Des Mathews (they/them)

A red heeler dog lays on a white comforter with small pink and purple flowers on top. The dog's head is partially resting on a cow plush toy.

she was over my shit when i came home and was dancing at 1 a.m.

This isn’t okay :(

The urgency of political hope — CfTC What good is hope in a time led by charlatans and monsters?  In our present moment, forces aligned toward extraction, opportunism, oppression, and violence seem to have gained momentum over our ...

On #MLKDay, we remember @prisonculture.bsky.social 's call that "hope is a discipline."

Our new zine explores how creators sustain political hope through expression and community.

It asks: What gives you political hope right now?

Read it here: www.transformationalchange.co/news-stories...

A red heeler dog curled up on a grey dog bed with a crumpled brown blanket by it's rear. The dog bed is on a green and brown rug, patterned with vines.

not a donut, a croissant
#dogsofbluesky #redheeler

A red heeler dog rests on a yellow yoga mat. The dog looks away from the camera. There is a blue armchair in the background, a wooden table on the other side of the yoga mat with a stack of books piled up.

Yoga dog.
#dogsofbluesky #redheeler #aura #yoga

everyone who has been shocked that i had never watched mad max because apparently it seemed like a movie i'd be into was right...it is SO good!

We may or may not be "safe" in our present situation. That's reality. What we can always do, though, is be safe w/ ourselves. That means no attacking, no shaming, & no punishing ourselves. Not even when it feels "natural," "right," or "deserved."

started the year w. PUP & ending the year w. PUP

"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more."

Los Campesinos:

#tidalrewind

Trauma informed professionals-- in any field, not just medicine or therapy-- intentionally support survivors in feeling & accepting that they have wisdom & skill inside them that their trauma responses have temporarily made them doubt or forget about.

Some accounts co-strugglers may benefit from blocking! 👊🏽
@whitehouse-47.bsky.social
@deptofinterior.bsky.social
@homelandgov.bsky.social

Anyway, if you haven’t blocked the fascists and the American Gestapo yet, here’s a handy dandy list of accounts to block.

bsky.app/profile/gunn...

Ethical alternatives: brands to buy from if you boycott Israeli apartheid | Ethical Consumer Boycotting brands that are complicit in Palestinian human rights violations is a powerful form of consumer activism, but how ethical is the product you buy instead?

"Ethical alternatives: brands to buy from if you boycott Israeli apartheid."

— article from @ethical-consumer.bsky.social

Please, join us in boycotting israel. Do it for Palestine. Do it for humanity. And also do it because capitalism and imperialism suck! And also, support Ethical Consumer.

Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of information that's out there? Do you feel uncertain what to believe, what to think is fake, and what's a rumor?

I just joined the global call to #DrawTheLine — for peace, climate justice, and a world beyond fossil fuels. I'll be taking action in PETERBOROUGH on Sept. 20, 2025. Will you join me? drawtheline.world?event_id=263...

One thing that kinda blows my mind:

I spoke to national French-language media all morning about this. I did three separate interviews before 10am.

I was interviewed for the U.S. publication WIRED about it.

But English-language Canadian media? Crickets.

It’s just so odd!

I’m flabbergasted. Can anyone else tell me what changed?🤔

I wrote a detailed essay on what media and politicians would say if they treated white extremists the way they treat Black, brown, Muslim, trans, and immigrants.

It’s going viral right now. Link:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-white-ma...

Told a resident, "I'm sick of this place. Should I leave?" She said no. I asked why not. She said, "because we love you." I said, "aw, I love you, too." This same resident spits on and hits people😂

Handwritten text on a notecard: My husbands ashes; I made me feel alone scared, empty, now I wonder where he is and if he's all still in his urn and if hes ok and I hope he's not in the dump

We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words.

In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:

#satan
#santa

someone in the neighbourhood told their dog to "leave it, cattle dogs can be mean" when Aura was minding her own business & sniffing. here's Aura mean muggin'
#cattledog
#redheeler
#dogsofbluesky

sunday
#dogsofbluesky
#redheeler

look at these fuckin' jellyfish from #sealifemelbournequarium

her eyelashes😍
#aura
#dogsofbluesky

In my 'not entertaining assumptions' era

grateful to be surrounded+protected by cedar on Treaty 20

guided a yoga practice in the park downtown that felt performative because of a shirtless dude watching us from a balcony AND two leering cop cars as they drove by. we're allowed to exist in public spaces without folks being weird about it

Poster with QR code that says Condemn Carney’s call for a Zionist Palestinian state.

Condemn Carney’s call for a “Zionist” Palestinian state. How can Canadians stand for this type of bigotry from their Prime Minister? tinyurl.com/condemn-racism

Happy Cancer New Moon.
How does home feel?