weaving nerdery continues: pickup

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so I attempted to teach myself pickup, which, well… I should actually buy a book or something. I searched the web and found a lot of mediocre videos and in my struggle to find a threading pattern wound up with one that was, well, not strictly ideal. I still don’t understand the principle entirely well enough to improvise my own pattern, but then, perhaps maybe I do, and I should experiment a little bit.

But! The upshot is that I successfully wove a band of about 45″ in length, a bit over an inch wide, and while I didn’t have any good patterns, I did have a pixel chart of 5-pixel-high letters, so I put text all down the length of the band.

My first few letters…. weren’t, and I nearly gave up, but then decided I had to make this work, and so I wrote “fuck this”, and discovered that F and U and C are all quite easy to do, and by the time I got to K, which is not so easy, I had momentum on my side.

So I kept going. Pictures below the cut.

This was my first success, that F. The K is…. mostly intelligible.

This is the other end of the band, where I finished it and then cut it off the loom. The K is… not really better. I know what’s wrong but well– by that point I didn’t have enough slack to fix my mistakes.

But here’s the middle of the band, which I’m rather proud of:

I can do all through Spite

Which strengthens me

One of those slogans you see kicking around the Internet, and which someone recently had commented to me on AO3 as a life slogan for Yennefer, which is accurate.

I do get the general gist of the technique, and I… sort of think I know how to do this with slightly less frustration…. maybe. So, I gotta summon my nerve for that but I’m gonna try. (Your picture was not posted)

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Conservatives will be like “Why are you holding me accountable for my bigoted beliefs? Whatever happened to tolerance???”

The response to that is Tolerance Is Not a Moral Precept https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376 - it is a peace treaty. It is a contract of cooperation, or at least, of non-interference.

the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.

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Someone who’s actively trying to oppress, belittle, exclude, or harm people based on their identities is not complying with the contract, so there’s no reason to extend its protection to them. (Your picture was not posted)