Hello, I'm Sonny Ross: Illustrator of such bangers as below. I am available for commercial work but mostly leaning on print sales while I prepare for parental leave. So by all means share this and buy 5 of everything. Thank you, love u etc www.sonnyross.com/shop #portfolioday #illustration #art

open house for center for people and craft, the new folk school opening in loring park, today from 1-4pm. 519 oak grove st, in the education building of st. mark's church. "hot tea, baked goods and snacks, crafts, and live music by local artists." pics from their email www.peopleandcraft.org

...POSSIBILITIES: Poets get together to write cooler chants for the next protest. Visual artists collaborate on a yard sign campaign. A group of emcees and songwriters compete to see who can write the most vicious, withering takedowns of ICE. Add your own ideas at padlet.com/elguante/crushICE

...A prompt: What are your enemy’s weaknesses? How can art apply pressure to those weaknesses?

...Yes, there’s already a lot of good movement art being made right now. There always is, and there can always be more. And yes, we all have different relationships with what is happening, different levels of danger/safety. So nothing here is “advice” or anything I’m not grappling with myself too.

I generally don't do long threads on here, but if you'll all allow it, a longer thought: A CALL FOR MORE ANTI-ICE POETRY, MUSIC, VISUAL ART, AND BEYOND

"The Monarca Rapid Response Line is dedicated to responding to Federal enforcement activity in Minnesota [we have responders in western Wisconsin, too]." Monarca "upstander" trainings coming up in prospect park (mpls), seward, u of mn, eau claire and chaska! Details:

One of the most beautiful mushrooms I've ever encountered. Ramaria araisopora, or red coral fungi. #mushrooms #fungifriends

Secretary of puppy-shooting, Kristi Noem, will unfortunatey be coming to Minneapolis tomorrow. Join us at the Whipple Building near MSP at Noon for a Press Conference and *again* at 4pm to protest Kristi Noem. Stand with our neighbors and friends against the terror of the Trump regime.

Gentle Observation 287 - Who needs ideas with a head full of rocks? patreon.com/kochalka

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

I wrote up a thread on why this is going to be worse than the vast majority of folks think it will. bsky.app/profile/quan...

Shanthi Chandrasekar, Cosmic Web, pen and ink on paper #sciart

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

He repurposed “believe all women” standing next to a president who’s been accused by more than 20 women of sexual assault and harassment and been found civilly liable for rape. Kennedy himself has also been accused of sexual assault. There is no bottom

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

is it good that nothing feels real anymore

If something happened to be daughter and in response I was told that she is now "with the person who loved her the most," you could not hold me legally liable for what I would do next.

Here are some nice mushrooms

A reminder at awful times like this

www.rawstory.com/minneapolis-... Did anyone see this in the media this morning besides Raw Story!!! Nobody else thought it worth reporting??? 20 people shot!

you can see this piece at the minnesota state fair fine arts exhibition!

Blue staining bolete video for my #fungifriends

NFTs were a bubble, AI is a bubble, but small carvings of large hipped women have remained popular with unsettling lighthouse keepers for 200 years, invest with confidence

“Parent’s rights” as a concept makes my blood fucking boil. Parents have responsibilities. Children have rights

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

False alarm, everybody! Turns out the kids they’re starving to death weren’t perfectly healthy to begin with so no biggie

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. The Washington Post has just published every single known name. A seminal moment.

PPS: Last one I swear but it's so important to remember this. People were not as mean to the poor as we think. If anything, they were far kinder and more understanding, and they *saw* the poor far more often and in a far more humane register, than we do now. But for the grace of god go I.

One like, one history of poverty opinion

Never too bright! Today's sketchbook spread.

Paralysis - ink, watercolor, gouache Another one from several years ago. Prints here: www.etsy.com/listing/7779...

Freedom of speech includes fine art.

i mean, there are multiple answers to this, but one of them is that the WSJ news side hasn’t changed, the NYT and WaPo and the networks have. WSJ isn’t suddenly being *more* aggressive, they’re just the only ones who decided to keep doing their jobs

Anti-depressants improve lives and save lives. Moreover, the widespread availability of anti-depressants like SSRIs changed the public conversation about depression and mental health in ways that may not be obvious to you if you're younger than 45 or so but their impact was profound in the 1990s.

How do we live like the world is ending? Balance four contradictory ideas: Act like we’re about to die. Act like we might not die right away. Act like we might have a chance to stop this. Act like everything will be okay.

this week's post is something I wrote in 2019 but has been offline for awhile, How To Live Like the World Is Ending. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...

I've been struggling with drawing one of these flowers. They were labeled as coneflowers at a plant sale earlier this year, turns out they're a coneflower/black eyed susan hybrid. Very pretty, and thankfully in a place in my garden where they're contained.

Katchoo + Francine 4ever.

Hey. Hey. Stop and read this, it's amazing.

A tiny Favolaschia found yesterday in Monteverde, Costa Rica. These are basically in Mycena and will probably be moved into Mycena soon - the alternative is to split Mycena up into a whole bunch of similar looking genera. #mycology #fungi #fungifriends #favolaschia

"Instead of the jury in the U.S. v. Combs trial having to decide between whether Ventura willingly agreed to participate in “freak offs” in exchange for a lavish lifestyle or Ventura being an abuse victim, what if this were treated as a labor dispute?" theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/if-we-valu...

Hey @moderation.bsky.app @pfrazee.com @bsky.app I'm still waiting for an answer.

We just translated a wave of our ICE coverage into Spanish. No paywall, no email signup necessary. From leaks about Palantir's work with ICE to ICE's new facial recognition app, we think there is a massive public interest in this info. Read why and support us here: www.404media.co/were-publish...

Many of you still don't get how these Gaza fundraisers came about & that they are more about you than about Palestinians in Gaza. I keep explaining this in every podcast I've been on lately...but let me write a thread as well: These fundraisers exist to snuff out your relationship with Palestinians

I dread to open any of my social media apps. I have given every dollar I can give and I repost as much as I can without turning this into an exclusive fundraiser feed (which would turn off the few "occasionally online" followers I have who still have money to donate) but I know that our efforts

I Have Forgotten What You Did Last Summer But I Definitely Have A Negative Association With You And Last Summer

21/7/25 - nocturn