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[cyphyree]

By the way is anyone here in love with anime production material / settei too? Storyboards, color design, model sheets, keyframes etc etc--- WELL

Settei Dreams

setteidreams.net

There's a community making an archive of that stuff accessible! There's a VERY wide variety of anime in their collections, and their scans are pretty high quality and well-curated. It's a fantastic resource if you need character design refs, insight into the anime industry, or just like cool sketches and art.

As per the website's terms, "Please do not print and resell [their] settei for your own profit." All images shown in this post are from the link above.

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[desfraisespartout]

This is a nice video showing an blind/invisible stitch, which is quite useful for repairing tears or finishing something (ex. cushion).

Also, that extra step for putting back the seam is really nice.

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[dogdayafternoon1975]

this link definitely does not lead to a bunch of documentaries and miscellaneous movies i keep ripping from dvds at the library, some of which are not easily found or online at all, i definitely will not continue updating it

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[mamoru]

if you have an android phone get newpipe

thank me later.

NewPipe - a free YouTube client

NewPipe

[mamoru]

newpipe is:

• YouTube without ads
• YouTube with downloads (you can even download the audio by itself!)
• YouTube with subscriptions and playlists without logging in
• completely free.

[mamoru]

this is not sponsored newpipe just absolutely fucks

[bnyrbt]

newpipe also has a grade A privacy rating on tosdr.org, in contrast to youtube’s grade C

[noellevanious]

It works with Soundcloud and Bandcamp too holy shit

[queen-mabs-revenge]

also, it supports picture-in-picture playing and background playing both when the app isn't in focus and with your screen off. it truly fucks

[bisquid]

Also also also because this is what made me go from 'oh cool' to feral glee: you can customise subtitle appearance

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[pasteboard]

hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

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Anonymous asked:

Maybe it's less "no one knows how to hem" and more not everyone has access to a thousand dollar machine that requires a significant knowledge just to set up and operate without injuring yourself.

systlin answered:

I mostly handsew

I use a hand needle

It cost $2.49 for a container of fifty of them

Also weird ass way to try and start shit. How dare u hem your own things, lady!

[systlin]

Apparently it's elitist now to (checks notes) repair your own clothes

[systlin]

Also I actually do have a sewing machine. I paid $80 for it. I learned to set it up from 5 minutes on youtube. It isn't a fancy one but all you really need is straight stitch for normal shit and zig zag for knit fabric. I just find I like hand sewing better in most cases tbh!

I also have an antique hand crank White brand machine that needs no electricity. It's over 130 years old and will outlive all of us so long as I give it some oil now and then. I paid $25 for it, and will pass it on one day to another person for free.

But I'm legit Obsessed with what machines nonnie is looking at that are clocking in at a thousand fucking dollars so I'm gonna go poking around I'll report back.

(Hold music)

Okay yep, if you go into the fancy high end industrial embroidery machines you can crack that pretty easy, which I knew, but l think this anon went to sewingmachinesplus, sorted by 'price high to low', and then used the first sewing machine that wasn't also an embroidery machine to send this ask

nonnie I dunno how to tell you that you don't need this machine to sew a hem. Or that there are a series of videos and a link to the product manual on the product page that will show you how to use this thing if you do drop a grand on it.

Also included in the purchase

Literally the top of the product options in the middle of the screen.

[vaspider]

Look. I own not one but two 10-needle embroidery machines, Space Girlfriend Bobbie Draper and Space Boyfriend Poe Dameron, and a serger, and a sewing machine, because, you know.

I own a business and use them to make products which I sell.

The sum total of the sewing and embroidery machines which the business owns is about $22,000.

Of that, our sewing machine was $299.99 because we got it as an open box. We bought it in 2018 and Emet and I have used it pretty close to daily that entire time. If we'd bought it new, it would have been $399.99.

So like, even if you're buying a sewing machine for professional use, which, like, I have to stress, is absolutely what we bought it for, spending a thousand dollars on it probably isn't necessary.

The only thing I'd recommend is not buying new Singers, because they're ... hit-or-miss at best. If you can find an old sewing machine -- like, a Singer or Kenmore from the 60s? -- at an estate sale or garage sale, you'll probably pay $100 or less and then maybe $25-50 to get it cleaned or tuned up, and you'll have a workhorse you'll pass on. The old Singers and Kenmores had metal bodies and were sturdy as hell.

This idea that people can't reasonably inexpensively get a sewing machine which will allow them to alter or even make their own clothing is very silly. I live in a city, and it took me literally less than 5 minutes searching "estate sale sewing machine" to find 7 different estate sales going on today which included a sewing machine that I could have theoretically gone to purchase for less than $200.

[vaspider]

While talking to my wives about this I have been reminded that we have two 1920s manual electric (sorry baby) sewing machines which Evie inherited from her great-grandmother (possibly her great-great-grandmother) which still work, and we also have several other machines which we don't use currently and which were gifted to us by a friend whose mother was going into long-term care, including one which was used to make panels for the AIDS quilt.

There are plenty of used machines out there which still work just fine and will not cost you a lot of money, and plenty of YouTube channels which will teach you how to use them.

(FTR, I learned how to knit in the round using double-pointed needles from YouTube, so every person who's ever bought a kippah from me is proof you can in fact learn how to do Making Things stuff from YouTube.)

The idea that fixing your own clothing is some sort of unobtainable elitist thing is a) weird, b) self-defeating and c) makes you prone to throwing out your clothing when you could just fix it, which means you're spending WAY more money on new clothes than you ever would have on a sewing machine, but, you know, ending is better than mending, I guess.

