BlueHairedLass (she/her)

USAID.gov is down. Why is this concerning? Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency. The work of USAID is vital, and if this can happen to them, it can happen to any of us.

Gritty holding a pride flag with the message "love is luv"

Gritty continues to be a real one

My very first cross-stitch! I'm progressing nicely into old-ladyhood 😁

Ooh that was fun to watch!

Forgot how much I love live music! And discovering new artists! Been listening to King Cruff on loop all week: great show, great music, and seemed like a nice dude when BJ talked to him after the show!

Also, the environmental
Impact of a single AI request is quite large. The amount of water they need to cool processing servers per request for both art and text is 900% robbing local marginalized peoples of potent water which shod be a more known concern 1/2

The fourth Saturday of November marks the Day of Remembrance of the Holodomor Victims — in 1921, 1922, and 1923; in 1946 and 1947, and during the darkest years of 1932 and 1933, the famine deliberately orchestrated by the Soviet Union claimed millions of Ukrainian lives.

Photograph of a rainbow in a cloudy sky, with the roofs of row houses in front.

Storms give me migraines. And rainbows! Definitely some deeper philosophical stuff in there... that I'll think about when I *don't* have a migraine.

Now, that's funny.

Canada has said it will abide by the ICC ruling/arrest warrants against Netanyahu. It must now also take immediate action to implement a full two-way arms embargo like it had on Israel 1992-1994.

Canada has done it before and should do it again.

#ArmsEmbargoNow.
Https://armsembargonow.ca

📢 ISO OF TTRPG CREATORS, ACTUAL PLAYERS & DEVS 📢

I made a TTRPG starter pack!

🗣️ If you’re in the pro TTRPG space, reply with what you do (credits, your game, websites, resumes, etc.)

Individuals & companies welcome🤗

🔁 RTs Appreciated! 🔁
#ttrpg #dnd #d&d #pathfinder #ttrpgs #tabletop #actualplay

YouTube video by Charlie Angus Charlie Angus Calls out Poilievre for Remembrance Day Disinformation

Today in the House of Commons I called out Pierre Poilievre for his disgraceful attempt to weaponize Remembrance Day. This is a sacred day and deserves to be above rage farming and disinformation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxWf...

Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.

a woman in a red shirt is hugging another woman ALT: a woman in a red shirt is hugging another woman

I know ppl mostly use social to show off trips or new fits, celebrate wins, humblebrag a bit, etc.

But today has been really hard. Burn out is staring me down as I’m bobbing, weaving, and hoping tomorrow parts these clouds. If you’re feeling that way too, please know you’re not alone ❤️ we got this.

Festive!

It seems really nice here 😊 I love the built-in accessibility features like alt-text reminders and the mute/block settings.

It will be years before we fully understand the repercussions of Covid-19 infections...

A TTRPG Music starter pack! Discover composers making amazing tunes!

I remember our diabetes team talking about this at the beginning of the pandemic. And even before that, observing that the new T1D diagnoses would come in waves that followed waves of viral illness. It's all so interesting.

That would be such an awful way to die. Just thinking of how awful my kids feel when their blood glucose levels are too high or too low. I can't imagine feeling that way for 3 years.

Triptych showing Ninumbeehan in its palaeoenvironment across seasons. First:Ninumbeehan resting on the edge of a river with a low water table as the rainy season ends. Second: A small community of Ninumbeehan in their estivation burrows during the peak of the arid season. Third: The beginning of the rainy season triggering a mass emergence from their estivation burrows (some individuals would not have made it through the estivation period and would have died in their burrows)

Last week saw the description of a REALLY cool burrowing temnospondyl from Late Triassic North America called Ninumbeehan dookoodukah

I was lucky enough to be commissioned to illustrate this amazing species in a triptych showing it in its environment across season

Akatsu-Key 🖤

So deadly ✊🏽🙌🏽❤️

A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

Line art of a syringe and medicine vial with solar signs on the label. White text on a blue background reads, "In 1923, the discoverers of insulin sold their patent to the University of Toronto for $1 each, so this life-saving medicine would be accessible to anyone who needed it. In 2024, the patents for insulin are owned by four companies, and insulin is the sixth most expensive liquid in the world. #CapitalismKills"

I made this for World Diabetes Day after my diabetic 10-yr-old asked me if it was expensive to make insulin... They may have ended their class presentation on the subject with "Capitalism sucks!" so, parenting win?

#Diabetes #T1D #WorldDiabetesDay #CapitalismKills

THAT IS WILD!