chief hex officer

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

My City Is Under Occupation: A Trans Reporter’s Dispatch From Minneapolis TNN reporter Mira Lazine found a community in Minneapolis. Now, that community is under attack — and fighting back. Here’s her look of the realities on the ground.

TNN reporter Mira Lazine (@thefreeradical.org) found a community in Minneapolis. Now, that community is under attack by a fascist regime — and fighting back.

Here’s her look of the realities on the ground, where exhaustion and terror exist alongside defiance and hope:

There is an actual argument that this curse actually worked.

Digital artwork of a girl with hair made of waves, holding a star under a tidal wave

tidal wave 🌊

fancy #cotlnarinder and #cotllamb
just thought i'd try some designs out :)
#cotl #cotlfanart #cotlau #bartendernarinder #businessmanlamb

straw ragebaited me on stream to draw narilamb kissing and someone said wedding kiss and their wedding was NOT happy soooo

#cotl #cultofthelamb #boart #cotlmotherau #narilamb

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

watching mamdani get into office and just start flipping the switches labeled "good things" makes me think about this post a lot

establishment democrats don't like the guy because he puts on display how intentionally ineffective they are

Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.

narinder in greek clothing
im going back to explore my 'narinder as charon' au once this month ends, wish me luck!
#cultofthelamb #cotlfanart #narinder #rkgk #sketch

tumblr's down so
#narilamb

Just because good news is worth celebrating:

There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.

HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

pantone's color of the year makes me upset on too many social, mental, psychological layers to count, but I tried to... do something with it, I guess.
(Yes she's mostly blue but that's because I didn't want this girl to be colored with eggshell. Sorry I meant "cloud dancer")

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

a fan book cover of Alecto the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Alecto is leaning against a desk, her hand placed on a cow skull. her other hand is holding a bloody sword. there are chains around her wrists and neck. she's wearing a white dress that reveals a significant amount of skin. her eyes are glowing yellow. behind her is Earth, framing her head like a halo.

it's my 5th #thelockedtomb anniversary, so here's my spin on Alecto cover

A portrait of Harrowhark Nonagesimus from the Locked Tomb series. A spooky figure clad in dark clothing further adorned with skeletal ornaments. She's got short black hair and her face is fully painted like a skull.

I've just finished the trilogy and I'm officially joining the Alecto waiting room.

[ #art #thelockedtomb ]

"Fear not, little flock, for it is your God's good pleasure to give you the kingdom."

Redraw of the second of my first cotl illustration sets
#cotl #cultofthelamb

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.

Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

sorry for being cringe I'm trying to enjoy being alive

10 Movies to Stream for Black History Month

Not only is it Black History Month. It’s also its 100th anniversary!!

To commemorate its centennial, I wrote a list of 10 Black films, one from each of the last 10 decades, to stream.

"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.

Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach shared an emotional moment with fans after his new movie, Iron Lung, managed to win big at the box office over the weekend. https://bit.ly/3ZLQnsX

jerry from tom and jerry is crying while holding a bottle of tomato juice in his mouth . Alt: jerry from tom and jerry is crying while leaning against a structure for support

Reading The Book Thief as a very traumatized 14yo: dang, that sucks. wonder what’ll happen to Liesel

Reading The Book Thief as a kinda-healed 30yo: *sobbing* She’s just a BABY!

Markiplier’s ’IRON LUNG’ has opened with $17.9M domestically.

The film has earned over 5X its production budget.

CNN is reporting the real reason Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre for two years is not for renovation: “the Kennedy Center does not have a 2026/2027 season. There would not have been any programming to announce."

Happy Black History Month 🖤✨

Libraries and books are from perfect. The Dewey Decimal System is imperfect. But we will never forget the work of Dorothy B. Porter. She decolonized the Dewey Decimal System. She helped us belong in libraries, in books.

We celebrate and thank you, Dorothy B. Porter 💜📚