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tiny_m

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I am a maker of things, sometimes its websites, sometimes its costumes, sometimes its installation artwork or 3D design, game design, decorations, craft. I just like making stuff

I am a fan of #dancing, #dragrace, cheesy #romantasy novels, #sci-fi and #fantasy, #art, #films, bright colours, #cats even though they are bastards, #craft, #glitter & all manner of shiny things.

People seem to have weird rules about who is allowed to follow them. Don't talk me if you're going to be a dick, I guess?

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@lexiconista@mastodon.ie avatar lexiconista , to random

“Perfectly sums up the difference the old 1960s concrete hellscape and our shiny new modern hellscape.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjvCL0dcLE0

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@lexiconista come friendly bombs and fall on Slough. It isn't fit for humans now

@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar futurebird , to random

I swear to god I love how liberals overthink everything. But I also hate it so much. It makes me want to die.

You know what's "performative" ? The most performative thing in the world?

Talking about what's performative is SO performative.

And here's the spicy take: performative isn't bad.

doing good things performativly is far far better than not doing anything and better than participating in harm.

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@futurebird I think also there is value in normalising behaviour, so even if someone is doing it for the wrong reasons it can still have a net benefit if that changes the groups behaviour to make the new thing normal, filming abusers, putting pronouns in bios, wearing a mask on public transport, speaking up if you think someone is making a joke that isn't ok. If only the very 'good' people do these things, then that will always be seen as extremist behaviour instead of what everyone should do

@hungry_joe@mas.to avatar hungry_joe , to random

god naming animals

god: made a new whale

angel: cool

god: big as fuck, the biggest one with teeth anyway

angel: nice what you gonna call it

god: jizz whale

angel: can we rein that one in a bit

god: FINE

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@BonehouseWasps @hungry_joe my husband's friends used to play a game called Tapier's rapier, where you had to pick an animal and then make up rhyming slang for their penis but he said the game always ended whenever anyone said Dik Dik's dickdick. I imagine it a bit like Mornington Crescent but less classy

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@Red_Shirt_no2 @BonehouseWasps @hungry_joe He said Armadillo's armoured dildo is also an acceptable answer so obviously you have some poetic license with the rhyming pentameter

@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk avatar pikesley , to random

I have the week off. I will be Making Stuff

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@pikesley Cool! what is it?

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@TheBreadmonkey @pikesley I'm still laughing at my own joke 24 hours later

@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

"Brands labelled "fast fashion" are not to blame for overconsumption"
https://www.just-style.com/features/why-fast-fashion-must-be-seen-as-behaviour-not-brand-for-degrowth/

Hello?

It's 1984 all over again. Fast fashion is the very essence of overconsumption.

Slow.

We must radically slow down

Slow fashion

Slow food

Slow transport

Slow thinking

Slow action

Slow life

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@gerrymcgovern the problem is written in the subtitle. Can an economy of degrowth create profit? I think the answer is No, because the purpose of degrowth is to satisfy need and not profit. I'm not an expert but I am optimistic about the ability for humans to imagine a better world and in my better world the creation of profit is something we've let go of. I suppose that might be too far of a leap for an industry report magazine. I don't think sustainable and profit belong in the same sentence

@tiny_m@indieweb.social avatar tiny_m , to random

You probably all know this but The clothing industry is the second-largest polluter in the world, after oil and gas.
The fashion industry is responsible for 8-10% of global carbon emissions, more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.
Also the second-biggest consumer of water, and garment production is responsible for 20% of all global industrial water pollution.
85% of all textiles go to landfill, including the majority of what you take to the charity shop

@Rachelburch@mastodon.social avatar Rachelburch , to random

is a project where you make a collage with you in the middle, with your art around you, here’s my effort, with pictures taken this year, , .

A square collage of 9 photos with me in the middle.
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@Rachelburch Thank you for posting this. I've not come across it before but I love it. Yours is so beautiful.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to bookstodon group

Children seem to be reading books for pleasure less than they were:

So the Q. is: do they return to reading later in life (I know, I did; I hardly read at all at 18, but by my late 20s was reading much more);

or are they finding other forms of reading offer equal pleasure & value (on screen perhaps?).

Or are they rejecting reading books for pleasure altogether?

Perhaps reading is just changing & they will they (re)discover the joy of books later?

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/05/report-fall-in-children-reading-for-pleasure-national-literacy-trust

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@ChrisMayLA6 bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group my kid is 9, dramatic tension necessary for fiction really upsets him, so in recent years he has completely rejected fiction in the forms of TV, film and books. He will entertain short form videos and cartoons on a screen and also really enjoys fiction in computer games. I think its lower stakes and less emotionally demanding for him. He is being encouraged to read a wider variety and he is trying although there were tears about it recently. I don't want to push too hard

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@Rhube @ChrisMayLA6 bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group I would say the quality of books available for him through school of even the local library is pretty dire. We order stuff from the library so we can choose our own but its hard to discover good stuff that he will accept and he's given no help at all through school to find that. They don't have the resources to support that so its all on parents, which is fair enough. We love reading so we want him to love it too