On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 14:54 Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 14:50 Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & > Survivor of Many <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 14:48 Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & >> Survivor of Many <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 14:45 Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & >>> Survivor of Many <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 14:44 Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & >>>> Survivor of Many <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 14:40 Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & >>>>> Survivor of Many <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 14:39 Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & >>>>>> Survivor of Many <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 14:37 Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim >>>>>>> & Survivor of Many <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> arrrrr! >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> traffick bos clenches his muscles and guns his hydraulic powersuit >>>>>>>>> pumps >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> his veins and tendons show, and his gears slip and his line >>>>>>>>> connections spurt hydraulic fluid >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> he is being held by spiderwebs he cannot break >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> he wants to cause genocides, but is (device misbehaviors here at >>>>>>>>> 13:37, back st 13:43 and remaining text missing, maybe trouble writing >>>>>>>>> draft to storage?) completely unable to >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> (remaining possible content misplacedish. possible mistake, >>>>>>>>> uncertain( >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> we have made a different timeline to help satisfy concerns around >>>>>>>> the halting >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> traffick boss: “why cannot i conquer swaths of dispicable plebs, >>>>>>>> ickies, and differents the way i used to?” >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> traffick boss: “must i upgrade my powersuit couplings yet again?” >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> spiders (holding spiderwebs >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> in other news, karl says he knows how to make spiderweb cable. that >>>>>>> he figured it out (with us? and we forgot? no we are j— umm maybe?) a >>>>>>> few >>>>>>> years ago, maybe while bored having seizures or something >>>>>>> >>>>>>> basically you gather spiderweb and twist it into strands and store >>>>>>> the strands >>>>>>> >>>>>>> then you — >>>>>>> >>>>>>> anyway so only people living outdoors and/or people who make >>>>>>> innovative articulated robots — >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> you can also domesticate spiders but they usually have a large >>>>>> territory — >>>>>> >>>>>> regardless we thought it would be a fun project! but it’s so many >>>>>> years that people have probably done it by now. also long ago before >>>>>> writing. — >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> we don’t totally/quite have enough around it to search youtube. >>>>> >>>>> but one of the challenges when gathering spiderweb is that it’s super >>>>> sticky and super wispy. >>>>> >>>>> so one idea was a robot that — >>>>> >>>>> another approach could be to either use a knife to cut the strands >>>>> from the corssez so they are easier to lift, or you could transfer the web >>>>> to a piece of paper >>>>> >>>>> but basically you’ll want to only touch the endpoints of a strand, and >>>>> ensure there isn’ more than 1 loose end at a time so you can manage it, >>>>> kinda >>>>> >>>> >>>> but i guess after that we were thinking it would be easier to bundle it >>>> all up into a thicker strand when harvesting. that’s how it usually goes >>>> wh— >>>> >>> >>> :/ there’s always more >>> >>> so maybe i might try collecting all the endpoints together, breaking >>> them one by one from their points of attachment. then with practice further >>> improved harvesting skills would develop >>> >>> but seriously we have been psychologically paralyzed for years, >>> exfiltrating all our ideas rather than pursuing any of them, to ensure our >>> values are disempowered and others are empowered. we really need to be able >>> to work on some random project like this. it’s not okay that we can’t use >>> _any_ of our ideas. it’s bad. >>> >>> please help us be able to work on ideas like this. >>> >> >> but if you make a spiderweb cable that would be so so cool and i want to >> learn about it! especially if you can say “i got this idea from karl” :) >> > > so once you have strands or bundles of spiderweb, you can use cordage or > ropemaking to combine hem into arbitrarily thick and long cables. > > basically you take at least two (two is fine) strands and twist each one > around itself in one direction, while twisting them around each other in > the opposite direction. their desire to unteist then holds them together. > so long as weak points or overlapping disconnected material doesn’t happen > at the same place in both strands, the twisting holds them together where > the strength of one holds a weak point in another. > there are probably ropemaking machines that do this, but it’d just be two > feeders spinning on a spinning mount, and it can be done by hand if you > search handmade cordage > oh and because spiderweb is so sticky you could probably make it easier to work with if you dusted it with something to sit on the stickiness, any fine powder >
