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Peacock spiders performing mating dance.
Jumping peacock spiders are known for their vibrant colors and elaborate courtship dances. Peacock spiders hunt by stalking their prey until they are within jumping distance, then pouncing and delivering a deadly bite. They are native to Australia.
I would go out on a date with one of these little guys.
Rainforest Loop trail - Olympic National Park, WA.
I want to go here
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Every time I see this quote I realize how poor even very smart people are at looking at the long game and at assessing these things in context.
One of my favourite illustrations of this was in a First Aid class. The instructor was a working paramedic. He asked, “Who here knows the stats on CPR? What percentage of people are saved by CPR outside a hospital?”
I happen to know but I’m trying not to be a TOTAL know it all in this class so I wait. And people guess 50% and he says, “Lower,” and 20% and so forth and eventually I sort of half put up my hand and I guess I had The Face because he eventually looked at me and said, “You know, don’t you.”
“My mom’s a doc,” I said. He gave me a “so say it” gesture and I said, “Four to ten percent depending on your sources.”
Everyone else looked surprised and horrified.
And the paramedic said, “We’re gonna talk a bit about some details of those figures* but first I want to talk about just this: when do you do CPR?”
The class dutifully replies: when someone is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse.
“What do we call someone who is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse?”
The class tries to figure out what the trick question is so I jump over the long pause and say, “A corpse.”
“Right,” says the paramedic. “Someone who isn’t breathing and has no heartbeat is dead. So what I’m telling you is that with this technique you have a 4-10% chance of raising the dead.”
So no, artists did not stop the Vietnam War from happening with the sheer Power of Art. The forces driving that military intervention were huge, had generations of momentum and are actually pretty damn complicated.
But if you think the mass rejection of the war was as meaningless as a soufflé - well.
Try sitting here for ten seconds and imagining where we’d be if the entire intellectual and artistic drive of the culture had been FOR the war. If everyone thought it was a GREAT IDEA.
What the whole world would look like.
Four-to-ten percent means that ninety to ninety-six percent of the time - more than nine times out of ten - CPR will do nothing, but that one time you’ll be in the company of someone worshipped as an incarnate god.
If you think the artists and performers attacking and showing up people like Donald Trump is meaningless try imagining a version of the world wherein they weren’t there.
(*if you’re curious: those stats count EVERY reported case of CPR, while the effectiveness of it is extremely time-related. With those who have had continuous CPR from the SECOND they went down, the number is actually above 80%. It drops hugely every 30 seconds from then on. When you count ALL cases you count cases where the person has already been down several minutes but a bystander still starts CPR, which affects the stats)
That Vonnegut quote brings this particular moment to mind:
Yes, it’s just a pie. Yes, the pie itself doesn’t do much direct damage in the grand scheme of things. But the pie is resistance, and resistance inspires resistance. Resistance inspires survival. Throwing pies sometimes starts a movement. Throwing pies sometimes saves lives.
And of course, we haven’t spoken about the inherent morality of throwing pies at oppressors in a world where oppressors have outlawed pie throwing. At the very least, pie throwing is a reminder to the oppressors that no matter how much money they have, no matter how much power they have, there are still some people, some moments they can’t control.
I’d rather go out throwing pies than just rolling over and accepting that pie throwing isn’t going to solve anything. Yeah, the pie throwing doesn’t immediately solve the problem, but it doesn’t have to because it’s just a starting point. So throw the damn pie.
So throw the damn pie
Speaking of the effects of pie throwing and art in opposition of oppression, and “resistance inspires resistance”:
Imagine sitting in a packed auditorium and some asshole is up front is spouting bullshit about minorites. Like saying they’re filthy and deserve a violent death etc. And there are lots of people nodding along and even cheering and applauding
But no one is saying or doing anything to disagree, so you think that you’re the only one who opposes the speaker. And you don’t want to say anything because you don’t want their ire or violence to be aimed at you
So you go through the entire speech, and possibly your entire life, thinking you’re alone
BUT if just one person has the courage to speak up, to throw a pie, to project art on the screen behind the speaker, then that single act of resistance will inspire others to do the same. It could even inspire you to stand up. Or if you’re the first, then you can inspire others
Small acts can snowball into an avalanche
Reblogging this in 2025 because of all the “Yeah the No Kings protests were cool but they didn’t doooo anything” crap I’ve been seeing lately.
The No Kings protests absolutely did do something. Just tune into your local city council meeting the next week and see public forum. Chances are there’s a public official advocating resistance of all and any federal orders, or a local housing/immigration activist saying it helped them and then pointing that energy in the direction of more.
3.75% of the entire country was in the streets on Saturday. Might not sound like a lot, but those are the kind of numbers that signal a toppling government or a revolution.
