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[giuliagt-art]

CARSTOBER 2023 - Day 22

Favourite Racing Announcer: Bob Cutlass

He has a pretty simple design, but the shininess of his gray paintjob makes him look really elegant and his voice (at least in the original English dub) sounds elegant too

Hope you like it ☺️

[daringneedles]

Blog – September 10, 2024

After what feels like an eternity of scorching hot, 30+ degree days (I’ve finally caught on to Celsius now, good immigrant that I am!), Vienna is finally enveloped in that fall feeling. Right now, a cool, wet breeze is drifting in through my open window, the constant droning of my fan is hushed, and the heat-scorched chestnut trees in Augarten are getting just as much relief as I am.

The summer was good, but very much. It always tends that way for me: I love summer, but I’m delicate and over-motivated in the hot months, which means I overextend myself. I still have an alarmingly sore Achilles from Vienna's month-long dance festival, and my social battery has been operating on a chronic low. 

I like how temperate climates impose a certain rhythm of life, with buzzy activity falling into rest, then hibernation. That’s what I’m longing for now: a break from the excesses of summer.

The story I tell myself about myself is that I’m an introverted, nocturnal, homebody creature. And there’s definitely a time when that was true, but as my partner likes to remind me, this hasn’t actually been an accurate reflection of me in some time. During the COVID winters when we were living on a fifth-floor walkup and Vienna’s gray skies stretched into infinity, yeah, I wasn’t leaving the house much. Four out of five invitations to go on a brisk winter walk, declined. My glory days of knitting activity: laid out of the sofa, dozens of TV-show episodes to consume, with next to no social obligations and an aching lower back.

But since the COVID lockdowns are now just a memory that we all seem very inclined to forcibly forget, I guess I should update my frameworks. Time is scarce in winter too, now, with roller skating and dance classes and queer writer’s circle and all the friends that I’ve made from these activities. Work has picked up significantly and I can no longer act as a student ignoring my homework till cram week. Whether I like it or not (okay, I actually do like it), I’m doing nearly as much in winter as in summer.

Still, here’s my shift in priorities: A repetitive strain injury (knitter’s elbow) + the inspiration of Bernadette Banner’s most recent embroidery video have shifted my cooler-months’ focus from knitting back to hand embroidery, which I had last seriously engaged in maybe eight years ago? I’m still in my manic phase about it. I’ve collected a shocking number of kits in a shockingly short period of time, I can’t stop telling everyone about it, and I’m in the process of envisioning a new life for myself in which embroidery is the center of my personality. Shall I drop everything going on in my life right now to move to the UK and spend three years studying technical hand embroidery at Hampton Court Palace? (It’s a strong maybe.) Standard order stuff for me when picking up a new hobby, really.

Here’s some progress pictures from my first Royal School of Needlework online course, “Next Steps: Jacobean Crewelwork”. It’s nearly done now, apart from some whipped and woven wheels that I find really tedious to make.

I’ve loved the kit and the whole process of working on it. The “Next Steps” courses are like the intermediate-ish level RSN classes, and I’m glad I didn’t start with the beginner Jacobean crewelwork class they offer; I’m sure it would have been similarly informative, but I much prefer the design of the intermediate level and it was not out of my skill range at all. Most of the stitches were new to me, but really fun to work and the videos were very clear and useful. I also love the design itself and the color scheme, in particular the deep greens and terracotta shades. I only wish that, given the cost of the course (GBP 120), you had unlimited access to the course content; they remove your access to the videos after a year. You can always ask for an extension, but I’d rather not have to beg for it, and I think I would enjoy returning to the videos again and again when working on other crewelwork patterns (also, I have a PDF of the design and idea I’ve had is to work it again in a year in a different color scheme to see how my embroidery skills have improved).

I already have my next RSN online course lined up, the Intro to Goldwork. I pounced on the kit as soon as it became available again, since they’ve been having supply issues for several months now and the kit has rarely been in stock.  This is a class where I’m definitely happy to start at the beginner level. A lot of people seem terrified by the complexity of goldwork, and I wonder just how challenging it will be. Since I’ve started up with embroidery again, goldwork has been the technique most fascinating to me (again, some influence of the Banner video here). 

