In Māori legend, the art of ta moko was a gift from the underworld. Mataora, a mortal, fell in love with Niwareka, a princess of the spirit realm. To win her back, he was taught the sacred art of tattooing - skin turned into story. #MythologyMonday Art: Thomas Chambers

In Celtic myth, warriors painted themselves blue with woad before battle. The pigment wasn’t just armor. It was invocation, like a prayer to the gods, painted directly on the skin. #MythologyMonday

The fun of Halloween, from cider mugs to pumpkin laughter, proves the oldest truth in folklore: even in the dark half of the year, humans can’t resist making mischief. #folkloresunday Art: Tom Shropshire

💡Did you know: SNAP benefits have a contingency fund that can be used during a gvt shutdown? This 💵 has already been appropriated by Congress. The Rs refuse to use the 💵 so they can force their fucked up agenda down our throats. apnews.com/article/snap...

Churches, charities & family are not a substitute for SNAP They can help but they’re not accessible to everyone They can’t scale up to support an influx of 42 million people The government could easily fund SNAP, they’re choosing not to They’re choosing to let people starve

"They call it 'violence' when we refuse to die quietly." Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov

No one should face financial ruin because they got sick or needed medical care. Healthcare is a basic human right. These premium increases will ruin people. It will put people on the streets. It will end lives. It will cause more disability.

As you enjoy picking and carving your #Halloween pumpkin, remember the farm workers who labored to grow and harvest them. Let's give a big thanks to the Salinas CA farm workers who harvested these pumpkins that have ended up at local pumpkin patches and area stores. #WeFeedYou

Our story is Unfinished 💫

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She's going into the winter, really well fed.

Sudan's fertile region where food is rotting amid famine and war www.bbc.com/news/article...

On the trail today. I had to pause on my hike today to enjoy this single leaf on my path.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Our adult kids are getting cash for whatever they need/want, I'm doing the bare minimum cooking, we're purging to donate, and gifts+activities for my littles are already being handled. #NoSpend #CancelThanksgiving #CancelChristmas

The ROI this year is going to be phenomenal ✨

Even if you can afford to do more, donate that money, labor, food, etc. instead.

What: No spend November. Black out black Friday Black out cyber Monday. Low spend christmas How: Cancel Amazon Prime Only purchase necessities Buy local Buy used Home made gifts Mutual aid for immigrant families Why: Billionaire corporations are backing the end of our democracy. Make. Them. Pay.

I grew up with #FoodInsecurity. I was a #FreeLunch kid, and sometimes I didn't even get that. It took us a long time to establish any security for ourselves, and it can be taken away at any time, just as it has been for others. That's the thought I'm taking with me into the #holiday #season.

I've been inspired to plan one-pot holidays. I'm collecting one-pot recipes that I want to make & serve for our celebrations. 🥰✨ #Gratitude #Thankful #Blessed #Minimalism #Mindfulness #Zen #Taoism #Taoist #Grateful #NationalDayOfMourning #OnePotRecipes #Poetry #BookSky #Reading #Homecooked #Food

"... Carrying a basket of fresh mushrooms And a jar of pure water from the temple well." onehappybite.com/one-pot-pump... #Gratitude #Thankful #Blessed #Minimalism #Mindfulness #Zen #Taoism #Taoist #Grateful #Enough #Inspiration #NationalDayOfMourning #OnePotRecipes #Poetry #BookSky #Reading #Food

That includes not just Walmart but the DOD who refuses to pay our #ActiveDuty US Military enough to lift them out of poverty despite them putting their lives on the line for our nation.

40 million people are going to be cut off from food. the people who depend on SNAP to feed their families are going to suffer. kids will go hungry. entire *families* will go hungry. this is not something a functioning government does to its people

Right at the deadline. ✔️😮‍💨 #Midterms #CollegeLife #MomLife

Nothing. It changes everything. There is a before, and there is an after. There is no going back to "normal" as in the normal that existed in the "before". That's gone.

