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Io Sapsai 🌱

@ IoSapsai @lemm.ee

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  • WIP Wednesday! Dracula's Castle is starting to take shape!

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  • Meet Domino. Disappointing pic but that's the best my partner could take at twilight with an almost dead phone. I think it really likes my old pullover that I was intending on throwing away. Its wing is bruised/hurt and the leg is broken. Vet said it's not going to make it in the wild with that leg but it might fly again. He said the best I could do is adopt it. The poor thing probably won't fly outside without a leash and supervision though.

    As much as I love cats, I hate it when owners let their cats roam outside. They prey on birds for sport, not for food. I know exactly whose cat did it, that's why I'm salty. It's not the first time he's done that. Also I have a cat at home which might make things interesting. So far he's shown curiosity but not predator behaviour as he does with other birds. Not going to risk it though!

  • WIP Wednesday! Dracula's Castle is starting to take shape!

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  • It's starting to take shape. You can already see something resembling legs. This week has been hectic and I haven't had the chance to stitch much. I've been working on my backyard birding setup and that also took some of my free time. We also rescued a pigeon. I'll probably stitch while keeping it company so progress might come faster.

    That needle minder is hell on earth! Really fits the vampire theme.

  • What habits or tastes did you keep from your teenage years and that slightly ashame you as an adult?

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  • Lately I find myself listening to The Ocean Collective, Mors Principium est, Be'lakor, Soilwork, Between the Buried and Me. Generally more melodic and progressive stuff. Sometimes I put on metalcore which can also be a banger like Monuments (saw them live earlier this year, they were amazing), Periphery, Bleed From Within.

    I know some purists would jump on my classification but it's hard for me to put labels on music these days with bands having a much more unique style, rather than fixing themselves into a specific genre.

  • What habits or tastes did you keep from your teenage years and that slightly ashame you as an adult?

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  • Death metal. Death metal while birding (or more like processing footage). Death metal while cross stitching. Death metal while crocheting. It's a weird outlet that I mostly keep to myself.

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    Does anyone still use MP3 Players?

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  • I use streaming services these days but my next phone will definitely still have a 3.5mm. I'm not an audiophile but my 10€ Phillips wired earbuds audio quality would be matched by bluetooths at 5-10x of their pricetag. The wireless buds I have are only 4 imes as expensive as the wired and audio quality is worse, they often lose signal and they tend to fall out of my ear regardless of which rubber plug I use.

  • Wonder Woman is finally done!

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  • Wooo congrats! Looks amazing!

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  • What job doesn't require reading ability?

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  • Cleaning chemicals have labels that require reading. Janitors tend to use those often.

  • [FO] The Greenhouse of Oddities

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  • Hard to pick a favourite. Maybe it was Maria Sibylla Merian who sailed to today's Suriname numerous times (a woman in the 16-17th century) to catalogue butterflies and popuralize the idea that metamorphosis among insects is a thing. Her illustrations are really aesthetic and revolutionary.

    The tree I stitched in the end is also tied for the first place. It's called the dynamite tree. Its fruits explode when ripe with seeds flying with speeds up to 300km/h, it's covered in spikes, and it's sap is deadly poisonous.

    Due to my occupation I was familiar with the plants in the "these plants can kill" section. The effects of their poisonous alkaloids are very common in pharmaceuticals, and are used to treat certain conditions but I've always found them really cool!

  • WIP Wednesday. Something colourful I'm working on.

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  • That's so cool! Is the pattern self-drafted or did you get it from somewhere?

  • WIP Wednesday. Something colourful I'm working on.

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  • Oh wow this is beautiful! I should try embroidery too. It seems really practical and I want to customise my clothes. Looking forward to the video! That's a nice teaser.

    My guess is some kind of llama pattern?

    It's a really good guess. That's an alpaca. I'm surprised people figured it out at this stage. It's an adorable pattern that got me started with cross stitching...but I didn't start it until now because I was intimidated by backstitching.

  • [FO] The Greenhouse of Oddities

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  • On the 16ct fabric I used, it's 35x25cm or 13.6" x 10"

  • The inability to recognize the highly nuanced cognitive differences between different animal species is slightly putting me off of "strict" veganism

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  • My personal belief system is that no animal, regardless of how simple of a nervous system it possesses, deserves exploitation and suffering. It's not so much about the animal's feelings, which definitely also plays a role when we talk about the more "sentient" beings, but the effect that has on the rock we live on.

    Keeping animals in captivity because "it's cool" or for public amusement is not something I agree with. Keeping them in a sanctuary is one thing, capturing them from the wild, breeding them, and displaying them in enclosures far smaller than their natural territory is another thing. Animal breeding for profit is also something I have a problem with. Keeping them in cages is not ok. You do not have a reason to keep a living being enclosed because "it's cool". Invasive animal species often came to be because the said species are "cool", not to mention the way they got into the breeding system in the first place.

    The problem with consuming less sentient animals isn't about the kill count or the pain they suffer. It's about the way they're "harvested" and the effects on the environment. A much larger portion of our agricultural output goes for the tier 2 animals than for feeding humans. (using your tier system for simplicity, I don't want to lump animals into tiers myself). The emissions coming out of these animals amounts to at least 25% of our greenhouse gas output.

    Farming insects is part of the above problem. You use more plant food for less calories. It's much more efficient than beef, yes, but correct me if I'm wrong, I might be talking out of my ass here, escaped population can wreak absolute havoc on the local ecosystems.

    And for clams and mussels, they might only be able to react to stimuli but trawling for them is an absurdly destructive practice that also needs to stop.

  • Good IRC Servers for Piracy

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  • Kuoleman puutarha (The Garden of Death)

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  • I second the Penguin audiobooks! Peter Serafinowicz's impression of death is just amazing. I finished the 6th Rincewind book and every time he popped up throughout the series, he got me so excited!

  • Update: Prince Vegeta does not run!

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  • Now that's a gamble I wouldn't risk! Glad to see it all worked out in the end. Looks great!

  • In a world where nothing comes free...

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  • Oh wow that's a lot of useful info. Thanks so much! The cherries we grew this year were actually from a granny farmer from the farmer's market. Her veggies are always the tastiest there and she seems to know her stuff, bless her. Thanks a lot for the link! 🍅

  • In a world where nothing comes free...

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  • Since I see a lot about second generation peppers not being as good as first, does that go for tomatoes too? There are those really tasty grocery store cherry tomatoes that come in different varieties in one box. They cost like 4x the others but I get them when they're discounted before they throw them away. Can I save the seeds and grow them in my containers?

    We grew some cherries in containers this year before they got invaded by stinkbugs. But those that survived were the tastiest tomatoes I've had in my life.

  • Schengen accession of Romania and Bulgaria may be voted on in December

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  • It's already easy to get to Austria from there. Border control is minimal and only on the non-schengen borders. We have a free movement of people so most of our Roma people migrate freely since 2007 by just showing their ID. That would make it ever so easier for those who work abroad to send money home (a large percentage).

    This is pure right wing populism on Austria's part.