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Patron Saint of Shiny Things, Empress of Allergies, science fangirl, LARPer, and bog body in training. She/her.

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Found mine under a rock.

22.02.2026 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Humble Book Bundle: Best of Humble Bundle: Terry Pratchett's Discworld by HarperCollins Encore 2026 Experience Sir Terry Practchett’s beloved Discworld series! Get 35+ books covering all corners of this comic fantasy universe and help support Room to Read!

have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books?

good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader

you won’t regret it

17.02.2026 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 783    πŸ” 388    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 31
Title: Ring cameras feed data to ICE to help round up immigrants

Subtitle: ✨ Get a full refund direct from Amazon ✨

Body: In the past few months Amazon Ring enabled AI and facial detection by default for all users. Worse, they altered existing features such that your footage can end up in the hands of Flock Safety, the company responsible for 80,000 license plate readers across the country. ICE has been documented using Flock to know exactly where to go to find susceptible community members. Don’t help ICE round up your neighbors.

What can I do?

You can get a full refund directly from Amazon. Request a refund telling them their agreement with Flock is a breach of trust and invalidates the reason you invested into their security products in the first place. Amazon refunds because what they are doing is blatantly against the Terms and Conditions under which you originally purchased.

➑️   Reolink or Defender PhoenixM2 are great comparable camera alternatives.
βž•   Request refunds for Amazon Blink Cameras as well on basis of lost trust.

Title: Ring cameras feed data to ICE to help round up immigrants Subtitle: ✨ Get a full refund direct from Amazon ✨ Body: In the past few months Amazon Ring enabled AI and facial detection by default for all users. Worse, they altered existing features such that your footage can end up in the hands of Flock Safety, the company responsible for 80,000 license plate readers across the country. ICE has been documented using Flock to know exactly where to go to find susceptible community members. Don’t help ICE round up your neighbors. What can I do? You can get a full refund directly from Amazon. Request a refund telling them their agreement with Flock is a breach of trust and invalidates the reason you invested into their security products in the first place. Amazon refunds because what they are doing is blatantly against the Terms and Conditions under which you originally purchased. ➑️ Reolink or Defender PhoenixM2 are great comparable camera alternatives. βž• Request refunds for Amazon Blink Cameras as well on basis of lost trust.

If you saw the creepy Ring Super Bowl commercial then you know they're manufacturing consent for a surveillance state (that serves ICE) by emotionally blackmailing us with our dogs' safety.

This flyer can be printed out and posted all over, or shared online. Get your $ back, fuck ICE.

11.02.2026 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 511    πŸ” 378    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 6
Screenshot of Amazon customer support chat getting refund for a Ring Floodlight Cam

https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4jc9xz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Screenshot of Amazon customer support chat getting refund for a Ring Floodlight Cam https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4jc9xz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Screenshot of chat with Amazon customer support getting refund for a Ring product bought in October 2020

https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4k6nqk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Screenshot of chat with Amazon customer support getting refund for a Ring product bought in October 2020 https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4k6nqk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Infographic telling Ring customers they can get refunds for their purchases through Amazon

Infographic telling Ring customers they can get refunds for their purchases through Amazon

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

10.02.2026 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7468    πŸ” 3342    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 157

Capricorn: Today you will realize that though a filibuster is an excellent political tactic, sometimes grabbing your political opponents by the balls and squeezing until they pop like water balloons can be more effective.

10.02.2026 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 98    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

08.02.2026 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7175    πŸ” 3748    πŸ’¬ 166    πŸ“Œ 466

Me, tired, tapping the sign

02.02.2026 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 871    πŸ” 288    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

Fuck ICE, and fuck anyone who won't say Fuck ICE.

02.02.2026 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 838    πŸ” 200    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 11
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

And donate.

Every time they kill one of us, help us make the resistance even stronger.

24.01.2026 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 578    πŸ” 428    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 13
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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…

If you’re outside of Minnesota and you’re wondering how to help, this guide is excellent.

And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.

24.01.2026 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3426    πŸ” 3050    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 41

NEW: Trump is floating a $1.5 trillion war budget.

$1.5 trillion could fund Medicaid, the child tax credit, SNAP, the Department of Education, national highway repair, the NIH, school breakfast & lunch, FEMA, the FAA, the EPA, and federal overdose prevention COMBINED.

War costs us a better world.

22.01.2026 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 611    πŸ” 272    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 16

i once read "the rights you think criminals should have are the rights you think everyone should have because the state can criminalize anyone" and it changed how i think about everything

19.01.2026 05:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1898    πŸ” 701    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 11

I think maybe a lot of bad things could be avoided if the worlds most obvious crooks faced some sort of punishment other than β€œaccumulating great sums of money and power”

19.01.2026 06:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2131    πŸ” 403    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 7
a mini barbie dreamhouse atop a giant (relative to the house) chicken legs

a mini barbie dreamhouse atop a giant (relative to the house) chicken legs

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.

It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.

