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Guess who's finished laying out her puzzle pieces cardigan? Oh yeah 😎 took several iterations and like... 9? months to knit and lay out all the pieces but! It should work now! Please let it work now 😅 I had to buy a whole new colour of yarn two months ago when I realised my initial (-ish) layout didn't work and I needed more pieces - and due to the fact that yarn comes in balls and I didn't want to add a lot extra of any two existing colours, a new colour it was. Oof. Also had to redo the layout yesterday as well because puzzle piece logic is hard to keep in your head and I designed it wrong. Oh well.

This is the array of knitted pieces I wanted to use, but then I had to add some more from the pile of accidental extras and also reknit some into other shapes to accommodate my redesign.

Once the layout was done, I picked up all the pieces and threaded them onto a long piece of yarn, in a nice working order (I'll go bottom up from right front all around to left front, then the sleeves from back to front each). I had to add a couple of placeholders for pieces I had to modify, which I'm all finished with now, yay! (The one perk of being sick is having the time to sit on the couch and reknit puzzle pieces)

Now onto the sewing! 😃

(And before anyone asks, the pattern for the puzzle pieces is from the "Puzzle Pieces" pattern by Megan Ellinger which is no longer available for purchase there. The cardigan design is, as you might have been able to tell, my own.)

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Just want to add that this pattern is on my defunct pattern archive page. So if you want it for anything, it's downloadable. I've been working on a collection of discontinued patterns for preservation purposes.

eleilinnrallin

This is a reminder for those who handmake Christmas presents that now is not too early to start. It may in fact be a good time to start if you have a lot to make/your craft takes a long time. You should maybe start it now, whether that's brainstorming or actually doing the crafts!

newtsoftheworldunite

Translating this into tumblr's preferred public service announcement format for this kind of alert:

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These pescatarian birds are directly exposed to PFAS contamination due to the island's position near the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.

While continued vigilance a regulation is needed, this data indicates that regulations are working to reduce PFAS concentrations in marine ecosystems.

sattarehi

Yes!!!! I did a review of literature on PFASs in human drinking water about half a year ago, and there is a lot of really good progress! Please celebrate this, please don't let this solution be forgotten (at least so quickly) as the ozone layer or acid rain.

We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!

Environmental problems CAN BE SOLVED.

Good Kitty!

Fantastic idea

Article about it here.

nougatto-archived

what’s important to note and missing from the “headline” tweet is that they simultaneously constructed additional good public transit to the public transit already in the city (bus rapid transit, train stations). Just removing highway alone isn’t going to make traffic better, the bigger part of the story is that they improved public transportation. And the current mayor wants to do more - cyclist lanes and reinstate a tram system

crazy-brazilian

suchcrispwhimsy

never been seen in the same room together

finalgirlabigailhobbs

“oh one time my—” (abruptly stops myself from saying the words “tumblr mutual” in public) “overseas colleague”

glitterypopcorn

that? oh thats the mysterious bruise i got thursday , #mybruise

petaltexturedskies

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Icelandic music of horrible things with legs (although I think all the effects are hands). @elodieunderglass

#horrible things with legs #elodieunderglass #dadi freyr #daði freyr #Somebody Else Now #music #art #Youtube

dragon-in-a-fez

one of the funniest conversations I ever had with my ex was when they were still getting used to Celsius and asked me "what's 20 degrees?" and instead of converting it, I said "it's the highest your dad will ever let you set the thermostat and when you say you're cold he tells you to put on another sweater, we're not made of money" and they went "oh, 68"

the fact that this reference was that fucking precise was something they went on to tell people about for years.

headspace-hotel

speaking of characteristics of old-growth forests, the cycles of great old trees living and dying create effects on the landscape that cannot be fully replicated once destroyed.

there are multiple ways for a tree to die, each with their own impacts on the ecosystem. Many trees die standing, becoming starkly bare pillars of standing deadwood with increasingly fewer branches and more sharply whitened surfaces as the bark falls off and the branches break, the smaller branches first and then the larger ones. Standing deadwood is vital for housing lots and lots of bird species and it also has an undeniable sexiness and charisma

Trees broken by wind, snapping off at some point up the trunk, are often hollow in the middle from heart rot fungi. I don't think the fungi actually kill the tree, since the center of the tree (the heartwood) is dead anyways, but they do structurally weaken it.

