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festering is a really good sounding word for what it means
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I finished a crochet version of my partner’s keyboard :-) by Royal_Feeling_3081
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Dandelion
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painted some fruitz 🍑🍊🍒
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wow i really like this song i think i’m gonna listen to it 1 maybe 60 more times
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this is a head's up that i block transphobes, homophobes, and radfems who interact with this blog.
nearly every kind of traditional handicraft is going to attract right-wing weirdos who think it symbolizes a past world where women were women and men were men proverbs 31 white man's burden blah blah blah etc etc. knitting is certainly no exception, and in my experience, historical knitting is even more likely to attract that kind of attention.
just so we're very, very clear:
- knitting was not invented by white people
- knitting, while historically most commonly practiced by people in cold climates (namely europe), does not belong to the quote unquote "west"
- except for extremely brief windows of time in very specific locations, knitting was not considered "women's work"
- knitting is not a symbol of rugged individualism. in fact, throughout most of history knitting was considered a social activity, inextricably entwined with community
- knitting has been used as a tool of oppression. for example, Black slaves in the americas were sometimes advertised for sale with the promise that they were excellent knitters
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No no you don't understand! I want to watch this show/movie, read this book, listen to this podcast, etc.! But I must be in the right mindset and the exact head space to begin, or I just can't!
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spam calls
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Ship cat of HMS Barham, 1915
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"For 60 years, doctors and researchers have known two things that could have improved, or even saved, millions of lives. The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets. Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. As early as 1969, research showed that losing just 3 percent of your body weight resulted in a 17 percent slowdown in your metabolism—a body-wide starvation response that blasts you with hunger hormones and drops your internal temperature until you rise back to your highest weight. Keeping weight off means fighting your body’s energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.
The second big lesson the medical establishment has learned and rejected over and over again is that weight and health are not perfect synonyms. Yes, nearly every population-level study finds that fat people have worse cardiovascular health than thin people. But individuals are not averages: Studies have found that anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of people classified as obese are metabolically healthy. They show no signs of elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance or high cholesterol. Meanwhile, about a quarter of non-overweight people are what epidemiologists call “the lean unhealthy.” A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people."
A surprising article to find on the Huffington post. I think, especially towards the end, there's still a saturation of healthism and diet talk (just of the "clean eating" variety), but the information about weight discrimination is absolutely on point, especially within the medical field ignoring decades of research.
Not only do we know that weight loss isn't sustainable or possible, we also know that weight discrimination kills, in a myriad of ways. If you actually care about "health" then start unlearning your weight bias NOW and realize that fat people are just people who are a different shape.
And this article doesn't even touch on "the obesity paradox"(the fact that fat people survive heart attacks and injuries BETTER THAN thin people) or the fact that dieting, especially "yo-yo dieting," is a better predictor for heart disease than weight, and that many of the fat people who have cardiovascular diseases have a long history of dieting that (understandably) didn't work.
encouraged to rb but fatphobes will just be blocked.
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Zoo animal pictograms. National Zoo Pamphlet, Washington, D. C. 1978. Detail.
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In 1985 Gyles Brandreth and George Hostler, owners of the knitwear brand Gyles & George, published Wit-Knits: Lively and Original Hand-Knitting Designs. One of the patterns was for a pullover sweater which read "I'M A LUXURY FEW CAN AFFORD" across the torso, modeled by the artist David Shilling.
During a 1986 vacation to Switzerland, Princess Diana was photographed wearing a pink version of the "I'M A LUXURY FEW CAN AFFORD" sweater, made for her by Gyles & George.
Wit-Knits can be read for free in entirety here, courtesy of the Internet Archive.
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They should make a body that doesn’t hurty
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豆鼠木彫根付
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod
Edo period (1615–1868)