Please enjoy this shitshow of a promo image I made so that I can tell you that holiday sales are now open

These leather thimbles and also other ones of varying colors and leather types are available in my Etsy store. I also do custom sizing, if you click on the listing that says "bespoke."

(Also this is not relevant to this post at all but look at the gorgeous antique Singer I refurbished myself isn't she preeeeetty? I love her. I hung thimbles on her because irony is edgy.)

Every mail service has been ehhhhhhhh during the holidays the last couple of years so get your orders in early! I'm shipping within 1-3 days right now just in case, but these are made to order so just like, be aware of that.

And because I love y'all Tumblrinas so much I have a special Tumblr discount code for 10% off: enter the code D3VILSS4CRAM3NT at checkout and get a surprise!

(it's 10% off. That's it. It's not really a surprise because I just said it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Here is the link to the Etsy store:

Here are nice things people have said about the leather thimbles I make from repurposed leather offcuts that are sustainable and comfortable and also aesthetically pleasing:

✨"fits perfectly and is of good quality. would recommend."✨

✨"matches the pictures and description"✨

✨"❤️❤️❤️"✨

And you know what, I'm going to share my two favorite ones too:

This one was in a message a customer sent me that legit made me cry:

Oh and there was this very nice one from ✨BERNADETTE BANNER✨:

No joke, it was in one of her videos:

OK that's it, enjoy the holidays and thank you for boosting this post if you did!

I may be a one person small business operation but I've invested heavily in the best safety inspection staff kibble can buy:

Foster kitten is also a fan. Maybe I should be making these for cats, not people?

I have a friend who’s 14 years older than me and likes movies and he likes to put on movie viewings. So over the last few years I’ve seen a smattering of cult-classic films from before I was born.

He showed us Labyrinth last night. And my main take-away is, well there was a lot going on there, but more importantly we desperately need more slut male villains.

The leggings. The boots. The full face of make up. The incomprehensible character actions, which leads me to believe David Bowie was not actually given a script, and he was instead handed a note that said “do whatever a devious little evil slut man would do” and everyone just crafted the puppets around that.

oh yeah so, David Bowie was just Like That

This used to haunt me so I'm so glad I know this now

So I had a hysterectomy today (hooray!) and I brought along my stuffed orca, Shamu, as a comfort object. And everyone i interacted with during my pre-op was like "Oh! Who's this?" so I was telling them all about him, how he's been with me since I was 9 and gone on every single vacation and road trip, and they were telling me about their own stuffed buddies (one lady said she still has hers after 40 years!) and all of this while I was signing consent forms and providing a list of the things I'd brought with me, you know, small talk.

So then a nurse comes over and goes "Okay, I've got some stickers I'll put on your things so we know they're yours" and I'm like "OK cool" so she puts a sticker on my coat and stickers on my bags of clothes and then she turns to Shamu and I'm like "oh I guess he gets a sticker too"

But no. She pulls out a hospital bracelet that's an exact copy of mine and slaps it on his tail, like so:

And i was delighted by this, so I took a picture to send to my friends, who were equally delighted, and were cracking me up with their reactions (like so:)

Anyway, they take me back and put me under, and when I awake groggily a few hours later it takes me a minute to get my bearings, so I don't notice Shamu at first. But then I realize he's tucked up next to me in the gurney, so I grab him, and my hand touches gauze.

And I'm like "huh?" so I look at him and I realize

They gave my fucking orca a hysterectomy

you have to understand the glass shattering over my head i felt when THIS was the first message i saw from noa after his surgery

IDK how humanity will ever recover from the damage created by COVID conspiracy theories. Like, of course we are seeing a huge spike in serious respiratory illnesses, we just experienced a period of time where it was common to travel long distances and be in confined spaces with multiple people while sharing food and drink. And COVID is still kicking about, not to mention it is flu season and N5N1 just claimed its first victim. Your local health authorities and medical professionals are not fucking lying to you. Wash your hands, wear a mask, avoid crowded places and stay home if you’re sick. Many hospitals are already feeling overwhelmed. Try not to end up there.

“It looks like they’re trying to lock us up again! 🤪” Like it’s good for the economy? Like there is some conspiratorial governmental benefit to not letting you go to fucking Pilates? People are trying not to fucking die.

and don't forget the noroviruses are around again, so wash your hands with soap (because that kind of virus is immune to hand sanitiser)

and don’t forget to GET VACCINATED!

apparently norovirus is spiking a lot this year (like, more so than the last several years), and having had it this weekend: it sucks! it’s extremely contagious! it turns your digestive tract into a smoothie! wash your fucking hands!

