining fabrics and raw silk fabric):https://www.dharmatrading.com/

A varying assortment of wool and silk and cotton and even some leather, use coupon code  spring2020 for 50% off your full order, worked yesterday when I bought some stuff there; https://metrotextilesnyc.com/

Wool. You want wool coating for under $20 a yard? Sure you do. It’s here. Not a huge variety of colors, most are black or brown, but hey https://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/Catalog?refinementIds=4096748&Keyword=wool&pageSize=16

[wingedtyger]

I don’t know a lot about sewing, but I want to make or have my mom make some linen pants & shirts for when I’m watering, because it gets to 105 here and we have mosquitos so I need to be covered. What type of linen do I buy? Also, linen pajama shorts, yes/no?

(I’ve been wearing my renfaire pants which are a linen mix, I think. But the frikking mosquitos that hide in the tomatoes get my arms)

[systlin]

Medium weight is what I’d go with.

And linen pajama shorts is a HARD yes.

[beggars-opera]

Renaissance Fabrics is good for all sorts of things

Mood doesn’t specialize in natural fabrics but they do have basically every fabric ever made so

[the-merry-otter]

For wools, I cannot recommend Woolsome enough! They’re a bit more expensive then the above links, but they have a spectacular range of colours and weights, as well as diamond pattern and herringbone weaves. They also have a range of linens, though not as extensive.

Woolsome

Historical fabrics for re-enactors

[justgarb]

Tiedtohistory.com has sheer voile linen

The Linen Lab has a variety of weaves, weights, and colors available

Period Fabric has a variety of wools, but switch to the full website if you’re on mobile

[finnishfun]

Swearing in Hungarian

Requested by @languagesandshootingstars​

Sorry it took so long but also thanks for the suggestion, as I had fun researching :D I will add some links at the end for “further reading”

First of all, I have to say that most swearwords in Hungarian are quite strong and harsh, so I don’t recommend using them but I will mention some examples and you can find more on the links below if interested. Instead I’ll list some milder/everyday ones, but feel free to let me know if you’re interested in anything specific :D

káromkodni - to swear káromkodás - swearing, swearword csúnya szó - swearword (”ugly word”) trágárság - profanity

A fenébe! / A francba! - for expressing general frustration (kinda like Shit!, Fuck!, Oh, man! in English, but milder. Franc and fene are old words for illness) A pokolba! - To hell! Az ördögbe! - To the devil! You can also add Menj…! - Menj a fenébe! Menj a pokolba! (Go to hell!) These are kinda milder and could be used in everyday speech, though I’d say be careful with the hell/devil ones… :D

szar - shit You can use it like Ez szar! - This is shit! Or generally as an adjective if you want to describe something unpleasant. Generally used but not in a formal context :D Not very nice! (You should rather say rossz [bad] obviously :D) Leszarom! - I don’t give a shit!

Baszd meg! - Fuck you! (Lit. Fuck it!) Also not very nice. Used something like Shit! or Fuck! in English, but I think those are much more common, in Hungarian these count as very rude. Kapd be! - Suck it! Basszus! probably comes from this too, this can be used in everyday speech (But still not 100% nice), also means bass in music. It’s again something like Shit! or Fuck!

kurva - rude name for a prostitute, also exists in many Slavic languages. Usually used as an adjective (A kurva életbe!) or describing someone’s mum in a not very nice way… You could also say A rohadt életbe! which is a bit nicer (To the rotten life!) for expressing frustration. Or A rosseb egye meg! (rosseb is also an old word for illness) / A fene egye meg! Or in questions Mi a rosseb? (What the heck?) / Mi a fene? / Mi a franc?

Dögölj meg! - Go die! (With a ruder word) You can say this if you’re very mad at someone and wish they were dead. But again not very nice.

If you want to say someone is stupid… Hülye! - stupid Idióta! - idiot Marha! (literally cattle, this can be used as a nicer word, even in a loving sense if you’re just kindly telling the person they did sth dumb :D With the right intonation, of course!) Barom! (also cattle or farm animals - oldish word. Ruder as a swearword) Ökör! - ox hülyeség / marhaság / baromság / ökörség - a stupid thing, bullshit Szemét! - jerk (literally trash) As well as referring to people, it can also be a (nicer) adjective to describe sth bad/broken. Rohadék! - another, a bit harsher word for a jerk. 

I hope that is a good summary! You can find more here: Dailymagyar tumblr Dailymagyar wordpress Memrise course on Hungarian swearing :D

[pajorko]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[picunha]

capi saving the day once again

[malpughsmyqueen-deactivated2025]

as an arsenal fan i am truly shaking in my boots.

but as a uswnt and nay fan I AM SO EXCITED TO SEE HER GROW AS A PLAYER.

hopefully one day she can become the first defender to win the women’s ballon d’or 🙏🙏

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

[garfield-comic]

[gemini-enthusiast]

Coastline, possibly Northern Africa/Saudi Arabia, Apollo 7.

