elastane. aka the Bane of Humanity.
Mind you, I admit that elastane in knits is pretty useful, and it helps them do what it's in the nature of knits to do.
But wovens. wovens are supposed to be dimensionally stable, not elastic!
And who in their right mind has *ever* thought “this silk satin would be better if it had a bit of elastane in it”???
(I only had to cut a square, and I had to measure it something like 12 times)
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Prendete il pane raffermo di una settimana, fatto avanzare apposta. è misto, contiene pane bianco, semintegrale, ma anche pane con farina di mais, perché THIS IS INSUBRIA.
tagliatelo a pezzi, e seguite la vostra ricetta preferita della pappa al pomodoro, in quantità superiori al fabbisogno. Col pane con farina di mais dentro, perché THIS IS INSUBRIA.
Poi a cena prendete la pappa al pomodoro avanzata dal pranzo, metteteci dentro della trita di pollo, fatene delle polpette e cuocetele in padella, riciclando il piatto che è stato inventato per riciclare :D
E poi al pranzo dopo ci son le polpette avanzate dalla cena da scaldare al volo in forno :D
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Heated mouse | mouse riscaldato
Components: 2 33Ohm resistors in serie, 1 thick washer, some silicone sealant, some wire.
Componenti: 2 resistenze da 33Ohm in serie, 1 rondella un po' spessa, un po' di silicone sigillante e qualche cavo.
A bit less of 0.5W, enough for reaching 35 C - 38 C.
Poco meno di mezzo Watt di potenza, abbastanza per raggiungere tra i 35 e i 38 gradi.
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Problems, problems, self-induced #sewingPersonProblems.
I've done the last machine seam on the flannel shirt¹, but I want to use the same blue thread to sew a pair of linen trousers for my SO. He's not going to wear them for a few months, of course, but I want to see if the pattern is correct, so they are high priority.
However, my mother has just finished a filet crochet yoke for a nightgown that I'm going to make in linen for myself. Again, not something that is going to be worn any time soon², but it's a quick sew and it will allow me to know how much leftover linen I have for another project. But it needs a different colour of thread in the machine.
The sensible thing would be to sew the trousers during the next week, and then sew the nightgown. Luckily it's also the lazy thing, so that's probably what I'm going to do.
Can you guess how much I'd want to change plans and start with the nightgown? :D
(there will be pictures of everything mentioned. one day. :D )
¹ lots of handsewing remains, but that takes a different time slot.
² unless I decide to wear it as a chemise, but even then in winter I don't really need a linen one.
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On a more serious note: I still have to edit a few step-by-step pictures and write an introduction, and then the pattern for those jeans will be ready for publishing.
And I've also started to cut the fabric for the nightgown, AND wrote the instructions I plan to follow while sewing it, so that I can take pictures and then publish also that pattern.
The yoke part will have a lot of “and then magic happens” however, as I have no idea how to write a crochet pattern.
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@freesoftwear I've been writing some crochet patterns lately (stuffed toys) and it was basically 'write down what I do in a way that I will understand later, and then hopefully one day sort it out into a form other people can make sense of too'.
My current project (a heron) lacks instructions for the hard bits though, where I magicked a lot...
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And most of today's sewing time was spent on the phone with family :(
I hope I'll be able to finish the nightgown tomorrow.
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aaand it's done!
The nightgown is also finished, except for taking pictures of the last step and finished object, as the light had gone as I was sewing.
Which means that there will be no publishing of the pattern today, either.
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Hey, anarchist instances?
You can close registrations for a day or so to go through new accounts and deal with suspicious ones. And you should.
That's not un-anarchist to take time to deal with your spaces before admitting new folks. It's actually helpful to keep people safe and your community healthy.
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@perigee @joenepraat It's kind of wild, but if you reframe it as "guidelines" (which, in my experience, seems to make people think about it as "I should do this, but there are moments where we need to do something else")?
It seems to make people recognise the function and purpose. Rules feel like things written down and given to us from people who think they're above us; guidelines seem to feel like flexible things that we should do but may have reasons not to. They also feel a little bit more collaborative in development and more negotiable. Perhaps that can help alleviate that pain!
