unicornduke
@unicornduke.bsky.social
fiber arts, women's hockey and baking are cool
I deliberately brought only a knitting project with me on this trip so I would work on the knitting but honestly, I actually just want to be spinning right now and I resent the knitting.
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I deliberately brought only a knitting project with me on this trip so I would work on the knitting but honestly, I actually just want to be spinning right now and I resent the knitting.
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it's here
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
2025 Queer Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
Welcome to the 2025 list of queer adult science-fiction and fantasy books! If you’re new to this dance, this list and the ones before (see: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019) are my answer t…
kadoore.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
it's here
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
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Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
Hello queers and fears, it's almost Pride Month and I've got a gift for you:
the first six months of the 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
I'm organizing this by month so click on through!
the first six months of the 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
I'm organizing this by month so click on through!
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
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I have two things I would really like people to internalize about the fashion industry/garment manufacturing, and they are:
1. Mass manufactured clothes are only ever intended to fit "good enough," and;
2. Everything you wear was made by actual human people.
1. Mass manufactured clothes are only ever intended to fit "good enough," and;
2. Everything you wear was made by actual human people.
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I have two things I would really like people to internalize about the fashion industry/garment manufacturing, and they are:
1. Mass manufactured clothes are only ever intended to fit "good enough," and;
2. Everything you wear was made by actual human people.
1. Mass manufactured clothes are only ever intended to fit "good enough," and;
2. Everything you wear was made by actual human people.
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An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
www.publicbooks.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
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California’s child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
California's child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
www.latimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
California’s child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Some people are saying deep fry turkey gender reveal and why would you even put that out there.
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Some people are saying deep fry turkey gender reveal and why would you even put that out there.
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I wrote about a potential IOC ban over transgender, intersex and DSD athletes and how that ties in with the tragic death of Lia Smith here in the U.S.
Mostly, I ask is anyone going to care about those who have been hurt the entire time by this movement?
Mostly, I ask is anyone going to care about those who have been hurt the entire time by this movement?
What happens when the dog catches the car does it just stop and wag its tail and everyone pats it on the head saying good job?
Ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea the IOC held a series of roundtables with journalists on a number of topics. This was a standard thing that their media relations team wou...
www.sydney-bauer.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I wrote about a potential IOC ban over transgender, intersex and DSD athletes and how that ties in with the tragic death of Lia Smith here in the U.S.
Mostly, I ask is anyone going to care about those who have been hurt the entire time by this movement?
Mostly, I ask is anyone going to care about those who have been hurt the entire time by this movement?
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
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I wrote the first version of this draft almost exactly a year ago, but I wasn’t ready.
I am now.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/27/t...
I am now.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/27/t...
Texas Is a Lot More Queer Than You Think. I Am Too.
There are 1.8 million of us, and we’re not going anywhere.
thebarbedwire.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I wrote the first version of this draft almost exactly a year ago, but I wasn’t ready.
I am now.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/27/t...
I am now.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/27/t...
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Iowa farmers are largely corn and soybeans and receive subsidies for those crops directly. The size of dairy farms varies widely by state, Tyson outsources the risk of raising the chickens to farmers who are effectively sharecroppers, & to explain the emerging probs in beef is a dissertation
I think we might need to get a little sharper about class analysis in "rural" states. Iowa farmers (mostly millionaire landowners) =/= farm workers =/= John Deere Dealers =/= small town service sector =/= public sector =/= Des Moines normal white collar. I can imagine fractures in that formation.
Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.
October 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Iowa farmers are largely corn and soybeans and receive subsidies for those crops directly. The size of dairy farms varies widely by state, Tyson outsources the risk of raising the chickens to farmers who are effectively sharecroppers, & to explain the emerging probs in beef is a dissertation
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Help, I think my dog might be broken
September 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Help, I think my dog might be broken
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It’s not healthy to spend too much time in rooms where all the walls meet at exactly 90 degrees.
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It’s not healthy to spend too much time in rooms where all the walls meet at exactly 90 degrees.
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as someone who is full time farming, it is absolute fantasy to consider. with all the equipment, resources, land and experience I have, I *might* be able to feed my immediate family if I magically got the ability to harvest everything and then cook/preserve it all which is also a full time job
People saying that you need to garden, that your back yard garden will allow you to be self-sustaining and even feed other people, that you can do a full time job while having this self-sustaining garden, that you can do this gardening while disabled:
Wildly fucking unhinged. Cartoon fantasy shit.
Wildly fucking unhinged. Cartoon fantasy shit.
October 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
as someone who is full time farming, it is absolute fantasy to consider. with all the equipment, resources, land and experience I have, I *might* be able to feed my immediate family if I magically got the ability to harvest everything and then cook/preserve it all which is also a full time job
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I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
October 20, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
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Finished this quilt top today! Pattern by @pitchersboutique.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Finished this quilt top today! Pattern by @pitchersboutique.bsky.social
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I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
How trans visibility became a trap
People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.
www.theverge.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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October 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Mongol bling fashion from early 14th century.
A bag, worn with straps, made in early 1300's Ilkhanid Mosul, belonging probably to a noblewoman featuring inlaid gold and silver figures of a horseman, musicians and the khatun herself.
Kept at the Courtauld gallery, UK.
A bag, worn with straps, made in early 1300's Ilkhanid Mosul, belonging probably to a noblewoman featuring inlaid gold and silver figures of a horseman, musicians and the khatun herself.
Kept at the Courtauld gallery, UK.
October 12, 2023 at 5:16 AM
Mongol bling fashion from early 14th century.
A bag, worn with straps, made in early 1300's Ilkhanid Mosul, belonging probably to a noblewoman featuring inlaid gold and silver figures of a horseman, musicians and the khatun herself.
Kept at the Courtauld gallery, UK.
A bag, worn with straps, made in early 1300's Ilkhanid Mosul, belonging probably to a noblewoman featuring inlaid gold and silver figures of a horseman, musicians and the khatun herself.
Kept at the Courtauld gallery, UK.
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This is gorgeous! Thanks to @authormsbev.bsky.social for the link.
Ndlovu Youth Choir - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Music Video) isiZulu version
YouTube video by Ndlovu Youth Choir
www.youtube.com
August 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
This is gorgeous! Thanks to @authormsbev.bsky.social for the link.
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my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
August 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy