Moths in a human suit (they/them)

Jana H-S (she, like a knife)

16 Jan 2025

Bemused at all the people suddenly following me, so uhh. Hi? Here's some things to know. I swear a lot. If you're offended by words like wankspangled knobcockle, I'm not for you. I post many moths & other bugs. I talk/yell about alt text, chronic life, pencils, & paint. I post paint-making a lot…

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@jana-aych-ess.bsky.social

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that is to say, I think *this* is the point that it's important to keep our eyes on. they care about how we use our genitals, absolutely. but they care more that we break their understanding of the world

Jana H-S (she, like a knife)@jana-aych-ess.bsky.social

if these pathetic creatures can break your rules what good were your rules in the first place

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Jana H-S (she, like a knife)

@jana-aych-ess.bsky.social

there is an argument to be made that transphobia is based in a desire for (biological) reproductive control, and that's maybe tactically useful for getting reproductive justice types on board but I don't think that's actually at its root. imo, transphobia is based in a desire for ontological control

[Siren wailing] it's Sunday, it's pigment o'clock ⚠️ This is your incoming Sunday pigment shenanigans/shitposts warning. Today: last batch of madder root for the year, & making paint from madder pigment (after the chore of regritting my mulling plates)

Moths in a human suit (they/them)@lycomorpha.bsky.social

Decided I don't have the spoons to re-grit my paint-making plates now, so that canwait. Just gonna finish filtering the rest of the madder roots & alizarine made from the 1st half of roots. Then we can have some pigment shenanigans tomorrow 😊 Also turned my paint syringes. Lotta colours ont go rn!

You may be wondering why go to all this trouble? You can buy both synthetic & plant-derived pigments like alizarine ready-made. As the song goes, I do it cos I love it. It's satisfying to make & lake beautiful colours like goldenrod, alkanet or madder. You can buy dry or grow the plants yourself…

That was a previous batch of red madder lake - alizarine - that I mulled tonight while waiting for the filtration step. I also made this orange-pink madder lake pigment into paint. This comes from pouring alum then soda ash solutions through the spent roots from extracting alizarine...

Moths in a human suit (they/them)@lycomorpha.bsky.social

Anyhoo, once you've stewed the roots at 70°C awhile, filter out roots from the dye, keeping everything warm. This can take some time. Alizarine is water-soluble so it's good as a dye on its own. Laking is a process of binding & precipitating dye colourants to get insoluble pigment for paintmaking…

I lake plant dyes with aluminium sulphate (alum) to bind the colorant, and either sodium or potassium carbonate (soda ash or potash) to precipitate it as a solid. You can also use calcium carbonate (chalk). You can get an idea of how that looks from previous shenanigans, eg bsky.app/profile/lyco...

Moths in a human suit (they/them)@lycomorpha.bsky.social

[Siren wailing] it's that time again! ⚠️ This is your incoming Sunday pigment shenanigans/shitposts warning. Today: extraction of pinkish-orangeish colours from madder roots, after they've been digested to extract red madder lake (alizarine.) Also here's last times thread on alkanet root lake.

Moths in a human suit (they/them)@lycomorpha.bsky.social

- it's hard to stir using a magnetic flea cos there's so much roots… So I'm just stirring it with an old chopstick 🤷 While that's cooking for a couple hours, join me for more ✨glamorous✨ art-life activities like: - cleaning glue/tape off workshop scissors with HB42 - maintaining mulling plates...

The way I deal with paint-making equipment maintenance has changed over time because disability adaptation. So I'll quote this post into another thread on that for any other spoonie paint-makers (niche, I know.) Suffice to say, I mostly hate regritting especially cos it's hard work and very loud…

Moths in a human suit (they/them)@lycomorpha.bsky.social

OK so for anyone unfamiliar with my bullcrap, here's what's going on: - I'm making alizarine lake pigment from madder roots that have been fermented to make it easier to get the dye out - More making of madder lake pigments here bsky.app/profile/lyco... and here bsky.app/profile/lyco...

Moths in a human suit (they/them)@lycomorpha.bsky.social

So after digesting the roots awhile more at 70°C, I filtered the dye, heated it back to 70 again and laked it with alum and soda ash. (Lil more soda ash than usual because of the acidity from fermentation. The result is red madder lake (alizarine). It's exactly the colour you'd expect!...

@flyingrodent.bsky.social

At the workbench today we have: - big heap of fermented madder roots being heated to 70°C, cos alizarine (red) is in solution at ~65-75°C - technical info: heating block controlled by Home Assistant automation made in Node-RED, using Local Bytes smart socket & Sonoff Zigbee temp sensor w probe…

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flyingrodent

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There is no future point coming where any of these people are satisfied and content. The whole point of this style of extreme, hate-driven politics is *to always keep fighting and demanding more*, forever, no matter how much you get your way. They will evolve, grow arms and legs.

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flyingrodent

@flyingrodent.bsky.social

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How do you know these people are extremists? Because they cannot be appeased, even as our entire political/media class enforces their demands and repeats their drivel. It makes them not one bit happier, because they don’t want compliance: they want more extreme, forceful and violent measures.

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flyingrodent

@flyingrodent.bsky.social

Anyone who’s had this will tell you the same story and it is IMO important to understand the terror of transgender people as sex offenders is much the same thing as black-clad lads in the street shouting against migrants as sex offenders. They are different facets of the same reactionary project.

