Beecher Smith-Stackhouse

vampires!!

night tulips and other springy scenes

A cardboard sign with text written on it "Cops and ICE off campuses"

Schools are meant for education and creativity – not fear and censorship.

📸 Scout Tufankjian

i think i know who did it ...

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | ACLU The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech.

The government can't threaten to cut funding to suppress certain viewpoints. This is especially crucial on college campuses.

Read this letter from constitutional scholars on why the Trump administration's treatment of Columbia University is a threat to the First Amendment.

These are Dems to get at and should be Primaried.

made a new handle for this old spatula

Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas" The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...

Using AI to scan the social media posts of students at U.S. universities and then punish them for their views is discriminatory and a direct attack on our freedom of speech.

BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit, the National Endowment for the Arts will no longer force grant applicants to certify that they won't promote "gender ideology."

This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.

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a lamp shade?

four woodworking clamps of various types clamped an in-progress custom wooden handle for a spatula

you can never have too many clamps

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why are people against the substack?

a cluster of small daffodil blossoms on a crowded windowsill garden, the smell is powerful

flower update

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

a paperwhite daffodil flower bud, unopened, translucent, and backlit in a crowded window garden.

windowsill Narcissus Tazetta ('Paperwhite' daffodil ) in the works