No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

09.01.2026 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4761    πŸ” 1497    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 140
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The Companies Behind ICE Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

16.01.2026 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4955    πŸ” 3101    πŸ’¬ 101    πŸ“Œ 288
A group of six nature valentines. A picture of a bog with pitcher plants, with text saying "Our love is like a bog. Built up over time, resistant to decay, deeply interesting to just a small number of people." A yellow slime mold stretching out and exploring. "Our love is like a slime mold. Collaborative, complex, at times unnerving to behold." A piece of limestone with a small trilobite in the corner. "Our love is like limestone. Layered, useful for many purposes, shaped by the friends we met along the way." A ring-billed gull with a french fry on a beach. "Our love is like a ring-billed gull. Abundant, found in North America, sometimes sustained by french fries." An Atlantic horseshoe crab walking on the sand. "Our love is like a horseshoe crab. Tough, timeless, unrelated to true crabs." A drawing of the phosphorus cycle, with arrows connecting various parts of a scene, including algae and fish and a farm and a river and a forest. "Our love is like the phosphorus cycle. Important, really hard to draw."

A group of six nature valentines. A picture of a bog with pitcher plants, with text saying "Our love is like a bog. Built up over time, resistant to decay, deeply interesting to just a small number of people." A yellow slime mold stretching out and exploring. "Our love is like a slime mold. Collaborative, complex, at times unnerving to behold." A piece of limestone with a small trilobite in the corner. "Our love is like limestone. Layered, useful for many purposes, shaped by the friends we met along the way." A ring-billed gull with a french fry on a beach. "Our love is like a ring-billed gull. Abundant, found in North America, sometimes sustained by french fries." An Atlantic horseshoe crab walking on the sand. "Our love is like a horseshoe crab. Tough, timeless, unrelated to true crabs." A drawing of the phosphorus cycle, with arrows connecting various parts of a scene, including algae and fish and a farm and a river and a forest. "Our love is like the phosphorus cycle. Important, really hard to draw."

Nature valentines. This comic is now available as a set of 6 Valentines cards: topatoco.com/collections/...

15.01.2026 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1237    πŸ” 434    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 10

Dems need to start running right now on a platform of "This is what we are going to do to fix **all of this** and here's why each of our decisions conforms with established law and is informed by the evidence of recent misuse."

10.01.2026 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 493    πŸ” 129    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
Middle aged white lady carrying a blue poster board sign with the words SEE YOU AT NUREMBERG FUCKERS

Middle aged white lady carrying a blue poster board sign with the words SEE YOU AT NUREMBERG FUCKERS

Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it

11.01.2026 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 51578    πŸ” 7833    πŸ’¬ 1148    πŸ“Œ 310

I don't care if she didn't follow directions; I don't care if she was disrespectful; I don't care if she was noncompliant; I don't care if she spit in his face, called him ugly, and smacked his mom - "immediate execution by the state" was not warranted; jfc, this isn't complicated.

07.01.2026 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1963    πŸ” 570    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 9
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I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

07.01.2026 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 11952    πŸ” 3967    πŸ’¬ 267    πŸ“Œ 127
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Make it viral.

08.01.2026 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 47653    πŸ” 21399    πŸ’¬ 361    πŸ“Œ 528

The β€œprosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

07.01.2026 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 86912    πŸ” 21346    πŸ’¬ 1614    πŸ“Œ 1507
The image is digital art made up to look like a two color linocut print. It features a geometric twisting snarling tiger. It's flanked by the text "Stay Angry" and "Bite Back" that follows the contours of the tiger.

The image is digital art made up to look like a two color linocut print. It features a geometric twisting snarling tiger. It's flanked by the text "Stay Angry" and "Bite Back" that follows the contours of the tiger.

Life advice for the ages. Those doing wrong want you tired and hopeless. But stay angry. And when a chance is in front of you: bite back.

Digital plans for a real linocut. I'm anxiously awaiting a press to make this stuff possible with my RSI in my hands.

#art #tiger #resist #linocut

02.02.2025 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 9090    πŸ” 2465    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 31

A new year could mean a new you.
A you with new antlers, moss, tentacles, thorns, fangs, and a darker determination to change the world around you.

05.01.2026 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 161    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
A heraldic-style portrait of the Year of the Curious Squid. The squid looks somewhat startled, and has a green body with blue tentacles and a blue stripe along its mantle

A heraldic-style portrait of the Year of the Curious Squid. The squid looks somewhat startled, and has a green body with blue tentacles and a blue stripe along its mantle

I choose to take this as a positive omen.

(As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)

17.12.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1039    πŸ” 395    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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I have been accused of having no filter.

I have one.
I use it a lot.
This is what gets through.

I can be meaner.

19.12.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 308    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 9

Me, submerged headfirst in Brie: Shu’ up, ’s medishinal.

19.12.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1044    πŸ” 180    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 2

Relaxation tips:
- take a deep breath
- put down your phone
- find a sinister fog in the forest
- enter the fog and let it enter you, until you become one
- travel the wildlands with the other fog spirits, spreading fear & wonder in equal measure
- have some tea

15.12.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 236    πŸ” 95    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

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