Mahovina
@mahovina.bsky.social
Wild plants and lazy gardening enthusiast. Degrowth. GenX librarian, SE Europe woodlands.
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“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
Remembering Joan Didion, who would have been 91 today, with her classic meditation on self-respect www.themarginalian.org/2012/05/21/j...
Remembering Joan Didion, who would have been 91 today, with her classic meditation on self-respect www.themarginalian.org/2012/05/21/j...
Joan Didion on Self-Respect
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
Remembering Joan Didion, who would have been 91 today, with her classic meditation on self-respect www.themarginalian.org/2012/05/21/j...
Remembering Joan Didion, who would have been 91 today, with her classic meditation on self-respect www.themarginalian.org/2012/05/21/j...
This is how your email finds me. 🦫
December 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This is how your email finds me. 🦫
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Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Looking amazing on Halloween, and handsome still. 🎃
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Looking amazing on Halloween, and handsome still. 🎃
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Daily bunny no.3137 is highly invasive
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Daily bunny no.3137 is highly invasive
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I'm still confused about why people use fake nonsense when there are actual real photos you can easily find online.
This Facebook page has close to half a million followers.
On the left their picture, on the right real ones taken by Bob Willoughby in 1958.
This Facebook page has close to half a million followers.
On the left their picture, on the right real ones taken by Bob Willoughby in 1958.
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I'm still confused about why people use fake nonsense when there are actual real photos you can easily find online.
This Facebook page has close to half a million followers.
On the left their picture, on the right real ones taken by Bob Willoughby in 1958.
This Facebook page has close to half a million followers.
On the left their picture, on the right real ones taken by Bob Willoughby in 1958.
I didn't post for months again. My library put me on Facebook adimn duty and that eats up all the energy I can give to posting.
And we had some frost, so the garden and fields changed.
And we had some frost, so the garden and fields changed.
October 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I didn't post for months again. My library put me on Facebook adimn duty and that eats up all the energy I can give to posting.
And we had some frost, so the garden and fields changed.
And we had some frost, so the garden and fields changed.
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Rude bunny Anti A*I stickers are now in my shop!
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#nightmarket #cuteart #stickers #artshop
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#nightmarket #cuteart #stickers #artshop
September 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Rude bunny Anti A*I stickers are now in my shop!
ko-fi.com/s/5cac7a8b68
#nightmarket #cuteart #stickers #artshop
ko-fi.com/s/5cac7a8b68
#nightmarket #cuteart #stickers #artshop
Yaarrr!
Happy #TalkLikeaPirateDay! Here's a word from the Pirate chapter of "Words the Sea Gave Us" (amzn.to/2D3bSi7) to celebrate.
Bandana comes to English from Hindi, possibly via Portuguese. 🏴☠️🦜☠️ #etymology 🧵
Bandana comes to English from Hindi, possibly via Portuguese. 🏴☠️🦜☠️ #etymology 🧵
a man with dreadlocks and a bandana on his head is holding a sword
ALT: a man with dreadlocks and a bandana on his head is holding a sword
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September 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Yaarrr!
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September 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Loving this!
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Loving this!
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“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”
August 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”
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✨ NEW RELEASE ✨
🗡️ fantasy novella
⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals
🏹 gallant knights
👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom
enchanted plants and forests
🥀 romance and friendship
🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR
💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-...
📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
🗡️ fantasy novella
⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals
🏹 gallant knights
👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom
enchanted plants and forests
🥀 romance and friendship
🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR
💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-...
📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
August 7, 2025 at 3:09 AM
✨ NEW RELEASE ✨
🗡️ fantasy novella
⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals
🏹 gallant knights
👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom
enchanted plants and forests
🥀 romance and friendship
🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR
💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-...
📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
🗡️ fantasy novella
⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals
🏹 gallant knights
👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom
enchanted plants and forests
🥀 romance and friendship
🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR
💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-...
📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
This is what internet is for.
May 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
This is what internet is for.
To capture beauty of rosa canina (šipak, divlja ruža, rosehip, wild rose) bush flowering, one needs much better camera then mine is. But here is a shy spider in a flower, reminding us that flowers are not just for beauty, they are food, and shelter, the world.
May 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM
To capture beauty of rosa canina (šipak, divlja ruža, rosehip, wild rose) bush flowering, one needs much better camera then mine is. But here is a shy spider in a flower, reminding us that flowers are not just for beauty, they are food, and shelter, the world.
Caltha palustris (kaljužnica, kopitac, marsh marigold) are very pretty but do not pick them. Sap iritates skin, and plant is not safe to eat.
April 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Caltha palustris (kaljužnica, kopitac, marsh marigold) are very pretty but do not pick them. Sap iritates skin, and plant is not safe to eat.
Genuinly exited!
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Genuinly exited!
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I love Drew. If you can help his family out <3
You guys already know and love Buffy writer Drew Z Greenberg, even if you don't realize it. He truly helped give the show its empathetic beating heart. Tragically, Drew's family is in a crisis right now. If you can help, here's the link:
gofund.me/069dd36e
gofund.me/069dd36e
Donate to Drew, Josh, and Amanda Greenberg's Dad Needs Your Help, organized by Drew, Josh, and Amanda Greenberg
If you know us Greenberg siblings -- Drew, Josh and Amanda --… Drew, Josh, and Amanda Greenberg needs your support for Drew, Josh, and Amanda Greenberg's Dad Needs Your Help
gofund.me
April 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I love Drew. If you can help his family out <3
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Stick [1/4]
(All images in this thread are panels from a comic about a crow adopting an emotional support stick.)
(All images in this thread are panels from a comic about a crow adopting an emotional support stick.)
April 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Stick [1/4]
(All images in this thread are panels from a comic about a crow adopting an emotional support stick.)
(All images in this thread are panels from a comic about a crow adopting an emotional support stick.)
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Allium ursinum (srijemuš, medvjeđi luk, ramps) is a perennial that grows in the shade of european forests. The smell of wetland forest mixed with it's garlicky smell is very enjoyable. It's delicious and healthy and I see more people pick them every year.
April 3, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Allium ursinum (srijemuš, medvjeđi luk, ramps) is a perennial that grows in the shade of european forests. The smell of wetland forest mixed with it's garlicky smell is very enjoyable. It's delicious and healthy and I see more people pick them every year.