Melrose and La Brea is just a river right now.

Y'all may have heard about the incident last week where ICE agents pretended to have car trouble to lure someone from his house so they could abduct him. Here is the GoFundMe for his family. www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

In Norse mythology Skoll is the wolf who chases the sun across the sky, not catching it until Ragnarok. This piece imagines him having failed, and gotten stuck* #fantasyart

#DHmakes 🌈

"crush squeeze splatter", oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn). #art

Give a man a compliment, he’ll blush for a day Teach a man to fish for a compliment, this guy sucks now, thanks a lot

No, I'm as far from it as I thought

My god do we need UBI “Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“

U.S. car dealers deserve every humiliation

The driver never saw the couple with their child in the stroller… because the modification the driver made prevented them from seeing anybody. How is this legal?

Have the police considered the stupid fucking height of the vehicle in question

Haven Watch does the good deed of meeting people discharged from Whipple, typically without a coat or their cell phone, and helps them get home. A worthy cause. There's an Amazon wish list I'll put in the first comment but if you don't do Amazon (I don't) here's their GoFundMe.

On President’s Day, I’m thinking about opening the lecture for my race class with a little Presidential history.

This was drawn a few years ago but might as well be apt for how I'm feeling this #YearOfTheHorse. Riding #PudgyHorse onto a pyre of my sketchbooks and materials. 🙃 Obvious nod to Arthur Rackham's 1911 illustration of Brünhilde's immolation scene from Götterdämmerung. #ChineseNewYear #LunarNewYear

So people demand "AI" sycophancy, refuse to interact w/ *less* sycophantic "AI", & then get increasingly ill-disposed toward interacting w/ other human beings, preferring, again, an "AI" system that is actively locking them into a loop of skills dependency, bias confirmation, & hostility. SEEMS BAD

Quartre (4) exemplaires de Vue d'Amboise et Carpe imprimés sur papier kraft brun dispo sur ma boutique : levilain.fr/produit/vue-...

Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu died #OTD in 1997. She conducted the Wu experiment (proving parity isn't conserved) for which her male colleagues won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. Her role wasn't publicly honored until she was awarded the inaugural Wolf Prize in 1978. #WomenInSTEM #MatildaEffect

If you don't have spare cash right now, but still want to help, share this thread, or share any posts where I talk about our merch. Keeping merch funding coming allows me to be a little braver financially with projects like this without relying on philanthropy. SquidFacts.net

Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.

I'm game for at least restricting them heavily.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

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Superb Fairy Wren Hand embroidered thread painting artwork #birds #BlueSkyMonday #embroidery

#watercolour #painting #art #watercolorOnPaper #water #waterfalls #waterfall

A new thing (made from old pieces) i am working on. For my Building a Place To Go… series. #mixedmedia #analogart #artseries #WIP #mementomori #cognitivedecline #dementia

currently working on expanding this art infographic showing 75+ years of global plastic production - Each quilt represents the amt of virgin #plastic we produced worldwide in a given year. 8 data points take up 18ft of wall—when I show it in 2027 in Tulsa it will be MUCH bigger!! #sciart 🐡🌎

Honestly: please comment. I know it's easy to believe that this will do nothing to change the Trump Admin's mind, but they are VERY BAD at following the APA and having a record of thoughtful comments opposing these policies makes it more likely a judge can kill them.

I worked in a Democratic presidential administration and, even then, DHS was very often the most problematic, obstinate part of negotiating a civil/human rights provision into executive branch policy. I have been thinking about this a lot in recent weeks and want to offer a short 🧵with reflections:

In a functioning society, this evil company would be put out of business.

And the corollary of this is that the women and children who were the victims of powerful predators are just fungible bodies. Which only makes things more monstrous than they are, if that is possible.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

America loooves giving racists the benefit of the doubt & then being like “how did we get here?” and “this is not who we are” when the shit hits the fan

It's probably a fool's errand to try to understand what's on a fool's mind, but I agree that he's putting "Scots-Irish" (Ulster Scots) together with "English", and actual Irish identity isn't something he's referencing at all.

white supremacy is a "culture" in exactly the same way as a petri dish full of anthrax is a "culture"

Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon. The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough. bsky.app/profile/alan...

Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court

Guess what? you guessed it! it's still Black History Month ❤️🖤💚 The second half

Whenever Elana writes about Long COVID and why everyone should take care not to catch (acute) COVID, I find myself in awe + appreciation of their effective framing, which leads with compassion but also pulls no punches about what's at stake. May I learn to emulate this balance in my own language.

Holy shit. There need to be class action defamation lawsuits to compensate for each time an ecocide-plagiarism-harassment-psychosis-radioactive waste machine tells a lie containing a person's name/works.

Stop sharing the “our AI agent made up data” reddit story. It is as fake as the AI you think you are critiquing & the people sharing it have done zero due dilligence 🙄🙄🙄🙄

mostly I am tired of people with 3 passports and 6 multinational conglomerates lecturing me on the virtues of ethnic nationalism

There are so many things over the last two decades that seemed strange in my little science and tech communication world, that I was repelled by for reasons that are now much more clear. What an infection.

the single most celebrated holiday in the world is various countries observing a national holiday to mark when they kicked the English out

There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.

"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."

Thursday #PortraitChallenge! My try at John Hayter’s lithograph of King Kamehameha II of Hawaii (1824) Challenge by @studioteabreak.bsky.social

I remember as a young person reading about that intermittent reinforcement rat study—sometimes you get the pellet, sometimes you don't, making you press that bar in a frenzy—and now that's just everything. We used to at least be in a proper rat race.

Have a #painting. "Burren Tree" is from 6 years ago. I painted it because I love stones, let alone fields of stone. And I really like walls. You know where you stand with a wall. Sometimes the dry stone ones fall down a little, but if that gives you a better view of a tree, great. #art #SpeirGhorm