Ella

A cozy treehouse filled with cartoon cats lounging, playing, and napping inside on beds, couches, and rugs; and outside in a box, by flowers, and in a small pond, all set in a lush forest.

A giant tree with pink, blue, and green leaves grows atop a cliff with a waterfall. A blue river flows below, full of fish, with a fishing pole on a dock. A rainbow arcs across the sky.

I love Secret Cat Forest. It's so calming and satisfying.

To all the artists creating in these times: thank you. It’s not easy to make beauty, truth, or meaning when the world feels chaotic. Whether it helps you breathe or comforts others, your work matters.

Art doesn’t need to fix the world to be meaningful, sometimes it just needs to exist.

Seven pendants made with stacks of handmade miniature books and falling stars, the books arranged in the colors of different pride flags. Seven pendants made with stacks of handmade miniature books and falling stars, the books arranged in the colors of different pride flags. An arrow is pointing at the rainbow flag pendant saying it is sold out

The rainbow pride flag bookstack pendants are sold out!

I do plan on making more of these in the future - but I'm currently out of stars so I don't know when that will be (or if they'll be different). There are at least a couple in stock for every other flag! 🏳️‍🌈
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It's not too late to call or email your senator about the One Big Ugly Bill, but you'll have to do it quickly.

a jumping spider with large headlamp eyes, with a blue reflection, black chelicerae with sparse brown hair bundles

elegant female Habronattus kawini, from eastern San Diego County, last weekend .... common

sweet little sparse hair bundles on her chelicerae (mouthparts), just above a little orange fang

[prominent politician] is actually huge racist revealed in new interview, more at 11.

Technically, it's called the antecubital.

Save the penguins and stop Trump’s tariffs: indivisible.org/tariffs

Photo is of a bright yellow dandelion surrounded by grass, a whitish stem is going across the bottom right corner. It is a closeup, and the dandelion has many petals and the little swirly, I guess stamens? I don’t know what it is called on a dandelion.

I couldn’t just walk on by without looking.
#SundayYellow
#FlowersOnSunday
#dandelion

I'm so sorry.

JK Rowling is the Elon Musk of literature.

Whenever neurotypical people like RFK talk about autistic people a lot I get worried. They see us as a problem to be solved, & not because they want to *help us* but because they are *tired of dealing with us*. They want to "fix" us so we won't be a "drain" on them or society.

Happy Nonbinary Parent's Day to those who celebrate! 💜

More eugenicist rhetoric.

I'm AuDHD, and I relate. 😂

On functioning labels, support needs, and why I mean all autistic people all the time: it is never rhetorically useful to respond to eugenicists setting conditions on personhood by proving that you meet the conditions. It was never about the conditions, and they will continue to move the goalposts.

Yes, many #autistic people can do the things that RFK Jr. says we can't do. But it's important to acknowledge that some autistic people can't do some or all of those things, and our worth and right to exist are not determined by what we can or can't do.

A person's worth is not determined by whether they pay taxes or use a toilet unassisted.

Many people have reframed it as Pervasive Drive for Autonomy.

A small green bug with yellow along the sides of the wings and pronotum, yellow eyes, and blue on the top of the pronotum. It is standing on a leaf and is seen from above.

A small bug with horizontal yellow and black stripes. It is standing on a leaf.

A small bug with yellow on the thorax, head, and legs, and horizontal reddish and white stripes on the wings.

A small insect with a blue head, red legs, and red wings with large white spots. It is standing on a leaf.

Here are some colorful leafhoppers that I found during my wanders in the mountains of Costa Rica.

Dappled sun on a granite bridge and oaks and celandines.

Oak and celandines at Ward bridge, Sampford Spiney, #Dartmoor, #Devon today #photography

Color photo of a white lily blossom, overlaid with a black skull and cross bones and text that reads “no lilies for kitties”.

It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

Creamy white daffodil backlit in the early morning sunlight, with spruce shoots catching the same beam of light to the side. The centre of the corona is a glowing buttery yellow.

Timeline cleanse: backlit, spring.

"You are not welcome here," says Greenland cat.

🐾🐾🤍

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.

Really think about how twisted this all is.

Tulips evening ELLO

Now this is real relaxation! 😂🦭I had to sprint back to the car for my gear to capture this adorable seal chilling on the rocks. ❤️
#wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #photohour #sony #bluesky #photography #art

When I spotted the first snowdrops a few weeks ago, I couldn’t help but wish for a moment like this.🤞
And here it is! How incredibly adorable is this little Red Squirrel surrounded by those delicate white blooms! 🤗
#naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #bluesky #photography #art