Amy O’Neill Houck

As a person living with a heart condition, looking forward at times is daunting. I hope people like me who may be going through turmoil over their future may look know that:

This is my #OC Ocean! She is an octopus made completely of H2o. I had so much fun rendering the textures of water in my style!

#water #ocean #octopus #originalcharacter #eightarms #8arms
#fluidcreatures #depths #fish #clownfish #sun #rays #spiritoftheocean #waterspirit #procreate #digital#sea

So cute!

Sunday has been mostly about crochet. 🧶

I really love all the shadows.

So cute!

#NotTodayScammers 🤪

Thanks for the recommendation!

A #spiritual #offering to #leviathian to ask for their #protection #care #wisdom

#demonology #arsgoetia #goetia #demon #daemon #demonart #hellishart #serpent #depths #deep #sea #deepsea #monster

Why console makers can legally brick your game console “If the ability [to brick a console] is there, someone will want to ‘see how it goes.'”…

"Companies should not use EULAs to strip people of rights that we normally associate with ownership, like the right to tinker with or modify their own personal devices," EFF’s Tori Noble told @arstechnica.com.

Upending norms, the Senate votes to undo California's EV rules The Senate parliamentarian advised lawmakers that they couldn't use the Congressional Review Act to revoke California's right to set vehicle standards. But they did it anyway. Expect a legal fight.

UPDATE: The Senate parliamentarian advised lawmakers that they couldn't use the Congressional Review Act to revoke California's right to set vehicle standards. But they did it anyway. Expect a legal fight.

A Secret Trove of Rare Guitars Heads to the Met For decades, an obsessive duo of guitar guys has been amassing a definitive collection. The art these objects created changed the world.

The Met’s forthcoming gallery dedicated to the American guitar helps showcase how the art created by these objects changed the world. The guitar, by transitive property, broke down racial and class barriers, fought tyranny, and freed up minds and bodies.

New art from @corazonlines.bsky.social

Commissioned by I’m really proud of how this turned out for anyone wondering this took me an hour and 30min @queefmaster420.bsky.social
#Crow #design #datura #venus #alchemical #commission #commisionartust

Proposal Could Threaten Endangered Species’ Survival in Farm Country If approved, the change to the Endangered Species Act would give farmers more leeway to use pesticides on critical habitats.

A proposed change to the Endangered Species Act could reduce regulations on pesticides used by farmers, ranchers, and other food producers, putting increased pressure on the habitats of protected species. buff.ly/gLT77LY

YouTube video by Dartmouth Erica Chenoweth - Why Civil Resistance Works: Nonviolence in the Past and Future

Here's the most interesting thing about the I've encountered today: 2012 lecture by scholar Erica Chenoweth that explains how ordinary citizens can stop authoritarianism. youtu.be/EHkzgDOMtYs?...

Loved hearing artist Mike Webber describe his process and tell the stories of the totems he designed and carved for the Prince William Sound Science Center in Cordova, Alaska. #AlaskaSky #AlaskaNativeArt

🥗 “Cuts to SNAP and Medicaid are cuts to school meals.” Erin Hysom, FRAC
#hungerpc25

Ghosts of Distant Trees by Erica Watson — Porphyry Press

#Writingcommunity, who's thinking (perhaps begrudgingly) about #awp 26 proposals?

I'll have a new book out, and panels addressing climate change, national parks, abortion, bears, political writing, or trees might be a place we can connect. DMs are open!

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The annual #shorebird migration is happening in Cordova, Alaska… #AlaskaSky

If the scammers are gonna get me, it might be like this… (No, I didn’t get the recipe 🥲)

#AlaskaSky #Food #Phishing #TheyGotMyNumber

May Day Rally Thursday, May 1st, 5 PM-7PM, Anchorage Park Strip. Join us in solidarity to demand answers from our federal representatives.

#alaskasky

Gorgeous!

Misty evening in Cordova, Alaska on Eyak Lake, with snow capped mountains in the background.

“Is it time for our walk?” Kiddo says around 9 PM… I have a personal rule that I say yes to walks, even dusky, misty ones. Thanks for asking, @corazonlines.bsky.social #MidnightSun #Alaska #BorealRainforest #AlaskaSky

Hope it wasn’t a long wait, but looks like a nice day for it!

I’ve got high hopes for blueberries this year… #foraging #alaska #alaskatarian

My kiddo Cora is making cool art. 🥰

Enjoying some city moments before we head back to Alaska

Episode 190: Food Dignity in Jails and Prisons - Food Dignity® For today's episode, Clancy speaks with Daniel Rosen, Co-Founder and Director of Advocacy and Partnerships for the Coalition for Carceral Nutrition. They talked about the situation of food and nutriti...

🥗 Food dignity in jails and prisons — podcast interview with Daniel Rosen, Coalition for Carceral Nutrition
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