need more wool don't you lad

Here lies woolface, a lass of whimsies. These be them.

[thepositivecattitude]

I haven’t laughed this hard in a while.

[blackmorgan]

OMG! <3

[shamelessmash]

omg thank you for this, i really needed good laugh

[whimsiesofwoolface]

This fibre is so yum

[whimsiesofwoolface]

Yesterday's pile of fibre is slowly being transformed #rolags #handspinning

[o0katiekins0o]

Every day during lunch there will be several parties of two straight men having lunch together, that insist I seat them at a table for four even though there are only two of them. Because I guess homosexuality can be transmitted through accidental undertable foot contact now? Who knew?

Right now you might be asking “What happens when four straight men are having lunch together?”

Well what do you think?

They ask for a table for six. I shit you not.

I was airing my humorous grievance to our daytime bartender who only nodded and said. “They order wine and ask me to bring it in a pilsner glass.”

The cocktail server corroborated this saying some straight men will demand he show them the glass a drink comes in to make sure it’s suitably “masculine” looking before they order it.

And the dishwashers hate this because it makes their jobs much more complicated. It’s really not fun to have to drop what you’re doing to scrub dried red wine out of the bottom of a narrow pilsner glass. Especially when they have literally THOUSANDS of other dishes you have to do in a short amount of time.

Straight men ask for special accomodations for their straightness all the time.

That being said, Disabled folks, chronically ill folks, folks with severe allergies and other special needs:

NEVER feel ashamed to request the accomodations you require to enjoy your time at a restaurant. Hand to God we are happy to do it for you- a person who actually needs it.

It would honestly be a nice break from catering to all that fragile masculinity.

[whimsiesofwoolface]

The number of men I’ve served who’ve acted as though I’ve seriously insulted them if I bring them a drink with a straw in it is ridiculous.

[whimsiesofwoolface]

It's possible that I got a little carried away with the shopping at the bendigo sheep and wool show

[culturenlifestyle]

Stunning Embroidered Landscapes Effortlessly Mimic Impressionist Paintings

Inspired by 60’s and 70’s aesthetic, Rachael from Used Threads Shop’s stunning embroidery illustrations mimic the beauty and brushstroke of an Impressionist painting. Her excellent skill is showcased in every stick and the use of her uncanny ability to blend different colors of composition with thread. In addition to creating landscape scenes, the artist loves to add a hippie flair to ordinary clothes with her embroidery skills. Find her work in her Etsy shop.

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[whimsiesofwoolface]

Went to the Victorian hand knitters guild markets today and fell absolutely in love with this batt (by My Spin on Things). I have no idea how I'm going to spin it in a way that does it justice

[thejogging]

Seven Syllables Of A Haiku Obscured By A Vegan Hotdog, 2014 Alt-Lit ***

[tubehuman-deactivated20161217]

this is the goddamn fucking height of literature and billiam spearmint or whatever his name was can eat it

[ultrafacts]

The same thing is done with racing horses. Except that they use a goat. [x]

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[absolutepie]

HELLO FAST CAT I AM YOUR DESIGNATED DOG FRIEND

[vancity604778kid]

Opponents would literally attempt to kidnap each other’s goats in an effort to upset the horse and cause them to lose the race. [x]

[ultrafacts]

[actuallyasisterofbattle]

I have a weird derailing question. Is this the origin of the idiom about getting someone’s goat?

[crowmeme]

As a matter of fact, it is!

[thatsthat24]

I just learned so much from this one post.

[welcome-to-the-petty-parade]

Well.

[yaaaayyy]

The Beach, Sally West, oil on canvas, 2015

[fancybidet]

This is just so… Australian. I had to confirm the artist was from Australia (they are). Are red and yellow flags found anywhere else in the world?

