Raff / Riff Raff Designs

Been a while since I posted the babies.

Some people are unhappy and always will be and deserve to be.

they should invent a world situation that doesn't require you to be horrified and outraged 24/7

New York City’s Subway Is Actually Safer Than Your Car Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has a point about assaults underground, but his policies aren’t improving anything.

"...the risk of being murdered underground is... orders of magnitude less than the risk of dying from a traffic accident elsewhere in the US. Cars are deadly, and any transportation policy that encourages their use over public transportation is pretty much by definition anti-safety."

“The trans issue for me is so novel,” Newsom said. “I'm trying to understand as much as anyone else the whole ‘pronoun’ thing.”

im always taken aback by just how much cis people will humiliate themselves to be dicks to trans people. like sorry, youre confused about pronouns? how did you make it thru 6th grade english you slimy dipshit? why are you going on podcasts to advertise youre too stupid to understand simple concepts?

Nerds.

if you're mad at a trans person for saying they won't vote for Gavin Newsom

too damn bad! this is our lives! it's not a purity test when it's our lives. of course we're a one issue voter, it's our lives

you could just not nominate Newsom! but everyone knows the risk of that now, you have no excuse

Huffing at people doing “purity tests” and the purity tests are dont aid a genocide, concentration camps, and persecute queer people

not wanting to "do discourse" but compelled by conscience to say that Gavin Newsom accepting right-wing framing of gender-affirming care and trying to position himself as some Solomon of hard choices is bullshit. care is care. the people who need it and the people who provide it are the experts

We had an internet computer and a not-internet computer. The internet hookup only existed in one room, so in a different room there was an ancient desktop that had only Word, Paint, and individual mp3 files.

Not gonna share the link because don’t want it to get the clicks but there’s a NYT article floating around like “Is it time to stop snubbing your right wing family?”

We were legit just talking about this. There’s weird idea that it’s just political ideals v real life. That political isn’t personal

It’s been a rough couple of days so I had to remind myself who the f^ck I am 👀🔥🖤

medium.com/@rachel.lyne...

Been wondering lately if it was mistake to keep calling it “Twitter” to spite Musk. Twitter used to have real and actual value; X is just a cesspool. But still calling it Twitter made it harder to walk away b/c of what it was & folks never had to accept what it became. Until hopefully maybe now.

Persecuted for being LGBTQ+ in Trump country, they now have a chance to start over someplace new Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are fighting persecution by offering loans to those who need to flee,

Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH.

“The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”

anti-prime sale

FYI Bookshop.org has anti-prime free shipping rn!

An orange and white cat lying in her back squinting at the camera. Her legs look stumpy from this angle but you can see her pink toe beans.

A black cat with big green eyes leaning into a hand petting his shoulder.

A tuxedo cat sitting on a bed looking askance at the camera.

A backlit tortoiseshell cat lying in an open window. The sun is hitting her back and lighting up her coppery orange coloring.

Thinking about how yes, there are tons of cuteass wild animals I wish I could pet and befriend & that is part of life's cruel joke, and yet I do live in a world & time where a tiny predator species lives in our homes and DOES in fact want to cuddle and play with us and that feels immeasurably lucky

Every time I see conservative fearmongering about how dangerous the NYC subway is, I feel the need to defend it. I grew up in Ohio. It’s cars that are dangerous. It’s car accidents that are terrifyingly common. I’m not being dramatic when I say the subway is one of the best parts of my life now.

In 2012 Rick Perry came to my tiny town campaigning for president. My dad dragged me down to the campaign stop, I shook his hand. Afterwards a reporter/camera team asked what my main issue was as a new voter. I ENTHUSIASTICALLY said "gay rights!" The reporter said she couldn't put that on the news.

If we have learned anything over these last few years, it’s that disgust is not a zero sum game. If you can’t be mad at multiple people by this point, then…well, skill issue, I suppose.

rideshare companies need a “no tesla” option

Height 30 cm. Made from reindeer felt and filled with reindeer wool. The body was made from white felt, the beak, eyes and wing tips were made from black felt. Reddish-brown felt was used for the feet and contain wooden sticks that support the bird.

The organic material of this exceptionally beautiful felt swan has been perfectly preserved in the frozen ground for over 2,400 years. Created of reindeer wool, it is a unique relic of the Pazyryk, the horse-riding people of the Altai Mountains.

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A white book cover reading "2025 Highlights, Part 1". The photo on the cover is a beer and a mixed drink on a bar made of ice.

Two pages of a photo book. The left page shows Rachel drinking a glass of wine. The right page has two pictures of me smiling and surrounded by wine glasses.

An open photo book. The left page is an artsy photo of a metal table topped with many glasses of red wine and rosé. The right page has a photo of two green tumblers and a black and blue concrete tray.

Shout out to the incredible @chelalyn89.bsky.social - this year has felt beyond bleak but there have been some really good moments. Thankful for the reminder and for the incredible luck I must have to be married to a perfect human.

The entire premise of the story only works if you think affirmative action made being Black a cheat code, which a lot of "liberal" whites absolutely do

Minnehaha Falls during a flash flood warning in Minneapolis this afternoon

“Why do you want this job” is such a basic interview question and so many candidates fail to have an answer beyond “Because I am rich and sixty.”

Hearing that Andrew Cuomo’s tried and true strategy of acting like he deserves your vote because he has so many rich friends may actually not work out for him but Mamdani’s unorthodox tactic of knocking on every door in New York seems to be unexpectedly effective?

Orange and white cat on her back, showing off pink toes and looking at the camera (close up)

Orange and white cat on her back, paws in the air, looking at the camera (far shot)

Poppy (Variations on a Theme)

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

The person credited with writing an episode of TV often only wrote the first two drafts of the script, and what airs might have been heavily revised by the showrunners/EPs for any number of reasons from a shift in creative direction to budget.

To be clear: This is how it needs to work usually!