Christine Sandquist

Digital painting of a blacknwinged butterfly on a sea of orange marigold.type flowers. The insect has orange, blue and white spots on its wings and a black body with white and orange polka dots

I hope your day brings you moments of beauty!

#InverteFest #art

Yeahhh it wasn't a pleasant realization. I liked it more when I thought it was generically ominous 😅

I think the tricky part is phrasing it in a way that isn't immediately obvious to said terrible husband, honestly. If it's too overt it could make things really unpleasant.

I'm doing this too! I had that same initial reaction, but then I had the depressing realization that it's actually a *reassurance* that is primarily aimed at women with terrible husbands who are afraid he'll find out that she voted for the Dems :( he can only find out IF you voted, not for who.

cleaning headstones seems like it should be easy but it's deceptive! especially stones that are already in bad shape (marble melts like sugar over time) or have biological growth like lichen

The common denominator in all of these stories--predetermined outcomes, iffy data and bogus metrics, the torching of campus communities--is consultants, most prominently the rpk group. There's only one reason these firms are engaged by admins. They only know one "solution."

Screenshot of free-text area, with text reading "I find the mere *suggestion* of this so objectionable that I am considering pulling my books from D2D. If you ever make it even an option I will, and I will strongly urge the large number of authors I know to do likewise. This shit is obscene. The mere suggestion that this is something your company would ever consider, let alone the push-poll nature of the questions, makes my trust in D2D absolutely *plummet*. "

Note to authors, @draft2digital.bsky.social (who until now I *have* been using as an ebook distributor, and who *have* been doing a good job, and who also own Smashwords) have a survey about "AI" use at at draft2digital.wufoo.com/forms/d2d-ai... I think you should fill in. Like this.

"While other states were banishing books in our schools, we were banishing hunger from ours"

Clip it and run it as an ad in every battleground

Absolutely INSANE to watch Democrats get football in the national divorce over the past year!!

corn fed boyz for walz

Slimey the worm is a character from Sesame Street. He is an orange and yellow striped worm and so small he can fit in the palm of your hand. Here he is pictured on the sidewalk waiting for a cab with just his backpack and a suitcase (I imagine to avoid airline baggage fees). This worm knows how to travel.

Slimey the worm is a character from Sesame Street. He is an orange and yellow striped worm and so small he can fit in the palm of your hand. Here he is pictured on the side of the canal with a beautiful little picnic fit for a king such as himself as the Eiffel Tower stands in the background.

Slimey the worm is a character from Sesame Street. He is an orange and yellow striped worm and so small he can fit in the palm of your hand. Here he is pictured plein air painting the Eiffel Tower because not only has he gone to the moon, but this worm also has artistic chops. Is there anything this worm CAN'T do?

Slimey the worm is a character from Sesame Street. He is an orange and yellow striped worm and so small he can fit in the palm of your hand. Here he is pictured with the GOAT of gymnastics—Simone Biles. Slimey is pictured here with a gold medal of his own so this guy is also athletic af!!

No thoughts, just thinking about Slimey, his adventures in Paris, and him getting to meet the GOAT herself

We should attack transphobia head-on simply because it is a disgusting ideology, but if that's not enough for you, it's a system of control that stems from a patriarchal assumption about what a woman "should" be whose natural end is rigid gender roles upheld by state violence. Which seems bad!

Garter Snake in the Coral Bells. Available as a print in my store

"People are saying I was robbed. Thats not true. The wallet inspector will return any minute now."

ADHD meds are the horseshoe nail that cause a kingdom to be lost.

Not being able to get Adderall since December '23 caused issues with my other meds. In a domino of side effects, this caused an infection that slowly ate away at my upper jaw. Repeated misdiagnoses meant 6 months of pain, 6k in dental bills. Not so hard to imagine a timeline in which I went septic.

Listen, I don’t particularly like Hillary Clinton. But the image of her standing on that DNC stage and listening to a thunderous chant of LOCK HIM UP?

Yeah, I enjoy that, I unironically love that for her

Started playing Fields of Mistria (shoujo Stardew clone), wanna shout out both this game and also original Stardew for agreeing with and validating my belief that 2AM is a perfectly reasonable time to go to bed and will definitely give you enough sleep to keep your stamina up

It's kind of funny how many senior staff and columnists at two legacy newspapers are super mad the Harris-Walz campaign won't grant them interviews while so many other people are like "I bet the Hot Ones interview will be super interesting, Tim Walz will probably just be dying the entire time"

nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked

people will remember:
- how many squid facts you knew
- if you offered others squid facts
- how you made people feel when you told them a squid fact

Hey, science fiction writers. A request to make.

Normally it's unethical to discuss a story we didn't buy. But years later, there's a "one that got away" I still think about, and I REALLY want to know who wrote it.

