Dorian

@sin-de-siecle.bsky.social

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Outraged optimist, folk musician and nerd. Intermittent dabbler in historical fashion. Chronically ill. He/him.

A photo of the inside of a typewriter, beneath the carriage. A flywheel is visible with a snapped piece of thread coming off it
eight very thin overlapping green discs on a baking tray. They do not even slightly resemble macarons.
Ratty from the 1983 Cosgrove Hall stop motion Wind in the Willows. He's an anthropomorphic water rat wearing a soft blue jumper/sweater and a spotted cravat.
Screenshot of a sleep tracking app, showing the sleep debt gathered from September until now in February: it's a sharp downward slope past the ninety hours mark.
A tiny keyboard which is solely the numpad and immediately surrounding keys
Demolished waffle as per the skeet itself.
A plug-in waffle iron with the top plate still mostly covered by the top half of a waffle.
A screenshot of the website My Fire Watch, with a map of Australia covered in many small red and orange dots, to show where there's a fire.
A screenshot of a rhyming couplet that reads: 'Is your phone a square? A Rectangle? An oval?/Our app better adapts to many shapes on mobile.'
The white silk back piece for a waistcoat. The centre seam has been nearly finished, as has the top and bottom hems. The armscyes are as yet unfinished, and it is not sewn to the fronts of the waistcoat as yet.
Two white silk front pieces of waistcoat, one with a visible welted pocket, basted with pink thread. One piece shows the armhole in the middle of being whip stitched to the interlining fabric.
One half of a waistcoat front, still unattached from the rest of the garment. It has a shawl collar, a deep U-shaped front, and a welted pocket, and is made of a brown fabric with alternating orange, red, and dark brown stripes.
A welted pocket being held open showing an orange lining
Image of Australian comedian Flacco (aka Paul Livingstone), an odd figure in an Elizabethan doublet and ruff, a bald head, three stylised curls, and mime-like makeup.
A small transparent soft sticky bump of the kind affixed to walls or doors to protect them from collisions sits on a white window sill upside down.
A diagram from an antique tailoring manual for a ‘yoked and fronted shirt’. The diagram has measurements on it to give an idea of how to draft, as well as an illustration of what the shirt would look like made up.
A white man with short curly hair and a van dyke beard taking a selfie in a mirror. He wears black trousers, a green floral shirt, and a formal waistcoat made of muslin, with no visible buttons.
Three waistcoat pattern pieces (front, back, and collar) lying on a blue tablecloth.
A skeet from @humanderek.bsky.social being horrible about trans women.
A glass with purple flowers on with a darker purple liquid inside.
Scan from the Progressive Tailor of the Waldorf Full Dress Vest instructions with diagram
A chap with a cigarette holder clenched in his teeth wearing a stylish lounge suit with a full skirt and wide trousers. There is inexplicably a goldfish bowl avec fish on a decorative pillar nearby. The caption reads, 'to the chap who lingers "late o' mornings" in his chambers this chic lounge suit of maroon towelling will prove a boom "sans alloy".' (possibly means a boon? dunno what sans alloy means.)
A cartoon from 1918 with four male figures. The heading is Keeping Clothes (Close) to War-Time Rations. The first man is plump with a patchwork waistcoat and a cigar, labelled 'old scraps make fancy vests'; the second man is in eveningwear but with a tuxedo jacket instead of tails, and says 'no more tails with evening dress'; the third man is scruffy with a patched coat, with the label 'He'll be glad to wear any old thing'; the fourth is a boy in a newsboy outfit labelled 'What about me?'
A picture of four dress vests from a UK drafting manual. The first is a standard single breasted; the second is double breasted 'heart shape', with five buttons in a v shape; the third is a plain double breasted, and the fourth is an unofficial court dress vest, which is single breasted, and does not have the low U-shaped neckline.
A table of dress guidelines, cropped to the Evening Dress part. In the Evening Wedding, Ball, Reception, Formal Dinner, Theatre line has the waistcoat guidelines: White silk single or double breasted with semi U shape opening
Screen recording showing a few skeets on the Bluesky app jerkily appearing and reappearing, as though the app is reloading itself every second or so, randomly choosing a spot on the timeline each time.
Image of what looks like a junk shop with "T. Bag and the Pearls of Wisdom" overlaid as a title card
A list of how to vote instructions. The circled one at the bottom is number 5: "Post it straight away".
A screenshot from the historical thesaurus linked in the quoted skeet. The headword is blousée bodice, and beneath it are words such as shirt (1896–), Garibaldi jacket (1862), and jerkinet (c1678–a1794 Scots)
Two iPhones, one older that says "Enjoy your new iPhone" on it, the other which says "Data Transfer Cancelled. Reset iPhone to start setting it up again."
Screenshot of David Mitchell in a Nazi officer uniform with the caption Are We The Baddies?
A screenshot of an article on Substack with a large heading reading: Why Platformer is Leaving Substack
Screencap of an article with the text: “Let’s get rid of shower caddies,” says Dallas-based designer Traci Connell. “These items are inexpensive and unnecessary for an organized life.” A built-in tiled niche for all of your toiletries may be a pipe dream that requires a gut reno, but other caddy alternatives are within reach. Instead Connell recommends investing in a teak or water-resistant stool to park in an empty corner near your shower, as seen in the bathroom above, or an over-the-tub tray that marries form with function.
A section of an Apartment Therapy article with the subhead 5. Be a little bolder with your bedding below a set of pale pink sheets in – naturally – a blank white space
Spelt spaghetti with kale pesto and red capsicum & zucchini
A gingerbread house in the shape of a mid-century A-frame house, with a green Fruit Tingle on the door as a wreath, and a couple of gingerbread Christmas trees resting against it
A still from Clue (1985) of several characters (Plum, Mustard, Peacock, Scarlet, White, Green) standing in a kitchen and looking concerned.