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oh from reference! i’m not quite so skilled as being able to draw a live fish moving around. but maybe with more practice :)

thank you! :)

pencil sketch of a round, fluffy, small bird sitting on a branch

🐦

perhaps one of the best things i’ve ever drawn?? an artist friend gave me a 30 minute lesson in sketching a month or so ago and wow it has unlocked SO much for me since. my drawing skills had been annoyingly plateaued for yeeears beforehand. now i feel like i improve with every sketch :)

pencil sketch of a fish with multiple big, fan-like fins, in motion

fish!!! :)

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Hey what if we did de-baathification mixed with a ton of really obvious lying while circulating selfies of our jackboots torturing your grandmother? You’re gonna love Big Brother now, aren’tcha sport?

They’re pulling cops and feds off of every other case they have in order to pull off this show of strength. It’s the kind of political environment that actually makes a lot of illegal operations much easier: proportional to how dangerous—and expansive—it makes the social margins.

This does not make them less dangerous, I want to be clear about that. It just changes the nature of the threat we’re dealing with. They’re not interested in particulars, accuracy; they’re interested in a spectacle of power and brutality.

Pretty much every public statement made by this administration about military and police force has been an announcement that they’re abandoning the strategic benefits of counterinsurgency in order to cull the population and project a patriarchal warrior fantasy.

By the wide documentation of resistance to ICE, it seems to be having exactly the effect military counterinsurgency theorists warn against: much of the population sees their interests more aligned with state “enemies” than with its agents and are willing to act accordingly.

Instead of taking care to alienate insurgents from the general population, attempting to establish state legitimacy, etc. they’re just declaring broad swaths of the population de-facto insurgent and applying brute force accordingly.

Under the second Trump administration it’s hard to call much of its movements counterinsurgent, when by the military’s own theory of counterinsurgency they’re repeatedly taking actions that exacerbate an insurgent political environment.

A cardboard bankers box sitting on top of an office chair filled with assorted odds and ends as I cleaned out my desk

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
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Cash: $VickySurge1312

Greta Thunberg in Greece:

I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.

This is the state secret police committing acts of public humiliation and torture. Americans don’t have a language for this in the public consciousness but that is what this is with no exaggeration or embellishment.

much to figure out, a disability hearing to attend, a hip surgery to attain and heal from. but even with all this to consider, i’m going to try to move back to Portland within the next year. see you again soon, Portland friends and comrades, i’ve been really missing you 🖤

someone posting a picture on twitter of their Friend AI pendant powered on, closed in a tupperware, with the caption “HOW DO I TURN IT OFF” and tagging its creator @avischiffmann who replies beneath “can you turn a dog off?”

lmao the ai “friend” pendant apparently doesn’t turn off and this is its creator’s response to complaints.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

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poem in the book that reads: Mars and Venus were arguing one day Over which would possess your charms. Your ancestors' blood inspired you to arms, And your beautiful eyes seemed to inspire only love. But now all argument is over. Mars is vanquished, love remains the victor. We see only a beautiful princess, And come to offer her our hearts.

back cover of book that reads: The beautiful Marquise de Banneville meets a handsome mar- quis, and they fall in love. But the young woman is actually a young man (brought up as a girl and completely in the dark about her—or his—true sex), while the marquis is actually a young woman who likes to cross-dress. Will they live happily ever after? In the introduction, Joan DeJean presents the fascinating puzzle of authorship of this lighthearted gender-bending tale written in the late seventeenth century in France. Was it François-Timoléon de Choisy, an abbot who was happiest in drag? Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier, an outspoken defender of women's writing of her day? Or Charles Perrault, L'Héritier's uncle and the famous author of such fairy tales as "Sleeping Beauty"? DeJean argues that the tale was a collaboration of all three and discusses the permeable borderline between masculinity and femi-ninity, transvestism, and tolerance—then and now.

uhh anyone else ever read The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville, a short 17th century tale filled with beautiful and beloved transgender people??

giving the food away that's already grown anyway is justified to the base baying for blood as "too expensive" but then they just giving away money for nothing anyway, all the while food inflation is through the roof.

Abject cruelty. Intentional, structured violence against the poor.

commercial farmers without actually buying anything or getting anything in return.

It's such an ad hoc, half-assed, cruel-on-purpose state of affairs for what has always been a vinegar-soaked band aid instead of a solution.

Food is literally rotting in fields while people starve because buying and

The most infuriating thing is that a major part of this is why commercial farmers are getting fucked, in terms of domestic and foreign policy food aid programs have always actually been farming subsidies and now instead of just buying and giving out food we're apparently just handing over money to

purging the government and culling the poor, both as rapidly as possible, is the trump admin’s central policy.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

This thread is an example why we should oppose deployment of local or state police to “protect” protestors in relation ICE/Fed aggression. It will multiply repression of protestors, not reduce it. Shitty move by Pritzker and a move Dem governors are likely to make.

ooooh yeah that kind of rudeness i’ve become well familiar with, it’s a big part of what’s got me romanticizing people being rude obviously and directly lol.

much better than the pain management guy who was essentially like “bummer you have traumatized-poor-person-forever-pain syndrome but i only bother to treat pain i can conquer. can’t help you”