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ok note to self i gotta leave the house regularly so that i dont feel like im slowly transforming into an evil fucking shadow clone of myself

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Making handspun yarn in a gay way, not in a tradwife way

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On conservation and survival

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Seconding this!

A friend of mine pointed out that fibre crafts aren't really lots of different hobbies, but just one gigahobby. So it's not really adding a new thing right

All your TDF posting and reblogging is making me really tempted to learn to spin. All the yarns are so pretty! I'm over here really struggling to not start learning a new fiber hobby, lol.

j o i n u s

No but really, spinning is a super fun hobby. And if you’re already doing other yarn crafts, doing those crafts with your own handspun yarn is a whole new joy. I 100% recommend getting into spinning

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rmq might actually finish a quilt??? not click bait

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too many catnip mice, too little time.

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Superman (2025) + Text posts

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January 1941. A textile mill working all night in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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bro i,m like two squeaks old

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Blind people gesture (and why that’s kind of a big deal)

People who are blind from birth will gesture when they speak. I always like pointing out this fact when I teach classes on gesture, because it gives us an an interesting perspective on how we learn and use gestures. Until now I’ve mostly cited a 1998 paper from Jana Iverson and Susan Goldin-Meadow that analysed the gestures and speech of young blind people. Not only do blind people gesture, but the frequency and types of gestures they use does not appear to differ greatly from how sighted people gesture. If people learn gesture without ever seeing a gesture (and, most likely, never being shown), then there must be something about learning a language that means you get gestures as a bonus.

Blind people will even gesture when talking to other blind people, and sighted people will gesture when speaking on the phone - so we know that people don’t only gesture when they speak to someone who can see their gestures.

Earlier this year a new paper came out that adds to this story. Şeyda Özçalışkan, Ché Lucero and Susan Goldin-Meadow looked at the gestures of blind speakers of Turkish and English, to see if the *way* they gestured was different to sighted speakers of those languages. Some of the sighted speakers were blindfolded and others left able to see their conversation partner.

Turkish and English were chosen, because it has already been established that speakers of those languages consistently gesture differently when talking about videos of items moving. English speakers will be more likely to show the manner (e.g. ‘rolling’ or bouncing’) and trajectory (e.g. ‘left to right’, ‘downwards’) together in one gesture, and Turkish speakers will show these features as two separate gestures. This reflects the fact that English ‘roll down’ is one verbal clause, while in Turkish the equivalent would be yuvarlanarak iniyor, which translates as two verbs ‘rolling descending’.

Since we know that blind people do gesture, Özçalışkan’s team wanted to figure out if they gestured like other speakers of their language. Did the blind Turkish speakers separate the manner and trajectory of their gestures like their verbs? Did English speakers combine them? Of course, the standard methodology of showing videos wouldn’t work with blind participants, so the researchers built three dimensional models of events for people to feel before they discussed them.

The results showed that blind Turkish speakers gesture like their sighted counterparts, and the same for English speakers. All Turkish speakers gestured significantly differently from all English speakers, regardless of sightedness. This means that these particular gestural patterns are something that’s deeply linked to the grammatical properties of a language, and not something that we learn from looking at other speakers.

References

Jana M. Iverson & Susan Goldin-Meadow. 1998. Why people gesture when they speak. Nature, 396(6708), 228-228.

Şeyda Özçalışkan, Ché Lucero and Susan Goldin-Meadow. 2016. Is Seeing Gesture Necessary to Gesture Like a Native Speaker? Psychological Science, 27(5) 737–747.

Asli Ozyurek & Sotaro Kita. 1999. Expressing manner and path in English and Turkish: Differences in speech, gesture, and conceptualization. In Twenty-first Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 507-512). Erlbaum.

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Quelques exemples d'association de plantes à faire au jardin illustrés pour les Petites leçons de permaculture publié sur @matin_queljournal 🌱🌿 Désormais disponible en librairies !

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Great-grandfather Mole

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I have seen much discussion of the wildcard inclusion of Alan Alda as Darcy. Now, I assume that we all love our guy Alan Alda. I know I do. He has such a warmth and wit to him. He navigates social situations with a sense of unpretentious charm, though he can do excellent rants when people need to be taken down a peg. He has eyes that twinkle so beautifully, certainly that one could describe as "fine."

Thus, I would argue that the best casting of Alan Alda in Pride and Prejudice would not be as Mr. Darcy, but as Elizabeth Bennet.

I would love to hear your thoughts on my vision.

oof.

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When a pigs eyes r bugging is. R u guys ok. I'll put u down ok yr gonna be alright

scared and unsure sometimes , protrude eyes to see farther

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it is vintage times.

the old vintage hollywood studio heads have heard that a rival studio is producing their own adaptation of the jane austen novel pride and prejudice. this will not stand! they have once again enlisted you, the electorate, as casting directors as they produce their own hot and vintage version of this classic romantic comedy. whoever is cast will greatly impact the genre, quality, and tone of the finished film, so choose wisely.

previously cast:

Georgiana Darcy—Mary Pickford

Colonel Fitzwilliam—Albert Finney

Caroline Bingley—Joan Crawford

Charlotte Lucas—Mary Wickes

Aunt Gardiner—Beah Richards

Uncle Gardiner—Juano Hernandez

Mary Bennet—Dorothy Malone

Kitty Bennet—Hitomi Nazoe

Lydia Bennet—Dorothy Dandridge

Mr. Collins—Gene Wilder

Lady Catherine de Bourgh—Martita Hunt

Wickham—vote here

Mr. Bennet—vote here

Mrs. Bennet—vote here

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New Index: Baby Animals

We need things to make us smile right now, so I'm launching this page earlier than I planned.

This is a new index page - it's a list of all the species where I've got photos of juvenile animals. With previews! And it links out to the full page so you can see all the cute. It's a living page and will be updated as I get more photos online.

Right now, there's...

Gorillas

(There's some really neat photos of an extremely fresh baby gorilla being carried by mom - I can't put those on the hellsite because they don't differentiate female-presenting-nipples by species, so you gotta check them out on the page)

Black Rhinoceroses

Lions

Snow Leopards

Blackbuck

...and more!

Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use these and all photos in the repository as references, including works that will/may be sold.

The Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository is an independent, permanently open-access project and funded entirely by donations, please consider contributing if you can!

**Patreon** -- **Ko-Fi**