If they want us to go back to work and pretend everything's fine, it's a conspiracy. If they want us to be safe and wash our hands and wear a face mask, it's a conspiracy. Maybe the conspiracy is just that Qanon wants to keep getting hits so it can make money like literally every other website.

They didn't introduce a bill to just repeal the $35 cap on insulin.

They introduced a bill to repeal the entire Inflation Reduction Act.

Which, among other things, means they want to get rid of:

Saying they want to eliminate just the insulin cap is understating their desire to fuck people over.

[ID: tweet from Pete Aguilar @/PeteAguilar reads: I'm so angry - House Republicans have introduced legislation to repeal the $35/month cap on insulin that Democrats passed for seniors on Medicare. I need you to retweet and spread the word about this. Every voter needs to know. /end]

the way some people are talking about the fires in LA is really fucking gross.

people understand it’s not just rich celebrities who are losing their homes, right?

it’s also working-class families who have lived in their homes/neighborhoods for generations. it’s people who had their fire insurance canceled last month and just lost every single thing they own. and guess what? they won’t be able to afford to rebuild their homes or replace their belongings.

there is also an untold number of unhoused people who are being seriously impacted right now, either by the fires themselves or from the hazardous air and weather conditions that have been occurring.

so yeah some ultra-rich celebrities have been affected by these fires, but a lot of working-class people and vulnerable populations just lost everything.

it costs nothing to have some fucking empathy.

11 dead so far. An amputee and his adult son with cerebral palsy; an elderly woman who didn’t want to leave her pets; three working-class people of color who didn’t want to leave their homes to burn because they feared losing everything.

No rich elites have died. Stop cheering for the fire, you ghouls.

Do people understand that LA is diverse as fuck? Do they understand that the Palisades is not just celebrities but middle class families who aren't just white? Do they understand that the problem is the news media thinking that you only care about celebrities (because a lot of you do) which is why they're framing this story like this?

Do people understand that the area the Eaton fire completely destroyed is historically black and was a refuge for people escaping the Jim Crow south? That it was very much a middle and working class neighborhood with a long-standing history?

What if people dug real deep just for one second and found their humanity in a time of crisis especially while these fires are still going, instead of using a LITERAL NIGHTMARISH TRAGEDY as their personal posturing fodder. No one thinks you're a good person for shitting on a natural disaster, no matter how much you justify it with your tankie politics. They just don't want to say it out loud to you because you're so filled with hatred and selfishness that they know it's both pointless and they don't want to deal with your self righteousness being directed at them.

Also 5 people died in the Palisades fire as assessed so far, and frankly I don't think it's helpful to apply identity politics to this kind of devastation. The point is that fire doesn't care. This was 1000% a climate disaster. This is climate change. It doesn't care about your identity politics. It doesn't care if you're rich or poor or privileged or marginalized. We're not going to make any headway in fixing it if we pick and choose who we care about.

queer stories matter i'm gay and i saw a bird today

Henri Cartier-Bresson. Scanno, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy, 1951.

Here's the cartoon:

According to Telnaes, "The group in the cartoon included Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner."

For those of you too young to know, the Washington Post is the paper that broke the Watergate Scandal.

This is the paper that won a Pulitzer for its coverage of Jan6.

For this paper's owner to refuse to publish a political cartoon (specifically because it makes the owner and the President elect look bad) is a harbinger of deep and absolute facism, where the government controls the press.

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VERY well put, and right on the money. This betrayal to their history and calibre of reporting should have everyone angry, disgusted, and terrified.

*running up to you at the playground* do you want to play 12 angry men with me

I got this comment on my reddit post and I've got a bad feeling anyone who creates surreal art is going to have to deal with this going forward. My Otis art took about 15 hours to create and I don't actually think it has that uncanny look of AI, but anything weird is now being deemed to look the same.

Planet fitness is offering free showers, wifi, and charging stations to first responders and residents in the LA area who've been affected by the fires btw.

AirBNB is also offering free limited temporary housing to people displaced.

Mask Bloc LA is distributing free masks right now in Hollywood, exact location details in the link

mutual aid los angeles (MALA) has put together a spreadsheet with valuable resources for people affected by the ongoing los angeles wildfires and wind storm. the sheet is constantly being updated with resources such as shelter info, animal boarding info, addresses for distribution centers, volunteer opportunities and so much more.

please share this spreadsheet widely