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Richard Calver (1946-) - Dandelions Rejoicing

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filmbloom

please stop treating the word neurodivergent like it means the overlap between autism and adhd

filmbloom

i dont know how to articulate this well but some of you act like neurodiversity starts with adhd and ends with autism. you talk about "the neurodivergent experience" and everytime you mean "the overlapping experience of adhd and autism."

please remember us when talking about neurodiversity. ocd, dyslexia, dyscaculia, personality disorders, tourettes, intellectual disabilities, schizo-spec disorders, etc. all fall under neurodiversity.

please stop saying neurodivergent when you mean "autism and adhd."

this post is okay to reblog but do not clown on it

autistichalsin

Because SOMEHOW people need to be reminded of things from literally ten years ago:

"Free the nipple" never meant "free to not wear a bra" or "free to breastfeed." Those were adjacent conversations that of course "free the nipple" supporters would boost, but that was NEVER the core of free the nipple.

The core of free the nipple was always that the breasts of people perceived as women ("female-presenting nipples" to use some Tumblr speak) are in no way different than the breasts of people perceived as men. And that since the chests of people perceived as men are not sexualized and are allowed to be exposed, so too should the breasts of people perceived as women. If men can be topless, so can women. If it's inappropriate for women to show their chests, neither should men. It isn't sexual assault for a woman to walk around barechested, because it isn't sexual assault for a man to do so either, and breasts are NOT sexual organs.

Claiming breasts are inherently sexual organs is factually and morally wrong, it is sexist and controlling, it is a tool of oppression, and it defines normal body parts (and bodily functions) as sex which leads to inherent sexualization of people with those parts. It leads to 12 year olds with large breasts being accused of seducing 40 year old men or trying to distract and corrupt their classmates.

"Free the nipple" doesn't mean "free the nipple in a god-fearing way." It means FREE THE NIPPLE, full stop, end of sentence. It means to free the nipple of the faulty social constructs that cast it as a sexualized, malicious force of seduction instead of a normal body part that should be free of expectations of shame or "modesty."

Breasts and nipples aren't shameful, sexual, immoral, porn-adjacent, kinks, a distraction, or things to be feared. They are a part of your body just like your elbows and ankles, and being afraid of them, thinking they will corrupt some innocent person or that being exposed to them is trauma akin to sexual assault, is the entire fucking problem.

Free the nipple, not just for breastfeeding, not just from bras, but from the fucked up social constructs that cast them as malicious instead of innocent. Stop trying to sanitize "free the nipple" for puritanical, conservative audiences who already hate you and the rest of us. You aren't helping anyone.

Free the nipple means FREE THE NIPPLE.

creatingblackcharacters

"It seems to be a fact of life that human beings cannot continue to do wrong without eventually reaching out for some rationalization to clothe their acts in the garments of righteousness.

And so, with the growth of slavery, men had to convince themselves that a system which was so economically profitable was morally justifiable. The attempt to give moral sanction to a profitable system gave birth to the doctrine of white supremacy."

Where Do We Go From Here, Martin Luther King Jr.

scottishwobbly

there’s shitloads of handy resources like this here: Seeds for Change

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orangeblossombitch

•Poisonous and narcotic Flora of Gaza•

Golden henbane - silver-leaf nightshade - Datura innoxia - sodom's apple - squirting cucumber

Based on a paper by the same title

Available on my INPRNT

transxfiles

you can accomplish so much when you realize that you can just start hosting community events at your own place.

transxfiles

obviously lord knows not everyone has the means to do this. with my current living situation i can barely have people over. that being said like. if you're the Friend With The House. you can just. do things. at your house.

transxfiles

obviously this applies to like parties and such but more broadly speaking this is about community organizing. you can host food not bombs events at your house. community dinners. skillshare nights. you have one friend who's really good at doing their own taxes, another who's good at sewing/mending doesn't mind sharing their supplies so beginners can learn, and another who's a solid figure drawing artist? you've got the makings for a skill exchange event where you can do mini workshops with each other, and depending on your comfort level you can open it up to the broader community so more people can learn. are a lot of your friends artists? you can do an underground art gallery. short film night. maker's markets. really really free markets. again, depending on your comfort level, house shows. diy concerts. your friends are in a band and writing songs but don't have a place to perform? you've got a porch. this one's obviously dependent on a lot of factors bc you don't want to be that dick that keeps your neighbor's kids up at 1am bc you're hosting a house show, but if you can make it work you can make it work. i feel like so many people forget that the easiest step to building community and making new friends is opening your doors to your neighbors. like to me all of this really goes without saying and feels like common sense, but i've had some conversations that make me wanna go "man if you open your mind to the possibilities of converting your personal space into a community space, at least sometimes, you can change your small corner of the world."

artifacts-and-arthropods

2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia, c.400-300 BCE: this figure was crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact

This plush bird was sealed in the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia. It's remarkably well-preserved, thanks to the unique conditions in which it was buried; the permafrost ice lense formation that runs beneath the site served as an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter, which helped to produce a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows, aiding in the preservation of the artifacts inside.

