Bad Feminist is this month’s selection for Dua Lipa’s book club. It’s really neat given that the book is nearly 12. A tween! The number of randos who have written me asking me to connect them to Dua Lipa is so alarming. I don’t know her!
A corrective to extinction narratives based on charismatic megafauna: microbes. "The diversity is so extraordinary and so, so poorly understood. There’s your freaking wonder."
www.noemamag.com/saving-the-l...
yes: to alternatives
yes: to possibilities
yes: to a new world order
yes: to different structures of love
yes: to cracking yourself open and fully taking in all that life has to offer
yes.
“Wong’s legacy endures as a blueprint for Asian Pacific Americans seeking to claim their stories, confront injustice, and create art that refuses to bow.”
Nellie Wong shook the status quo—So will her legacy
asamnews.com/2026/01/16/r...
It can be hard to imagine how to defend oneself against an overwhelming force like ICE. But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter-surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
A group photo of 6 people, 5 a holding there freshly indigo dyed towels
it was such a great experience. I think you would definitely have loved it 🥰 here is a group photo of everyone & what we made
woman holding a blue freshly dyed piece of towel with of various vessels and teapots in white. her hands are blue, as is often in indigo dye practice.
the bubbly surface of the 250 liters indigo vat — it is so strong and healthy that you can get a dark blue jeans color with only 1-2 short dips.
the design covered with katazome glue (homemade using local ingredients in Vietnam). this glue will prevent the indigo ink pigments from getting onto the surface of the fabric, hence leaving it in the original white colour while the remaining area become blue.
stencils made out of handcut designs on plastic paper and a fine mesh (industrial bug repellent) sticked together using a water-based black paint. they are placed flat on the ground, on top some pieces of newspaper to dry.
my first workshop of 2026 with dudu.indigodye. i appreciated the care & dedication that’ve gone into their practice: from desk research and field trips, to the meticulous documentation & the hundreds of experiments they’ve done to localize the process & make their knowledge accessible to everyone.
how cool! thanks for sharing!
today is my birthday!
so i made a new kind of app for personal reflective journaling
free, localfirst, and open source - enjoy :)
top view of person oiling an wooden window frame
close up of the rounded corners of the window frame
the window frame placed on top of a makeshift workstation
sunset in the working-in-progress kitchen where the windows are being made
made another window frame 🪚
a year of decentralizing dweb 🪄✨
Illustration of a laptop with a plant behind it and a butterfly coming out of it.
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Female Eastern Bluebird sitting on a skinny bare branch with snow flurries flying around.
A hummingbird clearwing moth visiting a pink bee balm flower.
Big bend overlook at Glacier National Park. Colorful mountain scenery fills the foreground with two huge peeks filling the middle ground. The skies are cloud and the scene is dramatic.
Puffins floating in the Bay of Fundy.
Hello new followers! I drag around a camera and take lots of photos. I love learning new techniques and tend to post lots of bugs and birds, but nothing is off limits.
Eastern Bluebird, Hummingbird Clearwing Moth, Glacier National Park landscape, Puffins floating on the ocean
view of a lake from the top of a hike under the stormy cloudy grey sky
stormy hike ⛈️
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short hair woman throwing a big cylinder on an electric wheel
a big lump of clay ready to be pulled
a freshly thrown moon jar
When you’re used to clay from a bag, you forget how deeply local clay really is. Moving back home after years away, I have to learn how to work with a whole range of new clay bodies. It feels like having to relearn my mother tongue— frustrating, yet grounding and intimate.
The key is: less water.
