thread and circuses

is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.

and i'm making a space on the missing witches coven circle app for ex-mennonite witches to explore our pre-christian ancestors (the frisians!) and to do ancestor shadow-work with our nazi family trees. and yes, i DO have receipts...
#MennonitesWereNazis #ExMennoWitches #PrechristianFrisians

clippings from manitoban newspapers pre-WWII, showing speakers at nazi rallies in winnipeg with nazi flags and hitler portraits behind them, and a crowd giving the nazi salute while the mennonite young people's choir sings.

a screenshot of a video of nazis visiting a mennonite colonial village in russia in 1942; on the right, citizens performing the nazi salute and on the left, nazi soldiers touring the village.

are you an ex-mennonite witch? are you part of the missing witches coven? do you WANT to be? i've recently discovered that most 'ethnically mennonite' people in germany/russia/canada/south america were actively nazis.

honestly if taxpayer money will put musk and his friends on mars, please let them go there. their equipment will fail and they will be stuck FAR AWAY.

it's got the juice!

the front view of a white person's right foot wearing iridescent fringed high-top leather moccasins with black ribbon laces.

the front view of a white person's right foot wearing iridescent fringed high-top leather moccasins with matching leather laces.

the side view of a white person's right foot wearing iridescent fringed high-top leather moccasins with black ribbon laces.

the side view of a white person's right foot wearing iridescent fringed high-top leather moccasins with matching leather laces.

i cannot decide between black ribbon laces or matchy leather laces for my unicorn disco fringed moccasins. halp? #leatherwork #HandmadeShoes #HandmadeMoccasins #FringedLeatherMoccasins #DiscoBoots

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

a white person's wrist and hand wearing an apple watch and a handmade, deep red leather band. there is a black bee tattoo on the dorsum of the hand.

a white person's wrist and hand wearing an a handmade, deep red leather watch band with a black buckle.

a black apple watch and a handmade, deep red leather watch band with a black buckle, on a blue striped blanket.

made myself a red leather band for my apple watch! #leatherwork #DIYAppleWatchBand #HandmadeWatchBand #CustomLeatherWatchBand

when i was a kid, my family would have pillow fights, and for some reason when we swung a pillow at someone, we would yell 'yang!' and it came to mean bonking someone. so! if yeet is 'throw' and yoink is 'take', then yang is in the same word-family... #yeet #yoink #yang

four rolls of iridescent italian pebble-grain leather.

one roll of iridescent italian pebble-grain leather leaned up against legs clothed in pink, purple, and orange galaxy leggings and black boots and standing on a sidewalk. also pictured, the ends of a brioche-knit scarf ('a wrinkle in time travel').

a half-hide of iridescent italian pebble-grain leather unfurled on a messy bed with grey sheets, blue-striped blankets, and jurassic park themed pillows.

Y'ALL. i just got half a cow of shiny iridescent fairy leather and i intend to make disco boots and fetish harnesses and everything i can imagine with this bovine. #leatherwork #FairyLeather

i mean... isn't this already happening, just not to you? 😬

a white person's wrist with a black bee tattoo. she is wearing a black apple watch SE with a custom LCARS star trek background she altered in photoshop.

a white person's wrist with a black bee tattoo. she is wearing a black apple watch SE with a custom LCARS star trek background she altered in photoshop.

got a nerd watch with a nerdy background. LCARS ftw! #LCARS #StarTrek #AppleWatchSE #NerdWatch

snowdrops growing out of dirt and dead leaves and covered in fog droplets.

flowers are starting to show themselves on the east coast of 'canada'. it feels springy at last!
#snowdrops #fleurs #PlantFrands

thriller flash mob...

ah. a troll.

you do know that st. patrick's day is NOT irish independence day..?

the thing is, most canadians wouldn't want to live in america no matter who the president is. free healthcare is pretty fabulous.

Are we not angry enough

NASA to eliminate chief scientist position Long-running advisory role cut along with two dozen others in agencywide reduction

The Trump Administration is eliminating the Office of the Chief Scientist at NASA.
The current head of that office is Dr. Katherine Calvin, an expert on climate change, global modeling, and international scientific negotiations.

www.science.org/content/arti...

zack freeman (behind the camera) is still cool though.

YouTube video by Zack The Freeman Photo Partner poi

i am no longer involved with this person in any way, but... circus used to be my RealJob™ and this is a little BTS of me and a guy doing partner poi! i miss performing. #FlowSky #PartnerPoi #PodPoi #GlowPoi

oh god, same. this is why i can't have nice things.

screenshot that reads Elon Musk almost needed SFPD wellness check after ‘breakdown,’ getting booed at Dave Chappelle show ‘He got to a point where he locked himself in his office, was so upset’ that Twitter employees feared he would hurt himself, the author of a new book says about the billionaire

Think we’ve forgotten about the time that Elon was booed so badly by fans of Dave Chapelle (of all people) that he locked himself in his office and Twitter employees considered calling the cops to do a wellness check.

What I’m saying is we can go harder.

the front of a black leather, handmade kobo sleepcover on a bamboo background.

a white person's hand holding a black leather, handmade kobo sleepcover to show the spine. there's a bamboo background.

an open black leather, handmade kobo sleepcover on a bamboo background. it has an orange, teal, red, and gold handmade paper on the inside of the cover, and contains a kobo clara 2e.

does this count as leatherwork or bookbinding? or both? i made a sleep cover for my kobo with leather and handmade paper. and magnets (to put the kobo to sleep). #leatherwork #BookBinding #KoboSleepCover

anyone else feel like 'the substance' was a scathing critique of beauty standards and aging in women, but the last 10 minutes were written by sam raimi and performed by GWAR?

just me?

i feel like i got punked.
#TheSubstance

a pair of feet wearing mismatched handknit socks; on the right foot is a variegated green and red sock, and on the left foot is a purple sock with a thin lace strip up one side.

little bit late to the #ShowMeYourKnits sock party, but here's two mismatched socks! one from a pattern i have lost and one that was just a mish-mash recipe of toe-up sock components i liked. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky

did you do your own fact-checking on this screenshot, or were you hoping your readers would? www.foxnews.com/health/what-...

i feel this so hard... i'll also take spaceships and sciencey weapons, but i only read non-fiction for my job.

YouTube video by Behind the Bastards Part One: Focus on the Family: James Dobson | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

was anyone else's family indoctrinated at dinner by 'dr.' james dobson, or were y'all normal? good heavens, no wonder i need therapy.

youtu.be/32yCQoCXwhE

chickpea brine is my fave! you can use any bean-water, even if you cook your beans from dried! just drain the water off and reduce it til it's a little thicker.