[stabbedinthenameofscience]

I have collected about a dozen antique sewing machines over the past 20 years and I think I have paid, at most, $30 for any single one of them. Several I got for free.

I've learned to fix them from YouTube because I am poor and I want to make sure my own things work. I'm a right to repair devotee, so this is kinda my jam.

I also hem, fix, and make my own clothes and those of my family.

Had I not been a collector of these things because once you have one, they tend to grow on you, I could have picked up just one for $20 at a thrift store and been in business in a couple of hours after cleaning and oiling it.

Besides, repairs are fingerprints from the past on your clothes - I have a century old dress I was given and it has so many cool alterations on it that show how many people fixed and resized it throughout the years.

That used to be the norm. You would wear things until they would fall apart, then you would reuse what was left and make it into something else.

Repair your stuff. Keep up a tradition.

And when you can't reuse something, pass it on.

Bonus: no one has style quite like the person who fixes their clothes and gives no fucks about making repairs invisible.

[audacityinblack]

My problem isn't money, but space. I live in a tiny apartment with absolutely no place to put a sewing machine.

[cat-boy-cunny]

I super recommend learning hand sewing, then. The biggest benefit of hand sewing, imo, is that you can take your sewing with you and do it anywhere (I like to do it outside when the weather is good)

Bernadette Banner on YouTube has a small series of videos where she teaches better hand sewing practices and it made handsewing 1000x easier for me, to the point where I *prefer* to hand sew rather than use a machine...

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[curlytrek1701]

K so not to be dramatic or anything, but there's a free vintage French pattern book available on antiquepatternlibrary so if you like to crochet/weave/make pixel art/tie epic friendship bracelets don't walk- RUN.

It has scenes from aesop's fables! Cherubs doing things! Beheadings! Greek muses! Little farm people! Intricate floral pattern! Goth stained-glass window like patterns! Fun little corner pieces! Eeeeeeeeeeeeee

https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/C-TT008-180.htm

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[saxifraga-x-urbium]

my toxic xennial trait is that i believe something should either be software (in which case after i download it i shouldn't need to be connected to use it) or a web page (which shouldn't require me to download anything to use it, however badly, in a browser). fuck your mandatory single function constant connection apps

[elodieunderglass]

You’re so right. Say more

[gillianthecat]

Yes. YES. Why the fuck do I need a goddamn SUBSCRIPTION to use MS Word or Excel. It’s total bullshit.

On that note, does anyone have any recommendations for Word Processors that you buy once (or are free!) and then just live on your computer forever? I know assume they must (still) exist, I just haven’t looked into it yet.

[eliazine]

Home | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, communi

libreoffice.org

Libre office is free and more than that its code is open source which basically means it belongs to all of us. Anyone can contribute to its improvement and anyone can use it.

It's been around for a long time and is arguably less powerful than word office (it could have been different because of past politics but it may well be in the future) but still more than enough for any individual or professional.

Leave Microsoft behind and don't look back !

[ms-demeanor]

LibreOffice Fucking Rules and is a full office suite, which includes a program similar to Excel, a program similar to Powerpoint, as well as a math program and Libre Office Draw, which isn't great for doing actual drawings but IS great for making flowcharts. It's not just a word processor, it's all of this:

LibreOffice.Org has a wonderful support forum that is full of questions people have had over the years, so if you're having a problem with any of the programs you can search "how to do X in libre office" and you will very likely find an answer.

Draw can also open, read, and edit PDFs. I had a customer who called me yesterday and was looking for an Adobe Acrobat Pro license and the one functionality she needed was document signing and my friends you do not need to pay fucking adobe $300 a year to sign PDFs.

I used Libre Office Writer to create my Fuck Google pamphlet and save it as a PDF; it is just a fully functional word processor. You can also use it to save in .Docx and .RTF and .PDF if you have to save documents in a specific format for any reason.

For 99.999% of people using office suites, Libre Office will provide all the same functionality of Microsoft Office with none of the subscriptions and all of the control you could want. There is a *slight* learning curve to some things, and the interface might look a bit old-fashioned to some people, but it is well worth it to download if for no other reason that having a non-subscription, non-internet-based (Word doesn't actually store its dictionary locally anymore! Not for like six years! You may need to have internet to get fucking spell check to work!) word processor that will never redirect you to the fucking microsoft store.

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[bananahomo]

I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.

dude.

$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.

[minakittengaming]

This is huge. Sharing for my US friendos.

[zillyblog]

Hospitals like to hide these policies under a lot of successive links in obscure places, so if you don't see anything right away, keep looking! Get friends to help! Make it a scavenger hunt. A game where you're assassins sent to slit capitalism's throat

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[amiibo-king]

it's come to my attention that a lot of people don't know about bluemaxima's flashpoint and genuinely think they'll never be able to play their favorite 00s internet games ever again so i just want to remind everyone that flashpoint is a huge internet flash game preservation project that allows you to play just about any internet flash game/animation despite the death of flash. if they've got it in their database (and they probably do) you can play it. go forth and drink in the 00s nostalgia

even if you think there's no way they'll have the game u want. they probably do anyway. when i first downloaded flashpoint i thought for sure theres no way they will have the obscure flash game i played for hours as a kid that was only even available on the internet for like 2 months in 2006. but you know what. they had it. seriously, download flashpoint