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any pronoun - italian, english, spanish aspiring headache inducer

[sputacchiott]

wipsie

[sputacchiott]

Affogando nel calduccio del letto di forza son cave le vene. In un corpo scottante, un deserto, la spinta per bere non viene.

Svogliato si affanna il mio petto, forzato protrae il respiro. Nel privilegio inerte mi pento, in catene, un languido delirio.

Confusa, indispettita, dolente, combatte a stento la mente:

Agogna, disperata, lo stupore, per fuggire dal molle tepore.

[eggwishing]

study

[inkskinned]

you've probably met my father, just in a different body. when i was a kid he begged me to register "independent." he's a little paranoid about things. he had this belief that at some point an evil corrupt (liberal) government would try to collect the information and use it to retaliate against any non-conformist voter.

there was some fuckwad 15 year old at my high school that thought it would be a smart idea to show up with a nazi armband. my father defended him to me, saying, i might not agree with your ideas, but i'll defend to to the death your right to express them. many years later i would quote this to him featuring a pride parade, and he'd say it's different. years after that, he'd come back to this quote, telling me that proud boys deserve their chance to march. that if i wanted a safe pride parade, the proud boys deserve a safe (white) pride parade too.

he of course believes in the second amendment, despite the fact two of his children worked in colleges and both of us have had to go through the trauma of a gunman on campus. he says it's worth every dead grade school kid, you know, because if the democrats take away his right to a gun, they're fascists. he doesn't even own a gun, which is a fact that has probably saved my life.

he has been moving further right-wing the older he gets. i don't know why, all of his children are very left-wing. i think he spends too much time on youtube. he is a catholic deacon, by the way. technically i think he's supposed to abhor all violence.

ice has killed another human person. alex pretti was a human person.

there's video evidence of one of their "officers" clapping after. of one saying "this is just like call of duty, man. it's cool."

there's two things that are true at once right now. i firmly believe that the government is putting substantial, intentional pressure on our cities in order to incite violence from us - that doing so will allow the insurrection act, and will allow more government overreach. i believe this because they literally fucking wrote it down and said specifically they want it to happen. i also think i am about to sign up to learn how to use a fucking gun.

they wanted to find anything on him, but of course there was nothing. the immediate character assassination speaks volumes. there was never going to be an excuse, so an excuse needs to be fabricated. but you don't need to spin a narrative if you're innocent. as the cops have said to us: you have nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide.

it is chilling. the things my father are seeing and the things that i am seeing - it is two different worlds. my father sees the government tell him alex brandished a gun! and that is enough evidence, despite the videos. i tell him: i watched a man die while eight men held him down and beat him. my father's response - the response of the government, of trump's allies, of all of them - amounts to "no you didn't. and if you did, he deserved it." the narcissist's prayer again.

a human person died, and what matters most to this government is denying accountability, shoring up their defenses, and further dehumanizing the "left". over and over i hear my father's voice, the same one that was so "anti government": if you comply, you won't be injured by us. i do not have to comply, though. i am a united states citizen. they do not have jurisdiction over me. (not that it matters. they've been given "absolute immunity.")

i have never even so much as touched a gun, i'm terrified of them. but i've been paying attention. i actually listen to what my elders tell me. i know what happens next in the story.

[sputacchiott]

(you)

Paint over the mold Scrub over the rust

Do you think that’ll work?

Don’t you think that’s enough?

A make-over can’t un-break it,

It’s too late to even repair it.

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

no animal was harmed during the making of this video. not one. for the few minutes that we were shooting film, the guns of each hunter fell silent. the industrial bolt throwers observed a moment's peace and the jaws of every predator hung softly open. no fish bit any hook and the bait worms held off on drowning only until the cameras stopped. the tails of ruminants ceased to flick just as their attendant flies, in unison, landed on their flanks to catch their tiny breaths. a spider instantly stopped winding silk around a wasp, patiently waiting for the caesura to end. a young veterinarian paused with the syringe in their hand. somewhere, a colicky baby stopped biting its mother's nipple and nursed happily for the very first time. we're sorry. we're sorry it couldn't have been longer. we didn't know this would happen.

[ayeforscotland]

OpenAI are scumbags.

