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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 17h

it would make a difference of 2 inches depending whether I use US seam allowances vs this

hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 17h

ok, measuring the pattern pieces and squinting really hard makes me think it's probably supposed to be half-inch seam allowances, which is less than a typical commercial pattern in the US

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 17h

If I had not already sewing a few suits I'd have no idea what to do. I'm actually wondering if this pattern is useful at all, I've drafted my own patterns before and like, is that actually more work than trying to use this one, idk

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 17h

some other issues I notice: no darts, I'm on my own to figure out my own darts. There's no lining pattern pieces. It doesn't say whether seam allowances are included and if so how large they are. There's no interfacing pieces. No undercollar. No facing pieces.

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 18h

I think "front placket" must refer to the lapels. On older suit styles the lapel (and a row of button holes) were frequently a separate strip of fabric. I guess this is vaguely similar to how "placket" is used for the front strip on a dress shirt

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 18h

possibly because the instructions were written for a different style of suit entirely. Why skimp on instructions? Is this not the easiest, cheapest part of the pattern to produce

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 18h

I've sewn enough suits to know this is not enough pattern pieces to make a suit. Also what is a "front placket" there are plackets in the back and on the sleeves, "front placket" is not a thing. I've read the instructions and it makes no mention at all.

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 18h

I want to like Reconstructing History because they have patterns for a lot of things I want, but every time I've gotten one they've been sort of inexplicably bad reconstructinghistory.com?srsltid=AfmB...

Reconstructing History Sewing Patterns

Reconstructing History sells multi-sized and Made to Measure sewing patterns for historical clothing, vintage dress, Renaissance costume, medieval cotehardies, etc.

reconstructinghistory.com

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 21h

you have to imagine it in Alan Rickman's voice

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 21h

I have this box of griffin buttons that as far as I know is the entire global supply, so when I get to the end of a sewing project I'm like, this project, is it worthy of griffin buttons?

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 22h

This is one reason I yell at leftists about state government. A third party bid for POTUS is literally meaningless. If you're not competitive in conservative leaning states your whole political project is in serious jeopardy, as democrats are finding out

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 22h

the thing that prevented a coup attempt in 2008 or 2012 was not any amount of restraint from republicans but the fact that they did not control enough state houses to assemble the required number of fake electors.

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 22h

the thing I try to point out is that republicans attempted a coup at the very first opportunity, and if that opportunity exists again in 4 or 8 years they absolutely will do it again, and it will probably work bsky.app/profile/jonm...

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 22h

“If you have to say that a second coup attempt probably won’t work, you are implicitly granting that (a) a second coup attempt is possible and that (b) it could conceivably succeed.” www.thebulwark.com/p/legal-orde...

“Legal Orders” and Trump’s Military

Authoritarians don’t take power by openly flouting the law. They look for pretexts and legal theories.

www.thebulwark.com

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 22h

"My real age was 10 years younger so I can afford to pig out on this entire box of donuts" that's the actual real world impact this fad has

hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 22h

The idea that you can have a health age different from your actual age has no scientific basis, and in practice...have you noticed how everyone's "real age" is less than their actual age? In practice it's a cope people use to justify unhealthy behaviors.

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 22h

I think we're far enough out from when this fad began that I can say, the "real age" fad did a lot of damage and docs need to knock it off bsky.app/profile/reut...

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

reut.rs

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 22h

not legal advice but I think the fact of being free means there's no health department rules. But also like as long as it's made of pure sugar there's essentially no food borne illness risk

hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 22h

I'm pretty good at making caramel. Hard candies and lollipops are pretty easy. I can make taffy though nobody likes taffy. I can make some things in chocolate though I'm not the best chocolatier

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 22h

if it weren't for the fact they'd accuse me of trying to poison kids on nextdoor dot com I'd definitely hand out homemade candy instead of store bought on halloween

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 22h

I think I do know why, which is that ad targeting doesn't exist to help advertisers reach audiences, it is a scam to help platforms extract money from advertisers. So none of it actually works and there's no incentive for the platforms to fix it.

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 22h

using a VPN with youtube produces very weird results. I'm seeing normal ads for local things that clearly depict americans in them, they're obviously still doing ad targeting, but the language is dutch. I'm logged in as myself and yet it's in dutch, why?

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 22h

nobody talks about how microphones enabled vibe singing

hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 23h

separately from the firing itself, whatever resourced were commandeered to engage in this "coding error" was also illegal. Firing people is not an essential service, it is totally illegal for OMB to be engaging in this kind of activity during a shutdown bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Apr 5

You're fired!

Oops, please come back.
www.science.org/content/arti...

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 23h

that lawyer was me.

open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 23h

Dress shirts have a specific type of button though, are those sold in sensible quantities? The number on a men's dress shirt depends on size but the bell curve peaks at 11-12 buttons. They are sold in packs of 5 and the store usually only puts 2 out at a time, not even enough for one (1) shirt