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A Great Blue Heron in one of the local rivers. Most of these birds migrate but a few will stay and hang around the open waters.

Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota

a start

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

I can’t emphasize enough how shocked my out of state friends and family are when I tell them what has happened in Minneapolis since Renee Good’s murder. Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.

Please understand this is happening in literally dozens of locations around the city simultaneously. If an ICE vehicle stops, community members materialize in seconds and do everything they can to stop the kidnappings. We are under siege and using every tool to fight back.

He circled her vehicle like a shark, got told off by her wife, came up to her again, executed her, and called her a “fucking bitch” as she died. This was a homophobic and misogynistic murder in service of the State’s project of ethnic cleansing.

Local assisted living facilities are taking additional security measures because the residents don’t want their care to be interrupted when ICE abducts their staff. Schools are closed for the safety of students, faculty, and staff. There is no facet of society or stage of life unaffected.

Wanted to wait until this was confirmed by a news source Ice just shot two more people in Portland, Oregon about half an hour ago katu.com/news/local/i...

What ICE was up to in Minnesota before they murdered a woman

5-min distraction incoming: my sci-fi comedy flash-fiction "A Troubleshooting Guide to Your Flat-Pack Planet" is now out in Nature Futures. media.nature.com/original/mag...

Do they try to get you to call or zoom in to talk about contracts, as opposed to anything in writing? Do they counter pointed business questions with “oh we’re all family here” and “we’re just a smol bean press” style? Or "just ask! We're all friends here!" What happens when you're not friends?

7. Do they use isolation, charged words, guilt trips, and “we’re all family here” language? Do they try to recruit young, marginalized, and/or debut authors by isolating them from their community? Do they recruit young/new authors as free labour at conventions?

I want to do a thread on "Small Press Red Flags" brought to you by years in the trenches combined with some issues I’m seeing pop up again in writer circles. Note: an isolated incident might not be a red flag, but cumulative flags are always worth examination. First off: Let’s talk about money.

Starting to understand people who wear glasses and only use them sometimes. I don’t need to be seeing all this all the time

These stickers are now in my shop, take home this matte mirror effect butch/femme couple or this horrible rat today ;m maxds.bigcartel.com

I'm stocked and loaded. Get yourself some original trans queer erotica with the holiday money your family just gave you 📚 💙 KNIVES IN YOUR EYES t4t eroguro THE NIGHT PRINCE queer mythology ANGEL/PEARL gay threesome romp

as an editor, substantive editing can be extremely demanding but is equally fulfilling on both ends. every time i give intensive feedback on a manuscript, i feel on top of the world because i know i'm doing right by the story and the author. take the time with your work and it'll pay off. i promise.

happy birthday to horses

So glad her husband got that job so at least one cartoonist in New York can have health insurance.

Thirty years ago today. The most beautiful, hopeful farewell.

Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.

Heyo, you can preorder RHS2 from Barnes & Noble for 25% off if you're a premium or rewards member (I have it on good authority you can sign up for a membership for free if you aren't one)!! Ends 1/1 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/harder-tha...

This is a collection of teddy bears dressed and made to look human.

Happy Solstice! From now through the end of the year, all of my digital zines are half off, or get all 50 zines for $25! itch.io/s/176550/202...

looking for a last minute gift at williams sonoma

Started my Mars profection w Mars sq Saturn in my 6th and have an extremely painful ear infection for the first time in like 2 decades. 0 stars I hope the whole year is not like this

"but it'll save time!" i actually...don't care? lol. the genAI evangelists overestimate how much the people who chose to do research for a living (before chatgpt even existed) value "saving time." i'd rather do research well than do it quickly. i'd rather write an award-winning book than a fast book

‘Buddo’ - a rare representation of a human figure from the British Neolithic, dating to around 2900-2400 BC. Discovered at Skara Brae in the mid-C19th, it was re-discovered amongst the archaeological collections at Stromness Museum in 2016. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Your annual reminder that Satoshi Kon’s Tokyo Godfathers, a near as dammit perfect seasonal movie (with great queer/trans rep), is free to stream on Tubi: tubitv.com/movies/10001...

And here's Scorsese's storyboards for the final massacre in Taxi Driver This applies more generally: people seem to think you need to have a background as a Big Two artist in order to do storyboards, but that's not what they're about - they're visual writing. You're writing for yourself AND others

I’ve become very bad at posting and scrolling which is ultimately better for my brain, but please look at these hibernating ladybugs that made themselves into beautiful flowers adorning this statue’s hair

Seeing a so called "leftist" government say and do stuff that is worse than our fascist government in Italy is pretty fucking grim

escapism through channeling a medieval manuscript illustrator

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

If you can, in the spirit of including someone for the holidays, please help Hammam.

I’m howling.

SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.

ICE never left L.A. The military did but they aren't the ones terrorizing the city. Please don't ignore L.A.

MORE BOOKS IN THE WILD! You can get ANGEL/PEARL and NIGHT PRINCE softcovers at table 24 down at AnimeNJ this weekend!! (I am not able to be there but my books are real and good and I would love the support!!)

A Tufted Titmouse watching the snowy sky.

If you're an artist trying to figure things out, and you're inundated with video after video with advice of ' be this and also be that, and do this, while also doing that', i don't blame you for wanting to throw your hands up in the air and call it quits sometimes

I think that with how uncertain things are right now for the arts, it's especially frustrating when given the advice from artist to artist that in order to survive, you have to do more, and that it's seemingly at the point where whatever more we have to do, it's never actually enough.

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

FRANKENSTEIN is on NETFLIX but- still in many theatres- please consult your local listings and choose your watch/rewatch preference!

Take me with you 🫀 man the chokehold this movie has on me #frankenstein

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.