Now that the corset top is done, I've resumed working on the flannel shirt, as I'm probably going to need it quite soon, weatherwise.
Yesterday evening I had planned to flat fell the sleeve seams, instead I've finished hemstitching the collar to the wrong side, and attached the back to the yoke.
Today I want to do the side seams by machine, as that's the last machine seam, and everything else will be done by hand.
The pattern is sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/… , with a flat front instead of the pleats.
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The stays-inspired corset top is done!
It's made from an old pair of jeans, spray painted with sparkling blue fabric paint and bound with black bias tape.
I've used some paracord for lacing, but I think it isn't sparkly enough, and will probably look for something else in the stash.
Worn over a skirt and petticoat the tabs do something funny, but that was just to be decent while taking the pictures, if worn *below* the skirt they should do their jobs.
Of course it is quite wrinkly, since it's unboned (there are just zip ties on both sides of the eyelets), but I'd say it works quite well a) as a costumey fun thing done with things I already had home b) as a general idea that I've cut the right size of the pattern and can proceed with cutting the real thing (and then properly fit them according to the instructions).
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Now I have a question for people who wears stays: how do you put them on? For these I've made them fully front lacing, and it's easy to just lace them after they are on the body, but the real thing is supposed to lace only on the back: should I train myself to pass a cord through the eyelets in my back?
The lace is supposed to be only as long as needed when the stays are fully closed, right? there is no additional length that can be used to put the stays on and then only need to tighten them, right?
Or am I doing it completely wrong?
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I don't have a back lacing set (yet) but my cord is much longer than the required length when closed. I always lace them up loose and then tighten.
The extra length just gets tucked inside anyway.
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If I suspect that there is a bug (that involves randomness) in an important package in Debian, the right thing to do is to keep testing and investigating until I can be sure that the bug exists, right?
Even if the investigation involves playing a number of widelands games until I'm really sure, right? :D
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sadly, I did the sensible thing, started a few games in a row with no fog without playing them and found that no, there is no such bug.
I need another excuse, such as “I need to enlarge the borders of the Empire“ :D
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Don't forget games like NetHack are sensible to moon phases, Friday 13th and so on, so it could become a hard debugging!
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Now the way the Internet Archive is doing mastodon is how more organisations and celebs should be joining the fediverse!
They have a dedicated in house instance, which lets you identify official staff, and gives them control and security over their content, whilst also allowing people and instances to opt in or out of interacting with them
Kudos for doing it right @internetarchive!
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Ok, stanotte mi son sognata di essere su una collina vicino al maggiore, veder cadere un meteorite in un paese di fronte, che ha causato un grosso incendio.
E stamattina leggo varesenews.it/2022/11/visto-un…
“Ho visto un bolide nel cielo sopra al Lago Maggiore mentre andavo al lavoro”
L'avvistamento questa mattina attorno alle 5.30.Lo segnala un lettore di Varesenews mentre viaggiava in direzione NordAndrea Camurani (Vareseweb Srl)
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mug. check.
filter. check
tea leaves. check (these are very important!)
water, hot. check
timer. check.
what can go wrong now?
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Because *reasons*¹, I've been going through my contact list and revoking follow permissions to accounts that haven't posted in a while, or were even no longer existing, and will continue doing so and doing a bit of general pruning in the hope to lighten the server load a bit by avoiding traffic that no human is ever going to see.
If you receive such a notification, but are still using the account (maybe you're only posting for followers only, or you're reading more than you write) and still want to follow me, feel free to follow me again: it wasn't a personal thing.
