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busstop · 2 months

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Ryan Yip explains what a fabulous resource for sewers of all kinds the Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank is.

#sewing #embroidery #stitches #database #needlework #textiles #fashion #fashion history #costume design #costume history #couture #ryan yip #tiktok #sewing resources #dressmaking #embellishment #decorative #video

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throwing-roses-into-the-abyss · 5 months

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I know this is interesting to no one because it's incredibly niche but I have a little mystery around mid-to-late 19th century mens waistcoats that I've been digging into, and so far, after digging into a bunch of local, provincial, and also national and international online archives, including but not limited to the Rijksmuseum, the V&A, LACMA, and KCI, and also asking about this on instagram and specifically asking the dutch costume society, I have found:

-9 pictures, all local to my area in eastern Netherlands, and every single one of these pictures is people wearing local folk dress -and one (1) extant garment, in the US and also made there.

that's it.

#fashion history #historical fashion #all this to say: if anyone happens to know of a good database with menswear (esp waistcoats) 1840-1890 please send it to me #because I'm ???????? right now #can be from literally anywhere #I'm just collecting data at this point and not limiting sources at all #because I can't find any information at all #also if anyone here happens to work with antique clothes please come talk to me about this #maybe we can collectively figure this out

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endreal · 4 months

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The "ancient high tech civilization" trope that SFF likes to play with a lot is cool and all, but sometimes I wish there'd just be more general love for "ancient different tech civilization" and it's still weird as hell to the contemporary characters but, like, not all modernity/tradition-y about it.

#This post brought to you by me thinking about how textile materials were largely regionalized for a lot of human history #could you imagine being a person from. idk. the linen part of the world seeing someone wearing kapa for the first time #That combined moment of what the Fuck are you wearing??? and YOOOOO that is so cool!!!#Alternatively: 'what's that?' 'database says it's a plough' 'not like any plow I've ever used' 'then you'd have been a shit farmer here'

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aphsillyos · 23 days

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silly lil designs for pf ez and aphelios blending into piltover :]

#me arts tag #i was going to draw smth a bit more substantial but i need a nap :'D #the monocle and glasses are just their visors disguised somehow #and the weird half vest? design for ezreal.. i imagine half of it tears off/opens (like buttons or smth)#to accommodate his arm cannon transforming. actually i imagine both their outfits kinda work like that #tearaway clothes for their pulsefire equipment somehow #although im imagining the pulsefire tech might be able to make some illusion/disguise clothes.. transforming tech? who knows #realistically im sure aphelios would cover up the glowing marks on his face but it also looked odd w/o his face markings so i just left em #ezreal monocle doesnt look as silly as i thought... maybe he should wear one normally #im meh on aphelios's coat design but maybe ill rerereredesign into oblivion... LOL #wanted to give him more of like a pilot jacket originally but idk what his vibe is. goofy lil guy. what fashion even suits you #OH.... I GUESS. HE NEEDS HIS SCARF.... ill fix it at some point probably maybe sure #i think it'd be a bit funny if ezreal is unintentionally a fashion/style person #just bc of how much blending in with timelines and worlds and stuff hes done #he just ended up absorbing so much fashion knowledge #aphelios or ekko points it out at some point and hes like. huh. im not into fashion #(said while reading a hefty book on fashion history for whatever location theyre at)#yeah im sure PEARL probably has built in search engine stuff #but ezreal just strikes me as the type of guy to research and memorize/learn stuff #''just in case i lose access to PEARL's database again'' or whatever #im sure thats probably happened like 100 times #so random but i feel like aphelios has the vibe of a guy you wanna dress up in various outfits #but also hes like :) (just happy to be included/present) so he doesnt mind #you put a goofy souvenir shop floppy hat on him and hes like. :)#my aphelios hcs are nonsense im so sorry. i want him to be happy #pulsefire ezreal #pulsefire aphelios #pulsefire #aphelios #ezreal

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simeonscott · 8 months

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Opening SHFs and Celebrating the Creators that got me into Toku! - Vacstream 8/29/2023

Gonna be streaming on Tuesday night, come join if ya can!

