Welcome to the Moon Basket

Moon. He/him. 26. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 Knitting. Mending. Sustainability. Fandom. Current Events. Chronic Illness. (Asks are closed. I do not have the mental capacity for them.)

[basketofmooneggs]

My Tag System:

This is entirely for me, so I don't forget it. Feel free to peruse.

#ab - abortion funds and organizing

#auggo talks - anything I post myself or add text onto

#news - current events talk or sharing of news articles

#icon - current or previous blog icons

#eco - ecology or plant news, advice, plant photos or art, etc.

#tbr - books and such to read

#ci - chronic illness/disability content

#history - history information and such. Real life only.

#queer - good queer shit. idk.

#book - notes and thoughts on books I'm reading or have read.

#craft - any of my craft projects or other people's cool projects

#id - posts I added image descriptions to

#no id - posts i reblogged that don't have an image description

#liveblog - any liveblogs of shows and such. you can filter if you want.

#fashion - my personal fashion inspo bc I hate Pinterest

#art - other people's art, etc.

#mutual aid - donation links and support information for people and organizations

#palestine - posts from and about Palestine and Palestinian people.

#Sudan - posts from and about Sudan and Sudanese people

#politics - polticial posts and news. Usually for the United States, as that's where I live, but not exclusively.

#my art - organizing all my projects into one tag

#laughs for later - a tag of high quality memes and videos for when I'm feeling down

#kitty - cats, obv

#tlt - posts pertaining to The Locked Tomb book series

#f1 - formula one racing

Specific craft related tags: #mending, #sewing, #spinning, #darning, #embroidery, #knitting

#sg1 - posts about stargate: SG - 1

#tos - posts about star trek: the original series.

#inspiration

#ref or #reference - reference posts

Content warnings are tagged by the keyword. If you need me to tag anything specific, please ask and I'll do my best.

[acornsandcarnelian]

Google show me weird perverted knitting patterns. Knitting patterns for masochists. Weird unsettling unnecessarily complex knitting charts. Hey google give me freak knitting ideas. Creepy sweater pattern colorwork free pdf download.

[fibercraftscentral]

have you tried any niebling

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

Seconding Niebling with a handy link to my favourite blog. Pick literally any random name off this list and look at the charts in horror and awe.

Herzblatt is a great smallish doily to dip your toes into the pain and misery and is absolutely gorgeous besides, though Sechsblatt is a lot simpler and less likely to cause an individual to spontaneously combust.

[fatemagaza2005-deactivated20250]

My name is Fatima, a 21-year-old woman🤰.Just one month before the war, I was engaged, dreaming of a warm home and a small family.But the war tore us apart—my fiancé and I were separated between northern and southern Gaza, with no way to communicate💔.

Despite the pain, we held on to hope. Months later, I left my family and joined him.We got married, believing it was the start of a new life.But the bombing returned, and we were displaced again… Now we live in a fragile tent in western Gaza, awaiting the birth of our first child amid conditions unfit for life🥹😭.

I’m pregnant🤰, and my due date is near🥹. I have none of the essentials I need as a mother or even as a human being🙏.We lack everything: medical care, food, clean water, and basic supplies for childbirth and the baby🥲.

I’m not asking for the impossible—just enough to protect my life and my baby’s

Your donation is our only hope🥹😢.

Every donation, word of support, can make a real difference

I am Fatima, a 21-year-old woman.I got engaged just one month before the war started. My dreams were simple: a warm home, a small family, an

✅️My campaign has been verified from my account, brother @jaafar-gaza04.✅️

[fatmafamily2005-deactivated2026]

My campaign is new and has not received much support. Please support me and my family.

https://chuffed.org/project/helpfatema

✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #640 )✅️

[basketofmooneggs]

Please donate as to Fatima. She is a very kind soul who is trying so hard to take care of her family under extremely difficult conditions. I have sent her $45 today. This is the second or third time I have sent her family money because they still need it. The ceasefire is a joke and no aid is getting in. They need our help. Do not look away.

