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Everybody SHUT THE FUCK UP

I/350 scale Chainmaille Titanic

LOSING IT this is so cool

#THIS IS SO FUCKING COOL

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Just letting you know that a friend of mine made a freaking ISOPOD bag from leather!!

Name: Zod

Gender: Pod

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hi. go buy esims for gaza. go preorder a kufiya from hirbawi. buy insulin for palestinian diabetics who need that help. if you live in the states use this to email your reps (this takes maybe 5 seconds to do). check out this massive list of resources where you can educate yourself in a meaningful and actionable way even if you don't have the financial means right now. from the river to the sea palestine will be free. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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As you are, so too once was I. Memento Mori

Over 10,000 rings of anodized aluminum chainmail, 2' x 1.5'. My biggest project to date, and likely for a while after

#chainmaille #chainmail #chainmail inlay #art #artists on tumblr

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Worldwide, there were more than 11,000 reported deaths from COVID between mid-December 2023 and mid-January 2024, and more than half of those deaths occurred in the U.S. In that same time frame, nearly one million cases were reported to the World Health Organization globally (although reduced testing and reporting means this is likely a vast undercount). In particular, epidemiologists are monitoring the newest variant of SARS-CoV-2, JN.1, and looking for any signs that it may be more severe than previous strains.

Although the WHO declared an end to the COVID public health emergency in May 2023, the organization has emphasized that the pandemic isn’t over—it’s just entered an endemic phase, which means that the virus will continue to circulate indefinitely.

[...]

How would you describe the overall state of COVID at this point in the pandemic?

COVID’s not in the news every day, but it’s still a global health risk. If we look at wastewater estimates, the actual circulation [of SARS-CoV-2] is somewhere between two and 20 times higher than what’s actually being reported by countries. The virus is rampant. We’re still in a pandemic. There’s a lot of complacency at the individual level, and more concerning to me is that at the government level.

[...]

"We understand you don’t want to hear about it. I don’t want to talk about it. But we need to because there’s more we can do. We cannot prevent all infections. We cannot prevent all deaths. But there’s a hell of a lot more that we can do to keep people safe and save them from losing a loved one"

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Regarding the wave of "what do you want to be when you grow up? / It's 75 degrees in November, we aren't growing up" posts, while they make for good jokes, I cannot stress enough that, jokes aside, it will not really work like that.

Not only is declaring that all hope is lost when it's unseasonably warm sort of the flip side of the coin to declaring that climate change is fake when the weather is normal, the idea that We Are Already Dead is just not true, especially if you live in the imperial core. Most people reading those posts will die of old age and natural causes, albeit in a much scarier world than we live in now.

The good news is that climate change will not come as a flash of light that kills us all before we're old. The better news is that we still have a future. The bad news is that the future is in deep shit. The worst news, at least for your peace of mind, is that you will have to fight for it to be in shallower shit.

If it was already over and we were all walking dead then you have no long term responsibilities and you could crack a beer and enjoy life before the asteroid hits. But you can't. Collapse will not come as a tsunami all at once, but like a rising tide. The water is already at your feet, and it's starting to reach the chest of people in the global south. You're in the shit. You've got a future. It's just gonna be hard, and it's gonna be harder then if you erroneously decide now you just aren't gonna be there for it.

Abandon the comforting delusion of hopelessness.

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Trans pride patch for a friend!

#chainmail #chainmaille #inlay #chainmail inlay #trans

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Correct!

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Atlantic white cedar swamp

#art #nature #photography #swamp #trees

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#chainmaille #chainmail #heart #art

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Chainmaille cross-body strap! Its about 1.5m long in an odin's eye sheet pattern!

#art #chainmail #chainmaille

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I do this 😇

Actually need to wear chainmail casually

#chainmaille #chainmail #fashion

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Odin's eye chain necklace

#chainmaille #art #jewelry

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"A White tree, and that was for Gondor; but Seven Stars were about it, and a high crown above it, the signs of Elendil that no lord had borne for years beyond count"

This is a piece I made for a friend for his birthday! Lord of the Rings is one of my favorite series, so this was super fun to make!

#art #chainmail #chainmaille #tapestry #lord of the rings #lotr #gondor

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Made a little bear for @whimsically-whimsical!

#art #chainmail #tapestry #bear #trans artist

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I have aquired a 3d printer!!

#3d printing