lord help me

Trans people are dying out of hopelessness and fear. This world isnt meant for us gnc folks. My trans friends and I are checking in with each other to make sure we made it to another day. You are celebrating billionaires that don’t give a shit about you, and will sell your livelihood for a good deal

Your nonbinary friends and family deserve complete love and affirmation of who they are. If your politics don’t allow you to challenge the status quo, your politics are wrong. If your politics prevent you from seeing the beauty out of the binary, your politics are primitive and harmful.

What the Bishop said is absolutely correct.

Caring for others is hot!

Finishing up By the Fire We Carry by @rebeccanagle.bsky.social via audiobook & know this will be a book I recommend for years and years. Should be a requirement to read for every non-native person in the US, but especially Oklahoma.

A family of splitgill mushrooms grow aligned on the edge of an upturned branch in a bare winter forest. They look like seashells on wet stone All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Oh to be a small dog

Is there an online marketplace for handmade or used 🍃glassware?

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I put together a little guide for Mask Bloc OKC and thought I would share!

To an asshole, all virtue is "virtue signaling."

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:

we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.

the climate crisis is here, all around us

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Jay has covid. I am still testing negative because I have been masking, washing my hands often, and using nasal spray. Who thinks I can stay this way until he tests negative?????

Anyone can draw. Anyone. Yes, the person who is disabled can draw. Yes, you, who has only ever drawn as a preschooler. If you want to draw, you can get there, it's a skill and you have to dedicate time and effort to it, but you can learn.

I love DOECHII

At the vet with my oldest girl, Aspen. She’s showing signs of arthritis/joint pain and I’m like 😭😭😭😭

Currently getting X-rays on her chronically hurting paw.

An overturned stick is held upright in a winter forest and covered in mature rosy Splitgill mushrooms. Their gills burst out like a fireworks display

Here are some nice mushrooms

I’ve slowed down. I took a step back in my career, I barely leave my house, but even the simple task of making coffee can be too much.

Ok good because I like this cycle 👸🏼

Every evening I crave and look forward to my morning coffee. When I’m drinking my morning coffee, I look forward to my cozy evening. Is this the death spiral?

I hope one day I will stop fighting myself on my illness and just rest when I need it. I feel like I’m so bad at being sick. Anybody know what I mean? I keep pushing myself into flares. I need to rest

What do we do now? Like overall what is everyone doing

I’m basically bald now thanks to ocd & autoimmune things. I shaved my head originally just for fun, but I think it’s forever.

My visible arm band is coming today!!!!!! I’m so excited!!!!!!

I also showed them the 16 page report by my doctor at Mayo Clinic about Long Covid.

They don’t understand how there’s no cure. I don’t understand how there’s no cure

How I hoped the brain tumor being removed would help my fatigue.. ugh

I just want to feel free of this cement body and dizziness

Anyone know of a good place I can donate extra illnesses to those in need?

I’ve already had to switch my career path & am grieving the loss of an active life I may never get back.

These days, it can be a feat just to make coffee and get out of bed.

Being able to enjoy my home is enough. Having stability & a peaceful life.