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tansy

@tansy@wandering.shop

🍉 🍉 Hello, I’m a journalist and the author of books including ‘The Anti-Capitalist Book Of Fashion’ and ‘Foot Work – What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation.’

On my website you’ll find secure ways to contact me, plus my fortnightly newsletter which includes the 'Patched' fashion advice column.

I like social justice, photography, Queerality, SFF books, fun bots and Star Trek - esp Discovery. Plus veganism, #SecondhandFirst finds, textile craft & visible mending.

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tansy, to ai
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Is anyone collecting examples of ? Because here is a particularly pernicious one.

This appeared in my YouTube suggestions as a song from Lana Del Rey's hotly anticipated Lasso album. But ut it's AI music, backed up with dozens of bot comments saying it's great.

It's not great. The voice, lyrics, melody and production are a horrible empty imitation of LDR as is the album 'photo'. It's a glimpse into how meaningless collective culture could become.

https://youtu.be/4GZbIcjBwKU?si=Lp6RMuDo3dK-RKte

tansy, to random
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Heck yes!

https://www.votecorbyn.com/volunteer

aral, to DuckDuckGo
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“Choice.”

#alternatives #choice #DuckDuckGo #DDG #Qwant #ecosia #bing

Qwant search for foo at 09:18: Qwant is temporarily unavailable.
Ecosia search for foo @ 09:17: There was a problem loading search results for “foo”
Two astronauts staring at Earth from space. Front astronaut: “you mean it’s all just Bing?” Rear astronaut, aiming gun at front astronaut: “Always has been.”

tansy,
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@aral "always has Bing" 😅

tansy, to random
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Just got sent this 😀

tansy, to random
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'The chopped steak eaters: The people who profit from climate destruction have names and faces.'

Great article from Heated: https://heated.world/p/the-chopped-steak-eaters?r=1cje4

tansy, to london
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The demonstration in this weekend was enormous. Organisers estimated 250,000 people marching for peace.

Video of the Free Palestine demonstration in London featuring thousands of demonstrators with flags and placards

tansy,
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This is the demonstration walking through Oxford Circus and down Regents Street towards Westminster and the centre of government in the UK.

A video of the Free Palestine demonstration in London featuring thousands of demonstrators with flags and placards

tansy,
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Favourite moment amongst the seriousness of the day - crowds taking over Whitehall (outside the Prime Minister's residence) to dance to 'Dammi Falastini' by Mohammed Assaf.

A crowd of people form a circle on Whitehall (outside the Prime Minister's residence). Inside the circle a group of people dance to 'Dammi Falastini' by Mohammed Assaf.

tansy, to random
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In more positive news, chatting to people here about inspired me to mend my rucksack strap.

Have had this rucksack since I was a teenager and I hope to always have it around ♥️ 💛 💚 💙 🌈

In this second photo the frayed section has been darned with a rainbow of embroidery threads in pale blue, green, yellow, pale pink, dark pink and brown. It looks much better.

tansy, to FiberArts
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Folk might be interested to know that across the month of May, Sustainable Fashion Week’s #MendItMay campaign invites people to mend one piece of clothing, celebrating repair as an act of empowerment.

I think I'll have a go at my #mending pile. If anyone wants to share mending projects or #craft pics, that'd be lovely.

The stats for why #repair is great are pretty compelling:

#fashion

tansy,
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@NatureMC @visiblemending

Visible mending is the best! Love this 💗

tansy, to knitting
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I really liked researching the answer to this month's 'Patched' advice column.

Read it here: https://tansyhoskins.org/patched/

🐑 :knitting: 👚 🌳

tansy,
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Patched is a new series where people can write to me with a (or fashion-adjacent) question that's bothering them, and I will reply with a letter from an anti-capitalist perspective.

If you have a question please email me at - DearPatched@proton.me

Include the name you want your question published under and your town or country. I pledge to protect your identity.

tansy, to random
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I am teaching my Supply Chains Investigations course this summer for @cijournalism

The last one sold out so grab a seat if it's your cup of tea :teapot:

Date: 17th July 2024
Time: 14.00–16.00 UK Time
Location: Zoom

https://tcij.org/scheduled-training/supply-chain-investigations-2/

aral, to random
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“When Bangladesh’s Minimum Wage Board met in November 2023 to decide wages for garment workers, trade unions called for a monthly Living Wage of 23,000 taka (approx £172), given that the previous wage of 8,000 taka (£60) was a poverty wage that made fruit a luxury item. Protests erupted when the Board announced a new wage of just 12,500 taka (£90). The state cracked down on the protests—killing four workers and arresting thousands more including trade union organisers.”

https://tansyhoskins.org/wages-not-warrants/

tansy,
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@aral thank you!

tansy, to random
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On the 11th anniversary of the factory collapse, we took to Oxford Street to demand for the 44,000 Bangladeshi garment workers currently facing arrest after protesting for a fair minimum wage.

I wrote about the protest here:
https://tansyhoskins.org/wages-not-warrants/

two women holding blue smoke flares outside H&M.
a 'Wanted' poster for 40,000 workers that has been stuck on Primark's window.
a big crowd of activists outside H&M with a banner that says 'H&M stop freezing workers rights'

Konenpanien, to Battlemaps
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A cute metallic green beetle.

tansy,
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@Konenpanien We had one of these fly in our window today - I believe it's a European rose chafer. So beautiful!

tansy, to random
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A few photos from the Free Palestine demonstration in London on Saturday 30th March 2024.

The organisers estimate that 200,000 people marched through London calling for a ceasefire and and end to Israel's atrocities.

Crowd scene with a Palestinian flag flying in the wind, a Gaza - Stop the massacre sign, and a hand made Queers For Palestine sign.
Crowd scene and home made sign that reads Don't Be A Bystander To Genocide

Faintdreams, to knitting
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Are you a MAN who is scared of YARN?

Do YOU want to create MANLY KNITS with colour palettes ESPECIALLY FOR THE MENS?

Whoo- boy do I have a website for you!

Unfortunately this is real, not satire 🤣 🤦‍♀️

"Our yarn is created especially for men who knit for themselves and for everyone who knits for men. Our color pallet is designed to appeal to masculine tastes with respect to both traditional knitting projects and more modern designs."

https://menyarn.com/

tansy,
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@Faintdreams all this effort and then it just looks like all the other yarn out there but with a painful logo 😆

I really thought it was going to be khakis and greys or something but there's yellows, pinks, multi-colours...

tansy, to random
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Let's Fly!!

New name in honour of Star Trek Discovery S5 dropping on Thursday 🤓 💫 🥳

tansy, to random
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Oooo neat, my book is 40% off for Women's History Month:
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346618/the-anti-capitalist-book-of-fashion/

tansy, to random
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Just read an email update from the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign which stated that in Gaza there are:

Ten children a day facing an amputation with no anaesthetic.

tansy,
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If you're in the UK, this is the next big demo:

tansy, to random
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Happy Pi Day gorgeous ones
🥧.🥧 🥧 🥧

tansy, to random
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New book arrived today - looking forward to reading it.

Thanks to whomever posted about it here.

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