wyomingnot replied to your post “on the one hand

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wyomingnot replied to your post “on the one hand using duolingo’s desktop site made me install a…”

I get points on the desktop site, just not extras like the ‘combo bonus’ (whatever that is) or the weekend challenge. *shrug* maybe you’re supposed to 'learn’ on the desktop and practice on the app? dunno. i find the practices easier on the app than on desktop.

WHAT IS THE COMBO BONUS

I sort of thought I’d figure it out but for real I have not. combo of what. Great now I have another existential mystery to torment me.
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I pieced this square for the crazy quilt that had no embroidery or anything, it was just strips of..

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I pieced this square for the crazy quilt that had no embroidery or anything, it was just strips of offcut fabrics that I stitched painstakingly together. And if I hold it horizontally… it kind of looks like a snowy field in dusk. 

I want to do one like that all in shades of white. Shapes like that, all white on white. Linen, cotton, velvet, organza, lawn, muslin, cheesecloth. All strips, some frayed. Just, pieced and sewn down, maybe with white embroidery or topstitching.

I dunno if I’d use it for this quilt but I just feel like it would look really cool. 

(shitty blurry photo behind cut because that’s what i have)

anyhow i feel like. that would be. I dunno. Sort of Artsy. 

I got no punchline here. It’s just an idea. 
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givemeinternet: Saw a guy protesting winter

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givemeinternet:

Saw a guy protesting winter
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"The basic assumption with which we must begin any theorizing about the past is that men and women..

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“The basic assumption with which we must begin any theorizing about the past is that men and women built civilization jointly. Starting as we do from the end result and reasoning back, we thus ask a different question than that of a single-cause ‘origin.’ We ask: how did men and women in their society-building and in the construction of what we call Western civilization arrive at the present state? Once we abandon the concept of women as historical victims, acted upon by violent men, inexplicable ‘forces,’ and societal institutions, we must explain the central puzzle–woman’s participation in the construction of the system which subordinates her. I suggest abandoning the search for an empowering past–the search for matriarchy–is the first step in the right direction. The creation of compensatory myths of the distant past of women will not emancipate women in the present and the future. The patriarchal mode of thought is so built into our mental processes that we cannot exclude it unless we first make ourselves consciously aware of it, which always means a special effort. Thus, in thinking about the prehistoric past of women, we are so much locked into the explanatory androcentric system that the only alternate model that readily comes to mind is that of reversal. If not patriarchy, then there must have been matriarchy. Undoubtedly there were many different modes in which men and women organized society and allocated power and resources. None of the archaeological evidence we have is conclusive and sufficient to allow us to construct a scientifically sound model of that important period of the transition from Neolithic hunting/gathering to sedentary agricultural societies. The way of the anthropologists, who offer us examples of contemporary hunting/gathering societies and draw from them inferences about societies in the fifth millennium B.C., is no less speculative than is that of the philosopher and the specialist in religious studies who reason from literature and myths. The point is that most of the speculative models have been androcentric and have assumed the naturalness of patriarchy, and the few feminist models have been ahistorical and therefore, to my mind, unsatisfactory.”

- from The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner (1986)
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Sorry I’m on mobile so I can’t cut this

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Sorry I’m on mobile so I can’t cut this for hilarigross bodily function TMI but I just pooped and it smelled eerily like cow shit and I literally scrolled through all the contacts on my phone like “who can I text about this” and struck out completely so you all are the winners or losers here, but not as big a loser as I am, having just realized I have no Real Friends.
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I got an astrological day planner on sale because it was...

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I got an astrological day planner on sale because it was Whimsical and it informs me today’s color is gray but I didn’t get the memo in time so it’s Blue Monday instead. #fatshionfebruary
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I! Am! A! Delight! In other news today I sprayed my phone with that disinfectant Lysol spray stuff..

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I! Am! A! Delight!
In other news today I sprayed my phone with that disinfectant Lysol spray stuff and it made me think too much about how seldom anyone does that and oh my god.
There’s your Thought Of The Day: Disinfect Your Goddamn Smartphone.
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ineptshieldmaid replied to your post “Sorry

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ineptshieldmaid replied to your post “Sorry I’m on mobile so I can’t cut this for hilarigross bodily…”

Surely Farmsister? Or call up to inform FarmBaby, bet she’d love this news

Farmsister has, and this is hilariously apt, a strict no-bullshit policy.

I never actually really check my follower count but I just lost three followers and i absolutely, utterly, totally deserve it. I’m sorry! LOL.
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ithelpstodream: “Mexican immigrants were said to

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ithelpstodream:

“Mexican immigrants were said to be holding down wages and taking jobs that could go to honest Americans. The poorest natives were supposed to be suffering most grievously. “We cannot afford to disregard it,” intoned the president. “We do not condone it.” The immigrants were soon sent home and not allowed to return.

All that happened in the early 1960s. The president was John F. Kennedy; the Mexicans were participating in the braceroprogramme, which allowed almost half a million people a year to take seasonal work on America’s farms. But the parallels with the present are plain. Donald Trump has also complained that immigrants are keeping Americans from good jobs and has promised to do something about it (another parallel: not since Kennedy has America seen such an astonishing presidential coiffure). So it is a good moment for a bracing new assessment of the braceroscheme and its demise.

Michael Clemens and Hannah Postel of the Centre for Global Development, and Ethan Lewis of Dartmouth College, have used archived records of American agricultural jobs and wages to test whether Kennedy was right. Did ending the bracero scheme in 1964 in fact lead to higher wages and more work for Americans in the fields?”

keep reading:

https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21716055-least-it-didnt-when-america-tried-1960s-kicking-out-immigrants-doesnt-raise?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/kickingoutimmigrantsdoesntraisewages
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I always forget and paint my nails right before I have to do...

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I always forget and paint my nails right before I have to do product shots. I sometimes use my hands to get specific angles and for scale, but I also try to maintain a kind of plausibly gender-neutral aesthetic for the Etsy store, so I gotta figure out how to keep my nails out of shots like this.
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