just a silly little goose

*25* they/them * avid collector of dust*

[teabl00m-deactivated20260107]

i like to see men from the 19th century in a situation

[doumekiss]

The Carnivorous Lamb - Agustin Gomez-Arcos

[guhhhhhhhhhhh]

Godddd I'm going to miss my cryptic neighbor when I move. In one (1) conversation with this man I have

- gotten a recommendation for a new park to go birding in

- seen pictures of his childhood home and the tree he planted when he was a kid (now fully grown)

- heard about two catastrophic building fires he witnessed as a child

- heard about the coverup behind one of said fires, from a fireman captain his mom knew, about how the place didn't even have water hooked up to their fire hydrants. And therefore they couldn't fight the fire. And over a hundred people died o_o

- was recommended an excellent Atomic Horror Movie with the endorsement of "I can never get the picture of That Guy's Hand out of my head. When you watch it you'll understand..."

[guhhhhhhhhhhh]

Nobody should be obligated to work when the weather is nice. Just go outside and revel in nature. And also get PTO for it

[monamoni]

[allonsybadwolf]

"crochet can't be made by machines" went from being a cool fun fact to being a call to action of "so if you see mass manufactured crochet in Target, that was made by a person and they were underpaid and you should boycott it" which is true, it was made by a person, but EVERY item of clothing you own (that you did not purchase from a company using ethical labor) was made by a person being underpaid (at *best*.)

Sewing machines are operated by *people*. Knitting machines are operated by *people*. Yes lots of the process is automated but you cannot tell a machine "make me a t-shirt" or "make me a knit cardigan".

Higher awareness of fast fashion, and the true human labor and abuse behind it, is GREAT, but let's not pretend that the crochet hat in target is THE problem. Every article of clothing in target is the problem. "All clothes are made by people" is the jumping off point here into understanding this issue it's not just crochet it's the whole thing ahhhhHHHHHHHHHH

[enerdsout]

[marzipanandminutiae]

If you've ever seen images of sweatshops in the early 20th century, in New York or the UK or other developed countries

Guess what

Your clothing is still made in a place that looks like that. The only thing that's different is the tech level of the sewing machines and the race of the workers 

[barksbog]

This also applies to all plushies. Every single plushie is made by people, there is no way to make them without human labour.

Unless you buy them from small scale makers who make them themselves, this means they were made in a factory, the same way clothing is.

[wren-kitchens]

happy disability pride month and once again, FUCK lazy subtitles. fuck the [speaks foreign language] instead of actually transcribing the words, fuck shortening sentences and changing whats been said for no reason, fuck censoring swearing in captions but not in audio and fuck anyone who says youre being 'too sensitive' for being upset about a lack of accessibility

[marithlizard]

(via bsky)

In case anyone hasn't heard, the cyclospora outbreak affecting tons of people in the US right now is coming from Taylor Farms produce. Best to stay away from bagged lettuce and prepared salads completely right now, but especially the ones mentioned in the screenshot:

Taylor Farms Earthbound Farms Little Salad Bar (Aldi) Marketside (Walmart) Kroger House Brand Target private label greens Costco salads and greens etc Trader Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce Fast food: McDonalds, Taco Bell, (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, Olive Garden, Top Golf, Red Lobster, Burger King, etc.

This is not the first time I've heard about a Taylor Farms foodborne illness outbreak. I stopped eating their salads after reading a description of the conditions in their facilities. Doesn't sound like they've improved anything.

We need a fully funded and staffed FDA, and regulations with teeth - and that's exactly what we don't have under Trump. To make things worse, the CDC is no longer tracking these outbreaks. We're on our own.

[goldensunset]

can’t eat green vegetables and can’t go outside for fresh air i always knew i wanted to live like a mistreated studio apartment dog

[ziggystarling]

Captured the moment she saw a fly in the room

[pspsappho]

& honestly there's no debate to be had the zendaya earrings are orders of magnitude worse than kim kardashian wearing that marilyn dress. yes that piece was a one of a kind unique textile made so specifically for marilyn monroe she had to be sewn into it. at the end of the day it was a ~70 year old usamerican cultural artefact being repurposed by an american for an american cultural event and everyone involved knows exactly where the dress came from + what happened to it + where it went afterwards. zendaya is wearing the looted (or forged) cultural heritage of a people her government is currently bombing & whose lives they have been deliberately making unliveable for decades to a movie premiere that has fuck all to do with iran. we don't know where those discs came from where they were found or by whom & we never will. AND the jeweller appears to have altered them substantially from their original condition. destroying a people's cultural heritage at the same time you destroy their country + their lives so you can look good on a red carpet One Time i want to fucking hurl

[uhhhhmanda]

Zendaya’s The Odyssey premiere earrings spark ethics row

The earrings, worn by Zendaya at The Odyssey press tour, are believed to be 2,000-3,000 years old and come at a time when the US is bombing

An archaeologist quoted in the article says "the point of these earrings is not to showcase legitimate ancient artistry, it is to fetishize the past, to be a commodity, stolen from the elite, circulated illegally, and immorally…this is about class signalling."

[guhhhhhhhhhhh]

Ahhh my old friend.... violent mid morning nausea

[guhhhhhhhhhhh]

Ate lunch a feel better. An age old story.....

[guhhhhhhhhhhh]

Ahhh my old friend.... violent mid morning nausea

[ritual-and-chaos]

I am the only grad student in a class of undergraduates, a contemporary art class.

I made reference to an artwork - “oh, it’s like that piece thats three feet of air above a pedastal that contains a curse or a blessing from a witch.”

I sure baffled a bunch of students, right then.

Tom Friedman, “Untitled (A Curse),” 1992

They are required to pack it for shipping with room for the curse.

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Patent eye rest and invigorator 

c1899

[guhhhhhhhhhhh]

This is one of the items that lives rent free in my head. Every time I feel myself getting eye strain, I think "if only I had the Patent Eye Rest and Invigorator...."

[gnocchioli]

Imagine all the things I could do if I just did them.

[soup-mother]

Sober as fuck at the back of the club going onto Wikipedia and typing "List of birds"