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Talking about dyeing with plants... Here is the easiest way to get a nice plant print on fabric. Toddler shirts with unexplainable stains made me try to put more stains on those shirts to prolong their life just a bit. I'm trying to use everything while it lasts and reuse, recycle and upcycle to last a little longer, waste less, buy less. I hate to throw out those perfectly usable shirts that just look terribly dirty because of plant, fruit and berry stains that happens in enormous amounts for kids who live outdoors whole summer long. Well, pretty plant stains put on shirts with the hammer stay pretty for about 3-4 times in the washing machine.

I was dreaming to hammer plants on a table cloth last summer, but I didn't get there. This is an easy way to get the juices of plants on textiles you aren't planning to wash too often. Doll fabrics, a tie, maybe... altar cloths?

It's also a productive way to release anger, frustration and agression. I hope you will give it a try.

The mallet I made two years ago from firewood logs is returning to its original purpose, splitting after lots of hard use.

Made a new head from green applewood. Heard somewhere it's clever to make the handle from dry and the head from green wood so the head shrinks onto the handle. We'll find out if this works. I suspect it might just crack. Or shrink away from the handle. Time will tell.

Anyways, I can whack stuff again!

March 22th

Yesterday, I took the afternoon off and went on one of my two-hour routes. It's been a year since I last rode this particular route, and it was great to be back.

It's always amazing what you can discover along the way, even if you've passed by the same spot countless times.

This little waymarker stone was repainted at some point in the not-too-distant past. The marked routes were heavily used back when there were no cars, and people traveled solely on foot, by bicycle, or by carriage.

#Gravelbike #Cycling #Waymarker #Stone #History #DahmeSpreewald #Prieros #Neubrück #Hammer #KleinKöris

Location of this gem: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.210743&mlon=13.771030#map=17/52.210746/13.771030

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13) Good weekend for Irish throwers in #Cyprus headlined by Nicola Tuthill’s🥇in the U23 #Hammer at the European Throwing Cup. In other U23 action, Anna Gavigan came up 🥈in the #Discus and Oisín Joyce Bronze in the #Javelin

The Irish youth movement in the throws is strong!

#IrishAthletics #TrackAndField #IrishSport #MastoDaoine

irishtimes.com/sport/2025/03/1

The Irish Times · Ireland’s Nicola Tuthill wins under-23 hammer gold at European Throwing CupBy Ian O'Riordan

Meanwhile, in #Maine...

How Concerned Citizens Drove a #NeoNazi Out of Rural Maine

#ChristopherPohlhaus wanted to build a #fascist training compound in America’s whitest state. His neighbors had other plans.

by Mira Ptacin | The Atavist Magazine | October 31, 2024

"The first step in establishing a neo-Nazi compound is to clear and level the land. These sites tend to pop up in rural America, which means that there’s brush to hack down, tree stumps to pull up, and piles of debris to burn. All this work is done to make room for the barracks, kitchens, and meeting halls where modern-day devotees of Adolf Hitler will live, work, and train together.

"When Christopher Pohlhaus moved to the forested lot where, like other neo-Nazis on other forested lots before him, he planned to start a fascist revolution, he brought two RVs with him. That meant he had somewhere to bunk down at night. But he didn’t have running water. I can’t say how he bathed when he first arrived; as for other matters of hygiene, perhaps he used the woods.

"Pohlhaus’s parcel of 10.6 acres does not have an address. Technically, it’s in #SpringfieldMaine, a hamlet of fewer than 300 people. The closest city, about an hour’s drive away, is #BangorMaine. That’s where Pohlhaus, a gym rat, eventually joined Planet Fitness. To get home after a session of lifting, showering, and doing whatever else he needed to do, Pohlhaus would take Route 2 north, then turn eastward on Route 6. He would drive to Bottle Lake Road, take a right, and drive about two miles before taking another right on a gravel lane called Moores Road. Eventually, among scattered hunting camps, Trump banners, and 'Support the Blue' signs, he would come to a metal gate situated on a dirt road. Behind the gate sat the land of Pohlhaus’s dreams.

"Pohlhaus, 37, is a former U.S. marine, an itinerant tattoo artist, and a hardcore white-supremacist influencer. He is loud and hostile, and proud to be both. His voice is pitched surprisingly high, and he has a slight Southern drawl. He has a large body and small bald head; a blue-black tattoo crawls up the right side of his face, from his chin to his forehead. Over the years, Pohlhaus has collected thousands of social media followers, who know him by his nickname: #Hammer.

"Hammer had been living in Texas for a few years when, in March 2022, he bought the land in Maine. He told his followers that he was going to use it to build a haven, operational center, and training ground for white supremacists. He invited them to join him. Together, he said, they would plant the seed of a #WhiteEthnostate, and they would engage in violence, if necessary, to nurture it. 'An unarmed man sacrifices his family to the unpredictably [sic] of chaos,' Hammer wrote online in 2021.

"Hammer packed his bags and headed north, meeting with various white supremacists along the way. He solicited donations for his new compound in the form of cryptocurrency, and later set up a page on GiveSendGo, a Christian crowdfunding site. He raised close to $10,000 before the campaign was shut down earlier this year.

"Once he’d settled in Maine, Hammer kept his followers abreast of his progress breaking ground, frequently posting photos and uploading videos to Telegram. There was Hammer standing next to a pile of freshly chopped wood, snowshoeing through the forest, holding a beer in front of a bonfire. Followers saw him cradling an AK-47 in his arms. (Caption: 'All this Slavic war training in the Maine woods has me exhausted!') Hammer posted footage from a celebration he held with about eight of his followers, where he claimed they sacrificed a goat. Another clip showed Hammer helping a man in a balaclava slice the palm of his hand as part of an initiation ritual.

"Hammer appeared excited, optimistic. He was careful—or thought that he was careful—not to reveal his exact location, lest it attract unwanted attention from his enemies, including the media and the FBI. If people wanted to join him at the compound, they could get in touch directly.

"But unbeknownst to Hammer, he was being followed. A longtime #Mainer was determined to wipe the smirk off the neo-Nazi’s face. Indeed, he hoped to run Hammer out of the state for good."

Read more:
longreads.com/2024/10/31/how-c
#USPol #Fascists #Nazis #ICE #FuckNazis #NoPlaceForHate #GlobalProjectAgainstHateAndExtremism

Longreads · How Concerned Citizens Drove a Neo-Nazi Out of Rural MaineBy Longreads