https://xitter.cf/t.co/YSEMwX50Ba Matthew Petty, white cis UK chap in UAE. Married to LA woman, father 9yo twins. He/him COOL PRINTS FOR SALE ON WEBSITE
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Stylish prints 4 sale. Constructivism, Geometric Kineticism, Bauhaus, Isometric De Stijl, you name it, you can get a nice thick giclee print of it.
More designs coming.
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I keep reading that "AI will find a solution to climate change ". What if the solution it finds is just want experts have been saying all along? Will people believe it then, and actually apply it?
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There are two types of menswear enthusiasts. The first are people who are passionate about clothes. The second are people who care about menswear only as an extension of their worldview. The second group often distorts the history of tailoring and the meaning of the suit to fit their reactionary politics, which is often about hating modernism.
When you talk to actual tailors and shoemakers, you'll find people with all sorts of worldviews. I've known tailors and shoemakers who are conservative, liberal, and even communist. This isn't surprising because most of these people live in densely populated, cosmopolitan urban areas, where most people are liberal or leftist, to some degree.
But when you read about the history of tailoring and shoemaking, you'll find a continuous strand of radical politics. In 19th-century Britain, many tailors and shoemakers were involved in Chartism and socialism. Shoemaker George Odger co-founded the First International movement with Karl Marx. Thomas Preston, a shoemaker who advocated for common ownership of land and democratic equality between the sexes, was one of the main organizers of the 1816 Spa Fields Riots. Tailors and shoemakers also made up more than half the people indicted in the Cato Street Conspiracy, which was a plot in 1820 to assassinate the entire British cabinet and overthrow the government.
Many of history's most notable radicals worked in the menswear industry. Nicola Sacco — the Italian anarchist whose execution has become a lasting symbol in radical left politics — worked as a shoemaker. Emma Goldman — whose autobiography, Living My Life, has inspired many in the feminist and socialist movement — worked in a garment factory in Rochester, New York, where she made Ulster overcoats.
Their place in history is not surprising, because many garment workers joined the labor movement because of how they were economically treated. In the years leading up to 1912, textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, grew increasingly frustrated with low wages and dangerous working conditions. Bosses at the time tried to segregate workers by ethnicity and immigration status. But when the mill owners cut wages, workers finally had enough. About 25,000 people representing 51 different nationalities banded together for a strike in January 1912.
For nine weeks, these workers refused to go back to work. Mill owners tried to retaliate by ordering security personnel to spray workers with firehoses in the dead of winter, and for the cops and state militia to beat people with clubs. But the workers held out — united by their song, "Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!" (Hence why this is known as the Bread & Roses strike). They eventually won.
In fact, US garment workers helped pioneer multi-ethnic labor organizing, uniting workers across racial, religious, gender, linguistic, and cultural divides. This sense of inclusivity and pro-labor sentiment continues today. On Savile Row, a group that calls itself the Quailors unites LGBTQ+ tailors and their allies from different backgrounds.
There are two ways to identify with tailoring. One is through its clients, who, in the popular imagination, belong to a narrow social class: the British landed gentry, American patricians, and other members of the traditional white elite. (In reality, today's bespoke clients are often upper-middle-class professionals from much more diverse backgrounds.)
The other way is to identify with the workers. In his book Nothing But The Best, Thomas Girtin describes these people as throughly working-class. They enjoyed getting drunk after work and singing while tailoring, often with songs that gently mocked their upper-class clients. In his bok, Girtin recounts a song written by Savile Row trousermaker Harry Zietz:
Bill Smith was a tailor, a ‘prentice he’d been
Whose work was as perfect as ever was seen
He knew how to build up a front and to press
A frock coat, a morning coat, lounge, or a dress
For full forty years at the trade he had worked
And during that period no job he had shirked
But one fact his conscience continually mocked
He’d not made a job yet that couldn’t be cocked!
Chorus – Fol-de-rol-liddle-lol; fol-de-rol-lay;
More collar-ology every day!
Said Smith: “Now this frock coat I’m starting to make
Will be absolutely perfection I’ll stake;
Every point will be studied, the collar fit clean,
The edges I’ll prick with a fifteen between."
The fronts then he molded artistic and true
He pinked it so much that his shop-mates turned blue
A penny an hour were his earnings if clocked
On this wonderful garment that couldn’t be cocked.
Chorus – Fol-de-rol-liddle-lol; fol-de-rol-lay;
No collar-ology encore I’ll say …
(The song then takes an unexpected turn, as our tailor finds out he made the wrong thing)
… the words that gave them a most terrible shock
Were "I ordered a lounge and you’ve made me a frock.”
(The chorus ends with)
Fol-de-rol-liddle-lol; the theme of my song –
No matter what happens the journeyman is wrong!
Out of an excess of - what? Nostalgia? Ritalin? - I just exported my Google calendar to CSV and it's now importing into Obsidian (@obsdmd ) as thousands of "timeline events". I should probably have edited the VSD first, but oh well.
