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May 15, 2024

Come for the citations, stay for the Luddism

Hey friends!

First of all, this email goes out later than I'd hoped but for a pretty good reason: guess who went to London to dress up like a wizard and walk across a stage to shake some hands?

That's right, it's this guy:

Selfie of Sparks seated in an auditorium wearing a graduation cap and gown with silver hoop earrings and a black KN95 face mask

Not pictured but very thoroughly enjoyed was the rest of the trip, which included good friends, castles, whisky, ~20k steps a day, some incredible gluten-free meals, a rail strike that led to an unplanned road trip through Liverpool and Wrexham, and barely cracking a laptop open for two weeks.

Now that my wandering bones are home to rest, I have finally finished PART TWO of my 3D printed knitting machine series. Get hyped for twenty-seven hot minutes of citations with sexy mood lighting and my spicy feelings about that other c-word1. If you know someone who loves knitting, history, DIY projects, Luddism, and/or video essays, please feel free to share it along!

a disheveled person, dressed in a short-sleeved shirt and tie, holding a seam-ripper between their lips like a cigarette, stands in front of a conspiracy wall covered in documents related to knitting machines, sticky notes, a stained napkin with 'NED LUDD' scrawled across it, and criss-crossed red string; they wave a skein of bright red yarn towards the camera while making intense eye contact; a red text overlay reads 'the research'.

(Did I create that knitting-machine conspiracy wall for the thumbnail gag, you may ask, or was it already assembled? Let's just say it, uh, was not a ton of extra work to style that shot.)

How are you all doing out there? What are you dreaming up lately?

Until next time,

xoxo Sparks



  1. "capitalism" ↩

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