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How trans visibility became a trap People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

a man on a horse with a translucent quilt held like a flag

Wally Dion, 'Grass Quilts'

www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/08/wall...

Mongol bling fashion from early 14th century.

A bag, worn with straps, made in early 1300's Ilkhanid Mosul, belonging probably to a noblewoman featuring inlaid gold and silver figures of a horseman, musicians and the khatun herself.

Kept at the Courtauld gallery, UK.

Ndlovu Youth Choir - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Music Video) isiZulu version YouTube video by Ndlovu Youth Choir

This is gorgeous! Thanks to @authormsbev.bsky.social for the link.

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

I hope your break is relaxing and everything you want it to be!

I'm Gonna Take You To A Gay Bar - YouTube

All right, I was inspired, I made you a playlist.

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I only did pizza for nine years, but after that (relatively) short time I got so used to the feel of dough that I could judge temperatures within two degrees by hand, nail weights without a scale, and get a full pie from phone to oven in twenty seconds.

All labor is skilled labor.

okay. yeah, “labubu.” i hear you. but listen: i am 40 years old and if i have to learn about another thing i will die

finished threading!

on one hand, the urge to enjoy the extremely quite house. on the other, the urge to keep working on threading the loom, which currently lives in the shed.

mac has an evening announcement 📢

Mahmoud Farshchian (1930-2025). Asr-e Ashura (Evening of Ashura) (acrylic painting). t.co/mEaRqBNJFT
He died yesterday.

Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have don...

“Granting that the banality of evil, as an explanation, has itself become banal, it was hard to know what else to make of all this…” @nplusonemag.com

my mom doesn't understand watching things on her computer with headphones. I don't want to listen to her whatever. I don't! I can't wait until they go away this weekend

I do know why my elbow is sore, throwing haybales last week

unsure as to why some muscles in my shoulders are sore. I wasn't even lifting bro

oh duh self you are taking a trip up there in two weeks, maybe just stock up on stuff. hmm. logistics

holy fuck update: they ship aaaaaaaaaa

its very sad that one thing I'm craving rn is the gluten free spaetzle from the place near where I used to live and I can't get it here. so sad. miss that.

mac looking particularly snoozy

morning sneepus

If fairness in sports is something we cared about, then all private coaching, camps and all the other ways parents money give some kids an unfair advantage should be outlawed. But fairness has nothing to do with this because no advantage has been proven in trans kids.

oh my god, I was obsessed with that book. if only I had that kind of money....

2 skeins of yarn on a rainbow kuffiyeh. There is a creamy white skein and a red, green, and black variegated skein.

A speckled red, green, and black skein.

✨CRAFTIVISM ALERT✨

I have 2 new colorways to support families & projects in Palestine. The first "Vive la Palestine" is a red, black, & green colorway paired w/ a creamy base so you can create projects w/ color pops or use it for CC work! "Falasteen" is a speckled one which will work up fab! 🧶

YouTube video by Adam Lambert Adam Lambert - Holding Out for a Hero (Music Video)

HOLY SHIT this is the absolute gayest (laudatory) thing I have seen in a month where I taught Clarion and attended Readercon.

youtu.be/dB7NsWHCQv4?...

A photo of a ceramic wolf sculpture on a white background. The wolf has dark black geometric and floral patterns and a clear glaze with black crackles in it.

A different angle of the same wolf sculpture, showing off more of the patterns and glaze crackles.

A raku fired wolf sculpture! One of only a couple sculptures in this update that isn’t wall mounted. The geometric patterns were painted on with underglaze and then the piece was covered in a clear crackle glaze.

This piece and more will be available tomorrow, July 25th at 8pm Eastern time!

"is modernity any good" yes dumbass next question

wow! That's amazing, I love the pattern, it's so neat and the colors are great

An elegant Black woman, draped in a cape of yellow birch leaves, dressed in a gown made of paper birch bark. She stands in a forest of birch trees holding a staff with a glowing white orb at the top, snow swirling from it.

Birch Queen, walker of Autumn, herald of Winter. Had a lot of fun with this one!

the Civix Comix logo, with a cute little civet peering over the conjoined X

We did it! We are live!
Come learn about TARIFFS!
Inspired by Chick Tracts and Schoolhouse Rock (what a combination), we've tried to make a simple, accessible, readable explanation of tariffs.

www.patreon.com/posts/civix-...

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