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This is why I like crochet, now that I understand it. You can kinda sculpt/shape stuff as you want. I do not understand how to apply that skill to clothing so for now I just make cursed amigurumi but tbh I’m fine with that.

BEHOLD: my crocheted taxidermy rabbit

i started crocheting, and from someone who has been a knitter since i was a kid, this feels LAWLESS

what do you mean it's just me and this hook

where are my sturdy, steady, reliable pals guiding my stitches

what do you MEAN i'm just scooping this hook into stitches on my own

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The worst thing is that low quality porn is still extremely easily accessible on tumblr, but what isn't allowed anymore really is user's expressions of their own sexuality.

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MTV Video Music Awards Posters, 1999

Britney Spears as Violetta Valéry (La Traviata, Giuseppe Verdi) Janet Jackson as Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare in Egitto G. F. Händel) Chris Rock as Rigoletto (Rigoletto, Giuseppe Verdi) Ozzy Osbourne as Pagliacci (Pagliacci, Ruggero Leoncavallo) David Bowie as Mephistopheles (Faust, J. W. Goethe) Madonna as Norma (Norma, Vincenzo Bellini)

Photography: Mark Seliger / David LaChapelle (Madonna)

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I don’t know who this person is but I agree with them wholeheartedly on this particular topic

Tomska going hard on Twitter again.

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For those not tapped into Australian politics, King Charles is in Australia to conduct his "historic first tour to the commonwealth realm" i.e visting countries that King Charles is supposedly a monarch to.

Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe had requested an audience with King Charles for weeks prior to this visit, she wrote countless letters to speak to him. Unlike other commonwealth nations and other former Brisitish colonies, a treaty with Indigenous peoples in Australia was never formed. Their land was never ceded to the British Crown. After being denied and ignored, Lidia Thorpe, draped in a traditional possum skin cloak, stormed in the Great Hall during the reception for Charles at Parliament House in the capital shouting the following:

I literally can't even look at these photos without getting goosebumps.

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I’m a university librarian and let me tell you we feel the same way. Make those private fuckers go public. Get journals to publish as open access. Do you have any idea how expensive those journals are for us? The ones that charge us PER USE?!

Pressure those companies. Talk to your professors.

actually i think graduates of a university should have access to the library databases forever and ever amen

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"Solarpunk will never happen!"

As if it's not already coming, already here and starting to bloom before our eyes.

Neighborhood cooking clubs and libraries lending out more then just books, it's the art club that the community garden started, it's the funky gardens my neighbors have.

It's the DIY projects ppl wear with pride and ones that hide in the back of their dresser drawer. It's in the magazines and podcasts and in passing hope forward.

Like gruella gardening alone is enough for proof of concept for me, but the rise in community events and potlucks and fighting for rent caps and UBI and decentalizing energy and gardening is happening now.

And yea I gotta fight nazis and dickwards daily for it, and I gotta spend the time to educate and build up as I take down, but they can't say this future isn't coming. I'm here with you right now in it.

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garden variety conservative transphobia is going to get worse but radical feminism is also going to get worse. if youre a cis women terfs are going to try to recruit you and make you believe that the reason your rights are at stake is because of trans people. they're going to tell you that all men are your violent oppressors and they're going to include trans women in that category. they're gonna tell you about women who are gender traitors and joined the enemy and they're going to point to trans men. don't believe them. trans people are not your enemy, we have no power over you, and we desperately need your support and your solidarity.

be aware of radfem pipelines and dog whistles too. be skeptical of anyone that talks about the divine feminine or correlates birthing, menstruating, or female reproductive organs with womanhood. be especially skeptical of people who use those biological things as reasons to why women are more spiritual, or more in tune with nature, or just that they're better than men (read: anyone they decide is a man)

radical feminism is an expected reactionary outcome from cis women who are being oppressed by conservatives, especially when all they practice is ciscentric, liberal, white feminism. they feel the need to be radicalized but don't have the experience and information to pinpoint the true source of their suffering. trans people are not your enemy, AMAB people are not your enemy, anyone who identifies as a man is not your enemy. we're all being crushed under the same stone

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Billionaire oligarchs are using their social media platforms to topple governments by spreading misinformation that changes the outcomes of elections. Oligarchs can not be allowed to control our government or any other government.

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Make the most of the next two months

Get all your vaccines

Travel while we have a functioning DOT

Read and buy books on feminism, anti-racism, pro-lgbt

Attend drag shows

Don't skip any of your classes

Read and buy history books

Find your out-of-state networks

Learn to carry cash

Get birth control solutions

Support the Biden/Harris administration

Postpone large purchases and save money

Be careful of what you say online, like un-ambiguous attacks against the incoming administration, especially in spaces that contain your full name or personal information

Feel free to add on.

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A friendly reminder to USians: if you are planning to vote on Election Day, your mantra is "Nothing I see today convinces me not to go vote."

Exit polls suggest DT cannot be caught? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Exit polls suggest KH has it in the bag? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Pundits are saying the country is swinging overwhelmingly red? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Pundits are saying the country is swinging overwhelmingly blue? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Polls can be misleading (intentionally or not). The methodology can be biased (or simply poor). Early results may not reflect what the full count will show. There may be a red mirage. NOTHING YOU SEE CONVINCES YOU NOT TO VOTE.

The biggest Democratic win in swing states means nothing if democrats don't turn out everywhere to keep the reliably blue states blue.

VOTE. Wear appropriate weather gear if you think you may have to stand in a line outside (coat, hat, gloves, umbrella, sunhat, whatever, you know where you live). Bring water and a snack and something to do (book, game on your phone, podcast and headphones, whatever, you know what you like). GO VOTE.

NOTHING YOU SEE ON ELECTION DAY CONVINCES YOU NOT TO VOTE.

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reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

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I say this so much SO MUCH. Honestly what helps for me is to think I’m doing it out of spite sometimes. Like ‘fuck you there is still kindness and you cannot make me abandon that just because you’re petty and small’

Im a broken record at this point but please please please. Do not let this world make you so hard and hopeless and negative. Please let yourself experience joy when the opportunity comes to you