The Museum of Hunting and Nature in Paris is pretty unusual. They have a bunch of taxidermied large animals (polar bears, lions, deer) that you can walk right up to, rooms with drawers and walls full of weapons with notes on their provenance (mostly old nobles’ collections), art of wild creatures.
making physical objects is fun and affirming, even more so with secondhand materials. here’s a dress from an old duvet cover.
Important to stop phrasing & headlining things as "Trump does XXX" (e.g. "Trump fires all USPS heads and integrates it under Commerce"); we can simply say he is purporting to do XXX, or claiming the power to do XXX.
Mere fact of a president saying he did something doesn't will it into existence.
The National Parks are one of this country’s Crown Jewels, they are a huge tourism draw both internally and for foreign visitors which drives local economies, and these people want to destroy them
hello cis friends
this is what people mean by trans genocide
if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported
this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order
it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist
They didn't even bother putting a gender marker on US passports until 1977. We could just drop them entirely. They serve no purpose but for the cruelty of fucking with the rules related to them.
today’s secret ingredient is fried capers.
we now have some protection from elderly dog bed-wetting. secondhand flannel-backed vinyl + a cotton top simple blanket. it’ll be good for outdoor time too, but I should probably quilt it.
Thousands of Houstonians on Sunday marched from Montrose to Hermann Park in protest against President Donald Trump's anti-immigration executive orders.
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washing citrus to make marmalade (Pam the Jam) and vin d’orange (Samin Nosrat).
Dali was here?
I recommend wearing something really cheerful when you’re feeling bad. I still/again have a sore throat that kept me awake last night, but I love this skirt I made and so do lots of folks out in the world!
dinner is scallion meatballs (@smittenkitchen), steamed rice, cucumbers vinaigrette a la Moosewoos, and kkakdugi (@maangchi). we wolfed it down!
it’s like a kid’s cartoon of piracy! People get shot and moments later are making out and climbing the rigging!
@ianholmes.org liked last night’s @flophousepodcast.bsky.social so much he made me watch Cutthroat Island. we’ll have to make up for it with another viewing of Master and Commander posthaste.
Probably the silliest thing I’ve made—a purple Kindle case monster.
I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
walked along the Bernal Cut path with some perfect light this afternoon.
it’s a favorite color kind of day.
she’s cutting her own nails, but asks me to take photos of them when they look like this #onlychildstuff
ancient Crete in Glen Park.
winter on the Bernal Cut path.