in the shadow of a bird

bree | 22 | she/they hey here’s some brain thoughts

[toxiccafe]

first of all what the fuck

[pantachothen]

i binged lidia poët in two days because i have been in love with matilda de angelis for ten years. and can i just say. worth it. i love women.

[kajaono]

I love that so far we haven’t got a scene of Lidia removing her corset with pain in her face, but instead her seweing herself split skirts and learning how to ride a bike

Honestly, can you imagine the feeing of freedom women must have felt when they finally started riding bikes? They didn’t had to wait for someone to drive them around but instead they could go whereever they wanted whenever they wanted.. on their own

[weeboflies]

This is a Lidia Poët stan account, where are my sexy, late 1800s Italian lawyer appreciators at

[typhlonectes]

[queer-as-city-folk]

This is a distance of roughly 625 miles and we are going to assume that the speed does not include the time penalty of Spain having a different Rail Gauge than France.

At 890 miles of rail you can get New York to Chicago which would be the ideal first route, but what can you get with 625 miles that makes more since than Columbus?

Well at that distance you can get Raleigh-DC-Philadelphia-NYC- Boston

With intermediate stops in Richmond, Baltimore, New Haven, and Providence

That is a route that is not only good, but has potential to be one of the most used rail lines in the world if it were at high speeds and a cheap price

[snippychicke]

How about putting some more rails, especially high speed, out here in the midwest, so those of us stuck out here can travel without hours in a car or spending hundreds on a plane ticket?

[queer-as-city-folk]

I guess another route of equivalent length would be St.Paul-Madison-Milwaukee-Chicago- -Indianapolis-louisville

[neil-gaiman]

I remember when Obama put aside the money for a rapid light rail system from Chicago to Minneapolis. And the loathsome then Governor of Wisconsin gave the money back, and blocked the project.

Op-Ed: Walker’s High Speed Folly

Was governor’s biggest mistake turning down federal money for high speed rail?

[alicent-florent]

BELLY CONKLIN and JEREMIAH FISHER THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY (2023)

[my-castles-crumbling]

Me, age 12 and STEEPED in internalized homophobia: Canon. Only canon. Hinny. Jily. No gay ships wtf.

Me, now, queer and nonbinary: ALL THE DEAD GAY WIZARDS. WOLFSTAR! JEGULUS! DORLENE! JEGULILY LETS GO!

[redadidassneakers]

Lily: I want to be a sweet and friendly girl but there’s all this anxiety, and the horrors

Regulus: and rage

Lily: oh yeah, and the rage

James: should I call a healer or…?

[birdinashadow]

finally watched the summer i turned pretty (i may have found my new obsession) (just a slight one) (who am i kidding)

[cottaqecore]

source: motherthemountain

[beemovieerotica]

we should be eating jellyfish regularly I'm not even joking

[beemovieerotica]

jellyfish are over-abundant / invasive species in many ecosystems thanks to human activity, and they undergo "blooms" in which their numbers can drown out other species

these blooms are so disruptive they've been known to clog hydroelectric dams and cause massive blackouts

jellyfish fishing is insanely easy, cost effective, and does not disturb marine substrate/reefs like other types of fishing

you can literally dip a net into the water and scoop them up. a child can do this.

the limiting factor for jellyfish consumption right now is that westerners just don't eat them

jellyfish are very high in protein, and half of this is in the form of collagen (great for your joints, skin, muscles, and hair) plus low in carbs and fat

they are flavorless and have a crisp crunch to them, and will absorb the flavor of whatever they're marinated in. you can prepare them to taste however you want!!

in conclusion, eat jellyfish

[iwilleatyourenglish]

for people who are sensitive to texture, jellyfish can be altered quite a bit. it can be thinly sliced, turned into noodles, made into soup, dehydrated, powdered and added to food, or even made into an ice cream-like dessert.

don't just go out and eat any jellyfish you find, though, because some are toxic.

[thisliminalspacedaydreams]

[bluesidedown]

Hey guys. Friends. Northern hemisphere pals. Only like 10 days until the days start getting longer again.

[huariqueje]

Like in a Dream - Tayseer Barakat , 2021,

Palestinian, b. 1959 -

Acrylic on canvas , 164 x 125 cm.

[hxndnibal]

jeff buckley’s journals

[indigenousfawn]

I just want to remind everyone how affordable buying food from indigenous tribes is. I live in a major city and I was able to purchase and ship (15) pounds of fish from back home to myself for cheaper than I could buy it from a grocery store here in the city. Yeah, shipping has its own environmental factors but I was able to support an indigenous owned business while also getting my groceries at a lesser cost. (Buying in bulk is always a good idea if you’re planning on having something shipped to you)

Some tribal owned grocers that ship:

Bow and Arrow (Ute Mountain)

Native Harvest (White Earth)

Red Lake Fishery (Red Lake)

Wozupi (Mdewakanton Dakota)

Ramona Farms (Gila River)

Tanka Bars (Oglala)

Indian Pueblo Store (Pueblos)

Twisted Cedar Wine (Cedar Paiutes)

Ute Bison (Ute)

Seka Hills Olive Oil and Vinegars (Yocha Dehe Wintun)

She Nah Nam Seafood (Nisqually)

Sakari Botanicals (Inupiaq)

Honor the Earth (? Anishinaabe)

Nett Lake Wild Rice (Boise Forte Anishinaabe)

Passamaquoddy maple (Passamaquoddy)

BONUS: coffee :)

Yeego Coffee (Navajo)

Spirit Mountain Roasting (Yuma Quechan)

Birchbark Coffee (Anishinaabe)

Thunder Island Coffee (Shinnecock)

[xiexiecaptain]

Small correction:

Honor the Earth is an organization founded by Winona Duke of the White Earth Nation (Anishinaabe/Ojibwe) with Amy Ray and Emily Saliers (LGBTQ musical duo Indigo Girls and long-time political activists.) You can buy Honor The Earth merch online to support the environmental work they do, specifically to help protest Enbridge Oil’s Line 3 Pipeline routed through tribal lands that endangers wild rice beds which are both a staple crop and sacred to Anishinaabeg.

