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All large scale social networks are terrible at moderation, and organization. They are great at gambling systems (endless feeds), displaying what they want instead of what you would like and creating tribal us vs them. We can complain about Meta or X but Bluesky and Mastadon have all the same problems. So this will be my last post before I delete my accounts. Going back to the real world which is much more interesting,
Nawal el Saadawi, Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She has written many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital mutilation in her society. She has been described as “the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World”.
#inspiring #egypt #activist #arab
A paper trying to find a problem to justify putting chips in human heads. Wealthy tech bros eat this shit up.
The reality is that we think at the perfect speed and timing for a meaningful magical life in a beautiful living world that doesn't function on commerce at all cost.
#crazy #commerce #technology
https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(24)00808-0
Lyla June - Boarding Schools (feat. Lee Moquino) Official Music Video
Lyla June - Boarding Schools ft. Lee Moquino 🙏🏽 (Official Music Video) ✨ From upcoming EP 🎙 Dropping Jan. 4th 🦅 DONATE TODAY: www.boardingschoolhealing.org 🎙 We are people of peace and people of love dedicated through truth, faith, and compassion to healing the legacy of boarding schools in the united states that still affects us today.✨
#music
https://youtu.be/JilCdIBAzvA?si=Knj91g3GXup-c8AW
“How to Hide an Empire”: Daniel Immerwahr on the History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr, who writes, “At various times, the inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured and experimented on. What they haven’t been, by and large, is seen.” Immerwahr is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University.
#history #unitedstates #colonization #empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvlUGYvLg0s
War as a Sacrificial Ritual
As de Maistre pointed out: “Human sacrifice is a universal human institution. All human cultures believed in a universal guilt and the need for ceremonies of sacrifice to repair the broken relation between humanity and divinity…a voluntary sacrifice of the innocent who sacrifices himself to the divinity as a propitiatory victim.”
#war #sacrifice #spiritual #insane
https://psychohistory.com/books/the-origins-of-war-in-child-abuse/chapter-4-war-as-a-sacrificial-ritual/
Words matter, otherwise billionaires wouldn’t own every social media platform and every media outlet and try and ban books and censor anyone who confronts them.
Basically your words matter and what you write and speak is even more important in these times.
#words #speaking
Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed.
Walter Wink
"Go straight off the wall" said his dad and Dominic does just that. The film follows Dominic Wilcox, an artist / inventor / designer, on his quest for new ideas....Transforming the mundane and ordinary into something surprising, wondrous and strangely thought provoking.
#art #life #magical #beauty
https://vimeo.com/channels/ilovepeople
Saul Williams • KILL THE MACHINE ("Over my dead body")
Awaken to the reality you are living in.
https://youtu.be/MOEIqlAbrIY
#politics #empire
Normans and Slavery: Breaking the Bonds
Whilst many Anglo-Saxons suffered under the Norman yoke, the Conquest came with the promise of freedom for England’s slaves.
#history #slavery
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/normans-and-slavery-breaking-bonds
Ozoliņi - Auļi, Suitu sievas, Suitu vīri, Suitu dūdenieki, Ilža, Otto Trapāns, Tarkšķi, Vilkači
#music #european #memory #culture
https://youtu.be/A2r-uspx6LM?si=bi5oIP74lqNNWiKs
The beauty of concrete
Why are buildings today drab and simple, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented? The answer is not the cost of labor.
#concrete #building #art #beauty
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-beauty-of-concrete/
World's Largest Birdhouses
John Looser, a carpenter since he was 6 years old, has built over 5000 BIRDHOUSES in the past 20 years.
#birdhouses #birds #houses #cool #amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs7YBTJ6Ies
Meet the People Keeping 15 Fascinating Traditions Alive
From shoveling salt mounds under the Mexican sun, to scraping every last hair off a goatskin, we got an inside look at the people keeping age-old traditions and businesses alive around the globe. Whether they are protecting traditional methods threatened by modernization, or running centuries-old family businesses that have adapted to a changing world.
#culture #work #tradition #humanity #beauty
https://youtu.be/uL_QOUfRI3Y?si=qBr15xWycTtD7VJ4
Modern stories always have one hero to diminish the community and all the people that it takes for them to succeed.
When you disassociate from your body, your ancestors take over and do things that often don't serve you.
Most modern humans understand so little about the world because they are in a conversation with only other humans. Try talking to your enslaved and domesticated beings around you, instead of ignoring them. Your mind would be blown if you spent time talking to your fridge, your table or your car. Maybe you would see how you are both in the same predicament and weep.
