Nic Dastardly

Emergency Mass Meeting — Abolish ICE 🚨 ICE is tearing families apart and terrorizing our communities. We’re coming together to organize, share updates, and take collective action to fight back. 📍 First Presbyterian Church, Hartford 🗓 Saturday, February 7 ⏰ 4–7 PM This is a moment for solidarity, strategy, and showing up for our neighbors. All are welcome. 🔗 RSVP: link.ctdsa.org/abolishicemeeting

Emergency Mass Meeting — Abolish ICE 🚨

ICE is tearing families apart and terrorizing our communities. We’re coming together to organize, share updates, and take collective action to fight back.

📍 First Presbyterian Church, Hartford
🗓 Saturday, February 7
⏰ 4–7 PM

This is a moment for solidarity.

two comrades shoveling snow off wooden bench on the curb

comrade shoveling a path to the crosswalk

two comrades before shoveling the hospital crosswalk

three comrades wearing keffiyehs after shoveling a path to the crosswalk!

No more ICE kidnapping neighbors, no more ice blocking public transit infrastructure.

The Transit Riders Union of CT did some Zohran-style bench excavation today while flyering for our Abolish ICE letter campaign. link.ctdsa.org/abolishiceletter

Well…

Massive protest in Australia today demanding an end to starvation and genocide in Gaza and calling for sanctions and a weapons freeze against Israel.

Official estimates puts the crowd size at 90k, but the images I’m seeing look more like there were hundreds of thousands of participants.

On my t.v. screen you shone, in my heart you stayed.
Happy flashbacks tinged with sorrow now
Thank you for gracing this world while you could

We are concerned that ICE will take ann entire family into detention tomorrow. Their little girl is in a wheelchair and needs care. They have an infant. They have been complying with all requirements. Please show up to support!

Tuesday, July 15
8am
650 Capitol Mall (outside)
Sacramento CA

Look, just… don’t pick up a pigeon egg that’s fallen off its grimy little underside. Leave the festering orb of regret alone. Because the moment you do, you will be imbued with the stench of Satan's compost bin, and that pigeon will stare at you quizzically, like the stupid ape that you are.

It's just... off, isn't it?

Yes, something is rotten in the state of Denmark. If he really gave a damn about the decline of democracy, he'd tell us everything he knows, wouldn't he?

I may have high-fived the manager at New Britain Costco tonight. ✋️

Is Somebody Doing Something?! Yes. Let me break it down for you.

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This made me feel better

The Town of Farmington gives garden plot priority to people who have had plots in prior years.

OK, but what about the residents who live in housing without greenspaces?

Why isn't this taken into consideration on the application?

Questions I'll also bring up at the next town hall meeting.

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2" rounds. I prefer these. The centers are softer, the knife pattern is a lot less fiddley to execute, and two bites are better than one. Next time, I'd like to make biscuit-sized ones.

I know the perfect oubliette - it's in England, a stone's throw away from my home.

Tried my hand and Pogácsa - Hungarian Cheese Scones.

These little morsels are divine. I want to scale them up next time to 2" diameters.

ALDI just removed its DE&I initiatives, and Trader Joe's doesn't have a great track record. But you gotta do what will keep you sane. Pick your battles - no one will judge you. It's tough right now.

YouTube video by The Beat The Beat - Stand Down Margaret (OTT 1982)

The (English) Beat - Stand Down Margaret

#Alternativemusic
#Musicvideo
#Two-Tone
#Ska

Kicked off Black History Month by watching Six Triple Eight. Very teary-eyed now.

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!

So seedy! I'll have to bake ya a loaf sometime.

Nice one! Now you have thinking of Haikus...

When the 'chute fails us
Pull up on thoughts and prayers
Plummet to the ground

Or should I say loaverly bread. 😉

Mom wanted some Dave's Killer Bread. She calls it her poop bread. She can't afford it, so I made her KA's super seed loaf.
Loverly bread. Happy gut.

Yes to a general strike. Yes to a shadow cabinet.

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.

Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.

Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

#generalpublic
#rankingroger
#davewakeling

YouTube video by The English Beat Official General Public - Tenderness (Official)

My go-to happy track. The video is lovely, as well. It seeped into my subconscious in the 80s when I was a babe.

What song comforts you during this time?

#ska #thebeat #theenglishbeat #Two-Tone #tenderness #lovetrumpshate

youtu.be/bKyVQid8Ch4?...

The Smithsonian's queer erasure of an AIDS artwork should alarm us all By omitting the tragic story behind Felix González-Torres "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is setting a perilous precedent, warns art scholar Ignacio Da...

The artist's estate reps, as well as the NPG, have a lot to account for.

"The most referenced theory for this repositioning is that it attracts the upper echelon of richer buyers and museums, who have historically been more interested in straight white male artists."

www.out.com/gay-news/fel...

Boycott Target starting February 1st No diversity? No equity? No inclusion? No dollars!

I have already started, but a call to action is February 1st.
Close the red door!