Leah (they/them gender extremist)

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.

“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

A photo of two large plants in dense, verdant undergrowth. On the left a plant with long oval leaves, which are two shades of green, dark and light, with the light spots occurring seemingly a randomly and radiating from the middle vein. On the right as a large Swiss cheese plant, approximately 2 feet across for a leaf.

The benefit of living in my new home is that fancy tropical plans just grow in my yard and if they die it’s not my fault. Any help with a #PlantID on the plant to the left? #plants #tropical

My husband has been referring to my routines that annoy him as “autistic behaviors,” and at this point I don’t know if it’s him weaponizing my #autism or me as I bring in my weekly haul of 20 lbs of apples.

Together time is valuable 💜💜

Not the mindless scrolling I wanted but the mindless scrolling I needed 🙏

https://owlsintowels.org/

Omg, 😍.

“This is a site for pictures of owls… in towels.”

owlsintowels.org

Photo of a computer screen on a canvas document, the image is the words Stardew Valley in a spiky, barbed-wire style font. A silhouette of the character Krobus, a black blob with a little curl on its head, is beneath the words. The image is surrounded by a silhouette wreath of barbed wire.

Things I should be doing:
-packing for trip
-cleaning out car for trip
-washing up from dinner
-travel planning
-petting dog
-working to pay for trip

Things I am doing:
-designing a deathcore logo for a Stardew Valley shirt

#stardewvalley

May you have a day with zero emails. 🙏

Warm light photo of a chocolate chip triangle scone on a white ceramic plate in the foreground. A mug behind the plate contains some of the words visible from this post including “dominant, group in a given nation that’s enacted”

Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army. You know what I mean? You guys wanna make some scones? #baking #sourdough #dimension20

A wee baby snake with black triangular and circular markings, coiled in a white person’s hand. Snake ID is a 9 week old dumerils boa

May I please petition that we substitute “dope rope” for “nope rope” when posting snakes because 🐍 YES, give me all the reptiles. And permission for friends to share their snakes here as well. This is Pipsqueak, my dumerils boa when she was about 10 weeks old 🥹 #Snake #reptiles #PetSky

An embroidered piece that says “abolish ICE” in cute, cursive font, the photo colors are saturated and the pink appears to be very aggressively salmon colored.

My first mostly complete #embroidery project 🥰 #abolishICE #AbolishThePolice

It’s such bullshit. I’m sorry.

Why is it always “let them eat cake,” but never “Денег нет, но вы держитесь”

It bears repeating—Robert Morris? Not a drag queen. Not transgender.

Sounds like gender-affirming care to me 🤧

When it’s only Monday and you’re already tired of being Hermaeus Mora’s pawn 🥱

An acrylic painting of a cartoonish happy capybara with a yellow bird atop their head. The background is green and has no detail

No dopamine for chores, only children’s how-to-paint-a-capybara paintings #painting

The rear end of a Tesla car with a bumper sticker, a red circle that says “love the car, hate musk” and the Tesla emblem covered with a red, white, and blue BMW emblem.

Covering a Tesla logo with a BMW logo is … an interesting choice 🥲

Photo taken through a broken car window of a balding man wearing what appears to be a tactical vest and long sleeve shirt of maroon or brown. He is standing behind a woman who is pressed against the car and only the elbow and bicep of her left arm, which appears forcibly pulled behind her back, is visible

Collecting photos of Americans “just following orders” for future textbooks when we “knew all along” this was wrong.

Elsy Noemi Berrios was arrested on 3/31 by ICE agents who broke through her car window. She asked to see a warrant but was never shown one. The other agent is masked like a coward.

Hey… hey Jared? You’re the GOP now.

American conservative politicians suppressing American voters from getting to the polls is an American tradition. 🦅

Hahahah you dummies fell for clean air, clean water, and abundant decentralized power generation and distribution?!? Oh man you should see your faces. Wait why are you laughing at me?

Finally, an EO that does something positive for people with vaginas

A photo of six orange and brown bags of coffee, labeled with the logo of Fresh Roasted Coffee Company, and identified as Tanzania Peaberry.

You might be saying, “Leah, did you really just panic-buy 30 pounds of coffee out of fear that tariffs would raise prices on coffee, industry-wide?” To that, I say, “NO, I HAD A COUPON AND NOT ENOUGH SEROTONIN.” #coffee #coffesky

This just in: climate-conscious and parking-anxious people carpool to event. More at 11.

A photo of a crocheted sunflower granny square and an unfinished sunflower, next to it, with a golden size H hook sticking out the middle. They are both sitting on a white towel, as the larger square is currently damp from blocking.

Finally, spouse and kids are out of the house. What should I do with this precious alone time? Oh I know, I’ll just find an audiobook or podcast to listen to while I work on this unfinished #crochet project

[3 hours of doomscrolling later, cue the sound of rocks crunching in the driveway]

Oh no

Doing a unit on protest art with my kids. I bit off more than I can chew.

“I deserve a little splurge, as a treat treat,” I say as I hoist the package of ✨2-ply✨ Kirkland-brand toilet paper up and into my cart.

The spring peepers are peeping! #frogs #spring #nature