[taylornprice]

a neighborhood drawing

[leahgardner-art]

Pictures of Malibu. Oil on panel, 2021 and 2022

[cognitivejustice]

RISD researchers create floating mycelium pods to cleanse waterways

A team of RISD students and researchers have created floating planting beds made of a mycelium to cleanse waterways of pollutants

A team of Rhode Island School of Design students and researchers have created tesselated, floating planting beds made of a mycelium biomaterial to cleanse waterways of pollutants and restore wetland habitat.

The floating Biopods act to introduce native plants back to degraded wetland systems while cleansing the water through bioremediation, or the re-introduction of microorganisms that naturally decontaminate their environment.

"Because of the urbanization of the Providence River itself, a lot of the wetland that acts to actively remediate pollution had been removed. So the project is really about reintroducing this new biology to kick start these ecosystems again so that the river might repair itself."

"It's interesting, the relationships that we have to biomaterials and the way that we are connected to systems that have the potential to remediate in a way that isn't electricity intensive or chemically intensive," said Banerjee.

[fairuzfan]

[oneshortdamnfuse]

The absolute absurdity of all of this is that The US Holocaust Museum specializes in studying genocides across the globe. USHMM literally provide a framework for not just teaching The Holocaust but extend that framework to other genocides. See below (also linked here) for an example of their work in “genocide prevention”:

So for an institution of this kind to deny the comparisons between Israel’s genocide in Gaza with The Holocaust despite the work they’ve done to use The Holocaust as a teaching tool on genocide, they are actively participating - they are collaborating with Israel - to silence and erase Palestinians in Gaza. Linked there is an article by USHMM on how collaboration with Nazis was key to the success of their “Final Solution” as is the mass collaboration of institutions like USHMM alongside Western governments key to Israel’s “Final Solution” in Gaza. Every single thing they have outlined in their work as an institution can be used to define the genocide in Gaza, and they’re fine in using The Holocaust to identify factors that contributed to genocide in Rwanda, Burma, Bosnia, etc. And yet, they refuse to speak on Gaza other than to legitimize the Zionist state of Israel and delegitimize the state of Palestine. This goes to show that even the foremost experts on genocide - even the most educated people on this topic - can still contribute to and actively participate in genocide when their own biases go unchecked and it is for that reason that no institution should get to gatekeep the definitions of genocide.

The hypocrisy is astounding.

[fairuzfan]

Actually the rest of the thread is pretty important:

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

There is something I absolutely loathe about fashion content on the whole.

"What is your color season? Buy a whole new wardrobe." - I assure you that I am not throwing out perfectly good things I already have.

"Find your aesthetic and build a whole wardrobe around it" - again, this involves getting rid of things and buying new ones.

"Instead of buying this sweater, buy one that is pure wool." - I have news for you about how affordable pure wool is.

"Just go thrifting!" - Thrifting is not the gold mine that people seem to think it is. A lot of influencers are getting lucky because they live in cities where there is a relatively high turnover of stock at the thrift store. My average thrift store visit ends with me buying one or two things that 1. I like. 2. Are reasonably priced for the condition they're in. 3. Are actually my size.

If I had to sum up my irritation with this, it's that a lot of fashion content (and interior design from what I've seen) is that it is built on the idea that your life should have a unified aesthetic. But I would wager that most people have pieces and parts of different aesthetics cobbled together across different periods of their life. And there's nothing wrong with that. You don't have to start over every time your "aesthetic" shifts a bit.

[nuttysaladtree]

I wonder if this is (somewhat, partially) influenced by how people view history (and relatedly, how we learn history or how it is taught).

If you'll bear with the tangent, the last sentence (and paragraph in general) reminded me of this bit of Bee Wilson's Consider the Fork about models of historic kitchens:

Sometimes, you see mock-ups of historic kitchens...These mock-ups almost always have the same subtle mistake...A mock-up 1940s kitchen, for example, will include no item that wasn't made in the 1940s: there will be a 1940s toaster, 1940s pots and pans, a 1940s gas oven, a 1940s radio and 1940s chairs. Real kitchens aren't like that. In the kitchens we actually inhabit, old and new technologies overlap and coexist. A thirty-year-old housewife of 1940 would have had parents born in the nineteenth century; her grandparents would have been high Victorians, toasting bread by a grate with a fork; are we really to suppose that these earlier lives left no trace on her kitchen? No salamander? None of grandmother's cast-iron pans?

Before reading this, I hadn't seriously questioned any similar kitchen reconstructions or compared them to the real kitchens of my personal experience. I wonder if other people have had similar blind spots with fashion, and if those blind spots smooth the way for capitalism and commercialism to lie and tell people they need a new outfit every season. If your history describes outfits as being current to that time period's fashion, if you've never imagined a thirty-year-old housewife of 1940 wearing a pair of slippers she's been wearing since the mid-1920s or 1930s, why would you ever wear something that's not In?

Wilson, Bee. 2012. Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat. La Vergne, TN: Basic Books. pp. 395-396. For editions with different pagination, is the leadup to the "With Coffee" end of Chapter Eight: Kitchen.

[diaphanee]

Red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis calladryas) eggs four days after being laid. By Christian Ziegler.

[discountgospel]

what a beautiful mess 2 make

[toontown-names]

[grundoonmgnx]

Ivan Floro, Game Over/You Lose, 2019 

Oil on canvas, 146 x 105 cm

[thunderstruck9]

Iván Floro (Spanish, 1993)

[kosmogrl]

[mapsontheweb]

Gaza strip detailed

[dominiqueramseyart]

Inktober day 07 - Nile river

[dominiqueramseyart]

Inktober day 11 - Wander

[thebonedogs]

'tiny feet in the planet garden,' wool and embroidery thread on monks cloth, 2023.

[heritageposts]

Medical Aid for Palestinians

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) works for the health and dignity of Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees. We provide immediate medical aid to those in great need, while also developing local capacity and skills to ensure the long-term development of the Palestinian healthcare system.

you can read more about their ongoing emergency response here

Responding to this emergency situation, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)’s team on the ground in Gaza are releasing all of our pre-positioned stocks, worth $570,000 USD (approximately £465,000), to ensure hospitals and emergency responders have the supplies they need to cope with an unprecedented influx of casualties. The list of supplies provided by MAP includes essential drugs and disposables, lab reagents and support for Gaza’s blood bank services. Some of these supplies are already being delivered to Al Awda Hospital.

If you have money to spare, please consider donating

[heritageposts]

Update: MAP are reporting that their website has been under cyber attack

It seems to be working fine now, but if it goes down again, here is a link to their justgiving campaign

[masriyah]

it is really... harrowing how dehumanized palestinians are in the eyes of westerners. they're either Faceless Starving Child #2728 or Savage Muslim Hamas Terrorist. having to constantly draw analogies with other historical examples of violent struggle just in hopes that people will finally recognize these people are human beings

[txttletale]

that last comment is so fucking revealing as to the actual priorities and worries of people who say 'get therapy' lmao

[txttletale]

"therapy isn't about your happiness, it's about making sure you act in a way that i'm comfortable with" is always the implicit content of that comment but it is very impressive to just come out and say it