people watching! at the ballet

read this:

Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

Incredible day to be attending an ultra-Catholic Scilian-American funeral with all my first, second, and third cousins

tonight ! I strongly suspect this will be a much-needed respite ♥️

as an alternative to amazon, how about Massive Bookshop? all books are 10-20% off list price. they offer free shipping if you order 2 or more and all proceeds go to a bail fund in Western Mass. @massivebookshop.bsky.social

If you ever worry about keeping a stupid joke in your writing, know that J. R. R. Tolkien calls two founding ancient hobbits “Marco” and “Blanco” in like the first 20 pages of LOTR.

H.M.Saffer, Spring Colors III

Meanwhile, a black lung epidemic is tearing through Appalachia, killing men as young as their 30s. And the Trump admin just defunded NIOSH, the worker health agency that’s been tracking it. inthesetimes.com/article/coal...

Thrilled to reveal the cover of The Nature of Fashion! 🌿 This book traces fashion’s connection to the natural world across landscapes and centuries, myth & memory. Out Sept (UK) & Nov (US) @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social @rizzolibooks.bsky.social. Big thank you to my agent @juliasreading.bsky.social

"Even if you buy the most sustainable & ethical clothing available to you right now, your clothes arrive haunted by the conditions of their production. The ghosts of the supply chain follow them even after you wash and dry & toss the package it shipped in." hedhouseman.substack.com/p/all-our-cl...

I wrote about working on the Tatter Library commemoration banner for the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, sewing in public, and the haunted-ass clothing production systems in our lives. open.substack.com/pub/hedhouse...

Imagine a world so technologically advanced we could PRE-de-extinctify species...

I wrote about working on the Tatter Library commemoration banner for the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, sewing in public, and the haunted-ass clothing production systems in our lives. open.substack.com/pub/hedhouse...

well it seems today yet again confirms my decision to keep this one tab open on my phone for the better part of a decade

Fucked up my whole night by looking at vintage sewing machines, looms and spinning wheels on FB marketplace

Morning report: Frost again, but the crocuses are emerging. Blue jays are ravaging the bird feeder. A mated pair of cardinals have staked out the pea trellis. The trunks of trees in woods are bare where hungry deer have stripped them. The first signs of trillium and glory of the snow have arrived.

Morning Report: The sun was egg yolk yellow coming through the curtains. The sky is a cloudless sea. The chickadees and tits are crowding the feeder. A pair of robins is building nest in bare vines of the arbor. The catty ice is gone and so all are all the holly berries. No long underwear needed!

everything about this is so funny

Fashion is powerful.

Spent tonight at a leftist sewing group meeting to memorialize the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and it was infinitely better than looking at the news

I made a wide shoulder adjustment with a slash and pivot AND dropped an armscye a full inch successfully on the first try. I feel so powerful. I can believe I have to spent tomorrow working instead of sewing!!!

We warned this was the real goal

hot tip take a mental heath day and do it

The money you're not spending tomorrow, send here.

Morning Report: we’ve entered the toggle season. Yesterday was snowing and grim, today is bright and clear and filled with birdsong. the winter nests stand out on bare trees. The rabbits and deer are out foraging at dawn — you can see the flare of their white tails as they disappear into the woods.

New enemy: man who whistled along with the orchestra’s piccolo during Swan Lake

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

God, take JoAnn's pain and give it to Hobby Lobby

Morning Report: the birds can feel spring coming. The neighborhood is overflowing with birdsong today. Sparrows in the quince, fat great robins in the apple tree, and pair of dark-eyed juncos nesting in the hollow eye of a dead branch. A bluejay claimed the last of the buckwheat on the porch.

new rule every time you complain about something someone else is doing on the internet you have to come bag raw chicken thighs and cut up pineapples with me at the food pantry/labor services center near my house

I spent most of the past three years not writing and doing a lot of sewing and somehow becoming a public mender and sewing teacher—I wrote about how it changed my sense of community today in my newsletter. hedhouseman.substack.com/p/taking-you...

Beautiful film — Masha Karpoukhina’s #documentary follows soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause who lost everything in a California wildfire.

A Swedish company has developed technology to produce a material from old textiles that can be used to manufacture brand new clothing and can help reduce the huge amounts of water and other resources used by the fashion industry. https://buff.ly/3CKxHSB #ShareGoodNewsToo

FYI, Amazon will no longer enable the downloading of ebooks to exterior devices starting February 26th. Here’s a tutorial on how to download your ebooks off of Amazon. You can use Calibre (free software) to reformat the kindle books to be used on other devices. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2DQuRqn/

Bosco is ready for another snow storm

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

It's not just fdr. One of the things the epa did not long after it was formed was document the nation's pollution via photography. That can seem frivolous, but generations of Americans have no idea why the EPA was necessary. This broke a million views when we published it in 2017

1/2021-1/2025 After 4 years, Howl is finally finished! A companion and a project of love to me; I hope it keeps inspiring magic and creativity. 🧿🩵 See the rest of the thread for close ups! #howlsmovingcastle #howlcosplay #katsucon2025 #embroidery

I am SO excited to share I've been accepted to lead a 3 day workshop on an island in Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire in September. It's an incredible location, and you'll learn hand-sewing and embroidery with me. If you're interested, shoot me a DM and I can share more!

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'If I were not human I would not be ashamed of anything.' WS Merwin, from 'THE LICE.' (via Bianca Stone).

Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

Getting my reps in (writing the most horrible sentences in the universe to hit my draft word count)

The thing about being good at keeping plants alive is you end up with a sort of captive, ever multiplying forest slowly overtaking your home.

Over 2.5 billion years ago, trillions of tiny Cyanobacteria spent hundreds of millions of years creating an oxygen-rich atmosphere on Earth. Take a deep breath. How are you using your oxygen today? Be present. Give freely. Care for others. Make your ancient microbial cousins proud. Exhale. Repeat.

I really love @defector.bsky.social