Our Lives Are Not Our Own

I hate capitalism. Pagan, plant-based. Solarpunk ideals, forest fairy dreams. My posts tagged #swordspost

[04k96]

[altivyx]

[depsidase]

[scytheofdelphi]

—ˋˏ✧· cottage witch ·✧ˎˊ—

[kinaco-cat]

こども用ソファで猫じゃらししてたら、とんでもない瞬間が撮れてしまった。ポーズもすごいがアニメみたいな顔になってる…。

[bunjywunjy]

god every time I think I’ve seen all the cat material the internet has to show something new and absolutely delighting appears

[batneko]

[prenbyw]

Spoon in the shape of a fish. Carved from some Sycamore I found just outside Wivenhoe, Essex.

[hinako-supremacy]

op i love your fish so much i made it a png

they are now a school of fish

[kosmogrl]

[memories-of-ancients]

Axe head, Scandinavia, 11th-12th century

from The MET

[sheakspeare]

― f. scott fitzgerald, the beautiful and damned

[velvetys]

Everything used to be 20 dollars and now that I finally have 20 dollars everything is now 200 dollars

[mossymaidn]

[we-have-black-marble-at-home]

translator's note: in america, "seek shelter immediately" means "go outside and stand on the porch"

[mushroomtiefling]

As an American, I can tell you this is true. Recently had a tornado warning and me and my family just sat on the porch. Got some beautiful photos of the sky tho:

Yes these are real photos.

[silk-fleur]

June Mood: light pink peony bouquet, strawberries and cream, sparkly headbands, pink tulle, cherry blossom rosé, ballet flats with bows, broderie anglais blouses, Sleeping Beauty Waltz.

[xenosaurus]

this may be my age showing but I am a passionate supporter of wires. earbuds? put a leash on those things. wireless keyboard? no, it needs to hold hands with the computer. the ps5 controller I forgot to charge has the staying power of a wealthy nonagenarian with a much younger wife and 14 life insurance policies, but the controller plugged into my pc? that baby will outlive my bloodline. my ethernet cable is like a son to me.

[purr-in-ink]

😽🌻

Monsieur LeFlouf keychain 🐾

[alexanderwales]

Salt was hugely important before refrigeration, and one of the ways of getting salt was from the sea or from brine springs. There were a few ways of doing this, which depended on the natural resources available in the area. You could put the saltwater into a large, flat pool and wait on dry air and the sun to do evaporation until there was no water left and you just had the salt, or you could boil saltwater using enormous quantities of fuel to get rid of the water.

But in places where big pools weren't feasible, they did everything in their power to reduce the amount of fuel required for the production of salt, because fuel takes a lot of time and effort to collect and drives up costs.

Enter the graduation tower!

The idea is that you take some source of salty water, pump it up to the top of a wooden tower filled with brushwood (typically blackthorn), then let it trickle down, which greatly increases evaporation by maximizing surface area and exposing the water to the wind along the way. When the saltwater reaches the bottom, it's saltier than it was, and you can send it through again until it's reached the point of saturation. If you do this with ocean water, you can reduce the amount of fuel needed by a factor of ten.

Plus it looks and sounds awesome - these were sometimes called thorn towers.

And at the start of the 20th century, when other forms of salt production had skyrocketed in efficiency, the graduation towers began to be used for healthcare, because as you might imagine, the air next to the graduation tower is very salty, more than it is next to the seaside. From what I can find it seems like the main thing it does is thin mucus, though there are a lot of other health claims.

There are still a few working thorn towers that you can go visit, mostly in Germany or Poland, but they're either historical curiosities keeping a tradition alive, or health and wellness centers, distilling down a brine spring for supposed special properties.

[lordofursidae]

Thinking about (one of) my favourite screen shots from tos