[hearthfire-heartfire]

no one on the english-speaking side of this site gives a fuck about japanese people except as paper dolls in their fantasies. y’all don’t notice or care when we’re targets of violence in america STILL and you don’t notice when our history on this continent is being erased because you can’t fucking recognize it in the first place! even as we relive it.

Seattle art exhibit on Japanese American history vandalized

Black paint was used to cover the art exhibit which shows landmark Japanese businesses and a mural memorializing the incarceration of Japane

i’m tired of the gentrification. i’m tired of vandalism, arson, and censorship. i’m tired of arguing about the atrocity of the a-bombs and the incarceration and model minority shit. i’m tired of people using my heritage as an escape, both in imagination and in physical reality. i’m tired of people’s fake familiarity that leads them to correct my grandmother’s accent coming out of my mouth.

if you don’t show up for nikkei where you live, if you don’t even know how, you don’t belong anywhere near japanese culture.

[hearthfire-heartfire]

hey, guess who just got news of ICE contacting japanese green card holders?

[gusgrissom]

The crew of Apollo 1 photographed on January 25, 1967.

[junkworldusa]

[sentimentalbeing2001]

The beauty of living in a walkable city is that when you feel sad you can just walk and walk and walk till you stumble upon a place that makes you feel better

[spacewonder19]

NGC 2359 Thor's Helmet ©

[rui-cifer]

If you ever need proof that South Korea is a neocolony of the USA and the ruling class of South Korea does the USA's bidding, in the list of banned books that the Lee Myung-bak admin rolled out in 2008, 50% of the books banned were because of anti-government sentiment, which included anti-americanism.

In the 2011 updated list, they added even more anti-american books. You might notice that this was during the waning years of George W.'s presidency and Obama's first term. That's because Hell Joseon is real and it's created by a bipartisan effort by the USA to maintain its oppressive status.

[rui-cifer]

Like, we all know and love posting this grandma whenever election cycle rolls around or a president fucks up.

What I don't see is what she's said immediately afterwards getting posted.

Her hatred of the USA comes directly from how the USA and South Korea's relationship is set up to exploit Koreans for the benefit of the USA.

For instance, the actual interview is about the USA expanding its missile defense to Koreans. About which the lady had this to say:

It is true the US bases house men and women that brutalize Korean people. This is also true in Japan, and Kamala Harris successfully petitioned to free a occupying force's ghoul that ran over 2 Japanese civilians, a feat that the Democrat Surrogate Media cheered on as a victory. What is also true is that every kind of pollution imaginable also comes with the bases, and it makes the surrounding area literally unlivable for South Koreans (and the Japanese), too.

Also, do not get it twisted. South Koreans would not need to protect themselves from the DPRK if the puppet regime did not exist to provoke the North. Like, the grandma, who'd lived through the Korean War, said this about the KPA:

Like, the only forces who are actually threatening everyday South Korean people are the USA and the ROK, and the policy that exists due to the relationship between the two of them. It is not China or North Korea or Japan. We need the USA out of Korea and Japan if we're to have lasting peace in East Asia.

[themunflower]

Project 2025 ain't gonna roll out all at once. So what we're gonna wanna do is make passing each individual part of it as difficult as possible, so there's less to undo once we finally get this country back on the rails.

[tobiasdrake]

Resist every step and do not get distracted by stupid bullshit. Distracting people with stupid bullshit is one of Trump's favorite political techniques. We saw it all over the place in the first term.

Trump will say something like "You know the Hispanics actually punch kittens, it's what they do."

And the news will be like "TRUMP SAID HISPANIC PEOPLE PUNCH KITTENS" for three weeks.

And while they're doing that the Republicans in Congress have quietly deleted healthcare.

Do not get distracted by stupid bullshit. Trump is a dancing monkey whose greatest asset is the ability to yank the spotlight off of everyone else. Keep your eyes on Congress.

[thedeliaishere]

okay ill concede to the liberals that I dont think kamala harris would have put elon musk in charge of a government department called doge.

[transjudas]

this can’t be real

[marisatomay]

He put them together at the kids table that doesn’t exist I’m fucking crying

[sedoretu]

[cantdance]

its easy to make fun of this (and i think we should) but its also important to note the description of this new department that trump has given

[transcript: "together, these two wonderful americans will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies - essential to the 'save america' movement," trump wrote. "i look forward to elon and vivek making changes to the federal bureaucracy with an eye on efficiency and, at the same time, making life better for all americans."]

to be clear: trump is planning to create a new department whose purpose is literally to deregulate and defund government oversight. this will lead to corporations having greater freedom to fuck over consumers while making more money, and he is putting two billionaires in charge of it.

sure, maybe this is just a ploy to keep them quiet. giving them the illusion of power in exchange for backing him. but lets not forget all the regulations trump cut during his last term

which has directly led to the constant recalls of consumer goods and foodstuffs over the past several years. the recent e coli outbreak at mcdonalds? the boars head listeria recall? these are the products of deregulation. getting rid of laws and standards that protect consumers by making sure money hungry corporations dont cut corners.

the funny name is a smokescreen. keep your eye on these fuckers.