heartbreaking: local thing has to leave the house even though it is so tired and sleepy and full of joint pain
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I feel like you might enjoy this very round cycladic cow from the cycladic art museum in Athens
I ended up making an actual video about the technique, which you can watch and comment on here ! I did very painstaking captions, in case I'm difficult to understand. Some additional information:
I was able to process fiber on it at a similar speed to on real hand combs, with extremely similar results--both the palm comb and hand combs produced a good worsted yarn with minimal halo.
I tested 5 different breeds with varying crimp, staple length, micron count, and amount of vm, and found that it performed best with the Ouessant I tested, which is a medium wool on the fine side of average with not a ton of crimp, and neither excess lanolin nor vm--in that case it outperformed the hand cards. But with anything other than very short, very fine fibers (1 inch/2.5 cm long Cormo) the yarns I spun from the resulting preparations were almost indistinguishable.
left: hand combed, right: palm combed (everything below the yellow stripe on this one was picked open by hand as an additional comparison, which was much slower, more painstaking, and nowhere near as neat of a prep)
left image: all 3 sample yarns before blocking--hand combed on left, palm combed center, picked on right.
right image: side profile of swatches--the picked has some fuzz/a visible halo, the other two don't have much.
You can find more details in my original post.
An Entrance
I love how this is framed as if Weyoun is some incredibly important character making his Dramatic First Appearance and the audience is supposed to react like, “Oh shit, it’s him!!” but when he was cast Weyoun was just a one-off character who died at the end of the episode, but Jeffrey Combs played the part so well that the writers ass-pulled the whole “all the Vorta are clones” thing just so they could bring him back, and then Weyoun became a hugely important and massively popular character, so now if you watch this episode for the first time as a new fan, knowing how important Weyoun becomes, this scene does then become the “Oh shit, it’s him!!!” moment it was never meant to be.
kill the rhetoric that americans are so lazy that they won't take farm jobs. americans take labor intensive jobs all the time. the reason no americans will take farm jobs is because agricultural work is exempt from the vast majority of labor laws and labor protections, including the use of child labor. so only immigrants - people who have little to no protection from the law or other options for work - take most of these jobs. we have created a permanent underclass of labor and then say that americans are just lazy for not volunteering to be part of the underclass.
there are actually good discussions to be had about how alienated many americans are from food production (hi hello that's what my only popular post is about), but the real solution to this problem is to protect agricultural workers, citizens or not. ban child labor in its entirety. punish corporations and farm owners that abuse and poison their workers. reform the immigration process so that these people aren't barred from legal protection and recourse.
agricultural workers have been exploited since the dawn of civilization, but the US in specific has been doing this since slavery, and it evolved in the 30s when FDR's labor laws excluded them specifically because most agricultural workers at the time were black. now it's mostly latino immigrants.
food doesn't fucking pick or slaughter itself. but citizens aren't going to take these jobs when the entire industry is rife with abuse - both legal and illegal - and horrific wages and working conditions.
we need to bring back genderqueer and genderfuck, we need to pull the "wouldn't you like to know weather boy" labels off the shelves again
These never went away. Many many people still use genderqueer as the primary label for their gender. Genderqueer flags are still a common sight to see in pride-themed lineups, even mass-produced ones detached from your local, much more inclusive pride events.
Online anti-"queer" discourse just likes to push the terms to the side and treat them as fringe or synonymize "vague" with "not good enough."
ALTbiden 2024 - making things work
This is why I honestly feel like Biden was the best possible choice in a shitty situation, even with his age and potential health issues. Because if nothing else, he is NOT REACTIONARY. He is methodical and dedicated. Do I wish he acted a little faster and with more of an eye towards progressive policies? Obviously yes. But given the choices, and given everything else that's happened, Biden has absolutely made the best of a bad situation. Sometimes you don't need a hero, you need a fucking repairman to come and just make it work until it can be fixed. And he's a damn good repairman.
Okay, I’ll give him the W for this one.
76-year-old Dora Wilson, a member of the Cowichan Tribes, modeling her handmade Cowichan sweaters.
"You stop becoming biology and become physics" sure is a phrase. Thanks, Hank... for NOT making this video.