one of three motherfuckers

[mybeingthere]

Diné Weaver Venancio Aragón

"From researching historic twill patterns in museum collections to dyeing wool with Kool-Aid, Diné (Navajo) weaver and instructor Venancio Aragón interlocks research and experimentation to expand the visual and technical vocabularies of Diné weaving. Working on the Diné upright loom, Aragón is part of a generation of Diné weavers who reinterpret ancestral knowledge through experimentation, carrying the medium forward on their own terms. As he stated in our interview with him, “I am not a purist.”

Based in Farmington, New Mexico, Aragón is trained in cultural anthropology and Native American and Indigenous studies, currently teaching at Diné College, the Navajo Nation’s tribal college. Before transitioning to full-time weaving and teaching, Aragón worked as an interpretive park ranger at the Mesa Verde, Aztec Ruins, Bandelier, and Petroglyph National Monuments, where he led tours and developed public education initiatives. He was born to the Tó’aheedlíinii (The Water Flow Together People) clan and born for the Naakaii (Mexican people). His maternal grandfather is of the Tsénahabiłnii (Sleeping Rock) clan, and his paternal grandfather is of the Naakaii (Mexican people)."

https://hyperallergic.com/dine-weaver-venancio-aragon.../...

[2colde]

how it genuinely feels

[razehider]

there was a point in time where i found tiny depressed looking weevils under just about every oak leaf i flipped, but this Coeliodes was probably my favorite. no longer in the classic scrunched up seed pose that i tended to find them in but also not really alarmed by my presence, just gazing at nothing in particular. contemplative, even

(May 22nd, 2025)

[slopforhogs]

Collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu/Pecari tajacu) “Javelina aka Collared Peccary” by Larry Lamsa, CC BY 2.0 (x)

[resetmyfeelings]

[40ouncesandamule]

this post had everything I could hope for

[samsketchbook]

baby airplane abandoned on tarmac and rescued has not yet molted and so must be held/lifted above the play rug to simulate successful takeoffs for his enrichment and learning

[violentoffender]

op why are you wearing gloves. are you just in the dark. doing this.

[samsketchbook]

typically the baby plane's immune system would be built through nursing and again later with saliva transferal during feeding (this species / model feeds similar to penguins after a phase of exclusively nursing) but without a plane mother we must be very careful when first introducing the infant to a new environment. the same goes for light exposure, as the infant planes (of this species) would spend the first few weeks tucked under the mother plane's winglets, only emerging at night. this of course makes flying more difficult for her and is why mother planes are largely grounded for the fledgling period . occasionally survival calls for a takeoff anyway and this is why runt planes can sometimes tumble onto the runway where the mother must make the difficult decision to circle back or to leave them behind in the interest of the rest of the litter

[sioltach]

YOU DID NOT COME INTO THIS WORLD. YOU CAME OUT OF IT, LIKE A WAVE FROM THE OCEAN. YOU ARE NOT A STRANGER HERE

[theweirdwideweb]

300 year old leather star map by the Skidi, one of the four bands of the Pawnee tribe. The Skidi Pawnee historically lived on the Central Plains of Nebraska and Kansas.

[l0uisebrooks]

jewellery box crab

[amnhnyc]

Have you ever seen a tufted pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus whiteheadi)? Found only in Borneo’s mountain forests—at elevations of more than 3,280.8 ft (1,000 m)—this tiny critter is one of the world’s smallest squirrels. It grows up to 3.4 in (8.6 cm) long. And at about 0.8 oz (22.7 g), adults typically weigh less than half a stick of butter! Easily recognizable thanks to its ear tufts, this species feeds primarily on moss and lichens.

Photo: Daniel Schlaepfer, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[dozydawn]

“Theo, a four-year-old Pomeranian dog, takes cover from the rain under Meme, a 10-month-old Afghan Hound, at a photocall in central London for the Crufts dog show. The dog show was postponed due the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.”

Photographed by Johnny Green.

15 May 2001.

[weepingwidar]

Amber Skye Alcock (South African, 1998) - To Give/To Hold (2025)

[ink-the-artist]

At The Drinking Stream

[stupidestasshole]

the puirpose of a spider is what it does

[xphaiea]

Manasie Akpaliapik

[autistic-af]

Look, if you're having a bad day, here's a 6,000 year old pig-shaped pottery pot.

[foggystarfishmaker]

My day's been fine can I still have the pig pot?

[autistic-af]

Have a row of them

[bansheewhale]

when SNAP and WIC runs out I'm letting the kids eat the governor