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I may have repurchased some of them for the covers alone 😅 the duplicates have been sent to loving home libraries though!

It's very cool to do cool stuff and then not talk about it!

You know who wants you to share everything you do on social media?
1) cops
2) social media ceos
3) judgey people who think if they don't hear about your activism it doesn't count
4) cops again but this time it's feds

The way this works is that you either defend Khalil's First Amendment rights, no matter what you think about his specific views, or else you acquiesce to a totalitarian dystopia where the government can disappear people for expressing opinions opposed by the regime. There's really no middle ground.

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Yes shop small if you can! Also if anyone buys fabric as stores close PLEASE wash it. Fabric, especially cheaper ones, can be treated with things to make them sit nicely on the bolt but irritate skin very badly with repeat or prolonged contact. (From a former big box chain fabric store worker…)

@hannahleerogers.bsky.social I feel like you would enjoy a daily bunny

Folks trying to save USAID are trying to counterprogram Musk's $40 million Super Bowl ad. They're asking everyone to share this video as widely as you can today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

Sundays are for art friends and coffee with @digitaldabblers.bsky.social and zines and stickers from @risographstudio.bsky.social. Need the Happy Brain Chemicals from local art times!!!

Thanks!

Thank you!

Doodles illustrated in black pen and watercolor in a small weekly planner. Monday Jan 20th -woman drinking tea, text reads “just keep moving” Tuesday January 21st - angry cartoon woman shaking their fists. Text reads “what the f#@%!” Wednesday January 22 - running rabbit sliced across the torso with a bone sticking out. Thursday January 23rd - a grocery bag with a smiley face with scattered groceries Friday January 24th - small black figure surrounded by black and green swirling space around it Saturday January 25th - still life of a poorly made bed and a window Sunday January 26th - a river bank with trees and bushes in the background

Catching up on January daily doodles still in my #travelersnotebook I wonder what happened that week 🤬

Ooooh such a good reminder. This is also making me very appreciative of the people whose whole job is UX writing and writing for accessibility on a whole other level.

I say as I’m about to schedule a meeting about labeling a button better (I promise it matters!)

I am struggling to convey “idk - he’s just a lil guy” vibes as alt text. So far the solutions I’ve found on the internet does not seem to understand this problem. Unless “idk - he’s just a lil guy” is valid alt text???

I feel like @hannahleerogers.bsky.social has alt text thoughts

Daily drawings illustrated with watercolors in a small weekly planner. Monday - small circle with arms and big eyes carrying an umbrella in the rain. Tuesday - tiny moon with a house on it in space. Wednesday - trees at night. Thursday - stretched out simplified face, text reads “so tired” Friday - a black blob guy waving. Shaped kind of like a bean. Probably friendly. Friday - text reads “cocktail party” one hand holds a rocks glass with cherries on a skewer and brown liquid. Another hand holds a glass of yellow liquid that’s supposed to be a French 75. Sunday - circular blob character with big eyes and an anxious face has a scribbly thought bubble over its head.

Still more January daily doodles in my #travelersnotebook. This also makes me realize how hard good alt text is. I’m pretty sure “lil blob guy” is not helpful. Anyone have tips for describing kind of derpy things?

THE LIL BURGER I CANNOT

My current favorite book around this is The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Tsing. It has mushroom biology! Global forestry history! Lessons for collaborative survival from fungal ecology!

I think it genuinely shifted something in my brain.

Article title: Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting Article Abstract How do stigmatized minorities advance agendas when confronted with hostile majorities? Elite theories of influence posit marginal groups exert little power. I propose the concept of agenda seeding to describe how activists use methods like disruption to capture the attention of media and overcome political asymmetries. Further, I hypothesize protest tactics influence how news organizations frame demands. Evaluating black-led protests between 1960 and 1972, I find nonviolent activism, particularly when met with state or vigilante repression, drove media coverage, framing, congressional speech, and public opinion on civil rights. Counties proximate to nonviolent protests saw presidential Democratic vote share increase 1.6–2.5%. Protester-initiated violence, by contrast, helped move news agendas, frames, elite discourse, and public concern toward “social control.” In 1968, using rainfall as an instrument, I find violent protests likely caused a 1.5–7.9% shift among whites toward Republicans and tipped the election. Elites may dominate political communication but hold no monopoly.

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Google ending AI arms ban incredibly concerning, campaigners say - BBC News The tech giant previously ruled out applications that were "likely to cause harm".

So weaponizing AI even further is REAL bad - especially as AI is REALLY GOOD at internalizing racism, sexism, and pretty much every other -ism that involves targeting marginalized people.

But anything to keep the earnings numbers up - right?

Thank you!

Small weekly planner for January 6-12 containing doodles painted with watercolor. Monday - furry purple monster holding a small flame. Tuesday - skull and mushrooms. Text reads “if I am good am I allowed to forget?” Wednesday - small bear with speech bubble saying “well shit…” Thursday - small anxious blob character panicking. Text reads “I forgot to person” Friday - cocktail in a rocks glass with cherries, cocktail shaker and tools. Saturday - a hobbit house! Sunday - five black blobs with white eyes spread across a white background.

More #travelersnotebook doodles from January!

Small weekly planner filled with watercolor drawings. Monday - doodle of A Picture of Dorian Grey and coffee. Tuesday and Wednesday - pink and purple shooting stars with clouds, with text “I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me” from the Mountain Goats. Thursday - doodle of girl working on a laptop, text reads “capitalism wasn’t cancelled (dammit).” Friday - skeleton resting on a green hill with foliage. Text reads rotting into compost. Sat - girl napping at a desk with a black thought bubble filled with stars. Sunday - two phones connected by wire with hearts passing between them.

If a book has preprinted dates, my brain gets mad if I don’t keep up. Last year was a daily journal in a #hobonichi which I’m still doing. Harnessing this quirk in 2025 to do a little doodle a day in a passport sized #travelersnotebook.

Not the same as a live model session but I practice in coffee shops, people stick around long enough for longer studies and lots of turn over for rapid sketching of different folks

Learned so much about local
micro climates from my local nursery when I started gardening. Apparently I live in one that’s only about five square blocks? (and Portland blocks so they’re on the shorter side!)

Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article) A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

I haven't found corroboration of this exact list yet, but this does appear to be legitimate, per Nature. Apparently "around 10,000 research grants have been flagged for review and distributed to various programme directors"--in OTHER directorates. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I bought a bunch of them recently and was so excited to share them with the friend that recommended the series to me in the first place! Thank you for visiting and signing so many!

I lost my voice and it’s very slow recovering. I think this is a sign to call allllll my representatives and scream using about Elon the Very Unelected to Anything getting access to EVERYTHING in a voice the Balrog of Moria would be proud of.

e356. Incidental Genre: Unpacking the Unexpected — The VoxPopcast The VoxPopcast A few weeks ago back on our Things you Missed episode, Mav recommended the movie My Old Ass with Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza. Since that time both Wayne and…

On this week's episode we explore the concept of incidental genre. What happens when a piece of content is decidedly part of a genre but essentially ignores it? voxpopcast.com/wp/2025/02/0...

Pile of books and notebooks on a messy desk. Titles include: Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Authority by Jeff Vandermeer, Milk without Honey by Hanna Harms, Freedom is a constant struggle by Angela Davis, and Productive Archiving by Ernst van Alphen.

4 years post grad I’ve accepted that I need ✨information chaos✨ to do anything. All of these are in some stage of in progress. Not pictured are 3 other notebooks and ??? number of other books also in progress. I’ve reverted to dissertation brain and I like it?