What does this lazy, ungrateful, self-employed spoonie do for work, anyway? Welcome to the "are u rly disabled tho/sick people are bankrupting the NHS" workbench. I make watercolour paint+pigments, do illustration work, run art/SciArt workshops, & make zines. 1st job today: assembling paint sets…

Moths in a human suit (they/them)@lycomorpha.bsky.social

I'm tired, hurty, & had my COVID & flu vax yesterday so I feel like boiled shite. I'm also gonna work this aft. I'm self employed. Gotta get 💩 ready for the holidays. I'm also juggling chronic pain that'd absolutely floor every non-disabled wankbasket who thinks people like me are lazy wasters…

Other zines that got done today: Journal of Videogame Botany sets The issue on Baldur's Gate 3 was the most fun to draw, so many Little Guys! & the one on Horizon Zero Dawn was super interesting, about how to define/describe a fictional plant. Also this on ochres, made out of 3 Turkish map folds…

Moths in a human suit (they/them)@lycomorpha.bsky.social

…& zines for custom orders shipping on Monday. In between making paint sets & printing/cutting/folding zines, I'm making the last batch (for this year) of madder root lake pigments. The first batches of paint with handmade lake pigments from the summer are currently drying for my shop. I also…

…Need to re-grit my paint-making plates ready to make the last few colours I want to get in the shop by xmas. But I'm procrastinating on that. 😬 Anyway, now assembling this - a zine of hopeful messages & handy profanity for fashy times, with love from lichens. It comes with a sweary sticker too...

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Darren Naish

@tetzoo.bsky.social

In the world of #paleaort and #dinosaur depictions there’s always been interest in The Age of Reptiles mural on show at Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, Connecticut, sometimes called the Zallinger Mural. I'm here sharing a thread orignally posted at Twitter.... 1/n

& Not all of us do survive. Ableism costs many lives. It costs communities. It cost all the creativity we could bring. Everyone's so precious about 'productivity' - you don't think helping us live or work is 'productive'? But sure. Shitting on PIP claimants & enabling Palantir will help. Aaaaaa 🙃

Listen, I'm sorry to just be here yelling into the void. I shouldn't catch up on my reading on a Saturday. But y'know. I'm just exasperated at the repetitive, cruel, ineffective bullcrappity-crap. Have a nice moth.

I am just so tired of the same old bullshit, that sick people gonna bankrupt the NHS, that welfare is the problem, that we can't possibly tax the ridiculously wealthy. As a society we're more interested in being led into kicking the already struggling, rather than actually fixing anything. Gah.

I shouldn't have to live with an inescapable fear of not being able to work, as well as chronic pain. I shouldn't have to keep finding new ways to adapt/cope with healthcare getting gutted, while being told I'm the problem. There's so many of us creatively surviving anyway. We shouldn't need to…

My muscle spasm treatment got defunded. This won't save the NHS money int long run because of all the other treatment & PT necessary. Ongoing effects of the Health & Social Care Act 2012. Money that private healthcare is allowed to siphon from the NHS. Palantir, etc etc But we're the problem, eh?

theguardian.comThe right’s scrounger rhetoric dominates the benefits debate. Labour must fight back – and win | Frances RyanThe prime minister has a once-in-a-generation chance to reintroduce fairness to the system. He has to seize the moment, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The fact that IDS, of all fkn people, is behind a report calling welfare an 'economic opiate' is both unsurprising and makes my blood boil. UK is so good at memory holing friggin everything from the ATOS scandal to how many people found that functionally there was no social safety net during COVID.

IDS presided over the DWP at a time when the government's own data revealed thousands of disabled & chronically ill people died within 6 weeks of being declared fit for work. Some of us are old enough to remember yelling about how it was pointless, cruel, & cost more than it saved, but y'know.

The bullshit scrounger narrative is so ingrained in the UK that we just do the same 💩 over & over, solving nothing. But god forbid that we tax accumulated wealth/have utilities that function like actual utilities instead of profitable toys for the rich/stop private cos siphoning £££s from the NHS 🙃

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Frances Ryan

@francesryan.bsky.social

As two major government reviews into “welfare” are set to finally report back, the right wing press are not even hiding their attempts to shape the reforms. The Left needs to get ready. My col. in today’s paper on Britain’s big benefits debate: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Frances Ryan

@francesryan.bsky.social

30 June 2025

Every single non-disabled person who is supporting the PIP cuts should be handed a £15k “disability costs” bill each year and asked how they plan on paying it. Because people don’t really need benefits? You’ll be able to find £15k on top of rent, food, utilities and your summer holiday? Right?

@ortostatisme.bsky.social

OMFGs this, it's 1AM, I'm on here trying to distract my brain from having ideas for things I'll never have the time to make cos I'm old & have decades & so, so many sketchbooks worth og good/terrible/meh/amazing/batshit possible drawings/paintings/collage/pigment mixes aaaaaaaAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAaa

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Natee (they/them)

@himmapaan.bsky.social

The mantis is called the 'rice-pounding grasshopper' in Thailand (ตั๊กแตนตำข้าว), from the motion of its raptorial forelegs resembling the traditional manner of pounding rice to remove the husks. This one was drawn with this very brush.

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Alexandra Orlando

@alexgorlando.bsky.social

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

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A.R. Moxon

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

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"I don't believe in that." OK, well that's good to know about you; you don't get to be a part of this conversation we're having about real issues and real problems—which are complicated & important and require solutions. The stakes are high. We don't have time to entertain dipshits and fevered egos.

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A.R. Moxon

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

"Debate" has been corrupted by codifying it into a competitive sport imo; at this point it is rarely a method for good faith actors to hit upon best solutions or refine a shared reality; it's mostly a vector for bad faith actors to keep failed and destructive ideas in perpetual zombie currency.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

it's understandable to think of constructive debate as an ideal and then to figure that *any* debate is therefore a step towards political values and virtues. but I think most debates, particularly in the social media age, make conversations and outlooks worse than where they started

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