opal nova

will we take climate change seriously now?

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals 

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing


If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

Oh it’s #portfolioday!

Hi there 👋

I’m an Edinburgh-based illustrator. I love nautical themes, birds and bookish things. I work in Procreate but love a textured analogue feel.

Here’s my website with more info and prints available for purchase spyglassillustration.com

Wandering Stars Align: Tommy Orange Named A 2025 MacArthur Fellow When the MacArthur Foundation announced its 2025 Fellows, one name carried through Native communities like a spark. Tommy Orange, the Cheyenne and Arapaho author from Oakland, was named one of this ye...

Tommy Orange, the Cheyenne and Arapaho author of There There and Wandering Stars, has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, one of the highest honors in the arts.

redpopnews.com/wandering-st...

#macarhurfellowship #MacArthurFoundation #redpopnews #tommyorange

a cartoon character says " i am always right " to another character ALT: a cartoon character says " i am always right " to another character

franny

happy Indigenous people’s day!

www.instagram.com/reel/DPoELnD...

Rainy morning heron ☕️

Yellow-horned Poppy, Glaucium flavum, on Brownsea Island today.

i need several lifetimes to feel like the things i want to do will be done. i’m so jealous of immortals.

how nice that there’s people who can choose a thing and complete it or master it until they finally die. i can’t relate.

never having enough time is something i wish was not possible. continually in a jesse spano freakout for forever.

choose wisely & frequently.

There are steps everyone can take to help make our communities safer for trans people and all of us.

If you're in need of some reassurance today:

"...There are no new pains. We have felt them all already. We have hidden that fact in the same place where we have hidden our power. They surface in our dreams, and it is our dreams that point the way to freedom."

-Audre Lorde

i am reading some more Vine Deloria Jr. and also articles about 6PPD-Q… ancestors spent over 100 years fighting for fishing rights in their own land like… for what? so that we could all drive stupid cars and pollute the fish and people?

#landback

tbh i never thought salmon would be the thing that i continually crash out over in my forties, but here we are.

An intriguing behavior of global rain an exercise

Rainforests create their own rain… eroding them destroys that alarmingly fast. They’re not just lungs of the planet, but a biotic pump of moisture, cooling, sustenance, life open.substack.com/pub/climatew...

Follow Alpha Lo of the Climate Water Project ericagies.bsky.social
@robdelaet.bsky.social

oh.

suddenly i am so sad. but maybe not suddenly. you just walk into an invisible wall of sadness occasionally.

My painting DAKOTA FARMLAND

one time in ikea we were looking at plastic bins and a woman walked up and said they were so cute. that scenario has lived rent free in my brain for several years now. anyway, how is all the cute plastic in your life?

i am also guilty of owning cute plastic. not bins but other things.

if there was ever a perfect response pun..

i think i am somewhat allergic to gardenia or whatever scented thing someone wore on the bus today.

Add a simple prompt to your site in one line that requires your users to acknowledge Inhumane Governments.

do i know anyone who knows anyone who is experienced with modifying & taping rain gear?

i need an alteration on my cleverhood anorak.

A Pileated Woodpecker passing by overhead.

i am examining my participation in consumerism as a replacement for personality or for other reasons.

do i do this? do you do this? how does it manifest?

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

same vibes.