Steady at the Helm

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Spot on.

Did anyone else see Fox News this morning telling people to keep chickens? #foxnews #chickens

'Cause love's such an old-fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves

Can't we give ourselves one more chance?
Why can't we give love that one more chance?
Why can't we give love, give love, give love, give love
Give love, give love, give love, give love?

Under Pressure - Remastered 2011 Queen, David Bowie · Hot Space (Deluxe Remastered Version) · Song · 1982

Today's earworm: open.spotify.com/track/11IzgL...

Studies of Diolocaulus swimming in five different positions

Quick studies of the bizarre boomerang-headed Diplocaulus magnicornis from the Late Permian

#paleoart #conceptart #diplocaulus

We just gotta call it out and be relentless about that.

YouTube video by Spike Jones - Topic Der Fuehrer's Face

youtu.be/g73kKLts95U?... ♥️

YouTube video by Spike Jones - Topic Der Fuehrer's Face

Today's earworm: youtu.be/g73kKLts95U?...

YouTube video by MrFunnyMals When Kittens Attack (2016)

You know what? Here's a video of kittens launching themselves at stuff. youtu.be/hV9GjCBcNzQ?...

I originally came here to have fun. But I find myself howling at the moon. I don't know how to not say, 'the Emperor has no clothes.' Things are nucking futs and bass-ackwards. No matter how much I want to just like birds and scroll through videos of kittens launching themselves at stuff, I can't.

On Martin Luther King Day. Of all days.

My heart goes out to everyone in the rainbow community right now. #lgbtqia+ #transrights #nonbinary #intersex

Here's a small weird potentially good thing: The USPS website is still, as of a few minutes ago, processing requests under the free covid test program. No idea when that'll be shut down, but it hasn't been yet.

Will this also be an audiobook? I absorb information more easily through hearing.

On the left side of the screen is an up-close 3/4 profile of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s face. On the right side of the screen is the following quote from the book Stride Toward Freedom - The Montgomery Story, by Martin Luther King Jr.: "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."

YouTube video by Manos proposes David Byrne with Choir! Choir! Choir! - Heroes

Today's earworm: youtu.be/mbeq_bDRMPw?...

Anyway, I wish you could donate empathy and self-awareness to people who don't have any.

Nos quitaron ocho estados
¿Quién es aquí el invasor?
Soy extranjero en mi tierra
Y no vengo a darles guerra
Soy hombre trabajador

Pasadena Humane charity website logo: A grayscale circular illustration of a cat and dog being held by human hands on the left side, and text in all caps on the right side reading: Pasadena Humane.

Pasadena Humane's website is bogged down right now, so please donate through Charity Navigator to help animals impacted by the Eaton Canyon Wildfire: www.charitynavigator.org/ein/951643344

YouTube video by zevnikov Hildegard of Bingen: O Fire Of The Holy Spirit (O ignis Spiritus paracliti)

Today's earworm: youtu.be/5zdUZ9WEyfM?...

The perfect day: 👌

a pigeon is standing on its hind legs on a purple background . Alt: A happy CGI pigeon walking jauntily on a sidewalk as if listening to its favorite song in its little head.

Just got the audiobook!

YouTube video by Beryl Shereshewsky This is Palestinian Food

youtu.be/7V7h7R9tv14?...

So cool! The post showed up in my feed and reminded me of how sad I get when people like to scare them. Definitely will read!

I feel so sad about city pigeons. We only have one native wild true pigeon species in North America (band-tailed pigeon). The pigeons we see pretty much everywhere are all descended from domesticated stock. They're all just stray pet pigeons.

Propaganda Analysis — Home Page — Propaganda Critic Propaganda analysis for people of all ages. Resist propaganda. Fight back against fake news, bots, and trolls. Cite this academic source in your papers.

This is really good: propagandacritic.com

Ink drawing of a giant conifer aphid

Giant conifer aphid walking on a decomposing wood pile in the NJ pine barrens.

Giant conifer aphid walking on a decomposing wood pile in the NJ pine barrens.

Giant conifer aphid ink doodle!

These (true) bugs are all over the pine barrens of NJ. My husband and I found some in a decomposing wood pile and he snagged a few awesome macro shots.
IG: @kurt.lindhult.photo

#SciArt 🎨🕷️🌱🐡🐞🐛📸
#invert #insertaninvert