and if you can believe it... it's twin peaks day once again #art

This time I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna submit prizes. I've got ideas.

I'm interested to notice where and how I and others go at times in the direction of "less" technology in art. I want to use less plastic, fewer synthetic materials.

Streetscapes are an ecosystem and landlords should be penalized for reducing diversity, I think as I pass the empty storefront in Dupont Circle that used to hold Bedazzled.

End of an era: free identity monitoring for people affected by the 2015 OPM hack is over :(

I dearly deeply wish this would happen here. I can only imagine what I would create if didn’t need to tackle art from a capitalism/business marketing standpoint.

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

I miss having the medication which treats both ADHD and narcolepsy for me and helps me be able to do things as well as not have to sleep for several hours in the middle of the day

These colors!

Last year, in June and July, two of my tillandsia recurvata flowered. In late November the fruits split, and now some of the seeds appear to be growing. I'm so excited! These are the best air plants of them all.

Neat anthropocene thread

It's almost as if money is hoarded by the already wealthy and the lower middle to lower class uses it to.... BUY things.

LinkedIn Job Alert: Visual Information Specialist for CBP. GS-13, starts at $120k/year (in exchange, of course, for your soul). So far 25 people have clicked the apply button.

very generous of zoe, and as always, all agitprop i've drawn is available to print for whoever wants it drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this morning. He was a 37-year-old ICU nurse who spent his career keeping people alive — including at the VA. Call your senators & call Schumer. Vote NO on DHS funding. 🧵 www.patreon.com/posts/149044...

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This is ridiculous and it disgusts me (fuck stadiums, fuck golf courses, and fuck lawns) but at least they're required to use bird-safe glass.

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Maybe still not having found a job is the universe telling me to monetize my hobbies, but............ Please, I have ADHD and a sleep disorder. Please, I don't want to attempt to monetize my 84 hobbies that I'm only into cyclically for like a month at a time each

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

The only kind of climate change I can approve of 😌

DC folks, if you're seeing the news of the ICE murder in Minnesota, & like me are furious, here's a resource. Never been to a Free DC orientation, come join, been inactive for a while, come join again. We're going to win, the only question is how quickly and will you be a part of it.

Hi everyone! I’m coming back to the ole’ Blsky to ask a huge favor. Last month, we almost lost our beloved little guy Fritz to a sudden onset of FIP, which is a rare and deadly cat disease. We’re running a GFM to help pay for his ongoing care and treatment! www.gofundme.com/f/a-fritzmas...

For slightly better color matching I switched to using a piece of cherry wood instead of ash, then sealed with tung oil. I love this little thing.

Do I ever love a dreary winter plantscape.

I only look at Washington Post because it's free via the library, and we already knew the Editorial Board are slobbering ghouls but wow. "Trump's bold capture of Maduro was a victory for America. What's next?"

People should definitely do this and make plans for your friends and neighbors who might not be able to do this.

Yards of fabric and “tariff bills in the thousands” — Erin Love, owner of Firecracker Fabrics in Morningside, walks us through the local impact of President Trump’s trade pressures.

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this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!

I love masking! I love not getting sick!

we’ve been over this we just did this in Massachusetts they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving

I have a photo in this exhibit! (A dead warbler on the sidewalk in DC, from volunteering with Lights Out DC. Amazing creatures die because people don't know about the problem, or can't be bothered to fix it. Nature makes life better. Fixing where we've erred is essential.)

I recently experienced a European city for the first time, and yesterday was driven 45 minutes each way to go to dinner, and am like "..."

Very weird feeling waiting for the president to announce an illegal war based on total bullshit that they made up right in front of our faces on TV, almost like I've lived through this moment before

This reminds me that I want to try dyeing with cleavers/stickyweed one day: wildcraftdyeing.com/blog/galium-...

I for one cannot wait to see the consequences

I thought that surely by a couple of weeks into open enrollment more people with platforms and/or sway would be louder about how this is going to devastate a lot of people.

Can't wait for Anita Bonds to be off the Council.

Red-belly on the move in a winter wonderland. Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary, Chicago. 12.7.2025 #birds #woodpeckers

"The judges that sit on the Pantone Color of the Year (PCOTY) Committee are rigorously selected and groomed from birth for the task. ... [they] die after making their annual selection. They have never been wrong."

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

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The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story. The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth. And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.

Thank you, kind @amtrak.com conductor, for reminding folks we're on the Quiet Car! I wonder if there's a Quiet Car pin. If not, I'm going to make one. I love the Quiet Car.