¹ there may have been a couple of server crashes :D
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Con la #Twittermigration stanno nascendo al volo nuove istanze per giornalisti, medici, accademici ecc. così come nuove guide e strumenti vari per meglio comprendere il Fediverso e farne un'esperienza più piena. Qui alcune delle risorse circolate ultimamente:
PANORAMICA DEL FEDIVERSO
fediverse.party/
fediverse.info/
RICERCA ISTANZE
fediverse.observer/
fediverse.to/
LISTA DI ISTANZE
coxy.co/mastodon/
LISTA DI ACCADEMICI SU MASTODON
github.com/nathanlesage/academ…
LISTA DI UTENTI SUGGERITI
fedi.directory/
WORLD MAP DELLE ISTANZE
umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/m…
RITROVA I TUOI CONTATTI TWITTER SU MASTODON
pruvisto.org/debirdify/
twitodon.com/
fedifinder.glitch.me/
VISUALIZZA IL TUO NETWORK FEDERATO
glitch.com/~mastoviz
ESPLORA ISTANZE E HASHTAG
glitch.com/~mastovue
- Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks
Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no algorithms.fediverse.party
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Se ancora vi sentite un po' spaesati, forse potete guardarvi attorno cominciando da qui mastodon.it/it/istanze-mastodo…
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@Viviana B. :peacelink: e inoltre: una volta fatti i primi passi nel fediverso e visto che vi ci trovate bene, potete prendere in seria considerazione anche l'idea di mettervi d'accordo con un po' di amici e aprire la *vostra* istanza.
Se nel gruppo ci sono un paio di smanettoni basta un vps economico, altrimenti ci sono servizi che si occupano dell'aspetto tecnico e forniscono un mastodon installato; per pochi utenti i prezzi sono ampiamente a portata di colletta (per un target di residenti in italia in cui almeno metà ha stipendio regolare; circostanze diverse ovviamente cambiano le cose).
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Sarebbe da fare un'istanza, con account DI AZIENDE COMMERCIALI che possono postare PUBBLICITÀ (così si coprono le spese), spunte blu a 5€, e poi lasciare che la gente si scanni com'è abituata a fare.
Senza federarsi con loro, che va al di là della loro comprensione.
Ma il fatto che debba essere un anarco-comunista a spiegare alle merdette cerebrolatitanti come far soldi la dice lunga sul collasso del sistema capitalista.
I want to echo what other Mastodon admins are saying: please report any harassment or violative messages you're seeing. Unlike the birdsite, your local admin will likely react quickly -- and you'll make the instance better for everyone, not just yourself.
So... please don't just ignore! Let us know if there's a problem.
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Hee, I saw a post saying "questions about blocking" and I thought the person meant #knitting but actually it was blocking potential trolls...
but yeah, maybe trolls should be pinned out on a foam board and sprayed with water?
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If you're an organisation that wants to participate on the fediverse, you really need to be running your own Mastodon instance.
Most of the Mastodon infrastructure right now is being run by individuals or small groups, for the community.
Trying to put your "official account" on community infrastructure is extremely rude.
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Imagine if instead of visiting, say, Microsoft.com, you visited Microsoft.yahoo.com…
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il messaggio di benvenuto accogliente del comune di Beregazzo con Figliaro
e la seconda e quarta riga erano pure lampeggianti!
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E comunque, ditemi che non penso a voi, dal pomeriggio di oggi lungo la Lomazzo-Bizzarrone, chiesa dei santi Pietro e Paolo a Beregazzo (comune di Beregazzo con Figliaro).
Con anche il bonus dei paesi coi nomi lombardi intrinsecamente divertenti!
Ammirate le rampe per permettere agli angeli di fare cosi con gli skateboard!
Immagino che questa vada per le #chieseBrutte2023 ? comunque #chieseBrutte
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A #CW (Content Warning) does not mean your post will go unseen!
I look behind a lot of CWs--and I unfollow a lot folks who constantly post about news, politics, religion, or other triggering topics that don't use them.
CWs keep our feeds from becoming anxiety-inducing avalanches. They stop doom scrolling.
And they do this without "turning off" or "tuning out" the significant challenges we all face as a society, or the unique challenges marginalized people face.
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A CW in no way relegates your post as some kind of "second class" content. It lets people actively consent to reading whatever you are posting.
If every thing you post seems to need a CW, consider broadening the scope of what you post. Become a human person instead of content aggregator.
Often times people ask me, "But how do I learn about how ActivityPub works? Where do I get started?"
Friends! The ActivityPub spec itself is here to help you! There's a really lovely story-driven tutorial about ActivityPub right at the top of the spec in the "Overview" section! w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overvie…
Give it a read! I tried really hard to make it easy to follow, and it has beautiful illustrations from @mray!
