Nibedita Sen

Especially if lab-created stones can reduce the need for exploitative mining and ecological impacts!

this is the truest and highest form of art and no one can convince me otherwise

(zero sarcasm -- which shouldn't need to be said, but tone on the internet etc etc)

We're no more than a few hours away from the next phase of digital propaganda: unverified videos of "liberated people celebrating" will go viral. Many of these videos will later be revealed to have predated the illegal war, or be entirely unrelated to current events

Upshot: verify before amplifying

Necklace made by Nibs of the Peculiarity Shop from beetle wings.

Boulder opal pendant in sterling silver with black opal earrings

Got these in the mail yesterday from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social! The left is a beautiful handcrafted piece from @hernibsen.bsky.social and the right is a boulder opal in sterling that is a nice complement to my opal earrings.

They lied and here's the video proof. I cannot believe we're just gonna keep on like this and absolutely nothing happens

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

What Elon Has Done Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.

"the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building."

www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

The ICE Contractor Down the Hall A tour through the Midtown intelligence firms and courier services that help keep the agency running.

new from me at @curbed.com: everyone ICE did business with in New York City last year www.curbed.com/article/ice-...

Fwiw, you can also access twitch in a browser window, without using the app. It’s a little less convenient to do that on a phone because the screen is so small, but works perfectly fine on a computer or tablet.

An artistic banner with an illustration of a red and white anemone poppy with yellow pollen, on a pink background. Title: Sparks for Spark Space. Text: Spark Space is a youth-led humanitarian project serving the community with internet, electricity, and resilience. Pledge a 5 to keep it open. linktr.ee/sparkworkspace

Spark is a dazzling example for us all: a project centering on Palestinian life, dignity, and resilience on the land. Every single day, electricity & internet to freelancers and students. So life can continue.

Click "weekly" or "monthly" to keep it open: chuffed.org/project/spar...

Hahaha it really does!

ADORBS!!!

Torches give me anxiety, but i am excited to learn! (Yes, I have to use a torch for lampwork … getting the gas connected and lighting the propane is an exercise in anxiety every time)

my personal style does fall somewhere on the spectrum of bog witch to elf queen, so this tracks lol

I am!! ...though naturally, I'm also still looking at all the places in it where i messed up or could have done better 😅

then my work here is done 🙌 🙌 🙌

oh gosh that's a pretty collection! if you're just starting out, I would say maybe begin with experimenting with simpler earrings? try combining 2-3 beads together--lay them next to each other to see how they look, try different combinations, play with colors and sizes

The class Hillary just paid for me to take is a follow-up to the lampwork class, and will teach me how to hammer, form and solder wire, plus other metalsmithing things, to turn my glass beads into jewelry

A marbled blue, green and black round glass bead on a mandrel

Four shimmery blue green oblong beads on metal mandrels

Four round shimmery black dichroic glass beads

I am not very good yet! But I’m working on getting better. Unfortunately the learning curve on this particular craft is steep—no shortcuts, just gotta practice practice practice until you instinctively memorize heat control, flow, angle

Oh, yeah, I don’t think i ever told the internet at large that i took a lampwork class last year

😭❤️😭❤️😭❤️

Hi I did a jewelry crime

Entirely moss agate except for that one green Czech glass leaf

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

Nibs' Mossy Beauty | Peculiarity Shop Nibs works magic with wire and moss agate on this gorgeous necklace. The chain can be clasped at any length you like! Components: stainless steel wire and chain, moss agate, czech glass Adjustable fro...

Nibs, doing some amazing wire-work that uhh. Yeah.

$100

www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission - IGN Publisher Finji says that TikTok has been using generative AI to modify its ads on the platform without permission and pushing those ads to its users without Finji's knowledge, including at least one ...

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something.

www.ign.com/articles/tun...

WHO DO I NEED TO FIGHT

Hi hello good morning, still working on meeting this goal, still at $4068 / 5900 for March rent for my neighbors in my building!

Venmo Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb

Counterfeit (resin) dichroic glass: a success

so many excellent, succint, clear-eyed quotes in this, but here's one that stood out to me in particular:

"when the church gets too comfortable with power, it loses its ability to speak truth to power"

Haven Watch is the group that meets people who are being released from Whipple (usually because they were illegally detained), often without coats or phones or any way to get home.

and this is why you should all read The Hospital At the End of the World, by @justinkey.bsky.social