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20 July 2026

week zero + WEEK ONE | Day One

&yes, i am not going to post every, single, fucking day, cause why? i am going to post a post, from here on out, at the completion of a week's worth of work. today, however, is Day One, and i happened to snap exactly two pics of the first day of week zero, so here they are, along with what i accomplished today, along with as little commentary as i can get away with *eyeroll*

ephwhyell volume 0.3

WEEK ONE | 20-26 Jul 2026
pp 88-91
Five (5) Assignments

read Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

we (the bodybuddy/lifemate&i) effectively job/work [respectively] from/at home these days
(there is an ideal part-time jobbing situation that i am very interested in
but since the bb/lm is jobbing his little butt off
i have a little breathing room wherein i can find a rhythm for this sewing work
*sigh*
once i get into a groove
i'll be looking for something more
i know it
&so
that is when i'll try to get the part-time job that would be ideal for me to job
while i work this sewing work)
&so we "walk to &or from work" every day
by going for a walk
lol
&since i dunno what to do with my old jobbing shirts
ima try out this look
lol
oh!
&i finally wore that newly-altered beachy sun dress out on the town yesterday!

^..^

week zero | day one

WEEK ONE | DAY ONE

got my needles sorted and labelled

was surprised by how many types i already had

will pick up the missing four (4) types at walmart tomorrow morning

am attempting to also sew my entire way through this book exclusively with walmart supplies

[had already purchased the iron and ironing board at target before i decided to try my idea, boooo]

already had a handful of supplies, but the types of supplies i already had are available at walmart

did not set out to do this exclusively with products available at walmart

but if you know me at all

this is all "on brand"

*shrug*

this section is the section of exercises i'll be working on this week
&below
[L] a dear friend of ours sent us these lightsaber chopsticks
and we love them
obviously
but also
i realized today that they'd make good corner pokers
*hehe*
[R] whipped up some "sketchfabric"
(is this a term? if it's not, coined it! *boom*)
cause this week and next week's exercises are all various stitches
so i made four (4) small squares
four (4) small rectangles
one (1) slightly bigger rectangle
&one (1) large square
pieces of sketchfabric to work on my hand-sewing stitches this week
(&machine stitches next week)
all of them have been left "open"
so that i can practice all sorts of stitches on them
but also
i've already seen the "slip stitch/ladder stitch" coming up as an exercise
so now
i can go to town on all of these sketchfabric openings
&work my favorite stitch as much as i please
*-*

&after a quick Palama Korean Supermarket run
our ballots were in the mail!

16 July 2026

i subscribed to VANITY FAIR as soon as i saw those portraits of our current administration, &here we are again, today, so thrilled that they titled this article exactly what they did respect &thank you!

Lalisa joins 정호연 &Greta Lee
*weeps*
&of course,
the 선 Sartorialism | Sketchbook page has been updated

only the real-deal around these parts, please!

MORE PLEASE!!!!

15 July 2026

This idea we citizens of Empire have about 'FREEDOM' is, quite literally, the Freedom of Speech, lol, &no non-citizen will ever understand this freedom we exercise so ... 'freely'

i first encountered Jacob Mchangama in his "Who Has Free Speech" piece
in the Nov/Dec 2025 issue of Foreign Affairs
[he's got an online-only piece in the May/June 2026 issue]
&i thought that the piece was so good that i looked him up
&bought his book
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

[begin quotes]

The Athenians had two distinct but overlapping concepts of free speech.

Isēgoría [ἰσηγορία] referred to equality of public, civic speech,

while parrhēsía [παρρησία] can be translated as "frank" or "uninhibited" speech.

p13

"Where they burn books, they will also burn people in the end."

—Henrich Heine

p285

Only 13 percent of the world's 7.4 billion people enjoyed free speech in 2016,

while 45 percent lived in countries where censorship was the norm.

p 321

In 1950, Eleanor Roosevelt had warned

that if hate speech prohibitions were embedded in human rights law,

"any criticism of public or religious authorities

might all too easily be described as incitement to hatred and consequently prohibited."

p 323

[re the pandemic] ... professor of history Serhii Plokhy compared China's response

to that of Soviet Russia to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986,

noting that "lack of freedom of speech helps to turn potential disasters into real ones

and national tragedies into international cataclysms."

p 334

In stark contrast to the logic behind sedition acts,

Mogoeng [Chief Justic Mogoeng Mogoeng of South Africa's Constitutional Court] noted that

"when citizens are very angry or frustrated," freedom of expression,

"serves as the virtual exhaust pipe through which even the most venomous of toxicities within

may be let out to help them calm down, heal, focus, and move on."

pp 335-336

The current South African constitution exempts from the protection of free speech

"advocacy of hatred that is based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion,

and that constitutes incitement to cause harm."

p 336

In the twenty-first century, the United States remained [emphasis mine]

"the most speech protective of any nation on Earth."

p 337

"bad tendency" test,

judging speech by its potential harm, rather than any incitement to immediate harm.

...

This test was the first line of defence of Southern states against the dissent of abolitionists

and the civil rights movement.

The danger of adopting this logic is that,

if an incendiary op-ed could be said to threaten journalists' safety,

so [Drumpf] could use this reasoning to argue that

a provocative op-ed, banner, placard, tweet, or slogan constitutes "sedition and insurrection."

p 339

So highly charged was the question of race

that the mere mentioning or discussion of certain words,

regardless of intent,

could lead to serious consequences.

...

While there was no shortage of loud voices,

many Americans chose to hold their tongues.

p 339 & 340

While Republicans focused their concerns on established media outlets and school curricula,

Democrats, liberals, and progressives,

on the other hand,

were significantly more supportive of banning hate speech

and preventing speakers with controversial views on race from speaking at universities.

p 340-341

All of these developments raised serious questions about the long-term resilience of free speech in the US.