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Today is my birthday🥳! Thank you all for your comments and for the interest you’ve shown in my work! I would truly appreciate your support with a repost🙃
I had no idea Paul Hardcastle covered Pigbag - or was it the other way round? youtu.be/D1QMV8RLZxA?si=Xcgn…
ジェフ・ミルズがデトロイトのラジオ局でかけた曲のプレイリスト（1986年）。Model 500のNo UFO's とFutureを使用。スクラッチを多用したクイックなミックスで、バンバータ、シーラE、ポール・ハードキャッスルから、ドミナトリクス、シカゴ・ハウスのチップEまで混ぜてる。
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As a lifelong ruralite, I'll tell you about these "people."
In short, they suck. They look at you the way you look at your neighbors who don't pay the light bill, smoke meth, and spent Sunday afternoon doing burnouts in their driveway. They build these little enclaves and never, ever so much as wave at you. If you're taking a walk down the road, they don't even slow down--even if you're pushing a baby stroller or riding a horse--and pepper you with gravel.
Their social circle is elsewhere along with their business: out of state or otherwise "in town." They drive past a dozen country churches where their real neighbors are, to a church an hour away to participate in rich folk intrigues and hear a sermon on just how wonderful they are. They will occasionally try to do "country" things, which to them consists of putting up NO TRESPASSING signs every 8 feet around their palatial estates or drive around on a UTV that costs more than your family car. The people from where they opt to live, are nuisances to their performative country peace & quiet that they advertise, daily, on their social media accounts: "Nothing like a latte on the back porch! Love it out here!!!XOXO" captions a candid photo of the female sitting in a rocking chair that costs more than all the furniture in your house, covered in a artisan wool blanket that was more expensive than your wife's wedding dress. Out in the picture, often out of focus, is the douchebag, white collar, old money nepo-baby husband sitting on a brand new tractor that will never do any real work besides being a glorified lawnmower that weighs as much as a panzer tank. The front loader of which will never actually scoop shit or dirt, but will move some cute little strawbales around for their Fall Display that nobody will see from the road, but they'll also post on social media.
They are insufferable, soulless people who see the countryside as something to consume, a brand to which they wish to be associated.
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Every single Juan Atkins discogs credit youtube video playlist:
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ladies and gentlemen, the weekend
The Scene - Model 500 - No UFOs
1985 / WGPR Detroit / Nat Morris
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You see if I were to design a "hero shooter" all of my characters would be either creepy faceless goons or disgusting meat-machine amalgamations. That is my vision
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Okay:
- Attached bottlecap
- Schengen, expanded to Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria
- The euro joined by Croatia and Bulgaria
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- Galileo satellite navigation
- EU-Canada trade deal (CETA)
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- USB-C common charger
- Geo-blocking ban for online shopping
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- Payment Services Directive (PSD2), no card surcharges and open banking
- Instant payments regulation
- EU Digital Identity Wallet
- eCall automatic crash alert in new cars
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- Single Digital Gateway for cross-border admin
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- DiscoverEU free Interrail passes for 18-year-olds
- Erasmus+ (older, 2014), budget nearly doubled
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- 15% global minimum corporate tax
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- Renewable Energy Directive, 42.5% by 2030
- European Wind Power Package
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- Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA)
- Conflict minerals regulation
- European Chips Act
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- Batteries Regulation with battery passport
- European Battery Alliance
- Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on batteries and hydrogen
- EuroHPC supercomputers, including JUPITER
- InvestAI and the AI gigafactories
- Horizon Europe and the European Innovation Council
- Ecodesign regulation, no destroying unsold clothes
- Right to repair
- Ban on products made with forced labour
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- General Product Safety Regulation
- Common Agricultural Policy (older, 1962), current version 2023 to 2027
- Unfair trading practices directive protecting farmers
- Geographical indications reform for food, wine and spirits
- EU-China agreement protecting European regional products
- Geographical indications for crafts, like Murano glass and Delft Blue
- Creative Europe (older, 2014), current programme 2021
- Culture Moves Europe grants for artists
- Music Moves Europe
- European Year of Cultural Heritage
- European Capitals of Culture (older, 1985)
- New European Bauhaus
- European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage
- Ban on importing looted cultural goods
- 30% European content on streaming platforms
- Culture Compass for Europe
- European Media Freedom Act
- Anti-SLAPP directive protecting journalists
- European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO)
- Rule of law conditionality on EU funds
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- European Child Guarantee
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- Rail passenger rights (older, 2007), recast 2021
- Trans-European Transport Network (older), revised 2024
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- Scaleup Europe Fund (launching)
- Startup and Scaleup Strategy
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- 2040 climate target of 90% (in negotiation)
- European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP)
- Defence Readiness Omnibus (proposed)
- Military mobility package (proposed)
- European Drone Defence Initiative and Eastern Flank Watch
- High-speed rail linking European capitals (plan)
- Single cross-border train ticketing (expected)
- EU Customs Authority (in negotiation)
- European Affordable Housing Plan
- Union of Skills and cross-border recognition of qualifications
- EU-India trade deal (in negotiation)
- Montenegro and Albania accession
- Qualified majority voting in foreign policy (under discussion)
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I just wanted to say thank you to Gail Myerscough @GailMyerscough . I was lucky enough to win her recent prize draw and have treated myself to one of her lovely print cushions. Thank you Gail and Pete!
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Combover Caligula spends his life humiliating people over their appearance, calling them ugly, fat and stupid. Meanwhile, he’s hiding a fucking landing strip of a bald spot under that dead ferret on his head.
So whatever you do, DO NOT FUCKING RETWEET THIS.
