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vultr-of-cultr
Carpenter bee. Took a while get this pic. They like to move around all stupid-like.
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I learnt to spin in the rural Andes of Peru. I was five years old and already alarmingly behind the curve. [...] It took me over three years to become an adequate spinner. The year I was eight, my spinning was considered acceptable in quality by Andean standards (if slowly produced). Andean weavers require one type of yarn, fine and strong and smooth - and they are exacting judges, so this was no small feat. By this age, most girls in my peer group were spinning yarn for the family's weaving supply. Others had shown particular gifts for spinning and produced yarns for some of the town's finest weavers. The rest of us, the merely adequate young spinners, regarded these girls with mild awe. Although it might sound like we'd spent our childhoods being sternly schooled in how to spin (and we had), our textile activities were our primary social outlet. We went out in the Inca ruins to pasture sheep, taking our spinning and weaving with us. We raced up and down hills and terraces, played tag, and gossiped. Spinning was one more game, even though we knew it was an important life skill. Those girls who were fast, perfect spinners at that age were like the girls who could sing or dance or run the fastest, only spinning was more important than that. And we were competitive: we challenged each other to improve, constantly. By this time we were fearless with our spindles, which were never out of our hands unless we were weaving or eating. We spun while running, jumping, chasing sheep. We would pass spindles to each other while walking, talking, and spinning on them; we spun off the sides of Inca terraces, hearts pounding while the other girls watched, joking, chattering, saying, "You can't do it! It's going to break! You'll be chasing that spindle all the way down the hill!" The really good spinners never had to chase their spindles. As for me, it was a good thing I was one of the faster kids, because I chased my spindle a lot. With these games and challenges and the strict standards of our elders, even the completely average spinners among us became capable of production spinning. It was simply part of our lifestyle, as commonplace and essential as tying shoes or talking on the phone are in the industrialized world.
Abby Franquemont, Respect the Spindle
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Vetinari: everything I do is a carefully calculated move to keep the city running efficiently
also Vetinari: Yo drumknott I sent Vimes to uberwald this is going to be so fucking funny
To be fair, you can’t carefully calculate Vimes. Vimes is a shotgun solution that you point in the general direction of a problem, and he’ll solve the problem and anything in the blast radius of that problem
The upshot of this is that he winds up getting way more done than you were expecting - “Ah, Commander. Back in one piece, I see. How did the coronation go?”
“The Low King has publicly advocated for the rights of trolls and female dwarfs, the guards of Bonk have restructured into a proper watch force, the power of the werewolf clans has been divided, and we have an excellent trade deal on fat with Uberwald.”
“…Commander?”
“Sir?”
“What the fuck”
That’s an interesting one, the parallels between Detritus’s crossbow and Vimes himself are not something I’d ever have considered otherwise. The Piecemaker/Keeper Of Thee Kinge’s Piece. Both known for leaving holes in walls.
And, most importantly, it’s Vimes who sets the boundaries on when Detritus is allowed to use the crossbow, and the same goes for his own anger. He takes responsibility for both, because he won’t allow collateral damage. I’m not sure where I’m going with this train of thought but it’s just something to think about.
Vimes has canonically forbidden Detritus from using the Piecemaker on people (and presumably also dwarves, trolls, etc). That means it’s a weapon against property, which often translates to being a weapon against power.
Sound familiar to anyone?
i’m fairly certain the utterance ‘people and also dwarves and trolls’ would get you into some serious hot water in the late-game Ankh Morpork City Watch
Discworld Heritage Post
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this post makes me feel patriotic
hey wait serious question, do people outside the US really not have a guy with a truck? how do y'all move things?
Rent one (usually large moving van) or people owning just a larger car or a trailer to attach on a normal-sized car. The truck with a bed exists outside the USA but generally speaking people who have one either need it for work or are perceived as trying to compensate for something
Y'all are putting trailers on sedans? fascinating; idk if I've ever seen a vehicle here with a tow hitch that wasn't some kind of truck or SUV.
I am a woman in the US with a trailer on a sedan! We had to get the tow hitch added by a mechanic, but I recall that back in the day even the civic came with a hitch.
