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Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · Oct 18

yo my name is dove and i typically post the following:
- art, fic, threadfic, original threadfic, r18, & headcanons for mdzs generally, wangxian specifically
- same for svsss generally and bingqiu specifically
- a BIT of the same for tgcf
- leftist politics
- fujoshi philosophy
- science
- lulz

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Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 2h

(Apologies, just realized this is referencing an "other person" from a totally different branch of this conversation, ignore that bit)

Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 2h

Your local tailor is practicing market economics while capitalists are doing capitalist economics.

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Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 2h

It does, but it simultaneously also brings a lot more speculation and unsold product. The more you invest upfront, the more you have to make back to make it worthwhile. That was I think what the other person was trying to get at with discussion of profit margin and number of shirts sold.

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Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 2h

I assume you know, but in case anyone reading this thread does not: ALL modern clothes (except pantyhose) are sewn by individuals using domestic-looking (but industrially strong) sewing machines. Bras are being singled out here because you can't even use a normal sewing machine on 80+% of a bra.

Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 3h

Retailers could be doing things differently but only if they had a really good reason. The two good reasons are "it's part of the brand to be US-made" and "legislation makes this the most in practical and financially optimal way to sell clothes"

Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 3h

And others have of course mentioned elsewhere that the more expensive something is to begin with, the more expensive it will be to advertise. Like, you wouldn't walk into a TJ Maxx and spend $90 on a button-down even if it seemed really nice, you know?

Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 3h

Overhead isn't 100% elastic though. Warehouse space for thirty thousand shirts is more expensive than space for ten hundred, but if you're only selling three hundred, you can't easily rent only half a room. Three tax accountants is more than one, but everybody needs at least one. And so on.

Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 3h

Of course $35 for labor on a *bespoke* shirt is rather low, but you get the idea. It costs less because you're buying it essentially right off the assembly line before it needs shipping and warehousing and advertising at multiple levels.

Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 3h

Most of the answer there is inherent in "local tailor" - that cuts out the retail overhead and the brand overhead, and she's presumably not warehousing much fabric either. $35 usd for CMT (labor) and $10 usd for fabric is a little under 40 euros, so she's charging you 30 euro for her own overhead.

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Rational Dove, The @therationaldove.bsky.social · 11h

As someone who recently got into sewing, it becomes very clear, very fast how unethical most pricing is for your average new garment. Most people would balk at the price if you actually paid workers fair wages.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Kat in SRQ @kat-n-srq.bsky.social · 3d

When your fav online fabric vendor not only provides good service but packs another reason to smile.

#FLSewist
#Sewing
#CaliFabrics

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

In Blasphemous, your character is wearing a tall pointy hat called a capirote that actually exists irl

Notably, the KKK appropriated it *because* it was a Catholic symbol and they hated Catholics. They thought it was funny, a fun joke like calling each other wizards.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capirote

Capirote - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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AXEL LYCAN @axellycan.bsky.social · 1d

I like the part where he had to revise his numbers while he was sailing because he kept missing the deadlines he had put forward. Truly Elon's previous life.

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 1d

one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 1d

it keeps throwing me off because to me it means "person who is a member of the SomethingAwful forums"

Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 1d

people love coming up with new ways to denigrate enjoying sex, and "goon" was a fun silly word already. like "labubu" honestly. silly word = more memes, sex bad = more traction

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

the protestors aren't abusing their right to protest. they are being abused, and that abuse is causing chaos.

if broadview's mayor wants to end the violence and chaos, she should shut down the facility.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

Image text:

Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, quit right now.

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Jeremy Hot Wheels @kateneely.bsky.social · 1d

my therapist: sometimes you simply have to experience an emotion instead of thinking about it
me, nodding sagely: and then it goes away
therapist: well not necessarily
me, shaking my head furiously: no, I don't like that

Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

Me: I just don't understand why I can't just out-think my anxiety and emotions and simply react and respond in the most ideal way every single time and never feel bad
My therapist of eight years: *audibly loading gun*

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 1d

I will never forgive whoever in the party reined in Tim Walz on calling them weird.

I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 1d

During the election the whole "joyful warrior", "these guys sure are weird" tactic truly and effortlessly got under their collective skins.

Pamela Parkington @bigdogmomthree.bsky.social · 1d

They tried to get us to fear them, Portland has shown us that we out number them.

Mocking them is worse to them than if we were violent towards them.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 1d

Dreamscape

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

People don't need more evidence to conclude he's a white supremacist. Evidence isn't the issue here. The problem is convincing people that white supremacy is a threat rather than something they can elide and quietly benefit from without actually saying they like it.

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

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