lani🧚🏻‍♀️ (they/them)

So hey, if you aren't a fan of cancer, you know one thing you can do that will make a tangible difference?

Get vaccinated against COVID & mask up (especially in healthcare facilities, pharmacies, on transit).

(COVID is very dangerous for folks with cancer & also increases cancer risk.)

A borderless 4-panel informative comic on drawing fat people. Fat can be distributed in a lot of different ways! Play in the space! (7 small drawings of fat people with different shapes, sizes, and silhouettes) While this may exist IRL... (a depiction of a conventionally attractive person with an exaggerated hourglass figure) ... This is more common! (a depiction of a fat person with a more barrel- or pear-shaped body) Tummy fat is the easiest to gain, the hardest to lose, and the one people draw the least! Common areas of fat distribution: Upper arms, chin, breasts, tummy!!, butt, thighs (drawing of a person with a fat belly t-posing for body part labeling) This is fat (profile view of a torso with a fat belly, an arrow pointing down marked "sag") This is bloating/pregnancy (same silhouette but with a protruding smooth and round abdominal area). Also: TALL FAT PEOPLE EXIST!! (three drawings of people: a short fat person, a tall thin person, and a taller fat person)

With #alttext

A drawing of two cats wandering through a mushroom forest

mushroom path #art (wallpapers below!)

Close up of Blue Heron.

Good morning ☕
Rob's theme of today is 'Long Necks' in #BirdOfTheDay
Giving me that typical Heron stare🫣

Photo of my fluffy white cat Francie curled up by my side with one four leg draped across my chest like a hug.

Grieving bingus report. Francie is doing okay but she definitely misses Fergus. He was like her kind, gentle dad. She’s keeps looking for him and has been extra clingy with me. 💔

tiniest little black kitten being held in the palm of someone's hand

darkness in training

Australian bird of the year 2025: nominate your favourite now We want to hear which Australian birds you think should be shortlisted for the Guardian/Birdlife Australia bird of the year poll next month Which of the 830 bird species that call Australia home (or at least one of their homes) should make it into the 2025 Australian bird of the year poll? Australia has the greatest diversity of avian life in the world, home to nearly one in 10 of the world’s 10,000 living bird species. And we love to celebrate it. Australians are renowned for admiring our beautiful, bountiful and boisterous birds. And nothing highlights that more than the Guardian/Birdlife Australia bird of the year poll, held every two years, when birdlovers around the country battle it out to see their favourite feathered friend take the crown as best bird. Continue reading...

Australian bird of the year 2025: nominate your favourite now

A medium sized brown mottled bird with a solar powered GPS device on its back.

Our April cohort of birds have officially graduated the close monitoring phase!

Having completed 6-months of living their best wild lives means that I’ll now be mostly hands off (except for following their movements via their GPS backpacks like the creep that I am)

Thrive, birdies, thrive!

Please consider adding Alt Text (image descriptions) to your media so it’s more accessible! I’d love to share this with my friends.

I use these when I have to go for an mri or as a modified nose mask for dentist appointments. When I wear them for MRI’s it’s the most secure I’ve felt in a mask. You can *feel* the seal.

Small, gem-like wetland kingfisher. Shows geographical variation, with most birds having orange underparts, but birds in some parts of the range have a white belly. Found in almost all habitats with water, including streams, rivers, lakes, rice paddies, and lagoons. Sits motionless for long periods before plunging to the water to snatch prey.

Malachite Kingfisher - an absolute gem!

📍Bagamoyo, Tanzania.

#Birds #NaturePhotography #Tanzania 🪶

even the smartest folks whose takes i otherwise appreciate, who otherwise want to resist fascism themselves & encourage others to, find wearing a mask in, at least, public indoor spaces—to prevent the harms of this administration from impacting others—to be a bridge too far; it’s shameful, frankly.

congrats to dan and phil !! 💕💫

I really can't recommend familiarizing yourself with the things that live and grow around you enough. It's immediately grounding to be able to recognize individual plants/bugs/animals and have some understanding of their relationship to each other and to you. It makes day-to-day life feel richer

A white adult with brown and blue hair wearing black glasses and a black P2 respirator. They are posing with a standee of C.J. from Animal Crossing New Horizons.

A photo of the stage for Beetlejuice the Musical. A red neon sign saying "Betelgeuse Betelgeuse" with an arrow pointing at the centre of the stage is in front of the curtain.

Two white adults wearing black P2 respirators sitting with two leucistic southern hairy-nosed wombats. The adults are both patting the wombat on the left, who is standing underneath the left adults' legs.

have been very offline for the past week while we've been in melb but what a week

all Sapphics should get a paid day off when Chappell Roan releases new music

Have your say. Mask survey - pandemicresistance.org/mask-survey Now open!

We want to understand the types of public interactions you are experiencing as a result of masking. Anything from off-hand comments to more extreme behaviour. Help us identify patterns and pressure points, so that we can advocate for safer, more inclusive public spaces.

Survey link in thread

A yellow-tailed black cockatoo - black plumage with yellow cheeks - perched on a slim branch

An exhilarating visit from the yellow-tailed black cockatoos on our walk this morning 😍 They are BIG and they are LOUD
Norton's Park #Melbourne #birds

If I’m being truly honest,
then yes, I am tired
of wearing a mask
of taking precautions
of reading health studies
yes, I am tired,
but what exhausts me
what truly exhausts me
is being asked
if I’m tired of those things
by people who wonder
why they keep getting sick.

When they respond
(and they will respond)
to the precautions you take
by telling you
that the virus
is here to stay,
calmly and politely reply
that you know
that the virus
is here to stay
which is why you’re doing
what you can
to ensure
that your stay here
doesn’t get cut short.

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Strawberry, Galaxy and Bat Walking Stick with Bibipins logo over them

I started a ko-fi goal so people can donate so that people in need of a walking stick can receive one of mine for free. No pressure to donate. Please share!!

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When you wear a mask, you’re practicing radical self care and community care.

You’re protecting yourself from COVID and other airborne diseases, while also committing to breaking chains of transmission.

You’re ensuring you don’t get anyone else sick.

Masking is an act of resistance.

All this fascism has been making me think about Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ and how survival under fascism is merely a matter of not being picked, and contrary to what many believe, there is no way to game your life so that you are not in the running, and how prescient she was, and insightful.

You know, if enough of us say on the internet that it's important to wash your cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice to preserve the finish, eventually ChatGPT will start telling cybertruck owners that.

On this day two years ago, Kyle Gordon posted a TikTok that had a text overlay reading, "Every European Dance Song in the 1990s."

dont do this on literally any platform ever btw its fucking stupid. humans arent even good at guessing ages by faces, let alone an algorithm running off pictures from either a front-facing phone camera or a shitty webcam. how anyone decided this was a good system for anything is mind-boggling to me

thought id repost this here! stay safe uk oomfs