FEAST, GLADLY / MOON STEALER / WARM BLOODED

i hold werewolves as both a symbol of transformation and of self-actualization; they are the other, and the beast, and they are us. this art was created for october’s print club; it was also created for me (and for you).

I am once again running a preorder to fund the next batch of the FEAST, GLADLY tapestry. If you missed the first round and would like to help support this, you can find more info here:

PREORDER ROUND 2

I got top surgery today and according to my surgeon everything went perfectly! I am now at home to rest and recuperate for the next week until I go her my drains out at my first post-op.

Checking in to say that recovery so far has been smooth and unremarkable! The drains are annoying to deal with but I’m on track to have them out at my first post-op on the 8th. I’m being very careful with how I move but remembering to stay hydrated and eating what I can. 💪

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companies make billions from you thinking you're ugly btw. only ugly thing is their bottom line. log out of tiktok right now.

learning to ask 'is this an ad' will save your life

people are really fucking clueless about generative ai huh? you should absolutely not be using it for any sort of fact checking no matter how convenient. it does not operate in a way that guarantees factual information. its goal is not to deliver you the truth but deliver something coherent based on a given data set which may or may not include factual information. both the idolization of ai and fearmongering of it seem lost on what it is actually capable of doing

Remember what generative "AI" does, kids: it GENERATES. That means it generates answers to questions based on whatever garbage has been fed into it. Not "goes and looks up the answer." Not "already studied and knows everything." It's just reaching into its sack of word salad and dumping a pile on your desk. Sure, maybe the words fit together to form sentences, but that doesn't make it correct.

a generative AI search result vs the exact article it is citing. the website it scrambled that information from also just happens to include info on winged roaches. gisborne cockroaches are completely wingless. even if it's pulling info straight from one reliable source, there is every chance it'll mash up that info into something false.

If you need a visual, here’s how poorly AI performed when asked to create citations for news articles. And that’s just for citations, imagine what it’s doing when you ask it more complex questions and tasks.

On the cornsnakes subredit someone there used generative AI to "answer" someone's question about what the raised black lump on their corn snake could be. Another person called them out and AI-user responded with "I can do what I want, and what's the harm anyways?"

I stepped in and explicitly detailed everything that the list got wrong, which was about 95% of it, to show why is was harmful. After an hour they deleted their comment plus they deleted most of their comment history.

AI is a lie generator. Don't use it.

Sometimes, ya just gotta make do with what you have

I decided I wanted to give bobbin lace a try but didn't want to invest a ton of money in case I didn't like it so here has been my solution. I've drawn all the patterns by hand on regular notebook paper, and am pinning into my laptop case. The only money I've spent was on one pack of pencils for $1 (which I'll use anyway), an enormous spool of yarn $5 (bought at a thrift shop), and one pack of pins $6 (which I'll also use anyway).

I'm enjoying it so far, but still undecided if I want to spend more money on it. Real bobbins and a pillow would be soooo helpful though. But its been encouraging how much I've been able to learn already with just these materials!

"*Start where you are, *Use what you have,*Do what you can"

This is AWESOME

Keep it up!

Keep calling, keep emailing, keep going to town halls, keep protesting! Dont give them a moments peace! These bastards are cowards who dont like a spotlight put on them. They want to be authoritarians quietly and freak out when people notice them and call them out on it!

If we have to be miserable the next 2-4 years, so do they and we vote them out!

(through gritted teeth) sometimes what's good for your mental health isn't another do nothing day or a little treat sometimes what's good for you is putting in some of the work. Not all of it at once but sometimes you have to finish that essay or at least take the next step or you have to clean your room or at least dust the shelves or you gotta do the laundry or at least put it all in the hamper and it's not fun and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks but you have to because i read a post on the internet that told me that's what being nice to yourself is sometimes

Are you guys ok you’re all reblogging this post a lot

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You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

Some things about this post since getting quite a few notes:

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

3. I think there are times where scrolling is fine. Right now, for example, I'm being connected to a machine for two hours to donate plasma and platelets. Yes this is a brag but it is also a time where scrolling is one of the few things I can do. (Though I will probably also read or watch something on phone lol)

@roach-works

cool i can't wait to wear my human-leather coat around town while doing other totally normal and legal daily activities

SO WHAT'S IT MADE OF OP??? WHAT IS IT.

I need people to understand that all of the "vegan leathers" are plastic. Yes, really all of them. Yes, even that vegan leather that you saw online that prominently claims that it's made of plant waste and is therefore super sustainable.

IT'S PLASTIC, FOLKS

IT'S GREENWASHED PLASTIC AND WE ALL NEED TO STOP FALLING FOR IT

im still tryna figure out why yall think it's impossible for there to some day be a vegan leather w/o plastic.

also, what's the harm if we use recycled plastics instead?

To start by quickly answering the second question: vanishingly few vegan leathers use recycled plastic. Polyurethane is notoriously difficult to recycle, and recycled polyurethane is generally so low quality that it cannot be used to make clothing. Your vegan leather jacket is not only made from plastic; it is almost certainly made from new plastic.

As for the first...

So, bluntly, I don't think that it is impossible that someday there will be vegan leather that doesn't involve plastic. I think that we've made incredible progress in the space of lab-grown meats, and from there, lab-grown skin seems entirely feasible. We may even have lab-grown leather within our lifetimes, and I'm excited about what that scientific progress means, not only for textiles, but for bio-engineering more broadly, and for medicine. It's very cool stuff, genuinely!

But, getting excited about scientific advancement is very different from being sold a bill of goods. There are so many vegan leathers on the market that are just greenwashed plastic that at this point, it is genuinely irresponsible to hear about a new one and start hyping it up without doing any due diligence. I'd love it if there really were products made out of apple waste or pineapple leaves or cork or whatever which had the properties of real leather. That would be incredible! Even aside from any reasons for avoiding animal leather, imagine if all that plant waste could be repurposed into clothing and upholstery. Imagine if all of the uses for pleather were replaced overnight with a sustainable, biodegradable alternative. It would be a wonderful advance, and I'd be shouting about it from the rooftops!

The only problem is? Right now it's a lie.

Cactus leather and pineapple leather and mushroom leather and the like aren't wonder-materials. They are a marketing scam, meant to trick you into buying overpriced plastic as a "green" alternative material.

I've said it before in a hundred other contexts, and I'll probably say it again a thousand more times before I die:

Getting scammed isn't praxis.

I'd love it if these claims were true. I want them to be true. And I will never, ever share or promote them, because wanting a lie to be true doesn't make it so.

Every vegan leather currently on the market is greenwashed plastic, and you should treat every new vegan leather that you see as "plastic until proven otherwise."

Sorry @banchie your tags got peer reviewed and I want them on here bc you're right and you should say it: throwing away the animals skin and using plastic instead is DOUBLE the waste! it's already there and it's not going to stop being there

go wear that leather jacket and that fur and BE WARMER AND MORE COMFORTABLE as well because natural products FUCKING BREATHE instead of plastic fluff and plastic 'leather' sheets that get sticky and gross and sweaty and more smelly because polyester traps bacteria and smells so not only are you causing more pollution, you're actually having a worse time if you use plastic replacements for perfectly good natural products