I awoke to this.
#cats #comfy #cute
My dad's oatmeal
2 cups water
Ginger root tablespoon
Slice across grain diced or grated fine
Into hot water
Cranberries Half cup
Bring to Boil
1 cup of oatmeal
Little salt
Half apple diced
Turn heat down 10-15
Sauce pan toast half cup walnuts
Four tablespoons maple syrup
Cinnamon
Substitution:
Half pear
Pecans
#breakfast #food #yummy #comfort
From my daughter's school.
#history #inspiring #people
Tokyo based illustrator and copywriter Kaoru Yamada / 山田カオル was born in Kamakura, Japan. Yamada finds beauty in nature, in people's expressions and gestures, and in living things.
https://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2024/01/kaoru-yamada.html
https://kaoru-creation.com
#art #japan #magical #beauty #nature #human #architecture
Shapeshifter
by Darrah Ananda
#art #magic
The Potent Pollution Of Noise
Birdsongs are almost always mating calls, making them essential for reproduction. According to Brumm, the potential correlation between noise and avian reproductive success is a “very important question” facing ornithologists. If “birds can’t continue to sing, they can’t reproduce,” he said.
#noise #songs #birds #people #city
https://www.noemamag.com/the-potent-pollution-of-noise/
Mark Maggiori (French, b.1977)
"Under the Eye of Yuttahih," 2023
https://www.markmaggiori.com
#art #western
The mango cult (Standard Chinese: 芒果崇拜 máng guǒ chóng bài) was the veneration or worship of mangoes in Mainland China during the Cultural Revolution period. On August 5, 1968, Mao Zedong gave a box of Sindhri mangoes, given to him by the Pakistani Foreign Minister Mian Arshad Hussain, to the Worker-Peasant Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Team stationed at Tsinghua University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mango_cult
#mangos #culture
Valentina Knyazeva
Ukraine, born in 1986
#Ukraine #art #beauty
The Cuetlaxochime native to Mexico, originally had nothing to do with Christianity or Christmas, they are sacred plants used in ceremonies to celebrate the birth of Huitzilopochtli during the winter solstices. Also used for medicinal and healing purposes to cure sicknesses, aid the flow of breast milk, as well as for dyeing fabrics.
Pronunciation: Kwetla・so-cheetl
#Indigenous #plants #Mexico
The Whisper (2021), self portrait by Peruvian artist Cecilia Paredes (born in 1950).
Cecilia Paredes, by painting then photographing herself, creates chameleonic self portraits in which she disappears into backdrops often featuring exuberant floral patterns. Using body paint and bespoke costumes, Paredes dresses herself to become one with her surroundings, blending harmoniously with its colours and patterns.
#art #peru #nature
The Winter Mare returns!
www.daniellebarlowart.com
#wintersolstice #winter #holiday #magical #art
Support Lupita and working together to make a podcast (and new website) about her land, her people, and storytelling.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/lets-help-lupita-share-her-oral-history
#inspiring #history #land #navajo #native
Ukrainian artist Marfa Tymchenko (1922-2009)
Evening Stars, 2005
#beauty #flowers #art #painting
Daniella Willett-Rabin (USA) - "Deep into the Land of Enchantment" ☀
#paradigmadarte #womenpainters #floral
https://daniellawrfineart.com
"FRAGMENTED"
by Rob Strati in his words.
This work was inspired by a plate from my wife's late mother, Barbara. One day it was dropped and shattered. Some time after, I picked up a pen and started working on the "Fragmented" series, exploring the possibilities of things broken and the stories that can evolve from them.
https://porcelainprojects.com
#art #discord #magic #inspiring
This book discusses the many facets of Double Woman including the matrix of duality from a Lakota world-view.
#lakota #books #book #spirituality
https://prairieedge.com/all-products/double-woman-book/
Why Bumblebees Love Cats and Other Beautiful Relationships
On the wonders and benefits of natural relationships and what happens when humans meddle with the delicate balance between species.
#relationships #beautiful #history #nature
https://longreads.com/2021/03/23/nation-of-plants-excerpt-stefano-mancuso/
P.E.I. artist Melissa Peter-Paul drives to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to collect roadkill and revive a family tradition that was lost for generations: quill art.
