Lep thinks thoughts

I forgot how brightly a single candle burns.

Our Knight
#jlmart

In solidarity, everywhere ✊🏼

A family of bunnies, who all have wings, watch as the smallest bunny lifts off the ground for the first time. In the background, other bunnies fly on their wings through a blue sky. The bunnies applaud the smaller bunny's first flight

Daily bunny no.3208 just learning to fly

Going to bed. Stay safe if you can, stay warm if you can, but mostly, stay strong. I don't know when, but I know we'll win.

🐚🐦

Make tea. Look at the sky. Go on a walk with a friend.

Today, we walk out of school, work, and commerce. 873 events, across 50 states and globally. Today, we walk out for a Free America. #FreeAmericaWalkout #FreeAmerica

Sometimes I wonder why I'm so tired. Then I glance at the news. How incredibly exhausting it is simply to live in this soup of ICE raids, AI slop and deepfakes, microplastics, record-breaking weather, and gleeful destruction of US institutions.

Don’t accept evil in your life

#MLKDay

Please keep Minnesotans in mind as a new week starts. It’s heavy as hell in the air, and we’re out here resisting as hard as we can as temperatures drop into the negative teens and twenties.

Donate, share resources, and signal boost vetted stories to keep spreading truth and awareness.

A bunny walks along a street by the sea, on a sunny day. A sea serpent 'walks' next to him, coming out of the water alongside the shore. They address each other warmly

Daily bunny no.3202 is walking and talking

Sunny Friday. Took my lunch (a salad) to my friend’s farm to eat under the rare January rays. A mob of chickens came to investigate. We eyed each other warily. The rooster made sure I got a good look at his knife-y spurs before he stalked off.

The sunset-pink top of Mt Hood, just visible over ribbons of fog.

Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

Drawing of a giant dragon sitting behind Pico do Jaraguá watching the city at sunrise.

A 🐉 to start the week

#illustration #BRArt #kidlitart #fantasyart

Screenshot of a post on X by Jamie Raskin (@jamie_raskin) that reads: “Remember what Nemik said in Andor:” followed by the quote: “Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.” The post continues: “No Kings in America or in any galaxy. Stand strong for the people.” Below the text is a photo from a protest showing two people holding signs that read “No king can break our union” and “Vote yes!! to protect our courts,” with other demonstrators and signs in the background.

Andor has a lot to say about the world we live in now.

Our building is wonderfully weird. It’s sun-filled, and it smells like a science lab but sounds like a coffee shop.

Sat down to play my oboe for the first time in a month, and after the first note, my dog let out a loud, heartfelt groan.

Tarot card The Magician from the Prisma Visions deck by James R. Eads.

Finally pulled my card for 2026.

✨ Sketching instead of Scrolling! ✨

Gentle nudge to remind you to do something other than scrolling, anything is better!

#shiba #dog #art #timelapse #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart

an orange dragon sitting with his tail curled around his front feet and a bag of chips in his mouth

pls open his chips

Mt Hood is a ghost this morning.

✨ Sketching instead of Scrolling! ✨

Gentle nudge to remind you to do something other than scrolling, anything is better!

#MantaRay #ray #art #timelapse #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart

My heart is still heavy from the news out of Minneapolis. And this was a tough piece to write today. But I’m more determined than ever to get the masked goons off the streets of our cities and kick the fascists out of power. I hope you are too. My write-up in the replies.

Early spring flowers from my garden including a wild daffodil, viola, winter flowering cherry, snowdrop, grape hyacinth/muscari, hellebore & kerria on my hand.

In case you suffer from seasonal low mood or have been anxious or sad today, here are the earliest spring flowers-these will be blooming in a few weeks’ time 🌿

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

I didn’t see the tulips myself. Those were reported by a colleague. But the roses are mine. Such a surprise to see the pop of pink on a grey morning

A watercolor painting showing me, my husband Matt, and our dog hiking through a tunnel of red Torii gates

Every year since we started dating, I've made a hand-painted illustration for my husband. Here's the one from this past year, inspired by our recent trip to Japan