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I want us to keep talking about living through this About locating our freedom and integrity however constricted The challenges we face are a constant barrage I want us to keep thinking out loud about what love calls us to do, and be through crisis and collapse

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

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Serendipity Not just luck, but the quiet mercy of survival. Life continues anyway. #art

NEW: They're an extremist anti-trans group. They're supported by right-wing stalwarts like FIRE and the National Review. And they claim to be Democrats. Who are they really? @billiejsweeney.bsky.social investgates Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

the jump from “trans people can’t have a driver’s license,” to “unmarried women can’t have a driver’s license,” is a secret nighttime vote away fight with us now, or fight with far less backup later

Excellent @washingtonpost.com piece on the signs that global warming is accelerating by @shannonosaka.bsky.social and @johnmuyskens.bsky.social, featuring @hausfath.bsky.social @rarohde.bsky.social @cjsmith.eu www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Entering the Kingdom ~ Mary Oliver

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

Thinking about becoming unknowable

The daily news cycle was even bumming Cthulhu out. #grickledoodle #horror #news #cthulhu #lovecraftian #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Me, an online high school English teacher in 2026:

Your 'doom quote' for today: "And 'making progress' or 'winning slowly' is not good enough. Because when it comes to the climate crisis, to quote the American author Alex Steffen, 'Winning slowly is the same thing as losing.'" www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-climat...

Don't face these times alone. Prices discounted by half for the next week. See you Thursday, March 5. pci.jotform.com/form/2533761...

The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic. Don't be fooled. (Published June 2024)

"Bimbos Against Capitalism" Seen in Athens, Greece

Bring me your cutest sheep and I will ease their troubled minds.

The BDS movement launches two new tools for ethical tourism. If you are a hospitality host, pledge to make your B&B, hostel, or hotel a Sanctuary of Peace - sanctuariesofpeace.org If you are a traveler, pledge to drop Booking and Airbnb from your travel plans - loom.ly/ZdTnKaI

The real slow-moving catastrophe began with the Industrial Revolution when we started rearranging atmosphere, water, and energy flows faster than Earth systems could absorb. We’re unable to perceive incremental change. Until suddenly it isn’t incremental anymore.

Bring back that economic prosperity so a self respecting hard working man can put food on the table for his outside family too!

Goes back to my last post, this has never been a democracy. This has been white democracy. For PoC, it's always been a fascist state, genocide of indigenous populations, slavery + genocide of Africans, Jim Crow, discrimination, environmental racism, and mass incarceration. That is not democracy.

link.deezer.com/s/32xyhdWY7e... #music #mood

My city, Oakland, has roughly the same population (a bit more, actually) as the entire country of Iceland. IMAGINE, if you will, what we could dream up and design and see with this level of arts funding -- instead of funding our carceral state.

We're all sending the same $100 among each other as the rich get unimaginably richer by the hour.

I realize that I am sometimes two steps behind rather than one step ahead. Nevertheless, here is a chart of daily Arctic sea-ice thickness, from 1979 through January 31, 2026. The latest reading for thickness is second lowest for the date (2017 was lower).

One of the things stopping us from having a revolution and effectively defeating fascism is that a lot of people who would need to participate and fight unconsciously have been taught to view politics and struggle as entertainment and rely on the "thrill" of society disintegrating for content.

People saying OpenAI reporting a user it banned for posts about gun violence would be mass surveillance are fucking idiots. The tech industry *is* mass surveillance. There is no genAI or ChatGPT without mass data collection on everyone. Don’t like mass surveillance? Stop using fucking chatbots.

In the early 90s, my family's Ford Pinto still survived hitting a deer (that we then ate because we were rural country people.) I do not trust a Cybertruck to successfully take down the largest doe of the season without also taking us passengers & itself as a vehicle out of commission (at best!)

The more you say, the more you get caught up. STFU, you are not a legal expert. Don't talk to cops.

"Turning the heating of your stove to maximum power and walking away is stupid. That's what we do with our climate. Earth's Energy Imbalance is now higher than ever in the known history of our planet and very few know or care." (Leon Simons) #collapse

Will Your State Bird Disappear? -- A new study shows that tens of millions of Americans could lose the chance to see their state bird due to climate change. https://therevelator.org/state-birds-climate/

economics is like "what if we invented a science to confirm our biases about capitalism then made it the national religion" we should force economists to wear weird ceremonial outfits in public, wizards robes printed with the logos for Exxon & IBM or something

“The Prairieland case is a protest case involving people expressing solidarity with detained immigrants. The federal government is trying to reframe protest activity as terrorism, and we’re seeing this attempted across the country, in Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, and now here in DFW.”

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

TOOLKIT: Building an Immigration Enforcement Surge Community Response Plan docs.google.com/document/d/1...

What Settlers fail to realize is the Ocean is alive...and its power is unimaginable.

Why does this make both my thalassophobia AND my thalassophilia intensify?!?

Timeline cleanser 🐋

"Anarchism will never work outside of tiny, isolated villages!" Right, so, how's the whole "get told what to do by a group of 50 to 100 complete strangers half a continent away" strategy working out?

Both the creatures in this photo think they could eat the other.

Starting a band with my dog.

Inspired by suggestions already coming out of this thread... READERS! Did you know that you can often buy (DRM-free) ebooks direct from small presses? AMZ isn't the only game in town! (Ours ⬇️) INDIE PRESSES! Do you sell DRM-free ebooks direct? If so: add your store below. Let's get a thread going!

“To those who do not know that the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.” -Bertolt Brecht

Note from my notebook (2016). Nothing has changed.

Sarah Lyons

The more America changes, the more we stay the same evil.