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#nsft #fave

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this too shall pass

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You know, that Mythbusters post legitimately changed my life. Before seeing it, I had exponentially more guilt and stress about not being able to sleep, which of course, further exacerbated my inability to sleep.

Now, every time I wake up about three am, knowing I have to get up at 6.45, instead of stressing and panicking about how my day is going to be sleep deprived and miserable, I just tell myself 'Time to activate Mythbusters Protocol' and lie there with my eyes closed safe in the knowledge that I am measurably reducing later feelings of exhaustion.

And when this happens, about 70% of the time the reduction of guilt and stress means I actually do fall back asleep, so all in all instead of getting only three or four hours sleep, I get five to six and a half.

Which y'know, major improvement in health and energy.

#it MASSIVELY helps with long haul flights too #i cannot sleep on a plane. i cannot. #but i can do this and it’s usually fine #(issue w sleeping on planes #aside from obvious discomfort lol #is that every time i start to drift off i become super sensitive to (perceived or actual idk) tilts the plane makes #you know that feeling when you’re almost asleep and then it feels like you’re falling so you jolt awake? it’s like that #but constant. but usually the mythbusters post hack helps)

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feels upset about something on tumblr -> finds something else to do for a bit -> gets bored -> scrolls through tumblr -> feels upset about something on tumblr -> finds som

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Someone left a comment about the difference between couture and haute couture and I lost it so hopefully this post finds the right audience.

The difference between the two is one is a regulated term. Anyone can call themselves “couture”, all that typically (not always) means is that their pieces are hand-made and one-of-a-kind, though many brands just stick it at the end of their name to sound fancy. It’s a glorified marketing buzzword.

Haute couture, on the other hand, is determined by the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode (formerly the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture), which is a part of the French Ministry of Industry. They have somewhere around 100 members last time I checked, and only these brands can present at Paris couture week, though they don’t have to have a live show.  These are some of the criteria for selection:

“To qualify as an official Haute Couture house, members must design made-to-order clothes for private clients, with more than one fitting, using an atelier (workshop) that employs at least fifteen fulltime staff. They must also have twenty fulltime technical workers in one of their workshops. Finally, Haute Couture houses must present a collection of no less than 50 original designs — both day and evening garments — to the public every season, in January and July.”

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[ID: What makes the situation even more ominous is that, though I have no doubt whom they have in mind, everyone around me stubbornly avoid the word Jew. In lines at the stores, people refer instead to "them" and "that ethnicity." Newspapers also use substitutes of all kinds: "persons of nonnative ethnicity," "antipatriots," "Israeli stooges," "Zionists," "the fifth column," "bourgeois nationalists." And now they put new terms into circulation: "cosmopolites without kith or kin" and "those who hide under pseudonyms." That is, these aren't human beings but werewolves.]

-Emil Draitser, Shush! Growing up Jewish Under Stalin: A Memoir

#antisemitism

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I just queued up a post about sustainable fabrics and started to write something in the tags before realizing that it was drifting away from the point

but PSA: with the caveat that the most sustainable item of clothing is the one that's already in your closet, I would suggest that if you are someone who struggles with temperature regulation, you should seriously consider adding more linen and wool to your wardrobe. determining the "true" environmental impact of various fibers is v complicated, but for a start they both use significantly less water than conventional cotton, and imo the improvement they've had on my quality of life is well worth the substitution.

linen and wool are by far the best fabrics for temperature regulation--the former is lighter and more breathable than cotton and will keep you cooler in the summer, the latter is breathable but heavier and more insulating and will keep you warmer in the winter, even if it gets wet. (there's actually a saying among people who hike/do winter sports that "cotton kills" because you are more prone to hypothermia in cotton undergarments than in wool.) do not even get me started on linen/wool vs polyester.

this is something that I think is especially important given higher cost of heating lately, higher temperatures due to climate change, and the number of people who have health conditions or medications that make them sensitive to heat. this isn't to say that your clothing/bedding choices will compensate for a livable environment, but as someone who used to wake up 2-3 times a week sweating in synthetic sheets for four months of the year, and shiver in an inadequately heated room for another three, these little swaps can seriously make extreme temperatures a little more bearable.

