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📍 Lake District

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it's really discouraging and honestly disgusting that anti-interracial relationship narratives are being spread on the left. MY OWN MUTUALS on other social media spread have begun regurgitating those ideas within the last couple of years. like how have we circled around to believing the same thing as white supremacists? but framing it as progressive instead. it's so depressing seeing people buy into and promote these kinds of racist ideas. i've had pushback and weird comments from people on different places on the political spectrum in my own life, old and young, because i'm in an interracial relationship. i shouldn't have to fear that kind of behaviour, which is becoming somehow even more extreme and hateful than the rhetoric from older right wingers, from people who are supposedly progressive and left wing.

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Just some pretty rings <33

#fashion

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Neidpath Castle, Peebles, Scottish Borders

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[sic] is my favorite editorial notation because of its inherent bitchiness.

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#food

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if you dont want print media to die, buy physical copies of things. if you don’t want independent journalism to die, subscribe to a local newspaper. if you want more libraries and skate-parks and arcades, get a bunch of friends and call in the individual charge of your village or town or whatever and ask for one to be built and use the existing ones. if you want more native flora and fauna, start looking at the ones that already exist and how to preserve them. this is your world too. fight for it. get rid of the rot of passivity.

#important

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Gorges du Verdon, France (by Jens Peters Olesen)

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by Pete Biggs

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everyone should attempt an artisan craft at some point in their life because it would cut down the number of comments questioning why handmade goods like ceramics or textile craft or woodworking are so expensive

and this is an unrealistic expectation, but I think the attempt should include seeing through to the end at least one "finished" item, no matter how clumsy or lumpy your first attempts might be. like to me, there's a huge difference in perspective between attempting to learn how to crochet or throw a pot for a few days, acknowledging that it's harder than it looks and giving up, versus committing to finishing that scarf or clay pot you started and working on it for weeks while you painstakingly learn from your mistakes and grow attached to your project while also simultaneously hating it.

once you finish the latter, your perspective changes from "why does this crocheted blanket cost $200" to "holy shit I can't believe they're charging $200 for this crocheted blanket instead of $2000" because you may have known crocheting is hard, you may have easily agreed with the idea that "handmade goods take time and effort" even before attempting a craft, but now you know firsthand the absolute time sink it takes to make things. like yeah dude, that one item took you 2 months to make and probably wasn't even an ultra complex item if it was the first thing you made, now imagine attaching an hourly wage to that time to calculate the cost (and this is ignoring every nuance of the artistic element and master crafters being able to work faster/charge higher because of their years and years of experience)

anyway this rant has been motivated by a comment I saw on someone else's ceramic post asking why a mug was $60 and they understand it's handmade but $60 just seems overpriced, and bro do you know how long ceramics take to make. that mug probably took at minimum 3 weeks between how long it takes to throw the mug, dry partially, trim the mug, dry fully, bisque fire, wait a day for the kiln to cool, sand and paint and glaze, glaze fire, wait a day for the kiln to cool, take product photography of the mug, write description and list the mug online for sale, im not even including the skill needed to complete all these steps without the mug literally exploding or collapsing while also making it an appealing piece of art, aaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Lac des fées by Benoît Deniaud

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julian merrow-smith