It's obviously more difficult now because of the sheer number of options but, before fast fashion and even in the early days of mass production, people did know a lot more about clothes/fabrics. The loss of this general knowledge is what makes it so easy to sell this "slop."
If you enjoyed yesterday's thread and would like to do some reading on warp-weighted looms, ancient Greek textiles, and weaving in Homer's epics, here are some sources! The first four are books in my library, the rest will be free and open access.
The first story of Project 2052 is out! Sneak peak: hawks trained to destroy drones.
We're releasing another story every day this week, and we're hosting our launch party at Pilsen Community Books on Saturday.
https://t.co/ihmnl2UYe0
The most successful thing capitalism ever did was make labor invisible. Just consume, it doesn’t matter how it got here. It doesn’t matter who made it or the communities that are suffering from just being near the factories. You deserve a little treat!
Thousands of sandhill cranes never left Nebraska the entire winter, but sure keep denying that the climate is changing and getting warmer on average. It’s not like climate change is going to radically alter the agricultural industry or anything.
We've officially launched Project 2052, a website or revolutionary fiction and art in the world of Everything for Everyone. Here's our introduction, stay tuned this week for our first five stories! Pitch us an idea or help us pay writers by donating! https://t.co/Uou1jc1RLC
Athens-based media collective Kinografiko has just re-published one of their best zine collections, Against Imperial Confusion: Int’l Working Class Solidarity with Iran. You can download, print, and distribute it for free here! https://t.co/Ngfckpu9RO
We are now forced to close intake and not help anymore cats until we find homes for the adoptable cats in our care. We literally have no more space and I'm having to say no to cats who will die without us.
all these kittens are still here.
Please share.
📍 SF Bay Area
Free-Access PDF List: U.S. Imperialism and Global Domination (Historical, Political, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives)
"American Imperialism and the State, 1893-1921" by Colin D. Moore.
https://t.co/6RcdiFJD2k
Trump *is* doing debt cancellation.
It's just not your student or medical debts.
In his second term alone, Trump has already canceled $1.5 billion of criminal debt — payments fraudsters owe the federal government and victims.
They don't mind debt cancellation—for themselves.
Earth’s greatest enemy strikes again. The air suffocates. The water burns. It rains oil. The U.S. war machine created the greatest ecological crisis, through its pollution, its death toll, and preventing alternatives to emerge. Watch Earth’s Greatest Enemy by @EmpireFiles.
I had a feeling my neighbor is going to steal my car.
So I stole his car first. And kidnapped his children. Then burned down his house. Everything is normal.
🧵Am offline due to health reasons but a quick thread re today:
Notice how imperial feminists in US, UK, EU have been loudly ‘concerned’ about Iranian women for the past weeks? & how folk in those countries are worried about Iranian regime killing protesters since January?
These are the last two pages of "The False Prophet". I reposted the final paragraphs for emphasis.
The people running Israel today are the direct heirs of Kahane's movement. Netanyahu has partnered with them in a sadistic coalition. There is no limit to what they will do.
"People ask if I feel vindicated. It's an evil question. I wanted justice, not approval. No one needed to vindicate me. I knew I was right: I wanted the world to make me wrong."
https://t.co/4Leig8Apxf