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Papercutting “began as a matriarchal tradition, with women slicing decorations out of dyed red paper and displaying them on ceilings, door frames and windowpanes to welcome luck and prosperity.”

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I love how this article highlights the multiple societies that make use of papercut art, from papel picado in Mexico to Karen Walker’s haunting silhouettes.

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• The Thrillingly Intricate Art of Cut Paper — via NYT Magazine

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Election Day: brittanieshey.micro.blog

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Texas’s oldest gay bar, Robert’s Laffite in Galveston, has been struggling lately after badly-needed repairs and a series of small but suspicious fires caused it to close down.

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Meanwhile, a pair of interdisciplinary artists have uncovered evidence of another long-lost gay bar on the island, which operated...

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Love this intro to junk journaling, a low-barrier-to-entry mindfulness hobby:

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As our lives have become more digital, they’ve also been commodified and sold back to us…There are a lot of possible solutions to these interconnected crises, but experts agree that most involve being in the physical world…generative acts, where you make something out of nothing, can help you push through that despair and remind you of your own agency. “Even the smallest act of creating is sending a signal to your brain: Hey, I got this…”

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The free, lightly feral hobby that will help you stop doomscrolling — via Vox

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@gregstoll.com maldy’s available 😄

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honestly, this is why i love catchers. truly the glue of the team imo. plus nice butts from all that squatting.

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@brittanieshey.bsky.social he eats children for halloween snacks

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@oksettledown.bsky.social 😭

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@brittanieshey.bsky.social i love catchers so much

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The Port of Houston has facilitated more shipments of F-35 fighter jet wings than any other port in the United States. The world has risen for Palestine. Houston must rise too. (via Shift Press)

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As the Nazis performed executions deep in the Lithuanian woods, one local man took detailed, dispassionate notes. He was unwittingly creating one of the most unusual documents in history.

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A cross section of a late Victorian house in Battersea, London: brittanieshey.micro.blog

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The Slow Life and Fast Death of DJ Screw (via Texas Monthly)

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Anders Fernstedt has become a bit of a minor celeb in London for living on the front porch of a 45-room mansion directly across from Hyde Park. Here’s his story, and the story of the how the house came to be vacant in the first place.

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@dansolomon.com

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@stevanzetti.bsky.social rock over london, rock over chicago

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@oksettledown.bsky.social i HATE when companies do this shit

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@brubaker.bsky.social NEED

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@notinspring.bsky.social mannnnnnnnnnnnnn

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@booksandbows.bsky.social why does this sound like saucy santana 😂😂😂

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\"Beyond the effort to hurt and humiliate, there is no agenda and no rules\": brittanieshey.micro.blog

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Distance from Texas, measured in Texases \"\" : brittanieshey.micro.blog

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@Lis cuuuuute

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Sylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades. Now He’s Coming Clean.\n — NYT

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Never been a huge fan of Sly but this is truly one of the most candid celebrity interviews I’ve ever read.

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In the wake of the Cornell 7 news, its worth reading Caitlin Flanagan’s longform expose from 2014 on the history of social college fraternaties and the extremely dependent relationship American universities have with them.

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While the fraternities continued to exert their independence from the colleges with which they were affiliated, these same colleges started to develop an increasingly bedeviling kind of interdependence with the accursed societies. To begin with, the fraternities involved themselves very deeply in the business of student housing, which provided tremendous financial savings to their...

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In 1890, an artist from Ohio picked up a pencil and captured Galveston’s streets in a way a photograph never quite could. George Elbert Burr — who would later become one of America’s most respected printmakers — was passing through Texas and stopped long enough to document what he saw.

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This was before the 1900 hurricane — when Galveston was one of the biggest and most prosperous cities in the South — and thus, before the seawall. According to a commenter, in the 19th century, the city required buildings to have plank or brick sidewalks. I love learning new things about Galveston history.

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From Reddit...

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