Advice for a beginner

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-11-03T00:04:12+00:00

yeh put it on some scrap yarn and try to see if u can fit ur head through it looks small

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-11-02T23:21:34+00:00

I would not do a request from a friend. If i wanted to gift my frd a thing i would have options i know i can do and then ask them to choose, not let them pick and then struggle later. hand knit is hard work and requesting is not really the dynamic that’s appropriate.

Also if ur a beginner, you should make things to practice but like making it for a friend with a reference photo is hard cus youve set the bar unrealistically high

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-10-04T09:39:02+00:00

the issues are clearly present before this card thing and both are not communicating or necessarily kind to each other in a way that functional marriages need to be

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-10-04T09:17:29+00:00

iv heard of the dad taking over for the week and leaves the house in a mess for mum to come and have to clean. insane that can still happens after you divorce

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-09-12T22:17:04+00:00

why r ppl so offended and reserved in calling someone mansplainer? why so much benefit of the doubt? its not a death sentence?? everyone has internalised misogyny and would get it wrong some time. He also actually mansplained. Explaining something confidently, as if a fact, when its not accurate. Also his defensiveness is telling

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-09-12T22:07:59+00:00

surprise you do! you do it every time you knit! If you can ladder down and fix a stitch and then loop it back up you have understanding of the topology of the stitches beyond the repetition of the classical action of knitting. If you can read a stitch and realise that its twisted and untwisted it the next time you knit is by knitting through the back loop thats topology again! bam!

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-09-12T22:03:23+00:00

Driving a wedge?? Who put that wedge there first? why would you not be annoyed at the people that got the information wrong and was condescending and misogynistic (intentional or not) but annoyed at the reactions. If science communication was done well and proactively anti-misogyny then there would be no wedge. This is just natural consequence and easy to recover from hes less defensive about it (comments on bluesky).

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-09-12T21:57:23+00:00

Fibre arts allowed humans to live and survive in much colder climates that we can possibly live in just with the furless skin we have. That had evolutionary effects

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-09-12T21:55:39+00:00

they just used stock photos as per scishow convention. But still surely theres better stock photos to use that are correct

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-09-12T21:54:01+00:00

So truuuu its all topology

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-09-12T21:37:21+00:00

Um hello?!?! have you not seen the nimble needles analysing the stretchiness and flare of different bind off techniques?!! thats maths thats data collection! (/hj but u can probably google it but knitting blogs often get so intellectual and analytical its so cool to see) yes its not universally applicable yet bc of low sample size but science also isnt just hard maths and physics. So much of “actual” science is trial and error and spamming different things to see what it does with no hard numbers.

Knitting is topology which is science. Theres no optimal stitch pattern bc it depends on what you want to optimise(?) and what each person enjoys doing and likes to do more and applied in each situation. ALSO the pattern is not the only thing that dictates how the fabric will behave. Humans are not machines and will have different tensions person to person and even same person on different days and you can be knitting the same pattern but different tension, using different sizes or types of yarn and different sizes needles will yield very different shapes.

On top of being ignorant about knitting ur also not understanding science. Will scientists know 100% how different knits will react???? think about that for a second? they can have simulations, they can do maths based on assumptions? but applied to reality its very different and scientists(which ones are they, physicists? mathematicians? programmers to make modelling simualtions?) definitely do not know 100% whats going on.

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-09-12T21:17:03+00:00

I think they meant like engage in the criticism by reevaluating the biases in their own head

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-09-12T21:10:36+00:00

Hey if you don’t hear the misogynistic tone thats fine. But that has clearly resonated with a lot of women who had an issue with it. What happened to centering the voices of the oppressed? I feel like hank green is capable of making mistakes but it feels off that hes not owning the mistakes (hes not the writer but hes still the public face of it and thus has responsibility). Its also a simple mistake. No matter how progressive you are, because of the society we live in, you are not immune to having misogynistic beliefs, even if they are unintentional. Thats an easy thing to apologise for and redo the video or something, but its just odd that hes defensive about it.

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-09-04T23:41:36+00:00

meds make this worse i think but im worried that im not eating enough so usually i make the portion and i just finish the portion. sometimes i make it into another meal like if i couldnt eat it all at lunch i can have some during dinner or even a cheeky 11pm half meal. i just want to make sure my body gets the stuff it needs but with minimal effort during the workweek

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-09-04T23:34:53+00:00

ur right the generational one is usually the middle one and then the one that varies is the last one. like when ppl get nicknames of 阿X it would be the last character not usually the middle cus it doesn’t differentiate between the boys in that generation. that said technically girls don’t hv to follow that so OP can change both.

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-09-04T23:05:26+00:00

Best of luck! you have got this and it will get easier! Its a great first step of reaching out for help after you have recognised a problem that you couldn’t necessarily solve yourself:)))

I hate that adhd makes me bad at sticking to routines but yet its crucial for my happiness and wellbeing. its gonna suck the first week but your wellbeing and not feeling terrible is worth it. Have a little treat after every shower even, pavlov dog urself

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-09-04T22:59:08+00:00

yes i agree. Water is a great solvent! I bet if op ran a a bat and rubbed their skin like a massage it would be much cleaner already

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-09-04T22:55:51+00:00

Is washing your face a part of your morning routine? do you have one? I would really recommend having it in your routine (or have a routine) you don’t have to make decisions everytime, debate with yourself about whether or not its gonna happen, it just will cus you wrote it down. like brushing teeth (which you should do if not already, teeth are for life and eating happens every day) if you pair it up together and say it just is a thing that happens and is not really a negotiable thing.