that being said, wool and linen do tend to be more expensive, so if you're looking to get the most bang for your buck, I would recommend starting with:

linen sheets, even just a fitted sheet (some companies do sell them solo). overheating while sleeping is literally the worst.

linen pants, especially if you work in a job that doesn't allow you to wear shorts. linen shirts are also nice, but even cotton/poly shirts tend to be thinner than pants and might already be short-sleeved/you can roll up the sleeves, so the impact of pants will be more immediate.

a chunky wool sweater. avoid cashmere, and merino unless it has cables--these are very soft, lovely wools, but they're generally pretty light and made more for their softness than their insulation properties. for maximum warmth, you don't want a thin "office sweater," you want a "my Irish gran knit this in her cottage on the windy coast" sweater.

wool socks. these are more likely to keep you dry and warm if you're walking through slush or rain, in addition to just general walking-around-the-house warmth. for these I would say the type of wool matters a little less, generally because you do want socks that are somewhat lightweight so you can wear them in shoes. and just FYI you're also more likely to see wool socks blended with silk, nylon, or spandex for strength and elasticity, so don't drive yourself up the wall trying to find the mythical 100% wool sock. even hobby knitters tend to blend wool with something because of the amount of friction that wears on socks.

again! the most sustainable type of clothing is what you already own. but some of these are the kinds of small swaps you can definitely make over time, and you might find them genuinely helpful.

#yeah linen wrinkles if you look at it wrong lol #but i love it #it gets softer with age! #it’s SO breathable #i have a wool-blend coat (id have to look to see what it was blended with #probably polyester but i’m not 100%) #that i love and at some point will be getting more wool products #i *believe* but don’t quote me—i *believe* flax linen is also harder to weave into fabric than cotton #due to the lack of stretch—fibers are more likely to break #so this can contribute to the cost too

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I just saw the track and field Olympics uniforms I keep hearing about and holy FUCK

Apparently there's a "shorts" option as well but wtf was Nike & the team officials ever thinking with this design???????

#running??? in that?????

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Did you know? Tumblr DOES have a post length limit. Strangely, though, it's based on how many blocks of text you have. Supposedly this implies that you can have any length post so long as it's one block of text? Very strange, will have to investigate further.

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drag king whos thing is he's a cowboy and his name is clit eastwood

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so like cw for disordered eating? a weird relationship with food? something like that but

to be clear i like. i enjoy food, i enjoy cooking i enjoy eating. but sometimes the like physical act of eating seems like a lot of work….especially because i can’t really Do Anything while i eat, i have to put my game or embroidery or whatever down in order to do it and i hate! doing that! i sometimes think i just need to look into meal replacement shakes or whatever instead (because drinking doesn’t necessitate a complete pause) for when i get like this but i doubt they’re actually good for me in any sense

#choosing mostly to blame on my adhd #it’s an executive dysfunction thing. it’s also a ‘don’t want ANY distraction or pause from what i’m focusing on’ thing

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dashboard is like a pond sometimes

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purpose of this poll: basically im wondering if my gran having a pistol was a typical american experience

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big if true

#house md

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I spent a large portion of today researching tekhelet for work as part of a piece on ancient dyes and I got so stupid emotional. Like it's just a dye, but it was such an important thing in ancient Judaism as the dye which would make tzitzit blue and the method of making it was lost around the time of the Arab conquest of Israel in the 7th century. (Also I note that lots of sources date the loss of the secret of the original manufacture but many just gloss over it mapping directly onto the colonisation of Judea/Israel by the Rashidun Caliphate - I know that the two events may not be connected but I have spent too long looking at history to be able to say that these were completely unrelated y'know... Lost knowledge is very, very rarely a coincidence)

They literally, to this day, still don't know how it was made.

There are multiple theories, most of which revolve around the murex snail (where we get Tyrian purple from) and the fact that if you expose the pigment it produces - di-bromo indigo - to light at the right point in the production process, it is reduced to regular indigo from which you can get your blue dye. But this has all been worked out using modern methods. The ancient production method of tekhelet is gone and I honestly find myself mourning yet another piece of lost knowledge form our history.

#j

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any relationship that involves a queer person is queer 👍 yes this includes m/f relationships 👍 yes this includes bi women dating straight men 👍 throw your biphobia directly in the trash 👍