extremely unsexy of adhd to make me both very annoying and very sensitive to the concept of being perceived as annoying

In the native dialect of Lesbos, Sappho's name is spelled "Psappho". I sometimes picture what it would have been like if that had been the spelling modern English had gone with. Imagine being psapphic.

… How much effort did it take not to begin that first sentence with "In the Lesbian dialect"?

No comment.

Attract lesbian catgirls by calling them pspspsapphic.

While I'm writing things that I've been intending to write for a while... one of the things that I think that a lot of people who haven't been involved in like... banking or corporate shenaniganry miss about why our economy is its current flavor of total fuckery is the concept of "fiduciary duty to shareholders."

"Why does every corporation pursue endless growth?" Fiduciary duty to shareholders.

"Why do corporations treat workers the way they do?" Fiduciary duty to shareholders.

"Why do corporations make such bass-ackwards decisions about what's 'good for' the company?" Fiduciary duty to shareholders.

The legal purpose of a corporation with shareholders -- its only true purpose -- is the generation of revenue/returns for shareholders. Period. That's it. Anything else it does is secondary to that. Sustainability of business, treatment of workers, sustainability and quality of product, those things are functionally and legally second to generating revenue for shareholders. Again, period, end of story. There is no other function of a corporation, and all of its extensive legal privileges exist to allow it to do that.

"But Spider," you might say, "that sounds like corporations only exist in current business in order to extract as much money and value as possible from the people actually doing the work and transfer it up to the people who aren't actually doing the work!"

Yes. You are correct. Thank you for coming with me to that realization. You are incredibly smart and also attractive.

You might also say, "but Spider, is this a legal obligation? Could those running a company be held legally responsible for failing their obligations if they prioritize sustainability or quality of product or care of workers above returns for shareholders?"

Yes! They absolutely can! Isn't that terrifying? Also you look great today, you're terribly clever for thinking about these things. The board and officers of a corporation can be held legally responsible to varying degrees for failing to maximize shareholder value.

And that, my friends, is why corporations do things that don't seem to make any fucking sense, and why 'continuous growth' is valued above literally anything else: because it fucking has to be.

If you're thinking that this doesn't sound like a sustainable economic model, you're not alone. People who are much smarter than both of us, and probably nearly as attractive, have written a proposal for how to change corporate law in order to create a more sensible and sustainable economy. This is one of several proposals, and while I don't agree with all of this stuff, I think that reading it will really help people as a springboard to understanding exactly why our economy is as fucked up as it is, and why just saying 'well then don't pursue eternal growth' isn't going to work -- because right now it legally can't. We'd need to change -- and we can change -- the laws around corporate governance.

This concept of 'shareholder primacy' and the fiduciary duty to shareholders is one I had to learn when I was getting my securities licenses, and every time I see people confusedly asking why corporations try to grow grow grow in a way that only makes sense if you're a tumor, I sigh and think, 'yeah, fiduciary duty to shareholders.'

(And this is why Emet and I have refused to seek investors for NK -- we might become beholden to make decisions which maximize investor return, and that would get in the way of being able to fully support our people and our values and say the things we started this company to say.)

Anyway, you should read up on these concepts if you're not familiar. It's pretty eye-opening.

Yeah, there's actually such a thing as "Criminal Mismanagement", and while it normally applies to corruption, it can, has, and will be used to say "You made a decision that was good for the public. You made a decision that was good for your workers. You made a decision based in ethics. That is the legal equivalent of stealing from the stakeholders."

You know that people don't know what they don't know, right? That it's impossible to know that you don't know something like this?

And that's why I wrote this post in the first place, because I realized that people don't seem to know this?

To be blunt, this information is not made readily available to most people, and that's by design. Most of us aren't taught this in school on purpose. Most of us don't get this explained to us on purpose.

The reaction in the notes of this post is why that's the case! But people don't know that they don't know this fact, which... yeah. That's how knowing things works.

Anyway, that's why I wrote the post in the first place.

It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn't heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood to Eeyore's house. Inside the house was Eeyore.

"Hello Eeyore," said Pooh.

"Hello Pooh. Hello Piglet" said Eeyore, in a Glum sounding voice.

"We just thought we'd check on you," said Piglet, "because we hadn't heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay."

