Ben

Wait 'til he hears about the Smile :)
then
Wait 'til he hears about JG's pro-Israel stance :(

This is always your best, first action when deciding to improve your mental health.

No worries Theo. I hope you're OK. Reach out for IRL chats too if you ever want or need. ❤️

Last one, this is the big one, the vancomycin in my first aid kit: the Chaconne movement of Bach's Partita no. 2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004. ❤️

But the trick is to start walking first, before you feel like you want to or even can. Just start.

There is a Japanese saying 継続は力なり (Keizoku wa chikara nari). "Continuing is/becomes power". Not grit. Not resilience. Not perseverance. Just an empty shell putting one foot in the front of the other will eventually fill with a kind of power or purpose.

This is my first aid kit, take it however you like. :) The world is a beautiful place, and existence is an unfathomably rare gift in this universe. As Carl Sagan said, "you are the way the Universe comprehends itself."

Portrait from Victorian Artists' Society session December 24. #portrait #charcoal #drawing

2 hour portrait in ink from a session at Victorian Artists' Society late last year
#portrait #ink #drawing

5 minute sketches from a session I did at Hawthorn Artists' Society earlier this year. #lifedrawing #sketch

Naked male torso in dim light

Love the blue/brown cast #nu #naked #nude #lifemodel

YouTube video by Nicola Wilson IceBreaker

PE ICEBREAKER 2013 youtu.be/AJnUm2qsDUM?...

The image shows the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt on display on the National Mall in Washington D.C. in October 1996. This particular display, from October 11-13, 1996, was the last time the entire quilt was shown in its entirety, covering the vast expanse of the National Mall from the Washington Monument towards the U.S. Capitol. It featured over 40,000 panels and drew approximately 1.2 million visitors.

AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget.

OG rage bait

YouTube video by TED This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

m.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
This will be the push you need. CW: it's tough to watch!

No, it's not just you. You've described it perfectly! Delete it permanently. I did and I don't regret it for a minute.

'Drawer’, 2022 photomontage, lithograph, by English singer, songwriter, artist, Alison Moyet #WomensArt

Print featuring a stylised sun on a white background with a happy face and multicoloured rays of light

Jane Ormes, contemporary UK printmaker based in Bristol #WomensArt

Banh mi can do that

You're so welcome! I'd love to have a long chat irl about masculinity with you. I think I have a lot to learn from non-cis blokes. Pageboy was a huge emotional and conceptual 💡 moment

Love all of this

Big call! The Plaubel Makina (both Ger and Jp versions) is quite a thing.

I thought Jesus preached the inherent dignity of every person,
and advocated protecting the rights of the most vulnerable.

But if you're the hard right faction of the Catholic church, that must be a translation error.

To a powerful, corrupt institution, I guess human rights are just too scary.

Possibly the greatest Tesla takedown video ever - maybe the best thing ever

Flyer for an event. Four images up top: An image of Emily M. Bender, a white woman with glasses and curly hair, slightly smiling, wearing a blue and black patterned scarf and ornate earrings. An image of Alex Hanna, a brown trans woman, slightly smiling, wearing hoop earrings and a black sweater, closely cropped black hair. The cover of the book, which reads THE AI CON in large block letters. An image of Timnit Gebru, a Black woman, smiling, wearing her hair in an afro, wearing large circular wooden earrings and a beige scarf. The text reads "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" and states all the names of the people mentioned above. The text reads: Monday, May 12, 2025, 7:00 PM CT Register: www.bit.ly/BHFANwebinar PLUS: After-Hours Event! This event is #freeandopentothepublic and will be recorded. Suitable for youth 12+ Presented by FAN and 51 of our member schools and organizations. familyactionnetwork.net. The bottom panel has a number of listed sponsors and supporters.

2. Then on Monday, we'll be chatting with @timnitgebru.bsky.social in an event with the Family Action Network, at 5 PM PT/7 PM CT.

bit.ly/BHFANWebinar

Why Protests Should Be Promises Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Yes. I love this. There has to be economic power in these protests, and collectively we must begin to come to terms with using it and come to an agreement of what that will look like.

I’m so incredibly drawn to animation that takes its time like this.

Christopher Hitchens on Christianity.

Damn straight

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

- Prof. Brian Cox