If nothing else it proves to wannabe authoritarians that they can sure fucking try, but they can’t kill us all.
wait let me just add about Vietnam:
every single outspoken anti-war protestor did do something. Muhammad Ali famously refused to join the war, which in turn inspired people to draft dodge, or help others draft dodge. Every person dodging the draft is one less person shooting at someone during a war, and one less person likely to die.
also, that pie in Anita Bryant’s face? did literally destroy her career as a raving bigot, she lost so much face nobody really took her seriously after that - and she’s not the only one
this is why we still want to see an entire stadium of people show up for a trump rally and then just point at him and laugh derisively
There is this weirdly pervasive desire for a single action that will instantly fix all the problems, as if the problems aren’t many and decades in the making. Not how large scale movements work m'dears. A movement is many actions taken by many people over time. Disregarding any action that does not independently and immediately achieve all your goals is like going through the mechanisms of a clock and throwing out every gear or spring that can’t tell time on its own. And my favorite explanation of the role of art in a movement came from a musician in New Orleans involved in a group that does regular public performances for protest and community building. (I’ll look up his name when I have the spoons). ‘the job of artists is to make the movement irresistible ’
Fred Tomaselli. American, (b. 1956). Untitled (Expulsion), 2000. Leaves, pills, insects, mushrooms, printed paper collage, acrylic and resin on panel.
Putting anti-capitalist stickers on ads in NYC
Finished stitching my Oversight series.
12 small embroidered poem-objects in wool, linen, cotton, silk, stitched on canvaswork mesh and edged in glass beads.
a poem
Thinking about pillow talk
I did not know I missed it
The idea of it was so beyond
Anything that was available
It would have been like longing
for a castle
That floated on a cloud
"ohhh wahhh the problem with building out america's rail network is that nobody wants to live next to train tracks-" I DO BITCH!!!!!!!! #I<3INDUSTRIALNOISES #SEXWITHATRAIN
Costume. Chitons.
Marjorie & C. H. B.Quennell, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931).
Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?
that genuinely is it
yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body
lets bring back sheetwares
also chlamys:
and exomis:
trust the ancients to make a fashion statement out of straight cloth and nothing but pins
Wrap Yourself In Blankets, Call It a Day
Wear blanket. Conquer world.
That last one looks dope
Squares and rectangles: easy to weave!! No cutting means no hemming.
And easy to construct, you don’t have to have complicated seaming and patterning to turn fabric into clothing!
ancient Egyptian robes
This sort of clothing solution wasn’t just for the Mediterranean, or northern Africa, either. Behold the Belted Plaid:
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Has anyone already reblogged this with saris? It’s cool how many cultures have similarities like this hidden in plain sight.
https://kalaavarsha.com/how-to-wear-or-drape-a-saree/
The lungi is a traditional garment worn in many southern states of India. It's different from the dhoti, in that it is a tubular shape (like
Since we are here might as well share the dhoti and the lungi
https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Lungi
https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Pancha-Kachcham?amp=1
It’s only men in the photos but really anyone can wear them. I am wearing a lungi right now.
I also know Thailand and Sri Lanka have their versions of a lungi as well.
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Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus titanum) at UCONN, about 12:30 am Saturday April 25. waited in line for 2.5 hours to see it. the smell...was horrific and slightly beyond any accurate description I am capable of. it had many layers. The Love Interest leaned in closer and reported that it was like "it shat down my neck"
it's not actually about the kitty litter... I live with my elderly mother. I take care of her elderly cat's litter box scooping every single day. my one request is that we buy the free and clean lightweight litter. please for the love of god, the free of perfumes and lightweight litter. why? because I hate scenting everything and the lightweight stuff clumps a lot better.
repeatedly my mother buys the wrong stuff. (yes, I should just put this on subscription, I know, but this isn't about the litter really)
I have asked many times for the lightweight stuff, she's been defensive and grumpy when I tell her (gently) that she got the wrong stuff. one time she insisted that they didn't have the lightweight stuff at the store, I was so incensed that I went to the store, returned the wrong stuff and bought the right stuff. then I have to manage her feelings about being "caught" in the wrong.
lately we've been getting it on amazon. (yes, I know, subscription) and I asked her to buy more the other day, I figured that she would use the "buy it again" ordering thing, but she didn't.
what this is really about is that my entire life my mother has made very little effort to pay attention to the emotional needs of anyone around her.
Attention is the beginning of devotion. Mary Oliver
I know that my older sister hates Lenox China and her favorite flowers are daffodils. I know that my younger sister loves trilobites and hexagons and doesn't like Indian food. my youngest sister loves horses, and very specifically really likes Breyer’s Mini Whinnies. I know that The Love Interest has feelings about where he sits in a restaurant, so I always wait for him to sit down first, he also loves marshmallows. one of my best friends is allergic to lavender, another hates mushy textured food and another loves some mushy textured food (those last two are married so when I visit them and bring dessert I'll bring two if one dessert has a mushy texture)
of course there are the big things, but first you have to pay attention to some of the little things. maybe not all the little things, but when someone (who you profess to love) asked repeatedly for a preference, why is it hard to remember that preference? this is one of those small things that add up, year after 49 years, that make me feel unloved in the way I needed from my mother.
it's funny though, because I know several of my mother's preferences, she insists on half and half for her coffee and she hates cilantro. despite me always remembering these preferences, she will anxiously remind me...which I guess if she's not remembering anyone else's, part of her assumes that other people won't remember hers.
I must stress this is not because she's in her early 80's, this has been how it's always been.
I cried this morning when I saw the new box of kitty litter
it wasn't about the kitty litter
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) both buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester NY. The Love Interest also enjoys running around in cemeteries, and appeared to very much enjoy showing me these. (cemetery nerd flex, LOL)
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Jesus Tapdancing Christ... THIS is a good welt pocket and the people who designed Simplicity 2895 ought to be blasted well ASHAMED of themselves for the crap way THEY wanted a welt pocket made. *SNARLS*
