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sewblue

@sewblue@sfba.social

My life and interests in bullet points.

  • mother to a severely dyslexic kid. I do a lot of advocating, as severe dyslexics get shut out of the written internet so you do not see their viewpoints expressed.
  • long covid suffer, but able to manage it
  • Engineer, except math and science jokes.
  • Crafter, mainly sewing. Love any kind craft and art.
  • Lover of history and architecture
  • old house lover, love my 90 year old house.
  • black cat affectionado. So cats.

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mythologymonday, (edited ) to greece
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Hello, Myth Lovers! To celebrate International , we'd love to see your posts about ! Which museums have great mythological art? Which are your favourite artifacts? Do you have a favourite ? Where have you seen an amazing work of art related to mythology? Use the hashtag for boosts!

🎨 Kos Archaeological Museum,
📸 Dionysis Kouris

@archaeodons @mythology @folklore @TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @GaymerGeek @starrytimepod

sewblue,
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@mythologymonday @archaeodons @mythology @folklore @TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @GaymerGeek @starrytimepod I took my daughter and her best friend to the Getty Museum in Santa Monica. Both Percy Jackson nuts, so we did their Percy Jackson tour.

Watching the two 12 year olds have an absolute blast naming the Gods off the Greek Vases was amazing. Far far better than me.

Mom. It's Asclepius, not Hermes. His staff has 1 snake, no two, so it isn't the cacaduceus.

sewblue, to Bloomscrolling
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My garden right now. Heaps of flowers. Hard to believe this was a wasteland of lawn a year ago.

The California poppies were volunteers. I love how many bumble bees they attract.

TheJen, to random
@TheJen@beige.party avatar

I put down my more involved needlework projects while I'm doing heavy work on the house in favor of quick and dirty cotton string grocery bags. Fed up with the ones I can buy, it's much easier for me just to make them. They're mindless, in the round, net bags that I can just unwind with while waiting for sleep. I'm also hoping that if I actually make them, I won't forget them at home. ;)

sewblue,
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@TheJen We keep our bags in the trunk of the car.

You don't normally need to bag your stuff in the store if you use a cart. Bag your stuff once you get to your car, not in the store. No need to remember your bags.

For small, single bag shopping runs I keep a foldable one on me in my purse.

sewblue, to Starwars
@sewblue@sfba.social avatar

shirt I made for hubby a few years ago. @sewing

Love how the chaos of this busy print gets balanced by orderly cutting.

Doing the pattern matching was a lot of fun - down to the "Rebel" insignia on the collar and game of chicken on the yoke. And yes, there is a pocket.

Only one I didn't plan out as well as I should have was the sleeves. Happy accident there! I was putting a fighter dead center on the sleeve head. The lines of the print just happen to line up near perfect the front.

He wore this to visit Star Wars land at Disneyland a couple years ago, and had people asking about it all day.

sinituulia, to random
@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe avatar

Thinking about the Extremely Subtle And Understated Symbolism For Fertility painting again (Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit, c.1620–5, Sir Nathaniel Bacon)
All the lovingly and painstakingly crafted cabbages. The lovely bosom-forward lass holding that pumpkin? All the erect carrots? The shape of the wreath? So subtle! Incredible. 😆

sewblue,
@sewblue@sfba.social avatar

@sinituulia The stem on one of the pumpkins is quite lewd and pointed at her. A cabbage leaf is reaching toward her like an arm.

This painting cracks me up every time I see it.

sewblue, to random
@sewblue@sfba.social avatar

It is Star Wars Day. May the Fourth be with you.

I hope you spend it sending silly Star Wars memes to your loved ones like I am.

kamikat, to FiberArts
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@sewing I ran out of the handdyed green for the straps and binding. Do y'all like the handdyed brown or solid green?

On a dressmaker's mannequin sits a princess seamed bodice in handdyed greens with solid green straps and neck binding

sewblue,
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@kamikat @sewing Green!

I love tone on tone designs.

sewblue, to Bloomscrolling
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California poppies from my garden.

I don't use pesticides or herbicides so I can welcome random California poppies to my garden.

sewblue, to random
@sewblue@sfba.social avatar

Morning sadness.

When I finish my cup of coffee, I will need to get up and start my day.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Talk among Tories of leaving the ECHR is reaching fever pitch (again), so its as well to be reminded about what the consequences of leaving the European Convention on Human Rights would & wouldn't be.

Whatever the practical issues, as Joelle Grogan (King's College) concludes, not only would it encourage further withdrawals, leaving the ECHR would be one more element in the destruction of the UK's (already floundering) global reputation, with further consequences.

https://theconversation.com/leaving-the-european-convention-on-human-rights-wont-stop-the-boats-but-it-will-create-other-problems-for-the-uk-227403?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2016%202024%20-%202939129860&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2016%202024%20-%202939129860+CID_d0e1f020b3b7a3362d1bc42184ea100d&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Leaving%20the%20European%20convention%20on%20human%20rights%20wont%20stop%20the%20boats%20%20but%20it%20will%20create%20other%20problems%20for%20the%20UK

sewblue,
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@christineburns @ChrisMayLA6 Every Brit I've known is a bit weird about Europe, coming from this American. I discovered I could elicit a disproportionate response from my British ex-pat friends by "mistakenly" referring to the UK as European.