However, Winona also heads up a hemp farm called Winona’s Hemp & Heritage Farm located on and run primarily by members of the White Earth Nation. It seeks to general local wealth for the tribe by encouraging the production of hemp as a fast-growing renewable and regenerative crop resource to be used for everything from non-plastic textiles/clothing, housing construction and insulation, food products, and CBD products! (They also grow other crops there such as heirloom varieties of corn, beans, squash, Jerusalem artichokes, potatoes, and ceremonial tobacco in an effort to help re-establish and increase tribal food sovereignty!)

They have both a brick-and-mortar shop called The Hemp Market Store and Coffee Shop in Osage MN where they sell their products and others by Indigenous-owned & -run companies! (They also sell those seasonal tribal heirloom crops there including Lakota squash and Ojibwe purple potatoes.)

But you can also buy many of their products online including hemp-fiber clothing, hemp tea, and hemp pasta. They also partnered with an experienced tribal herbalist to formulate CBD medicinal products like balms and oils (haven’t used it myself, but I the CBD balm for my mom for Christmas a few years back and she said it helped her chronic hip pain a lot.)

[mynnthia]

compiling some additional info from other reblogs + fixing some broken links

it looks like some shops’ products are seasonal and arent avaliable at this time of year (november 2023), but it may be at a different season

new or fixed links in green with ✳️ emoji inactive/closed website in red with ⛔️ emoji

Grocers: from salamanderinspace’s reblog of product list

Bow and Arrow –> Cornmeal, Polenta

Native Harvest –> Maple Syrup, Plum Syrup, Coffees, Jewelry

✳️Red Lake Fishery –> fish (Walleye, Perch, Crappie, Northern, Whitefish, Smoked Fish)

✳️Nawapo (formerly Red Lake Nation Foods) –> Mixes & Batters, Teas & Coffee, Fruit spreads, Wild Rice, Personal care, Handcrafted gifts

Wozupi –> seasonal produce [no online ordering right now]

Ramona Farms –> Beans, Wheat Berries, Whole Wheat Flour, Corn Meal Products, Grits, Pinole, Chickpeas/Garbanzo beans

Tanka –> Buffalo-cranberry snacks [no online ordering right now]

✳️Indian Pueblo Store –> Housewares, Apparel, Mugs, Jewelry, Decor, Baked goods mix, etc

Twisted Cedar Wine –> Wine

Ute Bison –> Bison jerky sticks, skulls, and robes

Seka Hills –> Olive Oil, Wine, Vinegar, Nuts, Beef jerky, Honey, Body Care / Soaps, Pickled Asparagus

⛔️She Nah Nam –> [website is closed]

Sakari Farms –> Hotsauce, Tea, Seasonings, Lotions, Medicinal herbs & oils, Squash Candy

Honor the Earth –> [see the reblog above]

✳️Nett Lake Wild Rice –> Wild rice (website features recipes)

✳️Passamaquoddy maple –> Maple products (syrup, sugar, candies), Pancake and muffin mix, Seasoning

✳️Ioway Bee Farm (Iowa, recommended by watcherscrown) –> Honey, Lotions, Lip balm, Beeswax, Candles, CBD products, Honey sticks

Online retailer: partnered with some of the grocers in the list above, so you can order several grocers’ products from 1 place

✳️Tocabe (Osage, recommended by killmecoward) –> Pantry food staples

✳️Indigenous First (recommended by pingnova) –> Handmade crafts/art, Foods & Teas, Personal care, Decor, Seeds, Books, Jewelry supplies

✳️SweetGrass Trading Company (Winnebago, recommended by watcherscrown) –> Handmade crafts/art, Foods (of note: Salmon), Coffee & teas, Personal care, Books (website features recipes)

Coffee/Tea:

Yeego Coffee

✳️Spirit Mountain Roasting

Birchbark Coffee

Thunder Island Coffee

✳️Owl Lightning Coffee (Ute (?), recommended by c4-magic)

✳️Wild Canadian Tea (Algonquin/Anishnaabe, recommended by bellarad)

[cosed]

nobody talks about it but like the fact that glasses exist is literally insane

[cosed]

put fucking melted sand in front of your eyeballs and now stuff stops being blurry??? and someone figured this out fuckin hundreds of years ago?

[uncle-beanbag]

Glass technology evolved because of wine.

Wine used to be stored in clay pots for drinking but then people started blowing glass and realized how pretty wine was in a clear glass bottles. They also realized that glass bottles with curves magnified the image and after decades of experementation they started grinding glass with curves and sand to get that magnification. This is also where the telescope and magnifying glass came from. Eventually after telescopes and looking to the heavens were all the rage people started hand crafting reading glasses which gave their wearers an extra decade of reading with bad eyes. By the mid 1700’s they were common and Ben Franklin figured out how to combine two different magnifications into one lense. By 1900 it was incredibly common to have eyeglasses and actual perscriptions were being developed. Post WWII saw a boom in lense technology filtering down from industrial applications making it cheaper and more affordable. Now days you can typically walk into a dollar store and buy a pair of reading glasses all thanks to some glass blower a thousand years ago that liked to look at his wine.

[mobius-ofc]

All of human history comes down to alcohol and horses

[la-volpe-bianca]

don’t forget war

[exigencelost]

war is just an elaborate manifestation of horses. like a Pokémon evolution.