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Download this easy DIY clothing repair guide (only 10 pages) from Uni of Kentucky

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#textiles #I may format this as a zine...

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Fool's/Harlequin's costume, 18th century

Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, via MAK Wien (Photo: G. Janssen)

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Immersive Bamboo Installations by Asim Waqif Whirl and Heave in Monumental Motion

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drawings from paleo expedition to dagestan, done right on the trip. sometimes messy when it was cold and rainy, but i won't correct it. i think it's cool to leave it just the way it was done, and not retouch it after. there will be more drawings later, but those will be done from home

#art #scenes #😭

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It's interesting to me how much people struggle to intuit differences of scale. Like, years of geology training thinking about very large subjects, and I'm only barely managing it around the edges.

The classic one is, of course, the mantle- everybody has this image of the mantle as a sort of molten magma lake that the Earth's crust is floating on. Which is a pedagogically useful thing! Because the intuitions about how liquids work- forming internal currents, hot sections rising, cool sections sinking, all that- are all dynamics native to the Earth's mantle. We mostly talk about the mantle in the context of those currents, and how they drive things like continental drift, and so we tend to have this metaphor in mind of the mantle as a big magma lake.

The catch, of course, is that the mantle is a solid, not magma. It's just that at very large scales, the distinction between solids and liquids is... squirrely.

When cornered on this, a geologist will tell you that the mantle is 'ductile'. But that's a lie of omission. Because it's not that the mantle is a metal like gold or iron, what we usually think of when we talk about ductility. You couldn't hammer mantle-matter in to horseshoes or nails on an anvil. It's just a rock, really. Peridotite. Chemically it's got a lot of metal atoms in it, which helps, but if you whack a chunk of it with a hammer you can expect about the same thing to happen as if you whacked a chunk of concrete. Really, it's just that any and every rock is made of tons and tons of microcrystal structures all bound together, and the boundaries between these microcrystals can shift under enormous pressure on very slow timescales; when the scope of your question gets big enough, those bonds become weak in a relative sense, and it becomes more useful to think of a rock as more like a pile of gravel where the pebbles can shift and flow around one another.

The blunt fact is, on very large scales of space and of time, almost everything other than perfect crystals start to act kind of like a liquid- and a lot of those do as well. When I made a study of very old Martian craters, I got used to 'eyeballing' the age based on how much the crater had subsided, almost exactly like the ways that ripples in the surface of water gradually subside over time when you throw a rock in to a lake. Just, you know. Slower.

But at the same time, these things are more fragile than you'd believe, and can shatter like glass. The surface of the Earth is like this, too. Absent the kind of overpressures that make the mantle flow like it does, Earth's crust is still tremendously weak relative to many of the planet-scale forces to which it is subject- I was surprised, once, when a professor offhandedly described the crust as having a tensile strength of 'basically zero;' they really thought of the surface as a delicate filigreed bubble of glass that formed like a thin shell, almost too thin to mention, on the outside of a water droplet. On human scales, liquid is the thing that flows, and solid is the thing that breaks. But once stuff gets big or slow or both, the distinction between a solid and a liquid is more that a liquid is the thing that doesn't shatter when it flows. And it all gets really, really vague, which I suppose you'd expect when you get this far outside the contexts in which our languages were crafted.

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As above, so below

Mamenchisaurus, Jiangjunosaurus, Sericipterus.

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#art #paleo

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Mash Hassan cow, 2022 - by Hojjat Hamidi (1987), Iranian

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"On October 19, Sarah Mahamid watched helplessly from a window as Israeli security forces shot her younger brother. Taha, 15, had been playing with a friend outside their house in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem. The 19-year-old screamed as her brother fell to the ground. Their father, Ibrahim, ran out of the front door to get his son, but a sniper shot him too.

... Nearly 1,500 Palestinians have been unlawfully killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in the past 16 years – 98 percent of them civilians, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Each of them, like Taha and Ibrahim, has a story and loved ones who mourn them. The frequency of the killings have spiked in recent years with Israel killing 509 Palestinians in 2023. That is more than double the number recorded by OCHA in any previous year. ... Israeli officials have for years backed a shoot-to-kill policy regardless of whether the Palestinians being shot posed a threat. Israel has even authorised its army to shoot at stone throwers and has handed out assault rifles to Israeli Jews living in illegal settlements in the West Bank.

