Calliope Gazetas

Designer folks, what are you using these days for online portfolios?

My portfolio site has been down for a few years and I need to get a new one up and running. Recommendations are welcome! #designportfolio #halp

Well I did a stupid and got scammed buying something online. I've repeatedly asked for my money back but there was no delivery (even though it showed as being delivered on the tracking app) and no invoice and I can't find the website that I ordered from. It was a table-top drawing easel. Sigh.

A grey and white cat sits on top of a padded grey headboard, against a grey painted wall. A square paper lamp below him is lit. He is licking one outstretched paw, with his little pink tongue folded up and visible above his paw.

Well heavens, I have not been writing much here. Here's a photo of Goose after he's had a big supper. Life is beautiful and exhausting, complicated and scary, joyous and mundane, like how it normally is for all of us.

My mum has been gone for thirteen years now, it still hurts. She was so proud of me for getting into grad school and then she died a year later. I never went to my convocation because I was too heartbroken to walk across the stage without her in the audience.

I've been told there's special herbal teas that will cure my vestibular disorder! Report and block, report and block. It's more in the disease specific groups that I follow so I have to have more energy for posting there and I usually don't have the energy.

Also don't have much going on due to chronic illness. I can bring blankets and pillows, can we make a pillow fort in the hole?

I call it power dusting. So satisfying.

A painted plywood cutout of a catcher's mitt that says 'Hit it HERE, win BEER'. The mitt is white with green outlines and the text is in red. The sign sits on the grassy ground, propped up against the wall of a small white cinderblock hut.

At the left side of the baseball diamond in Union Bay. #unionbay #handpaintedtype

Western starflower bloom and leaves on the forest floor, a small delicate pale pink flower with seven petals and a set of five leaves beneath it.

Arrowgrass blooming on a rocky, shale covered beach on Vancouver Island.

I use @inaturalist.bsky.social for posting all.of my plant, mushroom and insect observations. Citizen science is awesome and their dataset is the most comprehensive species catalogue out there BECAUSE so many regular folks take photos and upload them to their app. Two of my recent pics:

You want to know what non-compliance looks like? It looks like whatever the hell you want it to look like. It’s not about heroism or martyrdom. It’s about being a magnificent, ungovernable pain in the ass. It’s about weaponizing inconvenience, absurdity, and joy against a system that demands fear and obedience. Throw a wrench in the works—everywhere, all the time. Fill their inboxes with existential poetry. Tape absurd messages in public places: “Authoritarianism gives you hemorrhoids.” Get petty. Get weird. Flush their toilet paper. Release crickets in inconvenient places. Spoil their scripts, trip their rhythm, yank the narrative from their hands. Because here’s the ugly truth they don’t want you to hear: authoritarianism only works when the people allow it to work. It’s a performance, a bluff, a collective hypnosis. Break the spell. Mock it. Undermine it with your refusal to kneel. But here’s the thing—this has to be everywhere. Everyone. We need resistance so widespread, so creatively chaotic, so utterly unmanageable, that the regime cracks under the weight of its own overreach. Be bold. Be clever. Be feral. And above all—DO NOT COMPLY.

We heard the rumors. Maybe president panican will declare martial law, maybe he won’t. But do you think this clown car of incompetent sycophantic signal leakers can keep all 300 million of us down? Absolutely not. We will not comply. Here’s some advice from Oliver Kornetzke. Let’s get weird.

Share the media.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.

I have to constantly wrestle with my grief over the life I'm not able to live, the life I thought I would be able to have which my chronic illness has taken from me. It's really fucking hard. This is one of the reasons I have a trauma counsellor. #meneires #chronicillness

I have tried to get people to move away from it but one argument I am seeing is they feel the need to push back on that platform. And I'm like yes, but you are generating revenue for him by staying, as an audience for his advertisers. And they still won't leave.

Gardeners in the Lower Mainland of BC looking for locally adapted seeds, check out the Steves Family seed store at their farm gate in Steveston. #buylocal

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

These are gorgeous! Do you sell them?

New buttons today! Shipping from Vancouver Island, BC. Message me for ordering. #resist #fightfascism

I don't think Americans want to go to war against us. It's the robber barons that do.

A grey and white cat is curled up in a wicker basket wearing a beige toddler shirt so he doesn't lick a hot spot on his inside right elbow. He is looking at the camera with yellow eyes and one is half-closed sleepily.

Goose is tolerating anti-licking shirt version four much better than the previous ones. #catsofbluesky

Exactly. And then it can be extended for a week, two weeks and longer while people get used to/return to supporting local businesses and farmers and increasing local food security.

Nope. The intent is to convey the despair at having to fight it again. The pause between the two sentences. Many people that I have shown it to understand the meaning of that particular phrasing.

Three buttons on a wooden table, they say 'Fuck Fascism', 'Fight Fascism', and 'Fuck. Fascism.' in white letters on a black background.

Current three versions of these buttons. DM me if you want to order some. #resist #fightfascism #fuckfascism

UM NOT GOOD

Beautiful red rabbit by Martha Rich. Be like the red rabbit! I feel it's important to support our American friends fighting fascism and I will also not buy anything Feb 28th.

Okay, the three month old onesies need a lot of safety pins and don't fit right around the neck. This is why there are $50 pet shirts at the pet store. :/

Two vintage soup mugs sit on a dark grey countertop. One has owls painted on it, that look grumpy and fuzzy. The other has stylized fish with coloured circles and round tails.

I went into a thrift store to get baby onesies for my cat to wear, so he doesn't keep licking a hot spot on his elbow. And then I found these fish and owl soup mugs! Also two onesies for a buck each. #thriftstoresamirite

FFS 😡

Snowdrops grow from between rocks, with a droplet of rain glistening off one petal. Leaves and pine needles carpet the ground beneath them

Winter aconite with its yellow flowers closed after a heavy rain, many droplets on the green outer leaves.

The garden is waking up. Snowdrops and winter aconite after heavy overnight rains.
#snowdrop #winteraconite #spring

Nanaimo author's petition asking PM to revoke Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship gains support Thousands of people have electronically signed a parliamentary petition calling for revocation of Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship over his role in the Trump administration, which is pointedly threate...

Love seeing this trending on the news, if you are Canadian, sign this petition! #nocitizenshipformuskrats

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Also the face melting emoji 🫠