#art #artist #quillwork #traditionalart
https://youtu.be/ZvFdWqbNd6U
"Sistine Chapel of the Ancients." Deep within the dense Amazon rainforest in modern-day Colombia, archaeologists recently discovered an 8-mile-long "canvas" filled with ice age drawings of giant sloths, mastodons and other extinct beasts, dating back to between 11,800 years and 12,600 ago.
More images/info: https://bit.ly/3QJaSU8
#ancient #indigenous #archaeology #history
Valley of Unity’ is one of a series of paintings inspired by Attar’s medieval Persian epic, ‘The Conference of The Birds’.
Ayesha Gamiet
Valley of Unity, 2023
Gold leaf, shell gold, gouache, watercolour, and ink on Indian hemp paper
22.44 x 31.1 ins (57 x 79 cm)
On show at the Jonathan Cooper 35th Anniversary show, 13th September - 7th October.
#art #persia #birds #epic #history #mythology
https://www.jonathancooper.co.uk/
I learned Chicago comes from the Algonquin language: “shikaakwa,” meaning “striped skunk” or “onion.”
https://chicagology.com/chicagoname/
#chicago #Algonquin #names
Traditional Uzbek Gold Embroideries of the 18th century Stye & Design & Patterns made by Nodir Rasulov / Uzbekistan
#art #clothing #fashion #culture #UZBEKISTAN
https://www.homofaber.com/en/discover/discover-nodir-rasulov
Amazing fabric production.
The process of making traditional Japanese clothing.
#fabric #clothing #fashion
https://youtu.be/zWJZFQHklBg
Beautiful Ceramics by Querubim Lapa artist / 1925 - 2016 /
His Portuguese Kitchen in Lisbon / Portugal
#kitchen #tiles #ceramics #art
Slate fans are a traditional Welsh folk art form and Wales boasted the largest slate quarries in the world where slate had been mined since the middle ages.
Photo: Welsh folk art slate fan quarried and worked in Piscataquis County, Maine, 1886-1905. Gift of Irving Stetson. 68.146.29
#PiscataquisCountyMaine #Slate #SlateFans #Wales #WalesSlate #BlanchardSlateMiningCompany #Maine #MaineHistory #MiningInMaine
Ran into my inner protection that keeps me off limits from my connection with the wild
#reflection #insight #health #wild #nature
Botanical animation "Story of Flowers"
Azuma Makoto Kaju Kenkyusho
Directed by : Azuma Makoto
Illustration by : Katie Scott
Animation by : James Paulley
Visual Supervisor : Shunsuke Shiinoki
Project Management by : Eri Narita
#flowers #beauty #magical #animation #art #nature
https://youtu.be/vDpFyHmt0AE
Masterpiece of a Quilt & Made by Mark L. Sherman / Ireland
Mark 's design Source was the 8th century ' Book of Kells 'Illuminated Depiction of the first two letters of Christ 's name in Greek : Chi and Rho
#ireland #art #spiritual #quilting #greek
https://britannica.com/topic/Book-of-Kells
http://remarkablequilts.com/
Art by Mariya Golub (b.1990)
Ukraine
#art #beauty
Inanna of the Paradoxes
Roses, as the symbol of a love deity, seem like a hackneyed trope. However, understanding the actual plants that the ancient authors were referencing helps us unpack the original spiritual meanings embedded in these botanicals.
#roses #plants #spirituality #goddess
https://worldsensorium.com/the-goddess-and-the-rose/
How Killing Sparrows Led to Great Famines in China
By Carl Seaver
A fine example of the problems with human centered thinking.
#nature #humans #thinking
https://www.historydefined.net/how-killing-sparrows-led-to-one-of-the-greatest-famines-in-history/
POWWOWING IN PENNSYLVANIA: HEALING RITUALS OF THE DUTCH COUNTRY
Although the word "powwow" is Native American, these ritual traditions are of European origin and were brought to colonial Pennsylvania in the transatlantic migrations of German-speaking people from Central Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. --Wikipedia
#powwow #folklore #healing
https://www.glencairnmuseum.org/newsletter/2017/3/2/powwowing-in-pennsylvania
Steel was already being used in Europe 2,900 years ago, shows study
Copper, Bronze and Steel ages are pretty silly as the world doesn't fit into neat boxes and much more complex than we know.
#bronze #steel #archaeology #history
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-steel-europe-years.html
Victor Nizovtsev, 1965.
#art #painting
Elaborate Towers Emerge from Basic Building Blocks in Raffaele Salvoldi’s Architectonic Installations
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/01/raffaele-salvoldi-wood-arc/
#art #wood #architecture
Amazing woman who can do 146 different bird calls.
