promiscurity

Herbalism & chemistry, Tarot & technology, embroidery & electronics.

[thejawsdevour]

The Serpent Thread (Australian) - Veneficium: Foxglove (hand embroidery with cotton and metallic thread, garnet and spessartine garnet beads on cotton, custom wooden frame with labradorite cabochon, 2026)

[daysanddangerousbits]

If you're in Maine or Philly or wherever the fuck Vance claimed DHS is going next, I BEG you to look at the rapid response and mutual aid networks and how they've been built in Portland, Chicago, and the Twin Cities, and start building your own version NOW.

Download signal if you haven't already. Pick a resistance pseudonym. Make a proton email that has no indicators to your real name. Start buying and printing whistles and whistle zines.

Organize your school patrols and foot patrols NOW. Talk to your community and your mercados and your Hmong and Somali grocery stores, ask them what support they need. Get "ICE are not welcome here" signage for businesses and homes. Familiarize yourself with the difference between an administrative warrant and a judicial warrant.

Learn how to take down a SALUTE report. PRACTICE salute reports. Learn, memorize, and embody radio etiquette for rapid response work.

Pick your lane: rapid response or mutual aid-- you can't do both, because rapid response often puts you in direct contact with ICE. They've been taking down plate numbers and leading responders back to their own homes here in the Twin Cities.

Remember that being under siege is a marathon, not a race. Try to remember that while your neighbors are being kidnapped in their underwear, from their own homes.

Meet your neighbors. Attend your city council meetings and demand separation ordinances NOW. Tell your congress people and representatives not to give ICE more money.

Prepare yourself to see high school children being stopped and harassed. 5 year olds being used as bait for their mothers. Old men being dragged out of their houses in underwear and Crocs simply because all of them are not white.

Be flexible, be ready to pivot on a dime as situations change. Be ready to be paranoid. Be ready to be distrusting of every Texas, New York, California, or Illinois license plate. Be ready to be suspicious of EVERY out of state license plate. Dark sedans and SUVs with extremely illegally tinted windows. Unreadable or missing plates.

No one will save you, save us, or save our neighbors but ourselves. No one is coming to help or protect us but us.

[daysanddangerousbits]

Signal for Beginners

MN Community Response Resources

ICE Are Not Welcome Here sign

Private Property Sign

Know Your Rights Sign

Judicial Warrant vs Administrative Warrant

SALUTE Report Graphic Rapid Response Patrol Handbook

Legal Observer Basics MSP Whistle Hub

Whistle 3D printing File

Talking to children about ICE actions

OG Whistle Zine in ENGLIGH || SPANISH

MSP whistles which also have zines in Somali, Amharic, Oromo and Mandrin

Hmong Whistle Zine

Karen Whistle Zine

[kawaiiabetic]

Hey, Angeleno here to add: look for or start mutual aid groups that buy out your vendors, jardineros, tradespeople, helping support the most vulnerable members of your community from making the choice to stay home and safe or provide for family. We’re still doing this here and it helps.

“ICE NOT WELCOME” signs are great for solidarity and breaking morale, but please make and help pass out signs stating a home or business is private property. Make sure your business has an area explicitly for employees only. What we’ve seen in the last week makes all this seem like sticking a post-it on a viper and none of us know where we’re headed now, but it’s easy to do and could make a difference. It’s made a difference here.

Stay safe and take care of each other 🫡

[thekeystoneforager]

[promiscurity]

Deep down, I always wondered if "This is great! Love this for me!" was not the reaction à propos to recurring diarrhea

[dvoeverie-stitches]

Scrolling through these aspirational content herbalist Instagram accounts where they’re out there foraging in makeup, sundresses and pretty headscarves and dangling earrings, bare feet or sandles with huge, gorgeous baskets and quaint scythes.

And I’m like, sweat pouring down my face and under my ball cap and fire ants biting my ankles because I forgot and wore ankle socks with my dirty sneakers, while I’m snipping with my Swiss army knife. If I wore dangling earrings they’d for sure get caught on the greenbrier while I’m checking out the mayapple colony. And forget about trying to hold a huge ass basket while I’m fighting that greenbrier, it’s hard enough getting my harvest into the hands free, homemade (and not necessarily in an aesthetic way) foraging bag hanging from my belt loop.

[I do have gorgeous baskets, tho’, but they’re in the house. 😝]

[thekeystoneforager]

Foraging near Pennsylvania roadways is highly discouraged. Highway edges, and roadside soils across the state accumulate toxic runoff, heavy metals, vehicle exhaust, brake dust, and herbicides. Instead, forage at least 50 to 1,000 feet into undisturbed state parks, game lands, or private properties where you have confirmed the land's history.

