“I’m So Hungry” Linocut monotype over alcohol inks and Everclear on Dura-Lar.

These are the eyes of a kitten sampling pure, uncut catnip for the very first time.

ok I synthesized a few ideas and I think I figured out how to explain basically all goth music

Oh the humanity! The indignity!

Always read @petridishes.bsky.social

Vassily, being very intense.

Today’s Vassily wants to know how you’re doing… and if you can point him toward the gym.

The world is still burning. Please have a sleepy kitten as temporary respite.

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I can’t believe it’s taken this long, but one of my relief carving knives has drawn blood. Thankfully I stabbed my hand while I was stropping the knife, so it was at least really sharp.

I started caring when I left my super conservative childhood home, got out into the larger world, and got to know actual trans people. I got to know several trans women in the early 2000s and saw how much bullshit they had to put up with, even from so-called allies.

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@schumer.senate.gov You are a mealy-mouthed, spineless disgrace. You’re incapable of shame and devoid of both courage and scruples. Resign and let people who actually care about their constituents and their country actually serve.

New hobby just dropped just in time for arts and crafts hour.

Just got another email from the Kamala Harris campaign asking for donations. It was the last one I’m going to get, since I promptly unsubscribed. Handy, they ask you for an optional reason, which I provided. This will be my default response: (1/?)

Dear conspiracy theorists: you do not have special knowledge or intelligence. You simply make up or believe absurd stories because you can’t admit that you don’t know how or why certain things work the way they do, and that scares you.

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Gentle reminder: labeling right-wing evangelicals as “Not actually Christian” does nothing but absolve you and the Christian community from holding them accountable for their words and actions. You are taking the easy way out.

Small acts of resistance help, they do, sometimes as much as the big ones. For more reading: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_s...

Hey, please do whatever you can to be gentle with yourself this coming week. Try not to let all of this everything build up inside of you. Do something kind, make some art, hell — bake cookies or feed squirrels. All of this can’t break us.

Saved for further reading/watching, especially during times when I feel helpless.

Thoroughly deceased. 💀

This helps.

On the impact of US data protection plans on data transfers from the EU, by @noyb.eu noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-...

It’s true that our koalas have chlamydia but so do most of your friends.

Introducing the kids to They Live instead of watching anything related to inaugural activities.

trungle! -------- patreon.com/nhoj

I believe in traditional marriage: one person who leaves half-drunk water glasses/bottles on every surface and one person who never remembers to empty the lint trap.

Thank you to Pleiades for publishing my snarky little CDC hate poem 🖤

When I was in college, I had a stalker. He stalked a few other young women as well. The university’s response to complaints was to move him to a different dorm. This didn’t stop his behavior. This was in the late 90s, but universities still do this today.

I’m in Japan right now so I’m obliged to remind the world — we don’t want AI. We want a robust rail system. We want trains. Metros. High speed. Locals. Cute trains. Efficient trains. Trains.

*RFK Jr. on the side of the road, eating a dead raccoon and washing it down with a hot glass of mercury from an old thermometer* *wipes mouth and yells at passing car* VACCINES ARE UNHEALTHY *brainworm squirms from the corner of his eye and shrieks* THE WORM SAYS I NEED TO DECAPITATE AN ELK NOW

And I’m doing my part!

Bret Stephen’s needs to to be smacked on the nose with a rolled up NYT on the daily. Twice on Sundays when the paper is thicker. This needs to persist until a soul gets knocked into the bastard.

I horrified my teenage son by expressing my wish to get a large Krampus lawn decoration for the holidays and put up an accompanying sign that says “My neck; my back; my bulging children sack”. Of course now I totally want to make this happen.

Hell is other people’s phone calls.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but go download Nightshade and Glaze, then start using them on any artwork you post online. nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/aboutus.html PS: if your machine can’t handle the apps, there’s also Web Glaze (glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/webglaze.html).

Leaving off the Christian rock because I’d rather forget that period of my teens. These are what got me through my afterwards. 1. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes 2. The Cure - Disintegration 3. Sisters of Mercy - Floodland 4. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral 5. Ani DiFranco - Not a Pretty Girl

"Let’s be clear: Kennedy’s views are not 'alternative' to orthodoxy, meant to shake up the system—they are verifiably false. They are nonsense." Nice overview here about how public health could be dismantled. 🛟🧪😷 health policy policysky polisky sociology idsky lawsky 📈🧭

mental health break? you bet it did

What do we do with assholes? We stand up to them. We don't bow down to them. We don't capitulate. It's not going to be easy, as I've said, and others have said as well. But we sure as hell aren't going to let this asshole and his cronies get the last laugh.

There’s scary shit going on in the world. There’s lots of uncertainty right now. There’s also beauty. I refuse to ignore the beauty just because I’m unsure of the future. I need it to keep going.

A reminder for the next few days when each of these may be harder than normal to remember

I expected to wake up exhausted, despondent. but I looked up and for the first time in my life I thought, "there's no one left to look to. it's just us." so I am shocked at how I feel: furious, clear-eyed, galvanized. we who saw this from the beginning, for better or worse, it's our time to lead.