what if the spider/alien book cover was that generic flat style that you see with modern romances, except one of the two guy was just this giant eight-eyed spider-centaur. would that be anything?
like this style specifically
did this extremely quick and dirty, so don’t zoom in
You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes
F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???
Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖
If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I’m glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don’t ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don’t ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you
Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned
“Big Pharma” okay are we talking about how privatization and monetization has deeply corrupted the field of medicine or are you talking about how you think chemicals in the water are making the frogs gay
“GMOs”? Are we talking seeds that grow sterile plants and patenting genetic modifications then destroying any competition no matter how small they are? Or are we talking life saving rice with vitamin a to make sure kids don’t go blind in regions not suited for other high vit a veg? … or are we talking about your chidoodle?
Conversely, “alternative medicines”? Are we talking the traditional practices of non-Western societies which have an ancient history of being the cultural tools that allowed communities to take care of the health of their members and are nowadays rigorously studied within these communities to adapt them to the needs of the contemporary life, and can offer important prompts to modern medicine? Or are we talking about a white woman who traveled to India twice, followed a five-hour seminar and knows everything about inner energies now
It is by no means cheaper to craft your own clothes btw, it’s just that every piece is special and dear and well loved, and every time you wear or clean them you feel all the work you’ve put into them
its really annoying that its like apparently impossible to explain to men that “sexual assault is not the Default State of women in distress and it’s ReallyFhucking Stupid that this is literally the go-to when writing a conflict involving a woman” without it being interpreted as “writing about rape is bad and all suggestions of it as a reality for some women must be avoided at all costs” like i mean really really really annoying
like there are stories involving sexual assault where its inclusion gives you a more intimate understanding of the world and characters that would be objectively diminished by treating it with kid gloves and whitewashing it out of existence. and there are stories involving sexual assault where its inclusion makes it Incredibly Obvious the guy writing it just cannot fathom any scenario in which a woman could experience a struggle of Any Kind that does not ultimately involve rape .
the boss fight version of this is when its both and the inclusion of sexual assault is necessary for the reality of the situation to be portrayed with any sense of honesty or integrity but also the way its presented is in such poor taste that it feels like youre being held hostage by the most obnoxiously self-important nerd on the entire planet
Something I really love about Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle is the point he makes about overcorrecting from the original trope. Sanitizing queer art to the point that nothing bad happens to queer characters ever is not only unrealistic, not only shitty to tell queer people what part of their stories they are or are not allowed to tell, it’s also just putting us in another box. The beauty of queer art is when we just get to create what we want to and tell our stories authentically. There’s a place for fluffy feel-good queer romance and horrifically fucked up queer horror. As long as queer people and those who love us get to tell our stories in a way that is meaningful, that resonates with the people who interact with it, that is all that should matter.
I truly hate to tell you all this, but the reason needle sizes are numbered that way (smaller numbers = bigger needles) is BECAUSE SOME ASSHOLE HAD A 1-INCH DIAMETER CYLINDER AND LABELED HIS NEEDLES’ SIZES BY HOW MANY NEEDLES HE COULD SHOVE IN THERE.
Like, 24 24-gauge needles can fit in a 1-inch cylinder. 18 18-gauge needles can fit in a 1-inch cylinder. Wrong and horrible. The worst possible way to measure a needle. Good night.
this is how shotgun shells are made apparently
and then needles got made that way too
Wires as well
That is so unnecessarily imprecise.
It’s not actually that imprecise from a low-tech perspective though? How else are you going to measure the difference between a 6 vs a 9 gauge needle without some highly precise measuring equipment? This is cheap and replicable, and isn’t it easier to make a big cylinder to match a specific diameter?
I’d measure the diameter of the mold used to make the needle and label the molded needles accordingly but however people want to do it is fine I guess
Stacking circles inside circles doesn’t measure things all that precisely. To give a super exaggerated example, a 1-guage needle via this method could be 1 inch diameter, .51 inch diamater, or anything in between. You can nearly double the size of a needle at that scale and still have the same gauge.
Obviously most needles are smaller than that and the margin of error is thus smaller, but it’s still so unnecessarily imprecise when you can just measure the diameter of the molds and use that as your standard. If you want to measure them at home by chucking them in a ring you still can. But the measurement standard should be diameter-based.
It seems weirdly imprecise because it’s not true. I don’t know where this rumor comes from, but that’s not how needle sizes came about. As I understand it, they come from wire gauge sizes, where you make a wire thinner and thinner by repeatedly pulling it through smaller and smaller holes in a draw plate:
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They’re numbered in order from largest to smallest because you do them sequentially, making the wire slightly thinner each time, and the gauge # is just the number of holes you pull it through.
Notably, in every gauge system I’m aware of, the size-0 wire or needle is still much, much less than an inch across, because it’s a wire or a needle, not a piece of rebar.
My best guess about the “number of wires/needles that fit in a 1in cylinder” things is that someone who was confused about gauge numbers had a 1" hole, noticed that they could shove a little more than 20 24-gauge wires in it, jumped to the conclusion that this must be how it was defined, and started confidently telling everyone that this was true.
Do you want me to use historical knitting knowledge to make this a little bit worse
I must know how historical knitting information can be anything but a benefit.
And now I’m thinking about the Terrible Knitters of Mold or whatever it was, the women who hand-knit REALLY fast using knitting sheaths.
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