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What I Ordered vs What I Got, #Dressmaker edition (my own work)

A screenshot from Dressmaker showcasing a pink silk and dark pink velvet dress with lace trim and ruffles, pearl bead trim and a pink bow. The dress looks fit for a princess. The background is a white marble staircase with golden banisters and pink flowers in alcoves.

Screenshot from Dressmaker showing a plain white dress with a picture of the first dress made out of trim, complete with the mannequin and reflective shimmer, on the skirt. The background is plain grey.

I've seen the new Sense and Sensibility. It was very good. Standout performance was Mrs Jennings. Weather portrayed was more representative of stereotype than reality. A small but revealing embellishment not from the book was added but it was a good scene. Very enjoyable.

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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 14/10/2026

Hello friendly neighborhood comic artist/writer and/or famous people mutuals: I would like some short blurb quotes for the MAGIC WANDA'S FRANKENSTEINEMA pitch. If you'd like a copy and can say a few nice words about it please get in touch!

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Actual Cancel Culture of a significant cultural figure [unlike where far right extremists engage in hate speech & are held accountable]. It’s extremism like this, & the disinterest of the current UK Labour govt in stopping the shift to the far right, that’s deeply worrying.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Ok here it is! The Skye Dress, inspired by the Paw Patrol character. #Dressmaker #PawPatrol

A dress in the video game Dressmaker. It is made with pink silks, featuring a bodice made from a single piece, a light pink patterned upright collar, short sleeves, and a large skirt made of three layers, where the central column is the same pink as the bodice and the sides are a lighter pink. On the bodice there is what looks like a zip and dog tag, details of which are shown in the next image.

A close up on the upper bodice of the Skye Dress. It shows the "zip" is the platemail trim with pink piping either side, and the "Puptag" is a silk flower with short, enlarged sections of platemail trim for rotor blades and a button in the middle.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This morning, while my daughter has been watching Paw Patrol on my lap while I play Dressmaker, I've been making a dress inspired by Skye, the pup with the helicopter. She has decided to play with her blocks now but when I finish it, I'll share the dress and the pup tag detail. Fun challenge!

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Wow - world's oldest shipwreck has been discovered off the coast of Turkey, found just 30m under the waves. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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World's oldest shipwreck found off Kekova Island in Turkey

Archaeologists say the wreck is up to 4,700 years old, dating to the Early Bronze Age.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

That's gotta be hard, but knowing he's still helping people, that part of him is still around making someone else's life better and longer, well I hope it's comforting.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

There’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth

Marc Haynes’ story: As a 7 year old in about 1983, … I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore Sitting at the departure gate, ... told my granddad i'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. …so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?" As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and signs the back of my plane ticket... I'm ecstatic, but …I glance down at the signature. … it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. ...I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, … so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore...
"he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. …he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone …and thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said.
I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now. Many years later, I was working on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him the story. He …had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely. And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."
I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Personally I'm partial to a Chekhov's Phaser

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Took me a while. Maybe around 13 or 14. There were signs before then but I tried so hard to fit in that I hid all the weird even from myself. Took longer still to accept.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

it’s just great marketing

3 panel comic

Panel 1:
Red Guy in t-shirt is sitting at a desk being interviewed. He says “AI is going to kill us all”

Panel 2:
Interviewer looking directly into camera, says “Well, we’ve heard from the anti-Ai guy. Now let’s hear from the CEO of AI

Panel 3:
Wide shot revealing the second interviewee looking slightly confused. He says “I’m the Anti-AI guy”

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I bet they'd believe a baby who doesn't even know the alphabet, let alone how to read, will accept a book though.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yup. Sound mixing was so bad we couldn't tell what they were saying and consequently what was going on.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The only thing I can remember about the last remake was that it was so bad my husband and I, then on one of our earliest dates, walked out of the cinema and went to get ice cream instead.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Dressmaker is such a brilliant game, I am spending so much time in it, it's so easy to lose track of time while working on a dress. And these characters are such fun!