A weird rejection of basic geography for cultural reasons, let alone EU politics. Unless it relates to the US, from our perspective the UK is part of Europe and European history. Tell most Brits that and a look of horror will flash over their face. The American needs to corrected.

Am a bit of an anglophile and always found it odd, just how vehement a reaction it is.

Interesting to learn the political angle. Given the level of emotional response I've seen, not surprising.

shekinahcancook, to Women
@shekinahcancook@babka.social avatar

Everything You’ve Heard About Chastity Belts Is a Lie
Including their very existence.
by Sarah Laskow July 12, 2017

"...What accounts for the persistence of this story? “Male fear,” according to Classen. “There’s always a lover in the background who already has the duplicate key, he says. In other words, even in the 1500s, no one took the idea of locked-up metal underwear very seriously as an effective anti-sex device. When chastity belts were depicted, it was in the Renaissance equivalent of Robin Hood: Men in Tights—and the audiences for those pieces of art probably thought the idea of a metal chastity belt just as giggle-worthy as late 20th-century teenagers did..."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/everything-youve-heard-about-chastity-belts-is-a-lie

sewblue,
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@shekinahcancook The whole arranged marriage + chivalric love probably had more than a bit to do with it. It was a romantic ideal for a lady to fall in love with a knight who wasn't her husband!

Think Lancelot and Guinevere.

How the heck do you square all these stories about adultery and preserving the line of succession?

You joke about chastity belts.

sewblue, to random
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Busy doing old house stuff.

Now that we no longer have a pool, what to do with the old pool equipment room?

Turn it into storage of course!

Cut down a ridiculous amount of cardboard, cleaned it out and gave it a good scrub with the pressure washer. Going to repair the floor and paint the room white.

mostaurelius, to books
@mostaurelius@mas.to avatar

A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.

source: https://www.facebook.com/GoodwillLibrarian

@bookstodon

sewblue,
@sewblue@sfba.social avatar

@mostaurelius @bookstodon I'm an engineer and that "foundation" is one of the most unnerving things I've ever seen.

inthehands, to random
@inthehands@hachyderm.io avatar

Because they bring me such joy, I will share with you all the software testing videos I share with my Software Design and Development students.

Video 1/3: “We don’t need user testing! We already know our users”

Children at a playground completely ignoring the slide, and sliding down the smooth hill upon which the slide is mounted

sewblue,
@sewblue@sfba.social avatar

@mina @aeveltstra @_L1vY_ @geoffreyconley @inthehands In my job as a mechanical engineer I write procedures on processes that can kill people, and QC them for younger engineers.

Stripping out overly technical language is huge in what I do. Unless the user needs it, it is gone. You also need to use the actual language the users use.

Schools and colleges encourage language bloat, writing for someone who knows more than you do and hitting a number of pages. In the real world, most writing is for people who know less than you do. Overly complex language impedes understanding and increases the risk of mistakes.

The empty fluff can be hilariously bad. "Specific to the specified" when "use" will do being the highlight of my year.

sewblue,
@sewblue@sfba.social avatar

@mina @aeveltstra @_L1vY_ @geoffreyconley @inthehands I once had to fight for weeks witha stubborn individual to add the program name to make it searchable.

It's a guard, not protection!

The reviews were a new thing at time and it did get better, but jeeze, really? It is an affront to your dignity to use the actual names of things?

I teach people to play a game - see how many words they can eliminate from a sentence and have it make sense.

TechConnectify, to random
@TechConnectify@mas.to avatar

Real talk time:

"Just asking questions" is a weapon. We know full-well that some people exploit it to feign innocence when deliberately throwing noise into discussions. And it works in large part because it encourages otherwise earnest discussions which then contribute to the noise.

So be careful.

sewblue,
@sewblue@sfba.social avatar

@TechConnectify A lot of people (myself included, something I've had to work on) grow up being the smart kids and getting rewarded for asking questions. It can be really hard to overcome that urge to show off, as you spent the first 2 decades of your life getting rewarded for behavior that is asinine outside the classroom.

So I've learned to temper my impulse to ask a question that is more about me showing off how smart I am. If I can't think of something that isn't driven by my curiosity, I don't ask a question.

Others seem to just enjoy feeling superior, but which case it is isn't always obvious to the person getting questioned.

So yes, feeling sympathy. Have been on both sides, though not out of malice on my end. But it means I know how to deal with that personality type as an engineer, but it takes tools social media doesn't have.

Putting yourself out there the way you do is tough! My sympathies for the reply guys and show offs, they are not fun to deal with.

sewblue, to FiberArts
@sewblue@sfba.social avatar

This is why commercial patterns drive me nuts.

Proportionally I have tiny shoulders and a small overbust, and large bust. Carry more weight in my midsection than I would like. A combination that makes fitting difficult.

