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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2023 10:46:30 JST iced depresso

there's a lot of people who buy too much clothes
and get told its not financially sound
and now there's the added guilt trip of climate whatever

i think if your clothes are physically disintegrating, though, you're allowed to buy new clothes probably :blobcatgoogly:

brought to you by the buttons fell out of my shirt gang.

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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2023 11:12:32 JST iced depresso
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  @cinerion there was a fediblob who posted about making a chain shirt. i dunno that it would be comfy to wear on its own though :blobcatgoogly:
  
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  cinerion@den.raccoon.quest's status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2023 11:12:33 JST cinerion
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  @icedquinn@blob.cat i get told i *don't* buy enough clothes a lot. tbf, i only buy very durable clothes. If i feel the clothes are too delicate i pass.
  
  mmm, maybe i should buy chainmail only next time.
  
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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2023 11:14:39 JST iced depresso
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  @cinerion spider silk shirt :blobcatpuffyohhh: but very expensive
  
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  cinerion@den.raccoon.quest's status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2023 11:14:40 JST cinerion
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  @icedquinn@blob.cat probably not. But it'd be cool and very durable :reimuhappy:
  
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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2023 11:19:50 JST iced depresso
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  @cinerion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioSteel_(fiber) real thing but incredibly inaccessible
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    BioSteel (fiber)
    
    BioSteel was a trademark name for a high-strength fiber-based material made of the recombinant spider silk-like protein extracted from the milk of transgenic goats, made by defunct Montreal-based company Nexia Biotechnologies, and later by the Randy Lewis lab of the University of Wyoming and Utah State University. It is reportedly 7-10 times as strong as steel if compared for the same weight, and can stretch up to 20 times its unaltered size without losing its strength properties. It also has very high resistance to extreme temperatures, not losing any of its properties within −20 to 330 degrees Celsius (−4 to 626 degrees Fahrenheit). The company had created lines of goats to produce recombinant versions of two spidroins from Nephila clavipes, the golden orb weaver, MaSp1 and MaSp2 When the female goats lactate, the milk, containing the recombinant DNA silk, was to be harvested and subjected to chromatographic techniques to purify the recombinant silk proteins. The purified silk proteins could be dried, dissolved using solvents (DOPE formation) and transformed into microfibers...
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  cinerion@den.raccoon.quest's status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2023 11:19:51 JST cinerion
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  @icedquinn@blob.cat For a second i thought that had to be some fantasy stuff. But then i remembered that silk is harvested from worms. Some real world things really seem out of a fantasy setting :live_osaka_reaction:
  
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