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

QRP with your moon art #arttrain #pixelart I started this during the live stream of Artemis II observing the far side of the moon

Pixel art of the far side of the moon, with part of Artemis II in the foreground on the left

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aly ☕ a bit of THIS & THAT @straylize.starlost.cc · 29/09/2026

banger review for dressmaker tbh

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh and samples. I want to be able to see how a fabric will affect traits for a dress without actually having to buy metres of it. I know I could just buy one metre but having a samples tab in the sketch book would be handy.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am loving Dressmaker. It's fun and cute and quirky and I'm very invested in these characters. But two things I want in a future update: the ability to name an off the rack dress, and the ability to select traits for off the rack dresses that are then highlighted as if for a commission.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Maybe there's a colleague who would want the other one and would go halves with you?

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My daughter loves singing a nursery rhyme that goes "see saw, Marjorie Daw, Johnny shall have a new master, he shall earn but a penny a day because he can't work any faster". Nonsense of course but also very exploitative for today's wage rates. Good thing she doesn't understand money yet.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sick of the UK government seeing more people get diagnoses and treatment for things, and thinking that means people are being wrongly diagnosed or treated, rather than it just being that people are more aware and have better access to healthcare now. See also: trans healthcare in Wales.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In 1990 people thought autism was a male condition. Why? Because nobody had bothered actually researching how it presents in girls and women. By 2010 girls and women started actually getting diagnosed. Were we overdiagnosed because there were lots of us? NO! We were just finally being recognised.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

More people are getting diagnosed because more people are aware of ADHD and its symptoms, and there's been more research on it. Actually getting diagnosed is a serious struggle. I got referred by my GP in July, still waiting for so much as a letter confirming as such from the assessment provider.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Today I had plans to consolidate my various workplace pensions, a task that has been hanging over me for ~4 years. But I've woken with an awful headache and am capable only of playing a little game where beavers build a town and harness the power of wind and water to build wonders.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Soaring food prices, electricity prices, petrol prices, rent. University is so expensive people fear the cost and are put off the best way to escape poverty. AI polluting our knowledge base and our air, undermining our creative industries. Is it any wonder we're stressed & anxious?

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 08/10/2026

There's one man I've wanted to give a copy of Banned Book Club to since 2020. Moon Jae-In. But I couldn't because he was busy being president. It was the last panel of our book! Today, we got the chance. But that wasn't the best part.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love the implication that the epeenguin has traversed the whole world from pole to pole to target a polar bear. Never to be underestimated indeed

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That such a clause can exist is utterly disgraceful. That it's common is a scandal. Employers should only be entitled to work undertaken while the employee is on the clock. Our free time should be *ours*, as should anything we make in it.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The four animals are Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But cuck cube has alliteration.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have never found that, sadly. If I'm in a state where I need to tell myself to calm down, I'm not in a state where I'm capable of calming down without some external influence to help (music, hug from loved one, distraction) and just telling myself makes me more aware of how not calm I am.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ravelry. So many patterns. Many of them free.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Come on, "cuck cube" was right there.

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve said this before, but it’s sort of insane that no British political party is willing to champion Games Workshop, one of the country’s most successful, British born and run companies, and would much rather simp for Palantir or OpenAI

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s so funny to imagine what the UK could be like if it took seriously any of its cultural icons—that aren’t wizards, Shakespeare, or in possession of good fortune but in want of a wife. We could have Tyranid statues at Heathrow. Perhaps a grisly frieze depicting Servitor conversion at Gatwick.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If we had a federal government that wasn't firmly up the ass of Big AI, they'd make it a crime for an AI to put people in mortal danger by sending them into wilderness areas with fictional instructions. If a human kept doing this, they'd probably go to jail, even under existing laws.

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've seen a couple of posts about him today so I'm assuming he's kicked the bucket. Don't care enough to actually find out for sure.

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