Eeyore was silent for a moment. "Am I okay?" he asked, eventually. "Well, I don't know, to be honest. Are any of us really okay? That's what I ask myself. All I can tell you, Pooh and Piglet, is that right now I feel really rather Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All.

Which is why I haven't bothered you. Because you wouldn't want to waste your time hanging out with someone who is Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All, would you now."

Pooh looked at Piglet, and Piglet looked at Pooh, and they both sat down, one on either side of Eeyore in his stick house.

Eeyore looked at them in surprise. "What are you doing?"

"We're sitting here with you," said Pooh, "because we are your friends. And true friends don't care if someone is feeling Sad, or Alone, or Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are."

"Oh," said Eeyore. "Oh." And the three of them sat there in silence, and while Pooh and Piglet said nothing at all; somehow, almost imperceptibly, Eeyore started to feel a very tiny little bit better. Because Pooh and Piglet were There. No more; no less.

Author - AA Milne Illustration - EH Shepard

My favorite Pooh story.

i don't think people realize that like, 70% of the ‘solar punk’ aesthetic is just investing in better public transportation. like literally. no air pollution? invest in better public transportation. no cars? better public transportation. more walkable cities? better public transportation. greener urban areas? better public transportation. more bike lanes? better fucking public transportation. come on guys.

Sophie I want to weave please let me weave I'm SO CLOSE to finishing the warp

I stayed up way too late but:

THIS NEW LOOM MAKES FOUR AND A HALF YARDS AT A TIME!

Oh God it's midnight now I gotta get to fucking BED

I have finished my glove pattern in two sizes! It is available for free on ravelry!

These gloves are knit in a 2x2 rib and fit the hand with negative ease. Perfect for autumn and in a very timeless style. They are fast and simple to knit but are most suitable for an intermediate knitter who is able to improvise ribbing during sections of added stitches, and who has some familiarity with the construction of gloves. The pattern will give you the exact number of stitches, increases, and inches you need to complete the glove, but will not always specify exact knits and purls, which are inferred.

Because of the amount of negative ease, it is difficult to measure exactly how the gloves will fit. The small size was designed to fit a hand that is 7” across the knuckles, with fingers that have a 2” circumference, while the large size is designed for a hand that is 8” across the knuckles, with fingers that have a 3” circumference.

Great job little dude, you're getting it all figured out

Bookbinding for Beginners by a Beginner

All of the stuff I've written thus far. [October 28th 2023]

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Five and A Half

Part Six [Added October 31st 2023]

Trouble Shooting Aside [Added November 11th 2023]

Part Seven [Added November 16th 2023]

Part Eight- and Final Post (Until I ultimately write more, cause lets face it, I've already started tweaking how I do things) [Added November 29th 2013]

This is the only way I’m ever going to weave in my ends on ribbing. Love learning new things!!

from @ohne-sorgen

i don't have a word for it, but if it's what i do--and i think it is--i just go to the inside of the sock and pick a purl column (looks like knit, since you're on the wrong side). so you have a nice neat column of stitches, and i take the yarn left to right behind the leg of one of the stitches, then the one below that, and the one below that. i usually do between three and seven, depending on how much abuse i expect the socks to see.

when i've put them in, i start going up the same column of stitches in the other leg, this time right to left. snip the yarn and you're done!

i do this a lot and find it's really stable, which is nice because the cuff of a sock sees so much stretching.

let me know if this wasn't clear enough--i can make a diagram if it'd be easier.

I think it makes sense? I’ll have to make some socks to try it out and see if I actually got it or not 😂

Thank you @trashpandacraft for the explanation! I found the technique here (#2) whilst trying to remind myself how to weave in ends (can you tell I prefer crochet for things with multiple ends? Much simpler!!) so if you need pictures that might help :)

(also I'd never considered duplicate stitch as a end-weaving method, inspired!!)

😅 embarrassingly, you weren't doing quite what i thought. on the bright side, now we have two ways?

i understand that a lot of ppl are coming off the heels of twitter & tiktok so i just wanted 2 say that if you think you are trans but don't feel specifically transmasculine or transfeminine and feel fucked up over having to pick something that's not you, you can identify as a trans neutral, nonbinary, or just trans. u do not have to identify with them if they don't fit. transmasculine is not the "only" way to be trans if u are afab. transfeminine is not the "only" way to be trans if u are amab. hope this helps

Gender is a fuck, and while some people like boxes, some people are more like puddles on the floor, or confetti all over the room, or an orb floating in the room or on the ceiling, and some people are on a different floor altogether.

