Beaver supermoon, rising over the fields, lighting the way for the geese.

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Its been so long since Build-a-Frog came across my dash. I needed them today :)

im sobbing omg

Please do build a frog its very nice

This was my first build a frog experience! And IT WAS SO LOVELY!

When was the last time you cleaned your sewing machine? It's a simple task, and something I do between projects. Have you noticed your thread tangling or tearing? Stitches being skipped? A funky noise that shouldn't be there? Chances are your machine needs to be cleaned. Cleaning it will prevent it from breaking down and requiring repairs, and that can get very expensive.

Just a reminder to clean your machine. This is mine after finishing the quilting of a table runner and piecing the current one. If your machine is skipping stitches or the bobbin thread isn't behaving. Check your machine. It may just need some cleaning.

Just a friendly reminder to clean your sewing machine.

And oil it, if it's one that requires oiling!

And maybe also consider if it's time to get a fresh needle

do you ever have such a monumentally bad brain day that you just take away its mic?

like...... buddy, you are producing insanely bad thoughts today and believing them, I'll take it from here, get off the stage

I don't know if this is asked in earnest or just a thought but since I'm waiting for my therapy session, here it goes

The method I worked out for myself is to pretend that there's this personal assistant (Barbara) to my brain. The thoughts and emotions are clients who either come to pitch an idea or to demand attention from the boss.

Most are important and relevant thoughts; but sometimes they come at the wrong time (if I wake up at night worrying about a task I just imagine Barbara in her pyjamas groggily telling the thoughts to come during office hours).

And some clients (mean thoughts, false beliefs, anxiety jabs) I just imagine as panicked or rude customers that need to be treated as such. You are not getting audience with the boss until you can state your purpose calmly and clearly. If you insist on being rude, I'll throw you out.

It helps you separate yourself from the thoughts and gives you time to evaluate if they need to be acted on. My therapist loves Barbara

Keep in mind, this sort of thing is a SKILL. That means you can get better at it if you practice! It works quite well!

(You may not have a Barbara. You may have a Kevin, like I do, who is the one saying the insanely bad thoughts, and every once in a while you have to be like "nobody asked you, Kevin" and shove him into a locker. I normally engage with those thoughts a little, to make sure they aren't covering up a real immediate need, but sometimes you just know there's nothing good in there and you can safely just shut the lid on the dumpster for the night.)

I love both of these SO MUCH

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Midnight Pals: Lectures

[unicorn fuck club] JRR Tolkien: sorry chaps I can't speak tonight Tolkien: i'm afraid i'm quite busy at my day job Tolkien: being a professor at oxford CS Lewis: wow, a professor AND a writer? must be hard Tolkien: you have no idea

Tolkien: let me tell you Tolkien: being a professor is no cake walk CS Lewis: oh? Tolkien: yeah, see Tolkien: there's this one really annoying student

Tolkien: i can't wait to get away from this stupid teaching Tolkien: and get back to what's really important Tolkien: sexy sexy hobbit feet Tolkien: now if there's no questions, i think we can end class early Diana Wynne Jones: actually professor Jones: i have several questions Tolkien: jesus fucking christ

Diana Wynne Jones: [raising hand] professor, professor! Jones: pick me, professor, I'm ever so smart! Tolkien: goddamnit Tolkien: i'll show her Tolkien: i'll make this lecture so incredibly boring that she'll HAVE to drop the class Tolkien: heh heh delightfully devilish, jirt!

Tolkien: allow me to introduce myself Tolkien: they call me professor Tolkien Tolkien: i'm dull and drab and dreary Tolkien: and that ain't even jokin'!

Tolkien: my monotonous drone can hypnotize! Tolkien: my boring mumbles will paralyze! Tolkien: my lectures are real dull, not thought provokin' Tolkien: t-t-t-tedious! t-t-tiresome! Tolkien: T-t-t-t-Tolkien! Tolkien: DON'T MESS WITH THE PROFESSOR!!

