Jess⁷💜*💙*🏹🔮*🐇🎶⚔️

🚨This is not hunger… it’s a disgrace.

I am ola, a mother of three from Gaza.🇵🇸

My children survive on a piece of bread and a little water, with no food, milk, or meat.💔

I am their only provider and I feel helpless.

Please, help me save them — I need €500.

chuffed.org/project/1397...

My opinion means 0 but I don’t think the “people are so lonely they’re turning to ai” thing can be fixed without addressing the “yah it’s bad to spread covid but people need community so we have no choice” thing. “Real community isn’t possible if it’s built on harming others” applies to covid & ai.

Another example of a woman being told her serious health issues will be fixed by losing weight.

And another example of a condition that affects women much more than men being under diagnosed because the presentation in women isn't "textbook".

Don’t. Do not. Do literally anything other than this. See a licensed therapist. Get a plant. Volunteer at an animal shelter. Shitpost 24 hours a day on Bluesky. Anything but this.

I’m Lubna ,a mother of three, an engineer, and now a survivor of war.
I lost my home, my job, and the life I built.
Now I fight every hour for my sick child, Naser, as hunger and illness tighten their grip.
Please, if you have it in your heart, help my family survive. 💔🙏
gofund.me/edd687b8

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024.

It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness.

They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.

My heart breaks as I watch my baby girl wither away before me. Malnutrition is ravaging her tiny body, and there's nothing I can do about it. Every day that passes is a new struggle for her survival. Please help us save her. Every small donation makes a big difference.💔
gofund.me/349724ac

A digital drawing featuring a white cat sitting among some flowers, shrubs and mushrooms.

KITTY TIME!!

#art #illustration

I am thinking today

About how the deletion of Palestinian accounts

Also deletes evidence of this genocide

And the people whose lives it destroyed

What archiving exists?

Who is saving their faces, their pleas, their writings?

For the future, if nothing else?

A north American valley with rugged hills and a bear looking into the vast open space.

A slightly different illustration this time round. What do you think of such a landscape?

Hot take: The gendering and feminizing of waiting rooms and doctor's offices for breast cancer ("women's health") has indirectly increased mortality rates for men (cis and trans) and anyone who is not a woman.

There are literally higher mortality rates for cis men. 1/6

Watch the moment a group of Israeli activists stormed a live television broadcast to protest Israel’s war on Gaza.

Members of Standing Together, wearing 'Leave Gaza' T-shirts, jumped onto the stage during the airing of the Big Brother show on Channel 13.

Louder for the people in the back: paying taxes is a patriotic act because it is a way of caring for your community and your country. Every billionaire has benefited from the public good: our roads, USPS, airports, public schools. Billionaires in America should pay back our investment in them.

There being food in the market makes it a perfect time to donate

If you post a screenshot, artwork, pet pics, an ad, or whatever, and don't add alt text, a percentage of Bluesky won't repost it because we feel strongly about inclusivity.

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Love that we now have ChatGPT psychosis, a whole new mental illness deliberately invented by ONE company so that they can profit whilst they lobby for even less regulations. Meanwhile said company has not even made a profit. This is such a RIDICULOUS TIMELINE.

It’s not the particular focus of this piece (which is great, go read it!), but the disappearance of media due to a) unavailability of physical media after corporate greed takes shows/movies offline b) censorship is and will continue to be a growing problem. The censorship especially!

Graphic shows book cover of Mr Collins in Love by Lee Welch. Cover has ferns, raspberries, potato flowers, a blackbird in flight and a silhouette of a horse and gig. Quote from KJ Charles, author of The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen, reads "A deeply kind retelling. I loved the warmth, the wisdom, and the way it offers a realistic but profound happy-ever-after to people who rarely get such a thing in romance."

MR COLLINS IN LOVE, my m/m romance retelling of Pride and Prejudice, is out now. Big thanks to @kjcharleswriter.com for the wonderful blurb quote ❤️

books2read.com/u/mgByoD

My family survived both Partition and the anti-Sikh pograms of ‘84 and I just want to say that every single person who I know that has survived did this by holding on to hope, fighting hard for survival and imagining a safe, better future. Despair was not a choice available to them.

Please study the civil rights movement within your own country and what Black people had to go through to get any kind of rights from a racist government invested in their continued dehumanisation. Learn from the way they organised and fought. Hope was a HUGE part of it.

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

Famine now prevalent in parts of war-torn Sudan Famine is now prevalent in areas of war-torn Sudan and will continue through the next two months, according to a new global food insecurity report released on Thursday.

Sudan’s #famine “drivers” are conflict and blocked aid, says the IPC. Translation: Hunger is delivered by men with guns and politicians with agendas.
buff.ly/nNW5EIv #HandsOffSudan

A watercolour painting of overhead trees with a bird flying in the centre

A watercolour painting of a spooky swamp

Recent paintings are giving Twilight 🌲

datingafeminist @datingafeminist If school girls must cover their bra straps b/c they are "sexual," Snapping a girls bra should be considered sexual assault by the school. It is not. This is one way we teach children that the female body is criminal and harmful, but the violation of it is not.

Yup

Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you.

Death toll from starvation rises to 212 in Gaza, including 98 children More Palestinians die from starvation as UN Security Council prepares to discuss Israel’s plan to take over Gaza City.

More Palestinians die from starvation as UN Security Council prepares to discuss Israel’s plan to take over Gaza City.

Artists - share your otters! 🦦

oh my gosh their arguments against this being a class action lawsuit are so goofy. its bad because "seven million claimants would kill the company" and "it would be difficult to figure out the rights and compensation for each of the 7 million" so whyd you steal from 7 million people??? dingus!

stop using chatgpt (etc), stop using it, there is no reason to use it

Detail from a watercolour in progress of the head and part of the torso of a house sparrow.

I once posed the question on the other place, "What, for you, is a 'typical' bird?"

The sparrow was the most common answer. It was mine, too. I see them less often these days in London, but they were in overwhelming abundance in my childhood in Chiang Mai.