feels like a symptom of some terrible societal affliction that 90% of the clothes I see advertised and in shop windows are boring as fuck, like there was a person I saw irl yesterday in a beetle print skirt and the tv is showing me beige normcore? We can do better
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Despite our best efforts, multiple crises in the arts and charitable sector, and the ongoing patriarchal stance on inclusiveness mean that the Vagina Museum continues to struggle. We are having to have serious conversations about our long-term future. And now, more than ever, we need your help...
Small boy to a pair of twins in the playground: "why are there two of you?"
The phoenicians did lots of dye trading as I understand it, and I've seen reconstruction ls of some very jazzy outfits from them
A close up of dense clusters of white blossom on a blackthorn tree. A little bright blue sky is peeping through the branches.
The pear outside our kitchen window is going, the earliest apples, and all the hedgerow blackthorns are covered
A skein of handspun lacewight yarn draped across a hand. It is steel grey with red, yellow, blue, and green sparkles in
Finally skeined this merino/trilobal nylon I've been working on for three years and it's a whole 26g of the 100g I bought. Slowest of slow fashion
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An illustration of Mr Rochester by Paula Rego. He is a man in a top hat and hunting jacket astride a horse. He is frowning sceptically at the viewer
An illustration of bertha Rochester by Paula Rego. She is sat on the floor in a chemise which is falling off her shoulders. She is frowning at the viewer, and looks both vulnerable and defiant
There's a Paula Rego exhibition ok at the local museum and I'm a wee bit obsessed with the Jane Eyre illustrations
artworks for sale
If you haven't read Rose's journalistic work on this subject yet, you should! There is also an excellent podcast called Tested (available on CBC) if you prefer listening. For if you want not just the evidence based science on the subject but the stories of *actual people who these decisions effect*.
“They’re often considered pests,” notes UC Riverside microbiologist Michael Allen, “but we thought they would take old soil, move it to the surface, and that would be where recovery would occur.”
omg
Trans folks desperately trying to warn everyone that the so-called gender critical movement was coming for reproductive rights for years, I'd been detailing links between them and US anti-abortion groups only for it to be ignored and it burned me out, but look, it's exactly what we all warned about:
I spend enough time sticky tbh
go to kitchen, open fridge, choose pot of yoghurt, close fridge, return to sofa, open yoghurt...
forgot spoon.
I would love to get a night's sleep with fewer than 3 interruptions sometime this quarter.
Mine seems to have cleared up since having a growth taken off my ovary last year, I assume it must have been in the way!
When life gives you lemons throw them at someone you hate.
The convenience of instant bank transfer really doesn't help people think ahead. We used to tuck the taxi fare in our bras to make sure it didn't get spent on anything else
"Foreign-born Citizens" are actually just called citizens.
"Foreign-born voters" are just called voters
"non-citizen voters" (yes, this is a thing here in 🇬🇧) are just voters.
The pink woodwork in the hallway is kind of great! The one renovated bathroom is quite jarring :P
I assume someone out there already has a punk band called Cunt Blade
definitely Tasks I should be doing but summoning any motivation at all is just not happening auuughgghg
It's so grey :( :( :(
a pair of very rotund knitted mice, shaped as if sitting back and sniffing the air. One is grey, and has a lavender and blue coloured argyle jumper. The other is brown and is wearing a tutu with a crocheted lace skirt. Both have pink ears and noses
animals for #ShowMeyourKnits - two variations on Harold Fatmus by Wee County Yarns, both of whom work as doorstops at our house. I spent ages looking for the crochet lace pattern I used for the ballerina's skirt
We've set the date for the workshop, anyone in or around Cheltenham want to come try bookbinding and make a tiny journal or sketchbook? www.thekiwifruitiscute.com/products/boo...
a section of wall, thickly covered in moss with small harts tongue ferns growing out of it
ferns growing in it and everything!
I had a sore finger and I thought I'd poked myself with a needle at some point but turns out I picked up a splinter on Wednesday afternoon when I had to detatch a chunk of bramble from myself after I went off the path to take a photo of some lovely moss
Due to a terrible misreading of a hashtag, we prepared something to post tomorrow, then realised it was wrong. So today, let's celebrate #GalenTines Day. Here's what Galen of Pergamon (c129BCE-216BCE) had to say about the gynaecological anatomy which influenced physicians for over a millennium...
A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”
Make Art (1/4)
I've offered to teach a scrappy bookbinding course at a local craft shop and now they've said they're interested I have to work out Logistics which is obvi the Worst Part