Solarpunk Auntie

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

Redwood bark with stripes of char filled with new bark

Redwood tree growing out of its charred trunk, five years after #CZULightningComplex🌲🔥

A nebula with red and blue colors faintly glows in the light of a very bright star.

The Ghost of Cassiopeia nebula. Cassiopeia (the bright star) is an Ethiopian queen in Greek mythology. Her star illuminates nearby dust clouds, imparting a ghostly, ethereal appearance.

Image credit: my tiny telescope (about 4 hours of light collecting).

#science #astronomy 🔭👩🏾‍🔬

Here's what the loofah gourd=>loofah sponge process looks like. You let them dry on the vine (which helps remove skin+seeds; picked mine early bc too wet here=gourds were rotting instead of drying). Peel the skin; soak in soap & bleach, dry on sun.

Part of the habits of white supremacy includes treating statements of people of color groups as less neutral, more emotional, and more violent than statements of white folks. This refusal to grant neutrality, or the benefit of the doubt, extends to other marginalized groups depending on proximity.

Suspending Link after he pointed out the how following Jonathan Chait after being accused of transphobia does not allow you to beat the transphobia allegations. In fact, it does the opposite.

To be clear: suspending Link was certainly a choice. And we know what KIND of choice it is.

I'm glad she's been released.

Thanks for trying, at least.

(Not meant to be a scold, meant to be commiserating, sorry if unclear)

Time to get outside, touch grass, watch bugs, and do some stargazing. There's a lot of ugly out there, but it's not everything.

What @jay.bsky.team and @safety.bsky.app are demonstrating here is that any move to demonstrate the hypocrisy of their public statements regarding the kind of platform they're trying to make, any attempt to hold them accountable for enabling bigotry on that platform, will be met with suspension.

Bsky is never beating them antiBlack allegations, huh @jay.bsky.team ? Really looking forward to the days of radio silence I know will follow this one, because if there's one thing I know you guys do well, it's turtle up on bad decisions til that shit festers.

If you’re suspending Link, you’ve massively fucked up.

what the actual fuck

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

A drawing of a woman in plate and cloth armor, reaching behind her head to tie her hair. She is wearing a sword, shield and rondelle dagger at the hip.

Me: The Middle-Ages were actually very colorful.
Also me: I only want to paint black and green.
#knightober

Heads (and elbows) up, pagan friends.

You're either with ICE or with humanity and democracy.

Choose.

Tiled fondant Escher birds in a gradient from white to dark gray on a ball-shaped cake

Tiled fondant Escher birds in a gradient from white to dark gray on a ball-shaped cake. Each bird has a black outline and other details drawn on with an edible marker

Escher cake
Vanilla cake, vanilla bean buttercream, one layer of salted chocolate buttercream filling, one layer of salted caramel buttercream filling, fondant (modeling chocolate was too sticky for the cookie cutter)

What I know from being Black my whole life, and poor for the majority of it, is that politely ignoring a root issue to attend to one closer to the surface is like robbing Peter to pay Paul. It’s a band-aid on a gaping wound, and it will not hold your flesh together for long. The US needs stitches.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

The reason a lot of white people can operate in the privilege of a comment like “we used to be able to have dissenting opinions & now they break friendships” is because the people of color in the room had to be silent in order to remain in the room safely.

diagram of a snake lady, showing her working and her food...

'Anatomie de Mélusine. Mammo-Reptile.
Système Digestif de la Femme-Serpent
(Ophiaphrodite Castelli).'

Perhaps the only thing more newsworthy than the idiocy of this aide is the insanity of what Pete Hegseth wanted…and why.

He wanted express orders from Trump to send in the 82nd Airborne into Portland so that he could have ‘cover’ if ‘things went sideways’.

That means American civilian casualties.

White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cellphone while in Minnesota

Oh look, another White House Signal scandal.

This time it was an aide to Stephen Miller who was using Signal so openly in a public space that a bystander captured images of the chat.

Oh and the messages were about sending the *82nd Airborne* into Portland.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Braiding meanders from east (right) to west (left), Delft blue at the left, to pinkish purple at the right. Shows many former meanders and smaller tributaries.

Today I was informed about this ESRI blog post about the river Ob, Russia, and its landform features:
www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...
@watershedlab.bsky.social kindly pointed me to the files that were not accessible via the usual procedures.

A black ballpoint pen sketch of the top half of a King Vulture, viewed from the side, facing to the right of the image

Little ballpoint King Vulture sketch

-3194 🎨🐡🪶 #art

This really shouldn't be controversial, but if you, as a cop, aren't able to stand stock-still, ramrod-straight, and stone-faced while a civilian screams every insult imaginable an inch from your face but doesn't intentionally strike you, without resorting to violence, you shouldn't get to be a cop

Me wearing a blue zippy with a t-shirt that says don’t wanna go far for stuff in orange.

“Don’t wanna go far for stuff”

This shirt is my daily goal.

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

THE TIDES ARE TURNING

61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 39 percent saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians

You’re gonna say this isn’t enough. You’re right. But these numbers were almost unthinkable a year ago.