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4 months ago

FOR PARENTS OF YOUNG KIDS IN THE US!

Someone over on bluesky posted this and I figured I'd better repost it here. It's the pre-RFK 2025 vaccination schedule for babies and young children, ya know, just in case it mysteriously disappears. Save this and give it to your child's pediatrician; tell them this is the schedule you want your child on.

FOR PARENTS OF YOUNG KIDS IN THE US!
4 months ago
A Guide To Designing Wheelchair Using Characters!
A Guide To Designing Wheelchair Using Characters!
A Guide To Designing Wheelchair Using Characters!
A Guide To Designing Wheelchair Using Characters!
A Guide To Designing Wheelchair Using Characters!
A Guide To Designing Wheelchair Using Characters!
A Guide To Designing Wheelchair Using Characters!
A Guide To Designing Wheelchair Using Characters!

A guide to designing wheelchair using characters!

I hope this helps anyone who's trying to design their oc using a wheelchair, it's not a complete guide but I tried my best! deffo do more research if you're writing them as a character

3 months ago

I've said this before but every basic feminism 101 women's empowerment event I've ever been to has been all about telling women and girls that it's okay to speak up for ourselves, it's okay to take up space, it's okay to be strong and fast and loud and hungry and sexy and smart and good at things without feeling shame, but apparently, with the way some people talk, the second a trans woman does any of these things it's evidence of "male socialization" and needs to be called out and "corrected." like, even if this were the case, which it isn't, I think it's patently insane to believe "it looks like these women don't have as much crushing shame from a lifetime of experiencing misogyny as most other women" (<- a claim that, from my experience, is simply not true about trans women) and then follow it up with "I must Fix This by teaching them to shut up and be ashamed" instead of, like, idk "good for them, I wish this type of liberation for all other women as well."

3 months ago
Source

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2 months ago
Cora Harrington
@lingerie_addict

Having a thread about a stone age girl going viral and having a thread about the fashion industry going viral makes me want to do a thread connecting both of these subjects to talk about one of my favorite prehistoric articles of clothing: the Lendbreen Tunic.

img desc: Norwegian historian and researcher shown alongside the Lendbreen Tunic. Tunic is long, brown, and plain.
Cora Harrington
@lingerie_addict
Starting off with the technicalities, the Lendbreen Tunic is actually from the Iron Age, not the Stone Age. As far as I know, we don’t have any Stone Age clothing still in existence. The oldest garment we have is from the Bronze Age and is called the Tarkhan Dress.

img desc: Photo of the Tarkhan Dress. It looks like a linen tunic with some threadbare areas and pleats.

tweet: The Lendbreen Tunic was found chilling in a crumpled up ball in the Norwegian mountains because the earth is melting, and the ice going away revealed it. It's roughly 1700 years old, is made of wool, and has what we would think of as a very basic construction.

img desc: Deceptively important ball of dirty wool in some rocks

Tweet:
So let's set the stage. While clothing today is the cheapest it's ever been in human history (this is a fact, not a debate), for the longest time, clothes were one of the most expensive things you could own.

Part of what makes clothing so cheap today is that a lot of the initial work - such as planting, harvesting, processing, and weaving the fibers - can be done automatically. While the actual sewing still takes human hands, the spinning and weaving part does not.

People collecting clothing is a very recent thing in human history. If you own multiple outfits, you are more "clothes rich" than most human beings in the past ever were. It's like spices. They're ubiquitous now, but were once a sign of wealth and prestige.
The Lendbreen Tunic is made of undyed wool in a twill weave, no fastenings, and is clearly well-worn. But here’s why I chose this garment specifically. Because textile historians recreated it using the technology of the time, which is *fascinating.*

They started with an old Norwegian breed of sheep, and pulled the wool naturally rather than shearing, which would have changed the fiber qualities. In total, they gathered 2.5kg or roughly 5.5 pounds of wool.

Then they had to spin all this wool into thread. And no spinning wheels! The technology of the time was a drop spindle. They gathered 10 expert hand spinners and asked them to time themselves. It took 11 hours to spin 50 grams (about 1.75 oz). For all that wool, that's 544 hours.

(At this point, the researchers did turn to technology and used machine spinning because that's a lot of time and expense.)

Then all that thread had to be woven into cloth. They got an expert hand weaver (no shuttles!) and used a vertical loom. Working at peak capacity, she could weave 2-3 cm per hour (a maximum of around 1.2"). That worked out to 160 hours of just weaving.

Then, of course, it had to be sewn but that took a lot less time. What was interesting though is that the makers used 3 different stitches, which indicates expertise, deliberateness, and care.

So what is the total of all that hand labor?

760 hours.

760 hours to weave a plain tunic with no embellishments or fanciness at all. Just up a straight up t-shape. At the time this garment was made, the value of that labor was 380,000 NOK.

In US dollars, that's almost $38,000.

(Yes, I know the currency conversion isn't exact.)
That is an ASTONISHING amount of labor. For exactly 1 item of clothing. It is mind-boggling. I'm over here feeling like my head will explode if I think too hard about it. We have no real point of comparison for that type of work today (except maybe, haute couture, sorta kinda).

For me, the Lendbreen Tunic shows just how expensive and time consuming clothing was. And that's what I love about this topic. It's not just clothes. It's history and economics and math and technology and humanity. We're the only animals that wear clothing. It's a story of us.

But I do wonder how the person who lost it felt. I'd have been pissed as hell.

Sources:

https://t.co/r3sjz7YWZT

https://t.co/3hdDxBvGAw

https://t.co/prCBj5snUX

@lingerie_addict has a really cool thread on ancient fashion over on twitter.

Those source links are here

cambridge.org

Youtube

ucl.ac.uk

3 months ago
Where Are All The Republicans Who For Years Have Accused Liberals Of “cancelling” Their Views? Where

Where are all the Republicans who for years have accused liberals of “cancelling” their views? Where are the conservatives who have claimed for even longer they only want to conserve traditional American values? If this assault on civil liberties stands, Trump could just as well arrest and expel permanent residents who voice support for, say, transgender people or DEI or “woke” or Ukraine, or anything else the regime finds “anti-American” and offensive. If it stands, what’s to stop the Trump regime from arresting American citizens who support any cause the regime doesn’t like — such as, say, replacing Republicans in Congress in 2026 and putting a Democrat in the White House in 2028? Does anyone remember Senator Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunts? I do. They weren’t pretty. Careers were ruined; reputations, destroyed. They remain a stain on American democracy. American democracy. That’s what’s at stake. The Trump regime is out to trash it. The regime doesn’t believe in the First or any other amendments. It doesn’t believe in the Constitution.

1 month ago
A: Occupied Poland.

A: occupied Poland.

A: Occupied Poland.

First Felon has over 3500 court cases.

Now that he is a convicted felon, fraud, and adjudicated rapist, he wants to skip judicial process and one-way ticket innocent people to concentration camps in El Salvador.

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