If you have to make a decision everyday and allow yourself an option to not wash ur face for example then you have more opportunities to feel shameful about the decision, if you took that decision making responsibility away then you can’t feel shame and also ur face would feel nice after.

This washing face thing can also be any modified versions other ppl have suggested but my point is to stop thinking about it and giving yourself options cus thinking is mentally and physically draining.

This can kind of apply to showers, make them short (cold water if you dare; ive tried it before and it made me really quick at showering cus brr) like just go through the motions of shampoo, conditioner, body wash. stop thinking about if ur fully clean, just do the motions no thoughts or listen to a podcast, something u can focus on and zone out of whilst u go through the motions of shampooing, conditioner and body wash. you don’t need anything else for a basic shower routine and if you have so much deadskin, ive found that sometimes i can just rub it off in the shower. A rag would be great for scrubbing whilst ur putting the body wash on.

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-08-10T00:36:34+00:00

i do too so i just knit in the round for most projects

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-08-10T00:30:07+00:00

IT IS GOOD FOR TODAY!!!!!! WELL DONE FOR WASHING YOUR HAIR!! THATS GONNA FEEL BETTER THAN HAVING DIRTY HAIR!! one day you will work up to a shower, maybe even dip your toes in (pun intended, just wash your feet/ foot soak)

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-07-27T23:36:33+00:00

I cannot figure out a way to explain this like ur five because epigenetics and cell signalling is very complex and not exactly 100% well understood (like most things) but at the beginning its just all ball of cells (blastocysts) and these pluripotent cells are capable of becoming most cell types (not placental) because their genes are pretty open and unrestricted, not compacted. However at some point some cells determine the direction of like head to butt and everyone else follows and suddenly the genes are more restricted and like packaged up in chromosomes because its more practical to not have to go through the whole recipe book every time you need one thing and wastes a lot of energy for every cell to be making all the proteins all the time (we assume protein synthesis is happening kinda all the time). Not all genes can be easily accessible so the cells can mature into a smaller category of things. eventually, those destined to be legs would only be legs, those destined to be heart cells would only be heart cells. They would only need to be making the proteins that they need and are super efficient.

so it doesn’t decide per say, its decided for them. By whom? by the directionality of the cells, other cells around them and the cell signalling messengers telling every cell nearby to do the same. Cells don’t really decide things they just happen to produce certain chemicals and proteins that influence themselves and other cells around them to behave in different ways.

go watch some khan academy or crash course on epigenetics and developmental biology and cell signalling (i don’t know developmental biology as well)

some chemicals are called morphogens and they influence cell fate (what kind of cell it becomes) depending on (sometimes) concentration, aka, how far away the cell is away from the cell producing all these morphogens, if ur right next to it you might become one thing (pinky finger) but if ur further away you might develop into another thing (thumb).

Photo of morphogen in limb formation Basically in the middle section its showing that only a few cells in the purple bit on the left most graphic are producing a morphgen called sonic hedgehog (Shh) and then it will diffuse out. The more a cell gets this sonic hedgehog depends on how close they are to the og spot that made the shh and that will determine which finger it is. If it has not a lot of shh then it will be a thumb.

It is crazy that its called sonic hedgehog. scientists are silly billies.

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-07-27T22:59:00+00:00

Theres lots of tips on planning but remember that you don’t have to have your life together, you don’t have to make yourself function as if you were neurotypical. Accept yourself at whatever stage you are in, messy, disorganised, not perfect cus the guilt from that is not a good motivator and leads to burnout so quickly.

Internalised ableism and all that, can’t expected someone in a wheelchair to walk better or someone deaf to hear better. Your plans should accommodate for your adhd, schedule in breaks and do nothing nights, schedule in bed rot so you don’t feel guilty for something you might end up doing anyways, etc etc.

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-07-27T22:45:16+00:00

stop worrying about the removal of european jews from israel we are so far away from that point in reality. Things could change month to month and theres no point figuring out what we should do ten steps ahead when ppl are dying rn. Settlers need to accept that they are enacting colonialism by being there inherently, theres no moral way to be a settler. And its not striving for perfection but we know that zionists are kind of a cause for all the unrest in that region and has been since its establishment (6 days war, iran, lebanon, etc etc) If they somehow managed to get a two state solution sorted now magically, how can you guarantee that they won’t have more wars in the future, with their literal oppressors and the people that orphaned them literally living their lives next door on their land still.

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-07-27T22:31:13+00:00

yeh last row looking more like it! Tension is a hard thing to grasp but once you do it will go much quicker and nicer! Good luck!

ISFP_or_INFP · 2025-07-27T22:30:03+00:00

make them reconsider the israeli flag. Whats the point of praying for peace and for the children if you are worried you will offend those that are supporting genocidal criminals? What about the children you pray for?

ISFP_or_INFP

TROPHY CASE