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The one bizarre thing to me about textiles is that warp-weighted weaving is at least 6500 years old, but our oldest knitted artifacts are only ~1000 years old, and crochet 200 years old. Even though you need less equipment to knit (two sticks) or crochet (one hook) compared to warp-weighted weaving (frame, loom weights, batting, heddles). Why the big gaps between these inventions? And why did each one appear and spread when it did?

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An important message from the National Lawyers Guild - Detroit & Michigan Chapter

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#the answer us no i am not allowed & now when they dont realize im home they call haters dumb & media illiterate #tbh? i think my dislike contributed to why new roommate decided to stop being friends #since shes obsessed w bragging about how she can convert any hater to a swiftie #not the SOLE reason but a contributing factor

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bunnes

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mom was describing a tattoo a girl once took her to a back bedroom to show her, which was a fishing pole low on her pelvis with a line and hook that descended into her bush where a small clownfish hid amongst the hair. and that’s just. that’s a goal. and the ultimate freedom from obligation, like “gah I would shave but it would ruin my very good joke, what are you gonna do, I gotta make sure there’s foliage for my little clownfish to hide in”

then mom finished telling me this and looked off for a moment. “my god,” she said. “she was flirting with me. fuck. goddamn it.” 

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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The tailors at Colonial Williamsburg made a suit for their cat

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I'm thinking of making a reference to all different textile fiber types (focusing specifically on clothes).

Right now I'm just categorizing as "animal, vegetable, mineral" lol. I'm kinda tempted to make this a short zine pdf when I finish. Like adding in short descriptions of each fiber and their characteristics.

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I don't know what is wrong with me but every driving lesson I am having the worst fucking time trying to work with the pedals. If I press lightly on the gas I'm not accelerating enough. If I press even a little, I'm going too fast, and jarringly so. If my foot so much as TWITCHES everything is dropping speed. The breaks are also like this. A whisper of pressure is either jolting to a stop or not slowing enough. I have driven other cars that weren't like...this hard to gauge the pedals on.

I'm starting to panic that I'll be homeless and without a way to get to work just in time for my birthday in june. I wish I'd had the access to learn to drive as a teenager like everyone else. I worry my sense of timing and spatial awareness is too bad to actually drive. Idk

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cemeteries aren’t creepy they’re actually devoted to memory and rest and love and humanity

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It's actually a little bit on the gallery or museum to make it accessible to not be totally ignorant. Like, that part is their job. Now it's possible that the tombstone label is somewhere else, but you clearly can't see it next to the flag.

If the gallery made a choice to just print out titles and artists on a piece of paper, or if it's all on one big numbered list label for the whole room, it's actually a decision they make knowing a lot more people won't find it/see it. People rarely read the labels in depth when they're next to the art object. If the gallery chose to make it even more difficult to find basic information about the piece, then yeah, it's not entirely the patron's fault for being ignorant.

/ am not a crypto-fascist, I just have a degree in museum studies and know that lots of contemporary art museums/galleries do this shit that makes it hard to find out what a piece is called or what it's about. Including a museum I worked for - sometimes it would be a "printout laminated list of the objects in a room" and if someone already had the two lists available, you just had to wait or you might not realize you'd have to wait so you just think there's nothing.

And sometimes even if you did locate the one of two guides to the room, it would only tell you like, the title, artist, year it was made, and maybe dimensions.

(Also lol at the idea the gallery staff always knows the answer. Depending on the place, MAYBE? or it could be museum security who was given a brief overview like, a week before the exhibition went up that didn't cover each individual piece necessarily. I was front desk at a contemporary art museum in college and they would just give me a summary of a new exhibition and maybe more info on a handful of pieces, but I would also be relying on the same list of objects the visitors had.)

i am skeptical you could do that actually, tiktok user

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so sad that people got sick of "doomed by the narrative" and decided it was cringe, because fate and free will in fiction has been a major interest of mine for like eight years, but alas so it goes. anything that gets popular is destined to become reviled in short order. it's like some sort of unstoppable, uncompassionate, avaricious cycle of rising and falling and rising again. like whatever happens, no matter the intentions, it will always result in the same tragic ending. you could almost say it was d

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Americans can call it jelly also, it's just that Jell-O is a widely popular brand name, similar to "band-aid" or "kleenex".

I’m having a heated argument with my father about jelly. I think it slaps. Especially when it has little fruit bits in it. He wrongly thinks it’s horrid and old fashioned. So I come to the great heathens of tumblr settle our debate.

(I had to google what Americans call Jelly and I’m so confused. So you get a stolen google image for reference)

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The older you get the funnier anon hate gets. Like I do not have time for this I have to figure out what a 1099-K form is.

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Alexandre de Riquer - Four Seasons (1899)

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Today’s poetry month poem is by the great poet Anne Carson, from her first book SHORT TALKS, from @brick.books

Carson has done monumental work since — I love her translation of Sappho — but I have a spot in my heart for her earliest, most accessible book, 40-odd strange, diamond clear prose lectures. https://www.instagram.com/p/B-nkLP8AOUW/?igshid=13215eish32br

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sometimes in klife thers a cat oin you and you just have to deal wiht it