As Greg Lukianoff, the president of FIRE, warned,

"Free speech culture is more important than the First Amendment.

...

It's what informs the First Amendment today—

and it is what will decide if our current free speech protections will survive into the future."

p342

"What are the limits of online free speech?

And who decides them?

[new para] In the most utopian and techno-optimistic days of the internet,

the answer to these questions were,

respectively,

none and yourself.

p 349

By 2020, global internet freedom declined for the tenth consecutive year.

...

As many as 73 percent of the world's internet users

were living in countries where political, social, or religious content was liable to result in arrests.

p 354

John Stuart Mill feared society's tendency to impose conformity

"by other means than civil penalties,"

such as social and peer pressure,

as much as censorship by government.

Likewise, George Orwell warned that

"unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban"

when the public sphere is dominated by a centralized press owned by a few wealthy men.

p 379-380

... "the right of speech is a very precious one, especially to the oppressed."

—Frederick Douglass

p 390

As Spinoza, Mill, and Orwell warned,

societal threats to free speech can be as stifling as government-imposed censorship.

Yet, determining whether private action undermines or is an exercise of the culture of free speech

can be difficult.

p 391

[end quotes]

09 July 2026

volume 0.3 | so, you're living your dream, eh?

you decided to quit your job

&the plan had not been to immediately jump into The Dream

cause you still needed to job a job

a few hours a week

cause really you quit

cause

whatanightmare!

so you did your duty and did some job hunting

cause you need something part-time

don't you?

deliver me my abundance in health

deliver me my health in body and mind

the bodybuddy/lifemate gets a job

&the job continues to suck him in through rounds and rounds and rounds

&rounds

of hoops

&now he's in

but the job

itself

is a rope on fire

lol

nevertheless

some freedom extended itself out to you

&with the momentum of excitement

a little fear

&lots of loathing

you're doing it

you're getting after The Dream

you got your machine

you set up your studio

you still need the mannequin

you question everything

&then you start to hurdle

hurdle after hurdle after hurdle after hurdle

[you simply cannot write about each and every single fucking hurdle any longer!]

until your neck

it gives out

after a first-jaunt snorkeling

&while laid up

your issues begin to fester

you question everything

you've been too still for too long

deliver me my abundance in health &wealth

deliver me my health in body and mind

deliver me my wealth in money and time

&then something clicks

"i'm the problem"

"i'm the one holding myself back"

"i'm the one paying a self-induced penance for moving here ... literally ... to 'paradise'"

"i'm the one feeling guilty, somehow, for getting myself to this figurative place, here, now"

"i'm the one punishing myself for my ability to get everything that i want from this life"

"i'm the one who thinks that i am supposed to be making sure that i'm not making anyone feel bad about themselves &or their lives"

"i'm the one who doesn't believe in myself"

"i'm the one making myself small, STILL!"

"I'm The One!"

&so you jumped off your ass

and got back to work

cause dammit

you're free!

to do whatever the fuck you want with your days

with your time

toward the pursuit of becoming a fashion designer!!!

&yea

it feels silly as fuck

&so

you suppose

that you're here now

everything's ready

you're prepared for further interpersonal issues

you're ringing the bells like your life depends on it

you've realigned and readjusted to receive

everything's ready

for YOU

&you're ready for ephwhyell volume 0.3

Congratulations, you ruddy bitch. We're officially setting up camp to be revered and adored.

deliver me my abundance in health &wealth &influence

deliver me my health in body and mind

deliver me my wealth in money and time

deliver me my influence as a thinker and fashion designer

deliver me my abundance in health &wealth &influence

ephwhyell volume 0.3

^..^

06 July 2026

i just wanna dance. THEN DANCE MOTHERFUCKER!

maybe i love it
lol

was feeling a little self-conscious about my mirror
[as a forty-year-old woman!]
cause these bitches online
with no other talent
than spending money
spend a lot of money
lol
&i've started a "fashion" page on socials
cause i want to
but i also understand the implications
of constantly bombarding people
with things to buy
*vomits*
but it has been my dream
my entire life
to design clothes
*weeps*
&so
my fashion perspective
is heavy on quality
mix&match
affordability
&emphasizing life-long style over temporary trends
&i am still in development as a designer of things wearable
&so
the page is more for my own development as a designer
as opposed to a commercial endeavor
*vomits*
i know what i'm aiming for
as far as a design aesthetic is concerned
but i have absolutely no clue as to how to get there
through actual, physical clothes!
*vomits*
&with my neck being the way that it is
[my mind playing over and over again
that i would somehow be "there already"
if my neck hadn't somehow "destroyed my life"
but even before that
my knee "destroyed my ballet career"
but i was never going to be a "ballerina"
nevertheless,]
i feel more and more inclined to dance
because dancing keeps me very limber &very strong
&what i need more than anything is to stay limber &strong
because my neck threatens my mobility
every
single
fucking
day
&so
i want to dance
because i must dance
because i love it
&so
as the bodybuddy/lifemate plans our budget for the second half of this year
with my dance demands in mind
i will work
at home
on all of the basics
&do all of the groundwork
here
until the budget has been responsibly extended
to include the monthly (or most-likely yearly) membership to some gym with studio space
or a studio studio
until then
[when new dance videos exist!]
i'll be starting from First
also
if you haven't noticed
my life has blown up
on purpose
&i am still trying to figure out what my day-to-day is going to look like
&i've been going through some serious shit
interpersonally
cause i have a lot of issues
with regards to my worth
&c.
&so
it is what it is.
so grateful for this mirror!!!
amirite?!