[appendingfic]

meal boxes sent arugula before i was aware enough of possible contaminents and i'm like

fighting between desire not to waste anything and you know

[appendingfic]

wait fuck the bagged salads they sell are taylor

[basketofmooneggs]

Supposedly you can wash your produce in a vinegar solution, baking soda solution, or store bought vegetable wash. It's not 100% going to kill the parasite, but it's better than not washing them. If you want to 100% kill it, you have to cook the produce. Good luck. We washed all our bagged spinach and arugula and so far we're okay.

[iamthelowercase]

Hello, tumblr! I saw something on here the other day that worried me, so I decided to Do Science about it. But I can't do it alone: I need your help to build the dataset!

Here's what I need you to do:

If you see a post with a "mature content" label, and it's 2026, DM me a link to the post.

Yes, that's really it.

I am hoping to collect several thousand such posts, so that I have a decent sized dataset. I do not care what the post is about; if it's labeled as "mature content", I want to add it to my dataset.

If I get 10,000 posts in my dataset before August 31st 2026, I will post my preliminary findings then. I won't feel comfortable calling my findings "settled" before 2027, unless I get over 50,000 posts.

[iamthelowercase]

Tumblr Science FAQ, round 1

What's your hypothesis, OP?

I am not talking about that unless I have results to share. That would bias the results.

I did write them down and I did share them with a trusted contact who can prove that I wrote them down the same day I made this post. (While I did so before I made this post, I am not sure they will be able to provide proof of that, because I did so on the same day.)

OP are you interested in...?

Do you have to click through to see the post? Does the clickthrough contain the words "mature content"? Then yes.

OP are you interested if the post is about...?

I am interested in the mature content labels, not the content of the post. Is there a clickthrough that contains the words "mature content"? Then yes.

[iamthelowercase]

Tumblr Science FAQ, round 2

Should I reblog this for reach?

Yes, please. I felt really silly when I noticed I forgot to include that in the original post.

Is it okay if I send you my own posts?

Yes, those are perfect for what I'm looking for. I actually need to do some processing on a post to make it useful for testing my hypothesis, and this makes it easy.

Are you looking for "potentially mature content" also, or just "mature content"?

I want both, please. Anything that throws up a blocking screen that you have to click through. The distinctions between them are one of the things I am hoping to study.

Does it matter when the post was made originally?

Technically no. There's no way to respond to this without introducing some bias in the results, and I don't want that. However, I do collect some data on a post as part of making it useful to me, and that data is easier to collect if the post is recent.

What if I request content label review on a post after I send it to you?

I need to see the mature content label to be able to use the post. Because the mature content label hides the content of the post, it is very hard to use a post that no longer has a mature content label. You could send me a screenshot, but people could use that to lie to me.

Basically, it's more work for you to make it usable to me.

OP are you a transphobe? It would ruin the experiment for me if you're a transphobe.

I promise I'm not a transphobe and not doing this for transphobic reasons. You should still double-check that I'm not a transphobe for yourself, though. I am not sure that this study will have the useful effects you're hoping for; I am studying something specific, and it may not be what you hope.

[basketofmooneggs]

I tried to watch House of the Dragon for the costume design and special effects. Didn't even make it all the way through season one. It has too much GRRM stink on it.

Georgie boy just hates women so much. Like "strong woman" = "crazy"

Smh, my head.

Anyway recommendations for similar shows with less misogyny and homphobia would be appreciated.

[lesbianlandry]

[damejoansutherland]

side benefit of communal all-gender restrooms is that they may be our best chance to shame cis men into washing their hands

[damejoansutherland]

i was in a communal all-gender restroom today and as i was washing my hands a middle-aged man came out of one of the stalls, started to make for the door, clocked me standing at the sinks, and changed course to wash his hands with a real hangdog look on his face

[crippled-peeper]

“you’re a grown ass man and you need help doing that?” some grown ass men are disabled ma’am

[crippled-peeper]

adult men who are disabled deserve compassion and understanding and support and not just endless verbal abuse from sheltered privileged assholes who think they are punching up let’s be so for real

[covid-safer-hotties]

Everyone thinks cyberpunk is so cool until you wear technological adaptations to rampant disease and wildfires.