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pancakeke · 4 months

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I made a big report a year ago that compares what components were allocated to orders the previous week vs what are allocated now (accounting for consumption n such). it looks at 100% of inventory in 100% of locations. for the first 9 months I was just logging changes while no one gave a shit cause everyone blew off our weekly inventory meeting so there was no one to review anything. but no one can do that anymore :)

I have all the part numbers, quantities, dollar values, and customer accounts laid out very nicely so no one in sales can accuse supply chain of buying stuff for no reason when really they changed their orders around without telling anyone so they wouldn't have to admit making any mistakes.

this report hasn't made them stop trying to lie/hide things in the first place tho. maybe one day.

#people in sales just enter orders wrong and then after the components re purchased they update the orders without telling supply chain #so then the unwanted stuff ships and no one can easily determine what drew demand cause history isnt seaechable in out system #i can do it thru the sql database tho. so i do and add notes to the report's weekly log

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fancyshooting · 1 year

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ocelot's full biography from the mgs4 database:

#mgs #metal gear solid #revolver ocelot #they didn't retcon his 'I fought wars in afghanistan mozambique eritrea and chad' by the time mgsv was released #those were all real conflicts #so I think for any gaps it's implied that he was involved with irl soviet military operations #you can probably use real world history to join the dots #he was in the gru for yeeeaaars #him meeting vulcan raven in siberia was never expanded upon but there's that too #was that the 90s idk but he was still in the gru then #post-ussr: ????#the 90s is a bigger mystery than the 70s imo #he didn't join foxhound until bb died in 1999.....#was he still in the gru when he was working with eva #I guess he left the gru to join foxhound #ETCETERA we know everything from there #mostly #why did the database tell us his post-ussr file was false then not correct it </3 #LOL I bet I'm missing something really obvious #trying to make sense of retcons might also not be very clever idk #not enjoying my role as official ocelot biographer

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the-shadows-request-candy-corn · 1 year

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I Am Mother and Dadviser would get along, I think.

#Dadviser would maybe be a little intimidated by Mother with the whole 'destroyed the entire human race' thing #They would totally vibe with their mutual warped love and idealization of humanity thing #and their mutual history of burning their children in pursuit of perfection #Mother:'5000+ tries and your own death just to get one right? LOL noob'#Dad: 'OK look not all of us had the privilege of complete databases and past human interaction'#Mother: 'SMH you should've made them birthday cakes. Humans love cakes made by robots'#I Am Mother #deviser podcast #AI #scifi #deviser

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catilinas · 1 year

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(livy 3.10 trans. aubrey de sélincourt)

literally Who is doing it like ancient catalogues of omens

#they Are one of my favourite parts of ancient history texts for Real!!!!!!#it rained lumps of meat!!!!!! add that to the list of times it has rained meat!!!!!!#ALSO i wonder if anyone has made a database of ancient omens??? 👁#livy #beeps

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bastardbvby · 8 months

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4 am deep dives are crazy because now im just here reading about the founding of romania like girl go to sleep

#the library of congress has an online database with country studies that details their history its so interesting

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schistostegapennata · 10 months

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Have you ever agonized over trying to find out where Gandae is now while trying to cite an extremely old book in Latin? Or tugged at your hair while wailing in despair at the fact that Leucopetrae was the name for present-day Weissenfels, Germany? Are you tired of messing about with geographical tables from the same time period as the book you're researching just to see if you can track down where that weird name was on the map so you can compare it to a map from today and find out the city's name? Or maybe none of these apply to you and you actually just want to mess around with some cool Latin words?

Well, have I got the database for you!!! Go to Latin Place Names at https://rbms.info/lpn/, cause it is wonderful and I may or may not have started dancing around my living room and whooping gleefully when I found it

#latin #history #early modern history #research #incunabula #printed latin #latin place names #database

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iamthepulta · 9 months

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Okay, the paper I found on ancient Cyprus mining is FASCINATING. It makes me wonder, because there are so many sources they're citing, 1) if there's juicy mining archeology drama 2) if there's a repository somewhere of all these papers 3) if I can become a secondary modern ancient archeology of mining resource repository.

#I want to become one of those people who shambles to the bookshelf or the Access database file and hands people the most helpful paper #goals #ptxt #mining history

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stephaniedola · 11 months

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i am once again asking why i am being expected to cite historical sources

#i was not built to deal with this sort of research #kudos to any of ya'll historians because could not be me #thots et al #ugh i just have like 20+ sources that i HATED the entire process of finding and like #i forgot all the keywords i used to search all the shitty databases and i dont know how to cite any of them #i just want to take the L with this entire project but i cant afford to do that #i am only able to rest easy knowing this is the last history class i have to take #watch me submit slightly below the bare minimum

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random-iz-stuff · 2 years

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that irk history post was cool. any theorys on how they lost their wings and or how they developed paks?

