visual aid for non-us-americans

there's this stupid phrase i think of sometimes "i don't go to where you work and slap the hot dog out of your hands" which is very evocative like i picture heading down to the hot dog on a stick at the local mall and the person you're talking to is working their secret side job they didn't want anyone to know about wearing the striped uniform... and you walk up to them and just smack the hot dog out of their hands... how humiliating, how confusing... then later i learned it was a PG version of the joke "i don't go to where you work and slap the dick out of your mouth" which is honestly less funny, just crass, so it might make you laugh out of surprise. but you know what. even if i hear that version, my brain pictures a blowjob being interrupted, then you nod in quiet understanding and go back to your job at the hot dog on the stick. the hot dog on a stick is no place for blowjobs. get back to dipping the hot dogs

there's this stupid phrase i think of sometimes "i don't go to where you work and slap the hot dog out of your hands" which is very evocative like i picture heading down to the hot dog on a stick at the local mall and the person you're talking to is working their secret side job they didn't want anyone to know about wearing the striped uniform... and you walk up to them and just smack the hot dog out of their hands... how humiliating, how confusing... then later i learned it was a PG version of the joke "i don't go to where you work and slap the dick out of your mouth" which is honestly less funny, just crass, so it might make you laugh out of surprise. but you know what. even if i hear that version, my brain pictures a blowjob being interrupted, then you nod in quiet understanding and go back to your job at the hot dog on the stick. the hot dog on a stick is no place for blowjobs. get back to dipping the hot dogs

thank you for the suggestion. i already spent a lot of time on this spreadsheet so i won't do any more work on it. you are welcome to copy it and make your own column for sizes that go down. re: measurements, the measurements vary VASTLY between brands and the exact style of clothes, which i note on the spreadsheet, so it's better to check out the websites of the styles you like the most and check the measurements from there. making a spreadsheet that included measurements would involve a 3D graph of some kind.

also keep in mind it's usually easy to tailor clothes to fit smaller. you can always trim and sew down, but it's hard to do it the other way around. people who wear plus-size clothing struggle to find clothes that fit, let alone slow fashion, and this is the main purpose of this spreadsheet.

one of my "special interests" in the past couple of years has been exploring fast fashion vs. slow fashion. it has been a long journey trying to find clothes that actually 1) fit me 2) look good 3) are made from material that is not actively shoving plastic in the ecosystem 4) involve ethical labor, fair trade, fairly compensated, etc

before i did this research, i really had no clue about fabrics or fashion brands. i used to think i had zero interest in fashion, in fact.

i grew up wearing walmart and thrift store clothes, and when i went to college i bought clothes from target and asos. something started to shift a little bit when i found vintage resellers on etsy and ebay... those clothes were so unique. but a lot of the vintage clothes were polyester blends, stiff, and would fall apart as easily as my asos clothes. i would leave them hanging in my closet and never wear them. i would wear the same old t shirts and jeggings every day. i felt like it was impossible to ever wear comfortable clothes, or ever feel good in clothes, so why bother?

it started with linen. linen is very comfortable and pretty sustainable. i was amazed that i didn't feel the urge to rip my clothes off when i wore linen. lightbulb number one.

a friend let me borrow a nooworks dress, and i went to the store and got some overalls. wow. overalls. lightbulb number two. holy shit, you can wear overalls. you know how people say "not binary or non-binary but a secret third thing." that's overalls.

i realized i loved the bonkers prints that nooworks had, and all of it was soft, and made ethically. it was a higher price point than i was used to, which gave me pause. but then you realize: we're not supposed to be buying dumb clothes every other weekend. and isn't a slightly higher price point for soft clothes that you won't want to tear off your body worth it?

so i started my research. i made a spreadsheet. the prices can be all over the place across brands, so i made a column for prices. sizes can be all over the place too -- people always ask me "where is the plus size slow fashion?" it's there. just look at the size column. people say "isn't it better to buy secondhand?" yeah, it is. i have many links to secondhand sources.

if you have any suggestions or additions please let me know, it is a living document.

The Kei Truck Garden Contest (2018)

The Japan Federation of Landscape Contractors organizes an annual landscaping contest, where landscaping contractors from around Japan arrive on site with their mini pickup trucks and then spending several hours transforming the cargo bed into a small garden.

