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who wanna scamper through the forests w me

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"As a medievalist, I find the notion that “a man’s home is his castle” surprisingly apt. It may be your castle, but you didn't build it. Your hands didn't make the furniture, the textiles, the food – but so long as those objects are within a boundary defined by words rather than anything material, it's yours."

go read this article. gay people can must and will destroy the nuclear family (and capitalism)

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I don’t know who this guy is but I’m obsessed with him and have been scrolling through his reviews for the past half hour

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also i am literally always thinking about this: when people write about nature, about direct and meaningful contact with the world, they often frame it as being about solitude. that the important thing is that people are absent and they are experiencing the world as it is meant to be. just nature, wih no people in it.

this seems to me to be patently silly -- when you are alone in the desert alone in the woods alone in the ocean you are not experiencing the absence of people from nature because YOU are a people!!! the thing you are experiencing is the *presence* of people in nature!!

you are experiencing people interfacing with the world! you aren't experiencing the removal of an incompatible human factor; the thing that is revealed to you is your fundamental human *compatibility* with nature. you were simply distracted before. but you belong. you have always belonged. we all do.

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and this is why baseball is the best sport (see also: these baseball sidequests)

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the way "thawra" also means revolution or uprising but linguistically implies more extremity than "intifada" (because "thawra" comes from the root word for "rage") but "intifada" is the one getting all of this flak because it's specifically associated with palestinian liberation. make no mistake that's what that's about. yes they generally love to demonize every arabic word they can get their white hands on, but this one is very specifically rooted in zionism and hatred for palestinians.

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The gift has been giveth i can post squeaky toy chilchuck now. Behold!

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2/6 rows down. I find that especially when I'm hand quilting there's a really strong physical sense that the sandwich is transforming from a conglomeration of unrelated layers into A Quilt, and this is one of my favorite things about the process. You can feel a change in the way it handles when touched. It is well into that transformation now.

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you think you’re soooo funny. well you are. let me kiss you

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Happy May Day! // “This is the time to boldly say, “Yes, I believe in the displacement of this system of injustice by a just one; I believe in the end of starvation, exposure, and the crimes caused by them; I believe in the human soul regnant over all laws which man has made or will make; I believe there is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another; I believe in the total disintegration and dissolution of the principle and practice of authority; I am an Anarchist.” - Voltairine de Cleyre

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Before International Workers’ Day is over, anyone want to try the socialist fraternal kiss with me? 🥺👉🏼👈🏼

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Stirring songs of strikes, solidarity, and picket lines.

Cover photo is shipyard participants in the 1919 Seattle general strike.

Never Cross a Picket Line- Billy Bragg

Out on Strike- Rabble Rousers

We Can Make the World Stop- Alun Parry

On the Line- Joe Glazer

Picket Line- Bobby DePace

Everyday People- Otis Gibbs

Strike!- Ry Cooder

The Brooklyn Strike- June Lazare

Fire in the Hole- Windborne

Idris Strike Song- Chumbawamba

The Homestead Strike- Joe Glazer

Down on the Picket Line- Sarah Ogan Gunning

I Say Union!- Rabble Rousers

Minimum Wage Strike- David Rovics

Rise As One- Joe Jencks

Dunne’s Store Strike- Roy Bailey

One Day More- Elaine Purkey

Casey Jones (The Union Scab)- Pete Seeger

Picket Line Song- The Langer’s Ball

There is Power in a Union- Billy Bragg

20 tracks; 63 mins [Spotify]

[my other playlists]

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Uncredited Photographer Striking Workers, Union Square, May Day 1913

Happy May Day, everyone.

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sumer is icumen in innit

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first piece of lace-weight lace I've ever knit! my lovely lace!! 8 years I've been meaning to do it, and finally it's done. the cast-on (from the center) was as much of a situation as I expected, so the rest was nothing to me. knit in 19 days

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