Rip

The elven city of Lothlorien- a tall tree with golden leaves, wrapped in elven dwellings. At the top, the fellowship greets Galadriel and Celeborn. At the base, Galadriel and Frodo peer into the fountian.

Lothlorien - watercolour and acryla gouache on paper

When I'm feeling burnt out, sometimes I think of a painting like this, which took forever, but felt like meditation.

Also prints are on sale if you want one ✨

Promotional shareable graphic for the Imagining Possible Futures event. "What futures can we dream together?" Imagining Possible Futures. April 11, 2025. Online. Two panels, one workshop. 9am-12pm PDT, 12pm-3pm EDT, 6pm-9pm CEST, 9pm-10pm EAT.

Schedule. 9am-10am: Why Imagination Matters: Nobody Owns Our Technofuture. Panelists: Adrienne Williams, Dylan Baker, Pauline Wee. Moderator: Adio Dinika. 10am-11am: Decentralized, Locally Tailored Technology. Panelists: Nyalleng Moorosi, Meron Estefanos, Asmelash Teka Hagdu. Moderator: Timnit Gebru. 11am-12pm: Our Possible Futures: Zine-Making Workshop. Come together to create poems, stories, or digital art for a collaborative zine. Hosts: Dylan Baker & Pauline Wee.

Reminder: We're having our Imagining Possible Futures event next Friday!

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-prese...

Stay in touch at @dairinstitute.bsky.social

An echeveria leaf that is turning into a baby

Also finally know marginally more what I'm doing with succulent cuttings!!

A picture of a seed starting grid with 3 little dill sprouts

A 4" terracotta pot with 10 firewheel sprouts in it

Dill is up and at em! So are some of the tomatoes but I can't take a good picture thru the bag lol. And firewheel update! #🌱sky

About 6 chamomile shoots in a bagged seed planter

Chamomile is sprouting!! #🌱sky

I'm optimistic that most of the night will be quiet. But, we could have storms coming through Mid TN in the 4-5 am hour. Looks like a busy day from then on. Have your wake-up alert app armed. We'll be right here, and we'll go live on YouTube if a warning is issued in Davidson or Williamson Counties.

A close-up of a firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) just sprouting in a 4-inch ceramic pot

Close-up of the same pot, now with TWO tiny sprouts

LoOk iT's aLiVe!!!! #🌱sky thread 😇🌱

Gaillardia pulchella planted 2/27/25, sprouted today 3/12/25 🥹

Mice, Ranked From Least to Most Transgender No matter gay straight or bi, lesbian, transgender mice.

Palate cleanser.

#TrAntiFa starter pack. You're welcome.

Nominations in the comments, feel free to self-nominate.

go.bsky.app/QpZ2ud5

Mirror selfie showing the front and side of their head of rip, a light-skinned nonbinary person in an alien t-shirt with chunky aviator glasses and septum and eyebrow piercings, in blue light, which makes their mullet look neon highlighter yellow

Another mirror selfie of rip showing the front and back of their mullet, in pink light which makes their mullet look streaks of highlighter yellow and bright gold orange

Rip, a light-skinned person with glasses and tattoos and a bright neon green mullet, is wearing a camouflage hoodie and smiling like they're laughing and holding a caramel colored crested gecko on their elbow while holding the other hand up to keep them from escaping

A mirror selfie of rip with no glasses or shirt, showing the top half of a three-winged bird tattoo on their chest, in pink light which makes their mullet look both orange and green

Having soooo much fun with substance green

A sea angel and a glaucus atlanticus.

sea slugs 🫧

🥶 Cold Weather Advisory ⚠️

📉 Wind chills 5° to minus 4° ‼️

🗓️ Wednesday night at midnight to Thursday 10 AM

😰 Hypothermia and frostbite may afflict the unprepared and unhoused

🚙 Travel with blankets, coats, gloves, hats 🧥🧤🧢

DO NOT SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION. Do not answer questions about your immigration status, where you were born, or your criminal history. 4 NO COMPARTAS INFORMACION PERSONAL. No respondas preguntas sobre tu estado migratorio, dónde naciste o tus antecedentes penales.

DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING. Do not sign any document without speaking to a lawyer. 5 NO FIRMES NADA. No firmes ningún documento sin hablar con un abogado.

SPEAK TO A LAWYER. Consult with a lawyer ahead of time. If you are arrested, ICE will not provide you with a lawyer, so be prepared. CONSULTA CON UN ABOGADO. Consulta con un abogado con anticipación. Si te arrestan, ICE no te dará un abogado, así que prepárate

Pt. 2/2 ⬇️

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS IN CASE OF ICE: CONOCE TUS DERECHOS EN CASO DE ENCUENTRO CON ICE:

DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR. ICE cannot enter your home without a warrant signed by a judge. Tell the agents to show you the warrant by sliding it under the door. NO ABRAS TU PUERTA. ICE no puede entrar a tu casa sin una orden firmada por un juez. Diles a los agentes que te muestren la orden deslizándola debajo de la puerta.

ASK THEM TO LEAVE. If ICE doesn't have a warrant, tell them you do not consent for them to enter your home and ask them to leave. At work, ICE cannot enter employee-only areas without permission. 2 PÍDALES QUE SE VAYAN. Si ICE no tiene una orden judicial, diles que no das tu consentimiento para que entren a tu casa y pídeles que se vayan. En el trabajo, ICE no puede ingresar a áreas exclusivas para empleados sin permiso.

