RIP José "Cha Cha" Jiménez

Born in Puerto Rico — he co-founded the Young Lords in Chicago in ‘68.

The Young Lords inspired young community leaders, professionals, & artists, forming part of a Puerto Rican cultural renaissance in the 1970s. In NYC the renaissance was called the Nuyorican Movement

Decriminalize survival Image shows a drawing of 3 tents indicating that one should not make laws against basic survival

#homeless #unhoused #harmreduction

Volunteering at a district band thing and the way these people are talking about their kids [high] schools offer trips to Kenya and to go skiing to their student body is wild. Best I had was a 15 minute trip up the road to Ft. Monroe.

To me the cool thing about this image is that the sprinkling of blue stars are in the foreground, some 5 million light years away, while all those gorgeous colorful swirly galaxies are almost unimaginably more distant, out in the far depths of the cosmos. More info: www.stsci.edu/contents/med...

Not to be dramatic but I literally got teary eyed! The overall response really overwhelmed me in the best way!

A four-panel comic called Instinct is Weird. In panel 1, a yellow warbler looks at a beautiful nest in a shrub and says "I made this for some reason". In panel 2, there are five eggs in the nest and she says "these are my smooth round children". In panel 3 an egg has hatched into a yelling hatchling, and she says "Oh no now it's loud". In panel 4 she looks distressed as five hatchlings now fill the nest, begging for food, and she says "help".

Hello new followers! Here's one of my favorite older comics.

Someone called my WIP their Roman Empire and I just

Burning fossil fuels causes climate change, which makes fires and other disasters worse. The folks in California need disaster relief now. The only "conditions" that should be on any kind of assistance is that we build communities that are resilient to climate impacts & have zero-emissions buildings

JUST IN: Another team of Mexican firefighters has landed in LA to help combat the wildfires.

Thank you, Mexico 🇲🇽🇺🇸

An open sketchbook with illustrations of 7 different species of sea spiders, like land spiders but thicker and crustier, in white ink on black paper

This week's daily 5 minute drawings were sea spiders.

#SciArt #TradArt #Invertebrates

Put new bookshelves into our spare room and it made a world of difference. This is all of our graphic novels, zines, fiction and nonfiction. My home office also has multiple bookcases of film books.

Mmmmm yes. Somewhere else to give people my unsolicited opinions.