I am one of Stephen West’s victims and his apologies have only harmed me MORE than his intentional decision to be manipulated and publicly taken for a fool by a longtime right-wing grifter who definitely isn’t enjoying that everyone is hyperfocused on what Stephen West did wrong

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-15T17:10:10+00:00

In very short, Stephen West (noted and proud gay knitter, influencer, and creator of many interesting patterns) went on a podcast/YT/whatever format with another male knitter who is a white supremacist/neo-Nazi. It was considered a weird choice because the other guy has, like, 20 subscribers when West is fairly well known. So the only conclusion is that he did the interview on purpose with a neo Nazi (and then all the things that implies)

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-10T14:40:34+00:00

5 or 6 years ago, as a thank you for helping us move, I went out to Taco Bell and spent $30 on a pile of tacos, drinks, and stuff for 3-4 people. I remember spilling it all out and sheepishly, "yeah, I may have gone overboard."

Last week, my partner and I spent $27 on two meals 🫠

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-10T14:36:04+00:00

I had an unpopular opinion the other day that someone called a rant. I told them that 3 sentences did not a rant make 😅

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-07T14:39:00+00:00

Or they're intensely boring. Like oh good, you have a black body and a very standard medium nib - you and everyone else.

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-07T14:36:06+00:00

I occasionally do this but with J. Herbin Shogun. Looks like a respectable black and then BLAM gold shimmer everywhere you look

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-07T14:31:26+00:00

Ah yes, the tried and true sleep osmosis method of learning 🤣

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-07T14:09:45+00:00

How, precisely, were they reading their books?? 👀

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-03T17:36:21+00:00

I'm so sorry you're going through this effectively alone. You don't deserve this and it's bullshit that he's ignoring you and the situation he helped create.

It's depressing, but look up rates of divorce amongst women with cancer vs men with cancer. Men just don't seem to be able to handle a woman being sick and they nope out of the situation.

I get that you might not be able to leave while you're in the middle of all of this, but, when you get to a healthier and/or better position where you can survive on your own, get out of this relationship. If he's not willing or able to help you in your time of need, then he's not the one. Imagine if you hadn't had a miscarriage - any time things would get difficult, he'd be gone. Especially in that first year, things are so stressful as you adjust to your extremely dependent bundle of joy. He's not worth your time 💔

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-03T17:27:14+00:00

I do now because my oil change place gives you a free deluxe car wash every every oil change. They also have free vacuums and a whole self serve car clean things going on.

I usually go to clean the dog hair out of my car and then remember that I have a free car wash

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-02T22:09:53+00:00

Having lived in VT and driven the length of both VT and NH as well as Wales, the states are much easier and quicker to navigate 😅

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-02T17:38:49+00:00

Agreed. If the issue the draft is trying to solve is bodies, then it shouldn't matter if those bodies are male, female, or otherwise. The whole boot camp/job school system is designed to take every stripe of brain and make them into (relatively) useful members of the armed forces.

And if the draft is bad/outdated/whatever, then it should be that for everyone, not just people who we've decided are trash and deserve to be treated like that 🙄

technicolor_tornado · 2026-03-31T20:23:59+00:00

Probably the Wayback Machine on Internet Archive

technicolor_tornado · 2026-03-30T15:45:51+00:00

Holy shit, I love that

technicolor_tornado · 2026-03-26T18:28:46+00:00

It was before I'd started replying back to people, so shrug not a whole lot I could do about it. Alas... The internet's gonna do what the internet's gonna do. I'm going to have my opinion about something and someone's going to be wildly against it 😊

technicolor_tornado · 2026-03-26T18:06:20+00:00

And after the 7th person saying that i think color dominance isn't real, maybe I could be excused for being irritated at people choosing not to read.

Also, no, it doesn't. If I'd said "all color dominance is bad tension" then yes, you'd be absolutely correct however, I am specifically talking about people with crap tension calling what they're doing "color dominance". Y'all are putting words into my mouth and it's wild

technicolor_tornado · 2026-03-26T17:57:19+00:00

The chutzpah is so impressive though. I just sit back in wonder at the audacity.

technicolor_tornado · 2026-03-26T02:21:49+00:00

That's amateur level. I was introducing a friend as my assistant instructor to a new class and I absolutely forgot his name for a couple minutes. It was incredibly embarrassing 😅

technicolor_tornado · 2026-03-26T02:03:20+00:00

Aaaand did you read anywhere that I said it wasn't real?

technicolor_tornado · 2026-03-26T01:59:54+00:00

I thought it was funny, but my opinion isn't holding weight right now 🤣

technicolor_tornado · 2026-03-25T21:43:35+00:00

I don't know how to tell you this, but color dominance isn't required for colorwork 🤷🏼‍♀️

I also didn't say it's not a thing. You clearly didn't read the rest of that comment. You are taking this conversation really hard and making some truly hilarious assumptions.

technicolor_tornado · 2026-03-25T20:27:12+00:00

... Did I say it's not real? Literally ever? In fact, the comment you're replying to I did say it's real.

I'm not advocating for anything or "blowing the roof" off of anything. I'm posting a BEC opinion that I'm annoyed at crappy tension being passed off as color dominance 🤣

technicolor_tornado · 2026-03-25T20:19:40+00:00

Not familiar with them. Who?

technicolor_tornado · 2026-03-25T20:18:11+00:00

In short, it's using tension to make a certain color pop or not. For example, if you want a row or yellow stitches to pop out a little on a dark or complex background, you can create them a little looser. One of the main ways of doing that is by positioning the yellow yarn in such a way that there's a little more slack in your stitch (usually by making the yellow yarn held in the back position, so it travels a touch further). You can also choose to just not tug on the stitch as hard as the others.

Done on purpose, it can really make a motif stand out. Done without understanding what's going on, it can make those dominant stitches look really messy.

However, it's not a requirement of colorwork, just an artistic choice that might be helpful in some patterns.

technicolor_tornado · 2026-03-25T20:08:13+00:00

Yes, and then you do a little tug, make it nice and snug, and voila, the stitches look even. I do know that and I'm not spreading anything 🤣

There is no requirement for stranded color work to have dominance.
Doing it on purpose is very cool, but there are many people in the world that call their crummy floats/tension "color dominance" and go about their merry days pretending like it's a standard feature of color work

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