H.E.D. Houseman

people watching! at the ballet

read this:

Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

Also enjoyed a roaring debate about the evangelicalism/protestanizing of American Catholicism!! n

You are all simply tourists in my reality, where my relatives have been talking about the Conclave like playoffs season for the past three days

Incredible day to be attending an ultra-Catholic Scilian-American funeral with all my first, second, and third cousins

tonight ! I strongly suspect this will be a much-needed respite ♥️

truly what the fuck!!

Massive Bookshop The bookstore that bails people out of jail.

as an alternative to amazon, how about Massive Bookshop?

all books are 10-20% off list price. they offer free shipping if you order 2 or more

and all proceeds go to a bail fund in Western Mass.

@massivebookshop.bsky.social

This books rule so hard but god I wish I could give Tolkien a noogie for being such a nerd.

If you ever worry about keeping a stupid joke in your writing, know that J. R. R. Tolkien calls two founding ancient hobbits “Marco” and “Blanco” in like the first 20 pages of LOTR.

H.M.Saffer, Spring Colors III

Meanwhile, a black lung epidemic is tearing through Appalachia, killing men as young as their 30s. And the Trump admin just defunded NIOSH, the worker health agency that’s been tracking it. inthesetimes.com/article/coal...

Thrilled to reveal the cover of The Nature of Fashion! 🌿 This book traces fashion’s connection to the natural world across landscapes and centuries, myth & memory. Out Sept (UK) & Nov (US) @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social @rizzolibooks.bsky.social. Big thank you to my agent @juliasreading.bsky.social

All Our Clothing is Haunted Working on a commemorative banner and sewing in public

"Even if you buy the most sustainable & ethical clothing available to you right now, your clothes arrive haunted by the conditions of their production. The ghosts of the supply chain follow them even after you wash and dry & toss the package it shipped in."

hedhouseman.substack.com/p/all-our-cl...

All Our Clothing is Haunted Working on a commemorative banner and sewing in public

I wrote about working on the Tatter Library commemoration banner for the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, sewing in public, and the haunted-ass clothing production systems in our lives. open.substack.com/pub/hedhouse...

Imagine a world so technologically advanced we could PRE-de-extinctify species...

All Our Clothing is Haunted Working on a commemorative banner and sewing in public

I wrote about working on the Tatter Library commemoration banner for the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, sewing in public, and the haunted-ass clothing production systems in our lives. open.substack.com/pub/hedhouse...

YouTube video by Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on an artificial intelligence

well it seems today yet again confirms my decision to keep this one tab open on my phone for the better part of a decade

The amount of gorgeous stuff people are jettisoning from their grandparents and parents house is a plague of forgetting

Fucked up my whole night by looking at vintage sewing machines, looms and spinning wheels on FB marketplace

Morning report: Frost again, but the crocuses are emerging. Blue jays are ravaging the bird feeder. A mated pair of cardinals have staked out the pea trellis. The trunks of trees in woods are bare where hungry deer have stripped them. The first signs of trillium and glory of the snow have arrived.

Morning Report:

The sun was egg yolk yellow coming through the curtains. The sky is a cloudless sea. The chickadees and tits are crowding the feeder. A pair of robins is building nest in bare vines of the arbor. The catty ice is gone and so all are all the holly berries. No long underwear needed!

everything about this is so funny

Fashion is powerful.

Spent tonight at a leftist sewing group meeting to memorialize the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and it was infinitely better than looking at the news

Im watching korean reality tv and attending a sew in

I made a wide shoulder adjustment with a slash and pivot AND dropped an armscye a full inch successfully on the first try. I feel so powerful. I can believe I have to spent tomorrow working instead of sewing!!!

We warned this was the real goal

feel very the same - the peoples union is leading rolling boycotts with monthly no spend boycott days if you want to look into that