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what are yall doing that we need this??

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Historical context is of course very useful for important things like Politics and Science and everything, but will also open your eyes to things like, uh... the way the clothing/textile/crafting industries try to use the word "natural" as an excuse to sell shoddy and bad quality goods and make you think that's normal.

God knows there are worse things going on in the world, but it really pisses me off when I see companies advertising "Real Shell/Pearl buttons!" like that's supposed to be some upscale selling point, and the buttons in question are the thinnest, roughest, most crudely-made buttons in existence... 🙄😒 "But they're made from Natural Materials! You can't expect Natural Materials to look refined and consistent like synthetic ones!" They are lying to you. THEY ARE LYING TO YOU! And I know this because I've seen "real shell buttons" from 100 or even 50 years ago. And most of them are sturdy and smoothly polished, of a consistent thickness, and sometimes even finely carved. The buttons on nice men's dress shirts? Those are the cheap, plastic IMITATIONS of what people expected actual mother-of-pearl buttons to look like! "Natural" isn't an excuse! Your product is cheap and badly and lazily made! And I'm so sick of this, because I see it EVERYWHERE. "Linen-look" has become shorthand for "coarsely woven fabric with visible slubs" and that drives me CRAZY because do you KNOW what kinds of linen I have seen??? Antique linen so light and fine and smooth you can't even SEE the weave unless you magnify it!!! A fragment of a linen damask tablecloth so smooth and glossy, it looks like SILK? 😭 (On that note, "dupioni silk" is so roughly woven that it would have been considered hardly fit to sell a century ago) "This fabric is woven of Natural Materials, so imperfections will be inevitable!" 🙃 No! 😀 You just made it cheaply and sloppily, and that was your choice! 😊

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Come to your local makers market!

We have:

3D Printed articulated slop!

Strangely scented massive shaped bathbombs!

T-shirts that were clearly designed with AI!

3D printed articulated slop!

Vintage toys remade into gothy or witchy sculpture pieces!

Resold stickers bought off Amazon!

Resold enamel pins bought off Temu!

Small fragile looking chained jewelry that only comes in rose gold!

3D printed articulated slop!

Massive overpriced 'gourmet' cookies! They taste strongly of baking soda!

Magnets that clearly designed with AI!

Labubu figures being resold for $80!

3D printed articulated slop!

Vulture culture dioramas! Hope you like squirrel bones!

Linocut printed patches of a shrimp in a cowboy hat!

Blobby 70s adjacent earrings!

Acrylic pins with stolen designs!

Raunchy crocheted plushies, exclusively made with chunky chenille yarn! Haven't you always wanted a pastel buttplug you could cuddle?

Massive overpriced 'gourmet' cookies, but these have a contrasting filling so they're different!

3D printed articulated slop!

Taylor Swift themed totebags!

Freeze dried candy!

3D printed articulated slop!

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I was eating financiers and he was trying to manifest his interest in increasingly polite and non-intrusive ways

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Princess Bride comic for class - sorry for reposting, this is the post-crit fixes version

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I think people want to replace screen addiction with lots of hobbies/reading/activity because we are used to the overstimulation. and I get it. you have to wean. but toss in some staring at the floor while you're at it. add some quiet nothing time to ur schedule

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It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”

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Ok, loves, so we've all got the message that joking about suicide is bad for your mental health. Now we need to get on "joking that the planet/all of humanity has no future" is bad for societal health/encouraging resistance to bad shit."

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I ❤️ MY PUBLIC LIBRARY

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5 minutes into the fabric store: wow the world has so much to offer and so many possible wonderful things to make

10 minutes into the fabric store: everything around me will continue to pollute the earth long after humans are gone and this ring of plastic minion beads will see the new pangea

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Spot on 😆

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Naps are a forbidden technique, I think. If you pull them off just right you'll access a pool of near-endless rejuvenating power, but if you mess up some inscrutable part of the ritual your vitality and might will be sapped and you'll be left at the mercy of your opponents

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I don't think people on the West Coast understand how much denser and multipolar the US is east of the Mississippi

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does anyone want to play themes and motifs with me