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Amazon increases the price of Prime: how to cancel your subscription
Amazon increases the price of Prime: how to cancel your subscription
Bad news for Amazon customers. The American platform announced on Tuesday July 26 an increase to come in mid-September of 42% in the price of its subscription to Prime, its protean service giving access to the free delivery of products on its market place as well as to various catalogs of music. , movies and series in streaming.
The American company justifies this decision by the increase in…
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how to prevent your smartphone, PC or console from overheating
how to prevent your smartphone, PC or console from overheating
While France is in the grip of a new heatwave episode, supposed to reach its peak this Monday, July 18, electronic devices, like organisms, are put to the test by the high heat which affects their components and disrupts their operation.
Slowdowns, battery runs out faster, screen less bright, smudged or less responsive… Even if they now have internal cooling systems, smartphones, like computers…
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...this life will hit you, hard, in the face...
wait for you to get back up so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air."
Excerpt from "B (If I should Have a Daughter)" by Sarah Kay
Well shit. I was planning on doing a summary of last week, then the weekend, then see how this week was panning out and decide if I would do dailies or wrap-ups. But then the pharmacy couldn't fill my Rx for anti-depressants. And then I couldn't get in touch with my psychiatrist. Every avenue of reaching him that I tried was met with silence. No replies. Not even crickets.
I take 90mg of Duloxetine each day for my depression, anxiety, and chronic pain. At least I did, because I haven't had any since Thursday 7/7. In case anyone wasn't already aware, withdrawal sucks. Needing an over the counter chemical to be a baseline human sucks. Being ghosted by a medical professional sucks.
So here's just a bunch of pictures since the 4th and we'll call that a blog.
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Apple's new features that will make life easier on your iPhone this fall
Apple’s new features that will make life easier on your iPhone this fall
There will soon be something new on your iPhone. Apple presented on Monday June 6 the future evolutions of the operating system of its flagship smartphone. Available this fall after the presentation of the new iPhones, the update to iOS 16 will be offered to all iPhones from model 8, launched in 2017.
The new features announced at WWDC will not overly disrupt the operation of the iPhone. They…
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the new features of the iPhone under iOS 16 and new products expected on Monday
the new features of the iPhone under iOS 16 and new products expected on Monday
It is one of the most anticipated high-tech conferences each year by fans of new technologies. Some fans of the Apple brand even scrutinize it with more interest than the iPhone presentation keynote, where the changes have been leaner in recent years. Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) opens this Monday, June 6 in California with the traditional presentation conference of new software…
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just pulled this shawl off the blocking mat!
super in love with it, the only thing i would change is that it’s a little smaller than i hoped. i think i should have used one needle size larger. for some reason i have trouble trusting that looser gauges will look right even though i love them when blocked and finished lmao
also this thing had like. a billion ends to weave in because each of those little points created 2 ends so it was a bit of a slog however i think the end result is worth it!
pattern link here!
#hand knit shawl#knitting#hand knitted#lace shawl#handknit#wormurs#the yarn is knitpicks gloss lace which i have learned is not my absolute favourite#nothing wrong with it it’s just a little almost sticky?#has some lovely colours though and i still have almost a skein and a half of this left so i’ll definitely be using it again in the future#just maybe not for a little while
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Stardew Valley inspired yarn
As someone who crochets (poorly) I felt that I needed to share this.
I came across this seller and am now obsessed with their colored yarns. Their shop name is Nerdy Knits Yarn, here is their website (leading directly to their Stardew Valley inspired yarns.)
#I'm planning on ordering some in the future#But I'm broke right now lol#stardew valley aesthetic#Stardew Valley inspired#stardew valley#stardew elliott#stardew valley elliott#elliott stardew valley#crochet#hand dyed yarn#yarn#knitting#yarn crafts
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PLEASE MORE BUTTERFLY HOWDY CONTENT HES SO FUCKING SILLY
OKAY HERE'S A COMIC SHENANIGANS THING
#this looks best if you click through instead of scrolling#which is kind of stupid to say After The Post. but yk.#spent way too long on this. worth it tho#its always worth it For The Bit#and this was good practice! ty for the opportunity!#the version of butterfly!howdy i have in my head is. hes a lot. i love him <3#scribble salad#welcome home#welcome home puppet show#howdy pillar#yassified howdy <3#i am so so so soooo tempted to make a butterfly howdy tag just to compile it all#i love compiling things. i like having specific collections In One Uninterrupted Place#alright well my hand hurts and its 5 am so im gonna queue this and go sleepies#wait fuck whats in the queue for tomorrow. today.#hm... ok this is a sunday post then. tomorrow is Booked#yall get a brief break from the butterfly howdy shenanigans#*got. im speaking to future people from the past rn. wild. ty tumblr for allowing time travel#its a tangled mess of yarn anyways#i am once again So Tempted To Write For This#perhaps one day i will fulfill my dream of writing a fic about howdy chrysalizing. metamorphosizing. whatever#id make it slowburn laughingstock perhaps... Probably.... i care them too much not too....#something for future me to enjoy! as a treat <3
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thinking about how I had a few folks at my last market suggest to me (kindly and with good intentions) that I make and sell some versions of the hand knit cardigan I was wearing because people would "totally pay $300 for that!"