Highways and interstates are hotspots for cadmium, lead, and zinc accumulation from passing vehicles. Studies, including pond and soil analyses in the greater Pittsburgh region, demonstrate the high concentration of industrial, and traffic related trace metals in roadside runoff.

Certain foraged foods (especially mushrooms, and root vegetables) readily absorb, and bioaccumulate these petrochemicals, and heavy metals.The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), and local municipalities frequently treat roadsides, medians, and utility rights of way with herbicides to manage invasive growth, and improve sightlines.

[dvoeverie-stitches]

Bayou Blend “Citrus” Tea

All of these plants are found in a little bend on the bayou where I harvested the yarrow stalks I’ve been using in my I Ching explorations. The blackberry leaves form a solid base, the elder lends floral notes, the shiso an herbal spiciness and the sumac the “citrus” pop. I enjoyed it with a dab of honey.

Ingredients:

1 tsp dried blackberry leaves

1 tsp dried elderflower

1/2 tsp dried shiso

Pinch powdered sumac berry

Directions:

Steep 10 minutes

I’ve been making a lot of medicinal teas and decided to start experimenting with some blends purely for taste and aroma.

Anybody else out there exploring bioregional herbal tea blends? 😊

Note: the pictured sumac isn’t ripe yet. The sumac I used was from last year’s harvest.

[promiscurity]

Bioregional herbal tea blending currently firing my imagination

[dangerphd]

turns out, nothing more motivating to make more of the things than feeling dope whilst wearing the things.

[severeprincesheep]

Embroidery flowers. Embroidery for beginners | Daisies pattern

[promiscurity]

My goal for the rest of the summer is to find a native plant and embroider it on a piece of clothing. I want to do something wįth my life, after all.

[fella-lovin-fella]

i hate it when people mistake "etymology" with "entomology." like, i know where they coming from but it still bugs me

[libraford]

Googled something about quick hydration and it suggested big jug of water, couple tbsp pickle juice, dash of lime juice.

Its surprisingly tasty????

[libraford]

Pleased to report that after a day of this i am not longer craving caper brine and my mouth is not dry as usual. There's some good suggestions in the notes too that I want to try.

-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)

-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt

-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint

-Agua pepino: water, cucumbers, lime, sugar, optional mint.

[libraford]

I have been reminded of:

-shrub: vinegar, sida water, elderberry (or other berry), sugar.

[libraford]

I have now been informed of

-sekanjabin: honey, vinegar, mint, water.

[libraford]

"Wow, I wonder why this post was popular this week."

-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-

"... ah."

[satansprawn]

fruit of the oak tree, 2025. available in mi shop now.

[wastelandnaturalist]

Ppl in general should know more about the PANC movement and im not joking

The PANC movement is a latin-american based botanical movement (started out in Brazil) focused on researching and cataloguing non-conventional edible plants, and man. There are so many straight up ornamental plants that just. are edible. you can eat them. you can grab a daylily and eat it. You can grab a begonia and eat it. Hibiscus, lavender, dandelions. And those are just the flowers. So many little herbs out there that are fully edible (Shout out to lamb's ear, that one tastes really nice imo).

Like straight up there is free food out there. foraging is so cool but it's so hard to find actual sources not made by either some AI fucker that's gonna end up killing you or by some crunchy "eating grass will cure your cancer" influencer. PANC is made by actual scientists that specialized in botany that have fully researched and found out that These Plants Are Fully Safe to Eat.

And not only that, but they're legitimizing native knowledge. They're taking the plants that our native populations have been eating for centuries and are proving, in a lab, that yeah, these plants ARE safe to eat - which is incredible. It might sound stupid (like ooo NOW you're willing to believe the native people) but this is so, so important, because having ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC PROOF of their knowledge is a way to combat the still pervasive idea that natives are "stupid savages", or that their traditions are just "wacky spirituality nonsense".

Most sources are in portuguese, but you can still use a translator. Here's a link for a giant PDF with a shit ton of edible plants. This particular one has pictures of said plants, along which parts are edible and how (some you can eat straight up, others are edible after cooking, etc). Most of these plants are native to Brazil, but a lot of them are exotic plants that have been brought here as ornamental plants - and a lot of them have been shipped out to other countries as ornamental plants too, so you can still find some species near you.

[troythecatfish]

[rosieandthemoon]

Labyrinth \\\ via

[gothredy]

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