Spring

A multicolored quilt made of of scraps with the words WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW staggered down it with a large beautiful eye centered between the words. The eye has a rainbow camera aperture as the iris. It is quilted densely.

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

With tax season in full swing, here's our reminder that TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.

(Published 2019)

YouTube video by Xman How ProChara helped me win a tournament

I made a video on the Tristrike Tuesday run I had recently! I put a lot of work into it and think it turned out well
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJJV...

#compsplatoon

YouTube video by [8k] Psyco What are Fight Plans? - Splatoon 3

So I have a Bluesky account now and I would like to shamelessly promote my new video on making fight plans! #Splatoon3 #splatuber

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illustration of the text maybe it will happen today in lots of bright colors on a dark background

maybe it will happen today 🎉

A doodled 2-panel comic. The top panel has four different shape characters (oval, square, triangle, octagon) standing close together and wearing N95 face masks. They are yelling “No fascism!” and “Fight back” as they look angrily towards two state agents. The agents are pentagon shapes. They are wearing riot gear and looking angrily at the crowd of shapes. Slightly overlapping between the two panels is a gold rectangle with text that reads “Hours later..”. The bottom panel has the same four masked shapes from above, but they don’t have face masks on anymore. They are walking out of frame. They are throwing away masks into a trash can that’s full of other masks. There are also masks on the ground. A masked circle character stands behind the trash with a blank expression and looks towards the ones walking away.

masking up is a tangible act of resistance we can commit to today and tomorrow. go beyond a one-day strike. go beyond the protests. because we keep us safe, every day. right?

a red and pink cross stitch on blue fabric. "everything I love causes carpal tunnel" surrounded by hearts, a needle and thread, and a skein of embroidery floss.

relevant to many of yalls interests.

Slavery is Legal in Minnesota. These Groups are Working to Change That. - UNICORN RIOT Minneapolis, MN – Prisoners in Minnesota are earning less than a dollar an hour making products for Disney. That’s according to organizers and former inmates who gathered at a press conference in Dece...

Prisoners in Minnesota are earning less than a dollar an hour making products for Disney.

Slavery is Legal in Minnesota. These Groups are Working to Change That.

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YouTube video by [8k] Pysco The EASIEST Way to Improve your Team Play - Splatoon 3

Miracle Friend, Psyco, decided to make a video on Shot Calling and I highly recommend it! Very well made! #compsplatoon #splatuber @psyco8k.bsky.social

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If you aren't familiar with what DARVO is, get familiar with it. "Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender." The govt is relying on DARVO as a tactic on a national scale, and it is also increasingly a conservative tactic to attack outspoken critics of their ideas, theories, & renderings of history.

a lot of people seem to fall into one of two categories:

- always expect their needs to be met and to be the center of attention

- gravitate towards situations where other people's needs and wants always take precedence, or where someone else is simply making all the decisions, etc

Stones! Stones! Stones!

Simple colored sketch of a bathroom from the perspective of someone laying in a bathtub full of water. the sun is shining through the window and water is falling down from the showerhead.

sketch of an idea i won't finish 🌦️

Portrait illo of a young lady holding a frame up to her torso. There is a mixture of larkspur, lavender and dahlias springing from the frame. The lady is wearing large glasses, braids, a flower crown and a skeleton dress. There's a heart lightbulb hanging in front of the frame. Drawn by gdbee in Jan 2026

Frame, in violet

Illustration of a vampire girl with short black hair in a red and black outfit looking confident and happy. The backdrop has swirling red rose petals and a golden yellow swoosh against a grainy purple background. Inspired by the star character from fionna and cake.

🥀

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is Minnesota and pronounced meeneesawdah

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are stay strong and pronounced aydawah oolahneekeedah

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

A problem with having diseases, chronic illness, or chronic pain is that when you take meds to alleviate pain or symptoms or take exceptional care to avoid aggravating things, while thinking it's a short-term solution, it can nullify testing or clinical presentation. 1/ #NEISvoid #Disabled #Spoonie

Chronic illness is describing how you’re feeling and people telling you that you shouldn’t try to function that way…and then responding that if you don’t, you wouldn’t function at all

The Origins of the Word "Moron" Are Actually REALLY Sinister It's much more than just a casual insult.

I’m seeing increased use of this word and I just want to gently suggest that if there’s one word you can manage to remove from your vocabulary it should be this one.

It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.

[COVID zine front cover] [bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition [Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)] [word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant [COVID zine back cover] [handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom] “Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23. Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code] [drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler] [Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Citations: [QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine [bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE

What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition

I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:

Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control

Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

How to talk about disability sensitively and avoid ableist tropes When it comes to disability, a lot of ableist language and tropes are perpetuated by the media. Here's what experts have to say about how to talk about disability.

It hurt my feelings to be called an idiot today. It's supposed to hurt because, like moron, it's an ableist slur. The reason that these two words are ableist slurs is that they are old clinical terms from an era of eugenics for intellectual disabilities. I miss Link on here when I explain this.

this bears repeating:

Grok is bad because it's creating NONCONSENSUAL sexual images of real people.

Not because sex is icky and should be scrubbed from the Internet.

The distinction is crucial at a moment when dangerous censorship legislation is bipartisan and widely misunderstood

First yt post of the new year!
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Illustration of a red bipedal wolf kneeling over in pain from it’s heartbreak. Its heart comes out of its chest on chains and is lit a blaze.

Heart burn, burning in my soul

Disabled friend doesn’t particularly want your Not-Covid either Your disabled friend isn’t exactly thrilled about the idea of getting whatever horrible lurgy you’ve reassured them isn’t Covid, it has been revealed.  In a statement released today, your disabled…

Your disabled friend isn’t exactly thrilled about the idea of getting whatever horrible lurgy you’ve reassured them isn’t Covid, it has been revealed.

"yes im a catgirl yes i love other catgirls its 2008. get over it"

WIP… I’m not sure what the background should be??

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
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Hawai‘i Has a Rare Opportunity to Reclaim Land From the US Military The US military is abusing Hawaiian land. Will residents be able to exert Indigenous sovereignty and get it back?

Hawai‘i is nearing a pivotal deadline on military land leases, exposing how the US has long abused Hawaiian land and opening a rare chance for Native communities to assert Indigenous sovereignty and demand the land’s return for public and ecological healing.

a banana-shaped menorah with 8 candles and 1 shamash candle, all burned down to less than a cm of wax remaining. it sits on a white cake stand.

Happy 8th night of Hanukkah!