This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk, and it's attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.

Sources & More Info:

The Hermitage Museum: Swan

University of Washington: Artifacts from Southern Siberia/Pazyryk

CRAFTARCH: Natural Felt as a Sculptural Textile

Felting and Fiber Studio: The Pazyryk Tomb and the History of Felt

kieraoonadiy

I'm currently working on a video on how this bird is assembled and a pattern, as best as I can manage. It will take me time, and I ask for people to be patient with me. I will post the pattern up for free on my Ko-Fi as soon as its available

thecollectibles

Little Fox by lei min

sadhoc

one thing that having spinning/weaving as a hobby while being a marxist will teach you is that people in the first world, in 2025, take fabric way too for granted. for the vast majority of humans who have ever lived, fabric was something made by someone they knew. their grandmother. their neighbor. their sister. themselves. all the blankets, towels, underclothing, bandages, sacks, were made by somebody they could name. wealthy households, who had to keep up appearances to maintain power, had legions of impoverished women working in horrific conditions to provide them with embroidery, with lace, with elegantly dyed fabrics, in colors that commoners were forbidden from wearing. later, in the united states, different grades of cotton were sorted so as to be worn by different races: there were lower grades of cotton fabric that were reserved to be used for the clothing of enslaved Black people, the people who were forced via unthinkable violence to produce the cotton. entire generations of families enslaved and tortured, mass death, rape, and mutilation, the origin point of white supremacy, so that cotton could be grown cheaply as possible, generating vast wealth for white people, and providing white citizenry with cheap clothing. meanwhile higher grade cotton, that white people would purchase, was sent north to the cities, where it was spun and woven by immigrant children (mostly young girls) who were paid pennies for it. today all this labor is hidden from your average citizen of the imperial core. the enslaved people growing our cotton are prisoners and foreigners, people we can, if we want to, forget. the teenage girls dying in factory fires are asian and latina, living in countries you can't point to on a map

cheap cotton underwear is a lie. it isn't cheap. it's just cheap to you.,

sadhoc

source:

the golden thread, kassia st clair

a people's history of the united states, howard zinn

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schoolhater

the co-founder of 'crips for esims for gaza' and disability advocate, alice wong, has died according to her twitter account.

alice's disability advocacy naturally led her to palestine solidarity as the quote from the blog post announcing 'crips for esims' illustrates:

We also recognize that everyone in Gaza is now disabled due to the massive number of deaths, new disabilities, life-threatening illnesses and destruction of medical facilities going on. Such destruction also debilitates the land, water, and air, which will impact Palestinians and all surrounding life for generations to come. We owe our kin in Palestine to throw sand on the gears of genocide with our every breath. [source: the disability visibility project]

since december 2023, crips for esims for gaza has raised well over $3.1M and bought and maintained over 5,000 esims, undoubtedly saving lives.

in the past few days there has been intense winter flooding in gaza. donate to honor alice wong's memory–to keep people connected, to give disabled people the tools to advocate for themselves, to refuse to let palestine be silenced.

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

sioltach

Kirsten Chursinoff

A selection of berry-themed textile art. Free-motion machine quilting and hand embroidery, using some quilting and applique techniques.

arrghigiveup

[source: https://twitter.com/nasacertified/status/1273798595314167814]

bisexuhowl

#watching this monkey peel of the stringy bits#drop them on the baby’s head#meticulously remove them#and clean off the stump#then wolf down that banana#is just really great#like a fussy little person

chase-solidago

thinking about what is and what isn't allowed in frame with reference ecosystems in prairie restoration

ariel-s-awesome

Explanation from OP in the replies

restoration ecology tends to want to restore to a past state of an ecosystem, but magically that past state never involved people! Harvest, reciprocity, etc are all ignored because we pretend there's such a thing as prairie without people. Turns out, that imagined prairie never existed, there were always people here and there should people involved in restored prairie too!

imsobadatnicknames2

I want slower packages delivered by transportation workers who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding

theparadigmshifts

@mortuarybees: #i think its deeply important for all of us to come to terms with the fact that its actually fine to be mildly inconvenienced

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iatrophilosophos

Ok so kudzu is a bast fiber and in Japan kudzu textiles are traditionally produced by retting (fermenting to turn some of the non-fiber organic material into sludge) the vines, washing the long crinkly ribbons of fiber in a river or somesuch, drying them, and then splitting into lil filaments that are about a yard long and tying them end-to-end to make threads. These threads are woven by hand into a stiff-ish canvas-like fabric that softens with age and may be remade from outwear to against the skin clothes over the many decades of its life.

Ive made kudzu thread but honestly I fucking hate weaving. I love the idea of weaving. Weaving is so cool. Doing it? No, thanks.

