Jen maps and knits
@helonaki.net
she/her, archaeologist/geographer. Makes things with yarn, thread, and fabric.
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Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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🏺📜 This is why it’s been crucial for archaeologists and museum workers to be speaking out against this genocide.
We all should be doing so regardless of our professions, but archaeology and cultural heritage have both been integral to Israel’s destruction of Gaza.
We all should be doing so regardless of our professions, but archaeology and cultural heritage have both been integral to Israel’s destruction of Gaza.
Gaza’s historical and cultural heritage has not been spared Israeli bombardment during Tel Aviv’s two-year war, with over 20,000 rare artifacts spanning from prehistoric eras to the Ottoman period missing and looted, Anadolu reports.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251117-isr...
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251117-isr...
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🏺📜 This is why it’s been crucial for archaeologists and museum workers to be speaking out against this genocide.
We all should be doing so regardless of our professions, but archaeology and cultural heritage have both been integral to Israel’s destruction of Gaza.
We all should be doing so regardless of our professions, but archaeology and cultural heritage have both been integral to Israel’s destruction of Gaza.
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I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.
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@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been saying the same since 2017.
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been saying the same since 2017.
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The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.
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We got 21 subscribers today so far! We need 59 more to hit our goal of 80 subs a day. A reminder that this money goes to cover costs of reprinting Bitch Media articles and publishing new feminist journalism and criticism! Subscribe here for 15% off: the-flytrap.ghost.io/feminist
The Flytrap
Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm
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October 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We got 21 subscribers today so far! We need 59 more to hit our goal of 80 subs a day. A reminder that this money goes to cover costs of reprinting Bitch Media articles and publishing new feminist journalism and criticism! Subscribe here for 15% off: the-flytrap.ghost.io/feminist
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Lately I've been telling people who pay me for talks to donate my fee to the St Louis Food Bank. These are hard times. In 2025, St Louis had a horrific tornado, a loss of federal aid, and now new SNAP cuts.
Help St Louis folks eat and donate here:
stlfoodbank.org/give-funds/
Help St Louis folks eat and donate here:
stlfoodbank.org/give-funds/
St. Louis Area Foodbank | Give Funds
Donors enable us to carry out our mission of empowering people with food and hope. There are a number of way to make a contribution. Donate today.
stlfoodbank.org
October 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Lately I've been telling people who pay me for talks to donate my fee to the St Louis Food Bank. These are hard times. In 2025, St Louis had a horrific tornado, a loss of federal aid, and now new SNAP cuts.
Help St Louis folks eat and donate here:
stlfoodbank.org/give-funds/
Help St Louis folks eat and donate here:
stlfoodbank.org/give-funds/
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October 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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THIS is how you do it
Chicago cyclists are buying out tamale carts to keep vendors home and safe from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42KQ57O
October 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
THIS is how you do it
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#knitting since it is Spooky season, here is a throwback to ¡Anticraft! Back in the stitch n bitch 00's knitting days, this was one of a few alternatives craft pattern sites I enjoyed.
theanticraft.com/archive.htm
theanticraft.com/archive.htm
¡The AntiCraft!
theanticraft.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
#knitting since it is Spooky season, here is a throwback to ¡Anticraft! Back in the stitch n bitch 00's knitting days, this was one of a few alternatives craft pattern sites I enjoyed.
theanticraft.com/archive.htm
theanticraft.com/archive.htm
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Cigna stop sending me LLM services without identifying them as such challenge
October 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Cigna stop sending me LLM services without identifying them as such challenge
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You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state
Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.
The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.
The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.
The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.
Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.
www.motherjones.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state
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The people behind @thecontinent.org have launched a new paper focused on South Africa called @thefridaypaper.bsky.social and the cover story is about gold and Johannesburg's new gold mine.
You can read it for free here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
You can read it for free here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
October 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The people behind @thecontinent.org have launched a new paper focused on South Africa called @thefridaypaper.bsky.social and the cover story is about gold and Johannesburg's new gold mine.
You can read it for free here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
You can read it for free here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
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In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
October 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
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Eman talked about why she was taking the risks involved with attending these protests here.
Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship
“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.
truthout.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Eman talked about why she was taking the risks involved with attending these protests here.
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@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.
October 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.
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I’m told ICE attacked us—despite us being off the street, courtesy of the state police—to create a spectacle because Kristi Noem was present today. Here’s some footage of her and her team on the roof of Broadview. Everything is content creation to these fascists.
October 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I’m told ICE attacked us—despite us being off the street, courtesy of the state police—to create a spectacle because Kristi Noem was present today. Here’s some footage of her and her team on the roof of Broadview. Everything is content creation to these fascists.
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VERY IMPORTANT NEWS #nutmegsky www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
An escaped miniature Scottish Highland bull is roaming eastern Connecticut
Lefty, a miniature Scottish Highland bull, escaped from his home in North Franklin and has spent the past week roaming the woods and fields near Norwich.
www.ctinsider.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
VERY IMPORTANT NEWS #nutmegsky www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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This is a clever concept - I love the fact that the 'd' is dropping down to land at the end of 'ground' in the final line. Bloody brilliant!
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookSky 💙📚
Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.
This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.
This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.
![The Problem of Writing Poems
in the Shape of Deciduous Trees
[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:
a comm n
pr ble whe writin
p ems in the shape of decid o s
trees is t at once t ere ar ives the fir t
sti rings of he new aut mn breeze, he
oems will begi to shake hemselves
ge tly ntil their letters loos n
d
like leaves, an
they
start
to
float
down
then
[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]
turntomushuponthegroun
[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3hptt3d3jvwahhnl3jvsycc2/bafkreicmofismc32qk26i4leqicdulf6ttgw45p33qtgjzvhfbi5mswgta@jpeg)
October 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This is a clever concept - I love the fact that the 'd' is dropping down to land at the end of 'ground' in the final line. Bloody brilliant!
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookSky 💙📚
I grew up in rural Nebraska with electricity from Nebraska REA, but hadn't known it's beginnings
Given my ongoing feud with PGE I greatly enjoyed this read about electricity coops.
How Co-Ops Electrified America—Asterisk
In the 1930s, private utilities balked at the task of bringing electricity to rural America. A New Deal agency figured out how to do it more quickly and more cheaply than anyone expected.
asteriskmag.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I grew up in rural Nebraska with electricity from Nebraska REA, but hadn't known it's beginnings
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Was introduced today to the work of Olia Fedorova, who makes striking embroidered textile maps (among other pieces) about Ukraine. Adding this to my list of examples for the Data Visualization with Textiles class. #DHmakes
Maps of the Disappearing — Olia Fedorova
www.oliafedorova.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Was introduced today to the work of Olia Fedorova, who makes striking embroidered textile maps (among other pieces) about Ukraine. Adding this to my list of examples for the Data Visualization with Textiles class. #DHmakes
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I didn't read the story, I am reposting this to complain that when your state actually has a city called Texas City, you should not use that descriptor in the headline. Just tell us what fucking city.
Officials OK'd the project earlier in 2025.
Texas city spending $900,000 to move 400-year-old oak tree
Officials OK'd the project earlier in 2025.
bit.ly
September 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I didn't read the story, I am reposting this to complain that when your state actually has a city called Texas City, you should not use that descriptor in the headline. Just tell us what fucking city.
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, why are they tryin' to cut ya down??
September 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, why are they tryin' to cut ya down??