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Charlie

@fearlessknits.bsky.social

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I was born in a water moon… Since then I've paid an inordinate amount of attention to politics, and made lots of things with yarn. Queer, disabled, democratic communist, one half of Mary James maryjamesauthor.wordpress.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 8d

One, that's not how copyright works and there will be an entire battalion of IP lawyers who will be happy to correct Open AI of this misapprehension, likely to the tune of billions of dollars, and two, fuck this shitty thieving waste of proteins and lipids

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 8d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 27d

Ooooohhh I like it!

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 27d

ALSO, he’s not a politician. He has been elected to no office. He worked some campaigns in college then dropped out to become a full time political violence agitator. Does he “deserve” to be shot? Who cares! He got shot. And it’s not wrong to keep in mind that, had it been you, he would not care.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · Sep 1

And that’s the kindest explanation, the one where they’re heedless, wilfully stupid and self-centred. There are much less charitable ones than that.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · Sep 1

These are intelligent people, so they certainly see there is no upper limit to the level of cruelty the voters they’re chasing want and that there’s no way to win their approval. And yet they continue regardless, knowing it’s disastrous, because the alternative is admitting that they’ve fucked it.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · Aug 30

Libraries and post offices should merge, and there should be a coffee shop.

Pick up your pension, get a book, have a coffee with friends. Cut overheads for everyone, reduce loneliness, and save libraries and post offices.

SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · Jul 20

Okay, lets do this.

One like, one opinion that's not on politics.

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · Aug 30

Yes yes, more of this please!

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Merton Council seizes control of rogue landlord's properties

Merton Council took control of the portfolio of 18 properties, rented as houses of multiple occupancy.

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · Aug 25

When people say they don’t know how to explain queerness to their kids it’s because they have sexualized every aspect of queerness in their minds. They still think that being gay or lesbian or trans or any other queer identity is little more than a fetish.

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · Aug 24

No worries, I hope it helps! Xx

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · Aug 24

In terms of equipment, you can hand sew everything but it takes So Long! I'd recommend going on your local Freecycle and asking if anyone's got a sewing machine they're not using, and you can upgrade later if / when you've got a better idea of what you'll need for your sewing style

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · Aug 24

In this playlist she goes through making a block pattern from the start, and how to use it: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

For this tho, I'd advise watching now for inspo, but doing some of the simpler stuff Leena points towards first to build skills and confidence

Pattern Drafting Starter Pack // Basic Blocks - YouTube

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · Aug 24

Then, this might seem intimidating, but I really rate The Closet Historian most of what she makes is incredibly high concept, but her thesis that you only need a block pattern and a bit of knowledge about pattern manipulation is well worth getting your head around.

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · Aug 24

Okay! Leena Norms is a great place to start. She's only started sewing in the last couple years and has done very easy stuff, from the ground up. This playlist is a good intro: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

MY YEAR OF MAKE DO - YouTube

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Aug 23

Funnily enough I don't remember reading similar front pages when Jeremy Hunt bought *seven* luxury seaside apartments from a Conservative donor, in breach of his government's own money laundering rules

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Aug 23

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · Aug 23

Would you like some recommendations on how to start making your own clothes? It's probably easier than you think

(I mean, obvs there's no limit on how complex you can get, and only the goddesses among us make their own bras, but you can totes start with simple shit)

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · Aug 23

The mass manufacture of clothes is the biggest mistake of modernity. We used to have clothes made to measure and colours chosen to suit us. And now it's just so hard to even find someone to make your clothes, let alone afford it

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Mx Xs @jamtart.bsky.social · Aug 19

I'm a big fan of Universal Basic Income.

Charlotte “Pure True Love” @charluv.bsky.social · Aug 18

No one owns the Water.
No one owns the Land.
No one owns the sand.
These are given by Our Mother.
The Planet provides for Free.
Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺

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Lamb 🔞 @lustylamb.com · Jul 27

As expected seeing ppl backpedaling on the itch thing now that there's a list of the unacceptable content and it includes stuff that's "too gross"

It's all of us or none of us. Our enemies have made that clear.

I would rather work side by side with a freak than with a fascist.

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · Aug 19

www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/zack...

Zack Polanski: The Left’s New Hope

Zack Polanski has crafted a political strategy that the left has been crying out for: eco-populism, the left’s answer to the far-right.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · Aug 4

Until we start acknowledging this anybody that says they are protecting women and girls is straight out lying

The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · Aug 4

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · Aug 4

Y'all. Private healthcare is Something Else.

On an off white wall, a large ornate golden frame with a large white card borders a very large blown up publicity photo. The photo is of a deep red room with panelling painted raspberry pink. A woman sits on a dentist's chair to the left of the image, in a deep blue gown fit for the Oscars red carpet. She is holding a green cocktail and laughing at someone out of the scene to the right, on the other side of the wash station and mouth spotlight. The overall effect is intensely weird

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · Aug 3

Instead of the daily stock market - we could have an indicator for the number of homeless people?

What if we defined the economy as the way we take care of one another? Since that's what it ultimately is/ What wood economic indicators then look like

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Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · Aug 3

Me in my Sheffield flat looking at dribbles and air bubbles spitting out of the kitchen tap, the loo cistern that takes 5 mins to refill, and reports from neighbours about yellow mains water.

Hmm. Interesting.

Also this: www.thestar.co.uk/news/stannin...

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · Aug 3

Oh huh just like trans people have been saying for a decade

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · Aug 3

3 Aug 25 - New study shows vast "over-representation of trans boys" turns out to be vast _under-representation_ of trans girls bec. they: a) come out ~10 years later; b) start puberty later; & c) delay transitioning longer because of deep social animus towards AMAB femininity.
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