Yes.

Irkens loosing their wings and the development of PAKs are deeply and directly connected.

PAKs were invented just a few decades after an event known as “the great unifying”, an event that involved the complete unification of all Irken countries and governments under one Almighty Tallest. Its considered to be one of Irk’s most important moments in history, and is considered by irken historians to be the beginning of the modern empire’s formation.

PAKs were originally built with the purposes of space travel and survival in harsh environments in mind. They were extremely complex devices that acted like spacesuits, EVA packs, communication systems, toolkits and life support devices compressed into one single thing on the irken’s back.

Because PAKs needed to go on the Irken’s back, astronauts had to get their wings surgically removed so the PAK would fit. The nerve endings where the wings used to be would be connected to the PAK, letting the wearer control the PAK with their mind. The removal of the Irken’s wings in this situation was considered to be a necessary evil. PAKs were made for space travel, so astronauts were some of the only people that would receive PAKs, and they can’t exactly use their wings up in space where there’s no air.

Then as time went on, PAKs became more widely used, but instead of one type of universal PAK like today, multiple types of PAK were made for different jobs. PAKs had weapons put into them and were given to high ranking soldiers, PAKs had engineering equipment put in and were given to architects and engineers that requested them, and so on.

As the Irken Empire slowly formed, PAKs became more mandatory. Soldiers of all types were required to have a PAK installed upon enlisting. More engineers and architects were given PAKs, even if they didn’t want them, and so on.

Eventually, PAKs containing medical equipment and medical trackers were required at birth. So Smeets started having their wings be cut off just minutes after being born/hatched/whatever you call it when you’re taken out of a cloning tube. (Gene editing and cloning was already the main way that Irkens would reproduce, it had been that way since long before The Great Unification and the Unity War that preceded it).

After that, since everyone had them now, trackers were added to PAKs. The government could track your location from anywhere and your PAK could hear you saying anything bad about the government and automatically report you, and since PAK’s were connected to irken bodies via the nerves that used to belong the the wings, it was extremely difficult to safely remove PAKs to prevent this.

Meanwhile, Irkens were slowly developing to have smaller and smaller wings since they were being cut off at birth.

Then came the invention of the first Control Brain (which were simply called Judges back then, as their purpose was to assist in the judicial process, a job that control brains are still used for today. They wouldn’t be named Control Brains until a while after Irk achieved first contact, which wouldn’t happen for a couple hundred years). And stuff immediately started going to shit.

Sentient AI like Judges brought up the question of artificially creating irken brains, which eventually led to the use of PAK’s as a second mechanical brain, which eventually led to the organic brain and the PAK becoming two halves of the same whole like how it is now.

PAKs becoming second brains directly led to the invention of methods of connecting the PAK to the brain without using the wing nerves, so irken wings were completely useless now. Couldn’t keep them because PAKs are mandatory, but we don’t need them for anything else now. So irkens started selectively editing the genes of smeets to speed up the process of the wings developing less, eventually completely removing them after several generations. This kind of thing is actually something they have experience with, as the entire Irken race accidentally selectively bred and edited their reproductive organs and desires out of themselves long before the Unity War with their overuse of cloning technology.

Meanwhile, PAKs are starting to become even more restrictive. They had already created the multi-purpose PAK, and they started to add in even more trackers, now even more invasive because the government literally had access to people’s brains because of the new “second brain” feature of PAKs. Screw trackers that report you to the government if you say something bad about the Empire, now you can’t even think anti-empire thoughts, as the PAK just straight up blocks them.

Then, without any warning (except for the many warnings of several dozen scientists across several generations, all of which the government ignored) irkens started getting dependent on PAKs. Even smeets. By the time irkens achieved first contact a century or so later, that 10 minutes to death thing had been established.

