crowdyke @crowdyke@mastodon.cloud
Writer, performer, musician, photographer aged beyond my years
Here is a photo and a fascinating article about a seed bag dating back to about AD20 that was found in Arkansas.
The seeds are an extinct variety of domesticated chenopodium (related to quinoa) from North America. The bag is of even more interest to me because it’s whole, and it was made of yucca fiber and bast fiber from the retted inner bark of a tree, probably paw-paw. That is SO COOL.
https://archeology.uark.edu/ozarkbluffshelters/archeological-sites/edens-bluff-seed-bag/
Looking to commission some prints using a marbling effect as typography. I’d prefer to work with a queer or trans artist. Recs? Please RT.
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Such beauty.
Spring! Frogspawn. Goodbye slugs - hello froglettes.
EXTREME MEATPUNKS FOREVER is looking for a character artist!!
* Paid position
* Artstyle similar to the one seen below
* Must be able to draw a variety of body types
* Q/T/PoC preferred
Email hthrflowers@gmail with portfolio if you're interested!!
drone gets taken down by a house panther
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Internet culture *is* culture. The Internet is what people are really like.
A moment of diasporic joy: I'm working the front desk at the LGBTQIA center at UC Davis and an older Chinese lady comes in for resources. I tell her 中文也可以. I tell her 欢迎来到美国. She asks me if my parents know and I get to tell her yes.
Privacy Badger automatically blocks advertisers from tracking you across multiple websites without your permission. To the advertiser, it's like you suddenly disappeared. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/982402672656396288
How do I see all my toots?
Yesterday endured Black Panther. If you enjoyed the film about a warrior woman winning ww2 this is out of the same mould.
Been to The Light Cinema to watch Isle of Dogs. Only fell asleep twice. On leaving my friend said "Great. Really looking forward to going home and cleaning my oven."
https://mastodon.cloud/media/Zl3uniMKR_VtwI__fEM The Light Cinema
The Chinese have been in Liverpool for centuries. They have brought a few mates along and put on a show.
The Terracotta Warriors are here.
Interesting exhibition. Must prebook. All tickets are timed but once you are in nobody is doing "hurry along there!"
Value for money.
Not posting pictures. Loads online.
Get down to Liverpool. Enjoy the exhibition. Get down to Chinatown. Enjoy your meal. Hit the town. Collapse . Rinse repeat.
This site has been left hanging for years. Something wrong in this country. Shortage of accommodation and still people are sitting on land. Sick.
This is the first time this year my bike has been out of the shed. It's been too cold, too wet, too windy - today is Goldilocks perfect.
Hello Mastodon. It's been a long time since I've logged in! I think I need more accounts to follow.
This piece is so good. It's got a lot about 80s phone culture and answering machines going on it, which is a major theme in her early work, but there's a very forward, present theme about US military intervention. 'Here come the planes. They're American planes.' and the part about 'chemical arms' and 'electronic arms'.
I bought an album several years ago that was a live performance of this piece from late in the month of September in 2001. The liner notes talked about the intensity of the 'here come the planes' section and the lasting consequences of us imperialism.
I love the political at of the 70s and 80s that's uncompromising in both the art and the politics and this is such a brilliant example of it that charted. Such a wonderful piece.
