Lauren

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

If my girl @lillywachowski.bsky.social is steering something, you can bet it has the goods. Now, more than ever, we need a cinema by and for the queers.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period." ERIN REED FEB 25, 2026 88 5 21 Share Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.

Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.

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A rock ptarmigan, in full winter plumage, looking very round in the snow

We are drifting to the end of aurora season now. Now begins the grumpy snowball season.

A colored manga panel of Chopper taking care of sick Nami

Colored manga panel of Chopper

Colored manga panels of Nico Robin talking to a pink transponder snail

Colored manga panel of Nami releasing pigeons 😔

I was never a shounen manga kid growing up (I subsisted on CLAMP) but the artistry…the storytelling…the Nico Robin… my bedtime ritual has been reading a couple chapters before I zzzz and it’s healing 2 me

A panel from the colored One Piece manga Skypiea arc of a blonde girl w little hair antennae holding a harp

2 colored panels of Nico Robin exploring Skypiea

Colored panel of the Merry Go sailing into Water 7

Colored panel of a sea train shaped like a shark

On this Venus day with Venus in her exaltation conj retrograde Mercury trine the Moon and Jupiter I would like to recommend reading something for the sheer joy of it and for me recently that has been the colored One Piece manga (for the first time!!)

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

artistic poster of a wolf and a hand and garlands of wildflowers; the text reads "March rent financial mutual aid needed. Supporting 11 families. Current goal: $7,000.00. Venmo: @Emma-Torzs"

Twin Cities' horrors continue though media has moved on. Families are still in hiding (schools w/virtual options till April), ICE still abducting people w/disregard for law, ongoing need for rent relief. Here's one hyper-local effort from my trusted colleague. Please RT even if you can't donate.

Truly “fuck around and find out: waterfowl edition”

I think my favorite Cambridge activity is watching tourists on punts reach their hands out for the ducks and geese and then look alarmed when the ducks and geese swim to their hands for snacks

why isn't the left engaging seriously with the fascist imaginary machine, people love the fascist imaginary machine, the left is clearly wrong about this, like they were wrong about crypto and NFTs and the metaverse

This kind of gross Zionism from the BM is how the past becomes a weapon of genocide… www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It’s disgusting and ahistorical - not surprising from a colonial warehouse of stolen loot - and will show for the rest of time what genocidal complicity looks like.

But as one of my tutors reminded me when I was talking to him about this, publishing is also a mess poetry is a mess you just have to pick the mess you’re willing to deal with for your art. I will continue to wear my “trying to be a professional creative in slop world” clown shoes until I die

Having an “oh no” moment during this writing for performance module where I’m so enjoying writing screenplays and miss the collaborative aspects of being in film/television but I also know exactly how shit it is trying to break into that industry and it’s worse now than it was when I was in it!

The world is awful and I’m exhausted so please enjoy my occasional photos of flowers

Module 3 of 4 is in the books and it is very much snowdrop season here in Cambridge 🤍

My photo shows a ‘roaring’ hippo statuette made of Egyptian blue faience, a ceramic material made of ground quartz. The hippo is seated with head at left, and turned to front. The hippo’s original tusks (top incisors and lower canine teeth are known as tusks), are missing, so it looks as if the hippo is smiling. The blue body is decorated in black with Nile river plants such as water weed and lotus flowers. This decoration depicts the hippo’s marsh habitat as well as having layers of symbolism associated with regeneration e.g. lotus flowers open with the sun in the morning and close at night symbolising rebirth. Height 7.5 cm, length 12.5 cm. On display Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.

A little blue hippo made by an Egyptian artisan around 4,000 years ago! 🦛 ❤️

Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

ah i can answer this trick question actually. novels are not a race

Read this til the end. Note the very last speech recorded here. No loose reference to “Nazis” but a very specific reference to them: ICE bought a building the size of seven football fields in Surprise, Arizona, outside Phoenix, for $70 million.

Officials said: /1

"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."

There were a lot of pre-recorded projections that she interacted with live! Honestly very cool

I’m not a theater girly and ESPECIALLY not a musical theater girly but hearing her sing (just one song at the end) was like a choir of angels descended from the heavens. Unbelievable aura on that woman

Was there last night and it was genuinely so good

When you’re walking somewhere and see a little dog or cat peeking out a window? That’s the stuff right there. The meanign of life

I'm reiterating what other Minnesotans are saying: no matter what the news is reporting, nothing has tangibly changed on the ground. ICE is still out patrolling the streets, they're still looking for people to abduct, and they're still threatening observers. Do not let up the pressure.

[NEW) Minneapolis is showing us how it's done. Over the past few weeks, I've received questions about how to adapt the Social Change Map for emerging efforts. I put together a short planner that can support folks in:

facilitating meetings
identifying roles
evaluating growth

bit.ly/49VL2nK

Cernovich • @Cernovich Subscribe High IQ people don't respond well to shrill noises. From smoke alarms to those hearing loss causing machines that terrorists use against ICE. Tbh those things should be considered a violent weapon. They damage hearing for life. 10:18 AM • 25 Jan 26 • 58K Views

“Only dog whistles please my IQ is too high for the other kind”

dont let a few ICE agents leaving mn fool you. nothing on the ground has changed yet. this is a way for them to distract and give a scapegoat so the rest of the world will turn a blind eye.