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@well-by-jove clothing opinions?

WAIT I I DON'T THINK I EVER POSTED THIS HERE

Here's a very fashionable Crowley for yall!!

#good omens #crowley #crowley the demon #good omens fanart #digital art #ineffable husbands #other ppls art

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salmon..

or... and hear me out here... parrot fish

What fish would Tim be

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#magic faraway tree #also famous five #i am just an enid blyton kid at heart

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I SHOULD

If we want to save Dead Boy Detectives from being canceled after one season, we must ask the Marauders girlies for help.

They'll look at George and Jayden and go "OMG new Remus and Sirius fancasts just dropped." Then they'll binge the show a thousand times. (I've got this all planned)

THEY CAN SAVE US-

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yea but i still have that what if

what if we had grown up on the same street and i had walked in and she had been baking

what if she could have been half decent

This is gonna sound weird but I kinda like the lack of privacy my town has sometimes. Like I walked by my neighbors house and I smelled something good so I walked in and asked who's cooking what and they were like oh hey there's some meat on the counter its just done cooking take a peice and it was fuckin delicious

#tribe of idiots #society of idiots

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DANCING GUY!! by Talbot (4yrs old)

I ran some animation workshops with kids at the State Library earlier this month. When I showed the results to my kids, Talbot wanted to have a go.

Am I just an over proud parent or is this THE MOST AMAZING THING YOU’VE EVER SEEN?!!

#animation #other ppls art #i want to use this for art analysis

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yes but only with certain people

although sometimes i wonder if i had grown in a society in close vicinity to those people if maybe i’d have liked them after all

This is gonna sound weird but I kinda like the lack of privacy my town has sometimes. Like I walked by my neighbors house and I smelled something good so I walked in and asked who's cooking what and they were like oh hey there's some meat on the counter its just done cooking take a peice and it was fuckin delicious

#tribe of idiots #society of idiots

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Sewing Machines & Planned Obsolescence

I've got these two sewing machines, made about 100 years apart. An old treadle machine from around 1920-1930, that I pulled out of the trash on a rainy day, and a new Brother sewing machine from around 2020.

I've always known planned obsolescence was a thing, but I never knew just how insidious it was till I started looking at these two side by side.

I wasn't feeling hopeful at first that I'd actually be able to fix the old one, I found it in the trash at 2 am in a thunderstorm. It was rusty, dusty, soggy, squeaky, missing parts, and 100 years old.

How do you even find specialized parts 100 years later? Well, easily, it turns out. The manufacturers at the time didn't just make parts backwards compatible to be consistent across the years, but also interchangeable across brands! Imagine that today, being able to grab a part from an old iPhone to fix your Android.

Anyway, 6 months into having them both, I can confidently say that my busted up trash machine is far better than my new one, or any consumer-grade sewing machine on the market.

Old Machine Guts

The old machine? Can sew through a pile of leather thicker than my fingers like it's nothing. (it's actually terrifying and I treat it like a power tool - I'll never sew drunk on that thing because I'm genuinely afraid it'd sew through a finger!) At high speeds, it's well balanced and doesn't shake. The parts are all metal, attached by standard flathead screws, designed to be simple and strong, and easily reachable behind large access doors. The tools I need to work on it? A screwdriver and oil. Lost my screwdriver? That's OK, a knife works too.

New Machine Guts

The new machine's skipping stitches now that the plastic parts are starting to wear out. It's always throwing software errors, and it damn near shakes itself apart at top speed. Look at it's innards - I could barely fit a boriscope camera that's about as thick as spaghetti in there let alone my fingers. Very little is attached with standard screws.

And it's infuriating. I'm an engineer - there's no damn reason to make high-wear parts out of plastic. Or put them in places they can't be reached to replace. There's no reason to make your mechanism so unbalanced it's reaching the point of failure before reaching it's own design speed. (Oh yeah there is, it's corporate greed)

100 years, and your standard home sewing machine has gone from a beast of a machine that can be pulled out of the literal waterlogged trash and repaired - to a machine that eats itself if you sew anything but delicate fast-fashion fabrics that are also designed to fall apart in a few years.

Looking for something modern built to the standard that was set 100 years ago? I'd be looking at industrial machines that are going for thousands of dollars... Used on craigslist. I don't even want to know what they'd cost new.

