i dont think i posted these but here i made a little frog pattern to make tiny frog toys with my grandma
this is the first lil guy I made while still learning how i should sew it
AAA ok so a lot of people have been asking for the pattern to this, tho I’ve been using just these two little papers to do the cut outs lol
i tried my best to translate it into digital so that people get a bit more accurate look at them. Tho bear with me I’ve never done an actual pattern design sheet before!
so basically my hope is that anyone could print these out to any size of their choosing and get the same result, but ive never tried anything larger than approx. 3 inches with these sooo idk if you try it tag me!
the goal is to sew the backs together to the lines at the tip of the head to the middle of the butt. then leaving a space along the belly piece near the butt end and sewing from one side of the butt including all the legs and the “mouth” to the other side with its legs to get back to the butt. if that makes sense
i usually pause sewing up the body once the head is fully sewn together,, usually after ive sewn both arms and ill yank it inside out where ill start sewing on the little poofball eyes so i know theyre in a good place, then resuming the body, and then pulling the whole thing inside out and pushing out the tips of the limbs with a skinny blunt object like a dull pencil until i can see the stitches. if you attempt this piece definitely make sure you stitch up the arm and leg crevices very well!!!!
then just stuff the lad and sew up his back end and its done :)
one suggestion for fabric is always try to use a stretchy soft fleecy fabric with these because its much easier if mistakes are made during sewing and to hold the ROUND shape better
Overall its a very good use of scraps if you’ve accumulated a lot and don’t know what to do with them 👍👍
So I made a frog (huge)
I literally can’t I’m losing my mind over the sheer girth of this frog.
We lost something as a culture when computers stopped screaming in agony as you connected them to the internet.
You would not have survived the dark ages. A webring would spell great peril. There was no search. And the dark things lurked out in the open in those days.
The computer screamed because it knew.
if it didn’t torture a landline phone for the duration of the process, was it really internet?
My dad hit me with the info that there was an option to turn it off… the sound… the whole time. But he didn’t want to tell me. Or to stop me from the, presumably character building, ritual of struggling to smother it to death with a pillow at 12:30am so I could be on the Forbidden Web and not wake my parents.
Yeah you could absolutely turn it off, but basically no one did.
You just needed to add ATM0/&M0 to your modem initialization.
Leverage episode where they have to bypass security and burn the Gävlebocken
This would be part of a completely unrelated job in Sweden where burning the Gävlebocken only ends up being necessary by a hugely convoluted sequence of events, so that the entire episode everyone has to constantly remind Parker they are not here to burn the Gävlebocken, leave the Gävlebocken, do not be distracted by the Gävlebocken. Until we finally are rewarded with the delight on Parker’s face as everyone on the team concedes that in fact we now must burn the Gävlebocken.
If you didn’t hear, Substack is now officially a Nazi site. Officially as in “the CEO has said they wouldn’t ban Nazis, and that they are welcome to monetize their content on Substack”. I think this is the first time a major web platform has openly say they are ok with making money out of open Nazis and white nationalists.
Substack CEO reasoning is “we don’t like nazis, but we defend their right to be nazis”. But, of course, at the same time, substack bans sex workers from using their platform.
So yeah, if you have a Substack account, maybe it’s time to move somewhere else. As they say, if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis.
wow. just a couple thoughts off the top of my head, after reading the article.
first of all, de-platforming is not the same thing as de-monetizing, and conflating the two (which Substack officials do in this article) is dangerous because one of those things (de-monetizing) is disincentivized by Substack’s profit motive.
Substack, in case you didn’t know, is completely free for authors—and the default is to send free newsletters, not subscription-based ones. You have to take action to monetize a newsletter on Substack. So theoretically there’s a scenario here where, in the interest of “upholding freedom of discourse” or whatever, Substack allows Nazis and other white supremacist groups to use substack to spread information…but also does the moral thing by refusing to take Nazis money, by refusing to allow Nazis to monetize their newsletters.
But of course, they won’t do that, because what’s at issue here isn’t free speech or freedom of discourse; it’s Substack’s profits.
In the Atlantic article that kicked this whole thing off, Jonathan M. Katz pointed out that the numerous white supremacist and Nazis newsletters power by Substack have anywhere from thousands to tens of thousands of subscribers. He also pointed out that some, though not all, of those newsletters are monetized.
So what, you say, how much of an impact can a couple thousand subscribers, for a probably small subscription rate, really matter?
Well, depending on whether the number of monetized subscribers to Nazis newsletters trends closer to the thousands or the tens of thousands, it can actually have a pretty big impact:
So refusing to take Nazis money might be enough to actually hurt Substack, depending on how big a percentage of their overall revenue Nazis dollars make up. Although, to be clear, I personally think no matter how big a percentage that is, Substack should refuse to take Nazis dollars.
It’s clear that Substack is also a significant part of the way down the road to becoming a Nazis bar:
“you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys [Nazis] come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too. And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now.”
The non-Nazis substack community of publishers made a pretty clear threat in their open letter to Substack that depending on how the company responded to the Nazis newsletters…they’d take their business somewhere else. No word yet on whether those substackers find Substack’s response adequate, but I think many of them won’t.
So, if Substack refuses to deal with their Nazis problem now, non-nazis substackers who find that immoral will start to pull out—raising the percentage of Substack’s revenue that comes from Nazis and making it harder to deal with the problem. And as other white supremacist groups see how Substack is favoring their fellows, they’ll flock to the site—maybe not enough to make up for the people leaving, but enough to further raise the percentage of Substack’s revenue that’s provided by Nazis. Aaaaand once that feedback loop starts? Game over.
