Moryera Thorne 💜

A painting of 2 Vaquitas swimming underwater among some corals and underwater plant life. This painting was made for Save the Vaquita Week 2025 in hopes of raising funds and awareness to help the vaquita come back from possible extinction. Save the Vaquita Postcard Print is a limited run of 100 signed 5x7 inch postcard prints, on premium cardstock, and will be signed and numbered on the back. This hand painted original postcard print is a little token and a reminder that you made a difference in helping the Vaquita. All funds will be donated directly to porpoise.org for Save the Vaquita Week!

It's International Save the #Vaquita Day!

With fewer than 20 left, the vaquita is the world's most endangered marine mammal. I painted this piece in the hope of raising awareness for vaquita.day.

#SaveTheVaquita #Cetacean #whales #porpoise #endangeredspecies #conservation #Animalart #Sciart

Discussing kink scenarios with ocs with my friends

every kid that grew up in the closet learned this young

every trans kid learned this young

Stick with your queer community; we've been through this shit, we know how to cope, we'll teach you

You can tell the right believes she's actually a woman because they're blaming her for the actions of a man.

a sleeping orange cat is sprawled entirely across the width of a large armchair seat. he’s at the back of the seat so you can totally sit in front of him though

We can share, your butt isn’t that long. I can be lumbar support

A bunch of mysterious bunnies are walking in a line, carrying candles and wearing black robes. They go through a bunch of ruined columns at night, one of which has a statue of a similar hooded figure, pointing. The last bunny in the line looks as if noticing the viewer

Daily bunny no.3079 is sworn to secrecy

so true king
#FFXV

man rolling rock up hill how it started how its going

WOOSH! You have gained an extra spoon to tackle the day!

宇宙の日

I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point

America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive

Stanhill, Lancashire, 1764. Wear and carpenter James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny, the first practical spinning-frame, to make the tedious task of producing cloth a little bit faster. He doesn't know it yet, but this will destroy the world. Spurred by inventions like his, the industrial revolution will transform everything -- work power, the wealth of nations. Society as we know it began here, and it wasn't great for everyone. But a group of weavers and textile workers saw this future coming. And did their best to prevent it.

"Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" The standard narrative does that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed. Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight. And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it.

Factory work paid little, since "the machines" did "the real work" human labourers were deemed unimportant and replaceable. FUN FACT!: Factory owners preferred to hire ORPHANS since less people would notice if they were maimed or killed on the job! Now the owners quickly realized the workers might notice they did all the work for almost no pay. If they went on STRIKE or ARGUED FOR HGHER WAGES, this would threaten their tremendous wealth. In 1799, Parliament passed the Combination Act, which made FORMING TRADE UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND GOING ON STRIKE ILLEGAL. Organizing against the rich became a crime.

If you were living through it, opposing the industrial revolution wasn't techno-phobia. It was SELF-DEFENSE. The combination act forced unions underground into secret societies. And the greatest secret of all was their leader - Ned Ludd. Ned had been a folk character for years. In one version after being whipped by his master, he smashed two knitting frames in a rage. In more fanciful versions, he then escaped to the Sherwood forest, here he lived among the animals as their king. Some versions specifically call him 'Much Better Than Robin Hood'.

Happy Labor Day!

Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work...

Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

just assume that every bat and raccoon you see has rabies. I’m so fucking serious. deadass, as the kids would say. because you do not want to be a dead ass

if you find a dead bat in your house, report it immediately and then go get a rabies shot

With all the criticisms of AI one I don't see as often is how it's the final form of the tech industry's 20+ year push to take computers and internet from "useful tool you can use in a vast variety of ways" to "thing that does everything for you and gives you as few options as possible for doing so"

Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.

Siren

IM SO FUCKING EXCITED

Car Ride🚗

There’s still time to try gay sex DURING Pride month, which unlocks 50K bonus ally points.

It's a very modern tradition! Not until we got home kitchens did we do this I wrote a whole book on restaurant culture and foodways (Lost Restaurants of Napa Valley) so trust me when I tell you almost everyone ate out all the time until fairly recently.

It be like that.

Business insider screenshot: A major commodity trader received containers full of painted rocks instead of the $36 million shipment of copper it paid for

ea nasir is back baby awooo

scooby doo meme where the guy pulls the mask off the ghost who's labeled "bluesky is bad" and underneath is "i want to post slurs"

Fairly sure Vance is basically like Newsom in that you can pilot him like a drone if you have enough money and I’m wondering if we can 25th and crowdfund our way out of this.

Come on, foxes, this is what you've been training for. Shit on their desks. Scream outside their windows. Do your weird knotting sex thing on their stupid rooftop running track. Eat their shoes.