brb drinking tea

Respect your elders and let them pass down the wisdom of ages.

She said she wanted a ring but she meant Lord of the Rings

Further proof that everything can be improved with the addition of googly eyes. 👀

That's my hometown. This is the least surprising thing I've heard about it in a while.

I’m printing this out and rolling a joint with it

You say 'shocking'. That's my hometown. That just sounds like a Harvest Festival got a bit out of hand.

I think it's safe to say that Glasgow probably has the only Nike store in the world with column capitals thought to have been designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh!

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#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #charlesrenniemackintosh #columncapital #nike

Cannibalism in my hometown? Not in the slightest bit surprising.

The nurses were at considerable personal risk, indirectly and sometimes directly. There were so many wounded that they worked themselves into a state of exhaustion, and were treating men with serious communicable diseases as well as combat wounds

Did an event yesterday on UK feminist periodicals. In them you can see that every few years, without fail, women have had to campaign just to keep the status quo bc someone tries to take repro rights away. We have them bc we've fought.

Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳

‘Cast in bronze, the sculpture shows a couple lying together on a soft bed, heads resting on a pillow with hair splayed around them. One figure lies flat on their back, knee bent upwards – the other dozing figure, tuned on their right side, reaches their left arm around their partner, their head cradled into their partner's shoulder. The sleeping pair are encompassed in a bedsheet, draped and twisted around their legs, revealing their feet and toes touching.’ description by ArtUK

‘Memorial to a Marriage' 2004.

One of my favourite art pieces ever since I saw a bronze case of the original marble statue in the Kelvingrove, Glasgow. The original marble statue is installed on the burial plot of the artist Patricia Cronin and her wife Deborah Kass.

Call for end to ‘draconian’ police cautions for UK sex workers that last until age of 100 A ‘prostitute’s caution’, unlike other cautions, does not require a person to admit an offence or agree to it

Laws that criminalise sex work don’t prevent sex work, they just make it harder for sex workers to work safely.
Decrim Now.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

A show curtain with a cat on it. A suspicious form sits behind the image of a cat.

📸 Ladycatas (Trouble the Cat)

In a uniquely @womenslibrary.bsky.social experience, I've spent a chunk of my afternoon figuring how to stuff a bra in order to photograph it.

"You shouldn't find joy in rich people suffering, anyway let's watch a nice family film like A Christmas Carol, a story about how the only way to get rich people to show some humanity is to make them suff... WAIT"

For GCSE, we read 'An Inspector Calls' by JB Priestley. The point of the play is that a wealthy person can be a good father, give generously to charities, friends and family and *also* be responsible for the untold suffering of many while living comfortably.

It was written in 1945.

Petition: Decriminalise Abortion I am calling on the UK government to remove abortion from criminal law so that no pregnant person can be criminalised for procuring their own abortion.

Wow, my petition only needs 30 more signatures to get a response from the government! Please sign end share 🙏🏻 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

#BlackFriday can be filled with great deals. But who can do better than libraries?

Free app. Free eBooks. Free eAudiobooks. Free eMagazines. Free eNewspapers.

In libraries, free is quite important to us. Access all this and more with your FREE library card.

Interview with a Victorian Tattoo artist. “About Christmas time there is a large demand for representations of Beer Bottles and Plum Puddings!”

Everyone’s all about the weird Victorian Christmas cards, BUT may I interest you in Weird Victorian Christmas TATTOOS?!

Had to explain Wamawink to my mum the other day when I sent here this gif. "Is it a demon?" "No but Wamawink is definitely *my* dæmon."

If anyone wants to know how my Christmas knitting is going, I'm on my 4th pair of socks – technically 5th, given that I've already knitted them once and frogged them – and still have another pair and a shawl to go. 🧶

It's fine. Everything is fine. It's *fine*.

Once again I am reskeeting a piece of fashion history that I would absolutely wear today.

Mrs. Claus costume designed by William Ivey Long worn #onthisday in 2003 by actor Harvey Fierstein--then playing Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray" on Broadway--in the Macy's #Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, NY. His appearance in drag ignited a political firestorm. #OTD

📷 Getty Images

Historians thought this trans woman was murdered by the Nazis, but she escaped and lived to be 74 We've always been here, and even in the darkest times - we will survive through them. We'll always be here

🏳️‍⚧️ Dora Richter, one of the first trans femmes known to have medically transitioned was thought to have been murdered at the Nazi raid on the world’s first transgender clinic, actually survived, recently discovered documents revealed this summer👇

www.wearequeeraf.com/historians-t...

Queer quilts, rebellious knitting and political pants: the radical world of textiles From union banners to sewn sculptures, a major new exhibition in Adelaide celebrates the emotional and revolutionary force of textiles

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Ellen Jones’s book is due late Winter - hugely useful and inspiring action

FUCK, I need to pick up my meds! Thank you for reminding me.

Any writer who uses embroidery as a shorthand for uninteresting female characters should be made to do 10k perfect French knots with metallic thread.

Embroidery photos for tax: The first two are practice pieces and were a pain in the ass to do. The third is a remake of an earlier project.