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a. She’s 5′ 11″ and can never find pants long enough for her legs or shirts long enough for her arms.

b. She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

c. She’s a biologist and would physically fistfight microplastics if given half a chance

So her gift from mom and dad for her birthday was a sewing machine. Not a super expensive one but a good solid serviceable one.

And recently she asked “So where do I GET wool or linen and thread that isn’t polyester” and mom was like ‘go ask your sister’

“Bets, u know I’m a 15th degree blackbelt of buying shit on the internet”

cotton and Silk thread; https://redrockthreads.com/

Linen thread and wool fabric; https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/ (they’ve got wool stuffs and worsted wool fabric for $15 a yard! I just got three yards of navy worsted wool I’m making a constellation winter skirt from)

More linen thread and wool; https://wmboothdraper.com/ (just ordered wool broadcloth to make a coat)

Silk fabric (THE best place to get silk lining fabrics and raw silk fabric):https://www.dharmatrading.com/

A varying assortment of wool and silk and cotton and even some leather, use coupon code  spring2020 for 50% off your full order, worked yesterday when I bought some stuff there; https://metrotextilesnyc.com/

The Linen Lab has a variety of weaves, weights, and colors available

Is linen my best clothing option for keeping cool? Are there other options that aren’t quite so pricy? (and what’s a reasonable price to expect, anyway?)

We have these, absurd, hateful, dangerous, and deranged people who have slithered and manipulated forward in our political life and consciousness.

There is nothing normal about any of this.

It takes effort to remember that these people… George Santos, Donald Trump, RFK Jr., the clowns in that photo above, all those Karens… are sample mutations of a narcissistic, kleptocratic social virus invading and spreading throughout our culture.

They are trying to steal our country… our home… out from under us and turn us into a powerless consumerist share-cropper political class. 

The word “citizen“ is seldom even used in this culture anymore. At best we are voters, but more likely we’re just labeled, “consumers,” a passive and undignified label that strips away our power in this democracy.

This extreme form of capitalism is denying us healthcare and childcare, corrupting our politicians and denying support of public schools and teachers, who would have helped us guard against exactly these conditions.

Women are particularly targeted in this current, distorted system because they have more common sense and humanity than men, the way mayors have more common sense and humanity than senators or members of congress. 

Denying agency over healthcare is a major and cruelly effective means of control and forces us to remain under the corporate thumb. Hostility toward workers unionizing also keeps citizens weak, dependent, and easily manipulated. 

By dividing and conquering, they distract us from common cause. Blaming and demonizing Muslims, Haitians, migrants, women, welfare recipients, non-white races, Jews, the educated, and the poor, they keep us from noticing the manipulations they employ.

The cost of higher-ed is exactly on-brand and neutralizes college graduates with social isolation and the financial equivalent of cement shoes. That debt pulls them down under unsustainably-high cost-of-living water, sentencing them to taking _any job that pays_ just to score another breath. Career choices… unaffordable.

Corporate controlled social media and entertainment-focused news organizations are a perfect medium for spreading misinformation and distracting us from what we should be paying attention to, growing this virus in us. Commercial conditioning compels us to take on more and more debt to fund materialistic impulses rather than living wholesome, sane, and calm, dignified lives. Debt is a powerful instrument of control in a capitalistic economy.

These assholes are trying to prevent us from learning our own true history, substituting religious indoctrination and racial/class hatreds to separate us. They keep us fighting amongst ourselves to prevent us from paying attention to the super rich and corporations who run our politicians and Supreme Court justices like yard chickens.