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Culcitology (QUILTS) with Luke Haynes, Olivia Joseph, and Joe Cunningham — alie ward Scrap quilts. Sewing bees. Secret codes. Political activism. Controversies. Three of your new favorite Culcitologists – Olivia Joseph, Luke Haynes, and Joe Cunningham – are stitched together for one m...

You need 2 hours about quilts? We gotcha, pal.

Scrap quilts.
Sewing bees.
Fine art.
Secret codes.
Political activism.
Controversies.

Plus: advice on caring + repairing, with 3 of your new favorite #Culcitologists – Olivia Joseph, Luke Haynes & Joe Cunningham:

www.alieward.com/ologies/culc...

The Handbasket 100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

this is what we folks here in the twin cities metro & across MN would really like you to understand —

1. they’re still here harming & destabilizing our communities

2. the reverberations will be felt for a very long time

3. even if they all left right now, there’s still a huge crisis to address

Wow.

hold on i gotta take this

Collage of stacked paper scraps on white background, with spattered back ink surrounding central composition. A single ballerina’s foot en pointe is juxtaposed with an exploding building, undergirded by yellow and aqua vintage papers and a rectangular scrap of red velvet show curtain anchoring the bottom of the piece

Closer view of Collage of stacked paper scraps on white background, with spattered back ink surrounding central composition. A single ballerina’s foot en pointe is juxtaposed with an exploding building, undergirded by yellow and aqua vintage papers and a rectangular scrap of red velvet show curtain anchoring the bottom of the piece

A little mixed media collage for the #februllage2026 day 3 prompt BALLET; thinking on performance, perception, various theaters, a tense balance…
#collageart #collage

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How Will the Miracle Happen Today? When I was in my twenties I would hitchhike to work every day. I’d walk down three blocks to Route 22 in New Jersey, stick out my thumb and wait for a ride to work. Someone always picked me up. … Cont...

On giving and receiving kindness—really good read, on the miraculous ways our lives are, or can be, intertwined. kk.org/thetechnium/...

do it with friends! collage local!

Collaging with friends won't solve all the problems but connection & community is a great antidote for fear & isolation. A list of meet-ups, classes, & opportunities for online and in-person art (and friend) making. #collage #queercollage #fuckice #together #art #makeart #portland #PNW #collageart

New plan, pepper sentences like this into my life in 2026: “With the rain and dew of your sweet words, you have penetrated and moistened the dryness of my mind”” (!!). From Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies, 1405 #booksky #2026resolutions

Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger.  We're hungry for more, but we have more than we need.  We're hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies. We're hungry and we don'...

“Thick” vs “thin” desires and transformation—interesting thinking and some ideas on path forward

www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...

Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, ca 1735

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden or alice in chains

Poe’s Hello remains on repeat for me 30 years on. The uptempo stuff got radio play, but That Day and Beautiful Girl and Fly Away? Be still my beating heart.

You know Im scream-singing this a la Angie McMahon 😂 love it!

Pleasantly surprised some work of mine was selected for National Collage Society’s annual juried exhibit! ✂️ #collage #collageart #analogcollage

As another near-lifelong Oregonian, this thread feels helpful context. We’ve been keepin’ it surreal—and feisty—long as I remember.

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

A baked chocolate donut on a small plate sits on an end table surrounded by cups and bottles of tea and water

I may feel like absolute garbage but found a new GF chocolate donut recipe the fam has dubbed “bangin”—subbed in hazelnut butter for almond butter and 😋 recipe: bakeitpaleo.com/chocolate-zu...
#baking #glutenfree #chocolatedonut

two weeks left to submit what's bringing you joy and delight in these tough times! send @toreajade.bsky.social and i a list or short paragraph, snapshots, artwork, etc. by august 15th bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing

#zines #zinesky #artsky #opencall

Sign for a lost parrot, with a green head and white around his little bird eyes, named Bam Bam, with information about how to contact owner if found, and what to do. Bam Bam lst seen at 23rd and Overton in northwest Portland, and owner can be reached at 626-550-5782.

Find Bam Bam! Last seen in NW PDX. Terrified of hands, but sucker for a peanut — here’s hoping the parrot & its person are soon reunited.
#lostparrot #findbambam #portland #pdx

Window ledge with shaft of sunlight coming through it. On the ledge are potted succulents, a small carved wooden figurine of a Dutch woman, three dried rose petals, and a miniature teacup filled eith foraged blackberries

What’s keeping me going this summer? Berries, lots of berries. Oregon summers are bursting with roadside & alleyway fruit; I’ve been foraging and making treats to share with friends … a little something sweet can make a surprisingly big difference in one’s day 💜
Bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing #zines

Yellow, white and black text on a pink background with a an abstract collage by Torea Jade OPEN CALL: WHAT KEEPS US GOING A collaborative since about getting by and taking care when the world is on fire

Yellow, white and black text on a green background with a colorful abstract collage by allison anne WHAT KEEPS US GOING Submit by August 15th What to submit: Lists, short paragraphs or other written descriptions about what you do to find joy in hard times (150 words or less) Photos, artwork or other imagery relevant to the theme No submission fee! Open to anyone, anywhere in the world! If your contribution is selected, you'll receive a copy of the zine. bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing

hi! @toreajade.bsky.social and i want to know what keeps you going in the hard times! what started as a check-in between friends has blossomed into an open call for a zine about taking care 🌻 send us a list, a paragraph or two, artwork, photos, pet pix, etc by august 15th: bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing

🙄 Tell me you’ve never spent time with anyone chronically ill — anyone with ME/CFS, anyone with hEDS and its little friends, anyone immunocompromised, &c. — without telling me you’ve never spent time with anyone chronically ill.

Scorpio: Don't start a garden. Don't dig in your yard. Do not unearth the sins of the past.

She rollin’ with glee. Why? Pretty sure it’s the plentiful 🐰 poo 😂
#dog #dogsofbluesky #goldendoodle

this is something i’ve wanted to do for a few years and i am SO excited to be working on it at last. edited by @jpb.bsky.social and i, submit by August 31st, expected publication October 2025!

Meadow view, with tall grass, teasel, and shrubs/trees against a blue sky

Purple flower with reddish center against green leaves

Coneflowers in red, orange, pink in a neighbors front yard in Clackamas County Oregon

Nothing like a morn walk; picked a few berries, scoped out some petals 🌸🌺🌻
#bloomscrolling #flowers #flaneur

Oh, the quiet devastation of modernity: today, an autogenerated email reminded me my mom turns 70 soon, except that’s in another timeline where she didn’t die three years back from young onset Alzheimers …. 😢
#grief #griefislove

Embroider of two small blue birds perched among pink flowers with embroidered text in gold thread stating the title

'Fucketyfucketyfuckfuckfuck'
by Annie Taylor from PEG - the Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, known for their stitching and swearing #womensart #Fridayfeeling