Some frog wizard magic ✨

LS SUBMISSION

Daniel Chatard - Niemandsland

landscapestories.net

The flip side of the post-World War II cries of “Never again” was an unspoken “Never before.” The insistence on lifting the Holocaust out of history, the failure to recognize these patterns, and the refusal to see where the Nazis fit inside the arc of colonial genocides have all come at a high cost. The countries that defeated Hitler did not have to confront the uncomfortable fact that Hitler had taken pointers and inspiration on race-making and on human containment from them, leaving their innocence not only undisturbed but also significantly strengthened by what was indeed a righteous victory.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger

it is so incredibly sad to constantly see kids on instagram and tiktok who are younger than my brother have to literally beg for shelter, food, water, medicine, and their right to exist as human beings

i mean, this young girl is only ten years old, yet she is essentially responsible for convincing random people scrolling through instagram that her and her family’s life are worth fighting for

on top of that, their gofundme is not even 10% funded and time is running out, please if you can’t donate, just share

please don’t let this little girl die begging

if anyone new here is concerned about this whole thing being a scam, the first pic is me and my SDit as a puppy last spring, the second pic is me a couple days ago with megace, a cancer drug that increases appetite to treat cachexia in very sick people. just one of several new specialty medications i take now, lol. the second pic has been edited to redact my personal information. the difference in how i look is substantial, at least to me. for anyone who needs more info in private, i can provide evidence of medical tests, care, meds, bills, whatever; can provide evidence of all that other shit with my car, family, service dog in training, etc too. i'm not okay, lol, and i'm not keen on dying before i even get to see the specialized oncologist. just the newest of many very cool tricks gd loves to play on eden 👍

venmo: enimi / cashapp: $stoat / paypal.me/stoat / i also have Wise as an option for international transfers

my 6-year-old drew a phone for herself

my kid is absolutely obsessed with this minor character from ONE episode of gabby's dollhouse about a "mermaid christmas cruise." this character is named hsiu hsiu and she is mercat's little sister. she is onscreen for maybe 5 minutes total? and my 3 year old talks about her EVERY DAY. i don't really have any punchline or deeper significance to this. just logging this fact in case she needs to decipher the way her brain works one day. "well you were obsessed with this sort of hipster-y tiny mermaid cat with a rainbow tail. her name was hsiu hsiu and santa cat let her open the first christmas present of the year. you loved her so much you said you wanted to live inside the tv so you could be with her all the time."

ken gun min

ambiguous yoga club in runyon canyon, 2022

oil paint, korean powder, found fabric, embroidery

The months since October 7 have aggravated the most extreme campus panic I have witnessed. To judge by the American mass media, the campus is the most urgent scene of political struggle in the world. What is happening “on campus” often seems of greater concern than what is happening in Gaza, where every single university campus has been razed by the IDF. When all the Palestinian dead have been counted, it seems likely that these months will be recorded as having inflamed a campus panic no less intense than the one that accompanied the Vietnam War. The correspondences between that moment and this one were unmistakable to those of us who watched, in person or through screens, as the NYPD hauled 108 Columbia University students off of their institution’s campus on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Like the campus panic of the 1960s–70s, this one is aroused by the spectacle of young people speaking out against the inhumane actions of the US and its imperial client states, as well as against the complacency and complicity of their own educational institutions. Now, as then, the act of protesting against injustice undergoes a curious transfiguration in the media, which refashions this action into the object of frantic scrutiny, surveillance, and suppression.

Harvard University professor Walter Johnson, in an essay about experience of working at Harvard since October 7 titled “Living Inside a Psyop”—the psyop being, precisely, “the campus”—calls this the “two-step maneuver” of campus panic: (1) Look over here, (2) Do not look over there. Overreact to this, overlook that.[1] Look at the US, not at Palestine. Look up at what is happening in the clouds over Cambridge, Massachusetts, where a plane trails a banner declaring, “HARVARD HATES JEWS”; do not look at what is happening on the ground in Gaza, do not look at the masses of the displaced, the bereaved, the starving, the wounded, the sick, the dying, and certainly do not look at the dead, murdered with artillery supplied by the US government and funded by American citizens’ taxes. When student protestors chant, “From the river to the sea,” hear a speculative antisemitic canard; do not hear a reference to an actual river, an actual sea, an actual and ongoing history of dispossession and occupation.

This is different from Al-Shifa:

There are images of decomposed bodies wearing what appear to be scrubs... with their hands tied. Meaning they were executed while bound. I will not be sharing them because I'm tired of showing our martyrs' bodies to people.