ActivityPub
The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format.www.w3.org
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Comunque, al prossimo che si lamenta del depopolamento delle città del sud troviamo casa a Usmate Carate¹, lavoro a Lugano² senza flessibilità di orario e una panda blu :D
¹ paese di fantasia da opera di cultura popolare televisiva
² città reale :D
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@CICCILLO eh, ma da Usmate Carate (e dalla zona dell'Olgiatese, che è in generale da dove arriva chi fa Bizzarrone) il treno non passa.
Se veramente trovi lavoro a Lugano a) assicurati che ci si possa arrivare con il treno b) cercati casa (suppongo in Italia?) vicino a una delle stazioni servite dai TiLo.
Ho dato alla causa “passare da Bizzarrone” per un po' di mesi (prima di avere modo di semitrasferirmi in un posto da cui potessi prendere dei mezzi) e nonostante avessi un lavoro da informatico con gli orari sfasati rispetto alla gente normale è stata una sofferenza. la coda è in salita. in entrambe le direzioni!
tecnicamente i controlli di dogana ci sono¹ anche sui treni, e perfino sugli autobus urbani di Como :D
E se sul treno a fare i controlli sale il Verunell col Rex, sei spacciato! :D
¹ ok, diciamo “ci possono essere”. “mi è capitato saltuariamente di vederne”. ma pure in auto se non si è il Bussenghi mica si viene fermati regolarmente :D
#mastoAiuto: che voi sappiate esiste un'istanza italiana dedicata alla scuola o temi correlati? idealmente una che abbia le iscrizioni aperte :)
se non ci fosse, Qualcuno(TM) dovrebbe crearla :)
boost benvenuti, ovviamente
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Iscriversi nell'istanza PIU' GRANDE, oltre ad essere poco ecologico e profondamente sbagliato, puo' riprodurre le stesse dinamiche di potere dei social commerciali.
Questa è un'istanza locale bolognese legata all' @hacklabbo
Se non siete di Bologna o siete interessati a qualcosa di specifico vi consigliamo altre bellissime istanze legate ad hacklab, gruppi di attivist*, realtà antifasciste e vicine
Milano nebbia.fail
Torino mastodon.cisti.org
Roma puntarella.party
Stereodon stereodon.social
SocialeNetwork sociale.network
Livello Segreto livellosegreto.it
Vi ricordiamo che Bida promuove e partecipa al progetto
autogestione.social
e supporta @idefix (spostandovi avrete la stessa esperienza utente di bida)
Generate kaos! 
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Non siamo chiedendo di cancellare i contenuti, siamo anche archivist* come sai
Però vogliamo dare altri spunti su cui ragionare.
Concentrare utenti su un unica istanza ha degli impatti negativi, su molti aspetti.
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After a bit of a hiatus spent on calligraphy I'm back to the corset top based on the shape of 18th century #stays and I'm at the stage when I have to set in 14 metal eyelets per side on the back, plus a still indefinite amount on the front.
I'm really happy I bought the big box of 500 grommets a few years ago :D
(I'm trying not to think about the similar amount of hand sewed eyelets I will have to make for the real thing :D )
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oh yes our new decentralized network protocol is actually just a bunch of dialup modems connected together
join the fidoverse everyone
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Tom Jennings Interview (1993) - Plutopia News Network
(Originally published in FringeWare Review) In 1993, Jon Lebkowsky had a chat with Tom Jennings, who asked afterwards: “Think you can mention somewhere that I’m a fag anarcho nerd troublemaker/activist?…Plutopia News Network
What you get out of your experience at 
depends on what you put into it.
We don't do brands here - we do people. You may have become used to presenting yourself as a public figure, pushing content to the algorithm, but we're free from that machine here.
Peek at the local timeline and engage with posts.
Engage with the people who fave, boost, and comment on your work.
Make an effort to learn and use the established community practices like hashtags and alt text.
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Hi!
Yes, all instances are entirely separate and need their own account creations :)
But no - you don't have to quit Mathstodon. If you want to post to the .art local feed you'll need to be logged in to mastodon.art, and if you want to post to the Mathstodon local feed you'll need to be logged in there -and apps like Tusky allow you to switch easily between different accounts - but a lot of people use Mastodon like that ^.^
Can anyone help me identify what cursive script this is (since apparently there are multiple). This is what I was taught in first grade, and I'm probably the only person in our class who still uses this system (most people seem to use print letters).