We have the technology and knowledge to manufacture "old" sewing machines still. Hell, even better, sewing machines with the mechanical design quality of the old ones, but with more modern features. It would be so easy - at a technical level to start building things well again. Hell, it's easier to fabricate something sturdy than engineer something to fail at just the right time. (I have half a mind to see if any of my meche friends with machine shops want to help me fabricate an actually good modern machine lol)

We need to push for right-to-repair laws, and legislation against planned obsolescence. Because it's honestly shocking how corporate greed has downright sabotaged good design. They're selling us utter shit, and expecting us to come back for more every financial quarter? I'm over it.

#sewing #right to repair #engineering #sewing machines #corporations are the problem

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@well-by-jove vote aang for me pretty please 🥺

#avatar the last airbender #atla #aang #atla aang #avatar aang #did i mention aang #lil bald dude #please and thank you

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@well-by-jove MATE THIS IS HYSTERICAL

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nom nom nom

@juice-box-addict i think i didn't fail my chem test go meeee

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yea but you don’t have to STRUGGLE to find someone who speaks the same language as you.

i swear like 50% of the ppl i speak afrikaans to are middle aged men *cries*

contrary to popular belief, someone who is fluent in their second language (L2) is unlikely to slip into their first language (L1)  in these circumstances:

if someone just said something to them in L2 (this a big unconscious cue, and you’d be really unlikely to respond in L1 right after that)

when swearing in the middle of a sentence (e.g. “oh merde, i forgot my keys!”)

during sex

when speaking to someone they normally speak to in L2

it is slightly more common in these circumstances:

swearing, as long it’s not part of a sentence (e.g. they might just mutter “merde” if they forgot their keys)

if they’re surprised (especially if falling/tripping or experiencing sudden pain!)

when speaking to someone they normally speak to in L1

in their sleep or talking to themselves

when very disoriented, such as when concussed or on certain drugs

that being said, it is very common for people to intentionally use their first language in front of people who don’t speak it for a variety of reasons (they might use a short expression they only know in L1, call their partner pet names, dirty talk during sex because their partner finds it attractive) – but this is on purpose!

also this doesn’t account for people who grew up in an environment where people often mix multiple languages in their speech (e.g. spanglish or franglais) – in that case, they may accidentally drop an L1 swear into an L2 sentence, though they’ll still generally stick to L2 when speaking to people who only speak that language

#linguistics #sadnesses #afrikaans #japanese and afrikaans #WHYYYYYYYY

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pov: avatar aang has just misled you. pranked you. because he loves his wife too much

#atla #avatar: the last airbender #katara #aang #kataang #theyre married your honor #other ppls art

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#lol #memes #lol memes

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#hopecore #hopepunk #IM FUCKING ALIVE #DEAL W IT

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YES YES YES

it’s actually so crazy cos there’s a word in afrikaans that means like angry but it’s often used to describe people as scary and then there’s a word in japanese that’s used for scared and scary that sounds EXACTLY THE SAME!!!!! and i always get mixed up cos i hear the word and my brain buffers cos i’m speaking the wrong language but IM NOT!!!!

forever haunted by kwaai vs 怖い

contrary to popular belief, someone who is fluent in their second language (L2) is unlikely to slip into their first language (L1)  in these circumstances:

if someone just said something to them in L2 (this a big unconscious cue, and you’d be really unlikely to respond in L1 right after that)

when swearing in the middle of a sentence (e.g. “oh merde, i forgot my keys!”)

during sex

when speaking to someone they normally speak to in L2

it is slightly more common in these circumstances:

swearing, as long it’s not part of a sentence (e.g. they might just mutter “merde” if they forgot their keys)

if they’re surprised (especially if falling/tripping or experiencing sudden pain!)

when speaking to someone they normally speak to in L1

in their sleep or talking to themselves

when very disoriented, such as when concussed or on certain drugs

that being said, it is very common for people to intentionally use their first language in front of people who don’t speak it for a variety of reasons (they might use a short expression they only know in L1, call their partner pet names, dirty talk during sex because their partner finds it attractive) – but this is on purpose!

also this doesn’t account for people who grew up in an environment where people often mix multiple languages in their speech (e.g. spanglish or franglais) – in that case, they may accidentally drop an L1 swear into an L2 sentence, though they’ll still generally stick to L2 when speaking to people who only speak that language

#linguistics #afrikaans #japanese #bilingual #trilingual #words #are #pains #in #asses #japanese and afrikaans #dance dance revolution