Tolkien: so in conclusion Tolkien: that's why hobbits never wear shoes Tolkien: now since everyone's left for the day- Jones: i'm still here! Tolkien: Tolkien: [through gritted teeth] so you are

Tolkien: look diana it's not that you're not a good student Tolkien: i certainly do find the idea of female students to be a fascinating concept Tolkien: but couldn't you go to Tolkien: maybe a different lecture? Tolkien: i hear CS Lewis does some good ones Tolkien: everyone knows he's the fun professor

CS Lewis: so the administration says i gotta grade you Lewis: here's what i think of their rules, man Lewis: [throws rule book out window, students gasp] Lewis: that's right Lewis: [sits backwards on chair] i'm not just a professor Lewis: i'm a COOL professor

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Civil rights pioneer

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

Her death was announced Tuesday by the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation. Ashley D. Roseboro of the organization confirmed she died in Texas.

Colvin was arrested months before Rosa Parks gained international fame before refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.

I was scrolling through tiktok and heard "Ea-Nasir" and I knew I had to share lol

"Variety: You guys have really become best friends."

Connor: "He was just here for a week and stayed at my place. It’s really enlightening about the culture of how men and man-on-man affection is received because you don’t see that a lot. It’s taboo for men to be friends and grab each other a certain way or hold hands. And me and Hudson being in such a sexual circumstance with one another, it’s really interesting to watch people sexualize our very amicable signs of affection. That just shows where the culture is still at in a way like, “Oh, these two men…” Just because we’re really comfortable with each other and we love each other, we’ve been through the craziest experience together, we’re on this crazy rollercoaster together, if I have my hand on his leg as we’re sitting down doing a press thing because he’s my best buddy and I love him, and we have that level of comfort. It’s just interesting that that instantly gets turned into, “They’re more than friends.”"

via Variety

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just some of the the changes in design for the Penguin Symbol on old Penguin Paperbacks 

he did a little dance and for this crime he was imprisoned in a bubble

They liked his little dance so much they gave him a spotlight

family album

typewriter!

I love the orchestra trying and failing to maintain a straight face throughout

Exactly. These people had to rehearse at least a few times all at once yet when it's nkt their turn to play they still look at that guy with the typewriter as if he was the most fascinating thing they have ever seen.

My husband's wind ensemble played this song when he was in high school! you can do it with normal auxillery percussion, but it's so much more fun if you do it with a real typewriter

now that is a writing mood

they were really like, the only reasonable approach to this piece is to insert a clown at the center of the orchestra

If you're not playing Leroy Anderson's 1953 classic "The Typewriter" with an actual typewriter on stage... why would you even BOTHER?

From wiki

According to the composer himself, as well as other musicians, the typewriter part is difficult because of how fast the typing speed is: even professional stenographers cannot do it, and only professional drummers have the necessary wrist flexibility

i spent $32 on this fucking bowl at the moma and at first i felt bad buying it bc it was so expensive but ive had a terrible day today and every time i look at my lil bowl im like :o) you know what. i can get through anything with this bowl by my side

i literally get what marie kondo was talking about now

bc everyone keeps requesting to see it filled :)

I don’t know how long I’ve been here. Time seems to pass differently. But the place is cozy and private so I have no complaints. And whenever I’m hungry, I go outside with my bowl and walk down the hill to the shore. Sometimes the lake is made of soup. Sometimes it’s huge pasta noodles the size of barges. Sometimes it’s breakfast cereal. Sometimes it’s dumplings the size of great whales. I dip my little bowl and take a portion and carry it back up to the house.

Today I found a new bowl! In its center is a little hill with a little house. I will carry it down to the shore and fill it up, and whomever lives in that little house can have a tiny portion of my meal. I hope they have a nice bowl to put it in..

Snow at Sawatari, by Takahashi Hiroaki (ca. 1930).

Jean Fleming (British, 1937-1988), Glasgow Window. Gouache on paper, 59 x 42 cm.

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thank you yes, I did need this today