Nicholas
@thekroog.bsky.social
That middle-aged trans guy who cosplays niche stuff & posts nightly cat photos. Mostly retired oboist. Married to @crowtoed.bsky.social
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Nicholas
@thekroog.bsky.social
· May 7
New pinned post! Vibes here are all over the place, but my primary creative outlets are cosplay and making things from my fandoms. This thread is the highlights reel, when I remember to cross-post.
New tech lead thought I was 27. 😅 I guess the webcam takes off 21 years in my case.
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
New tech lead thought I was 27. 😅 I guess the webcam takes off 21 years in my case.
Too young to be a part of the golden age of orchestras, too old to break into home studio recording for digital media.
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Too young to be a part of the golden age of orchestras, too old to break into home studio recording for digital media.
A new Defunctland means time to prep more English paper piecing hexagons - the fabric here is from printed flour/feedsacks circa the 1930-50s, which would have been repurposed for garments and quilts.
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
A new Defunctland means time to prep more English paper piecing hexagons - the fabric here is from printed flour/feedsacks circa the 1930-50s, which would have been repurposed for garments and quilts.
Potato, ham, and leek soup at 10pm why not
November 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Potato, ham, and leek soup at 10pm why not
Want to mess with your perception of time? Forget to shut off the daylight-bright grow lamps you have in the window, which has the shade down & curtains drawn to keep out the nighttime cold.
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Want to mess with your perception of time? Forget to shut off the daylight-bright grow lamps you have in the window, which has the shade down & curtains drawn to keep out the nighttime cold.
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I don't know at this point I think if you genuinely believe in the democratic party doing anything to protect us or anything even remotely helpful in any way you're a rube at best and actively delusional at worst.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I don't know at this point I think if you genuinely believe in the democratic party doing anything to protect us or anything even remotely helpful in any way you're a rube at best and actively delusional at worst.
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the nazis and pro-nazi media blamed all the ills of german society on jewish people. it was how they primed the pump before the holocaust. if u dehumanize people and say they cause all the problems, it becomes easy to exterminate them.
the right is doing the same thing to immigrants.
the right is doing the same thing to immigrants.
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
the nazis and pro-nazi media blamed all the ills of german society on jewish people. it was how they primed the pump before the holocaust. if u dehumanize people and say they cause all the problems, it becomes easy to exterminate them.
the right is doing the same thing to immigrants.
the right is doing the same thing to immigrants.
I'm a little frustrated by UK artisans turning down my business on the assumption I won't want to pay for shipping and current tariff nonsense. I respect not wanting to do the paperwork or take on liability and refusing on those points, but I am very aware of costs and am trying to give you money. 😮💨
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm a little frustrated by UK artisans turning down my business on the assumption I won't want to pay for shipping and current tariff nonsense. I respect not wanting to do the paperwork or take on liability and refusing on those points, but I am very aware of costs and am trying to give you money. 😮💨
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This is how "fast fashion" works. This is how it has always worked. There is no such thing as a robot sewing-machine. Only women, and starvation wages. This was true 150 years ago. And it's true now.
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This is how "fast fashion" works. This is how it has always worked. There is no such thing as a robot sewing-machine. Only women, and starvation wages. This was true 150 years ago. And it's true now.
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i think the credibility of CDC is burned for a generation. it will be more feasible to focus our limited resources elsewhere. i don’t see CDC as being able to effectively lead public health responses or be involved in much policy at all after this
The latest update to US CDC's website on autism and vaccination is, sadly, a major blow to the credibility of this institution. Because it undermines faith in any impartiality. It's going to take a major effort to reconstruct its status, assuming it even survives the next few years.
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
i think the credibility of CDC is burned for a generation. it will be more feasible to focus our limited resources elsewhere. i don’t see CDC as being able to effectively lead public health responses or be involved in much policy at all after this
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Very hungry caterpillar
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Very hungry caterpillar
Well, that looks a helluva lot better than when I picked up this chair.
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Well, that looks a helluva lot better than when I picked up this chair.
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