Only pedophiles defend pedophiles.
And I fucking HATE pedophiles.

Woody Allen is still a pedophile who raped one of his own young step-daughters and married another.

People who defend that shit are SICK.

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023
  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environmentEnglish
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    17 days ago

    What you need is a curved needle: it will allow you to sew from the top without ever needing to have access to the underside. They are cheap and widely available. When you use one to sew your patch to the pocket, you can use your hand to keep the pocket expanded, or even better put something small and solid in it to keep the two layers separated while you whipstitch the patch down from the top. Watch a video on how to use curved needles for repair.

    Going by name, there are two kinds of curved needles sold: upholstery and embroidery. You absolutely want the embroidery kind: the upholstery needles are huge, made for much larger projects, and would make the fine work you are trying to do very difficult. Also, if it’s there (doesn’t look like it is on your patch) you can pare down any hard coating on the underside of the patches around the edges without disturbing the patch itself, which will make it easier to get a needle through the patch when you go to put it on.

    And wax your thread: pull it lightly across a candle to coat it a tiny bit, then pass it between two fingers to soften it into the thread. (There are also commercial products that you do not have, but a candle is fine in a pinch.) This keeps your thread from tangling more than it has to, and lubes it a bit for the sewing. It’s not essential, but it makes everything so much easier that I never hand sew without it.

    If you get a thread that closely matches the beige of the patch it won’t matter how sloppy your stitches are, because they won’t be seen. But if you can, wash it and clean the grime off as much as possible before you do this, because it’s hard to match thread to dirty fabric. Also, when you are trying to match thread, sometimes value (light and dark) matters more than color. Because you’re sewing a lighter colored patch, if you can’t find an exact match, choose the closest one but go a shade lighter: the dark will stand out more on a lighter background. (It’s the opposite for darker materials, where you err toward the darker thread instead.)

    If you have any problems or questions, feel free to hit me up. I’ve been doing my own hand and machine sewing for decades.

    EDITED to add: Here’s a brief video on whipstitching a felt patch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NLr1r5ZMAM - she’s not using a curved needle, but this is the stitch you want.

    A video showing how to used a curved needle for repair is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJUuPHDPTyc. He’s using an upholstery needle with pliers, you can see just how big and unwieldy that thing is, but that’s essentially how you use a curved needle to sew from the top only on pretty much any project.

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Greater Manchester man fighting for Vladimir Putin in Ukraine exposedEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m not defending her, in fact I find her actions completely repellent, but Shamima Begum is walking proof that the UK has and will readily make a UK national stateless if it wants to do so, AND defend that legal position indefinitely throughout as many international tribunals as it takes.

    Born in the UK, traveling on UK documents, and ostensibly holding UK citizenship, Ms. Begum went to Syria in 2015 to fight for ISIS. As a response to her requests to return to the UK when she got to the FO part of FAFO, the UK home office removed her UK citizenship in 2019 and are fighting her efforts to get it back even now, five years later. Just two days ago she lost another court battle to get her UK citizenship back.

    While citizenship in the UK is not based on place of birth (jus soli), the government of Bangladesh holds that she does not and has never had Bangladeshi citizenship via jus sanguinis. The UK courts decided that she was a Bangladeshi citizen from birth, but that doesn’t make it so except in UK law. There is no actual citizenship for her in Bangladesh. For the purposes of winning in court, the UK is simply creating a legal illusion of citizenship for her in Bangladesh where one does not exist, and so far it’s working for them. There is no alternate citizenship in reality.

    Ergo, Ms. Begum is, in fact, rendered stateless by the actions of the UK. This condition is 100% the legal creation of the UK as its own response to her reprehensible actions, and has nothing at all to do with Ms. Begum’s place of her birth or her lineage.

    Bangladesh says she is not a citizen of Bangladesh. The UK says she is not a citizen of the UK. She does not have any right or claim to citizenship in any other country or territory.

    Ms. Begum’s situation is, literally, the exact definition of statelessness:

    In international law, a stateless person is someone who is “not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law.”

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to remove Speaker Mike JohnsonEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Technically, no, the request itself very real and has teeth, but for it to just die and produce attention is what she seems to want and is betting on. It’s all a gamble on her part, but the dice are real.

    A Motion to Vacate is a legal request for Congress to hold a vote on having the current Speaker vacate the office. -IF- it ever gets to a vote, a simple majority is all that is needed, under the new rules for this Congress, for a Speaker to be ousted.

    But she’s personally betting it will never get to a vote, not be supported, and will be killed by others long before that. From Wikipedia (bolding is mine):

    Under House Rule IX, a resolution to declare the office of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives vacant is considered privileged: once introduced on the floor by a member, the resolution must be put to a floor vote within two legislative days. In 2019, at the beginning of the 116th Congress, the rules were altered to prevent motions from qualifying as matters of privilege unless “offered on behalf of a party conference or caucus.” The 2019 rule change remained in place until 2023, when the 118th Congress reversed it. A member can decide whether to introduce the motion to vacate on the floor or through the regular channels: the motion is only privileged in the first case.

    In the history of the House of Representatives, there have been only four instances of a motion to vacate the chair being filed: one in March 1910 against Joe Cannon, which ended up being voted down, one in July 2015 against John Boehner, which was never put up to a vote, one in October 2023 against Kevin McCarthy (which, unlike its predecessors, was successful) and one against Mike Johnson. All four were filed by Republicans against a Republican speaker.

    Read further in Wikipedia if you want the details, but it’s the Speaker of the House’s main job to allow specific pieces of legislation to come to the floor to be voted on, and he can gatekeep whatever he wants. So essentially she’s counting on Mike Johnson refusing to allow a motion for his own firing to come to the floor for a vote, or for the House Rules Committee to shoot it down first. This is probably a good bet. Also, if it ever gets to a vote, any other member can respond to the motion by entering a countering Motion to Table (postpone) the vote itself, indefinitely if they like.

    Thus, success or failure simply depends on how many votes are needed at any given step, and she is betting, probably rightly so, that there just isn’t enough hatred for Mike Johnson yet for this to get anywhere near a vote.

    But she’s doing the legislative equivalent of waving a loaded gun. Don’t think it’s just perfunctory, because this is the same shit that got McCarthy ousted in under a week without breaking a sweat. Hence, the threat. It frankly reminds me of the same irresponsible, self-certain political brinksmanship that called for a “non-binding” referendum in the UK as to their continued membership in the EU that turned out to be very binding indeed.

    Bitch is playing with fire.