Two more hours until the deadline. #Midterms #CollegeLife #Writing #Essays finneylawfirm.com/the-associat... #DisparateTreatment #DisparateImpact #Discrimination #Disability #DisabilityCommunity #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct #ADALaw #CivilRights #DisabilityLaw #Parenting #DisabledChildren

Ten hours until the #Deadline. #Midterms #Writing #Essays #CollegeLife #NoSleep #Caffeine "A prima facie case ... a cause of action or defense that is sufficiently established by a party's evidence ... provided such evidence is not rebutted by the other party." www.law.cornell.edu/wex/prima_fa...

#PraviMVP #LukaDončić #LukaMagic #NBA #NBASky

Ladies & Gentlemen, 🏀✨ Luka Dončić ✨🏀 #NBA #Basketball #LukaMagic #NBASky #Lakers

Rosetta Stone is fabulous!✨🥰 #PolyglotJourney #MultiLingual #LanguageLearning #LanguageLearner #Group7 #G7 #Xiaohongshu

In case anyone missed it, Mellon, the donor paying military during shutdown is... Of course... #EpsteinFiles archive.org/details/gov....

Poison Ivy of the Cramps

“The Russian-backed Orban regime has a media blackout on what was perhaps the largest political event in Hungary’s history — resolute yet peaceful and joyful. People came from all over the world and from every Hungarian town and village to stand up for a free, humane, and functioning Hungary!”

Public servants do just that, serve the public. It’s in our character. Thank you, furloughed Feds, for continuing to give back.

“Unfortunately, #Melissa has high potential to have devastating effects in Jamaica (even greater than Gilbert in 1988) despite the island's extensive hurricane experience. This one's looking like a worst-case scenario in terms of strength, duration, and "angle of approach." #Melissa

Furloughed federal workers in Maryland line up for their local food bank. Federal workers make considerably more money than those on SNAP. If they can’t afford groceries, what hope do the 40 million Americans about to lose food assistance have?

Praying for the Jamaican people tonight. www.nbcnews.com/weather/stor...

CPTSD survivors w/ a history of being gaslit & coerced need to be very intentional w/ how we consume & engage on social media. Influencers & algorithms are not "neutral," & often don't value our emotional or intellectual autonomy. Notice how you feel & focus as you scroll.

At least we can take comfort in the fact that the people who tore down the East Wing and the people who build this garish ballroom are almost certainly going to get stiffed.

"... what type of dystopian shit is this? I thought we made teddys?" "This is a Build-a-Load-Bearing Wall. Do you job or revolt, but either way, pick up a brick."

Explaining to children that they shouldn't worry about a career because the world will be completely unlivable in 15 years and that death will be a sweet relief from living in a nuclear wasteland is probably the hardest part of working at Build-a-Bear

Breaking: Melissa is now a major hurricane! Category 3 with 115 mph winds. At 11 a.m. ET, it was a 70 mph tropical storm. That means it's intensifying at DOUBLE the rate needed to classify as "rapid intensification." Likely to be a Category 4 by sunrise, if not soone.r

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A gorgeous morning on the banks of the Great Ouse in St. Neots, Cambridgeshire 🥰

If we can’t ENFORCE constitutional rights then we don’t HAVE constitutional rights.

🚨ICE posing as sheriff in Hollywood, CA. Governor Newsom is going to see this and he is going to be lit with rage, as he should be. The guy asking questions on video pointing out all the illegal acts they are committing. Let’s make sure he sees what happened tonight. 1/2

Doing tariff arbitrage using the Jay Treaty of 1794.

This is why we need to #CancelSpotify over their ICE recruitment ads - because it WORKS to cancel things! By cancelling (and remembering to search for cancellation!), it causes their stock to drop. They lost over 4% today alone, and nearly as much yesterday. #BoycottSpotify