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wonderful painting of Justyna Kopania

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if you've seen that "voting as a fire extinguisher" poem around you should consider reading the full piece, "TO THROW A WRENCH IN THE BLOOD MACHINE: Five (Season-Appropriate) Metaphors for Voting." the author recently wrote an update talking about how he doesn't like the piece being taken out it's poetic context, where it isn't instructions on what to do but a "grappling with a complex idea, providing different possible doorways into critical thinking." also maybe check out his other work!

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We have all been saying this was coming for years now. The UK is now introducing a new section 28.

This is a direct attack on the queer Community, stop accepting it.

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me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

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Why the Devils Chord should have had Nina Simone not the Beatles

Nina was a fantastic pianist and Ruby is not only a pianist but one who was raised by a black woman. Don't tell me Nina wasn't played in that house. Unless Clara hates jazz? Which is lame.

JAZZ

You could have had Sinnerman building up in the background to a great dramatic finale against Maestro and it. Would. Have. Been. Beautiful.

Personally I just don't really care much about the Beatles, this is literally just personal bias because Nina's music was much more formative in my childhood than the Beatles ever were.

You can use it as a jumping off point to talk about how famous and influential bands like the Beatles were themselves influenced by great black artists like Chuck Berry. If you really wanna reference the Beatles you can have Nina's arrangement of Here Comes the Sun if you must.

It makes way more sense to have an episode about the importance music has to people be focussed on a black woman who grew up with gospel roots and like, investigating how people truly pour their entire selves into their music and how music is a powerful tool in maintaining a sense of self and identity particularly in an environment that oppresses them and wants them silenced, I'm sorry but it would have been more powerful imo to have that come from one of the greatest black women in music possibly across history but certainly in the 20th century. Again. Fucking Sinnerman. And like. Music as community and collaboration because everyone is inspired and influenced by each other so like a lot of Nina's music is her arrangements of previously existing songs so you can argue well why pick her over the Beatles then I just think it would have been better with someone like Nina. Doesn't necessarily have to be her I just think her arrangements are very beautiful and powerful and I have never felt that emotional response listening to the Beatles. I don't hear what other folks are hearing from them. I know a lot of people do get that from the Beatles but while tumblr is all a flutter at the moment about people choosing not to listen to black artists or dismissing entire genres that are predominantly performed by black musicians or who were created by black musicians (like anyone who says 'Well fuck jazz'. Really? Are you going to listen to Nina Simone and tell me jazz is bad? I don't believe you) it feels relevant rn and it's on my mind

Seriously they should have played Sinnerman.

I'm sleepy and dehydrated I've run out of points but someone cleverer is welcome to step in

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I fucking love Ridcully he's like a steamroller in a room full of the worst people to have a zoom meeting that could've been an email with

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Also:

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The artist who made this is amazing.

Ellen Harding Baker (June 8, 1847–March 30, 1886), [...] taught science in rural Iowa, in an era when most institutions of higher education were still closed to women, all the whilst raising her five surviving children. She used her Solar System quilt to illustrate her astronomy lectures. To ensure the accuracy of her embroidered depiction, Baker traveled to the Chicago Observatory to view sunspots and a comet — most likely the Great Comet of 1882, which had become a national attraction — through the professional telescope there.

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I’m glad the folks at NASA are having fun with XKCD too.

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Today I am thinking about weaving.

I can knit and crochet, but those crafts didn't exist in Roman times. Any historically accurate Roman cloth must be woven. So when a little potholder loom jumped into my shopping basket for 50 cents, it felt like a sign I should learn.

One potholder that was 50% yarn and 50% weird gaps later, I looked up a tutorial, and realized why the damn thing was 50 cents. I needed a better, more adaptable loom. And, because I am a cheapskate and slightly loony, I decided to make one instead of buying it.

So, how does this thing work?

First, you string the warp threads up and down, around the pegs. Here, I made a zigzag shape. Then, you use a needle or shuttle to weave more yarn over and under the warp, horizontally, back and forth. This produces woven fabric.

Some looms weave from the top, some from the bottom. This Greek urn shows two weavers working from the top. The left weaver uses a rod to compact the woven fabric upward, keeping it even and sturdy. The right weaver is passing an oval-shaped shuttle through the warp threads to form another row.

Most Roman looms would have looked like this, with the finished cloth at the top. Unlike my looms, these are warp-weighted. That means you keep the warp yarns taut by hanging weights at the bottom, rather than through a bottom row of pegs.

Warp-weighted looms also have a big advantage over my little potholder loom: you can easily create multiple sheds.

A "shed" is a temporary gap between lifted strands and non-lifted strands. Instead of having to go over and under each strand individually, you raise the entire shed, then pull the shuttle or needle straight through. This saves lots of time! Then, to weave the next row, you close the shed, lift up a different set of threads to create a new shed, and send the shuttle/needle through the other direction.

On a warp-weighted loom, the sheds are opened by loops called heddles (H), which are attached to a heddle rod (G). When the rod is down, shed (1) is open (middle diagram). When you pull the rod up, shed (1) closes and shed (2) opens instead (right diagram). Most warp-weighted looms also have a pair of forks you can rest the heddle rod on, to free your hands.

Here, there are three heddle rods and sets of forks, the heddles are white, and the warp thread is red. This gives you four different sheds, and the potential to weave very complex patterns indeed. Not bad for a device invented over 6500 years ago!

I liked the multiple heddle-rod design so much, I tried incorporating it into my DIY loom, too. I've tested both yarn and paperclips as heddles:

I actually got both sheds and heddle-rods working, too. Which is pretty cool for a lap loom - every other lap loom I found only has one shed, so you have to go over-under the individual threads on alternate rows.* More time-consuming. However, the sheds here are narrow, and I'll need a smaller and smoother shuttle to pass through them smoothly. This wouldn't be an issue on a warp-weighted loom, where the warp hangs freely downward, and can move more flexibly with the heddles.

Anyway. I may get a "real" loom at some point, but I wanted to build one first, and I think it gave me more appreciation for just how resourceful ancient weavers were. They created technology, clothing, and artwork out of very basic materials, and civilization depended on these skills.

Now, I need to go finish the...whatever the hell it will be. Big thanks to Wikipedia and to the lovely Youtubers who make this craft easier to learn. I think it'll be a lot of fun.

(*Edit - found out a rotating heddle bar can make two sheds on a lap loom! Exciting!!)

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I decided to create something that I wish I had when I first got diagnosed with autism - so here’s my comic for ASDComicTakeover! You can find out more about the project here!

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My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.

I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”

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My friend @shellywith2ls found this on Pinterest during our homeroom today, and when she showed me I started dying laughing.

I asked her to send it to me and she just saved the photo and texted it to me, so I can’t properly credit the person who made this. If you see this, hi, I love this, let me know so I can properly credit you 🙃

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Book: “he licked the roof of her mouth”

Me, aroace:

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Depending on how work goes this year it might be a while before the actual final piece sees the light of day - so I'm releasing the animatic for the Guards! Guards! animated trailer on the unsuspecting public. I was hoping it could work as both a trailer/intro animation to a non-existant Guards! Guards! animated show, and I think it turned out pretty neat! I hope you enjoy.