Reblogged nimblermortal
#I am very proud to be the woman with the trailer#though I don’t think I’ve been called upon for that#usually I am called upon as the woman with the sewing machine#curse these gender norms#but like I can contribute the trailer and that’s it because my joints suck#so someone else needs to be strong for their size#(I also have a guy with a truck)
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the problem with tumblr spells is all of you lil sluts are casting and not giving it time to charge so you're all casting cantrips and not 9th level death spells. everyone wants to be the one to take them down no one wants to be the one who assists
we're going to try again witha little but minimal casting
IT will happen in August of 2026. like to charge and reblog to cast but cast sparingly
Wait stop. everyone +like now and spread it a little but cast on the same day in August. lets try August 6th or something.
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I love a good Very Specific Resource. Here are the links to my posts about resources carefully crafted to share a specific bit of history (updated as needed)
Streaming Music from Around the World - No algorithms, lots of options, amazing music nerds helping you discover more music.
Professor Shoelace - everything you ever needed to know about shoelaces
Commercial Pattern Archive - over 50,000 scanned sewing patterns dating back to the 1850s
Public Domain Image Archive - thousands of images from various repositories no longer under copyright
Medieval Murder Maps - interactive maps of murder and accidents in medieval London, York, and Oxford
Travel in Times - plan travel routes in England and Wales in various centuries
The Quilt Index - a digital repository of quilts, makers, and their stories
Louis Armstrong Archives - Some highlights from the archives and how to access the full collection from home!
RSN Stitch Bank - hundreds of sewing and embroidery stitches, their uses, their structure, how to make them, and history!
Archive of 80s mixtapes - a whole lot of tapes from the 80s and also tapes of background music from Kmart in the 80s and 90s
Feast Afrique - What started as an exploration and celebration of West African culinary heritage has since expanded to include history, language, culture, and customs of West Africa and the African diaspora.
Letterform Archive - Thousands of high quality images celebrating graphic design, calligraphy, and typography. The beauty of letters!
Historic Menu Collection - Over 17,000 historic menus, 1.3 million historic dishes transcribed. Historic popularity and price range, map it, and more.
Palestinian Embroidery - Digital archives dedicated to the preservation of Palestinian embroidery. Over 1,000+ free patterns
Black Craftseople Digital Archive - enhancing knowledge of Black crafts people (both free and enslaved) and the objects they produced.
Georgian Lady's Magazine Embroidery Patterns - Free embroidery patterns from 1770-1819
The Dutch Textile Trade Project - History and trade of textiles in the 17th and 18th centuries. Fabric types, images, data on trade.
Estonian Knitting - Bog knits! History! Techniques!
Love this kind of thing, even (especially?) when I have minimal interest in the underlying topic.
Reminds me of the Olden Days when the internet was a collection of special interests, lovingly curated in hand-crafted HTML, black on white text interrupted only by the occasional men-at-work animated gif.
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inspired by a rant i was going on elsewhere bc someone tweeted something very stupid and uninformed about hamlet and it got my back up as someone who took two single-text-focus english literature courses in college and they were on wuthering heights and hamlet, i now put it to all of you on here:
Reblogged oldshrewsburyian
Ursula K. Le Guin, Finding My Elegy (2012)
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Have purchased for TeaBud her very own wooden spoon
(For gnawing - my favorite wooden spoon and also the kids’ favorite gnawing spoon is at home, and we are not, and my MIL only stocks plastic kitchen spoons for some reason)
Relatedly, I am currently lying on the pullout futon in my MIL’s DIL apartment (how the turns table), enjoying my whole fifteen minutes of not having a child on me for the day.