I appreciated the sentiment, but people don't understand what goes into handmade clothes! I don't use a knitting machine. Every stitch in that garment is created by hand on needles, and the sleeves were brioche. Even using inexpensive acrylic yarn for the whole project, and accounting for the HUGE sleeve stitches (saving me time making the sleeves)—the material cost was $55 and the labor was well beyond that.
Let's conservatively estimate the cardigan took me 30 hours to create. Currently, when pressed to put a dollar amount to my time, I use the living wage as a baseline and then go up from there $1/hour for every year I have been actively practicing that particular skill. In the case of knitting that would be 11 years, and the current living wage in my area is approximately $23/hour. Setting aside the fact that this is calculated based on a 40 hour work week and I don't believe that is ethical or sustainable, we'll just leave it at $34/hour. That would make labor alone $1,020.
This brings the "production cost" to $1,075.
Items are not sold at production cost because that would leave your profit margin at 0%. This is not sustainable because it costs money to run a business (think things like paying for computer repairs, buying tools, the tablecloth you use at markets, paying for a website, etc.). Realistically to cover business costs and still come out with a 7% "net" profit margin, which is just a number pulled from averages in the clothing retail business...
... I'd have to sell that cardigan for $1,350.
So yeah! Something to think about when you see the price of clothes that are handmade. :o)
#and this is for something made with PLASTIC yarn!! not cotton! not wool! not really ethical even though it's technically#slow fashion#this is why garments were originally intended to last a LIFETIME or even generations!!!!#they are not cheap! clothes should proportionately be one of the singularly most expensive things we own btw!!#thank you for coming to my talk#I will be ranting again about this in the future I'm sure#handmade fashion#small business#fast fashion#shop small#etsy seller#knitting#fiber art#handmade life#fashion#indie fashion#style#strawberrum chirps
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Update on the moondrop hat I've been working on. It's going good so far. I'm using a 5mm size yarn.
I still need to make and sew on more stars. Also got white somewhat fluffy yarn for the rim of the hat.
Biggest lesson I've learned so far while experimenting, if you're going to sew in stars. Make sure the yarn you use for the stars, is the same size yarn that you use for the hat. Or else the star will look weird.
#my art#crafts#crochet#crochet yarn#yarn#yarn crafts#craft ideas#fnaf moodrop#fnaf moon#fnaf security breach#fnaf#update#craft in progress#moondrop#maybe future cosplay#yarn crochet
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The Swatchening has begun. It's funny that you can visibly see me getting better at knitting cables from the first cable swatch I knit (top left) to the one I just finished this morning (bottom right).
This acrylic yarn isn't the best for really dramatic cables like the top left one (the Nautical Twisted-Rope Cable from "A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns" by Barbara G. Walker, pg. 181) but looks quite good in the bottom right pattern (Telescope Lattice from the same book, pg. 201).
What's really interesting is the difference in gauge of these swatches. The Nautical Twisted-Rope Cable is 49 stitches but about as wide as the stockinette swatch directly below it which is only 30 stitches wide. The actual gauge for the Nautical Twisted-Rope Cable is about 7 stitches to an inch, the stockinette and double seed stitch cables are 5 stitches to an inch, and the Telescope Lattice is closer to 6 stitches to an inch. Note that these are all unblocked gauges but I don't expect this acrylic yarn to change significantly unless I heat block it which I cannot do right now.
I think I'm going to swatch the main front cable/ribbing together and if that goes well, I'll knit a whole front panel of the cardigan using 6st/inch stitch count. I should also come up with a plan for the sleeves... That's a problem for future me.
#knitting#knitblr#i really should find a different main cables that plays better with this yarn but it's saur pretty#as long as i keep my tension loose on the really dramatic cable row it should look ok#i'm almost glad i can't get more of this colour in this yarn. like i feel no pressure to not use it all in swatches like this#when i buy the actual colourway i'll use for this sweater i can just keep these swatches around for reference#and then. if my actual design doesn't look like straight ass. i can spend the money to buy real wool for a garment#which will be it's own swatching (and blocking) adventure but again a problem for future me
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No crafting updates, but I did my first escape room today!
