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Hey uh. I will not be posting fundraisers from asks. I have neither the time nor the energy to research and make sure they are vetted. Any asks sent into my inbox asking for donations will be deleted and the user blocked.
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Reblogged pangur-and-grim
my personal pick for most underrated animal is the european legless lizard, which i think is often taken to just look like a normal and rather plain snake, but if you're familiar with reptile anatomy at all it looks more like some sort of bizarre heraldic fantasy creature than basically anything else on earth
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It looks like today is going to be a night of checking up with my friends to see which ones of them are now unemployed… Tumblr seems to have been hit hard
It looks like developers, both web and mobile, are the biggest group in the 280 people laid off
After publication, we began hearing more about which orgs were impacted from various sources. According to at least one source, just north of 100 were from WooCommerce. We’ve also heard Tumblr, Day One, and the AI orgs were impacted. In the U.S., layoffs spanned roles, including account execs, marketing, product (management and design), sales, community, business operations, and more. The default severance package is just 9 weeks.
The severance package being 9 weeks… i know more than a dozen people who have been fired today that were already in the company when I joined… 10 years ago.
9 weeks.
No kidding, given the number of Tumblr staff I know have been laid off yesterday, I don’t think the current staff number can be higher of 30, maybe 40.
#I was going to reblog a different thread from the same person
Hi, same person here!
So yeah, I deleted the other thread because it was getting VERY viral-within-tumblr and I wasn’t super comfortable with the most popular reblog chain being basically me shouting “backup your blogs!” with no more context.
There are enough posts about what happened last week going around, so people can read the background and then get to the same conclusion on their own after reading the facts instead of blindly panicking because someone shouted “fire!”. I like my panic well researched and with strong a foundation.
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I cannot stress enough that all those things in sewing pattern instructions that seem pointless are actually very important
Yes, how you fold your fabric before putting down the pattern pieces and cutting matters, because it influences how the fabric drapes, and ignoring that can cause fit issues in ways you wouldn't expect
Yes, cutting an entire separate piece to sew to the edge to finish it is going to be better than turning the edge and stitching it on its own, because there are geometry issues in play that make it actually harder to just fold a curve to the inside.
Yes, cutting clips or notches into the seam allowance around curves should always be done, because those geometry issues will work on the seam allowances and keep the curve from laying flat (remember, clip when the curve goes in, notch when the curve goes out)
Yes, interfacing may seem completely superfluous and frustrating and an extra step to work with, but it adds rigidity and stability to areas that need it (especially under buttons)
Yes, using a fun quilting cotton print for lining looks nice, but the point of lining isn't to make the inside pretty as much as it is to make the inside slip smoothly over the layer under it, and quilting cotton is going to instead be prone to grabbing everything under it, so you really should use those annoyingly slippery lining fabrics
Yes, in general, you should use the kind of fabric the pattern tells you to use, because there have been centuries, if not millennia, of people throughout the entire world figuring out what fabric best suits what kind of garment, for reasons beyond aesthetics
I know that a lot of people new to sewing see these things and feel like they're things that just aren't necessary, because they skip them when they sew and the item ends up just fine. And if you don't mind the idea of your clothes looking homemade, then it is fine. But...if you're consistently skipping these things and end up unhappy with how homemade your items look, please consider that that result is at least partly because you're not following the entire directions
"Sewing" involves so much more than just the stitches
Reblogged monsterqueers
beastly reminder
Reblogged evrytingbagel
IM LOSING MY MIND?? WHERE DID THE BREAD COME FROM. WHY IS IT SIDEWAYS. WHAT IS HAPPENING
The way everyone just paused before just putting more tofu on XD
Reblogged eroticcannibal
Man, I almost drank myself to death yesterday, I can't even remember my name, if only there was someone that could help me.
The the trustworthy and saint-like lieutenant:
sunrise, parabellum
Sorry but I can't allow this to remain just in the tags
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hey its me your immune system. looks like we caught somethin here. try sneezing real fast see if that gets rid of it. yeah no dice, huh... alright lemme try filling your lungs with fluid. no yeah i do it all the time dont worry works like a charm. hmmm... still no good... alright well just hold tight here for a minute maybe it just needs time to start working. in the mean time ill go fire up the ol' neuron cooker n see if that helps
HEY its me again. false alarm turns out it was just like pollen or somethin haha sorry i can be a little jumpy is all. ...hey man youre not lookin so good are you okay?
Reblogged vaspider
I feel like we have a spiritual successor to None Pizza with Left Beef: NONE CHEESEBURGER.
No Cheeseburger Whatsoever Under Any Circumstances