#relatedly I’m starting to look a little pinched and panicked#TeaBud#the teething is rough#and I forgot how much harder it is to have an infant outside of The Routine#especially in a different country where driving freaks me out a bit#there is also a bus but I am not a confident user of bus schedules#am a pathetic worm
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heard someone say "who even owns a rolling pin anymore" and my brain froze trying to process it. what does that mean. are u implying rolling pins are outdated technology? did we come up with a shiny new 21st century method of flattening dough of which i remain uninformed? is there now an app on the app store people are using instead??? im losing my mind "who even owns a rolling pin" people who BAKE
in the 2020s people don't own rolling pins they subscribe to Breadr+ to rent an exciting new model every month! explore a wide range of colors, sizes, weights, grips, and materials to find the model that fits YOUR dream lifestye!!!!!*
*subscription required, Breadr+ rolling pins not currently available for purchase
#I have three full size rolling pins#Teaschooler has two little ones#and we also own a weird fancy cookie one I have literally never used#have used a wine bottle and an olive oil bottle etc as needed#but those of you who do this on the reg and not just because you’re traveling somewhere poorly supplied#just get a wooden one seriously#it doesn’t even have to have handles I love the family one I have#its handles have been off as long as I can remember and it still works just fine!#handles are not required for rolling pin efficacy!
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The (Un)official Tumblr Census 2026
This census was not written by and is not endorsed or sponsored by or affiliated with @staff in any way whatsoever. Your personal data will not be gathered by this census beyond your responses to the polls. Participating in the census is voluntary, but strongly encouraged.
Reblogged ardentdelirium
A man's cap with turned up cuff, of off-white linen embroidered in a pattern of rainbows arching over clouds with rain falling, with snails and caterpillars interspersed. In blue, green, yellow, red and pink silks and silver metallic yarns.
english, late 16th century, at the cooper hewitt
@lurking-latinist, don’t hide this in the tags!
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another huge piece of advice: separate out 'tidying', 'cleaning' and 'organising' in your head. they're not the same thing and a lot of paralysis and overload comes from either misidentifying what your space needs, or trying to do all of them at once with conflicting goals.
TIDYING means clearing space, making your environment orderly and inviting. it usually entails removing clutter from surfaces, clearing the floor so you can move around easily, and creating psychological ease by putting everything visibly in its place. It's very visual, and can also involve things like straightening picture frames, squaring pillows, folding blankets on the couch, etc. It reduces chaos and noise and makes a space comfortable.
ORGANISING means sifting through belongings, ensuring that what doesn't need to be kept is thrown out and what does need to be kept is kept well. This often means categorising by room and function – teaspoons go in the teaspoon drawer, and the teaspoon drawer stays in the kitchen. It can also mean indexing things so you can find them easily (markers sorted by colour, paperwork divided into topical folders, books alphabetised) and preserving things (moving photos out of direct sunlight, keeping open flour in a sealed container, sleeving trading cards).
CLEANING means removing built up dirt, dust and grime, reducing the level of environmental contaminants and making your space sanitary. Bacteria are a fact of life, they love to hang out in dust and cling to pet hair and multiply on any given surface. Cleaning is how you keep that stuff in check, preventing it from building up to the point it affects your health. This means wiping frequently touched surfaces with disinfectant, sanitising utensils (doing the dishes), washing bedding and clothes (and yourself), and sweeping/vacuuming and taking out the trash to physically remove dirt from your home.
Tidying is not the same thing as organising – shove the mail, bills, dirty teaspoons and your gardening gloves in a drawer, and you've tidied the table. Sort the paperwork into piles by deadline, put the teaspoons in a cup, and roll the gloves together so they don't get separated, and the table is untidy but organised.
Similarly, a tidy or organised space can still be filthy. Just because all the yellowed newspapers and trash bags are sorted by date in the basement, out of sight, doesn't mean they're clean. A chaotic, cluttered space can still be very sanitary if it's being kept clear of refuse, and wiped and dusted often.
Sometimes tidying makes your space less organised, and vice versa. Organising often shakes out a lot of dust and makes the space dirtier. The classic "it's even worse than when I started" feeling is often the result of going into a room with the intent of tidying, then actually starting the task of organising instead. It's a lot easier to tidy an organised space, and organising first is usually the right instinct, but the distinction isn't intuitive so the sudden cluttering effect can be really demoralising. Remember they're three different things with different goals. Sometimes they overlap, but sometimes they conflict. That doesn't mean you're doing it wrong.
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insect orders often end in -optera, meaning wings. for example, the order chiroptera is a group of large bugs commonly known as "bats"