Gender is not a line, or a Venn diagram, or an amorphous blob. It's complicated and has more dimensions than can be comprehended in any kind of representation.

Gender is a fuck. And whatever gender or genders you are or are not have nothing to do with your appearance or presentation, and you don't need words to describe your experience with gender.

You can just Be.

If Sherlock Holmes was Isekai'd to a fantasy world he would just deduce the rules of this world and get back to solving crimes. He'll find an elf girl sidekick,name her Watson, and pretend like nothing happened.

"If you look closely, you can see traces of chalk dust on the floor. Our murderer must have used a magic circle to kill our victim."

"Actually Holmes, this looks like salt. Quite unusual for a magic circle, since it can be scattered so easily..."

"It tastes like salt too. Good eye Watson. Let us start by visiting the fish mongers."

"Well I would enjoy some fried dragonfish, but how does this help our investigation?"

"A process of elimination, my long-eared friend. There're only two ways for the culprit to get salt in the city. They could have brought it in themselves-"

"But then they'd have to pay the tarrif!"

"Very astute! No, a much likelier option is that they bought it here. Either the docks or the meat market would be the place. And I have a hunch that our culprit is fishy in more ways than one."

"But Holmes, how did you know the merfolk ambassador was the killer?"

"An excellent question, the key was the footprints."

"But he doesn't even have feet!"

"He doesn't as of right now. But you forget, the magic circle."

"I see! The killing spell was a water spear, which normally requires a circle."

"But doesn't if you're already imbued with water magic like our scaly ambassador."

"So the circle..."

"To grant him a pair of feet. For just long enough to leave distinctive footprints in the scattered salt and to make us suspect a two-legged killer."

"By the Goddess, Holmes, you're a genius!"

Makes sense.

Anyway, getting sheer autism vibes from Holmes

Good. That means I wrote him in-character.

Oh man I can't believe I forgot. You know that post that was like "tell me what clothes you've bought because of a character" or whatever. I searched for ages to find an adequate white cable knit sweater because of Ransom's in knives out.

It's a good sweater

I'm putting this here bc I feel like it's information everyone needs. You can find it here.

12 days are done!! It is so pretty 😭

Also need to ply the warp now, I had hope that I can get all 24 days on that... Welp 😅🤣

wanted to share this v important pair of videos from this woman on ig that i absolutely adore, nottheworstcleaner/brogan! she does free deep cleans for people in really unfortunate situations after starting as a psychologist studying the connection between mental health and cleaning.

the first video here talks about the negative effects of cleaning being used as a punishment for children, and the second talks about how to start overcoming that as an adult. personally, it was really revelatory and validating to watch these videos, and they helped me understand another level of why i find it so hard to clean. like i said, i love this account, brogan is so non-judgmental and positive, and really dedicated to truly helping people (i know she’s on tiktok too but i don’t know her @)

anyway, i hope this information can be helpful to other people as well! remember that there’s no shame in finding it difficult to keep your space clean. if you have trouble, that means there’s something there that hasn’t been addressed and needs help, and that - not getting the support you need - is not your fault no matter what! healing is possible, always.

side note: i don’t have the spoons rn to transcribe these videos, if anyone does i would be so grateful 🙏

Brogan's Instagram

I love finding fringe flame wars that I have no reason to know about

can confirm from someone in the industry. Other truckers joke that Swift stands for “Sure Wish I Finished Training”

"assless chaps" 🙄back in my day we just called them the english

was gonna say "The Assless Chaps" would be a great name for a band but i think thats just the beatles.

Finnish menstrual product campaign to raise trans awareness.

Vuokkoset and Dakota Robin on Instagram.

The way they are weaponising the (generally very unnecesary) gendering of products to raise trans awareness. Nice.

LOVE BLASTING FORTH WITH RADIANT LIGHT OBLITERATING THE VOID AND PUSHING US ONWARD. THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE ACROSS ANY TIMELINE AND IT IS AT YOUR BACK. NOW LETS HECKIN TROT