[furless-fey]

[brucebocchi]

[thefloatingstone]

This came as a result of Light Novel publishers believing that people don't read the blurbs on the back of the books. So their answer to this was to.... make the blurb the title.

Despite this, however, Light novels with overly long titles have very rarely topped in the best sellers, as the books that sell still tend to sell the best are ones with more traditional short titles.

So of course this trend has no bled over into manga as well because if something bullshit insane marketing scheme is proven to have no real effect other than to confuse and frustrate its consumer you gotta spread that shit to EVERYTHING.

[darthmaulscatgirl]

i refuse to believe that image is a title

i cannot read it but it looks like a whole paragraph

[thefloatingstone]

Oh this is just the first page.

This Light novel is 196 pages long except it's literally just the title.

This is modern art.

[hms-no-fun]

the nature of humanity is just that every so often someone accidentally invents homestuck again

[robotsandfrippary]

fresh, clean no-terf version for reblogs!

Your mom and aunts aren’t on tumblr.  Please warn them about this as well. 

[jenniferrpovey]

Thank you! I’ve been looking for the TERF-free version of this.

[ampervadasz]

[rosslynpaladin]

imagine being on your little dried peapod shell of a boat with your fragile little human self and then

out of the depths below

the Divine

God-Beasts

come right up to YOU

capable of crushing you without even noticing you

and ever so gently

so gently

roll back and forth around the dried leaf you're sitting on

just to maybe examine you and see what you're doing in their world.

[loubatas]

[eldritchscholar]

So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:

1) Binary files are 1s and 0s

2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches

You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…

You can knit Doom.

However, after crunching some more numbers:

The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…

3322 square feet

Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.

[benegesserwitch]

Hi fun fact!!

The idea of a “binary code” was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:

Here’s Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, you’ll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.

This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer. 

But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine. 

Here’s a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and here’s a nice little diagram explaining how it works:

But what if you don’t just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!

Here’s an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,

and as you can see, the holes (or 0′s) told the machine not to knit the ground color (1′s) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.

tl;dr the textiles industry is more important than people give it credit for, and I would suggest using a machine if you were going to try to knit almost 3 megabytes of information.

[darkersolstice]

@we-are-threadmage

[systlin]

Someone port Doom to a blanket

[rolypolywardrobe]

I really love tumblr for this 🙌

[isnerdy-deactivated20190101]

It goes beyond this.  Every computer out there has memory.  The kind of memory you might call RAM.  The earliest kind of memory was magnetic core memory.  It looked like this:

Wires going through magnets.  This is how all of the important early digital computers stored information temporarily.  Each magnetic core could store a single bit - a 0 or a 1.  Here’s a picture of a variation of this, called rope core memory, from one NASA’s Apollo guidance computers:

You may think this looks incredibly handmade, and that’s because it is.  But these are also extreme close-ups.  Here’s the scale of the individual cores:

The only people who had the skills necessary to thread all of these cores precisely enough were textile and garment workers.  Little old ladies would literally thread the wires by hand.

And thanks to them, we were able to land on the moon.  This is also why memory in early computers was so expensive.  It had to be hand-crafted, and took a lot of time.

[dollsahoy]

(little old ladies sewed the space suits, too)

[butts-for-days]

Fun fact: one nickname for it was LOL Memory, for “little old lady memory.”

[costumersupportdept]

I mean let’s also touch on the Jacquard Loom, if you want to get all Textiles In Sciencey. It was officially created in 1801 or 1804 depending on who you ask (although you can see it in proto-form as early as 1725) and used a literal chain of punch cards to tell the loom which warps to raise on hooks before passing the weft through. It replaced the “weaver yelling at Draw Boy” technique, in which the weaver would call to the kid manning the heddles “raise these and these, lower these!” and hope that he got it right. 

With a Jacquard loom instead of painstakingly picking up every little thread by hand to weave in a pattern, which is what folks used to do for brocades in Ye Olde Times, this basically automated that. Essentially all you have to do to weave here is advance the punch cards and throw the shuttle. SO EASY. 

ALSO, it’s not just “little old ladies sewed the first spacesuits,” it’s “the women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed.” Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras. Bra-makers sent us to the moon. 

