Get yourself a fabric store that will light your fabric on fire for you
No but legit I asked what the fiber content of something was and the guy didn’t know so he cut a chunk off and lit it on fire and felt the ashes and was like. Yeah this is mostly cotton with a lil bit of silk. And that was the moment I knew. This is it. This is the fabric store for me. Also that guy is marriage material. Not for me but damn some person is gonna be so happy with him.
Ok but this is actually one of the easiest ways to tell what something is made of! I did a textiles degree and one day as part of a class we all went outside with a pile of scrap fabric and set fire to the little pieces and recorded how they burned. We were given a chart that looked something like this to tell what each fabric was (it gets a little tricky is it’s a mix of fabrics though). Why did we do this? There is very little regulation in the textiles industry so a lot of materials are mislabelled as something they aren’t and sold for more than they should be, also sometimes people buy fabric second hand or discounted which doesn’t have any label at all. If you have a fabric you are having doubts about, cut a tiny piece off and do the burn test and you should know pretty fast what you are dealing with. Anyways your fabric store should be lighting things on fire because this means that they are actually checking what the fabrics are and aren’t trying to pass cheap stuff off as more expensive than it is.
Ooh! I knew it was a standard test but I hadn’t seen a chart as detailed as this thank you!
This also works on yarn!!!
also there really should be a way to block someone who has been repeatedly false-flagging your posts (if it was a person and not a flawed algorithm in a particular scenario) w/o violating their privacy/revealing who they are to you. protect their privacy/protect them from harassment but ALSO allow the person they were harassing via false flagging… protect themself/not have that person in their internet experience.
there really should be a way to do this.
I wish more people got this because some ‘low-empathy’ people are the most compassionate and sympathetic in the universe, and I hate it when that’s taken to mean ‘unfeeling and probably hostile’ when nothing could be further from the truth
Or, as my dad put it,
Sympathy: I know how you feel
Empathy: I feel how you feel
Compassion: is there anything I can do to help?
Sympathy: that sucks bro
empathy: I feel that
compassion: want me to send you some puppy and kitten pictures to make you feel better?
erosionerodes
Posts like this make me feel so much better. It always seems like society treat responses to others pain as though empathy is the most important kind. I am around 85% compassionate and this post helped me not feel like I am a monster because of that for once.
Literally why is shadow-banning even a thing that websites have built in, with no appeal process or notification to the user? Why is it even a thing? It’s kinda. suspicious and definitely not a very transparent moderation tactic.
I answered staff’s email that I must use the email on my account to explain that the email on my account will not go through to send a help message, that it seems to also be blocked from interacting with tumblr support. I gave them further information, screenshots, etc. I’ve received no reply at all.
It seems a bit futile to tag @staff like this even, because I’ve found out that when I tag blogs it doesn’t even show up in their notes.
I reblogged this yesterday, but I want to reblog it again. Diabetic ketoacidosis turns your blood acidic and will essentially burn you from the inside out.
The stories you hear of people dying from rationing, this is what happens to their body.
Affordable insulin isn’t just a right, it’s a necessity.
No one should have to die like that when it’s preventable with access to proper medication.
This.
@staff Hey, why am I shadow banned after a ton of my not-explicit posts (a ton of which were sfw lgbtq posts) were wrongly flagged?
No one can send me DMs or posts, and I can't send them either. My blog no longer is searchable. The wrongly flagged posts have no option to appeal.
Messages I send to tumblr support using the email on my account won't go through either. Ones I send using my other email will go through... only to recieve a response that I have to use the email on my account to send support, due to account security. That'd be fine and well... if it would go through.
What's going on, and can someone look into it?
@thetimetravellercat Here’s more details on it - apparently I can’t send replies on my own posts either or I would’ve replied to you there. :(
@staff Hey, why am I shadow banned after a ton of my not-explicit posts (a ton of which were sfw lgbtq posts) were wrongly flagged?
No one can send me DMs or posts, and I can’t send them either. My blog no longer is searchable. The wrongly flagged posts have no option to appeal.
Messages I send to tumblr support using the email on my account won’t go through either. Ones I send using my other email will go through… only to recieve a response that I have to use the email on my account to send support, due to account security. That’d be fine and well… if it would go through.
What’s going on, and can someone look into it?
