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The angler's greed

For most of the last decade, our media and political class has panicked over the idea that progressives were intruding on free speech rights by loudly criticizing people with unpopular views.

Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.

Rt to save your own sanity and like 800000 gallons of water, 3 redlined neighborhoods' air quality and a thousand baby seals

first result of the creature exchange I host on discord, for faerilyadjacent!

#dragon #art #creaturedesign

Talita frowns and shakes her head. Talita: (ASL) I don’t have eyebrows. Gillie: (ASL) You’ve got those… uh… white eyelids? Talita: (English) My nictitating membranes?  She squints the two white inner "eyelids" that lie underneath her outer feathered eyelids. Talita: (English) I do use them to imitate human expressions. I picked it up as a kid. It's kind of a reflex now. Gillie: (ASL) Try mimicking the eyebrow signals with them. Talita grasps her neck nervously and stares off into the distance, considering this. Talita: (English) Oh… I… I don’t know… It wouldn’t really… look similar… Gillie looks at the transcription on her phone, unimpressed. She puts it down and flutters a hand to distract Talita from her anxious spiral. Gillie: (ASL) Hey hey hey hey! Stop over-thinking. Copy me.

Gillie launches into a series of demonstration sentences. STATEMENT Gillie: (ASL) Nice to meet you! Gillie has an open smile and neutral eyes. Talita copies her, albeit looking considerably more panicked. Talita: (ASL) Nice to meet you! "WH" QUESTION: LOWERED EYEBROWS Gillie: (ASL) What’s your name? Gillie furrows her eyebrows to make a neutral questioning face. Talita, face starting to bristle, slightly squints her outer eyelids and lowers her upper nictitating membranes. Talita: (ASL) What’s your name? YES/NO QUESTION: RAISED EYEBROWS Gillie: (ASL) Are you copying me? Gillie raises her eyebrows to make a questioning face, and exaggerates it into an expression of feigned indignation. Talita, mane fluffing out and cheeks bristling and about to combust from embarrassment, copies her by widening her eyes and raising her lower nictitating membranes. Talita: (ASL) Are you copying me?

Gillie opens her palms towards Talita and wiggles her hands in the air, Deaf applause. Talita smiles, flustered but proud. Gillie: (ASL) It's not the same, but I can totally tell you're making question faces! Talita: (English) That’s a relief. She rubs her face, noticing the velvet on her antler is itching. She asks Gillie a "WH" question with her approximation of furrowed eyebrows. Talita: (ASL) Where’s the trash can? Gillie: (ASL) Yeah, like that! Talita: (ASL) No, actual question. Gillie: (ASL) Oh! Over there. Gillie points off to her side. In the distance beyond both of them, Idrisah can be seen praying on a rug.

Last week on #RunawaytotheStars: Talita's second set of eyelids, ASL facial grammar, and imminent bone peeling.

Catch up: https://runawaytothestars.com
Read ahead: https://patreon.com/jayrockin

The "oh you won't compromise and abandon [marginalized group]? enjoy the nazi takeover!" argument rings pretty fucking false when you consider that the horrors of a nazi takeover begin with the abandonment of marginalized groups.

my prize for the leatherwork stamp rally at flamecon... mint riso on black paper 🗡️

a stylized 3d render of the larvitar-pupitar-tyranitar pokemon evo line

dino family

Digital illustrations of a range of dasyuromorphia mammals in a poster format on an orange background

Some digital illustrations of dasyuromorphia marsupials from a while ago to practice drawing mammals

while smiling!

Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world.

Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate;

Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.

Orange Tabby cat, Greg, standing tall on his hind toe beans with front paws stretched straight in the air trying to catch a catnip bubble floating above his head.

Here’s a photo of my cat trying to catch a bubble. You’re welcome.

Day 17 of #AugArthroAwe - Callichimaera perplexa

what in the Cretaceous crab nonsense is this anime freak?? @franzanth.bsky.social 👁️🦀👁️

#invertebrates #SciArt

My design for a creature trade hosted by itsjesthomas! This one is for Hatchet 💚
I had sooo much fun with this one, a lion-dragon-gryphon beast :D ✨🔥

GET IT OFF OF ME

a little sketch of a pumpkin toadlet - a very tiny orange frog. besides lies a stump of a pencil for size comparison

I just found this old sketch of a pumpkin toadlet on my phone. Totally fogot about it.
🐡

Trump gains when newspapers downplay martial law in peacetime

This behavior is indistinguishable from the worst secret polices of fascist regimes of the 20th century.

If "masked dudes jump out of unmarked cars to arrest people while telling onlookers to shut the fuck up and claiming liberals ruined the country" doesn't convince you that DHS needs to be eliminated as an organization, idk what can convince you.

The last time this happened, I lost my FAVORITE custom brush which I used to make these. I've not been able to duplicate this look/feel since. I have no idea what past me did to make these look so traditional XD

"I wish ill on JK Rowling" is the vaguest and mildest possible sentiment against a billionaire using her wealth and clout to try and kill an entire population. The kind of thing you suspended accounts for if you're targeting people advocating for their own rights for a Purge of the Undesirables.

"When he was taken into custody Friday, immigration agents tied his dog to a tree and then unclipped his collar, allowing the animal to run loose on Sepulveda Boulevard"

TY Beanie Boos "Godfrey" the Tan Halloween Spider 6" stuffed animal toy

After getting this spider beanie baby named "Godfrey" from a Chemist Warehouse discount bin, my 6 year old has been finding toy spiders and naming them "God Two", "God One", "God Zero", and mused this morning, "I'm thinking of having 100 Gods".

This is true, but part of it is the rootless, reactionary pathology of conservatives. They can't have common ground with others, can't admit common dangers like COVID & climate change. To be a conservative is to automatically reject what liberals believe, even if that means rejecting reality itself.

DAILY MEMO: ICE Brutalizes and Sends High-Profile Female TikToker Who Documents Raids to Hospital

@eltragon.bsky.social

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people

reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

We can't talk about what's going on without talking about the deplorable state of law enforcement in this country and Democrats can't do that until they discard reflexive rhetoric like "Of course we have to respect the police." No we don't! Not when they act like this! And you should say it!

One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.

Stripe says it’s accepting payments for LGBTQ content
JVA site starts working with Visa again
Mastercard reportedly panicking and making Riot moderate messages

The tide is turning
We are going to win this
Keep calling
Keep writing
Keep fighting

You can do this