(Not mine, of course! Image of the Intro to Goldwork design from https://www.rsnonlinecourses.com/)

I’ve also got an abstract beadwork kit from Imogen Melissa; I think I’ll work on this after I’ve finished up the crewelwork as a less precise, more free-flowing project before diving into the exacting world of goldwork.

(Not mine, again – example beadwork kit from @imogenmelissa_embroidery)

After that, I’ve got some other plans floating in my head: an embroidered Christmas wreath for my in-laws, a cute cross stitch project for some skater friends, many colorwork socks for me and my partner, and some sweater WIPs from last winter that I should really finish up before we’re at sub-zero temperatures...

I guess I won’t be hibernating this winter. But at least I won’t be sweating while doing nothing more than laying in bed.

Ciao for now,

Ona

[anarzaabloodladen]

is this anything

[rhk111sblog]

The Navies of China and Singapore conducted a Joint Maritime Exercise recently in China where China sent two Vessels while Singapore sent one of their most Capable Naval Vessels. This is the third such Exercise by the two Countries, and the Vessels were opened to the Public in China while at Port

This was initially released as an Article last September 11, 2024 at https://therhk111militaryandarmspage.blogspot.com/2024/09/china-singapore-navies-conducted-joint-maritime-exercise-china.html

[sadnessgod]

Pq no disfrutar el momento y dejar de pensar en el futuro?

[adhesivedildos]

a long long time ago i was ruled by a dictative impulse. My solace was absorbing my identity into another soul to serve. my solace was screaming folk punk songs on a playground at 3 in the morning accompanied by tall boys of Modelo. My purpose was giving blood to a god that never existed. & the god was me. waiting to be discovered and tended to like a wounded child. That child grew, and it yearns and serves itself through others dignified. There is no longer room for pity with a centered sense of self like this.

If you still exist in a suspended past moment, be kind to yourself Dylan. Be safe, and trust your stomach. You'll be okay.

[galerymod]

Kathrin Deboer

What is the subject of your auditory perception? It is the piano, the voice, and the rest. These are auditory stimuli.

mod

[visnelik]

kendimle gurur duyuyordum!

[crinformativa-blog]

Alerta sísmica en Tilarán: Más de 450 temblores registrados en dos semanas

CR Informativa | redaccion@crinformativa.com Tilarán, 12 de junio del 2024. – La Red Sismológica Nacional (RSN) de la Universidad de Costa Rica ha reportado una intensa actividad sísmica en la región de Tilarán. Desde el inicio de junio hasta el mediodía del 12 de junio, se han detectado 462 temblores con magnitudes que oscilan entre 1,7 y 4,9 en la escala de magnitud momento (Mw), concentrados…

[alinladaru]

Congress of the Romanian Society of Neurosurgery 18-21 October 2023, lead by Assoc. Prof. Adrian Bălașa and CaAssoc. Prof. Habil. Horia PLES

[anarzaabloodladen]

I'm under arrest for Sci. I'm not surprised.

Found this on Twitter, so I thought, why not posting it here and doing a tag game 😊

Ok, I’ll go first

If he is the reason, I’d go to prison gladly 🥰❤️‍🔥

Tagging: @killerqueen-ofwillowgreen @nic-214 @milkyway-ashes @dr-radiation @whitequeen-ofwillowgreen @sunsetdaydreamer @therockywhorerpictureshow @delicatelyfantasticninja and everyone 😊

Sorry if I forgot to tag some of you!

[jolikmc]

Jean-Michel Jarre, Klaus Brinkmann (Lomaxx) "Zoolook" (Reason Remix) Zoolook (1984) Dreyfus Records

I can't seem to stop listening to this remix.  Something about those absolutely filthy synths just drives me wild~!

