control issues

All of them, the uncles, the aunts, the cousins of all age and gender, all of them told me about the legendary mashed potato that the grandma does. How good it is, how they can't reproduce it, and how the grandma has never told the recipe to anyone ever. A mystery, a secret she's going to take to the grave!

And like, it's a very good mashed potato. The recipe is simple, you boil some big potato, then you mash them with salt, pepper, herbes de Provence (a mix used almost everywhere in the south of france made of rosemary, oregano, thyme, basil, chervil, tarragon, bay leaf, fennel, marjoram, sage, and wild thyme), a good chunk of butter and a dollop of olive oil.

I think I’ve talked about it before, but my mom has been a quilter for most of my life and in the last few years started doing these really cool fabric collages, and it was my turn to request one so I asked for a phoenix cause I’m obsessed with this one art piece I did in art therapy ages ago

Anyway, my mom has been working on it and THIS was the last update I got???

Here’s some pics from the workroom when I visited in November, and some pics from in-progress pieces before they were finished, if that gives you a better idea of how it works ^^

And here’s some finished pieces!

Also updates on the phoenix!

You can kinda see the metallic details on some of the fabrics chosen! I love them. Also a glimpse at some of the bits cut out to use in the tail!

I was given two options for background as my mom was finishing up the bird part—

I ended up picking the greener one cause I love all the gold stuff, and my mom added even more gold details for that mythical feel

So this is the current most recent form!

Snowball in Hell, acrylics, 30cmx20cm

Don't get too excited yet; to get a veto proof majority you need two thirds of the Senate, which means you need 67 total votes for the bill. We have 47 Dems, so we would need fifteen more GOP senators to cross lines.

However. If you have a Republican senator, get the fuck on those phone lines now. Emphasize the economic disaster on the horizon. You tell them that these shitwits are going to tank your jobs, your businesses, your homes and your communities. You tell them that their names are on this economic disaster. Hound them like coonhounds baying down the trail after frightened game, and tell them how hungry you are for their misfortune already; imagine how hungry you will be when your families can't afford to eat.

These fuckers blink when we get angry. We got the NOAA back yesterday, at least temporarily. RFK is claiming he is trying to rehire a bunch of our fired federal workers in HHS which was "always the plan" despite internal confirmation that there is no such plan. These thieving rats in the grain house are frightened of us already and they flinch when we howl!

They are probably lying about their plans, but they are at least frightened enough to lie. Our job is to harass them in every moment of their lives until they panic and break. Make these Russian traitors afraid again.

If you can, come to the Hands Off! protests today. There are virtual options and options for every state and many many many cities. That's an unfakable, incontrovertible statement of unified anger, and the sheer weight of numbers frightens politicians. Showing up will help provide leverage. It will also be great practice if we need to run a general strike for more leverage.

Let's get to work!