Crista DeRicco

My jewellery designs, individually handmade by casting real flowers & feathers in silver and I sculpt much-loved British birds to make tiny wearable versions of them

Some of the Victorian ink bottles available in my shop as part of creative mental health kits

One of my photos that I create using recent research into the beneficial effects to our brains of looking at images of nature, botanical patterns and things we find beautiful, of a collection of flowers I grew and others I bought at a tiny local honesty florist in Wicken, Cambridgeshire

The botanical and nature collection photos that make up my 2026 calendar

I'm taking🌲etsy orders for just a few more days:
🌿Real flowers cast in silver+ tiny hand-sculpted silver wren necklaces
💐Victorian ink bottle kits to improve mental health
🗓️A very few calendars*
🪸Ltd ed'n art prints of my photos*
*Looking at them's likely to ⬇️⬇️ anxiety:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.

We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

A vote for this bill is a mistake.

I called @markey.senate.gov & @warren.senate.gov to beg them to do whatever's in their power to stop Democrats from caving. Ending the shutdown at the expense of the American people & their rights is shameful. I will no longer be able to call myself a Democrat if this party cannot hold the line.

At least it’s Saturday and I don’t have to ruin the workplace today. My thoughts are with women working retail and healthcare and services; they carry all the weekend ruin.

Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

if buying a couple coffees a week is enough to ruin your finances than the problem is not your choices but the system that is underpaying you. real obvious stuff here folks

Co-sign. A MASTERPIECE of 2000s filmmaking.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

My hottest Star Trek take is that Data’s poem about his cat was actually very clever and sweet and his friends were being a bunch of performatively bored assholes.

We are the daughters of the witches you slammed in the back of your Dragula

I don't know, just start trying shit! lock him in the dungeon! the answer can't be "nothing, and also you're not allowed to criticize them"

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

The Ritual (2017): camping fucking sucks & is work, not a vacation. (INCREDIBLE creature design) 5/5 film.

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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I'm here *trying* to enjoy autumn, the best season, but the rampant fascism is really FUCKING UP THE VIBE

I THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY—but no, it was just capitalism ruining my goddamn pumpkin chocolate chip cookies:

Isn't it weird how time goes faster when you're enjoying yourself, and slower when your body is being crushed in the gears of a clock tower?

I’m sorry but let me unbury this lede: *the genAI industry is literally the financial engine that is powering the fascist regime in the United States*

I hadn’t even made this connection and now I’m even more horrified by this tech than I have ever been.

Boosterism == fascism, literally

Blood Vessels Found in T. rex Bones Rewrite What We Know About Dinosaurs Researchers uncovered blood vessels in Scotty, the largest T. rex fossil. High-powered x-rays revealed mineralized tissues that deepen our understanding of dinosaur biology. Although much of modern pa...

Now that we know dinosaurs had blood, it's only a matter of time until paleontologists find evidence of vampire dinosaurs who feasted on that blood, and of Blade dinosaurs who fought the vampire dinosaurs.

I love making a Julia Child recipe because it starts with “fry a bunch of bacon for its delicious grease” and then the bacon itself isn’t even in the recipe. I know what she did, because I do too.

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.

So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

We celebrate Labor Day in September rather than May 1st in the United States because the Grover Cleveland administration worried that celebrating it in May like other countries would strengthen left-wing movements around the world. Enjoy your day!

Old Soviet joke for today:

A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.

After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”

“I’m looking for the obituaries.”

“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”

“Not the one I’m looking for.”

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Why Boomers Have More Money Than Everyone Else New research shows a large and growing divergence in net worth between Americans over age 75 and those under 35.

Oh, it's simple, the Boomers got their $10k college education and their $60k home then decided to pull up the ladders and rip up the roots of the American dream by putting in charge the worst people they could find, such as Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump.

Goddamnit

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the era of small government is over and we can either have armed thugs with badges disappearing people or universal health care and high speed rail