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Arrgh.
I really really wanna go see @maggietokudahall.bsky.social — but the event’s the night before I fly out on an early AM flight

#BookSky #SanDiego folks should go tho'!
Sign up while seats are still available!

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Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

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Worker pruning pistachio trees

"Leo" is pruning pistachios trees. I earn minimum wage. "This job is tiring. I use large shears that become heavy working all 8 hours with my head looking up and my arms in the air. I am very tired when the day ends." #WeFeedYou

Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees?

Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey.

The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.

A digital drawing with a collection of doodles scattered around a page: robin birds, stars, sparkles, a mushroom, flowers, a cat, a star guy and so on.

My final drawing for #FebruaryFrost26 with prompts "robin" and "sparkling". (Pretend I posted this yesterday oops)

#art #illustration

On the record as profoundly and violently sick of this shit

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

"Still, the hard facts of this loose sandwich elude me."
:: snerk! ::
Thank you for another delightful essay.

A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

Book Bans ‘Kill Creativity,’ Sow Self-Doubt in Authors For the past few years, author Charlotte Sullivan Wild has been working on a picture book about an LGBTQ+ family who learns to cope with one member’s deployment to the military. The story is inspired…

As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else

It's not just that I resent having to turn your AI agent off every three days because you refuse to respect my settings: I also want its ugly-ass annoying logo and constant reminder of its existence to vanish from my UI. I don't want it, I don't want to look at it, I don't want to think about it.

Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.

Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds. Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.

Time to Fight: H.R. 7661 Call To Action

Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them.

Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.

Call my Rep's office and managed to get through my statement without bursting into tears.
Also thanked the staff person answering the phone and taking down the info.

Amazing!

i know the situation in kansas right now is dangerous and terrifying. that said, i'm hoping to speak to someone who's had their license invalidated. i will do absolutely everything to protect your anonymity and maintain your safety.

i can be reached securely via signal at marisakabas.04

this one is going to straight up haunt me until it gets funded, not gonna lie

"...by 6:22 PST, just a few minutes in, I’d written this note: If anyone in America is still watching, more power to you. This is some boring, recycled drivel."

A young king vulture standing on a white table, his head cocked upside down, looking at the viewer.

Are vultures cute?
Yes, and yes. Yes they are.
Yolo is showing off his newly colored beak, shifting towards orange. His full transition to bright king vulture adult colors will take about five years! 🪶

Okay, finished last night, was very pleased with the series and outcome. *
Thank you again for making sure this came to our attention.

*The final team I was rooting for didn't win, but the final two seemed to be having a good time engaging in friendly competition.

we have to be meaner to these people it's all we got. billionaires sitting there crying bc ppl hate them when they could just end world hunger

Poster's Madness A streaming PowerPoint telethon for mutual aid

Poster's Madness was an absolute blast, and an incredible success! We raised over $15k for three mutual aid organizations, tripling our goal of $5k. You can still watch a replay of the stream, and if you haven't donated yet, you can still do so through the end of the day postersmadness.wordpress.com

Poster's Madness Rat King Special YouTube video by Posters Madness

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us tonight! We're just shy of midnight on the West Coast and here to report a total of ✨$15,773.78✨ raised to date with 24 hours still left to donate (GOOD MORNING, EUROPE!) dare we aim for $20,000????

if you missed the party, the video link is here!

Flavor Flav is among women's hockey team fans outraged by presidential snub The rapper, who also serves as the official "hype man" for multiple U.S. Olympic teams, invited the female hockey players to Las Vegas for a "real celebration."

OH HEY LOOK: OUT OF YOIR LEAGUE HAS NOW BEEN MENTIONED BY NPR

I'm gonna be tallying donations during this excellent telethon, and I'm quite excited. It's a great line up, and also fuck this president.

Let's raise some money for some good groups and enjoy our evening of absurdity and internet rather than wallowing in what's sure to be a fucken embarrassment.

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