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As described, deep blue delphinium against a dark background.

Studies of a delphinium, hawk-moth, and caddis fly, via Victoria & Albert Museum.

my daughter told me i’m not allowed to play “long songs” where the people “are sad and talk about dying” anymore

BREAKING: ICE and private prison contractor GEO Group are refusing to allow Mahmoud Khalil to hold his newborn son for the first time, even after his wife flew them over 1,000 miles to visit.

We just asked a federal court to order ICE to grant Mahmoud's request for a contact visit with his family.

“Sorry I’m late, a chickadee was collecting my dog’s hair on the porch and I’d be a monster to interrupt.”

Chris Judge’s “A Daily Cloud” project began in 2020, born from quiet days in the garden during lockdown. With simple lines and a touch of imagination, he turned everyday skies into playful scenes - one cloud at a time. [1/3]

Credits: adailycloud [FB]
#clouds #creative

Why is the Colorado River running dry? It's not just drought. It's putting sacred cows above farmers, cities, and a secure future.

So we should admit and accept, up front, that the Colorado never was and never will be a mighty river system, and that it is climate-­challenged and prone to drought. We never should have asked it for so much. We invaded it like cancer, turning water into property. I wish it wasn’t so. (From 2023)

Noor Abdalla was eight months pregnant when her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested, in March. She hasn’t seen him since, and now has a one-month-old son.
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I'm a mother in the Sims 4 and honestly that's enough for me 💞

a photo of a few hundred protesters gathered in NYC

A crowd has gathered for the NYC protest against the illegal ICE arrest of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. Protesters are chanting and calling for his immediate release.

Multiple helicopters overhead.

"I want to keep boycotting Amazon, but I also want to support indie authors. How do I do that?"

Many indie authors have their books on Barnes & Noble & Kobo! There are also places like Smashwords & Campfire that are almost all indie books! Itchio now has a THRIVING LGBTQ Indie Book Scene.

A graph titled “The Creative Process” showing a cute pumpkin girl going through stages of making something. She starts out high up, “I just had the best idea!!!” and starts sliding down a hill “this isnt as simple as I expected.” She winds up in The Swamp of Despair (two skulls say: “this part sucks! don’t give up!”) She says, “this sucks, I suck. Why am I wasting my time.” She crawls her way out of the swamp “it’s not perfect but I’m going to finish” and crests the final hill, “it’s done??? I lived???” Finally, she walks away from it all, glittering with pride. “This turned out pretty good!”

the swamp of despair (from 2018)

A family of large, thin, purple false turkey tail mushrooms grow from side of a mossy log. Their gradient shelves are ringed with rows of fine fuzzy hairs. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Thank you very much!! 🥰

It's hard! I am trying to connect w everyone on other platforms. I've been taking screenshots of full posts w the comments section so that I can keep them. Don't get me started on documenting all my saved posts.. it's a lot, but I'm so sentimental that I can't delete my accounts otherwise.

Working on my own departure now. It takes time; glad you got it done!

Anyone else encouraging loved ones to delete their meta accounts?

Gender select dropdown that says nonbinary (United states of America)

New favorite bad gender form

Weird, because that same talk has me comparing his strategy to "Elderly Racist with Dementia Theory"

Dear Republicans, guess who does believe in climate change?

California and Florida insurance companies. They don’t give a damn about your politics. Whether you claim to believe in climate change or not, we’re all in the same boat dealing with the consequences.

Every day I am struck by how many resources go into sustaining human beings. It takes so much thought and planning and love to keep us alive and well.

And evil people can reduce it all to ash in seconds. It is so much easier to destroy than to create. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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Please help if you can! I've gotten my meds, and used some of the money i got yesterday to buy groceries.

Im still -$500 and need help bringing that down before my next check.

"We've never seen anything like this"

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Laura Loomer Banned From Bluesky Within One Hour SMITE!

Well done, Bluesky!

Sketchbook drawing in a cathedral, Saint Malo

Sketchbook drawing of a complicated looking altar(?) in Rennes

Drawing of a fort in Saint Malo

Sketchbook drawing of the lake and its mountains in Amnecy

Favorite drawings from France

when I was a teenager I had supermarket and farm jobs and one stint in lowest-rung admin immediately after A-levels, but as an adult I’ve only ever faced the job market as a trans woman

and if you’re not a trans woman, you have no fucking idea how rough it is out there

Just reached 1K followers?? Thank y'all very much 🙀

I'd read the grapes of wrath like 25 years ago but i recently listened to the audiobook and was like holy shit this is a manifesto in prose form this guy must've caught a lotta shit when it came out so I looked it up n he got so many death threats he started carrying a gun