Nikyle Begay Resurrects Century-Old Diné Weavings As an artist and shepherd, Begay facilitates their own creative process, from breeding and shearing to weaving long-undervalued twill patterns.

Nikyle Begay is rekindling Diné weaving techniques that have been suppressed by colonial market preferences. Begay tells us the history of twill weaving and their involvement in each aspect of their creative process, from breeding and shearing sheep to weaving long-undervalued twill patterns.

Fascinating.

The food looks similar.

Just here to remind folks that she created her own production company "because of all the gatekeepers against women" and it's basically impossible to get past her company's gatekeepers. IOW she solved nothing other than greenlighting projects from about 4 of her friends.

I read this as "second moists" and thought it was some awesome new slang I was just hearing about.

Golden Corral's new slogan

Mead is so stinkin' easy.

a jar of pasta sauce without a label. someone has written "Skabitty Sauce" on it with a marker

Here's another...

Two jars of peanut butter without labels. Someone has written labels on them with a marker that say "Legume Good with Chonks!" and "Smooth Allergen Paste"

A 2-fer --

three plastic containers of a yellow powder. someone has labeled them with a marker. the first one says "citrus flavored sugar dirt" and drawn a picture of half a lemon. the second one says Lemon-Aid! Ha! Tee he! Chortle! Heehee! and the third one says "When life gives you artificial lemons..."

Here's a 3-fer.

A glass jar of red sauce that someone has written "Basketty Sauce" on with a marker

Basketty Sauce

a squirt bottle with a red top that someone has written "Kitty Discipline Device" on with a marker

Kitty discipline device

a glass jar with no label, someone has written "Tater Glaze" on it with a sharpie

'Tater glaze.

a silver food can with no label, someone has written "Ah, beans!" on it with a Sharpie marker

Ah, beans!

a silver food can with no label, someone has written on it in sharpie, "This is a can of soup. (like, almost certainly)"

"This is a can of soup. (Like, almost certainly)"

A glass jar of jalapenos that says sliced hot plant pieces on it written in sharpie marker

Someone at my local store enjoys labeling discounted items that have lost their original labels.

oh no

The request was for terminology unique to a hobby.

Spinning has so many -- I might skirt a fleece and then scour it, then hackle and comb it to remove neps and VM, then diz it off into sliver to make either an S-twist single with slubs or a Z-twist worsted ply. And don't get me started on carding rolags or flicking locks.

..."asking"... funny, I don't recall being asked.

Oh what the fuck now

two large peach pink flowers on a tall flower stalk next to a window with a forest visible outside the windows

What a lovely surprise. I've had this amaryllis bulb in my studio for years and it's decided to bloom! I'd forgotten what color it was!

He has servants for that

How many chances is she going to get? ARREST HER NOW

"Had to do Red Cross" ..... it's a verb now?

Looks like some kind of pheasant.

What do you reckon "true nursing" is exactly?

They definitely are.

Everything they're doing appears to be AI, from pictures to slogans to ad copy. I wonder if a person reviewed any of it at all.