Summer Jackel

two columns wrapped in banners that read 'PROUD'- one in rainbow and one in cyan, magenta, and white

pride pillars
#art

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

I really came to this understanding through sheep. I like to raise and shear them, and I love to wear wool, but the steps between 'I have shorn my sheep!' and 'I have a skein of yarn' much less 'I have woolen yardage' is...so much industry!

So cool! Linen is such a great fabric. Whole communities built up around that kind of work, back in the day.

there’s something interesting about how our current desires to get back to a way of life that’s cozier or slower or more friction-full butt up against a misunderstanding of the labor of the past and the ways it was made lighter by many hands. modern individualism can’t recreate the right context

the algorithm saw into my heart and said “ah ah ah, no you are not, dipshit.” and served me this video of a woman doing basically *exactly* what I’d been thinking of doing. she worked so hard for over a year and came up with about 24” of usable linen yarn at the end. amazing! but also I’m tired.

A beige pottery with two handles and a narrow neck, decorated with intricate dark brown patterns depicting a stylized octopus. The vessel is displayed on a white pedestal in a museum setting.

We all need a timeline cleanse right now, so let's start the day with this lovely jug with an octopus motif, dating ca 1200-1100 BC.

On display at National Museum Copenhagen.

A lovely weekend to all of you!

📷 me

🏺
#archaeology

Male and female ducks on blue water next to long green marsh grass.

Eurasian Teal Ducks at Albany Mudflats, Albany, California.

#birds #nature #eastcoastkin

A hundred years from now, none of us will be alive. I don't know why all this evil exists. Life is so short. Love one another, accept each other's differences, spread love. Believe me, life is very short.

Spring is coming (according to our garden)

Oh nice! I hope they all thrive

Ferns are awesome!
Western sword ferns are one of the most typical species in this shady forest, but there are a lot of others. I love them a lot.

A banana slug on the forest floor, solid yellow

A yellow banana slug crosses the road. Don't worry, I moved them to the other side once I took the pic

A bright yellow banana slug nibbles greenery

A spotted banana slug in the forest

Aren't banana slugs so cute??

A smiling, adorable, well behaved borzoi having a walk in the woods. All photos in the set are variants

Guest hound report: today, Bogue is an Perfect Angel; Neo has never seen a leash in his life, refuses my authority entirely, and has license to lunge and bark at leashed dogs who are nowhere near him. LOL Mr. Anderson, actually instead of that, precision heeling and quick sits. Neo: wait what how???

It's all invasive, although the smaller leaved varieties tend not to spread as badly as the basic English ivy.

The Wolf and The Kid | 1921 | 16mm | Aesop's Fables | Paul Terry Cartoon YouTube video by Farmer Alfalfa

this one goes places! And has a great wolf.

hee! a snouting perhaps?

"SHIT"
"FUCK"
"NO"
"FUCK"
"SHIT"
"FUCK"

ha that is bc it is funny!

Cloak of many colors but make it a bath mat or a grandma's comforter ?? Also rose shoes

Part 239 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd

At-home Robe (Banyan), cotton twill, printed and quilted, England, circa 1880

Eyes on the weekend like 👀⁠
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Rattails, or macrourids, are common throughout the world’s ocean. Those big blue eyes give the rattail an edge at finding food in deep, dark waters, and their keen eyesight reveals prey like fishes and squid darting just above the seafloor. ⁠

LOL maybe she cached one stealthily some time ago, then brought it out to shred at her leisure XD

When we got home today, we discovered Aleya had shredded a roll of paper towels.

No roll of paper towels was missing from anywhere.

She either manifested a roll of paper towels with sheer willpower or she pulled one out of a portal. She’s pure magic.

Swing ride or chair swing ride - seats suspended from a carousel by wires/ropes which turn and swing outwards

Have learned to my delight that the (or, at least, an) Italian name for this fairground ride is "calcinculo" or "kick in the ass"/"ass kicker."

5 gold and white borzoi sit together, arranged on a deck and focused on the camera. Phoenix and Bogue have a similar expression

Perfect pic, everyone is focused on the camera!

Phoenix and Bogue are both blinking. Neo really wants the treat I'm showing them (yes he got some)

LOL Phoenix and Bogue, matched expressions! A 9 year old borzoi and her 3 year old pups.

a swiftness of borzoi? A flight or cast, maybe?

the actual word for a hunting unit of three is 'svora.'

5 borzoi on a deck; Bogue snouts Phoenix

Group shot! Mako, Phoenix, Bogue, Trout and Neo. The other pics are variants

This one might be perfect

Lol Bogue is blinking in this one

Aw HOUNDS I love borzoi. Here's a pack of wonderful golden hounds, Phoenix and 4 of her pups.

A quartz boulder covered in moss near a stand of redwoods and a small road

A ring of redwood trees

A collie exploring the area

Redwoods are so cool. The ring of trees are suckers from the stump of the ancient redwood felled ~150 years ago. They want to be wide and don't care if they're hollow, so in a couple thousand years or so, those trunks will join and the bark will flow together to make a cathedral tree.

A patch of sorrel that I removed ivy from 2 months ago

Banana slug and wood sorrel

Native redwood understory struggling to compete with invasive ivy

A nearby patch that I pulled all of the ivy out of about 6 months before this photo

I'm rather proud of this little piece of guerilla meadow restoration. It's at a particularly special spot near both road and salmon stream. Ivy is advancing and growing over the native understory, so this rainy season I have been pulling it, a little at a time, to free up the sorrel and ferns.