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My machine sewn shirt tutorial is FINALLY FINISHED! Written tutorial on the blog, video tutorial on youtube. Both probably more detailed than necessary.

I'll post more shirt pictures later, right now I need to go work on other stuff to give my brain a rest from all the shirts.

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Calling all Kiwis!

If you live in Aotearoa - New Zealand and care about our biodiversity and country and don't want it sold out for short term profit, please make a submission in opposition to the Regulatory Standards Bill.

The closing date for submissions is 1.00pm, Monday, 23 June 2025

Regulatory Standards Bill will stop lawmakers considering broader public health

What's Wrong With the RSB

Regulatory Standards Bill threatens the public interest, public health and Māori rights

The ‘dangerous’ bill has been updated, but how?

The dangers in the Regulatory Standards Bill

‘Alarm bells need to ring’: Concerns over Regulatory Standards Bill

How the Regulatory Standards Bill gives companies more rights than the public

-> Submit here <-

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The reason I’m not an anarchist is that in the centuries before the Americans with disabilities act people could have all installed safe wheelchair ramps in all of their buildings and they didn’t.

If you’re trying to make a system that relies on people being nice I’m not gonna go with it.

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crafting a plane launcher with chopsticks by 小小折纸手工

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(this is a bit graphic) In Westphalia there's a horse museum which sounds delightful but in fact it's just row after row of incredibly macabre taxidermies that look like you're trying to toughen up the next generation of equine vets. There's an ancient horse grave with a graphic illustration of bronze age people beating that exact horse to death, there's a not-quite-right-looking taxidermy of a dam and foal of some extinct wild horse breed, there's the sliced up taxidermied head, there's Polydor (who's just taxidermied Polydor, they left him intact thank god), there's a dimly lit little room with a taxidermied mining pony hanging from the ceiling in a harness. Frankly I think we could've done with less taxidermy.

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ANHEDONIA REMEDIES!

GET YOUR ANHEDONIA REMEDIES HERE!

if you are lost in the rut, i am begging you to read this essay by Sasha Chapin suggesting what, essentially, my take, are potential jump-starts back into living life in real time. like actually experiencing experiences

do it now! don’t lose months, years, or decades! there is a life beyond doomscrolling, and it’s finite (sorry. sorry. i know okay)

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"going nowhere slowly" (2021) by julia schimautz and ines soutschka

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The Night Club Era by Stanley Walker, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1933, dust jacket illustrator unknown

Stanley Walker (1898-1962) was the city editor of The New York Herald Tribune from 1928-1935. Walker was a mentor to many newspapermen who learned from him the art of composing sharp sentences with pointed words. He was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the most talented editors and writers of all-time. His three books about New York all written in the 1930s hold up very well today.

I find in general that the old newspaper writers bring forth the most entertaining books about New York. In The Night Club Era, Walker tells the rollicking story of Prohibition New York where “mayors got down on hotel floors and shot dice and everywhere was debauchery, bad taste, profligacy and cruelty.”

Celebrities of stage and screen, millionaires and professors mix with gangsters, murderers and other shady characters. It’s all true and makes for great reading

Walker unfortunately died prematurely at age 64, shooting himself with a shotgun, fearing he would not survive going under the knife for a throat cancer operation.

Photo & text: Stuff Nobody Cares About

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She has no songs where she needs to be doing this but especially not PART OF ME????

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