You can ply kudzu threads into "yarn" but its more twine-like. The general properties of kudzu cloth are largely owed to its fineness and when you stack up the fibers together they dont tend to be very happy

Mercerization is a process invented in the 1800s to soften cellulose fibers. A solution of about 20% sodium hydroxide (lye) is applied to the fibers and they're stretched. This does a chemical transformation to the cellulose--basically making the fibers slightly different and arranging them in straighter lines, making them stronger, softer and shiner (and less stretchy)

While it does not seem like home merceration is widely practiced among home dyers and fiber people, I dont see a strong reason it couldn't be.

For fiber stretching, an extendable niddy noddy (REAL THING ITS CALLED) could be fashioned out of some pvc pipe pieces and fittings in about five minutes, using a screw fitting in the middle of the shaft (pvc has a favorable resistance to lye according to online spec sheets & its the easiest/cheapest way i can think of to fashion such an object--any kind of wood/wood-and-metal apparatus would require a lot more technical effort). From what I can gather from a variety of industry publications, it would be reasonable to:

-ply traditionally prepared kudzu thread into a yarn to ones liking and ravel it up into hanks

-saturate the hanks in a room-temperature 20% sodium hydroxide solution

-return the hanks to the extendable niddy noddy and twist

-let that hang out for...an unspecified amount of time? Until it dries? Still working on that part

-rinse in water, give the hanks a good vinegar bath to neutralize the lye, rinse again

-apply dyes as desired

-make [whatever], such as a nice thick tank top, which my knitting machine can do in <1day

iatrophilosophos

Kudzu thread itself is completely free if you have the right landscape for it, such as zones overgrown with kudzu, somewhere you can reasonably dig a pit for the retting, and the ability to access a large creek. I have made a lot of choices in my life prioritizing such landscapes

Potassium hydroxide is theoretically also free but imma be real i aint actually scared up a lye leaching barrel yet :/ fake primmie. Im also not sure about differences btwn sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide for mercerization. However I currently own enough sodium hydroxide to make up uhhh something close to a gallon of 20% solution which did cost about $15 or so. Thats not an insane amount but its enough to saturate like....one large polyester fleece-y blanket by my estimation of how many 5 gallon buckets of water it takes to do a load of laundry which beats even bottom shelf acrylic pricing on yarn

iatrophilosophos

Its decidedly not kudzu season but this concept is torturing me so

I successfully located one tiny bundle of kudzu thread made in ~2020

I used the old drop spindle to do 2 successive passes of Navajo ply (aka chain plying its when you make a loose daisy chain and spin it together instead of spinning together threads from different spools. Very convenient to maximize material yield!) For a yarn that is 6 strands (edit nope its 9 I cant count) of thread and about a dk or heavy lace weight.

Interacting with the fiber again I remember why I took the original stance that it could be beaten up into something very nice. At first touch its an annoying rough twine but playing with it it has this soft flex that a hardware store jute or hemp just doesn't. Theres real potential there.

However i cannot for the fucking life of me locate the lye i know I have so :/

iatrophilosophos

I FOUND THE LYE!

Wikipedia claims that mercerization requires "wetting agents" (detergents also sometimes used in dyeing to help cross cell walls) but that was not indicated in several industry pdfs I read so I very noncommitally presoaked the yarn in water with about a teaspoon of castille soap since I do only have one shot until early summer.

While presoaking for all of about five minutes i prepared 100ml of an approximately 20% lye solution (I used the kitchen scale and the graduation on the Mason jar so. You know. Good enough for fiber arts) and let it cool somewhat. I squeezed out the yarn and dunked it in the Evil Juice, agitating occasionally, for ten minutes.

The lyewater took on some of the color of the yarn which was really interesting and its a little viscous now.

I squeezed out the lye and have now hung it over the sump hole (gravel pit for safely disposing of biodegradable-but-gnarly chemicals), weighted with a bigass socket protected from the lyewater drips by a junk enamel cup.

I did wear gloves for this, despite my usual lacksadasical nature towards PPE it seemed foolish to directly touch with my hands, so im not sure what it feels like yet. The yarn has definitely changed and has taken on a slightly translucent, jelly-like appearance and different texture than when it was wet with the soap. I will leave this for a somewhat arbitrary amount of time while I make chicken korma before neutralizing.

iatrophilosophos

Here are the mercerization results! Last pick is the "before" twine again for comparison. I ended up leaving it stretched for about 2hrs; washed with soap; popped in a vinegar bath for about 10 minutes, and rinsed again. The vinegar bath immediately changed the color of the yarn from the dark jelly brown to an opaque gold-brown which was neat.

Is it softer? Yes

Is it against-the-skin soft? Not really.

Additionally, it was much nicer when it was slightly damp. After drying the last tiny bit, the yarn scunched up and became a little loose and spiraly.

However I did make the original thread exceptionally poorly and pressure cooked the kudzu instead of retting it properly (dont do that) and did a bad idea of washing it cuz I somehow didnt manage to realize I could just....do that at a park....

I personally think this is enough proof of concept to attempt at a moderate scale next year with an improved process: i think starting with a better thread would help, im leaning towards a longer initial maceration in the lye water, and I think it should be dried under tension & more gently (such as in partial shade in my humid ass woods) instead of tossed loose next to the wood stove.