Maya

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist): the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much. you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

Is this not straight-forwardly a declaration of civil war?

The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. Liberals Are Helping. After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative movement has accelerated its war against trans people. And too many centrist Democrats have kept up their trans bashing.

Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...

As a trans woman who is proudly anti-fascist, I'm just wondering if Trump designating me a terrorist TWICE cancels out?

Am I back to upstanding citizen? Or am I a SUPER DUPER terrorist?

I don't think she sees herself as part of the community in even that way. I've seen people who can stealth-pass distance themselves from other trans people, convinced they're better than them, in a internalized transphobia kind of way. That's exactly the vibe I'm getting from Sarah.

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

Not to put too fine of a point on this, but if I spent the last few months putting innocent people in concentration camps and the pope died basically three seconds after I met him, I would not continue life apace, I would not immediately clock back in at the fascism factory.

Over 850 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Filed In 2025; Most In History 2025 has been a difficult year for transgender people. Over 850 bills targeting the community have been filed, the most in United States history.

1. In 2025, over 850 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been filed across the United States - the most in US history.

Most bills target transgender people.

The bills have also grown more extreme, reverting drivers licenses, arresting trans people in bathrooms, and more.

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I need to finish this..
#alloart

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,276,801, Maya ‪@engideer.tech‬, joined on Sep 30, 2023"

Til I am Bluesky user #1,276,801 😁

Strange white fluffy deer like dragon sits in the bottom left corner, raising its hoof up in gesture on a teal and violet background with a white border. Tiny “V” mouth open. Black speech bubble takes up the rest of the frame with white handwritten letters “It is normal to feel alone in a world not suited for a soul like yours”.

#furryart #therapythought

After doing that other piece the other day, I realized i really like the idea of leaving “therapy thoughts” in my art. Sometimes I take pause to journal. I do it right there on the canvas most of the time, and sometimes I think it’s important to leave them.

A white peryton with black wings, mane, and hooves, sits centered in the frame, one hand raised in gesture. Text in a speech bubble above its head reads “No matter how loudly the little voice inside may claim otherwise, it is never too late. No matter how hopeless things feel, you can still change”.

“You Can Still Change”
#therapythoughts #furryart

You are not unclean. You are not a vessel for sin. You are not the creation of others. You create yourself.

#birdbot

A character protecting a ghost cat with their hat from the heat.

Female anthropomorphic pink dragon with leather jacket and short black pants approaching the viewer with a cheeky smile on her face while snapping her fingers and creating a little blue flame.

She's got that certain spark ✨
C0mm for @rasconzarabbit.bsky.social

'Litigate you to death': Gas giant uses new tactic which could sink environmental dissenters Santos is pursuing the climate movement through the courts after winning a challenge brought by traditional owners against a massive gas project. Experts warn it could help spell the end of public int...

"I think that when we see a multi-billion-dollar corporation, hiring a multi-billion-dollar US law firm to go after environmental charities for legal costs, we do have to ask whether people ought to be protected from this type of legal strategy."

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...

Personal art
My OC Banafrit

this feature is basically "contact sharing" in other social apps you've used but explicit and with a well-defined purpose and not the app just sucking up your entire contacts directory so they can do god knows what with that data

Soar

A little experiment.

Great shot

Zurich's lake crows love nothing better than sitting in flower beds (but dog biscuits often help)

The Sesame Street twitter's #pridemonth tweets provide a clear timeline of the current moral panic being generated out of nothing. I've taken the biggest comment count each year as an indicator:
2019: 200
2020: 400
2021: 500
2022: 600
2023: 6,700
2024: 8,100

Estrogen Antiandrogen Games

SpaceX's Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research Finds SpaceX's growing Starlink megaconstellation could be hindering the Earth's ozone layer from healing itself, researchers find.

We banned CFCs to protect and heal the ozone and now satellite constellations might burn it up again.

Starlink will be burning up 2,000 satellites per year in perpetuity for its service.

Eevee frolicking in freshly fallen snow

My Eevee painting made it to the top 300 of the Pokémon Illustration contest! Eeeee

pkmn.news/4ci2yC1