#boondoggle

[freshstitches]

I've been making lanyards for the last few months.

There are so many more possibilities when you move away from plastic lacing.

Leather, paracord, silicone, etc. all create wonderful woven structures. Making these is a lot like fiber arts, but I'm not sure if it would be classified as such. I'm focused on splitting and merging forms to create these tiny projects.

After figuring out the stitches, I was able to weave longer pieces of deerskin lacing into a necklace.

The image below shows a few that I saved from when I was a kid.

I'm considering making some free video tutorials and selling kits for simple leather keychains. Would you ever consider trying this craft?

[starlitsylph]

A little guy doing a kick-flip on his skateboard 🛹 💫

[fantafrys]

[leanybeany09]

Happy pride. I wish I had more colors, but I was able to make myself a bi pride boondoggle

[paristheveryconfused]

Let's see what the hyperfixarion wheel lands on tonight....

WEAVING TECHNIQUES????????

[tomorrowusa]

A crypto ban would be difficult to enforce because it is internationally traded. But close scrutiny of the market is way overdue in the United States.

Some people constantly complain that the government needs to quit being a “nanny state”. Then when many of those people get in trouble for doing dumb things they then grumble that the government was not doing anything to prevent them from doing those dumb things in the first place.

Cryptocurrency is a dumb thing. It’s worth was always based on wishful thinking. I doubt if even half of the Americans who bought into crypto understand what it really is (”That’s some sort of computer money that always keeps rising in value – isn’t it?”).

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on Sunday said federal agencies need to address the cryptocurrency market and “maybe” ban it after the high-profile collapse of cryptocurrency market FTX last month.

Brown, the chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd that the Treasury Department and “all the different agencies” need to get together and assess any possible action related to the cryptocurrency market.

“Maybe banning it, although banning it is very difficult because it will go offshore and who knows how that will work,” Brown said. 

[ ... ]

Brown on Sunday said the cryptocurrency market is a “complicated, unregulated pot of money” and the issue was much larger than FTX.“So we’ve got to do this right,” the senator said, adding that he has talked to the Treasury Department to do a related assessment across regulatory agencies. 

Rule Number One of financial management: If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Celebrity endorsements for things outside their areas of expertise should be taken with a kilogram of salt. Just because somebody wins an Oscar or an Olympic gold medal doesn’t make them Warren Buffett. Anybody giving out investment advice should prove that they know what they’re talking about. Getting a fee from FTX or some other crypto company does not constitute expertise.

In just under a year Bitcoin has dropped from over $51,000 to under $17,000.

The sounder investments tend to be dull ones which don’t get lots of hype and are held for a few years. And if they get proper scrutiny from regulators then people probably won’t end up losing 68¢ on the dollar in just one year.

Related...

Boondoggle of the Year: Cryptocurrency

Part of the problem is that crypto, as its critics have often noted, doesn’t actually do anything. Unlike many stocks, it does not pay dividends to its purchasers or represent an ownership stake in a company. Unlike bonds, it does not offer a fixed rate of return. And unlike actual currencies, cryptocurrency does not really work as a common medium of exchange. You can’t go down to your local grocery store and buy a loaf of bread with etherium or tether.

[ ... ]

Crypto is not real. Like the platinum coins in EverQuest, it has no intrinsic value and is untethered to anything but the shared belief by many people that it is actually worth something. (Neither is the dollar, crypto folks are often quick to note, but cryptocurrencies do not have 12 aircraft carriers and a nuclear arsenal and a system of courts that can enforce debts.) Aside from a few edge cases, crypto’s primary real-world utility is to do exactly what its early developers intended: evade government control. That does not mean living in some Matrix-esque cyberpunk dystopia; that means money laundering and sanctions evasion and other things that are generally considered crimes. And I haven’t even gotten to the ecological damage.

The writer of that article was holding back, Crypto is the Boondoggle of the Century.

[restonse]

If this wasn't about taxpayers' money, it would be funny. The Dept of Homeland Security, 20 years into its existence, is "an agency no one wanted and everyone is stuck with..." Time to disband it

[purple-warlock-reblogs]

Boondoggle

Noun: boondoggle; plural noun: boondoggles

Work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value.

"Honey, our son is boondoggling again by writing ai anime prompts!"

A public project of questionable merit that typically involves political patronage and graft.

"To boondoggle is to live, just like my great aunt Gertrude who convinced the nation that we should invest all our tax dollars into making race cars for bees."

Verb:

Waste money or time on unnecessary or questionable projects.

"The only guarantees in life are higher taxes, death, and bureaucratic boondoggling."

boondoggle; 3rd person present: boondoggles; past tense: boondoggled; past participle: boondoggled; gerund or present participle: boondoggling

THis news is better than gay sex

[whydousernamesevenexist]

Petition to make these popular again?

[fantafrys]

Eschaton Usher

[fantafrys]

I liked this post so much I made a boondoggle for it

autism speaks? autism paw. autism roll over.

[immaculatasknight]

Ottawa's perp memorial

[spockvarietyhour]

At least it's retractable

[guess-i-do-art]

If anyone wanted to see all my designs for the UDM students, here they are! Whenever I draw them I tend to age them up to like 13 years old or so? Also I don’t care what you say I’m gonna headcanon all the characters as queer and neurodivergent

Nory: upside-down Fluxer, bi, half black half white (canon)

Elliott: Freezer and weak Flare, pan, white

Willa: upside-down Fluid, bi, white

Andres: upside-down Flyer, bi, Mexican

Pepper: Fierce, lesbian, Chinese (canon? She’s described as Asian-American)

Bax: (MY BOY ‼️🫶) upside-down Fluxer (I also headcanon that he’s an upside-down Flicker as well, with the whole being able to turn stuff into stone thing from the second book. Originally it was a side-effect but as he got older he learned to do it on command), aroace, half Indian and half Filipino

Marigold: Fitter, pan, Spanish (I also headcanon she can speak English, Spanish, and ASL!)

Sebastian: upside-down Flicker, gay, white

I hope you like them all! 🫶