One of the most dramatic tree deaths is windthrow. This happens to large trees that are solid all the way through and not easily broken by the forces of wind; instead, the roots are wrenched violently out of the ground, creating a bowl-shaped hole in the ground with a huge mound of twisted tree roots standing 5 or 6 feet tall next to it.

The death of a tree by windthrow feels very sad, because the tree seemed to be thriving up until that point, but the effect on the ecosystem is very fascinating. The hole in the ground where the root ball was torn up creates a shaded, sheltered area, sometimes filling with water to become a small pool. The root ball itself, right next to it, becomes a tall pile of soil and decomposing wood.

When walking in the forest, I often notice strange mounds rising from the layer of leaf litter, covered in lush carpets of moss, like bustling moss metropolises rising out of lowlands that only have scattered moss towns. Elevated from the forest floor, the moss-hills do not become covered with leaf litter. In some cases, these distinctive moss-hills are still visibly connected to the fallen trunk of a windthrown tree; in other cases, the tree trunk has almost completely decayed, and only the mound created by the root ball remains.

I read once in an article that the creation of humps and valleys by the windthrown tree roots is characteristic of old growth forests. That is, the forest has existed so long, with trees living majestically and dying violently in it, that the ground is no longer a smooth plane, but humpy and bumpy and pitted and pooled from centuries of trees dying by windthrow.

My observations seem to agree that these windthrown-tree-humps have unique ecology, particularly in terms of their thriving moss colonies that remain even after the tree that originally died has rotted away. They would create a million little variations on light and moisture level, gathering leaf litter in some places and keeping it away from others. Variations create multiplying amounts of biodiversity due to the increased amount of niches to fill.

Not to mention that hills and valleys increase the total surface area of the forest floor, creating more forest per forest.

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The humps and valleys are also called pits and mounds or pillows and cradles! For anybody that's interested in a pretty quick primer on the phenomenon, ecologist Tom Wessels talks about it in the first part of this 3-part series on youtube

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This also leads to huge variations in forest structure depending on which tree species were present at different times in the life of that forest.

In my area, one of the first tall trees to shoot up after land is disturbed is the water oak (Quercus nigra. They get 50-70ft tall and 3 feet in diameter in about 50 years. They often have very, very shallow root systems. Because of this, they fall over faster than other trees. They are also more prone to disease, and hollow out from the center faster and more often, and are likely to have dead sections on loving trees, providing even more unique habitat.

So some of our forests that are only 50 years old have old-growth-characteristics because of these trees. And then they fall, or otherwise die, leaving room for our true old growth species to rise up. But the pits and mounds of these fallen early-risers are also shaped differently than those of more deeprooted species. They are shallower pools or valleys, and sometimes form a wall that is perpendicular to the forest floor - completely vertical to the ground.

This is just one example, but understanding it, we can see that the predominance of different species in a forest can drastically change its microclimates and topography! Different species rot in different ways, hollow in different ways, and form different shapes on the landscape. If there are lots of different tree species in your area, then the different proportions they grow in, die in, fall in, and the different timings at which they do so, offer an endless aboundment of variety.

This is why no two forests are the same, and no single wild area is ever truly replaceable, or interchangeable. Because each has developed entirely differently, with so many little factors playing in.

Photo id: 4 photos of a 6ft tall woman standing by an uprooted tree. The wall of roots completely is vertical and flat, perpendicular to the ground, and is several feet taller than her.

analogue-dragon

Hey op standing deadwood has an undeniable what now?

headspace-hotel

SEXINESS

banchie

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

gallusrostromegalus

seconding these tags by @ragsy: #if the social consciousness has decided that duckduckgo is the Only Othet Search Engine#might i suggest 'go duck yourself'

respocked

(curls up on an academic article pdf and takes a nap) the letters love me because i'm cute

otnh-thirdzone

a little thing inspired by some of @oberorka 's and @acespace-spaceplace 's stuff. My little particulates

i actually don't know how to properly represent the neutral pion so if any physicist sees this Help me !

#check out the pdg #check out cpep #what’s even more fun is PDG (particle data guide) will send you a small particle data guidebook for free #so you can have all the details of the whole particle zoo #in print #physics #art #particle physics #standard model

dragon-in-a-fez

WAIT did I never tell tumblr about the haunted space waterpark hotel

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in January 2018, I spent a couple of days in the town of Hutchinson, Kansas for work. I rolled into town and stopped at what appeared, from the outside, to be a normal motel just off the highway.

it was not.