And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldn’t use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if you’re within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, you’re usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC. 

The women who made the spacesuits were BADASSES. (and yes, I’ve tried to get Space-X to hire me more than once. They don’t seem interested these days)

[synebluetoo]

This is fascinating. I knew there was a correlation between binary and weaving but this just takes it to a whole nother level. 

[moiraecrochet]

I’m in Venice, Italy several times a year (lucky me!) and last year I went on a private tour of the Luigi Bevilacqua factory. Founded in 1875, they still use their original jacquard looms to hand make velvet. Here are the looms:

Here are the punch cards:

Some of these looms take up to 1600 spools. That is necessary to make their many different patterns.  Here are some patterns:

How many punchcards per pattern?

 This many:

Modern computing owes its very life to textiles - And to women. From antiquity weaving has been the domain of women. Sure, we remember Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr, but while Joseph Marie Jacquard gets all the credit for his loom, the operators and designers were for the most part women.

[the-fibre-stuff]

I’ve seen this cross my dash a few times, but I’ve never watched the video before. Maybe I just didn’t pay attention when I was a kid, but I don’t remember ever seeing just how the Jacquard loom works. I just knew that the punch cards controlled which threads were raised. It’s cool to see the how, not just the what.

[swords-n-spindles]

Don’t hide this in the tags, @drylime :D

[archive-deactivated20260501]

[sartorialadventure]

[fullymechanized-consoomer]

At the annual Houston RenFest we’d always get one or two furries that walk around and every time the general reaction from the medieval roleplayers is akin to  “BEASTS? BEASTS THAT WALK LIKE MAN? FOUL!” 

Last time I went a furry volunteered for an impromptu conversion/exorcism and a guy dressed as a monk gathered a bunch of people and using a Gatorade bottle performed an entire catholic christening while reading off the instructions on his Ipad. When the furry was fully “converted” he removed the head of his costume and everyone in the crowd pretended to freak out and say shit like “GlORY BE HE IS SAVED” “CHRIST HAS BROKEN HIS CURSE”

[aierie--dragonslayer]

That’s the best crap i’ve heard in months

[headspace-hotel]

have I mentioned that i’m fucking in love with humankind

[the-crooked-library]

Back in 2015 or so, I went to a faire that was taking place near one of those “frozen in time” Victorian-era reenactment villages - the ones with bakeries, a blacksmith, farm animals and the like.

The actors from the village took great delight in showing up at the joust, dressed in 1890s clothing and declaring themselves to be time travellers “from the future, the far-off year of 1892!”

[juno-infernal]

Glen Martin Taylor, “but i am safe in here.”

[oatsmilk]

more of his work because im obsessed

and his website and instagram

[zegalba]

Anubis & Horus spotted having tea in Cairo (2006)

[cryptotheism]

Your body must be rested and fed if you wish to be a pervert.

[orcboxer]

[orcposts]

[turing-tested]

contrary to popular belief not everyone has an innate sense of internal gender or care to have one or seek a name for it, some people go their whole lives without questioning their occupation in one of two gender roles, but for some people, if pressed, they don’t feel that internal sense of ‘i am a woman’ or ‘i am a man’, and in that case i feel the switch over to transgender vs cisgender relies on active identification of a gender other than the one they were assigned. if someone’s like ‘idk dude I just work here’ then that’s valid

#i would describe my gender as not exactly ‘idk dude i just work here’ #more like…..when someone assumes you work somewhere that you don’t #but you know how to help them so you do it anyway #my gender is wearing a red shirt at a target

These are the best tags

[cobblepottery]

A portion of people in the notes are like ‘but that makes you trans. That’s called being agender’ and another portion of people are going ‘this is how the majority of cis ppl feel and it’s NOT agender’ and personally I feel like both of them are missing the point here. Yes a lot of people identify as agender because of this feeling. Yes a lot of people with this same feeling still identify as cis. These are not mutually exclusive experiences and it doesn’t mean the agender people are secretly cis or the cis people are secretly agender. It just means they have very similar experiences of gender that they choose to conceptualize and label differently, and neither of them are mistaken or wrong to do so.

[toastybugguy]