Whether it’s to protect sensitive conversations while attending a protest or simply to keep your communications private, here's our guide to using the end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal. wrd.cm/4irf9Gg

They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

How language changes over time. Came across this gem in Agatha Christie's 'A Murder is Announced'. "‘Ye gods and little fishes,’ said Sir Henry, ‘can it be? George, it’s my own particular, one and only, four-starred pussy. The super pussy of all old pussies.'" He's talking about Miss Marple.

The most sci-fi of flowers, Passiflora incarnata (purple passionflower). Native in the US from Pennsylvania south down to Florida and west to Texas. 🌱

repost with a banger pic of you. My outfit should I ever have a supervillain phase.

It’s really weird that y’all are piling on a disabled black dude who specifically focuses on disability justice and accessibility for *checks notes* pointing out ableist language. Y’all really ain’t like having ways you can improve called out huh.

When I wonder where my time has gone.

Amplifying...

While I am obsessed with color in for my own art practice, this painting and others are delightful. 🖤

Done with work for the day. Time to water my plants and listen to my friend's podcast.

I'm trying to find a better purgatory for them that isn't the chair I see when I first open my eyes in the morning.

Cat Laine. Ab aqua libertas. 2023 It's a bright sunny day. Air quality is reasonably good. Time for this indoor cat to go outside for a swim.

Overheard: “Racism is so American that when you protest it people think you are protesting America.”

Stealing these Samuel Beckett summer lewks.

Title: Reach

Reposting in lieu of bookmarking.

For the rest of the weekend can we make a list of Black creatives here? Any and all, monetized or not. Please include links! Where can we follow you and support your work? If you want to help folks that are in the comments, boost them out to your skyline. Reskeets appreciated

It's 7:30 pm on a Saturday. I've already had one Manhattan. Is now really the time to start making orchid kokedama? 🌱

It is a bit presumptuous, I would say.

More images from my “Chromophilia” self-portrait series 📸. 1. House 2. I Voted/Tramp Stamp (*working title, I might change it) 3. Meshes of the Afternoon 4. Untitled

UPS workers are on the verge of the participating in the largest single-employer strike in history. One of the main reasons for the strike? The lack of protections from heat-related injuries. #Climate justice means worker power.

[me standing in front of a room full of venture capitalists] *deep breath* tinder ... for nemeses

buy more. buy more, nooooowwwww!

Black visual artists - mutuals or not - if you see this, I would love if you respond to it with some of your work!

Giving this a follow with acknowledgement of the indigenous peoples of Rhode Island where I live, the Narragansett, Wampanoag, Niantic, Nipmuc, and Pokanoket.

"Know Thyself" (2022) from my ongoing Chromophilia self-portrait series. I took this around the time I was rereading "Come As You Are" by Emily Nagoski shocked at how many pussy-powered people don't look at themselves down there now and again.

Considers joining a moth ball as an excuse to find this creature, the spun glass caterpillar (Isochaetes beutenmuelleri). It feeds on swamp oaks and I know where to find some near me. Look, but don't touch though. The sting from its prickles is said to be excruciating. Photo by Igor-Siwanowicz.

Do I want to know the spiders in my house? I kind of do. Do I really though?

What in the anime, Tetsuo?! TIL: There is a Starburst colored moth native to East Coast of N. America called the rosy maple moth (Dryocampa rubicunda). Its preferred hosts are maple trees (Acer.) Photo (CC-BY-SA 3.0) by Wikipedia user: PiccoloNamek.

A lot of people get mad at the folks who who point that content moderation at scale is very hard, but that is because this argument often goes hand and hand with "and therefore we should do nothing" or "therefore the shitty job we have done so far is justified."

Selfie Sunday Throwback. Me and some of my favorite books.

Good thing the policy to ban hammer people who give death threats got put in to place thanks to @aliafonzy.bsky.social's advocacy, right. Not having to parse "credibility" is probably useful.

Catching on weekend reading/podcast listening and came across this quote from the late great Ursula LeGuin: "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

I hate and looooove this creepy-ass movie. (Art direction side note: I very much covet the female lead’s in-apartment greenhouse though.)

I want everyone to read this: The cost of community moderation. Read this and realize BlueSky expects **us** to moderate. For free. This is real. https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona

a thought on the terms we use: an app that lets you set a racial slur as a username can only be said to be in a ‘beta state’ for *white users*. for many eg Black users such an app is *not yet usable*. it’s like pre-alpha level. if you’re one of the Black employees at bluesky it feels bush league

The games industry does not help preserve these games, they fight against it and fight against distribution of them. They argue that they are curating these games and this study shows that this isn’t true. Ideally archiving media shouldn’t be illegal and rely on people not getting prosecuted.

reskeet your cosplay (Me as Grace Jones.)

10 Films to Get to Know Me 1. Aliens 2. The Handmaiden 3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 4. Blade Runner 5. The Piano 6. Love and Basketball 7. Kung Fu Panda 8. Beetle Juice 9. Trainspotting 10. Moonlight Bonus: Rear Window, Caligula

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Have I read any of the books? No. Will that stop me from making madeleines in his honor? Also no.

Apropos of nothing, I would be all for a queer remake of Ladyhawke.

I’m in a spiky sort of mood today.

This wave of anti-library laws in red states is… not my favorite. 📚👀

“You have rainbow in your heart” Seven years ago today in 2016, Minneapolis area police killed Philando Castile. Hard not to be emotional reading this letter from a child at the school where Philando worked as lunch manager. 💔

Threads: we’re going to scold you for using the word “fuck” Bluesky: please make sure that picture of your ass has alt text so everyone can enjoy it 💕💕

My favorite time of light: right after sunset.