Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

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Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

if I'm not mistaken, this is the first UBI scheme where they aren't in some stupid endless "study" and finally have enough data to just simply DO it, and of course like all the studies showed, the result is a huge boost for the economy

two photos a card with 'i can't do it' written on it, a pair of scissors loks like its about to cut off the 't making the sign read I can do it. The second photo shows the saying untouched but just a small square cut from the card

Still makes me laugh.

A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community

If you work in web standards, you RFC 2119 MUST read this article. alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

A line drawing and block colour-little boy in a yellow coat, shoes and pointy hat surrounded by large yellow stars and a crescent moon.

And last but definitely not least...

Me (to a little boy beside me in a cafe who is wearing a yellow coat): Nice coat.
Little boy: Thank you. It means when night comes I can hide as a star.

Art by Penny Neville Lee. Words by me.

The bees have discovered Brutalism

A screenshot of a roguelite video game showing a redesigned user interface

I have altered the UI again, pray I don't alter it further
#gamedev #gamedesign #ui #ux #indiedev #indiegame

Black and white photo looking down a street of terraced brick houses. Several cars line each side of the street, with many people gathered at the far end. Beyond this the bow of a large oil tanker can be seen, towering above the end of the street and the rows of houses.

Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)

China's home-designed megawatt-scale commercial buoyant airborne turbine, the S1500, has successfully completed its maiden flight in northwest China's Hami after passing tests including full desert assembly and continuous high-wind deployment and retrieval.

i think i just assumed C would have the background of knowing how to look after this sort of thing, but that's an assumption just because she's from a rich background. fingers crossed. Still can't get used to when they say 'the queen' on the news they mean C. "the queen" means QE2 in this house!

i mean, what a job! i wonder if they had to sign any documentation about not revealing what they saw.. although that's good business practice as well of course.

<slightly drooling face> i hope the pieces get looked after properly - covered and dusted occasionally etc. i'm not sure if they're made from the sort of thing which needs regular occasional polishing. what a job

yes :) And, like you say, to see them again... - or maybe for the first time with pieces where there wasn't remaining historical imagery...

& thankyou :) this is a great thread and i love all your insight into the shinies. i cannot begin to imagine what the palace vault looks like inside

oh i SEE! international incident, especialyl with everything going on at the moment... The popcorn side of my brain is very very curious what that would look like, but the "this is quite enough living in interesting times thankyou" side of my brain much less so. so rather hoping the palace are alert

i am really ignorant on this! but to ask: why would it cause a problem if someone wore some of the russian jewels in the light of day? if Q Mary acquired them from emigre russian families is not that not legitimate, would they have to be returned to someone? (sorry! realise i am ignorant on this!)

Feels like the world is burning so time for weird jellyfish facts 🧵

Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.

Be the source people go to when they wake up in the morning to find out what really happened overnight.

The nearest thing to that today is the @financialtimes.com.

The BBC has the brand and reach to do that globally.

i don't know what the source of this video is but I love it

felt oddly emotional reading this

An alucita moth, with frilly, lacy wings, in a photo taken by Timmy Wong in China. Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/232780177?fbclid=IwY2xjawMsKF1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFyeEllRVFqekE3TlZiWUhnAR7crKukQCvxnpLzBA1e2rvrMO177PwoCqamq_fC-XgtqthxwbWDSHur3uuYWQ_aem_JoIYMoZvp03bfyCWcUH9xw

Oh. My. Goodness. Look at this moth! LOOK AT THOSE WINGS!! Honestly didn't know that moth wings could be that frilly and lacy - like bird feathers - but apparently there is a whole family of "many plumed moths". This one is from the genus Alucita and found in China, and is just spectacular. (1/3)

how cool are these?

Wonder how they got the spirals on the glass surface.

Maintaining a diversity of ongoing personal projects is important because it enables you to procrastinate on one by aimlessly tinkering with another, thereby creating the possibility that you'll finish one of them by accident.

sometimes you see a joke on Internet that just speaks to your humor core

eeee 😊 i hope it's not a red herring! i can't have read this in the last twenty years so am a bit vague. the sisters are very distinctively drawn & they live at a school IIRC and there is a mystery? Hopefully more DWJ is never a bad thing even if it's not this one!

the descriptons of the oppressive landscape are the bits of the book that still really stick with me, years later. I desperately want to reread now but am not sure if i own that one!