#birds #nature
https://youtu.be/NUHkYrm-KVs
In The White Deer: Ecospirituality and the Mythic, Melinda Reidinger chases the white deer down mythic paths and startling (and sometimes shocking) tracks. From the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand to the blue blood of horseshoe crabs, “monstrous” ladies and fallen knights to Magyar star-myths and desert forests, The White Deer speaks to a relationship with the living world we’ve forgotten but can learn to find again.
#books #deer #history
https://abeautifulresistance.org/site/2022/12/15/upcoming-release-the-white-deer-by-melinda-reidinger
Mahmut Miski, a professor of pharmacognosy at Istanbul University believes he’s rediscovered a storied plant in a small stone enclosure. The true test came when the modern plant was used as an ingredient in ancient recipes calling for silphion, resulting in pleasant flavors that may have indeed delighted the Romans. “Finding the original silphion, and experiencing ancient recipes afresh with it, is a kind of Holy Grail,” says cooking expert
Sally Grainger.
#plants
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/most-amazing-discoveries-2022
Women of The Outer Hebrides - Waulking Son
#music #culture
https://youtu.be/QeSrkZfpAjc
3000-year-old solutions to modern problems | Lyla June | TEDxKC
#diné #gardens #wisdom #Indigenous
https://youtu.be/eH5zJxQETl4
AI = Algorithmic Idiots
I say this because they are complex algorithms and they can't figure out the difference between anything unless told, which makes them idiots.
#AI #computers
Sisiutl, one of the main dancers in the Winter Dance ceremonies, wearing a double-headed serpent mask and shirt made of hemlock boughs.
#spirit #deities #nature #photo #history #Kwakiutl #indigenous
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/kwakwaka-wakw-edward-curtis-photographs
A late 19th century photo by Félix Arnaudin which shows Gascon shepherds on stilts. They used the stilts to navigate the marshy pastures of Landes region in the southwest of France. Photo: Musée d’Aquitaine
#sheep #photo #history
Time doesn't go faster as you get older. You just aren't paying attention, to the uniqueness and diversity of the world. If you did then time would slow way down for you.
#time #life
Computer punch cards were adapted for use on much earlier controlled looms. Those were developed in the early 1700s and really took off with the Jacquard Loom in 1804.
Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine was the first proposed machine to use punch cards, like the Jacquard Loom. Proposed in 1837. Ada Lovelace: “We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.”
#weaving #computers
https://youtu.be/OlJns3fPItE
I bet people who are control freaks in this life become sheep herding dogs in the next life.
#dogs #control #afterlife
Every food you eat is a mother's child. That child is giving you their time so that you have more time. Recognizing the sorrow and gift of what you eat is a step towards seeing how holy all food is.
The greatest gift is to first feed someone when they visit. You are giving more time which is more life.
What a blessing to eat even one meal a day.
#food #blessing #time #life
Pele's Hair
These long, fragile strands are formed by gas during a volcanic eruption. When bubbles of gas near the surface of a lava flow burst, it can stretch the skin of the molten lava into long threads. Strands of Pele's hair may be up to a couple feet long, but only one micron (.001 mm) thick.
#volcano #hair #amazing
https://www.nps.gov/havo/learn/nature/peles-hair.htm
Machine Embroidered Landscapes by Rachel Wright textile artist / England
https://rachelwright.com
#embroidery #art #sewing #textile
My daughter said "I am sad".
When I asked her why, she said "I don't know."
When I asked her why she said
she doesn't know, she said "Because everything is going too fast."
So tonight we are going to sew together and give the slow space for the sadness to reveal itself.
#sadness #sewing #listening #talk
Let’s just get this one out of the way: there has only ever been and can ever be one Steve Jobs. Or Bill Gates. Or [fill in the blank magnate from the early days of tech]. Unfortunately, the myth of the (usually white-presenting, usually male) college dropout who has a Big Idea and a Stalwart Passion to “Change the World” and a Cunning Plan to Reinvent Everything…has come back to bite us in the ass. Big time.
#power #whiteness #illusion
Read The Rest Here:
https://jaredwhite.com/articles/elongate
Just stop and listen
Peter Broderick | Stop and Listen (live) | Other Voices 19
#listen #health #kindness #music #video
https://youtu.be/5FQuFbp_eKk
What/Where are the places be our landscape of our bodies which exist as lacunas, run over, forgotten, hiding out, whited out, clear cut, dammed up, colonized, hated, ignored, bought, sold, enslaved and/or commodified?