Well, technically my second escape room? But my first escape room was before I got any meds for my health issues so I was pretty much sitting in the middle of the room entertaining my niece while the rest of my family did the escape room around us so it's the first one I actually helped solve lol. It was super fun!!
#the person behind the yarn#it was so so fun!#definitely going back to try their other rooms in the future#I love puzzles and I love enrichment for my enclosure#I also went to some caverns today!#and found out if I wear compression thigh high socks under jeans#it's like not super comfortable for sitting around the house#but if I'm out and about I mostly don't notice#and they made such a difference
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Fire in the sky
This afternoon we got an alert that neighborhoods near us were getting evacuation warnings due to a fire. And of course neighborhoods near those ones had full evacuation orders. We didn't get the alert until mid-afternoon, but it feels like it took up the whole day since it became such a big mental load. I had half a dozen tabs open following many different maps and feeds keeping track of warnings and orders in case we got included in the warning zone.
The added stress may have had something to do with the fact that I was up late finishing a book. Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool by Clara Parkes. It is nicely written and flows through an adventure in what it looks like to move through the wool industry from sheep to dyed yarn. I went to my shelf and immediately picked out the next book to read and picked out Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle by Clare Hunter. I'm hoping I'll come away with some inspiration to get into more sewing projects since the wool one got me really inspired to work on fiber craft.
Speaking of inspiration in fiber craft...I twisted more iris cordage today and I think this second session already shows so much progress in technique and I feel so good working on it. I hope to save some leaves to teach my aunt this technique when she visits this weekend.
And another way to...unwind? after a stressful day, I spun some of the llama fluff I've been processing and it felt really good to get progress on it that wasn't just a short yard sample. Too many projects, so even if I can focus on them for an hour or so at a time, at least I'm making progress on them!
#iris#art#crafts#handmade#garden#books#nonfiction#woolyarn#llama#reading#spinning#future yarn#fire season
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the new features of the iPhone under iOS 16 and new products expected on Monday
the new features of the iPhone under iOS 16 and new products expected on Monday
It is one of the most anticipated high-tech conferences each year by fans of new technologies. Some fans of the Apple brand even scrutinize it with more interest than the iPhone presentation keynote, where the changes have been leaner in recent years. Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) opens this Monday, June 6 in California with the traditional presentation conference of new software…
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i mentioned the other day that we seem to have acquired some spinning wheels, and when i get my hands on a new wheel, i like to sit down and try spinning a few different ways on it to see what it feels like. thought that someone might be interested in a visual overview of how fibre prep/drafting style changes your yarn.
so that's my bobbin, and there's woolen on the left, worsted on the right, and semi-woolen in the middle.
one and two are both true woolen yarns—i made a rolag on some hand cards, and spun it long draw. one is a little chunky, and would probably be a light worsted weight after being plied. it's super soft and squishy, and a little irregular. (the bobbin collapse you're seeing isn't due to the yarn, but to a little criminal who thought he'd stick his claws into it while i wasn't paying attention.)
two is laceweight, or would be after it was plied. i'm not sure why you'd want to do this other than seeing what a new wheel is capable of—putting in enough twist to keep such a fine yarn together loses a lot of the squishy loftiness that you see in thicker woolen yarns. it's squishier than other laceweight, but also more fragile.
three and four are semi-woolen, and were spun long draw with commercially prepared top. three would probably be fingering weight when plied; four would be laceweight. this is sort of my default spinning style, and what i spin the most of—commercial top is readily available, and i love long draw. i love having twist all up in my drafting zone.
finally, five and six are worsted, or as close as you can get without combing your own fleece. commercial top, spun short forward draw. five plied up would probably be a light fingering, and six (again, plied) ranges from laceweight (on the left) to cobweb (on the far right).
one of the interesting things to me about this is the way that you can see the fuzziness of the yarn just fall away as we move closer to worsted. it's especially clear on top of the bobbin, right under the brackets—that little halo of fuzziness just disappears as you move to the right, and the yarn gets shinier (tho that part's more obvious in person). the worsted yarn is firmer and smoother in the hand, and much sturdier than the equivalent weight of woolen—i had to really back off the tension for the woolen laceweight, but the much-finer worsted lace was happy enough at the same tension as the thicker worsted was.
#spinning#hand spinning#yarn#spinning yarn#i just think this stuff is so neat#anyhow someday i'm going to really Commit to combing a fleece#just not now#someday in the future when i have room enough to clean a fleece#i don't love spinning worsted but i do feel like it would be very satisfying#smartest raccoon i know
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