[lastoneout]

Bro I cannot believe Tom Scott agreed to be on Jet Lag again but ☝️ I am extremely glad regardless.

[lastoneout]

I was 100% convinced that he did not enjoy a single moment of that season. He did not take a W that entire time. Absolute pits of hell. He aged 50 years over those few days. And truly it was NOT fair to make his teammate The Struggler and pit them against Crazy Ass and his platonic soumate God's Most Favorite Specialist Little Boy.

[lastoneout]

To be fair Tom Scott made the interesting choice of playing that season like he was going to get publically executed if he lost. No reason at all to be that stressed. And Sam....Sam just does not thrive under pressure. Truly a doomed team, I hope next season they pair Tom up with Ben I think he needs a chill yet competent teammate to keep him grounded in reality and not acting like everyone else is playing Jet Lag and he's in a Saw trap.

[lastoneout]

I hope they don't pair him up with Adam bcs I think they'd have the energy of two cheetahs trapped in a stress feedback loop that kills them both.

[meanbuddhist]

my body knows something that i don’t and i can’t get her to talk to me

[heyfruitcake]

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

L'Odissea di Nolan tra "scheletri spazzatura" e relitti: Arpa al lavoro in Sicilia, che succede

Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i

[ignitelimelight]

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I’m not astrology but god I love Scorpio stereotypes. I like that the zodiac has a cartoon supervillain sign.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

sorry I can’t hang out today I have to plan a graveyard orgy ritual for my mystery cult. soon my dark purposes will be fulfilled. you know how it is with sinister puppetmasters… ah ha ha ha.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

“Scorpios are just popularly misunderstood! They’re not evil, they’re not sex maniacs, they’re not secretive manipulators with vindictive—”

GUARDS! consign this idiot to my scorpion pit. he’s trying to ruin my reputation. no not the regular scorpion pit the scorpion pit in which all the scorpions have boners. what?! well give them the arachnid viagra then. jesus christ. impossible to get good help around here.

[ot3]

looking for animal references on image searches has always kind of sucked but it's much worse after AI image generation technology has begun to actually past muster, which is why i always just go straight to inaturalist. can't recommend this highly enough. you get to both find out about niche species you've never even heard of and also see some really good photographs like this one

x

[deepestblue]

"Is God Is" and "Sinners": An offering to the Ibeji Twins

What if “Sinners” and “Is God Is” belong to the same spiritual universe? Reading the films through the Yoruba Ibeji belief system reveals a

In Yoruba society, twins hold special spiritual meaning and their birth is held as a time for great praise. The first twin is traditionally called Taiwo, which means “having the first taste of the world.” The second twin is called Kehinde, meaning “arriving after the other.” While Taiwo may have come first, Kehinde is said to be the older of the two twins: after Taiwo is born, and assesses the scene on Earth with a curious worldview, Kehinde is able to come into the world with a more careful and intellectual presence. Three days after the birth of twins, a local Ifa priest will visit them, dispelling any evil spirits that surround the twins and advising their mother on how to best care for them: the clothing they should wear, foods they should eat, and even animals they should avoid.

[...]

It is believed that twins share a soul, and that if one of them dies a significant imbalance is created for the other. Ibeji are often applied here as small, carved wooden figures created to sub in for the deceased twin. Said to bring prosperity, blessings, and protection to those who care for their wooden figures, Ibeji also represent duality and the importance of life, love, and ancestry.

[...]

When watched in tandem, both films raise questions around reparations: What are we owed? What do we owe? How do we get it? As an offering to Ibeji, how can we protect what is sacred about our culture, our bodies, and our homes?

"Is God Is" and "Sinners": An offering to the Ibeji Twins; kellyn nettles (aroko, june 2026)

[crown-princess-carrion]

the thing is i do deserve to do airplane ears over everything that irritates and aggravates and startles and unnerves me