[anarzaabloodladen]

I want to fuck the communist. I wnat to fuck the communist. I waont to duck the comminuse. I wan fkuck the communism.

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

In the past few days, hundreds (!!) of Israeli soldiers have expressed their refusal to serve in the army under the new ultra-nationalist and far-right government unless its anti-democratic policies are stopped. Press reported that almost every army unit, including the “elite” commando unit and the air force, is experiencing an internal revolt, with reserve soldiers refusing to serve in a state they view as anti-democratic. This wave of refusal became so alarming that the army's head general was forced to issue a statement saying that reserve soldiers should leave their political disagreements outside of the army. However, the refusers did not comply with this order and new statements are being published every day. In the next few weeks we will closely report these once-in-a generation events.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Share this link to sign up to receive refuser updates with family, friends and colleagues to make sure the refuser movement will have as much support as possible                                                                                                                                                                                                                  We bring you the words of Niron Mizrahi, 27 y/o from Kfar Masaryk, as was published publicly in his facebook page, calling the Israeli public to refuse:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                It's time to refuse.

I, Sgt. Niron Mizrahi, Military Number 8065754, armored corps fighter and combat medic, hereby announce the termination of my reserve service in the Israel Defense Forces, and call for massive refusal by the entire secular-liberal public in the State of Israel.

***** I am 27 years old, studying for a bachelor's degree in secondary education and the teaching of history, the Bible and Israeli culture. I grew up and was educated in Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk in the Western Galilee, I finished 12 years of school with a full matriculation, I volunteered for a year of service at a boarding school for at-risk youth in Pardes Hana, and in 2014 I enlisted in mandatory service as a soldier in the Armored Corps. For three years I guarded the State of Israel on its borders with Syria and Gaza, I patrolled and made arrests in the West Bank, and today I understand that I can no longer stand idly by. I can no longer stand idly by and see how my country sends young people like me to commit war crimes in the name of Zionism, the flag and religion, and in the name of a divine promise - imagined or not - to take part in the expropriation of land, the destruction of culture, and in one of the remaining colonialisms in modern times. I can no longer stand on the sidelines and see how my country takes away rights and freedoms from another people and condemns people to the disgrace of hunger and miserable lives, traumas, suffering, poverty and death in the name of religious fundamentalism. I can no longer take part in the messianic and delusional ambitions of racist nationalists and religious fanatics such as Simcha Rothman and Itamar Ben Gabir, who dream and work for the vision of the Temple and a religious Jewish kingdom from the Jordan river to the sea, and are willing to harm other human beings in order to fulfill their doctrine. I can no longer stand by while a criminal leads the country towards a legal dictatorship and a constitutional crisis, and introduces Jewish terrorists into the Knesset, all to escape the threat of judgment. The narrative of "maintaining security" collapsed a long time ago. There is no safeguarding of security here, there are terrorist attacks every Monday and Thursday, and a military operation every four years, and just as ultra-Orthodox men and religious women are allowed not to enlist for one reason or another, I, we, too - the secular-liberal public - have a moral obligation to refuse service in the Occupied Territories. I ask that you not treat me as a ranting radical child. I am a mature and thoughtful person, with values and ideas that I have gathered and developed throughout my life, and I have come to this decision in an informed and sober way. History is full of difficult and bloody conflicts, much more so than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most of these conflicts were resolved through talks and negotiations. I don't know of a way to resolve conflicts between people that doesn't include dialogue. Violence and terrorism lead to more violence and terrorism and are never the solution. We did not come into the world to fight and kill each other. The value of life is more important than anything, and I understand that my continued participation in the cycle of violence and in perpetuating the Israeli occupation of the West Bank territories and the Palestinian people, holds back the resolution of the conflict. I apologize if I have disappointed or hurt someone. I do not apologize for my truth.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             International support to the refuser movement is crucial at this point. Please share this link to subscribe to our newsletter so we can amplify the refuser movement.

In solidarity, RSN team

[vcrnons]

VERNON Darl+ing @ CDTV Live!

[adhesivedildos]