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I write books, go on feminist rants, do crafts and sometimes remember to post about it here. she/her twitter: @JaneWRigby1 instagram: @haliasjane snapchat: @HaliasJane

[marzipanandminutiae]

Black historical/vintage creators you should absolutely follow

In keeping with the current push to amplify the voices of black creators, and because I have a bigger audience here than on any other social media, I thought I’d share some of the amazing black artists in my own community.

Dandy Wellington (website)- vintage fashion afficionado, activist, event coordinator, musician, and bandleader. Coined the popular slogan, “vintage style, not vintage values.”  IG: dandywellington

Cheyney McKnight (website)- historical costumer, activist, reenactor, and first-person interpreter. Founder of Not Your Momma’s History. IG: notyourmommashistory

Lena Yasutake (business website)- historical costumer, founder of the repurposed and upcycled historical costume company Cassandra’s Closet. IG: cassiescostumes.

Antoine Randolph Watts (interview link)- reenactor and historical educator. IG: antoinerwatts.

Nastassia (blog)- historical costumer and blogger. IG: tiger.lilys.threads

LaToya Tooles (website)- journalist, activist, writer, historical costumer. IG: latooles

Estelle T. Barada (blog)- historical costumer, blogger, living history interpreter. IG: ladyestelle_1

Mia Jackson (Etsy)- costumer, seamstress, gardner, entrepreneur. IG: miaakosua

Naomi Glaser (YouTube interview link)- historical costumer, interpreter, living historian. IG: naomiloveshistory

I also want to mention Aydrea Walden and Azie Mira Dungey, who aren’t historical creators specifically but who both directed and starred in relevant web series:

Black Girl In A Big Dress (Walden), a slice-of-life romantic comedy about the trials and triumphs of Adrienne, a young black Anglophile who LARPs as an upper-class Victorian lady. Ongoing.

Ask A Slave (Dungey), a call-in-style exploration of questions and reactions the creator got while playing an enslaved woman, Lizzie Mae, at Mount Vernon. Complete.

Add to this list as you see fit!

[dragon-in-a-fez]

genuinely wild to me when I go to someone's house and we watch TV or listen to music or something and there are ads. I haven't seen an ad in my home since 2005. what do you mean you haven't set up multiple layers of digital infrastructure to banish corporate messaging to oblivion before it manifests? listen, this is important. this is the 21st century version of carving sigils on the wall to deny entry to demons or wearing bells to ward off the Unseelie. come on give me your router admin password and I'll show you how to cast a protective spell of Get Thee Tae Fuck, Capital

[alex-iwobi]

fifa: football unites the world

literally everybody during the world cup:

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I know I already made a post to this effect but it's so baffling to me when someone defends the fact that headphone jacks are slowly but surely getting phased out by smartphone manufacturers with some variations of "wireless headphones are more convenient anyway" bc like. If we're talking about convenience what I like about wired headphones is that they conveniently have a single plug that makes the same damn pair of headphones universally compatible with every single audio-output-capable device I own, from my phone and my computer to my fucking gameboy and my casette player, it doesn't get any more convenient than that.

[cocainesocialist]

[manynamedshe]

“They’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”

“They’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”

“They’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”

[thequeerwithoutfear-deactivated]

[images: series of tweets from @realavocadofact. tweets read, “they’re not elite they’re rich”, “they’re not better they’re better supplied”, “they’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”, “there is nothing wrong with you; you’re doing your best in a game rigged against you, probably not enough people and fruit tell you that”]

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I see this reaction a lot, and I gotta say, it always makes me a little sad. Whenever the conversation of exploitation of labor comes up, inevitably someone finds themselves struggling with the guilt of “It is so important to me not to contribute to exploitation but I cannot do this thing myself and need someone else to do it for me, so how do I even approach that?”

Exploitation isn’t in the hiring of a service worker. Exploitation is in the respect you show them for their ability to perform the service you need from them.

I have been on a cleaning service staff before, and also been someone who hired a cleaning service, and I can tell you for sure that a lot of cleaning crews (especially worker owned ones) absolutely LOVE their clients and are genuinely happy to be able to make their lives better. The clients they don’t like? Those are the ones who disrespect the workers.

When I was involved with a cleaning service, we had everything from little old ladies living alone to McMasions with five cars as clients, and I can assure you that whenever there was someone who clearly hired us because they were overwhelmed or unable to keep their space clean, those were the households where you put a little more elbow grease in and did a deep clean even when it wasn’t paid for, because you could see how much these people were trying and struggling, and they were always so kind and generous and often embarrassed when talking to you about the job.