As PAKs became more advanced and more restrictive, the first defectives were discovered. Turns out, if an irken has something in its brain that makes a part of it incompatible with a PAK, like say for example; a mental disorder or trauma, it will overwhelm and break parts of the PAK. Can’t fix the defective by fixing the PAK because the problem is in the irken’s organic brain. This meant the beginning of anti-defective propaganda, along with Defective Trials (which would later be renamed Existence Evaluation Trials) where a Judge (Control Brain) looks through your PAK’s artificial second brain for evidence of you being defective. This is also what led to PAKs blocking trauma and restricting emotions.

By the time Irkens achieved first contact, their PAKs were already very close to what they look like in the modern day, just built with less advanced technology. They repressed the same things, they had very similar devices inside them, you died in 10 minutes if they were removed, all that.

#invader zim #headcanons #asks #irken history #PAKs Control Brains and the Irken Database #they were all originally designed to help with things #but the empire took them and mixed them all together while also making them into devices of oppression #PAKs: designed to be used for Space Travel #the Empire: uses PAKs to suppress and subjugate the people #Control Brains: Robotic Judge that cannot be bribed or bargained with #the Empire: makes Control Brains find and kill defectives #The Database: the sum of all irken knowledge at your fingertips #the Empire: uses the Database to control the information that it’s people receive #the empire is a massive self perpetuating space cult

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bookwyrminspiration · 2 years

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oh the absolute ECSTASY of finding something to do with your special interest when you weren't expecting to it's like woag! the world is full of good things and also my bones are made of CONFETTI FIREWORKS now! another win for autism!

#actually autistic #Y'ALL #today I realized that my college's databases has access!! to ebooks!!#which is like a pretty obvious thing now that I think about it but I was always using the academic journals for what I needed #BUT!#it turns out they've got ebooks! and I found so many related to the history of medicine!#and specific to anatomy and human dissection!!#and even more specifically!#this one textbook I really wanted but wasn't going to get anytime soon because it's. a textbook #like for students #and they cost money #even though I wanted it so badly because the synopsis looks like it /perfectly/ matches the things I like learning about #BUT I CAN GET IT FOR FREE ON THE DATABASE!!!!#AND I FOUND OTHER RELEVANT TEXTBOOKS TOO!!!#rrrggoiae #so so excited #gonna download them so I have access even when I'm not a student here anymore because oairgajerga #special interest :)))))))#there is so so much informaiton in those tex tbooks oareogij #i am going to learn. so many thigns #awrogian #hehehe autism wins #tw caps in tags

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cupuasu · 8 months

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was looking at the school systems in latin america and i think our ministries of education should come together n decide some sort of standard fr bc what a mess

#if they could come together to make our car plate look the same ugly ass shit they should come together to do something useful as well #they should copy paste whatever finland is smoking for basic school n then steal whatever cuba is doing in high education #me personally if i could choose i'd divide the basic years in 4 phases #first (til 4yo) second (til 8yo) third (til 12yo) fourth (16yo)#which is similar to what we have but its divided evenly now. also they should make the school hours shorter #no fucking person should be sitting in a chair for over 6h #three months of vacation is a perfect number to be honest (december january july)#oh n we should actually have decent extracurricular activities OR we should b able 2 choose the classes we need #sure make a standard curriculum for ppl who dont know what theyre doing w their life but also let the rest of us bitches choose #i DID NOT need that many chemistry or biology classes. i was not interested then and im not interested now #and also that insane amount of math classes was unnecessary too. even if i use math in uni now #a perfect curriculum for me would be 25% language 25% history + geography 25% math 10% art or PE 5% sciences #these bitches had me doing 40% math 40% portuguese 20% all sciences + random philosophy #oh n while i think a test to get into university is good it should not be like a straight line bc every student is different #for example when i did ENEM the first time i was baffled on how insane the math and sciences part were #(i love the language history and geography part tho) like i think we should also be able to choose that #like when we sign up we say what uni and course we wanna take and then do a test that has nothing to do with it #we should be able to get a personalized test from the already existing database. for example #if im going to do architecture then my test needs more math physics and history. but not as much language geography and fuckass chemistry #even though i LOVE language and geography #wait this rant went too personal already. anyway change the schooling system #and also fix the way teachers are being taught to teach and also pay them better and fund better infrastructure #cos literally til when are politicians gonna put the tax money up their ass? girl you cant even give 30% to education? kill yourself <3 #the way latin america will be stuck in the lower top 50 in education for the next decades is crazy

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