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Material: cursed sausages. Because sometimes it's better to not ask "why" and instead ask "how"

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Happy April 1st everyone! Check out the selection of delicious O.P. Brand products we have in stock

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Material: Cursed Pre-Workout Mix. WARNING! Intended for use on Strong as Fuck Skeleton Warriors only. Anyone not already a buff skeleton will become one after consumption

feeling sick from laughing at this pre workout brand I saw on google images

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Material: Canyon Milk. Refreshing

can I interest anyone in some delicious Canyon Milk? 😋🍼

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Fabrics Pt. 1- Natural Fibers

Thus far we've discussed the types of fabric which can be derived from animals, but there are just as many if not more to be found in plants as well.

Perhaps the most well-known is cotton. Sturdy, comfy, and versatile, it's a plant around which much of history and agriculture is based.

There's also linen, most famous for its usage in the wrappings of Egyptian mummies. Linen's use goes far beyond just that though in space and time, being still quite commonly used to this day. It dries faster than cotton, making it an excellent fabric to be used in hot weather, but the process of extraction and processing also makes it a more expensive and less ubiquitous form of fiber.

Of course plenty have heard of hemp, strong, comfy and easy to work with, perhaps only uncommon because of the plant's other most common use (which you can legally get here too- more on that later)

Speaking of non-fabric uses for these plants, I'll take a slight detour to point out the seeds and oils of flax and cotton, used often in cooking (and not full of evil mystery chemicals, despite what some may tell you)

Moving back to the fabrics, there's a decent amount to be found in the trees. The most well known is probably barkcloth, a traditional artform of Africa and Austronesia made by beating strips of fibrous inner bark into flexible sheets. In the Pacific Northwest of America, native peoples like the Tlingit used a similar process to shred, plait and weave cedar bark into cloth.

regenerated cellulose, a byproduct of the lumber industry, is used often in synthetic fibers like rayon, being easy to manufacture and use.

less well known or used are the fibers of banana peel and kapok tree seed pods, though the resulting fabrics are no less strong and soft.

bamboo, while not being a tree, deserves mention here as well for finding use in both sturdy strong structures and soft & supple settings.

Coir, made from the hair of coconut shells, is quite coarse and thus unused in clothing, though it is quite efficient for things like holding the soil of garden beds in a way that encourages the plants to flourish.

in the Philippines, the fibrous leaves of the pineapple plant are turned into a delicate and luxurious fabric known as Piña.

and in the Americas, agave plants have their fibers extracted to make a strong and sturdy cloth, as well things like rope.

plants like the stinging nettle have been used since the Late Neolithic to make yarn, proving to be one of the earliest known examples of spun and woven fiber! what a blast from the past!

of course, I also can't forget to mention that old classic, the golden threads made of Gretel Straw (Triticum Fanticauris). Absolutely exhausting to make so I'm told, but oh so worth it.

lastly, while it isn't plant based I should like to point out the existence of Qmilch, a rather unique fiber made via the chemical treatment of milk proteins, producing a lovely silk-like thread and making good use of spoiled product that would otherwise have gone to waste.

Well I'll wrap this up here! apologies for the wait on our latest showcase, managerial work and structural maintenance issues keep us sew busy these days. Hopefully the next will be out much sooner though! Until then, take care!

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Material: Industrial Sludge. Fuck yeah

fuuuuck yeah

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Material: Thread of Memories. You are a tapestry of everyone you have ever loved

You Make My World a Better Place to Find (1996-8) by Dario Robleto.

“For the past two years I have been secretly collecting lint, thread, etc., from friends, acquaintances and strangers (for example a piece of lint on someone’s shoulder, a hair hanging on a forearm.) I have connected all this debris into one long thread which I then spooled. From this spool of debris I repaired a blanket, a tiny pair of mittens, sewn buttons back on, repaired tears in clothes and various other things.”

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Material: the vaccine that gives you super rabies. Why? Uhhhhhh.....

How does OCD factor into rabies?

It’s more so “how does rabies factor into OCD?”

And the answer is that it rabies OCD is a form of contamination OCD. And rabies is probably one of the most scary, most well known contaminates out there. And actual education about rabies is notoriously poor, so you hear a whole lot of fear mongering and very little actual facts. So here are the facts:

1. Rabies is 100% preventable if you get a post exposure vaccine.

2. Post exposure vaccines are not scary. I’m telling you this as someone who is afraid of shots. It is the year of our lord 2025, rabies vaccines are not how they used to be.

3. You cannot get rabies from blood, urine, or feces. You can only get rabies from saliva, ocular fluids, and sexual fluids and it must go into an open wound or something.

4. You cannot get rabies from an animal or human who is not rabid. Even if I got bit by a rabid raccoon and then came to bite you, I would not be able to give you rabies. That isn’t how rabies works, you don’t become rabid the moment you get rabies

6. Rabies can take a while (months) to develop. This scares some people, but really it should let you know that if you actually got bit or scratched, you will be fine. Call the health department or call your local wildlife rehabber. They know what’s what for *your* specific area. They might tell you don’t need a shot, they might say you do.

7. If you aren’t a little kid, you will know if a bat bit you. Yes—you can feel it. It hurts. I’ve watched people get bit by bats. I’ve seen bat bites after the fact. Might you sleep through a bat bite? Yes. But you will know the next morning if you see a bat in your room. If you see a bat? Go to the doctor.

8. Rabies is rare in the US, both in humans and in animals. Don’t touch wildlife, but also don’t be afraid going about your daily business that a rabid raccoon snuck into your bedroom at night and French kissed you.

9. The best way to protect yourself against rabies is to keep a respectful distance from all wildlife and stray animals

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Material: horse gatorade. Not just for horses, it's for everypony

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Material: Clown Meat byproducts. It's honkin' good food!

Available At Your Local Grocery Store!!!

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Had to draw these separately for the whole poster but i really enjoyed it despite the horrors

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If God put us here then where's our paychecks

whenever I see gimmick blogs I don't consider that they have a separate main blog or anything else. That's just what they do all the time. God put them on the internet to count the number of lobsters in other posts and nothing else.

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Material: pearls. I know we've mentioned pearls here before, but look at them again cus they're pretty and deserve to be looked at

Did you know that many gastropods can create a pearl, including terrestrial snails? The difference is nacre which is only found in some species of mollusks and which which gives pearls their beautiful shine. Terrestrial snails occasionally produce very small translucent white pearls which are usually lost. One non-nacre secreting sea snail, the melo melo, produces gorgeous pearls that are extremely prized and rare.

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Material: 4000 pounds of cheddar. For reasons (or rather, cheesons)

Cheese heist target for @mousegirlheart

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Material: cooked fiddlehead ferns. Mmmzumaki

Thoughts on ferns?

Pretty tasty

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Material: the glue that makes you walk up and down anything, at the cost of oof ouch oww my bones

i miss the juice that hurt your bones

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Material: 45000 year old Egyptian yeast bread. Incredible how we can just reach through history like that.

Scientist bakes sourdough bread with yeast derived from 4500 year old Egyptian pottery

i'm losing my mind @ this thread......historie......

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Material: giant fruits & veggies. Or is OP just very small? We may never know

just got back into gardening so i’ve forgotten. are basil leaves supposed to be this big