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Would you like to come along? You could help me sing this song And it's all right, baby it's all right

SO WHAT IF YOU CAN SEE 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🔥🔥🔥🔥💥💥💥💥💥THE DARKEST SIDE OF ME🩸🩸🩸🐺🐺🩸🐺🐺🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🐺🩸NO ONE WILL EVER CHANGE THIS ANIMAL I HAVE BECOME🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸💥🎸💥🎸💥🎸💥🎸💥🎸💥🎸💥💥🎸💥HELP ME BELIEVE 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏ITS NOT THE REAL ME🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺SOMEBODY HELP ME TAME THIS ANIMAL I HAVE BECOME🥩🐺🩸🥩🐺🩸🩸🐺🩸🩸🥩🐺🩸🩸🐺🩸🐺🩸🩸🩸🩸🐺

they won't tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with "girl what the hell are you talking about"

It's not a cure but you have no idea how many times this image has helped me with my OCD

Sometimes I imagine my mind-self cutting the intrusive thoughts with a katana, it helps a bit when I want to concentrate on something.

I was working with an item today that just utterly flabbergasted a part of me (the other was deeply frustrated with the catalogue record AS SOMEONE APPARENTLY THOUGHT IT WAS PRINTED ON SILK, coming back to that in a minute) … but ANYWAYS … said item is a replica of a medieval manuscript prayer book THAT IS ENTIRELY WOVEN out of grey and black silk … WOVEN … text, images, intricate grey scale, WOVEN … NOT PRINTED …

And it’s flabbergasting because it’s from 1888, Jacquard machine, IT USED PUNCH CARDS to weave these intricate pages … something like 400 weft per near square inch … IT looks like a page of textured paper, but it’s not, it’s entirely SILK … F*CK …

Anyways …

OKS I’ve since calmed down and found out that the reason they used “printed” is because it is essentially printed by a computer … in a weird way; when I import the record, I’m just gonna take that note out …

BUT this is the item btw

WOVEN! WOVEN ON A LOOM using f*ckin’ punch cards!

This portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard was also woven with punch cards in 1839!

NOW GUESS WHY EARLY COMPUTERS WERE PROGRAMMED

WITH

PUNCH CARDS

yes you’re right, they used jacquard-loom techniques

Jacquard Loom: Early Computer Programing    

I just wanted to add a video discussing how a jacquard-loom worked, cuz this is nuts

A Jacquard loom in action    

I want to write more in 2026. And there’s only one way I can do it—by writing the most self-indulgent garbage you have ever seen.

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