Touching grass isn't enough; you gotta touch dirt. Put some seeds in some dirt, put some plants in some dirt. Remind yourself that the future exists, that you have some power to change it, that life is fragile but incredibly persistent and unspeakably beautiful.

This is the most comfortable that woman has looked in eons. The minute they switch her over to Birkenstocks and let her have a Subaru sponsorship, she'll finally be free.

Also can we talk about how they are using language that echoes super predator? Because they are trying to trigger fears of Black folks-this time those who are unhoused and use drugs-as superhuman in strength to justify violence against them in form of policies of brutality & incarceration.

This works because people are willing to believe the worst about people without housing and people who use drugs without question.

Colonizers: We need more land so our women can have 14 children. We'll have to murder the people who live there already though The women: We don't want to have 14 children Colonizers: That's why you're property. Speaking of which, we're gonna need slaves

I’m sure other places do this as well but I’m glad to see the U of Arizona dorm sale is back. They take the furniture and other stuff left by students in the dorms and sell it—everything for under $10—and use the proceeds to support housing for low-income students.

This is genius! 💗🐞🐛🐜🦟🪲🕷️

Well, this is exactly what I want to be reading right now, thank you very much.

Environmentalism needs Indigenous stewardship agency and sovereignty If it doesn’t includes Natives It’s not environmentalism It’s just fucking gardening

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The American Railroad project sheds light on the profound yet often-overlooked contributions of Indigenous and African Americans, as well as Chinese, Irish, Japanese, and other immigrant communities, to construction of the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad and connecting railways across N. America. 🚂 🎶

Israel bombed a kitchen that provided meals to the forcibly displaced Palestinians in Gaza, killing three and injuring others. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said Israel has killed at least 871 people since the so-called ceasefire began last October.

In African colonial histories, some African men were diagnosed as mad for dreaming they owned a bicycle.

I don’t remember if I posted about this yet on here but there’s some very cool new stickers up on my shop! blessedscavengers.etsy.com #stickers #etsyshop #linocutprint #blockprint #printmaker

Earthworm love!!! 💗

They really wish we would just hurry up and die.

This is all the internet was supposed to be. Hubris to ask for more.

Sama'a and her children live in danger, and food is scarcer and more expensive every day. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...

AI data centres does not compare to factories in terms of resource use, while providing a fraction of the economic benefit (jobs) past initial construction. This comparison is idiotic just based on scale. AI data centres don’t spur much secondary economic activity either. Shitty comparison

Gen AI is not private. You're literally feeding information into servers run by fascists and creeps who will happily turn your info over to other fascists and creeps. I have no idea why people think it is.

The fact is we don't want AI, so the billionaire tech lords have to shove it down our throats. Sneak it into the update of the software. Even kids are like, no thanks, rather think for myself. Most of us don't want the basic efforts of determining our human lives outsourced to a inaccurate program.

The spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) brumates underground all winter and emerges each spring for an annual, nocturnal event called Big Night, when they travel en masse to vernal pools to mate. #SciArt #embroidery #addherper 🌿 🦎

Everyone! I finished a box of salad! (Ok, well, I did have to compost some slimy purple lettuces, but! For the most part I finished the box!)

These are Vietnamese Mossy Frogs.

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Some of the best audiobooks you'll ever listen to are Stockard Channing narrating the Ramona Quimby books. They're entertaining for grownups & kids. Channing is marvelous. youtu.be/CGs9PSWNxio?...

Welp, I guess I'm assigning an episode of Buffy to the students taking my political economies of print class next spring.

😱🤩 And adults if I can get my buns there in time to see it!!! What a cool set-up and an incredible idea!

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Today, the story of Israel and Max Makoka. Two brothers from the Republic of Congo, legally residing in the U.S. for years, snatched, zip-tied and detained by ICE agents at a school bus stop. Israel, who turned 18 only weeks ago, was swiftly sent to CLIPC in Jena. Max, 15, was secreted out of state.

BREAKING: Israel and Max Makoka are FREE, released from ICE and ORR custody to continue their legal battle to stay in the US at home in Diamondhead!

Juniper Blessing singing Tom Petty’s Wildflowers at the New Mexico School For The Arts in 2024

Five women authors I’ve read more than one book by: Octavia Butler:all of them. At least twice. Joy Harjo:her memoir is wonderful Martha Welles:Murderbot, I 💖 you Julia Alvarez:Garcia girls 4eva! N.K. Jemison:her Inheritance Trilogy does not get enough love! It’s so! fun! 📚 #booksky #womenauthors 🪐

This thread looks dang relevant to creatives doing stuff on the internet.

We now know her name: Juniper Blessing. Her alleged murderer is now in custody and awaiting a charging decision, expected on Monday. Juniper was a graduate of the New Mexico School for the Arts and, active in the UW Chorale, already a soloist.

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe," wrote James Baldwin in 1980. And as an educator, one feels the same sense of responsibility for every student. Every student at UW is the charge of every professor and TA on campus, in a real way.

Homelessness at any scale is a systematic failure and not a personal one.

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

We are delighted to announce that applications for our third CAG Mini Grant are live! It's hard to make the comics YOU want to make when the cost of living keeps rising. So this Mini Grant is here to offer a little breathing room: groceries, childcare, whatever you need. forms.gle/J7V7frhTZvH7...

I'm a Waymologist. They only do this during mating season when they're trying to attract a partner. The male Waymo spins in circles in the hopes of drawing the female Waymo's attention.

This month's audiobook for my travels to court is @chanda.blacksky.app's The Edge of Space-Time and even though I'm only halfway through I genuinely can't recommend it enough. I've always loved space stuff and astrophysics, but I've long lamented that I am simply not smart enough to understand it.

I like books written by really smart people. I LOVE books written by really smart people willing to be patient enough with people like me to explain subjects in ways that I can understand. Add in how all of this matters to today's social justice struggles,

TODAY Deadline is TODAY- THURSDAY, May 14! 589 COMMENTS AS OF LAST NIGHT! LET'S DOUBLE THAT! Submit Your Comment on the Dewey-Burdock uranium project by TODAY, May 14, 11:59 pm (MT). Follow link to our project page: bhcleanwateralliance.org/dewey-burdoc... BLM comment page: tinyurl.com/yzpenhnj

From the article: “The Buffalo Youth Nation Project is working to build a self-sustaining system with its own farm where it grows traditional foods — such as squash, Hidatsa Shield beans — and its own buffalo herd — as well as sourcing from Native farmers and ranchers.”

Please take a few minutes to leave a public comment in opposition to a massive uranium mining project in the sacred Black Hills!

The circle of life

Wait Not my neurons????