I never actually learned to write any other way, and to this day I can't write in anything but this script without a lot of effort.
Boosts appreciated!
(Also, sorry for the weird Qs, I don't write in English often, and Hungarian doesn't use it.)
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@Delib @gröna mannen the capitals look a bit different en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pal…
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Puns are like BDSM
You inflict them on others
For your own pleasure
And theirs
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We have a lot of really big, professional artists signing up on .art over the last few days, and it can be daunting posting your art here in the face of their work.
I want you to know that I'll still emphasise boosting art from small artists. This is a space for us to learn and grow and support each other, to motivate each other and to squash our impostor syndrome because it's a stinky lying liarpants.
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Oh wow, ok. There are things to say about Twitter's external actions, but I've been assuming the insides were running like a normal decade-and-a-half-old resource-rich company.
Thanks for the correction, @jay 🌺 and @silverwizard .
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Fairly famous hacker, former twitter head of security
Basically released data about Twitter's security including "everyone has root everywhere"
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@Martijn Vos @Aus.Social Admin @dexiheart is anti-cop it could in theory be done with a client, as that could store your keys on your own device (and you could in theory check that the client isn't doing anything harmful with those keys), but then only people who use mastodon through a compatible client could read those.
Or more easily one can use the DM/PMs on mastodon to exchange contact IDs for some system that is designed for private communications rather than mostly public ones and already provides cryptography (and a client/app to do in on the user's side).
Correct me if I'm wrong in my layperson's understanding, but isn't the issue with the privacy of ActivityPub messages fairly analogous to the privacy of unencrypted email? That is, in the process of routing a message to its intended destination, every server along its path will download a copy?
I'm not asking to imply "and therefore we shouldn't strive for more," I'm just wondering if the issues are analogous.
@Spencer @Aus.Social Admin It's slightly better than the privacy of unencrypted email, because unencrypted email is sent over the internet unencrypted, whereas ActivityPub messages at least use https.
Personally I think email should be upgraded to a system where every message is encrypted by default. Of course that would require knowing the recipient's public key, which would require a system to distribute those to everybody who has you as a contact, and before you know it, it has turned into a social network. But I think this is the way email has to go.
seeing this thing spread again
yes, server admins with database access, the technical knowledge, and inclination to do so can look at DMs sent to and from people on the instances they host. they don't appear in an interface anywhere unless reported.
the server admin is not always the same person as your instance admin. here on plural.cafe we self host the instance on a virtual server from linode, but there are plenty of instances out there hosted by masto.host, fedi.monster, or other hosting providers.
the cops can subpoena your server admin for access to your DMs as well, don't send anything that could be used as evidence against you in a court of law.
this is a stronger guarantee than you get from corporate social media, which readily and regularly talk to the cops and as far as i'm aware all expose DMs to moderators in their admin interface.
this is a weaker guarantee than end-to-end encrypted messaging (or at least, most of them).
know your threat model.
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Tutta la discussione su Halloween mi ha fatto venire in mente che non c'è nulla di male a ibridare le tradizioni, quello che cambia però è il modo.
Gli egizi ibridarono le loro con o greci, i romani con i galli, i cristiani coi pagani, i giapponesi coi cinesi. Il problema è quando il processo è esclusivamente innescato dal mercato e dal capitalismo, per espandere ulteriormente un brand e di conseguenza il bacino di potenziali consumatori. Ecco perché non amo halloween
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I'm seeing a lot of proclamations that there should be no exceptions to describing your images or that there's no reason to interact with any that aren't described.
I know these mean well, but they are themselves ableist.
Disabled people know that access needs can clash. I benefit from described images, but I know some people struggle to write them because of their own disabilities.
And that's okay! The culture of image descriptions is great here but it should never be absolutist.
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the problem isn't that it shrinks or expands in a consistent way. the problem is that, being silk satin, it shifted and moved as if possessed. and when I tried to pull on it gently to try and get a straigth line, the elastane would stretch, and then shift even more when I released it.
And it's not like it's doing anything useful.
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