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Published September 22, 2024 by CZ Edwards

All the other sewing stuff

The machine and cabinet are only about half of sewing. It really is fabric origami with occasional thread staples.

Sewing is not mostly sewing — it’s primarily cutting, fitting, and pressing. And yes, pressing is absolutely necessary. Don’t be younger me who thought pressing everything was being persnickety and fussy. It is persnickety, the same way that the difference between a crepe and a pancake is persnickety attention to detail. Pressing a seam sets the thread (makes it part of the fabric of the garment) and that stabilizes the seam.

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Published September 17, 2024 by CZ Edwards

Horrific utilitarian logic

This started as a thread in response to something at Bluesky (which I usually like, but which is, like the entire internet in 2024, frequently poisoned with too much binary thinking) and I decided I wanted it here. Comments are off.

So, I deleted a bunch of replies to a high profile account because I’m not someone’s punching bag when they’re getting dugeony about a profession they profoundly do not understand.

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Published May 15, 2022 by CZ Edwards

The Little Dude Inside

An aside to yesterday’s thread: (and it’s own thread, here)

Well into the Enlightenment, most educated people thought it was impossible for highly complex beings (like humans) to be assembled from parts. Therefore, everything grew out of teeny-tiny versions of themselves, all created at the same time.

Nicholas Hartsoeker’s drawing of tiny people inside a sperm cell, from 1695.

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Published May 15, 2022 by CZ Edwards

Only in the 21st Century

A twitter thread, simultaneously posted here.

No, we’re not going to the 17th century for women. This fuckery on abortion is only possible in the 21st century.

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Published July 10, 2018 by CZ Edwards

UTS: Team #FeedBabies, or how the Religious Right weaponizes Facebook to make you feel bad about Similac and working, while also exploiting SAH parents and every impoverished parent on the planet in the name of Breast is Best (for whom?) With a side of misogyny and corporate malfeasance.

This was originally a Twitter thread, but with the death of Twitter and its slow zombification into an Ayn Rand Hellscape, the thread no longer exists. I wrote it in July of 2018 (and have lightly edited it for clarity in 2024).

Usually when people write connections like that, we’re talking conspiracy theories. But nope, this is just corporate evil and exploitation in the name of profit.

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All the other sewing stuff

Horrific utilitarian logic

The Little Dude Inside

Only in the 21st Century

Thomas Carlyle & Bodily Autonomy

UTS: Team #FeedBabies, or how the Religious Right weaponizes Facebook to make you feel bad about Similac and working, while also exploiting SAH parents and every impoverished parent on the planet in the name of Breast is Best (for whom?) With a side of misogyny and corporate malfeasance.