Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈

And I need a nap because he wasn’t a lithographer, he was a linotype operator. I cannot be trusted today.

Indiana lawmakers are once again trying to weaken child labor laws: Bill sponsored by business owner would enable employers to hide child labor violations Coordinated, industry-backed campaigns to weaken child labor protections continue to target state legislatures in 2026. Yesterday, the Indiana Senate passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements...

The Indiana House and Senate have both passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements for businesses to document the employment of child workers.

If this bill becomes law it would enable employers to hide child labor violations, according to @epi.org.

JANUARY A postcard writing game for two people, set in a kaiju-filled alternate history, about distant but persistent friendships.

JANUARY is a postcard-writing game about two artists living ordinary lives over five decades, in a world besieged by giant kaiju.

By Indiecade-winning, Ennie-nommed game designer and artist Shing Yin Khor, in collaboration w/ illustrator Jared Andrew Schorr.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

Maternal side sounds infinitely better.

Also, I never knew my paternal grandfather (1894 - 1945).

1. Maternal side: drove a dump truck for a gravel quarry
2. Paternal side: lithographer and then men’s clothing store owner

Support The Troops! (Unless they speak against the Empire)

Idaho is latest red state to reject DOJ voter roll grab The refusal places Idaho alongside a growing number of red states pushing back against the department’s campaign.

Idaho — a deeply Republican state — has become the latest to refuse the Trump Justice Department’s demand for unredacted statewide voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Tennessee Wants to Let Schools Ban Immigrant Kids, Threatening to “End Public Education as We Know It” A Tennessee bill would take the right to education away from undocumented children. The Heritage Foundation is pushing it in other states.

Tennessee wants to ban undocumented children from access to a free public education, and turn school administrators into immigration informants. The Heritage Foundation wants to take that plan national. Read my latest for @theintercept.com:

I would love to sell out of my first print run before I start my next run of shows (and it helps pay for the second print run order I just made!) - there are just about 10 copies left.

I really loved making it and I think you'll feel inspired to make all sorts of things when you read it!

Let Me Translate My Emails for You “I’m just checking in.” = Where is that thing you promised I’d have by now? “Sorry to bother you again.” = Why can’t you do your fucking job? “I fe...

“Thanks for the explanation.” = If you had told me this last week, you would’ve saved me a lot of time.

“Perhaps there was a misunderstanding.” = You didn’t fucking listen to me.

“I suppose that’s one way to go about it.” = Stop improvising and just do what I asked you to do.

a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

Nice pull and an important reminder that, no, things haven't always been like this.

I Murder Hate Robert Burns I murder hate by flood or field, Tho’ glory’s name may screen us; In wars at home I’ll spend my blood— Life-giving wars of Venus. The deities that I adore Are social Peace and Plenty; I’m better pleas’d to make one more, Than be the death of twenty. I would not die like Socrates, For all the fuss of Plato; Nor would I with Leonidas, Nor yet would I with Cato: The zealots of the Church and State Shall ne’er my mortal foes be; But let me have bold Zimri’s fate, Within the arms of Cozbi!

In 1787, Robert Burns acquired a diamond-tipped pen which he used to inscribe poems on windows & chimney-pieces across Scotland. “I Murder Hate” is Burns’s version of “make love, not war” #graffiti, & was etched into a window at the Globe Tavern, Dumfries
#WyrdWednesday #C18 #poem #poetry

I’ve been notified about another death in ICE custody.

This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration.

This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.

4 pages from Oracles by Olivia Sullivan featuring various beautiful scenes from nature

Oracles by @zebko.bsky.social is now available for pre-order through our store!

It’s one of the most beautiful and moving books we’ve ever made. Honestly, I love it so much.

Get it here! averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com/product/orac...

Hegseth complains that reporting on dead troops is bad PR for Trump At a Pentagon briefing, the defense secretary lashed out at the press while signaling the US war with Iran is “just getting started.”

“The press only wants to make the president look bad.”

Hegseth complains that reporting on dead troops is bad PR for Trump

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

If you’re ever feeling like you’re shit at your job, just take a look at how few fucks Picasso gave when painting this dog. Sometimes done is good enough.

Never enjoyed it.

Donate to Help Keep My Home, organized by Regine Sawyer Since losing my job over a year ago, like many of us across the U.S., I have yet to find full time wor… Regine Sawyer needs your support for Help Keep My Home

Thanks so much to everyone who continues to support my GFM. Tikes are absolutely awful out here, but I'm grateful for having a community filled with compassion and empathy. Please continue to share my campaign and donate if possible 🙏🏾💖 gofund.me/a3c178560

a bright orange canvas jacket with bright blue, green, and magenta letters in a 3x4 pattern reading a b c d e f u c k i c e

finished embroidering my jacket :)

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

YouTube video by Folk Roots and Blues Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy "The Chase" Music Video

Goodnight, friends.

Unusually for me, I'm out tonight at a concert: Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy. My beloved and I even had some whiskey and cheesecake beforehand.

Whatever you're doing, wherever you are,

I love you.

YouTube video by Folk Roots and Blues Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy "The Chase" Music Video

Goodnight, friends.

Unusually for me, I'm out tonight at a concert: Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy. My beloved and I even had some whiskey and cheesecake beforehand.

Whatever you're doing, wherever you are,

I love you.

A painting of a bird beside the text "Someday, somewhere, someone will truly understand just how fucked up this was"

Today so far:
/ U.S. tells citizens to flee Mideast, offers “very limited” help.
/ U.S. consulate in Dubai hit by Iranian drone.
/ Stocks down.
/ Oil prices up.
/ U.S. rips Spain and Britain for not helping U.S. attack Iran.
/ Trump says he has enough weapons for war “forever."
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Donald Trump is using taxpayer funds to bomb Iran while he jacks up health care costs by thousands of dollars.

Ha! The original Lancet article on the dangers of reading in bed is here: doi.org/10.1016/S014...