I only hired a service a couple if times in my life, but whenever I did, I worked with the same people as often as I could, tipped as well as I could afford, and tried to be the kind of client I would want to have, and that’s how I often ended up with my baseboards cleaned too, or my fridge scrubbed and organized or a restorative clean done in a high use room even when that wasn’t what I had scheduled or paid for.

I’ve heard the same thing from all manner of service workers over the years. Many of us like our jobs! We enjoy the work. It’s the customers that can do a number on you.

I think a lot of people are afraid that by needing a service they are inherently exploiting or harming the people who perform that service, and they really aren’t. But it does benefit a capitalist system for us to all be burnt out and overwhelmed because we’re too afraid to hire the help we need. Be upfront and honest with service workers about what you need and why you need it, and treat them with dognity and kindness while they perform your service, and I promise you they will always be happy to answer your call.

[headspace-hotel]

HIRING A PROFESSIONAL TO CLEAN YOUR HOUSE ISN’T MORE EXPLOITATIVE THAN GOING TO A DENTIST OR ORDERING A PIZZA

We all fucking depend on each other, it’s about respect and treating one another as fellow humans instead of seeing them as below us

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[mikkeneko]

#At this point they're just feeding him prime ministers - via @copiccrow

[postcard-from-the-past]

Cat on a vintage postcard

[haliasjane]

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[blignick]

[ozempicofficial]

[mandywondering]

I got curious, so without looking up the reddit thread because I hate reddit, I went to the list of Barbie's careers. Because of course people have dated lists of those.

Her first 28 years are fairly tame, until we reach 1987's Canadian Mountie Barbie. Reasonable odds for a cop, even if they're not a USAmerican cop.

in 1991, we get US Air Force Pilot Barbie, US Marine Corps Sergeant Barbie, US Navy Petty Officer Barbie. There's also 1992's US Army Barbie, if those guys were feeling left out. I'm also ignoring the 1989 US Army Barbie because that one is 100% a stolen valour runway look, not a uniform.

Going to run my autism over those four.

US Navy Petty Officer Barbie is wearing quartermaster's rating insignia, so no combat for her.

US Army Barbie is wearing an airborne maroon beret with no rank insignia that I could see, but she's loaded down with medical supplies, so I'm gonna say combat medic, but only as many kills as her other medical endeavours.

US Air Force Pilot Barbie is wearing a jacket that looks like a Top Gun tie-in. The unit patch is just the USAF coat of arms, and the name patch says she's a Captain. VERY confusingly, the plane on the box art is an F-5, which had just recently been retired. But its USAF usage was almost all in the OPFOR Aggressor squadrons, which is... "come play enemy planes for our training exercises".

US Marine Corps Sergeant Barbie is wearing E-5 Sergeant's insignia, and three medals (she's in dress uniform). To my eye, and allowing for badly printed colours, looks like Navy and Marine Achievement Medal, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, and the South West Asia Service Medal. The first two are fairly obvious "Barbie Is Well Behaved" stuff, but uh. That last one though?

USMC Barbie was in Desert Storm.

And if she was in a support role there, well, 1993 gave us USAmerican Cop Barbie. Case closed.

[nerdynarratives]

[chilewithcarnage]

'you still listen to music from 10 years ago 🤨?' bitch if prehistoric humans had audio recording technology id be sat up here listening to grog and unga bunga's greatest hits don't play with me

[catcrumb]

[free-my-mindd]

[mscoyditch]

"Embroidered mauve chiffon evening dress by Doeuillet, 1910.

This dress belonged to Queen Alexandra of Great Britain and is now in the collection of the Museum of Fashion in Bath. It’s thought that she probably never actually wore it, because on 6th May 1910, just as the London Season was beginning, her husband, King Edward VII died, plunging the nation into mourning".

> Fashion of Bygone Days 1900's to 1960's > Oriana Korkosc

> Stephanie Chapman > Vintage Fashion uncovered

[robert-hadley]

The chapel at Haddon Hall. The World of Interiors, March 2025. Photo - Simon Upton

[bo0zey]

 i tried to be funny and it backfired miserably

[bo0zey]

it’s 2014 it’s time we moved on as a nation and stop reblogging this

[bo0zey]

every person who reblogs this in 2015 is gonna get their ass kicked by yours truly

[flintdaflunk]

2026 HOW WE FEELING

[pennywords]

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[alexaloraetheris]

Oh, to be a little kitten who just got vaccinated and then taken to a high-end restaurant and tasted the best food the chefs could offer and then fell asleep in a basket.