[whimsiesofwoolface]

i reblogged this not that long ago but i am just ridiculously in love with this style

[whimsiesofwoolface]

I made some pretty shit #handspunyarn

[joyceanfartboner-deactivated202]

its fucked up to me how, like, we as a humanity can forget how to make shit. like how the west forgot how to make glass or some shit for a while.

nobody knows the exact way of creating lots of ancient stuff; greek fire and damascus steel are really well known examples, and material scientists are still studying roman cement because it’s better than modern cement 

[joyceanfartboner-deactivated202]

isnt that so fucked up

[a-daks]

all because SOME MOTHERFUCKERS always think it’s a good idea to destroy libraries. 

[futureevilscientist]

I’m so here for the historic vagueblogging

[bookshavepores]

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”

James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin 

(via bookshavepores)

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”

Alan Bennett, The History Boys

(via lotstradamus)

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Librarians must resist trumpism

Radical librarian Jason Griffey (previously) wants librarians to continue their 21st century leadership in the resistance to surveillance and persecution – a proud record that includes the most effective stands against GW Bush’s Patriot Act – by pledging to make libraries safe havens from trumpism and its evils: electronic surveillance; racial and gender-based discrimination; and the assertion that ideology trumps empirical reality.

Neutrality favors the powerful, and further marginalizes the marginalized. In the face of the current political climate, with the use of opinions as bludgeons and disinformation as the weapon of choice for manipulation and intellectual coercion, it is up to those who value fact and believe in the care of those in need to stand up and positively affirm that to do otherwise is evil.

For libraries and librarians, that means:

1. Making the physical space of the library safe for those that need it by publicly stating your stance on the targeting of marginalized communities and then following up with actions and policies that back up those statements

2. Protecting your patrons from targeting and oppression, even in the face of possible governmental pressures, by resisting calls for information about your patrons at every level

3. Making your digital spaces safe for you patrons by limiting the data you collect, eliminating the data that you store, encrypting your communications at all levels and importantly insisting that your vendors do the same

4. Running programs that actively provide support for your at-risk patrons, whatever that looks like in your community

5. By being the voice of reason and compassion when dealing with your city or county government, and by modeling the same by advocating for those at risk

These things are vital and necessary. Especially now.

https://boingboing.net/2016/12/20/librarians-must-resist-trumpis.html

[bipolar-bubbeleh]

ok but that sign is SO COOL. It is illegal - fucking fuck - for a library to say it has been approached by the FBI. The workaround is that a library can say they have not been approached until, ya know, that’s a lie and they take down the sign. That is also actually why a lot of libraries no longer keep records of what a person checks out. Like they take broad stats but a lot of computer programs don’t even have the capacity to log what a person has checked out. You can’t disclose what you don’t have. tldr, librarians can be awesome when we stop doing this neutrality lie.

[cycopompadour]

Why in the hell is that illegal? That’s sketch af guys. Someone in the law making business is shade. Shaaaaaade.

[athenadark]

the FBI used to maintain watch lists of books people took out, and librarians didn’t like it, so they told their patrons to work from a book in the library so they didn’t go on the watch list, or took the books out themselves, so the FBI got really pissed at them and got the lawmakers to make it illegal to warn them

but librarians are smart wily fuckers - the FBI didn’t stand a chance

[thraginsufferable]

The signs were originally made by librarian and all around good egg Jessamyn “not the author” West, who writes about it at librarian.net.  

[siberianpine]

[generally]

you know sometimes it shocks me too but google really is free and it’s right there in your hands

[the-vaudevillain-deactivated202]

I love that this post is both a really wide-eyed appreciation for the amazing time we live in and a really sarcastic passive-aggressive way to tell people to just fucking google shit

This post feels like my heart

[tastefullyoffensive]

Godspeed Boaty. (via The Guardian)

[whimsiesofwoolface]

I really don’t think that backfired though. The point of running a ‘vote to name the boat’ campaign is to get people more interested in this kind of stuff and i bet so many more people are vaguely interested in what happens to Boaty McBoatface compared to other ships. So, success?