Marjorie Boggess

Making cool things

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

It really depends on the American 🌸 some of us require Japanese food ingredients, discounts on Miyuki beads, and DIY classes 😁 After a 12 hour nightshift, I stood in line for three hours at a Daiso store grand opening… same for a bookstore grand opening… but I wouldn’t do the same for free beer or bbq.

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

@proWhitePropa @Rightanglenews if they carve it, then everyone after them has to look at what they wrote. it's tacky. essentially graffiti. Nature is touchable- just leave it like you found it

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

@learning_yohei Ends in Nai not ni - but there is a word that’ ends in ni… Jiminy Cricket 😁 Pinocchio’s conscience. Cultural insight: people in the past used to say “Jiminy Cricket” instead of “jesus Christ” as an emphatic phrase.

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

@kunoichi_jp_ Neighbors 😊We went to school together, trained as majorettes together for years. I was invited to obaasan’s farm a few times… so many fascinating things there!

aesthetic, folklore, !food!, and the language. Still learning :)

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

@tuuu28283 Highway = stop lights/stop signs and intersections and you can go fast between stops.

freeway = no stops, on/off ramps, no crossroads. (freely travel)

interstate = really big freeway that goes through many states

I don’t normally encounter toll roads. From California

[Jay Anderson @TheProjectUnity]

Imagine if this whole time Zahi Hawass was like that Medjai dude from The Mummy, trying to keep us all safe.

We ignore him, we dig on the plateau and we awaken the old gods he had sworn to protect humanity from.

Now that'd be a plot twist worthy of 2026.

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

@avidseries AI apparently updates its database- ran the post thru Gemini, and it confirmed that this was testimony in trials. So did ChatGPT

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

@GayRepublicSwag Sorry for your loss 🥺 It’s never too early to start eating healthy- unfortunately “healthy” varies by who you talk to- and that’s a problem. It’s confusing.

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

@hskenncutter The graphic is adorable and that dish looks amazing. Some regions of the USA might have trouble finding finding some of those ingredients, but online Japanese grocery stores have them :)

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

Mirrl found a good hiding spot

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

@learning_yohei To learn other languages you have to be willing to speak to people. you won’t be perfect. You will make mistakes. It’s okay. The listener will know that you’re learning. that’s how it’s supposed to work 🤗 if they’re rude, they’re the problem, not you.

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

Happy May the Fourth everyone

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

Making blackberry preserves today. Harvested about 8 pounds

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet."

Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution.

Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer.

The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss.

The wool is then:
- Naturally flame-retardant
- Naturally antibacterial
- Moisture-wicking
- Biodegradable
- Renewable, annually
- Carbon-storing while in use

The replacement, in performance fabrics:
- Polyester
- Polyamide
- Acrylic
- Polypropylene
- All petroleum-derived
- All shedding microplastics on every wash
- All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce
- All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years

A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals.

A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years.

The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic.

The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer.

The polymer also has not been asked.

Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made.

Brian is selling it at a loss.

The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical.

Reject plastic. Wear wool.

Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

It’s berry time

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

@learning_yohei California here- lime always goes in the Mexican beers, but never in the Irish beer or German beer or English beer or Japanese beers.

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

Used @grok to help me find the right parts and instructional videos to fix my washing machine- super fast and accurate info :) next up: dishwasher

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

@ZV22666 @NiohBerg Where did the get the flags?

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

@tuuk_xx @JanJekielek All sexes go to urologist- kidney stones aren’t limited to males. This post makes you look ignorant. Educate yourself.

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

Seeing this post makes me realize how long I’ve had a story running around in my head … and not on paper 😬

[Marjorie Boggess @beadchaser]

Today I learned that the nursery song that starts “Alouette, Gentille Alouette…” is about plucking a Lark’s feathers out part by part 😧🙀🫣