Verde que te quiero verde (Green how I want you green) -Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) Always read Lorca, especially on his birthday #everynightapoem

Ugh, I got distracted and forgot to share these lovelies! Leeeeezards!!! They like to hang out on our back porch during these warmer months and it makes me really happy to see them. I've always talked to them, since I was little. Anyway, these two were vv busy, hopefully I'll see some babies soon

This makes sense when you realize that most farms in America produce ingredients, not food.

In the latest play from Project 2025, the Trump Administration has announced plans to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a $368 million network of more than 900 instruments that continuously monitor the ocean. This is a deliberate destruction of critical scientific infrastructure.

i yearn for the days when "brain fever" or "nervous breakdown" were acceptable excuses for "too upset to function" and you could just lie abed with the occasional sip of beef tea for nourishment and have long baths

que viva la puteria

your regular reminder that slut-shaming women-- even women who engaged with terrible men -- is not *social justice praxis* Also sex work is work. But trafficking is not. Those are different. Go after the people with systemic power + harming with speech + actions, plus the complicit, the abetters.

When you say "it's not about immigration," you are stripping the violence of borders out of the conversation, and that's a mistake. We are experiencing the endgame of late capitalism amid climate collapse. Everything's about determining who will have access to resources and the means of survival.

Long before ICE functioned as the secret police of an overtly fascist regime, the agency was an evil force that preyed on immigrants, as were previous iterations of immigration policing.

Laptops don’t improve outcomes. iPads don’t improve outcomes. AI doesn’t improve outcomes. What improves outcomes? More and better trained teachers!! Smaller classrooms! We’ve KNOWN this FOREVER

"The rule cites, as examples, that those who have H.I.V./AIDS, cancer or end-stage renal disease would not be exempt from reporting work hours unless their illness is serious enough to make it hard for them to work or volunteer."

Spanish artist Raquel Rodrigo from Valencia creates stitched street art #WomensArt

we don't have a masculinity crisis. we have a patriarchy crisis. patriarchy creates and sustains male unhappiness with its dogmatic, toxic, rigid definition of masculinity which says the worst and most undesirable thing a human can be is female which is how we get insults like "Low-T Talarico"

Not just Democrats, but Republicans that have a single sliver of daylight between them and Trump or the Christian nationalist wing of the party (see how Oath Keepers intimidated Raffensperger and unnamed people breaking into his recently widowed daughter-in-law's home and turning on all the lights)

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

They say we hate them because of different "opinions ". I say I hate them because they do shit like this!

My poor family got all this mail after the long weekend while I was gone. Sorry folks. Anyway, fast and dirty today. Just say me if you want it and I will make you a listing. If not enjoy the shiny stuff! Reminder, we do have after paying now which will help you budget if you need it.

yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”

mets just need to hold this one run lead for a little while longe...eight innings longer

It’s wild to live in a big swimming pool they’re filling with concrete because they don’t want black people to have anything that’s pretending to be a country

The reality: Men do not need to put on a dress and go into a public restroom to abuse women and children. Or cross national borders. They usually just go home. Or don a clerical collar. Or wear a badge. Or run for office. Or play pro sports. Or they just do it in public, wearing pants.

If I were a Senator who was tear-gassed by ICE, I would spend every hour of the rest of my time in office figuring out new ways to abolish ICE.

Really enjoying La Santa Cecilia's new album Los Años, and Monsieur Periné's Instrucciones Para Ser Felíz. Highly recommend.

Oh word? When law enforcement obscures their faces and any insignia identifying their agency it is easy as fuck to impersonate them to do crimes (other than the ones law enforcement is already committing)?

Yay! Congrats to Janet Voight at the Field who has described a new species of deep-sea octopus from the Galapagos! Microeledone galapagensis! #molluscmonday www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...

Turn off the water, turn off the electricity, barricade the roads. The death camps have to be shut down now

not competent enough to accomplish my dreams, too competent for anyone to feel sorry for me

What a lovely thread. Material culture, family history, cats, and history of public health, wonderful!!!

If we had funded and supported the postal service the way that we should have, as a public service, the workers and facilities would not be under the tremendous pressure that they are right now and this would not be happening so let's make sure we put the blame where it belongs.

Japanese artist Mika Hirasa produces narrative illustrations using a fusion of embroidery and applique #WomensArt

Currently installed at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, until September 6th

It's World Goth Day...

Every day, a new reason to love Tatiana Maslany. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

FINISH THEM!!!

Today was my first time as Poll Manager during an election. It was a very lot. I can't tell you how many seals I verified repeatedly because that information gets recorded over & over & over. How proud I was that we could assist voters. Anyway, yeah, wow. 117 voters #ColumbiaCountyGA

'You Blew Me Away' sculpture by Penny Hardy #womensart

Tried to go to sleep early, gotta be at my polling place at 5:45am (in GA) to start all the final setup before we open the polls at 7am. Too stressed! Did I follow the checklists, am I forgetting something important...

This is a clever promotion, ergo the plot must be clever as well!

I can't remember who recommended this series originally but I want to thank them and also spread the word because it's a fantastic world & premise. I want to be bonded to a dragon!!! I'm only 20% in and I'm already so sad this book will end.

Go buy @peculiarityshop.bsky.social stuff, particularly the rings I should not buy for sensory reasons and financial responsibility.

Choices, choices...

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's that rarest of works, a necklace and earrings sold as a set, all of them manifest as dancers of light: wingssilverwork.com/the-season-t....

Gender is innate and immutable but also so fragile that it can be destroyed by drinking out of a straw 🤔

And Louisiana is not a "red" state. It's a gerrymandered, voter-suppressed, democratically-underfunded State. But I'm telling you, Black folks are here doing the work everyday. If Louisiana gets better, the country gets betters. By every measure, invest in the South!!!

I want someone who thinks the US is a truly god-blessed, Exceptional ™ "city on the hill" to explain this fucking phenomenon to me.

No, I’m not in favor of the American president committing the U.S. to a massive war, automatically. I am also not in favor of whatever the fuck he’s doing rn