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28 | He/Him | 🏳️‍⚧️ | Drawings, Paintings, and Weavings!

Still weaving by the way! I scored a heavily discounted multi shaft loom, and now im trying to figure out how to handsew this cute printed cotton to the back side of one of my first samples with the world’s tiniest iron and all that jazz

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If anyone wants more reason to advocate for 100% gender neutral bathrooms, look no further than Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool 2026 The women’s bathroom lines constantly wrapped around buildings and I just walked past with 0 wait time. Trans men with IBS rejoice! //j

I saw this model by Gaetano Giulio Zumbo in Paris on Saturday. He was a wax modeller who worked with a surgeon in Genoa, replicating his dissections in wax. Only two of his models survive from the end of the 17thC. I’ve posted photos of the one in La Specola in Florence before - this is the other

A wax model of the head of an elderly man with the skin peeled back to reveal the skull

It’s hard to post my fiber stuff sometimes because I’m so new to it! I’ll get a lot of learning done but I’ll see my doily and think “ehhh idk” This sounds like a habit to break

These little tools are apple scoops. They date from the 1800s and are made of sheep bone. They were common in apple-growing districts. The marrow has been hollowed out to allow the user to scrape off pieces of apple if they had few teeth and couldn’t afford dentures.

Four sheep metatarsals that have been hollowed out to make a spoon

I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once. And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.

Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · last yr.

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...