Block these sites in your uBlock Origin so you won’t see that shit in your searches
The extension in the screenshot is uBlacklist and it’s quite easy to use, both manually from the control panel to add the sites with the asterisk, or when in a search results page and clicking the “block this site” option. It’s how I’ve gotten rid of random Pinterest site results, too.
They also provide subscription lists that keep up sites such as these and others on their github:
unironically love the phrase “but I’m being so brave about it” because truly, like, what other choice do we have in this wretched existence? what a beautiful way to remind yourself to keep going, even if only out of spite
I really think they need to start teaching kids in schools that most blind people can see a little bit, most deaf people can hear a little bit, and most wheelchair users can walk a little bit. And they are still disabled.
Posting the final product one more time because I’m so proud of it! Taught myself crochet this summer with YouTube, then spent all of this fall making Persian Tiles during my down time at work (there’s a lot). Sized it up from an afghan to a queen size because 1) go big or go home 2) worsted weight acrylic yarn is dead cheap. Learned a lot! Also talked to so many people who saw me working on it and told me their own stories about crochet- old projects of their own that fell to the wayside, the blanket their grandma made. I got inspired to make this after I saw the pattern online, then spotted a finished one at the fair in the crafts barn. Felt like full circle when someone else told me they felt inspired to pick the craft back up!
more people would exercise if this culture didn’t make it absolute hell
I teach martial arts. we play games with the little kids. they swordfight with noodles and throw foam balls at each other. in the summer, we take them out into the parking lot with water guns. in the winter, we have snowball fights.
the teenagers get swords and staffs and practice knives. we teach them moves from marvel movies that they ask about. they get squirt guns and snowball fights too. we let them goof off and climb the support beams and charge directly at each other in padded suits.
sometimes parents say they miss doing things like that. I tell them, “stay for an adult class. just try it out.” we build obstacle courses and let them mess around with training rifles. they chat while sparring. we scream and cheer for them when they’re in the middle of a circle. and then we send them out to the parking lot with squirt guns and snowballs.
it’s exercise. it’s healthy. it’s an important life skill. and it’s fun as fuck.
why is deciding what to eat so exhausting. I JUST figured that out several hours ago and now I have to do it again?? why can’t I be like a gila monster and eat a large meal and be good for a few months
you have no idea how confused ive been for the last however many months to hear people casually talking about stanley cups, like as a fad or something? and how people shouldn’t have them or something? and this WHOLE ive kept thinking ‘isnt there just the one? dont you have to give it back to the hockey association next year??’
An c.1000-1200 CE example of Egyptian cotton knitted socks.
For those in the notes asking:
This is an object found in the George Washington Museum and The Textile Museum’s collection. Specifically, it is accession number 73.698, meaning that you can go to their website and take a look at it.
Additionally, I am about 75-90% sure that there is a pattern for this sock created! I don’t know where you would find it, but it may be found if you email the collections staff or perhaps the library staff. I do know for a fact that there was a researcher who went in to look at a good number of these socks to turn them into patterns for reconstruction. I don’t know if those patterns were ever publicized, but if those folks might know where to find it if they were. Alternatively, you can check the object record’s bibliography (i.e. papers and studies that have researched or mentioned this object), or the textile museum’s journal to see if it was published there.
Please credit when you list objects like this. It’s very frustrating for folks that might want to research objects like this if you don’t add in the credit lines. Just as we credit artists, we need to credit the museums that hold these objects, because they hold them specifically so that people can study them. If people don’t know where the objects are from, then they can’t study them, and it makes the study of history even more of an ivory tower than it already is.
(edited to add in: it looks like the pattern could be found in the November/December 2011 edition of PieceWork, based on the fact that it says you can re-create Coptic socks (which this sock is) on the front cover)
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