Andrea Powers

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17:48 The sewing machine is a sewing machine can be a concerning device. It can really it can really ruin your day. And yet, getting good at operating a sewing machine is really one of your finer translatable maker skills. I'm serious. Um, sewing I don't think it's too ah let me stop moving this around and let me make my point. Sewing is like a gateway drug to thinking through complex problems. It seems really simple culturally we make it women's work. Uh and that's how we couch it as like somehow that it's ... let me tell you real sewing at any kind of level of proficiency is a bloody magic trick. Um sewing like mold making involves mental frames that require one to think inside out and backwards. It requires one to work on an order of operations that is often taking into account the reverse and making sure that that order allows. Yeah, it is it's a really really important skill. 19:11 And if you learn how to sew, you're mostly on your way to carpentry and welding and sheet metal work. I'm not kidding. These are planar forms meeting under rules and conditions. And if you can make us if you can make a sleeve work, I swear to God, you could build a house. Um, 19:28 I recognize that as a bold statement. Let me back that up with just a little bit of uh institutional knowledge. the um the patience it requires to understand the patience and the institutional knowledge it requires to understand fabric, how it moves, where the weave is going to sit on a piece of a panel of a piece of clothing and how these front top and back panels are going to meet this sleeve and allow it to not look goofy no matter how you're moving your body. 19:59 The sensitivity to do those basting stitches to get that sleeve close then a second set of basting stitches to get even closer than a third set of basting stitches to get like I don't know how to sew at a super high level but I do understand some of the requirements of sewing at a high level and it's about it's about patience and it's abou…
Imperial prison complex from Andor showing many people forced to manufacture devices unwillingly. A guard stands watching.
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Jon Bernthal, in a scene from the trailer for the movie Accountant 2, wearing a Waylon Jennings T Shirt.
Screen print from wikipedia about Rev Robert Drinan, who was a member of Congress until the Pope said "No".
Adam Savage and a Muppet