Samantha Powell
@sdpowell1.bsky.social
Writing about fashion. Writing about other things. Zoë not Zelda. She/her.
The future sure did!
(This book was first published in the 1970s.)
(This book was first published in the 1970s.)
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The future sure did!
(This book was first published in the 1970s.)
(This book was first published in the 1970s.)
I've never really thought about the American Civil War being the pivot point when it came to US economic dominance in the Americas, but that makes sense.
!["What made this period of history [the 1860s] relatively so bloody? In the first place, it was the very process of global capitalist expansion which multiple tensions within the overseas world, the ambitions of the industrial world, and direct and indirect conflicts arising out of it. Thus the American Civil War, whatever its political origins, was the triumph of the industrialized North over the agrarian South, almost, one might even say, the transfer of the South from the informal empire of Britain (to whose cotton industry it was the economic pendant) into the new major industrial economy of the United States. It might be regarded as an early if giant step on the road which was in the twentieth century to turn all the Americas from a British to an American economic dependency."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5hoev7w7tsdbp2okzdjhypy7/bafkreid34y6h7g7arbctagoltlgymhegi5jp7rmhn3zppkrbkh7v4eikxq@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I've never really thought about the American Civil War being the pivot point when it came to US economic dominance in the Americas, but that makes sense.
The kind of gift I receive.
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The kind of gift I receive.
Fucked up the thread. Here are the ingredients.
November 4, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Fucked up the thread. Here are the ingredients.
Me in the sweater in question.
October 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Me in the sweater in question.
Lol, Madewell. This looks a lot like a Rag & Bone sweater I treated myself to a few years ago. www.madewell.com/p/womens/sal...
October 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Lol, Madewell. This looks a lot like a Rag & Bone sweater I treated myself to a few years ago. www.madewell.com/p/womens/sal...
*clears throat*
September 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
*clears throat*
Another stuffie arrived with Pookie. Her name is Felicia, and her name is embroidered on her bow.
September 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Another stuffie arrived with Pookie. Her name is Felicia, and her name is embroidered on her bow.
I've just smelled the fragrance, and this Taurus is obsessed.
September 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I've just smelled the fragrance, and this Taurus is obsessed.
New glasses and the new, fancy lipstick that my mother sent to me recently.
August 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
New glasses and the new, fancy lipstick that my mother sent to me recently.
The stuffie in question.
August 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The stuffie in question.
Was it a "winning streak" or was it everyone who could have opposed him rolling over like fucking cowards?
August 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Was it a "winning streak" or was it everyone who could have opposed him rolling over like fucking cowards?
Just heard thunder in the distance, so I'm thinking of this passage from Charlotte Brontë's Villette again.
July 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Just heard thunder in the distance, so I'm thinking of this passage from Charlotte Brontë's Villette again.
I did find a dress for a September wedding that I'm attending.
Hairdo the result of pulling multiple dresses off over my head.
Hairdo the result of pulling multiple dresses off over my head.
July 16, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I did find a dress for a September wedding that I'm attending.
Hairdo the result of pulling multiple dresses off over my head.
Hairdo the result of pulling multiple dresses off over my head.
Remember when people were buying those money drawings?
🎶Everything old is new again🎶
🎶Everything old is new again🎶
July 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Remember when people were buying those money drawings?
🎶Everything old is new again🎶
🎶Everything old is new again🎶
Is this reference to mass-produced clocks going to make me more interested in that plot on The Gilded Age?
I'm going to say...no.
I'm going to say...no.
July 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Is this reference to mass-produced clocks going to make me more interested in that plot on The Gilded Age?
I'm going to say...no.
I'm going to say...no.
I started cackling when I read this part of the Vulture recap. www.vulture.com/article/the-...
June 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I started cackling when I read this part of the Vulture recap. www.vulture.com/article/the-...
I had a routine appointment at my PCP on Wednesday. I'm generally fine. I wore my fancy Frye loafers there.
June 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I had a routine appointment at my PCP on Wednesday. I'm generally fine. I wore my fancy Frye loafers there.
Glad has little plastic containers that have a great seal.
June 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Glad has little plastic containers that have a great seal.
Sorry, it was adoption papers not a birth certificate that my doll came with.
June 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Sorry, it was adoption papers not a birth certificate that my doll came with.
Or you can read this history book about when things were actually being blown up here.
June 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Or you can read this history book about when things were actually being blown up here.