My thoughts go to the rhythms I can't hear, the tribal names I can't remember, the animals I can't see right in front of me.
#lacuna #remember
Thinking about places have been clear cut in me.
The word for turkey in languages of some eastern tribes:
Delaware: tshikenum ;
Algonkian (Long Island): nahiam ;
Narragansett (southern New England): nahenan ;
Natick and Wampanoag (Massachusetts): neyhom ;
Abnaki (Maine): nahame ;
Iroquois (upper New York): netachrochwa gatschinale;
Seneca (Massachusetts): Otsoon ;
Cayuga (Massachusetts): sohǫ:nt ;
I love the sound of sohǫ:nt in Cayuga
http://www.ohwejagehka.com/cayuga/cay-t.htm
Blakwork
Alison Whittaker
A stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice in poetry. Alison Whittaker’s BLAKWORK is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet’s fearless examination of the present.
#poetry #books #aboriginal
https://www.magabala.com/products/blakwork
Celtic-Punjabi Folk Music (Bagpipes &Bhangra) - Frantic Feathers (Toss the feathers)
#music #video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCS-JDhsYvE
Martín Prechtel ~ Rescuing the Light (interview 1/3) | Audio Interview with Banyen Books & Sound
#spiritual #magical #beauty
https://youtu.be/sUcoLcrz-Ug
The obsidian mirror associated with the Elizabethan polymath and magus John Dee (1527–1608/1609) has been an object of fascination for centuries. Stolen from the Aztec Tezcatlipoca, lord of the smoking mirror.
#mirror #obsidian #magical #history
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/mirror-the-magus-and-more-reflections-on-john-dees-obsidian-mirror/38D4BFEA2CB9766973791029C2EE1289
Sona Jobarteh is the first female virtuoso player of the kora.
#Music #Kora #Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0InaUgwlrgo
Had fun making food for feast day.
#food #cooking #holiday
#sheep
Hissar Sheep (Gissarskaya - Гиссарская овца ) is a coarsewooled fat-rumped breed of the mutton-fat type. It was obtained by selection in the conditions of year-long range husbandry in Tajikistan and was bred by Uzbek tribes which migrated there with their sheep flocks in the 13th-14th centuries.
https://farmow.com/breed/hissar-sheep
I like doing collage. Here's an example of my collage art.
#collage #art #inspire #beauty
This is a fantastic and magical book that will transform you and help you think differently.
#books #magical
#mastodon search works very poorly. If I put in any hashtag into the search it just gives me suggestions. For example #office as you can see brings up a list of useless tags that have 0 postings. There is no easy direct way to go to a hashtag, unless it is in a post. I was forced to make a post with hashtags and save it under bookmarks just so I could go to ones I like.
If I actually put the hashtag keyword into the URL I get the list I wanted to see:
https://mastodon.social/tags/office
Wish Siri or Google was like this.
https://youtu.be/l_8n2q5iI4E
#riddle
He who walks four valleys
with shining crown and whip
bears a dark fruit cooked in stone
fattening the bones of the winds
whose brother is slain by mistletoe
to see the first fire held in hand and
danced to the ground
a bird is reborn
Hala Gąsienicowa in the Gąsienicowa Valley, Tatra Mountains, southern Poland
#photography #Poland
https://www.borievky.com
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom by Marcel Proust
#quotes #happy #gardening
Today is so beautiful with the snow on the ground and the sun shining. I think that we often forget the beauty of the world and taking walks is a great way to reconnect with it.
#walking #beauty
A fantastic video about the reality of the world. #music #rythem
https://youtu.be/lVPLIuBy9CY
#meat #sheep #food
Sheep get are often considered dumb, but are really very smart. Sheep wouldn't go to their death in a slaughter house like other animals.
“It was pretty simple,” says Greg Dunn. “You couldn’t get sheep to the top floor without a goat. Every plant had Judas goats.”
https://www.agweb.com/news/livestock/beef/judas-goats-agricultures-bizarre-drug-addicted-masters-deceit-once-ruled
Found this cool word today.
moon’seed’ (-sed/’ ), ne Any plant of the genus Nene
mum ;—so called from the crescent-shaped seeds
#moonseed #plants #seeds #words
This is really amazing and powerful book. The writing is of a unique flavor and caliber. I highly suggest reading.
