Finally getting around to doing this since moving from witches.town...
Hi everyone, I mostly post weird and joyful combinations of #herbalism, art attempts, #linguistics, #storytelling, and anarchism.
A lot of my current projects are in the Internet freedom, community networks, and digital resistance space.
Super excited to π partyπ ~~
Enough is Enough: **#Colombia: Preliminary assessment of the November 21 national strike**
"On November 21, Colombia was rocked by a national strike and huge demonstrations and clashed between riot cops and protestors. On November 22 amd November 23 the strikes and protests continued. A first assessment by Grupo Via Liβ¦"
tired: iron is harmful to fae because of unspecified magic intrinsic properties
wired: iron is harmful to fae because of its chemical properties
inspired: iron is harmful to fae specifically because it is physically the stuff of the human Industrial Revolution, a social restructuring event with broadly devastating effects on human adherence to the core values of the fae. for this reason, iron is suffused with a palpable curse that arises from its position as a symbol of human callousness.
#BREAKING: the globular springtails have emerged! You can see these tiny yellow critters milling around on leaves in the garden. They engage in courtship dances, with the male (the smaller one) twirling the female around. #springwatch
Some easy-to-care-for plant suggestions for beginners:
β’ Chlorophytum (spider plant)
β’ Dracaena (any species)
β’ Pothos vine (Epipremnum aureum)
β’ Heartleaf philodendron
β’ Rubber plant
β’ Pilea (Chinese money plant)
β’ Peperomia (any species)
β’ Bromeliad (most varieties, but Guzmania is probably the easiest)
β’ Peace lily
β’ Snake plant
(Made boostable at @Kiki's request! βοΈ)
Today I took advantage of the warm weather and took a nice stroll along the lake. I found a new source of winter spiders: dead goldenrod tufts and Queen Anne's Lace!
This late in the season, most of the QAL umbels have been reduced to skeletons, umbrella spokes snapped off halfway. The umbels that are still thick clusters are held together with spider silk. And tiny spiders shelter there, still alive somehow.
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Fighting authority.
Trying to do art.
she/they.
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Currently into: herbalism, languages, art