I spent some time this week really un-fucking my kitchen (alongside other parts of my house) as I've been filled with energy and motivation, which is good!
Regrettably, I have ADHD so cleaning the kitchen has culminated in me learning how to make netting and I'm the process of making a string bag because I thought "I need a better way to store my onions".
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Hi friends, we're back! No poll this time, I have decided unilaterally that we're doing filet lace next! First post coming up in the next couple days :)
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fishing my bamboo rod.
net rod and flys by me.
#flyfishing #fishingnet #tweed
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People seemed to really like my previous string onion bag post so here's the updated version. The holes on the first bag were too big, meaning onions could fall out, which you may note is not a great feature in a bag for holding onions.
So I made a new one, took a couple of hours while watching a film. Used a different type of string, not for the aesthetics (though I think it's nicer), just because I was at my partner's and he only had garden twine.
If you look closely at this crappy photos you should be able to see that it's got a large opening in the side so you can reach in and get onions out.
Practical, relatively pretty and a great hand activity so you can watch a film without getting totally distracted. Only required a roll of twine and a bit of scrap cardboard too.
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You know the point of "protecting the children" dogwhistles, right? It's a reference to the idea that all queer people are child abusers. Super common belief among homophobes and transphobes, including (sometimes especially) gay ones.
It's also not just "a dogwhistle". When pressed to explain what exactly they want to protect children from, it's a ready-made emotional appeal to something that has broad social support. Most people, even if they don't like being around kids, are also not pro-child abuse. That's why conservatives go out of their way to invent (even if it's completely fictional) "reasons" why acceptance of gay and trans people amounts to child abuse. It helps them create an emotional connection with their target audience, and can be leveraged into logically ridiculous arguments like "well, if you don't agree with my platform, you must be pro child abuse, because I'm on the side of The Children".
"Protecting the children" is also super appealing to parents in particular, not because all parents are secretly authoritarians, but because it's super common to have a child and realize "Oh shit, I brought this person who can't defend themselves into the world and the world kind of sucks", and to feel horribly, horribly inadequate in the face of that.
I get very tired of people who mock, scorn, and ridicule people for falling for these rhetorical traps, or being snared by something that seems common-sense but disguises something ugly underneath. They are traps. That is what they're meant to be. That is why there are gay people who fall for anti-queer rhetoric, and get pulled into exclusionist or violently reactionary circles. We all have things we are vulnerable to, whether that is a history of being abused or a deep fear that we cannot protect our own children, who we brought into the world and are responsible for the protection of. And we gain nothing by mocking the latter.
I'm sure it makes some people feel great to say "well if you were really who you claim to be, you wouldn't fall for this shit", but frankly, that's a stupid-ass take. It misses entirely that these messages are carefully crafted by the people who hate us! They workshop these statements! They spend months or years trying to find the right message and when they find it they use the hell out of it, because it works. Because they are listening to the public conversations people are having online, and it doesn't take any level of basic agreement to be capable of regurgitating the party line word-for-word.
I am so sick of people who look at a deeply-embedded struggle over social and political ideals and think that this fight won't demand our whole brains and hearts and souls and yeah, we might fuck up because we care deeply and sometimes, people with bad intentions prey on that. On our grief and our fear and our rage.
And I'm frankly a lot more nervous around people who refuse to be aware of that, especially when they loudly mock the people who are willing to acknowledge their own fallibility and explore how they got ensnared in something. People are not moral machines, they are people.
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