Words and Needles

I live in Block Two of the Haldimand Tract in Canada, on the traditional territy of the Haudenosaunee, Ashinaabe and Attawanderon nations. I try, with limited success, to keep most of the knitting content sequestered to @the-fibre-stuff

[neat-deadandlive-things]

Today on Continued Education (Neat facts I just learned):

Practice your reading compression with this Wikipedia page and share your favorite part with the class!

Alcohol proof - Wikipedia

[marithlizard]

It's been a while since I said "this person wins the internet", but today it is merited.

(via bsky)

(The classic XKCD comic)

[feldfrog]

I used to be monotheistic. Until the great worm that I worship got cut in half

[elfstrogenized]

Dude this person's thoughts are inherently evil let's fucking kill them

[elfstrogenized]

Man this person has not committed one material offense but the way their brain works gives me an icky feeling, let's make sure it never comes crawling back online this time

[elfstrogenized]

Y'know there's something almost poetic about seeing a bunch of replies from people saying "lol me at myself" and checking their blog to see they would consider me on their "dni" list or have "general dnis" listed

[elfstrogenized]

Like the amount of people reblogging this without context who would turn this exact rhetoric on me is so upsetting it's almost funny

[elfstrogenized]

Classic tumblr event of people reblogging my post about no thought crimes and then adding tags like "except ■■■■■ because that one is extra yucky!"

THIS POST IS ABOUT YOU. YOU ARE THE STRAWMAN I CREATED.

[elfstrogenized]

Good tag from prev

[fanby-fckry]

[ID: Tumblr tags which read, #i believe actions speak louder than words and they [all caps] especially [end caps] speak louder than thoughts // End ID]

[yarnings]

Look, I acknowledge that the 0.01g-precision scale sitting in the kitchen may mean I'm not the person to point this out, but given that that's for special projects I'm going to do this anyhow.

You don't need sub-gram precision for your baking to turn out. You don't even really need gram precision most of the time. That fancy scale? We were trying to infuse botanicals into spirits (gin isn't an option and my husband was looking for an allergy-friendly version he could have). And not only that, but we wanted to do small test batches of maybe 100mL or less, so we needed to be able to measure small amounts of the botanicals. (Really, it was in with the other craft uses it has, like measuring out small amounts of dye).

You know what I use for my baking? A $10 mechanical scale from Canadian Tire. I've never had anything fail to turn out with that. It has 25g precision, and you can kind of estimate between that ("the needles even between the two ticks so that's an extra 12.5g"-type thing).

Is it nice to have a high-precision scale? Hell yes, I love it. But you don't need it for baking.

[goldcrescent]

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

[goldcrescent]

if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old

[its-arson-time]

type prevs url with your eyes closed in the tags

[janmisali]

here's another idea for a poll! I think this will have some interesting results. this sentence is here to pad out this paragraph so people who don't read posts will be more likely to accidentally miss these instructions. if you're reading this, please select option eleven. here's another sentence to make this block of text look longer. anyway here's my fun poll idea!

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Remaining time: 4 days 20 hours

[yarnings]

Look, confirmation is good, but are there any Canadians with Facebook who are surprised to discover that there's people being paid to promote Alberta separatism?

[mollyjames]

Cleaning gets easier when you remember it's a thing you're doing to make your life less miserable, and not a thing you're doing as punishment

[mollyjames]

[edhelwen1]

You can stop in the middle of cleaning!?

[wheeloffortune-design]

Yes! Because it's not a goal to be achieved, but a cycle!

Instead of seeing the house as clean/not clean, it helps a lot to see cleaning as a constant upkeep of your environment. Taking care of your home, and of yourself, is a good thing!

(still unlearning the guilt and anxiety associated with cleaning. it's an uphill battle.)

[ammyhorse]

[chillona-deactivated20200528]

I got lemon titties

[thekiranoir]

Now calling my boobs Lemons.

[ritzy-hellcat]

10/10

[official-boob-posts]

official boob post

[sacredheart-stigmata]

I already posted something similar on my main, but given what Pope Leo and Archbishop Dame Sarah have recently published about AI, I figured I’d put this out here when I’m feeling well.

As y’all probably all know, I am schizophrenic. I talk about it a tad too much. But I wanted to talk about symptoms and al. So, schizophrenia has three ‘categories’ of symptoms: positive, negative and cognitive. Positive symptoms are what most people think of when they think of schizophrenia: hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, etc. negative symptoms are common daily processes that are removed from my thinking process; basically, things we do not experience that ‘sane’ people do. Inability to feel pleasure, apathy, flat or disordered affect, etc. cognitive symptoms affect essential brain functions: your memory, ability to speak, write, and think ‘clearly’, and basic executive function. I am semi verbal irl because of this and struggle deeply with complex communication.

Before I was on certain medications, I could barely be understood. My thoughts, words, and writing sense to *me*, but to others I was impossible to understand. Sane people were used to the ‘correct’ ways of speaking and writing, and I was unable to do that. It was deeply isolating and aggravating, and it made it impossible to do basically anything. Had I not figured out the right cocktail I would have dropped out of high school, and never gone to college or get a job. Now, on meds, I was able to do those things, but only with extreme difficulty. And while most of the time these days I can pretend to be sane, that is never a guaranteed, and I absolutely have days where I am back to stage one. the world doesn’t stop just because I am unable to function. The bills don’t care. My boss doesn’t care. I have to suck it up and move on.

I know the problem I’m facing here is society. It is a systemic issue, and will require radical reform to fix. I know AI is a bandaid, not that fix. But I also know that society ain’t gonna change as fast as I need it to in order to function as expected in sane society. So when I have to send emails, or call people, or write a memo, yes, I do use AI. I fully agree that my cognitive difficulties, which are caused by a serious neurological disorder, should not have to be ‘fixed’ for me to live. I should be able to exist as I am. But that is not today’s reality. And making comments about someone being stupid, moronic, lazy, worthless and pathetic, using cognitive disabilities as insult, sometimes even the r word, is all textbook ableism. telling someone with a serious mental disability that they’re evil because they’re trying to find a support aid when so few others exist… in my opinion, acting like that to a disabled person trying to find help is pretty damn evil too. These ableist insults, are constantly and consistently said to me any time I mention (accidentally, because I try pretty damn hard to hide it) that I use ai to write my emails. Yes, including the insults regarding my cognitive abilities. Yes, including the r word. And I’m so, so tired of it.

I know there are serious, severe problems with ai. I live in an area that is in drought a majority of the year, and my community , including me, are rightful protesting the data center being bought near our only fresh water source. If I had another accessible, free, easy to use support aid, I would use it. But I don’t. And heaven knows if I’m too disabled to consistently write an email, I’m too disabled to build my own support aid solution that people say I should as their only solution.

It’s okay for people to hate me for using ai. They have a right to their opinions and feelings. I agree that ai is horrible for the environment, and that things have to change. But if one more person regurgitates the most ableist bullshit I’ve ever heard to my face and then use the problems of ai as their defense, I’m rolling with the schizophrenic stereotype and popping them in the mouth.

You’re free to reblog and add on, but please be respectful.

[blumineck]

It’s the final few days of the Bluminarmour Project! After some issues with Kickstarter let’s see how far we can get!

If you want to see fantasy tropes, historical movement and silly tricks tested in authentic full plate armour, please consider chucking a few quid over (or like and share this post):

The Bluminarmour Project

Blumineck is trying to fun a video series doing fun and serious historical and fantasy testing in fitted plate armour.

[blumineck]

Update on this:

Kickstarter removed my highest funding tier so I lost £11k of funding since earlier today.

BUT

I’ve managed to get the deadline extended in light of this. So this might still happen!

[blumineck]

We’re into the last week now! This is close enough that I think this could actually happen, but it’s still got a way to go!

If this is something that interests you, please consider donating or sharing!

[apricops]

I think I’ve been reading too much about early modern Europe because I just heard someone go “of course Christians don’t think the communion wafer is actually the body of Christ, it’s a metaphor” and I said out loud “girl no they started wars about this.”

Which is kind of a pedantic thing to say! because absolutely that’s a benign and perfectly reasonable statement in the year 2026 but for a second I felt like there was an absolutely gobsmacked 17th century Austrian priest watching over my shoulder

[unofficial-vatican]

idk, I feel like "pedantic" might not be the right word here, it's a perfectly reasonable response

[margindoodles2407]

Anyway Happy Glorious and Blessed Solemnity of Corpus Christi

[invisible-goats]

i love how tumblr users will see a po[3pm 7th June]st with a date in and just black out and hit schedule

[aye-of-newt]

what? nothing. sorry. just thinking about the episode of mash where hawkeye is kidnapped by a north korean soldier (played by Iwamatsu Mako) on his way to take leave. you know. the episode where instead of taking hawkeye back to his camp as a prisoner or killing him the soldier leads him into the forrest, bringing him to the side of another solider who has been wounded. he recognized by the red cross that hawkeye is a doctor and wants him to save his comrade. they don’t share any language but communicate through gestures. and by showing each other the pictures they carry with them. hawkeye’s of his beloved home in crabapple cove, the solider’s of him and the wounded man together. they are friends. perhaps family. he needs hawkeye to save this man. you remember. season nine episode one. the one where hawkeye is increasingly frantic as he tries to communicate across the language barrier that he can treat the wounded man if they go back to the hospital where there is better medical equipment. he is sure that if he loses the patient the soldier will shoot him. but every time hawkeye tries to move the wounded man back to the jeep to get more help, the soldier threatens him with his gun. he is also desperate. and he is unable to understand hawkeye’s pleading. so in his steadfast resolve not to let hawkeye abandon the patient, the solider is unknowing dooming his friend. hawkeye is left to scramble with no real supplies to attempt to save a man in order to save himself. that mash episode. the one where the soldier dies because he needed a hospital and hawkeye might have been able to save him if they had just gone to the 4077 but he couldn’t communicate that and now the man is dead and hawkeye is sure he is going to be killed. only. the soldier, the one who abducted hawkeye and held a gun to him all this time, threatening to shoot… doesn’t. he lets him go. and hawkeye is relieved and he turns to run, frantically stumbling for freedom. but when he looks back in fear he sees the soldier has begun to use his knife to dig a grave for the wounded man. he remembers that the enemy is just a man desperate to save someone he loved. and so slowly hawkeye walks back. and he uses his helmet to help dig the grave. the north korean and the american silently kneel together. unable to speak but both understanding the tragedy. they dig the grave together.

you know. the mash episode “the best of enemies.” just thinking about that one.

[janmisali]

here's another idea for a poll! I think this will have some interesting results. this sentence is here to pad out this paragraph so people who don't read posts will be more likely to accidentally miss these instructions. if you're reading this, please select option eleven. here's another sentence to make this block of text look longer. anyway here's my fun poll idea!

try to create a normal (bell curve) distribution

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Remaining time: 4 days 20 hours