Sarah

I saw that!! Luckily my SHC impulses only hit during sales

Yeah. It doesn't help that a lot of them don't expire 😂

I should have bought a second paint palette with how my week is going 😂

I've been pondering it longer than that 😂it was just tonight that I was like, maybe I do deserve a treat

Ok ok I caved... The Gansai Tambi Art Nouveau set will be arriving to me soon. Looks perfect for some floral paintings if you ask me...

That's what I'm trying to figure out! I'm like, but I don't have these specific colours...

For whatever reason my current thing I keep thinking about is watercolour paint, which is too bad because I don't need more paint

Very cool, while carrying on the groceries I full on rammed the doorframe with my good hand. Love it.

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

The Guardian: here’s how Substack makes money hosting Nazi newsletters. These newsletters weren’t even hard to find or subtle: swastikas and in-app recommendations from one antisemitic newsletter to a bunch of others. [theguardian.com]

A Mandaic curse bowl in the Royal Ontario Museum. It has a spiraling Mandaic text that leads to an encircled x at the center.

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

Yup! It can be due to arthritis but they don't think it's that due to age

It really is! I'm just glad it can get better eventually at this point

So what's up with my hand is something called De Quervain tenosynovitis... can't say I would recommend it honestly

The level of alarm I just had at seeing Tumblr was the number one trending thing on this site

You will catch me tapping at my phone like a boomer

Well turns out I need to wear a brace for up to 6 months... Fun

Nice! Criminal is on my list already, I will have to look into the others

Podcasts I have enjoyed:

- Reply All
- In The Dark
- Finding Cleo
- Bear Brook
- Wind of Change

I'd describe what I like as interesting topics, minimal host banter - like I don't like podcasts where they're bantering about a murder.

I have been listening to a lot of podcasts lately... Anyone have recommendations of ones you like?

I joined a Discord server in the past couple months because I knew it was going to turn into a hot mess, and my patience has finally paid off... There is no drama like Discord drama

Just noticed today that this Hoya now has a peduncle on it. It's going to look so cool if it blooms!

I have also had this thought, like can I have one day where I go on the internet and I see nothing about anything happening over there

Well time to see what's happening in the aviation subreddit for no reason in particular...

For whatever reason the "you are interested in plants again" switch in my brain went off. Good thing for me hardly anyone is shipping and my plant wishlist is tiny 😂

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

Gosh you hate to see it

When you help make it so the only names people know are Pretti and Good, you reinforce the culture that says these things aren't "bad enough" until white people get involved. This has been going on for a whole year. Many non-white people have died in this same way trying to protect their neighbors.

One of those latecomers was a 46-year-old documentary filmmaker named Chad Knutson. On the morning after Good was killed, he was at home with his two hound dogs, watching a live feed from the Whipple Building, where ICE is based, a five-minute drive from his house. A protester had laid a rose on a makeshift memorial to Good. As Knutson watched, an ICE agent took the rose, put it in his lapel, and then mockingly gave it to a female ICE agent. They both laughed. Knutson told me he had never been a protester. It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt. But when he saw those ICE agents laughing, something broke inside him. “I grab my keys, I grab a coat, and drive over,” Knutson told me. “I barely park my car and I’m running out screaming and crying, ‘You stole a fucking flower from a dead woman. Like, are any of you human anymore?’”

Knutson now goes to the Whipple Building almost daily, bringing thermoses of hot coffee for the people who hold up signs and bellow at the ICE agents and convoys as they drive in and out. He has been tear-gassed so many times, he said, his voice has gone hoarse. When I met him at his house in St. Paul, a row of megaphones was on the counter. He hands them out along with the coffee. He once brought an ice-fishing clam, a portable shelter, to the Whipple to help the protesters withstand the subzero temperatures.

pretty incredible story in here about how you can go from sitting on your couch to radicalized and in the streets in record time:

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

On your end: If you are already subscribed to something like Amazon Prime, you're probably less likely to look elsewhere for your shopping because "I already have free shipping" - does to take more time to look elsewhere? Yup, but not that much. Think of it as short term pain for long term gain.

If a ton of people cancelled their subscription to a specific company or service, that would make the business way more unstable (even if some people still order occasionally) so unsubscribing is a good way to do something (rather than feeling helpless and like you're doing nothing)