I got to try some new archery, and I LOVE IT!

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

"Something More"

PBS and NPR were never beholden to the US government.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created so that the US government could fund public media without public media being influenced by the government. It was a private non-profit funded by the government, not a part of the government itself. This is by design. This was a good thing. It meant that even small local TV and radio stations, could afford to create media for the public good, without government influence.

This meant TV and radio stations for poor communities. For non-english speaking communities. For rural communities. For minorities. It meant that free and accessible media could be created for everyone, even if the government didn't like it.

That's why conservatives defunded it.

Because if they couldn't control it, and if it helped the people they hated, then they would have to destroy it. Do you really think that a fascist government would defund their own propaganda machine?

Not only is the idea that PBS before being defunded was propaganda wrong, but ignores the fact that defunding it is going to have long-term negative effects on vulnerable communities.

Some behind the scenes of the dyeing of the advent for @koniknits ! Including my inspiration board above^^

1: The biggest part of the "how" question: lots of cold processing in different cups! Depending on what I wanted the yarn to look like, I dyed them evenly, in a gradient, while tied, again after untying, speckled with either dye solution or dye powder, etc. Some went through multiple rounds of dyeing, one or two I completely redyed since I wasn't happy with them. They got steamed after cold processing to set the dye.

Fun fact: I only have magenta, yellow, turqoise and coal dye powders, plus I recently bought a copery colour. This is all done by mixing from those primaries!

This is also the only picture I took while dyeing, which reminds me that I need to get better at taking pictures...

2&3: Trying to settle on an order, went with the second one! Very satisfying to see them all in order.

4: In their houses/boxes! Such cute little bundles!

6: And everything packaged up!