Did YOU write about space snails taking over the anglican church?

(Read on...)

the biggest fairy tale adults tell themselves on the daily is they're not one medical emergency or layoff or divorce away from being homeless

Excerpt. Follow link in next post for full text. Today, Vice President Kamala Harris is announcing several proposals for her first 100 days in office to bring down costs for American families. The steps announced today will cut taxes for the middle class, reduce grocery costs, take on price gouging, lower the costs of owning and renting a home, continue to bring down the costs of prescription drugs, and relieve medical debt for millions of Americans. These bold actions will address some of the sharpest pain points American families are confronting and bolster their financial security. These proposals are just one part of the Vice President’s economic plan, which also includes protecting and strengthening Social Security and Medicare; bringing together labor, small businesses, and major corporations to invest in America, create jobs, and deliver for Americans; lowering costs of education, child care, and long-term care

Excerpt. Follow link in next post for full text. Lowering the Rent for Hardworking Americans by Taking on Corporate and Major Landlords. In addition to ongoing efforts by Vice President Harris and President Biden to expand rental assistance for hard-pressed Americans including for veterans, boost housing supply for those without homes, enforce fair housing laws, and make sure corporate landlords can’t use taxpayer dollars to unfairly rip off renters, today she is proposing plans to: Stop Wall Street Investors from Buying Up and Marking Up Homes in Bulk. Community after community feels taken advantage of by Wall Street investors and distant landlords. Vice President Harris is calling on Congress to pass the Stop Predatory Investing Act, to curtail these practices by removing key tax benefits for major investors who acquire large numbers of single-family rental homes.

Excerpt. Follow link in next post for full text. Lowering the Costs of Prescription Drugs and Relieving Medical Debt As California’s Attorney General, Kamala Harris held Big Pharma accountable for deceptive and illegal practices, winning $7 billion on behalf of Americans in lawsuits brought against their unsafe and unfair tactics. As Vice President, she cast the tie-breaking vote in the Inflation Reduction Act to help save millions of Americans $800 a year on their health insurance, win the right for Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices with the big pharmaceutical companies, cap the cost of insulin at $35 for seniors, and cap seniors’ out-of-pocket drug costs at $2,000 starting next year. As President, she will build on these historic actions by working with Congress to: Cap the cost of insulin at $35 and out-of-pocket expenses for prescription drugs at $2,000 for everyone, not just seniors. Accelerate the speed of Medicare negotiations over prescription drugs.

Excerpt. Follow link in next post for full text. Cutting Taxes for the Middle Class—With Up to $6,000 Tax Credit per Child Vice President Harris is proposing a new plan to get tax relief to more than 100 million Americans. Her plan will expand the Child Tax Credit to provide a $6,000 tax cut to families with newborn children. Unlike Trump and Vance, Vice President Harris is committed to ensuring no one earning less than $400,000 a year will pay more in new taxes. Vice President Harris and Governor Walz’s plan will: Cut Taxes for Middle-Class Families with Kids. Vice President Harris will restore the American Rescue Plan’s expanded Child Tax Credit and fight to make it the ongoing law of the land. It will provide up to $3,600 per child tax credit for middle class and the most hard-pressed working families with children. A New $6,000 Child Tax Credit for Families with Children in the First Year of Life

Harris-Walz campaign economic proposals:
—$6,000 tax credit for newborns
—cap insulin cost at $35, out-of-pocket Rx costs at $2,000 for everyone
—work with states to cancel medical debt
—encourage building 3 million housing units
—eliminate incentives for corp landlords buying homes in bulk

I hope, as we unearth all these rocks and find JD Vance writhing underneath them like a long, many-legged serpent, we spare a thought for what we’re going to do to make Chris Rufo persona non grata.

I will convert to your religion if and only if I am given the power to necromance 1 (one) pterosaur into existence at a time and place of my choosing. Sorry, but those are the rules.

Related: Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones obviously draws plot inspiration from the War of the Roses, but I really think the “sweating sickness” that plagued the British Isles should’ve made it in. Unknown virus (hantavirus?) that killed able-bodied adults in 24 hours? Brutal plot potential

Two green heron perched on parallel branches of a dead tree. Both birds have blue-capped heads, long beaks, yellow eyes, and white throats streaked with brown feathers. The background is out-of-focus trees.

An elegant duo of green heron at daybreak.

📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 4500, f10, 1/640s) 🪶

#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography

UPDATE: Linda stopped by to spill all of the tea. Buckle up, folks.

So Linda is sweet and means well, but is a bit of a trainwreck. She keeps a small chicken coop and is constantly giving everyone eggs whether they want them or not (I do not). She also has 2 dogs.

Dana also has 2 dogs.