Transgender Fiber Arts

Rylie - 24 - they

[reionyx]

Uuhhgh gonna flop on twitter hope not here too heh ✌️

[guiltfactory]

[poison-doll]

i'm sick of 60s boy band yaoi, why doesn't anyone want to fujo out over jeff rosenstock

[cherryjams]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[bladespark]

My mother used to make computer cores as a "work from home" side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don't know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.

[cuntessa-lestat]

literally how it feels

[rthwrms]

fuck it. morningstar

[spaceboytoy]

Hello bisexual community

[spaceboytoy]

Begin killing

[tartrazeen]

[dogpuppy]

[forfuckssakejim]

Yeah quiet quitting is great and all but have you tried chaotic working?

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.

Anyways. Be chaotic. It’s more fun that way.

[bshmatthews]

[spectrologie-deactivated2023041]

Corey Arnold

[falloutboy]

wishing Joe the best bday today

[bioware-critical]

so i’m watching stranger things rn and honestly? bless this diner guy

[bioware-critical]

why can’t i enjoy nice things

[amor-por-los-cactus]

Succulents colores neón

[truancywave]

*guitar riff* i live in a constant state of fear

[truancywave]

english teacher: “but are you sure he’s using the term 'trapped' in a sense that he was put there?” “…harambe was trapped” … teacher: “okay, well, what would the opposite of trapped be?” “un-trapped!” “not trapped!” “free!” “harambe is free now”

[truancywave]

letters to my past self

six years ago: don’t date him. you’ll just regret it when you’re older, and he’s gonna become even weirder anyway.

four years ago: don’t join tumblr. it will make you weird and the quirkiness that’s so cool on that site isn’t cool in real life.

eight months ago: talk to that cute boy behind you in first period. it’ll seem impossible, but you’ve actually got a shot with him, and you’ll like him more than you anticipated.

thirty minutes ago: don’t wait around. leave immediately.

[awsugar]

does anyone else feel like crushes are creepy like I think about this person a lot but what if they don’t want me to :/