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[Video description: An animation made entirely with needle felt work and the animator's hand, complete with sound effects and music.

First we see a wafflemaker sitting on a crowded counter, with the relatively giant hand of the animator coming over with a tiny butterknife to scoop butter from a dish next to the wafflemaker, then spreading the butter on the hot metal, complete with sizzling noises, and some of the yellow fibers fluffing up behind like steam.

Cheerful, upbeat quiet music begins to play, and the hand then picks up a yellow and white bowl from the background, and pours yellow batter fiber onto the waffle iron until it pools, then puts the bowl back down, and closes the lid of the iron, which emits a hissing noise and a puff of steam from the sides. On the top of the iron are details of a grey display and red and green button.

After a moment, the green light turns on with a ding, and the hand opens the iron to show a cooked needle felted waffle. The camera zooms in on the waffle before it is removed, and we see the detailed grid surface of the waffle iron behind it.

The camera moves to another counter, where more needle felt bowls, dishes, and even hanging knives on a wall are.

The hand picks up an egg and cracks it into a bowl, then the camera zooms in again as they crack another egg. Each time, a detailed, extremely tiny needle felted yolk and egg white fall out and into the bowl.

The camera then lifts up above the bowl as the person picks up a felted whisk and begins to beat the eggs, turning them into solid gold fibers.

Then the bowl is picked up, and poured into a larger orange bowl next to it that is filled part way with sugar, from a bag behind it that has a purple sugar label on it, with the word spelled out clearly despite how small it is.

The camera shifts to another angle, and the hand brings in a box of milk and pours some into the bowl, then picks up a wooden spoon from one of the felt jars in the background, and stirs the new mixture up.

As they remove the wooden spoon from the bowl, one drop of batter escapes and splashes on the counter.

The camera moves again, on the same section of counter but zoomed back more to show the oven behind it, with a bundt cake pan waiting. (The cake pan is rippled like a flower or the lower half of a pumpkin, with a round cut out in the center.)

The stove is decorated with black spiral burners, a small dish cloth hanging from the front, and behind and above it is a rope of garlic, and measuring cups hanging from the bottom of more cabinets.

The hand pours the prepared batter into the bundt pan, and opens the oven, with the squeak of metal, and places the cake pan inside on the tiny wire rack before closing the door again.

The camera shifts again to zoom in on a small timer on the back of the stove, which the hand twists with the click of a spring. The tick of a mechanical timer joins the audio as an orange saucepan is placed on the front burner, and some sugar poured in. This is stirred with another wooden spoon, and quickly comes to a golden boil.

The timer goes off, and the hand opens the oven door to remove the cake with a burst of steam while the caramel on the stove continues to bubble away.

The camera now moves to a table, where a cake stand has been set up. The bundt cake is tipped onto the stand, then the orange sauce pan is brought over to pour the caramel over top.

We then see a kitchen sink, where the hand is washing the orange pot and whisk in soapy suds with a tiny blue sponge, with squeaky noises of the sponge on the rim of the pot.

The camera then shows a small wooden cutting board with two lemons, and a tiny knife is used to cut both of them in half with a metalic noise of the knife.

Then we zoom in on a tiny citrus juicer, already with some yellow strands in the bottom. A slice of lemon is picked up and scrubbed

against the top, releasing more juice into the bottom.

The camera zooms out again and shows us a pitcher next to the juicer, and the hand is holding a blue ice cube tray in both thumbs and forefinger, bending it to loosen the ice cubes inside, before pouring them into the jug with a clatter.

The lemon juice from the juicer is added, then three squeezes of honey from a bear-shaped container.

The jug is then brought over to the sink, and water added until it is filled.

We zoom in on the pitcher after it is placed on a counter, and can see some ice cubes floating atop the pale yellow fibers. A wooden spoon is brought over to stir it with a swish.

With a swish and the clatter of ice cubes, some of the lemonade is poured into a small glass next to the jug.

We then zoom in on the side of this glass as a tiny slice of lemon is placed on the edge.

Lastly, a green sprig of mint is added, and credits begin to roll:

Animation by andrea.animates

Music production by Goldstein

Sound design by Richard Gould.

The video ends.

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[ID: A screenshot of an article from 2 hours before the screnshot was taken, titled, "Trump rally shooting upends Democrats' Biden crisis", with the text reading: "What to watch: Most lawmakers who spoke to Axios said it is too early to say whether the cessations in tensions will last until the Democratic National Convention next month. But the second senior House Democrat offered one reason for why it might: 'We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency". This is followed by a screenshot from the Simpsons, first showing a sign outside a building that reads, "Democratic convention inside", followed by the convention itself, with banners hanging from the ceiling reading, "We hate life and ourselves", and "we can't govern!". End ID.]

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