REMAIN SILENT. You have the right to remain silent. If the agents ask you questions, tell them, "I wish to remain silent." PERMANECE EN SILENCIO. Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio. Si los agentes te hacen preguntas, diles: "Deseo permanecer en silencio".

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.

EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.

Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 13, 2025 CONTACT Gillian Branstetter, gbranstetter@aclu.org Tom Warnke, twarnke@lambdalegal.org BALTIMORE – In a victory for transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers, a federal district court today issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump administration executive order attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19. The decision by Judge Brendan Hurson was issued from the bench with a written order to come soon. The nationwide restraining order prohibits federal agencies from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender-affirming medical care to a patient under nineteen. “Good and decent parents of transgender kids should never be in the frightening position of having their child’s prescribed, medically necessary care canceled at the whim and threat of a politician. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s executive order did to PFLAG families with trans youth and young adults nationwide,” said Brian K. Bond (he/him), Chief Executive Officer of PFLAG National. “Today’s decision rights a grievous wrong to our nation's families and children, and PFLAG families will be vigilant to ensure our transgender loved ones receive the healthcare they need—as this legal ruling demands.” “Forcing providers to withhold medically-necessary, evidence-based care not only threatens patient health and well-being, but also undermines the integrity of our healthcare system in its entirety,” said Alex Sheldon (they/them), GLMA executive director. “Today's intervention by the court underscores the cruelty and recklessness that is embedded in this order and affirms our commitment to resist the administration’s extremist agenda that targets trans and non-binary young people and privileges political ideology over medical expertise. We are hopeful that…

In the first week after the order was signed, some hospitals across the country — in Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington, Colorado, and Virginia at least — abruptly halted medical care for transgender people under age 19, canceling appointments and turning away patients, including some who had been receiving this care for most of their life. This prompted protests of support for transgender youth and in opposition to the order nationwide. On Feb. 4, a lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Maryland, and law firms Jenner & Block and Hogan Lovells on behalf of transgender young adults and adolescents and their families whose health care has been disrupted by President Trump’s order. Also joining the case as plaintiffs are PFLAG National, the nation’s largest organization supporting LGBTQ+ people and their families, with over 550,000 members and supporters and nearly 350 chapters across the country; and GLMA, the country’s largest organization of LGBTQ and allied health professionals. "Across the country, this unlawful order from the president has sown fear among transgender youth and confusion among their providers,” said Joshua Block, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “But today’s decision should restore both their access to healthcare and protections under the Constitution. Providers who’ve suspended healthcare for their transgender patients should be left with no doubt that they can lift those suspensions and continue to provide healthcare and act in their best medical judgment without risking their funding or worse. “The president’s orders sought to take away from transgender young people the very care that they, their families, and their medical providers all agree is best for them – medical care that is evidence-based and well-established. But these decisions are for patients, their families, and their doctors to make, not for politicians or Washington bureaucrats,” said Omar Gonzale…

Incredible news!

The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order.

The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care.

ACLU statement here:

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Shopify selling Kanye’s Heil Hitler Swastika t-shirts seems about as good as any for a thread on Shopify’s role as a far-right political business venture disguised as a typical tech company and their reputation for not taking down hate merch. 🧵 ⬇️

In the indiscriminate phase of building my fury road fanfic playlist and just had to ax invisible touch by Genesis because it's such a tone violation 😂😂😂 for context the current headliners are nothing but thieves and chvrches

I had this idea and figured it would exist already but couldn't find it, and I have an unearned sense of my graphic design abilities in powerpoint, so

If you're looking for a concrete action to take today--and you're a Visa cardholder--take 2 min and send an email to them today. 👇

Four hand drawn stickers with dancing human figures. They read: "trans kids are a treasure," "trans people are hot," "it's terrific to be trans," and "I love my trans body"

Drawing some Keith Haring inspired stickers to spread trans positivity.

(happy to accept ideas for snappy slogans)

(if you're local and I know you, I'll give you some)

Why is the USA the only country in the world with bird flu H5N1 ripping through cattle herds?

Because in the United States, it’s legal to feed chicken shit to cattle.

That’s why. That’s literally the reason

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Couple of points I want to mention:

This project is developing, and the @medsky.info isn't meant to target only anti-vax content.

I plan on adding labels re: anti-gender affirming care, anti-abortion, anti-psychotherapy, as well as labels for medical racism.

Stay tuned.

You know things are going well when your therapist reminds you you can hit her up between appointments

Yall are supporting 100 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits a day. 🥹

That is *100 years* worth of HRT support for trans people being created *every day*.

Hell yes, this rules!! 🏳️‍⚧️⛑️

HRT - Harm Reduction Toolkit A white first aid kit icon with a pastel pink cross, overlaid onto a pastel blue background. Distribute Aid Logo Link to the fundraiser (available in the post text).

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT.

@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.

Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

Not even sure what to say about the latest EO targeting trans women in sports except: fuck that. I’ve played roller derby with trans skaters for years and guess what? IT IS FINE. They’re not scary or threatening! They’re great teammates and people who just wanna skate. Don’t like it, get bent.

Okay that's cool as hell

If you have ever received treasury payments - tax returns, student loans, financial aid, social security, etc. Call your bank, mortgage company, credit card company, university. Express concerns about the federal personal data breach. Ask how they will protect your information. Put on the pressure!