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Digital drawing of a striking white bird whose feathers are all edged in black, creating a stunning pattern. It has a red comb and wattles and a golden eye. It is holding a tiny bouquet of flowers with pink, blue, and white petals in the colors of the trans flag.

Have a Wyandotte chicken for today's #ArtAdventCalendar!

Had a good time drawing these feather patterns. This was another in my #TransArtMay project. You can browse that hashtag to see the others! Trans rights forever! 💜

Seriously, this.

In researching which trans charity to give to for this work thing, the same small handful of names kept coming up again and again and again on the anti- side. This isn't a mass movement, it's fewer than 20 persistent, moderately rich arseholes backed by one extremely rich arsehole.

You have to know how the story ends before you start writing it

I will die before I let these avaricious fuckers deskill me for profit.

the cover of 'Worn: a People's History of Clothing' by Sofi Thanhauser

Within the new clothing; trade, linen lost its centrality, and the labor of linen's historic producers -women- flowed into new and unfamiliar channels. But this alone would not have been enough to launch the global garment trade as we know it. That relied on two other crucial elements: the colonial dominatior of one part of the world by another, and the international slave trade. These two forces built the cotton trade.

this book is well written, has excellent politics, is deeply informative...and consequently a huge bummer

Picture of a bright orange t-shirt in close up to see a very colorful frog surrounded by brightly-colored dots in an abstract pattern. The frog is basically dark brown but is covered with dashes and dots in bright colors to form pleasing patterns.

Photo of a black tshirt with an illustration in white of a fantastical-looking squid with red eyes and tangled arms. It is holding a large white pearl in one tentacle.

Photo of a light purple t-shirt with the image in white of an octopus with impossibly long arms that are all tangled together.

Photo of a light green t-shirt with the image of a black rabbit with red eye leaping over a semi-circle of fanciful looking black flowers with white highlights.

Looking to support a small person today?

threadless is having a big sale!

$12 tees + everything else also on big discounts!

New designs being added as fast as possible 😅

whistberry.threadless.com

Saw an advert for some ai bollocks that was like “use ai to tell you which episodes of stranger things you don’t have to watch” and I would like to invite the arachnids from starship troopers to come and put us out of our fucking misery

End of the year indie Fantasy Mega Bundle. 64 Books $45. December 1st-15th. Background: figure wearing hat and cloak stands on clifftop looking towards dragon in flight.

If MANY hours of fantastical escape appeal to you, with everything from traditional magic, royals and gods, to thieves, detectives, anti-heroes, shape shifters and (queer) found family... this bundle's worth a browse.

(Its even got librarians & necromancy 😉.)

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Now this is journalism.

Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.

Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

New Absolute Units is live! Listen to part 2 of our conversation with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social.

We discuss the history of land access and capitalism, the ramifications of enclosure on Britain's former colonies, and the necessary work of de-enclosure today.

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If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.

Wow... almost a thousand dollars in just the first few hours. Honestly I feel like a character in a corny holiday movie who lost her Christmas spirit so the town comes together to help her get it back. Except the "town" is bluesky. Thank you so much everyone. 🥹

a certain subset of the internet needs regular reminders of why centuries of engineering knowledge > one highly confident dude going "trust me, bro" and my only prayer each time is that there are no casualties except the highly confident dude's wallet

Molly's Holiday Fundraiser 2025 Make Winter Merry and Bright in Honor of Fergus

I love Christmas and normally I'd be getting so excited right about now, but this year I'm a little down because it's our first holiday since we lost Fergus. I'm hoping I can spread some cheer and regain a little spirit myself by raising some funds for our local shelter! givebutter.com/n5l31M

Can't decide which one to submit! Do you have a favorite among these 8?

1) buff-tip moth in 2 poses
2) would you still love me earthworm
3) green-lipped mussel spat
4) red-banded leafhopper

(choices 5-8 in comment!)

Like vaccines denialists, I feel being able to say "birth is totally safe" with a straight face can only be the result of a generation that both
1) Has no living relatives that remember when that was not the case, and
2) Does not own a library card/history book.

🫂

Good news: you can stop Gmail from training its gen ai on your emails by following these👇 instructions.

Bad news: that will delete 'promo', 'social' and 'update tabs'.

In other news, I'm WAY happier having switched to proton mail. They're entirely welcome to that $8.20 a month!

Today is #TransDayOfRemembrance. Trans people and their human rights are under attack around the globe. The Vagina Museum stands defiant against these attacks. We are a proudly trans inclusive space, even as discourse grows ever more toxic.

“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is” sums up chronic Facebook users quite succinctly huh

glad it’s being torn down but jfc the reason is…yeah. Yeah,

Noted.

pippin: aragorn tell me a joke aragorn: second breakfast pippin: I don't get it aragorn: i know you don't pippin: *writhing on the ground in pain* aragorn, close up: we do not stop til nightfall

I will never apologize for a post

It's almost like every warning from economic experts about Brexit was true. Imagine that. And yet, many people who voted for Brexit are now turning to Farage - the very architect of Britain's economic downfall. The absolute madness of all this.

"Absolute Units, Halloween Special. A podcast from The Museum of English Rural Life." Though the podcast artwork for Absolute Units usually shows verdant green fields and a blue sky, things look awfully sinister for this Halloween bonus episode. Three giant sheep float over fields lit a menacing purple. A dead tree stands on one hill, while another features an eerie gothic tower. A Jack-o-lantern also takes centre-stage - a pumpkin carved with a wicked grin.

the bravest podcast listeners are about to meet their mightiest match, for our extremely nefarious bonus Halloween episode has arrived.

candles out, headphones on, & listen now — if you dare!*

(*wherever you get your podcasts)

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250 years later: WE HAVE A TREATY! 🥳

“Treaty marks the beginning of a new era, one where First Peoples’ 60,000 years of knowledge and culture is respected and celebrated. It’s an opportunity for all Victorians to acknowledge our shared history, heal and move forward together.”

Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and Broadway to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop makinge a living. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

Can Gen AI be forevir laughablye inadequate at doinge what wryteres and artistes do, and yet also at the same tyme be a threate to their professiouns by cause of the relentlesse lack of taste, absence of ethics, and obsessive emphasis on the bottom lyne yn companyes? Yes. Both at the same tyme.

A tattered red bandana from that period.

The coal miners lost that 1921 battle, but they also laid the groundwork for future labor gains. The Battle of Blair Mountain became a rallying point for labor rights in Appalachia, catalyzing the United Mine Workers of America. The red bandana also stood for multi-ethnic class solidarity.

My favourite show is Casey Dressler popping hairspray cams and pumping up your chair

I love that we have the ACC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) to hit back when corporations pull stunts like Microsoft's ram AI down people's throats and charge them extra for it, without presenting alternatives, one.