Let us return to the matter of freedom of discourse. Because actually, Hamish McKenzie is full of shit when he says this issue is about censorship, and why the upper echelons of Substack just really hate censorship and that’s why they’re taking Nazis dollars.
OP is 100% correct, their refusal to allow publishers to publish pornography through their platform means they haven’t got a leg to stand on when it comes to censorship.
But it goes further than that: as that same Atlantic article points out, Substack refuses to allow anyone banned by their default payment processor, Stripe, to publish through them. You can find a list of the businesses banned by their payment processor here. Included on that list is a bunch of stuff that runs the gamut from really illegal to sort of shady—but some of it is stuff that’s legal and Stripe just…doesn’t want to deal with.
So, including but even beyond pornography, there’s a bunch of stuff that Substack is already “censoring” by not allowing it on their platform. So much for the freedom of discourse, I guess.
What this points out is, of course, that Substack isn’t actually concerned about censorship. They’re just incentivized to do as much as they can to make money within the confines of the law and the boundaries set by their business partner, Stripe. Substack is, in the end, a business, and their goal is not just to provide a service, but to make as much money as possible while providing a service.
Frankly, if there’s a group that really wants to get the Nazis kicked off of Substack, they might be better off appealing directly to Stripe, the payment processor for Substack. If they can get white supremacist content added to the list of banned businesses, Substack would be forced to comply. But it’s also pretty unlikely that Stripe would bow to public pressure.
I’ll keep an ear out to see how the concerned substackers respond to the company’s statement, although I’m already hearing from friends that some publishers are already urging people to flee the platform. Sucks to see such a useful tool get taken over by Nazis, but so it goes.
Reincarnation is real but only for frogs. I don’t mean that only frogs can be reincarnated, that’s silly. It’s just that all creatures can be reincarnated but they only come back as frogs, including frogs.
Well, except crabs. Crabs stay crabs. But what are crabs but saltwater frogs?
Every frog is serene because they know exactly their place in the world and they know they’ll never need to do anything different. Even a frog getting eaten by a bird is just like “oh well. Enjoy your meal, I’ll be back in ten minutes”.
They’re always chilling because they’re perfect in life and nature and death. They don’t even need to eat, they just do that for fun.
It’s often thought that frogs don’t have souls. This is technically correct but only in the way that 1 isn’t a prime number: frogs don’t have souls because frogs are souls.
Inside every* living creature from a human to the tiniest microbe, there exists a spectral frog. This is the immortal soul. Frogs are how they are because they don’t have the Cartesian dualism of soul and body: they are only soul, in whole and in part.
* except crabs, as previously stated. They are also souls, but they’re crab souls. They are made of the same material but in a different environment, thus the different shape, like how water takes the form of a container. A soul takes the form of a crab or frog depending on if it’s in a crab or not. If not, it’s a frog.
Heaven is empty and the frogs are all here.
God sends their angel to talk to Mary about her child, and the Angel Gabriel looks just like Kermit.
Kermit is honestly a great metaphor to understand angels, I’m not going to lie.
He’s a tool with a purpose, with no will of his own. All he does is at the direction of his masters, with no consciousness of his own.
And yet, is he a person? Of course. Kermit is real, in a way some humans can’t even manage.
I’m not saying Jim Henson is God, but imagining he is and Kermit is the head Angel is not the wrongest way to approach theology.
hey man. accidental homestuck.
I’m no man and I was reading homestruck back in 2011 so believe me, I know.
Reincarnation is real but only for frogs. I don’t mean that only frogs can be reincarnated, that’s silly. It’s just that all creatures can be reincarnated but they only come back as frogs, including frogs.
Well, except crabs. Crabs stay crabs. But what are crabs but saltwater frogs?
Every frog is serene because they know exactly their place in the world and they know they’ll never need to do anything different. Even a frog getting eaten by a bird is just like “oh well. Enjoy your meal, I’ll be back in ten minutes”.
They’re always chilling because they’re perfect in life and nature and death. They don’t even need to eat, they just do that for fun.
It’s often thought that frogs don’t have souls. This is technically correct but only in the way that 1 isn’t a prime number: frogs don’t have souls because frogs are souls.
Inside every* living creature from a human to the tiniest microbe, there exists a spectral frog. This is the immortal soul. Frogs are how they are because they don’t have the Cartesian dualism of soul and body: they are only soul, in whole and in part.
* except crabs, as previously stated. They are also souls, but they’re crab souls. They are made of the same material but in a different environment, thus the different shape, like how water takes the form of a container. A soul takes the form of a crab or frog depending on if it’s in a crab or not. If not, it’s a frog.
Heaven is empty and the frogs are all here.
God sends their angel to talk to Mary about her child, and the Angel Gabriel looks just like Kermit.
Kermit is honestly a great metaphor to understand angels, I’m not going to lie.
He’s a tool with a purpose, with no will of his own. All he does is at the direction of his masters, with no consciousness of his own.
And yet, is he a person? Of course. Kermit is real, in a way some humans can’t even manage.
I’m not saying Jim Henson is God, but imagining he is and Kermit is the head Angel is not the wrongest way to approach theology.
hey man. accidental homestuck.
I’m no man and I was reading homestruck back in 2011 so believe me, I know.
one of my favorite books as a kid was this one on speculative
zoology/evolution that I loved so much I borrowed it to the point my
school had to chase me up on returning it several times. it influenced my early creature art and design and pushed me to delve into my own specbio (on dragons. no surprises there). I loved the informatic entries, all their little lore bits and ecological adaptations; the wild color palettes, their weird little shapes. it was called The New Dinosaurs, by Dougal Dixon.
there were two more books in the series that my school didn’t have, which is either a blessing or a curse, because the third book in the set is called Man After Man.
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