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wonderstruck

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#Queer Georgians #It's fantastic so far

marlynnofmany

*giant wind gust outside*

Me: “Don’t say it.”

My Brain:

transfemininomenon

ayeforscotland

The USDA is suspending more than $120 million in federal funding to Minnesota effective immediately

They kill your people. They suspend state funding but definitely take your tax dollars. At what point is anyone in America going to get serious about this?

Democrats seem useless as always and people post ‘#resist’ and ‘protect your community’ and then do sweet fuck all.

I’d love to not talk about America, but they are the biggest threat to the world right now.

jareckiworld

Tuesday Riddell — The Moon (23.5 karat gold leaf, silver leaf, gold and silver powder, pigment and paint on lacquered board, 2025)

banji-effect

The ancient world was full of textile masterpieces we can only imagine… but most of them have rotted away. So few of them have come down to us in these days that we think of metal and stone as the primary mediums for the oldest artworks. But there were tapestries and fabric work that would have rivaled the finest wrought gold and iron and the first cave paintings.

theyoungwaldschrat

This is a incredibly rare find. A ball of yarn made from stinging nettle fibers in the Late Neolithic (5900 years old) in what’s now Marin-Epagnier in Switzerland. The thread has been preserved by being carbonized. Look at how much thread that is! And how fine and even it is spun! The skill going into this is absolutely incredible. Imagine the incredible textile work that must’ve been made with that. For a reference here’s a ball of nettle yarn I managed to make with a drop spindle. That took me 300 hours of work.

drearydaffodil

Stroke your own cheek, use that sweet voice you save for people you love on you. Kiss a mirror, lay in warm water, use the good bubble bath. Light the candles and the fairy lights. Stretch. Drink tea or coffee or cocoa, simply find something to keep your hands warm. Read or draw or color. Become the thing that keeps you full at night. Watch sunsets, wear fuzzy sweatshirts. Be the softness you want to see in the world.

ilookattextile

1. 19th century sealskin thong, Greenland

2. Pazyryk swan made of felted reindeer wool, circa 400 BCE, Siberia

3. Child’s hat with bird, nalbound cotton and wool, 1000–1476 CE, Chancay culture, Peru

4. Knitted cotton sock from Egypt, 1000-1200 CE

5. Sidonian flask shaped like a date, 1st-2nd century CE, Syria or Palestine

6. World’s oldest surviving pants, woven wool, circa 1300-1000 BCE, China

twitblr

Not much focus on rehabilitation

obi-wann-cannoli

This seems like a good time to mention the Prisoners Literature Project and Inside Books Project. Both of these organizations send free books to incarcerated people, and are always looking for donations - both books and money -and volunteers! (Prisoners literature project sends books everywhere but Texas - Inside Books project is just Texas).

rhythmic-idealist

[ID: Joseph Hill (@ jaceyhill) tweeted: “Reading costs 5 cents a minute and the prisoners earn 30 cents an hour. Reading a 330 page book costs them about $20. Prisons are designed to destroy people’s humanity.”

Hill’s comments are a quote-retweet of Book Patrol (@ bookpatrol), who said: “The Cost of Reading in Prison: In West Virginia it’s 5 cents a minute bookpatrol.net/the-cost-of-re…” Attached is a photo of an incarcerated person sitting on the end of a bed leaning over an e-reader, with their head resting in their hand. In the background, one person sits on another of the many beds in the room, and another sleeps.

315 comments, 26.3K retweets, 74.9K likes.]

rednines

Donate books money time whatever you can to your local books to prisoners, anarchist black cross, or books through bars group. They’re trying their hardest to make it impossible to read books in prison the last few years