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Hi there - I hope you’re taking some time to protect your peace. I’ve been focused on painting, mostly staying offline. So I have a new series of seascapes to release toward the end of Sept, including this lil guy. Email list gets first dibs, & sign-up is on my website. Oil, 4”x4” #art #painting
Today marks National Support Latino Business Day, Illinois. Shop local and make sure to support your favorite shops and restaurants here in our state who are being hurt by Donald Trump’s chaotic, fear mongering raids.
Since there's a lot of talk about covid vaccine soreness, don't forget to flappy-flappy! Get that vaccine working through your body by frantically flapping your arm like a broken-winged bird at least twice an hour for eight hours! Look like a big dork! Make strangers run from you in stores!
They are so cute!
Would you be interested in helping some incarcerated folks access art supplies? A request from my pen pal follows. This is one way to fight fascism. Humanize the incarcerated. Jeremiah works so hard to help others.
We could be 5 to 10 years from toothpaste that can regrow tooth enamel. The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040. The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.
Trees💜✨🌸🌿 #pixelart
Gritty and ALF are definitely doing it
THE HONMOON IS SEALED www.billboard.com/music/chart-...
Defensive: 1. Sign yourself and your family up to a service like DeleteMe that will pull your name, email, address, etc off as many public databases as possible: joindeleteme.com/refer?coupon...
capivaras' rock band
Today is “drag and tag,” tagging sharks with drag queens while raising money for LGBQT+ youth organizations in Florida! www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
This one pops into my head pretty regularly, as a fiber arts person. 😄
I still want “You cannot kill me in a way that matters.” as a wall hanging at some point
The Classic, evergreen Tumblr post
I hope you like it and can make a lot of creative and positive art from our sharks! Remember to tag your art with the hashtag #Sharktober or #Sharktober2025 so I can see your amazing artwork! 🎨✨
Feel like it's important to note that while Trump has backed down on deploying the national guard here, immigration raids are very much still happening.
Trump is piloting a program to let AI review seniors’ medical information and decide what Medicare covers for them — while giving AI companies a profit-incentive to deny coverage. We must call on every Member of Congress to block this. 👇
Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
Freaky and amazing!
lmao i saw a meme about thresher sharks and i thought "they can't possibly look that panicked" but they DO
ATTN FELLOW CANADIANS: An actual MP has created a petition to stop financial discrimination against adult creators by payment processors. You have to confirm your email but thats because its something that can actually be shown to parliament.
Difficult choice but this one gets me every time
NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.
Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.
Sure everyone will post "tell me the name of God you fungal piece of shit" but let's not forget this banger
We can, and should, deplore Charlie Kirk's murder, without whitewashing who he was. ttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/charlie-kirk-assassination-tragedy/
As expected, they aren't going deep into the city proper at the moment and are crawling through the suburbs, including Elmhurst, potentially Evanston, Des Plaines. Seeing an arrest video now out of Elgin again yesterday as well.
Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish! You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧
Liberal politicians if you are so disturbed just pretend Charlie Kirk was a Palestinian child and you’ll get over it in no time
That's awesome, congratulations!
Bottle up all the empathy you were about to give the TPUSA founder, double it, and send it towards Evergreen High School instead.
Charlie KIrk believed that empathy was a "new concept" that shouldn't exist, so anyone who expresses condolences for him is being VERY disrespectful to his beliefs right now. please keep him out of your thoughts as he begins his transition into worm food. thank you
‘Brother Explains'. Pen on paper.
Hi I know we're all talking about something else at this particular momennnttt, but can I interest any of you in educational posters? I've got 'em in a pack & seasonal lightning bugs too! It helps support SaS and makes it easy for you to spread important messages in your community! SquidFacts.net
That is adorable! I am always so amazed at how comfortable dogs manage to look in the wildest of positions! 😄
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
nostalgic bonnethead sharks 🌈⚠️
kelp forests are one of my favorite habitats!! i have been watching a million documentaries about them so naturally, i had to draw one.
a comic about blocking
A massive number of Prince George’s residents and advocates have shown up *in the rain* to protest a proposed data center in the majority Black county
First trailer for ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ Releasing on Netflix December 12
2010: I'm going to a foreign country. What vaccines do I need to get beforehand? 2025: I'm going to a foreign country. What vaccines should I get while I'm there?
Evolution (abridged)
Hi friends, we need some help covering our beloved Donut’s medical bill for hospitalization for diabetic ketoacidosis. Any donation or share would be so appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/cover-donu...
We report in the collapse of the evening: it is so windy that we think the clouds are going to come in through the window. We have no room for clouds, so we have no choice but to close it. It was too cold anyway. The birds struggle to choose the direction that they are flying in.
Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹
hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵
First they came for Bill Clinton, and I said, yes, that man is a sex pest, get him
Just realised I never shared the full LGBT sisters of Battle series on reddit. That's corrected. www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer4...
In April, @slotkin.senate.gov announced her intended support for legislation that would CUT and FREEZE the wages of farm workers - one of the most underpaid professions in the US. This is just wrong! Call Senator Slotkin TODAY! Urge her to withdraw her support. (202) 759 - 4087
The knight stood, triumphant, over the prostrate dragon. He raised his sword high above his head and- "I wouldn't if i were you" The voice was in his head. Confused, he glanced around. A black cat was cleaning a paw, casually nearby. He raised the sword again. "Are you REALLY, really sure?" /1
im plopping some money into Chicago orgs today. join me if youve got some money burning a hole in your pocket!
Ok so it's a relatively big ask today because it will take $87 to get my friend and brother Mohamed to a nice round number. I've put in a double חי to help, perhaps you have a dollar or two to throw in? chuffed.org/project/help...
If you are unable to read images or JPGs, find the full text of Congressman @jonathanjackson.house.gov's press release at his website: jonathanjackson.house.gov/media/press-...
Oh wow, these are incredible! I love how desolate and yet beautiful they are!
old sketchbook
Remember these old paintings I used to do, would you like to buy a pdf that collects all 70+ of them together? If you make me feel really good maybe we can bump it up to 80, 90? Probably not
STAR TREK premiered on this day in 1966
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
Given the Supreme Court ruling I think it's even more important that we refer to what is happening in Los Angeles and elsewhere with ICE as ethnic cleansing. The US government is engaged in a violent campaign of ethnic cleansing that has already cost at least two lives.
🔥BLS Staff: "We will publish reliable data, no matter how inconvenient the results... Acting Commissioner is a respected career professional. There are no other political appointees at BLS... will remain accurate & nonpartisan... if that ever changes, the professionals will tell you." #StandWithBLS
On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.
this is making the rounds on facebook so i thought id bring it here for u m'lord
#AbolishAi
This landline phone is shaped like a frog. We need more frog phones.
We report: we think we know where the sun is going to rise from. The stakes are not very high on this bet, and we could simply use a compass to be certain; the fact of the matter is that we would like to see the sun emerge from behind these clouds, and know we were correct.
Being subjected to Black Sabbath perpetually. HELP.
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."
I am once again asking you to stop sending us money. But we do need your time. ⏰ zohranfornyc.com/events
Dear people responding to people who point out that Trump can't unilaterally rename DOD with variations on "the law doesn't stop him so of course he can": You are helping the fascism. Fuck all the way off, until you reach the point beyond which one can fuck off no longer. Then fuck off some more.
Happy Silksong release to all who celebrate
a carbonara…
Poor Simon, moving and change can be so hard. Here's hoping he settles soon!
You’re not a real democrat if you wouldn’t hold JB Pritzkers purse while he leapt over the applebees bar to beat the shit out of Ted Cruz during ur date
Trans people are cool.
this is about sinners. hbo has a black american sign language version of sinners. i feel like i know a lot of people who will be excited to learn this.
Them fellas
Someone adopt this sweet lady. Look at that loving face and big biscuits!!!
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
A reminder that "But what if people on YOUR side are on the Epstein list?" is a bullshit argument, EVERYONE who was raping children needs to get into the bin right now, that's the deal here and it ain't exactly complicated
Good morning, Simon!
how dare they imply that Starfleet (ONE WORD NOT TWO) has its headquarters in San Francisco because in the 21st century it was the capital of AI Starfleet has its headquarters in San Francisco because space is gay everybody knows that
this could be us
Everyone has a second full time job being mad at the government now
If you hear about a Mexican Independence Day celebration in your area, go. There is strength in numbers and — especially if you’re white — you can protect your community just by being there and not flinching if ICE shows up. These goons are cowards. Don’t be one.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
I am organizing multiple workshops this week for Chicago activists and organizers as we prepare for a possible military occupation of our city. I am tired but moving fast.
Holy crap. These are officially licensed with proceeds going to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting! #PBSisPUNK twocrowcollective.com/collections/...
Our new project is live. A group of us former Polygon folks have come together to build something new: Rogue. We're a worker-owned, reader supported gaming site. You can read all about our goals and ideas on our (gorgeous) website. Please check us out and share us with your friends!
I am calm. I am breathing deeply through my nose. I am counting to ten. I… WHAT, ARE YOU AFRAID YOUR DOG WILL INFODUMP TO YOU ABOUT THE FUCKING BALL?!?