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Proactively or reactively? (Also, I'm so sorry 😭)

Yeah it hasn't seemed needed yet. I mean I've talked about the existence of slurs and them being things not to say and that they're not just insults etc. But I have not named or spelled any slurs.

I don't know how many people can actually offer meaningful non academic advice. I'm interested in thoughts from people who Understand Exactly What I'm Saying but I'm not interested in naive thoughts from people who are just now considering this for the first time.

I have never wanted to introduce visceral hate. They don't seem old enough to not be hurt by the information (unless I downplay it to the point of disservice).

I don't have a plan.

I am not one of those anti racists who demands white parents proactively "teach explicit anti-racism" to their kids.

People like to say how Black kids don't get the privilege of not knowing slurs.

Well I'm Black. My kids dont look Black. They've never heard me being called a slur.

The one who is in school is in a very small school where the kids do not self segregate.

Close shot of guitar strings

It really seems like the problem is exactly with the ... whatever it's called in the picture. But I didn't actually see anything wrong when I loosened the string enough to lift it out.

Luthier? Set up? While?

Lol.

People are being paid to ask and not even properly answer the worst questions of our time and I'm unemployable with an anxiety disorder.

Oh my round three wasn't their round three. I was thinking my other kit would split their round one into multiple

Three crocheted potted succulents on my laptop

I do not believe that at all and I've crocheted three whole succulents lol

I abhor videos. I have been forced to suffer thru some. I consider them last resort tho.

✊🏿

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

I have always been opposed to knitting or crocheting bc I associate them with neurotypical cis women bonding over apparel I have never cared for. But this past December I found kits for knitting lil creatures and well here we are.

Yes! Tho I'm afraid it won't be enough and this has too many steps for me to keep asking lol. Thanks!!

But maybe there's a beginner's kit that teaches this language. I'm fine with getting yet another kit 😭. But this one is explicitly not for beginners. I bought it by mistake bc I didn't even realize they made kits for non beginners.

The whole thing just feels foreign. I can't explain what I don't understand just that it won't mean anything to me until I see it in the language I've learned.

And then either "working in remaining loops..." is something I haven't learned or it could be written in terms of stitches and a turn

The use of the word next I think scares me bc are they just being verbose (my book just lists things and next is implied by the comma) or do they mean "next one over" like skip

It's like the verbs are missing and if you know how to crochet then the verbs are obvious but if you don't you can imagine many possible verbs.

So my guess is

Rnd 1: make a slip knot, 17ch
Rnd 2: starting at second chain from hook, (2 sc), 14 sc, (4 sc) (17)
Rnd 3: ch, turn???, ??

Based on experiments I believe the top groove is the problem, but I loosened it enough to lift it out and put it back and it didn't fix it and I can't see anything obviously amiss.

(3)Cactus Rnd 1: make a slip knot, 20ch Rnd 2: Starting at second chain from hook, sc, 16 hdc, sc, sl (19) Rnd 3: ch, turn, sl, 18sc (19)

CA is the yarn.

I guess I think that my learning kit would have made round 1 just the chains, per

Step 1 BOTTOM OF BODY: Rnd 1 (RS): With CA, ch 17, 2 sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc in next 14 ch. 4 sc in next ch, working in remaining loops on opposite side of foundation ch, sc in next 14 loops, 2 sc in next loop: join - 36 sta. Rnd 2: Ch 1, 2 sc in next st (inc made), sc in next 16 sts, [inc] 2 times, sc in next 16 sts, inc, join - 40 sts. Rnd 3: Ch 1, sc in next st, inc, sc in next 16 sts, inc, sc in next 2 sts, inc, sc in next 17 sts, inc, sc in next st, join - 44 sts. Rnd 4: Ch 1, sc in next 3 sts, inc, sc in next 17 sts, inc, sc in next 3 sts, inc, sc in next 17 sts, inc; join - 48 sts. Fasten off. Weave in ends.

15. How to read a crochet pattern Crochet patterns are written in US terminology, and follow this format: Rnd 3: [sc,inc] x 6 (18) This means that for round 3, repeat the sequence of [1 sc followed by 1 inc] a total of 6 times. Since 1 increase stitch = 2 single crochet stitches, 1 increase stitch counts as 2 stitches. 1 single crochet stitch counts as 1 stitch. Therefore, that's [3 stitches] repeated 6 times, for a final count of 18 stitches. round total number of stitches in the round Round 3 [sc,inc] x 6 (18) type of stitch to do # of times to repeat the stitch

I need a crochet instruction translation.

The first image is something I don't understand. The second image shows how I learned to read crochet instructions.

Alternatively I need a beginners kit that will teach me to read the first image.

Great. Guitar string mystery. One string sounds like it's rattling but only if I play it open.

what on earth is that thread tho

But also, what the ever loving fck? Why shouldn’t academic writing read well? Academic writing IS writing! As the referee to my first paper with Lothar wrote, “authors should remember that papers are written to be read” and indeed he improved that paper enormously.