It’s not about whether they are or are not trained. Some men just want to hurt and kill people — a fair number of them with the belief it is the Christian thing to do. You can’t reform depravity.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

My latest: How Renee Good's murder and paramilitary assaults on US cities reflect longstanding right-wing race war fantasies and Stephen Miller's fixation with a novel about white genocide. I also talk about the stories we tell and live in opposition to these narratives and share a must-reads list.

If you’re a grown ass man in full tactical gear asking a child to show you ID or proof of citizenship you failed at life. Utterly & completely failed. Loser.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, please consider doing so too: 5calls.org #DefundICE

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

GoFundMe for legal & medical expenses for the guy ICE ripped out of his car at a gas station, knocked him unconscious, detained & transported to detention in Texas: www.gofundme.com/f/justice-an...

This winter I'm wearing legwarmers pretty much every day, like the 80s child I am 📺

pls help my friend adrian secure a place to live!! 💟 chuffed.org/project/165225-housing-support-for-a-black-trans-person direct linx: linktr.ee/adrianmica

A coworker who I don't know very well got my pronouns right today when introducing me to someone over email. I'd never mentioned it explictly, she must have just seen them in my email signature and paid attention. It made me cry. This shit really matters, y'all.

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Rapid Response Call: ICE Killing and Lawlessness in Minneapolis” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Happy Venus Cazimi in Capricorn from our first ever Hellebore flower 🥰

I'm so happy I've stopped trying to stay up till midnight on NYE. It's always a weird anticlimax & then I spend a precious holiday the next day feeling tired. I also have seemingly lost all spoons for doing end-of-year reflections & new-year intentions. Just enjoying some quiet liminality over here.

BRB just figuring out the astrology of getting scammed by a fucking fake YARN STORE of all things 😭

Episode 003 drops later today (15:54 PDT to be precise!) It's called Turning the Jewel and it's about how we find self understanding through astrology. It's a banger!

More gorgeous feedback on the podcast: "Thank you so much Randee and Khasanti! Every time I listen to The Dark Moon Cafe, I learn something about my deepest self, which creates a little more self acceptance. [contd.]

Happy Progressed Full Moon to meeeeeee 🌕

My Running Up That Hill is anything by Cocteau Twins and my Vecna is autistic overwhelm 🎧

Mars-Saturn square got me yesterday: cut my finger slicing a bagel & it’s slowed me down to a crawl. My to-do list is locking me from across the room 😢

okay she's done, and available from my site - the huge lino print "Transgender Goddexx Destroys Fascism". Just 3 made. shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/tran... #art #printmaking #trans #witchsky

Episode 002 "The Sun Always Finds a Way" is live! I am just emerging from being on retreat for a week so no fancy graphics today, just this chill lil post. It's a really warm & shiny episode though - check it out at the link below or wherever you get your pods! pod.link/1841266542/e...

Heading into a retreat space shortly - will be at home but offline. Wishing you all good, happy, tasty things in the coming week and rest assured there will be a new episode of The Dark Moon Cafe out on 11/20! 📿🕯️🧘

Shout out to tip toes. That was some sweet little add-on functionality for those annoying times where you need to be an inch taller but not for more than a few seconds.

Gorging myself on the latest Florence + the Machine album which I somehow only discovered this week. Holy crap it's so good.

OK can y'all get excited with me about this little local race because there are now just THREE VOTES between the two candidates and, if Sam continues to get the share of the vote she's gotten in the past 3 days, she will fucking WIN!!!! #mountlaketerrace

Oooooh, new Patti Smith memoir looks amazing 🖤

Update: it looks like there may be around 1000 votes yet to count, and Sam is only behind by 230!!! We will find out more at 5pm PDT today 🙏📿🤞🍀 samdoyleformlt.org

Bummed that Sam Doyle didn’t win a spot on the city council but feeling fired up about local politics in a way I haven’t before, since moving to the burbs. So that feels positive. Also PUMPED for NYC - it’s lovely to know there is good news somewhere 🎉

Halloween with an escape artist cat who is fascinated by new people, hates being picked up and yells continuously when shut in a room is 100% as chaotic as it sounds

My best friend’s brother is a trans man and he died tragically this week. she’s raising money for his funeral. Pls help me help their family. www.gofundme.com/f/honor-tann...

Seen a lot of discussion about SNAP benefits & whether recipients are working or not, but I really haven't seen anyone acknowledge that a full-time caregiver IS WORKING doing *unpaid* labor that we would have to PAY someone else to do in order to be freed up for waged labor. Childcare is expensive.

Mars just passed my AC degree so here, have some final pics of my tattoo! Several years in the planning, 8+ hours and 3 trips to Portland in the execution and doesn’t it look fabulous?

Me last night: Hmmm I haven't used my Wild Unknown deck for ages, I'm gonna use it for my daily draws for the next little while - yay, love this deck so much, so excited Me this morning: Pulls the 9 of Swords and gets ready to spend the day looking at maggots and eyeballs

Love to spend my entire haircut talking about death and rebirth. This is not sarcasm 💀

Oh no I have to eat an entire Ellenos* yogurt today to get my calcium up before my platelet donation tonight * yes I could have choses a less bougie yogurt but I didn't ok

It was my pleasure to chat with my pal Christa on her fabulous @practicalastros.bsky.social channel about Mercury Retrograde recently. Check it out and do consider subscribing ✨🙏

"Wow! Wow! Wow! What a great listen - I feel like I am in a gorgeous old coffee house listening to my new best friends talk about life through this kaleidoscope lens that is the Moon. Loved this show and I cannot wait to dive into the next one!" Thanks to Teri for this gorgeous feedback 🌙💫🙏

Have you listened yet? We've already had a bunch of downloads and some very lovely feedback and we're feeling extremely 🥹🥰☺️ about it all!

I just accidentally discovered the secret of a good selfie: be smiling at your cat

Reminder that your favorite furloughed diviner is always accepting pay-what-you-want horaries through her website :)

T minus 2 days, this is not a drill! Here's a lil intro to your hosts, Randee & Khasanti. We met in 2021 while studying the Nightlight Astrology Year 1 class.

officially unemployed. if you need a senior #uxdesigner, I've got 12 yrs, I've done enterprise, I've done financial, I've done dashboards, I got you EVERYWHERE because you don't get to 12 years without doing every dang thing under the sun. I've got glowing reviews and am a company culture delight.

OMFG PLANETARY PENDANTS IS THIS REAL LIFE???

Folks, I'm almost done editing our first episode and I'm so proud of it - we are really doing this 🎉💫🎙️🌝 E1 drops in five (5) days' time, on Monday October 20th. Come check us out! Follow us on Bsky: @darkmooncafe.bsky.social Subscribe to the pod: pod.link/1841266542

“Would you like your grim reaper for here or to go?” - overheard in Portland’s Memento Mori coffee shop yesterday 💀

Lounging in bed, will shortly head out into the horrific war zone of Portland in search of a nice pastry

Heading back to Portland on the evening train for final (no jinx) tattoo appt tomorrow 🌹

Ahahahaha finally we get to the episode about how awesome I am 💫