There is no correct measurement to size from. If I use my bust or waist, the shoulder will have fit issues, and I can't guess the right size to fit my shoulder with no measurement for overbust provided or marked.

A good chunk of this is the ridiculous 3 inches of ease that Simplicity builds in.

Really need to shift to using a sloper and doing my own designs. Fighting commercial patterns for fit isn't worth the headache.

@sewing

sewblue, to FiberArts
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I don't know why but seeing how sheer this fabric is makes me realize how crazy this project is.

Beading silk chiffon.

sewblue, to random
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Hoping the next set of storms might push the Lake Berryessa glory hole over the edge! Looks like about 6 inches to go. We need a dam spill!

I had no clue the glory hole existed when i first saw it, spilling. My brain simply could not process the hole in the lake. Like it was some kind of distortion in the fabric of space, a perfect circle of water just falling into nothing.

Last time it spilled was 2017.

A graph of Lake Berryessa's water level since the start of the year. It starts at 422 ft, stays relatively level, jumping up with each series of storms. It has been hovering at 438 ft for a month, and is now at 439.58 ft.

sewblue, to random
@sewblue@sfba.social avatar

Been reading bunch of old NTSB reports lately (1970's) and the word "accident" jumped out at me.

We no longer have accidents, we have incidents.

While I have my quibbles with "incident" or "event," it is better than the shoulder shrug, "what could I do? It was an accident."

Seeing "accident" applied to preventable f'up after f'up just floored me. Accident implies chance, that intentions were good.

The guy who wasn't briefed that caused events to unfold. No written plan. The lack of safety equipment. The lack of more safety equipment. The lack of even more safety equipment. No coordination with emergency responders.

That shit doesn't happen by accident, it happens by ignorance, negligence and lack of safety rigor. Every single screw up could have been prevented.

Damn well wasn't an accident.

But those lessons, when carefully laid out by the NTSB, that have been learned and internalized. Or written into code because of the blood spilt.

sewblue, to random
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New symptom, 4 years in. Lung pain!
Sharp lung pain, when I breath in, at 1 spot in particular.

It feels rather like the lung pain I had occasionally acute covid.

On the face of it, it appears to be connected to my diet, as always with my LC. I shouldn't eat carbs or sugar or I risk getting sick.

It first appeared on Friday night, after indulging at that fundraiser. Couple twinges and the next morning, pain. Went away over the course of day.

Was naughty last night and had a few Girl Scout cookies. Woke up this morning with the pain back.

I swear it is like I have diabetes with completely different slate of symptoms.

But for now, it is owwie to breathe too deeply.

mattblaze, to random
@mattblaze@federate.social avatar

FBI notifying passengers on the Boeing plane on which the door plug came out in flight that they are "possible victim[s] of a crime".

Not disclosed is what crime is being investigated here. Criminal negligence on Boeing and/or its subcontractor's part, or, more nefariously, some kind of sabotage?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/us/politics/fbi-investigation-boeing.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.ek0.JY3j.lzEKjgfUY4qP&smid=url-share

sewblue,
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@mattblaze I can't speak to airplane regulations exactly, but I am an engineer in a highly regulated industry so I can speak to how these types of laws work in practice.

Falsification of records is a felony. What rather angers me is that it is a felony for the person who signed the fake record, not the boss who told them to.

The law is structured to go after the little guy, which occasionally happens. Even if the corporation itself is convicted of a felony, no jail time for people upstairs.

Our laws are set up to go after the low ranking employees but ignore the MBA mob boss.

sewblue, to FiberArts
@sewblue@sfba.social avatar

Fitting help please! @sewing

Faux wrap front. I sized to my bust with. I've already swung 1.5 inches out of the upper bust to the waist, but still have extra fabric and tension issues. Also have trouble keeping the neckline(which is on grain) tight against my bust.

Am remembering why I swore off certain commercial patterns. Every time I have major armscye issues. I initially did a full bust adjustment, but the crazy amount of ease made it a tent. Tried something else.

Have half a mind to just drape to get the look, using the armscye from a size down. Was hoping to do this via pattern manipulation.

sewblue,
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@PatsyBaloney @sewing I had done that already! This was my second muslin. Took 1.5 inches out of the armscye and rotated to my waistline, but in retrospect should have taken 2 inches.

I ended up draping it. The pattern had at least 3 inches of ease I was struggling with as well.

The waistline is also on the bias (what the pattern called for) and I didn't think to reinforce, so it has some bias stretch issues as well.

TheJen, to random
@TheJen@beige.party avatar

Dear reply guys and other bad actors: We now have 15 million other people to choose from on this platform.

You're not special and hopefully drowned out of existence because there are no math equations here to prop you up.

Be. Gone.

sewblue,
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@TheJen Was of similar mind until recently, sadly.

Been getting spammed a lot late by @sewing, a group I follow. The sewing group basically auto re-bost mentions. Trolls/nazis/spambots have discovered that if they tag certain groups they can get eyeballs even without an algorithm.

So badically have figured out a way to highjack/ exploit group communications. So am stuck picking between following a group I like and getting spammed by outsiders.

Grumble grumble.

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