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"Sewing is a gateway drug to thinking through complex problems. It seems really simple; culturally, we make it women's work. Let me tell you: real sewing at any kind of level of proficiency is a bloody magic trick. Sewing, like mold making, involves mental frames that require one to think inside out and backwards. It requires one to work on an order of operations that is often taking into account the reverse. It's a really, really important skill, and if you learn how to sew, you're mostly on your way to carpentry and welding and sheet metal work. I'm not kidding: these are planar forms meeting under rules and conditions. And if you can make a sleeve work, I swear to God, you could build a house."

--Adam Savage

thepaisleyelf

There’s a liquor store near my house that seems to be run exclusively by frat boys. They lovingly curate these bags, which I browsed today while “Oops I Did It Again” played through the store speakers. This is art to me, there is beauty everywhere for those with eyes to see it

cyberneticnightmares

saw an elderly woman walking around with a tote bag whose design were the four AO3 fic category squares and she very excitedly asked if i was a reader or a writer bcs nobody else at the con had recognized it, and after telling her that i've been writing fic since fanfic.net, she solemnly nodded and explained that she'd been reading fic since "the days of personal websites" but that she only started writing fanfic when she was 47 and oh my god when i tell you that i genuinely teared up on the spot!!!!! like!!! HELL YEAH???? LITERALLY NEVER TOO OLD TO START WRITING. NEVER TOO OLD TO WRITE AND SHARE YOUR FIC.

her enthusiastic "i'm a very nice and bubbly person, i swear! but i love writing angst and major character death :)" nearly took me the fuck out.

icon. legend. diva. i wish her nothing but a kajillion million comments and kudos. i hope her fic updates crash AO3. i hope she knows i'm promoting her to my personal patron saint of AO3.

academic-vampire

𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔰 𝔞𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔟𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔰

nonbinary-jakey

ring cameras have been police surveillance tools for the last decade idk why people are acting like it's new

queeranarchism

You're seeing these posts for the same reason you're seeing more posts about leaving your phone at home and about masking and about grey block and about not talking to the cops:

A lot of people who haven't previously done activism are taking to the streets right now and people are offering them education that their own social bubble didn't expose them to before.

This happened in 2020 too. It happens every time there's a big spike in protests. And it's a good thing. It's great that more people are taking to the streets and it's great that these people are being given vital safety information without judgement about being new or not knowing everything yet.

treasure-of-the-ancients

Gold earring with glass head pendant, Phoenician/Carthaginian, 3rd-1st century BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

chimpachum

This ancient Rockabilly pendant holds tremendous power

foiblepnoteworthy

@elvis-official

elvis-official

Woah mama I am eternal, I am before time itself

artlung

There’s a scene in Jun and Mitsuko's hotel room where Mitsuko is showing off a binder she’s made full of cut-out photos, comparing the similarities of Elvis’s face to that of Buddha, the Statue of Liberty, and Madonna - How Mystery Train Dissects Elvis’ Legacy While Barely Showing Him Onscreen

#elvis presley #mystery train

lovers-and-dreamers

going absolutely bonkers insane over these sesame street photoshoots

these are just functioning members of society. i love them so much. my babies.

lovers-and-dreamers

since you guys loved this post so goddamn much (6k?????????) heres some more for you to look at

helenvaughans

damnfool-of-a-took

^^^ This. The COMBINED population of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) is only about 2.6 million. That's not small town numbers, sure, but compared to NYC (20.1 million in the metropolitan area)? LA? (12.9 million "")?

Minneapolis is being made an example of because they're the most bitesized target, and if you're doing a shock and awe campaign like this you need to not choke on national tv.

(And they're still having to fight for it. Minneapolis isn't taking this laying down, and more power to them for their courage.)

twixnmix

Keith Haring with his mural at DTJ video game arcade store on Avenue D in the East Village, 1984.

Photos by Tseng Kwong Chi

preserving-tiktok

hugintheraven

I say this every time, but people Do Not Realize just how short the timeline has been on gay people in kids’ media. And it’s an ongoing fight, but this was 10 - 15 years ago.

casuallyodd

I'm not in the Steven Universe fandom. I don't really even know the show. But the story she's telling here is important to remember. What feels like small snippets of representation took a lot of fighting to get and it wasn't as long ago as you think.

toomanyvocals

RHEA SEEHORN in I’m with her (2003)

artlung

b. 1972.

so ~ 31 y.o.?

#rhea seehorn

toiich

Fiona Apple by Jin Ohashi, 1999

aaronstveit

There's nothing new in human experience, Mr. Tully. Each generation thinks it invented debauchery or suffering or rebellion, but man's every impulse and appetite from the disgusting to the sublime is on display right here all around you. So, before you dismiss something as boring or irrelevant, remember, if you truly want to understand the present or yourself, you must begin in the past. You see, history is not simply the study of the past. It is an explanation of the present.

THE HOLDOVERS 2023 • dir. Alexander Payne