Let's All Pretend I Know What I'm Doing

i post funny stuff and sometimes i do art. mostly i embarrass myself.

[shamebats]

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[nature-travel-photography]

Photographer Debbie Parker captured this lightning strike in West Virginia. - Author: sco-go

[sapphic-romeo]

[innersighthound]

White leftist suddenly against cultural preservation after learning it also includes that culture's religion, many such cases

[innersighthound]

White leftist very aware of the consequences of colonialism suddenly unable to recognize colonial influence the moment it starts to affect spiritual beliefs

[innersighthound]

Anti-religion is also in like 60% of cases fundamentally just sanist arguments that hurt me more as a psychotic person than they hurt any religious hegemony, they just don't realize they're causing harm because they think they're targeting people with the right labels.

[innersighthound]

good: the Church/religious body as an institution is a cudgel of absolute power that historically has been wielded to hammer down those who don't conform. these structures have caused real harm to people

neutral: i have religious trauma that has given me a negative relationship with religion.

bad: what kind of CRAZY backwards fuck would let some INVISIBLE THING tell them what to do lol are they fucking stupid, can't they see they can't see anything? i'm happy i'm sooo much more advanced than they are lmao what kind of idiot believes in things they can't see? i have to tell them their reality is fake! i have to!

[magicalgrldropout-deactivated20]

[horsebark]

oh to be one of the first dogs ever domesticated. eating cooked mammoth scraps and bits of suet from their hands. awe plastered on their faces and delighted shouting to their kin group. when i bring my pups, they bring out their babies. they will grow up together and my pups never starve. when i pass away they will toss ochre on my body like i was their own.

[coughloop]

gods greatest punishment was putting 1 trillion cool rocks on earth and no one with eyes big enough to see them all

[coughloop]

..ive been such a fool

[thyrell]

thats okay ^-^ the wise man is blessed with knowledge once but the fool is blessed to learn every day

[coughloop]

*gets scared and throws one of my cool rocks at your fourhead*

[thyrell]

ow what the hell

[luxuriainash]

Kid's makin fun of me for tellin the cat he's a good kitty n he's got a good heart when he rolled over on the couch to get my attention with his eyes so big and trustin. As if he doesn't do the same.

[knittinghistory]

A knitted belt from the Byzantine Empire, c.420-600 CE.

[orecchietta]

hang on a sec. this belt was, in all likelihood, not formed by knitting, but by nalbinding.

nalbinding is sometimes called “one-needle knitting,” and they do look very similar, but the method of construction is completely different. nalbinding uses a single needle (more like a large, blunt sewing needle than a knitting needle) to loop shorter lengths of yarn onto itself. it’s hardier and less prone to unraveling than knitting, since nalbound stitches are almost like knots.

[ID: a diagram showing the method of construction of the nalbinding “coptic stitch,” the stitch that most resembles knitting.]

so why do i think this example is nalbound instead of knit? because as far as i can tell, the earliest extant example of knitting dates to the 12th century AD at the very earliest. nalbinding goes at least as far back as the 3rd-5th century AD. here’s an article from the victoria & albert museum explaining just that.

plus, i think the hardier nature of nalbinding would be better for a belt anyway. this belt appears to be constructed in a tube—if it were knit, this would probably be far stretchier than you’d want for a belt. nalbinding would hold its shape better, imo.

the louvre caption does state that the method of construction is tricot, which google tells me is french for knitting. (i’d love to know from someone who speaks french if tricot is also the term for nalbinding.) but as i said before, they really do look very similar until you get into them & examine the structure, & it’s not uncommon for even museums to make this mistake.

anyways…… if anyone has evidence that this actually is knit, lmk because that would set the development of knitting way earlier than is currently supposed. but if not—nalbinding is cool, too, check it out!!

[gelbgelbgelb]

I was scrolling down looking for this reply because I thought the same thing, but I looked it up and apparently there's some indication that this method, and even this specific piece, might be compound knitting! Possibly but not necessarily done on a peg loom

More about the structure of early Egyptian knitting

The earliest known specimen of true knitting has been dated to 425-594 CE. By comparison with similar objects from Egypt, it may also have o

Very Old Knitting, Part 1.

After all the computery shenanigans, it's high time for a proper textile post again. And fortunately, I have just the topic! When I was at

[orecchietta]

!!! this is so cool, thank you so much for correcting me!

[allthemiscellaneousthings]

This is very cool information.

But my first instinct was, 'this is his scarf'"

[whitepeopletwitter]

[grickle14]

It was time to get the flock back to the castle. 

[strawberry-crocodile]

like a week ago i saw a post about how The Far Side comics show you a single frame and a single sentence but imply a whole story and this comic absolutely passes this test. why is this feratu herding ghosts? what does he see that makes the area unsafe for ghosts? what do the ghosts need that they can't get in the safety of the castle? i'm thinking about that now.

[segamascott]

[hotvampireadjacent]

[cognitohazardous]

at the mariners bar: sorry mates i cant go out today.. My boat's transmasc now. He's more comfortable with he/him. He just went through top surgery to get his sails removed and he's recovering. Bluebeard-and-Pronouns the woke pirate: arrg so he's gotten a mastectomy. well i'm glad that he's discovered himself.

[videos-i-didnt-make]

stand_down.mp4

[talisidekick]

A while back my pharmacist saw my deadname on my profile and accidentially called it out, he corrected and deleted my deadname from the system so only my preferred name shows up now. There was a crowd of people behind me, so as he hands over the pills he apologized, in equal tone and volume as when he called my deadname and lied saying it's been a long day and he didn't mean to call out -his own- name. I quietly told him it was fine and he didn't need to do that for my sake.

His response: "No, it's my name now."

I went to the pharmacist yesterday, his nametag is my deadname. He informed me he's immigrating and in the process he's changed his first name to my deadname to have an English sounding name. That's why he's now able to get a reprint of his nametag to be my deadname. And repeated, with the intense seriousness of someone who is going to die on this hill: "It's mine now. Not yours. I'm taking." His tone indicated that decision is final.

Bro literally deadnamed me once, and has committed to flat out stealing my deadname. It's his now. Legally. Officially. I over heard his co-workers call him by the name.

[boyplushie]

going to sleep & by sleep. heh. well. let's just say. phone in bed