Settlers killed 17-year-old Omar Abdel Ghani Hamid when they attacked his village in the West Bank on April 13. Omar was one of several young men who had confronted the settlers to stop them from beating up Palestinians and attacking their homes. Omar’s father, Ahmed, said his son and his friends scared the settlers away even though they were not carrying weapons. However, one of the settlers returned with a pistol and shot Omar. ... Army raids and extrajudicial killings are part of a broader attempt to keep Palestinians in the West Bank 'afraid,' said Zaid Shuabi, analyst and activist with the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq. But it has ultimately led to the formation of a new generation of armed groups, often established by young people who are fed up with the occupation’s transgressions. Israel’s response to this new wave of resistance has been to target entire communities to crush the morale of Palestinians, Shuabi said.

'They want to reshape the Palestinian mind into thinking that we shouldn’t even dare to resist. And if we do, then we will pay a high price,' he told Al Jazeera. 'This is about intimidating us. They want to put us down … and to colonise our minds.'

Sarah believes that was the purpose behind the Israeli attack on her family. She said that while her father and brother bled to death on the street, Israeli soldiers entered her house. The Israeli army then cut off the water and electricity to their home. At one point, one of the Israeli soldiers began beating Sarah’s other brother with the butt of his rifle, telling him to keep silent.

Moments before the soldiers left, Sarah mustered up the courage to ask why they terrorised her family. 'He said, ‘To scare you,’' Sarah told Al Jazeera. 'I couldn’t believe it. I wondered what was wrong with them. They killed my brother and my father just to scare me.'"

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finished!

my big paper has arrived... time to make pamphlet

#I would go for a heavier cardstock in the future but I have 50 sheets of the current one... it's good enough just a tad floppy #for something that is functionally a fancy zine I think it's fine #cover is chiyogami text paper is 24lb xerox copy. truly the dichotomy of bookbinding #*nice* text weight paper like mohawk or neenah is fucking impossible to buy in canada in less than industrial amounts #my art

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update on worlds most upstairs neighbour: he got a punching bag which, when used, shakes the entire lower floor. which is where we live!

#I hate this guy so much. go to the gym you stupid motherfucker

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hehehohohoo

my big paper has arrived... time to make pamphlet

#I forgot I'm also waiting for cardstock tho so I won't be sewing up yet #I have so many short texts saved that I could work with I'm genuinely overwhelmed with the possibilities #especially if I learn the two-section pamphlet sewing I mean to... would expand to 50ish page docs (which is a lot of good ones)

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my big paper has arrived... time to make pamphlet

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華 by Yuji Tezuka (2005)

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Michael Michaud fruit necklaces

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I hope everyone understands, when I say “most endangered habitat on earth”, I mean temperate grasslands.

They’re more endangered than tropical rainforests, coral reefs, the arctic tundra, all of those go-to environments that get more of the spotlight.

Where I live, maybe 25% of the prairie remains in a natural state and that number is dropping. Even these fragments are mostly missing the keystone species that maintain their health, like bison, wolves, and prairie dogs. I know this is the case for other grasslands like the pampas and steppe as well. Vast lands empty of many species that used to call them home.

If you live on temperate grasslands, hold onto them tight, because they’ve been exploited like no other land and most people don’t even know how far the devastation goes.

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Leaflets (read: death threats) were dropped on the eastern side of Rafah by Israeli warplanes just a few hours ago, in translation they read:

"Urgent Warning

To the residents and the displaced in Alshwka municipality, Salam neighbourhoods, Aljunaynah, Alboyok, block numbers:

10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 28, 270

The Israeli Defence Forces will be working intensely against terrorist organisations in your areas, as they have been until now.

Whoever is near the terrorist organisations puts their life and their family members' lives in danger.

For your safety, the Israeli Defence Forces urges you to evacuate immediately to the designated humanitarian area in Almawasi. Gaza city is still an area of intense fighting, do not return back to the North.

Do not come close to the eastern or southern security fence.

Israeli Defence Forces"

Since this morning, the eastern side of Rafah has seen an increasing number of intense Israeli airstrikes, including in areas where displaced Palestinians set up tents.

Quick reminder that there is absolutely no place to go in Rafah. Rafah is one of the most densely populated areas in the world right now. This is basically an extermination notice handed out to 1.4 million Palestinians (almost half of Gaza's population) who are displaced and have been crammed into the southern most part of Gaza, as Israel has been systematically pushing them this way for over 6 months now. And we don't have to even talk about the lie that is the "humanitarian routes", especially considering Israel's specific targeting of said routes throughout this aggression.

Important to note that this evacuation order covers the area where the Rafah crossing is, where aid is supposedly meant to enter the strip. Additionally, it includes the area where the only remaining functioning hospital in Rafah is. It does not get anymore obviously genocidal than this.

Every journalist from Rafah reports how people have nowhere to go and have decided to watch what happens next exactly because they are trapped. So needless to say, this is going to be catastrophic at every level imaginable.

[Picture captured from Hind Khoudary's instagram story]