Troubledareyou

Time to relax and read my favorite book. Soviet bus stops

A photo collage of a pair of hand knitted colourwork mitts, the mitts are navy blue with turquoise geometric edges and white roses. Underneath the mitts are photos of two light pink roses, one slight open and the other still a bud.

This rose bush, planted by my grandfather, was the only one to survive a long drought. It reminds me of the beauty that can survive in the harshest conditions.

The design inspired by #botanicaltuesday & symbolize the intersections of nature & relationship, along with resilience & gratitude #knit🧶

Leaping Hare - by Nottinghamshire based artist and illustrator, Anne Mortimer

#art #hares

Artwork of three swallows flying in a circle, surrounded by stars and fluffy white clouds.

Artwork of two flying swallows, with fluffy clouds and stars around them.

Artwork of a flying swallows surrounded by stars and sparkles.

Swallows 🩵💙

love, love, love. i adore this piece and i want to do more like it. for hudson (i also did the harpy and the bat surrounding it). handpoked as always! #tattoo #handpoke #handpokedtattoo #stickandpoke #sticknpoke

this is what they (the normans) took from you

The house was Not alive Had never been Part of it Not Really Silent dwellers Still inhabited —The basement —The attic —The garden Sometimes humans came To stay But only for a little while When the house spoke— The living fled The wraith was only A whisper in the story But she knew Her story was The lifeblood of the tale

#vss365 #prompt #wraith

It's Sunday Storyteller time!

#wraith – A ghost or shadowy apparition, often seen as an omen

Today, a whisper from my #DreamsThatBite project. Not yet ready for release, but the Wraith demanded to be heard!
#microfiction #HorrorWriting

What does your apparition say?

Exploring more than ever.

Two panels—one on top of the other—with each panel showing black-and-white illustrations of two walruses. In each panel, grey triangular fields extend from one of the walrus' eyes, showing the field of view. The walrus in the top panel is looking over its shoulders at the second walrus; a walrus in the bottom panel has its head raised and is looking straight ahead at the walrus in front of it.

Two panels—one on top of the other—with each panel showing black-and-white illustrations of walruses. In each panel, grey triangular fields extend from one of the walrus' eyes, showing the field of view. The walrus in the top panel is looking down at a smaller walrus; the walrus in the bottom panel is looking down at the seafloor.

Please enjoy these delightful images from a 1993 paper on walrus vision, showing estimated visual fields in different poses (I especially love how they look like alternate covers for a scifi novel about space walruses with ray-shooting eyeballs)

Source: www.aquaticmammalsjournal.org/wp-content/u...

The Apiarist

This month’s riso print subscription print, and excuse for me to draw bees and desert flora. Join my Patreon to get this for half off, and weigh in on what I do for future month’s prints

So vcu has 2 billion dollars and can’t hire a lawyer or two to protect kids health care??! I know they’re kind of two separate institutions but the have the same president. #rva

Taken yesterday mere feet from the sign

Book release event flyer for ‘City Time: on being sentenced to Rikers island,” tonight at the Wooden Shoe at 6pm

Yo Philly, come out to the Wooden Shoe this evening to hear my boy DC and Jarrod Shanahan talk about their important new book and their experiences surviving Rikers Island. It starts at 6pm, wear a mask and bring a friend!

Trespassing For The Common Good | NOEMA In England, a movement is growing to defy enclosure by trespassing on private land. These transgressions aim to model a more democratic relationship with nature.

Great read on the trespass movement in England and the fight to protect the commons. I know people are doing similar things on public lands here!

A blue and white sweater, white sky with blue city skyline outline and the text: SARAH RECORDS The first act of revolution is destruction and the first thing to destroy is the past scary like falling in love it reminds us we're alive

The other side of the sweater, the text reads A day for destroying things because when you were 19 didn't you want to create something beautiful and pure just so one day you could set it on fire and watch the city light up as it burned?

I need this sweater (pattern by Kathryn Batsel)

book cover of "All Will Be Equalized"

We're sharing a recording of @andrewzonneveld.bsky.social and Modibo Kadalie talking about maroonage and resistance to slavery in Georgia and Florida from colonization 1529 onwards, recorded at ACABookfair 2024

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/01...

this is part of why all the pearl clutching shit about how "americans can't just execute people" re: Luigi fell so fucking flat. um the cops execute people every single day and brutalize other people further for noticing they did that

All I want for Christmas is to get a trial run of 3,000 HRT kits to my trans friends in the US. 🥰 🏳️‍⚧️

We're only 10% away from reaching our goal!! Let's knock this out by New Years?

I love moon light

A pinhole camera photo taken from Summer to Winter Solstice. It's a bit blurry as the aperture was made with a tiny needle and no focus mechanism. There are yellow to green lines across the photo, that's the Sun moving across the sky over the course of a day. The top line is from the Summer Solstice, the bottom line from the Winter Solstice. Cloudy days don't have any lines or broken lines as the Sun was obscured by clouds. There are some trees on the left, right and in the background.

A pinhole camera photo, a 6 month exposure from Summer to Winter solstice. There are trees on the right side and background. A house with two cars in the drive are visible almost in the center of the photo. The lines are made from the Sun moving across the sky with the bottom line being the Winter Solstice and the top line the Summer solstice. On cloudy days the lines are broken or not visible as the sun was obscured by clouds. The lines show some reflections from a tree trunk. The lines are mostly a white color with some hints of blue, green and yellow in places. Some of the colors could be from rain or snow staining the paper I was using.

Happy Winter Solstice!

These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.

Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.

The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds

I was unexpectedly laid off from @motherjones.com on Friday the 13th. I’ve been deprived of direct access to my Google Drive, which contains seven years worth of work. I am also ineligible for unemployment. This is a terrible Christmas for me and my family.

If you have leads for work, pls lmk.

Image of prison cells with the number 135 on one of the doors. Text below the image reads: U.S. government to pay $116 million to women who alleged sexual assault in California prison Some of the women are also asking President Joe Biden to grant them clemency.

The U.S. government has agreed to pay nearly $116 million to settle lawsuits with 103 women who claimed they were sexually harassed and assaulted while incarcerated in a federal prison in Northern California. www.instagram.com/p/DDu5WzzJNP6/

HRT - Harm Reduction Toolkit A white first aid kit icon with a pastel pink cross, overlaid onto a pastel blue background. Distribute Aid Logo Link to the fundraiser (available in the post text).

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT.

@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.

Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America a book by Talia Lavin The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are enforcing on our democracy. All across ...

honestly i'd really like to sell out my first printing of 11,600 copies

not sure how viable that is! but! i do think religion (and the threat of christian nationalism) has been consistently downplayed by media assessments of this election -- both in the runup and after

bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

Big Pharma Is the Only Reason Anyone Still Dies From HIV We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.

Big Pharma is the only reason anyone still dies from HIV: “We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.”

Cover image. A sun-kissed ancient Roman farmer in a big straw hat sits in a shady spot by the forest besides a rustic cairn. Alt text of the following images are from the original short story by Tumblr users writing-prompt-s, sadoeuphemist, stu-pot and sameenbyhat. Significant additions by me are in brackets.

Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up.

The God of Arepo / a #comic about a farmer who befriends a nothing god (1/13) #art

Black and white poster on a city pole community can we have a safe route for our kids to walk bike and roll the school city? No driver might get mad. That’s the entirety of the discuss discussion.

Vancouver knows what’s up.
🔥🔥🔥

First “The Discussion” posters spotted.

As I have somehow surpassed 7k followers on here I thought it might be nice to do a giveaway: All 7 of my books to one lovely winner. Just share and like to be in with a chance! 😁📚