prophecyformula we can have lots of t-shirts
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #scrupulosity #(I genuinely really like the first one)
clothing
A guide to washing machine / laundry symbols.
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#yeah pretty much #I ignore the symbols and avoid buying anything fancy enough that the symbols are likely to matter #the only clothes I do special washing to are my wool socks #which go in the bathroom sink with some Woolite #(it’s ShopRite-brand Woolite) #(I haven’t set foot in a ShopRite in nearly seven and a half years) #(I still have half a bottle of ShopRite-brand Woolite) #(this tells you how often I do special clothes washing)
When Japanese Twitter user Overtime Queen noticed the resemblance between Ultra-string Q gummy candy and yarn, she decided to postpone eating it and try knitting with it instead. Each piece of the citrus and soda flavored candy measures 126 cm (50 in) long, so she bought 15 packages – amassing roughly 18.9 meters (62 feet) of gummy candy and set to work knitting with a pair of chopsticks, using a standard stocking stitch (18 stitches across), resulting in a lovely scarf that’s 100% edible.
There’s no word on whether or not Overtime Queen ate her crafty confection, but she did resport that the process of knitting the gummy scarf made her hands smell delicious:
“My hands smell like citrus soda and cola! They smell so good!”
After working on it for three hours, the completed scarf measured 25 cm x 15 cm (9.8 in x 5.9 in), and weighed 450 grams (1 lb). It may not be a long scarf, but it’s still completely awesome. We’d like nothing better than the opportunity to take a big bite out of it.
[via RocketNews24]
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#food #neat
What you see above isn’t in fact leather made from animals- it’s made out of pineapples.
””It was one of those coincidences of life,” said Carmen Hijosa, founder of Piñatex, a new sustainable textile made from pineapple leaf fibres. Hijosa was speaking of her trip to the Philippines that led to a career change, which involved going back to university to get a PhD from London’s Royal College of Art, starting her own business, Ananas Anam, and patenting her own textile.
A small coincidence, and a big change.
Hijosa had been working in the leather industry for over 15 years in Ireland, when she was invited to consult on the exportation of leather in the Philippines. When Hijosa arrived, she was exposed to the poor quality of the materials, the working conditions and the toxic impact of leather on the environment. Hijosa advised, rather than try and export leather, why don’t you work with what you got, and what the Philippines has is an abundance of natural fibres.
She began to explore different fibres and came upon the pineapple leaf. “I realized they are very strong and flexible,” she says. “I wanted to see if I could make them into a non-woven mesh textile [like leather] and to do that I had to do full research and development that only a degree could provide.”
“Piñatex is a byproduct of the food industry,” explained Hijosa. “Once the pineapples are harvested the plants are left to rot.” Instead of letting that happen, pineapple farmers gather the leaves, extract the fibres and degum them in closed tanks. Once they have been degummed, the fibres become soft and breathable and can be put through a mechanical process that turns them into a non-woven mesh material that ends up feeling much like felt.
The entire process does not use any extra water, pesticides or fertilizer beyond what is used to cultivate the pineapples. By comparison, to produce 1kg of cotton – enough for one t-shirt and a pair of jeans – it takes up to 20,000 litres of water.”
This demonstrates that not only is the leather industry cruel, but it is also unnecessary. This product will hopefully be one of the future; one that manufactures waste to create something fashionable and hopefully successfully overtakes and thus eradicates the current industry.
Hope to see this on the markets soon!
OH MY FUCKING GOD
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#neat
The picture just before Garak murders everyone on the station.
So, since I sort of started a thing, I thought I should contribute. Here we have the DS9 crew (or as many of them as I could get in a decent pic) in their holiday gear.
Jewish Siskos are jakeziyal’s idea, I think? (correct me if I’m wrong)
(Make sure to read the “murders everyone on the station” link, too. It’s hilarious.)
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#Star Trek #DS9 #Hanukkah #Christmas #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
Many people message me asking about Pringle’s harness, and where I bought it. So here’s a big post all about his harness for those interested. I didn’t buy it, a friend made it for me. She took his measurements and made it just for him. The lead is a rabbit lead that I did buy from a store. And I got a tag with his name and my phone number on it.
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#lizard #adorable #(yes another one)
if you don’t think some of the hate Taylor Swift receives is unnecessary and sexist let me just remind you that she once wore a black turtle neck, jeans and boots and this was a result
scandalous wow cover your eyes
So…the same outfit Steve Jobs wore for years….
“Steve Jobs sexes up the WWDC stage with figure-hugging black turtleneck”
…is it even possible to “sex up” a stage while wearing a remembrance poppy? Don’t symbols of the horrors of war kind of kill the mood?
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#Taylor Swift #Remembrance Day
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