Btw the Aberdeen bestiary is a banger from start to finish and you can look through archival scans of it for free online, highly recommend browsing through. hell treat yourself to an edible first, why not

exercise in looking, acrylic on canvas 👀🩵

I made Weasel a little jester collar. It hides her unsightly RFID chip and lets the other cat keep tabs on her.

On the one hand the middle class is collapsing because wages are down and precarity is high, but on the other hand the middle class is collapsing because there's no prosperity to aspire to. It's polyester Shein dresses no matter your income bracket.

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

My favorite image of Edward Gorey, an underrated fashion plate

"it's in me, too." fanart for THE WORKS OF VERMIN by hiron ennes

This will go down in history with My Lai, Kent State, and Czechoslovakia 1968. Killing little girls at a school in our name. What a dirty and war criminal government we have. They must face consequences. We must work to make them face consequences.

Middle East politics are complicated, and Americans are not good at complicated. We're not even good at simple cause and effect, which is why we'll be shocked again when the next 9/11 happens as a direct result of our own murderous actions.

Briaredheart Chime

I matched at my top choice for small animal rotating internship! (Translation: I’m going where I want to go next year to complete the first step of specialization as a vet surgeon or neurologist/neurosurgeon)

Just watched Fail Safe (1964). Damn good movie. Tense. War room thriller about the Cold War.

one good thing about being antiwar is you will never be wrong. one bad thing about being antiwar is no one who matters will ever listen to you

Weasel-type maneuvers

Tongue

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech

Post a pic you took, no context, to add some zen to the timeline

And the Lancet's editorial that goes with it www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This week's cover @thelancet.com

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

bsky.app/profile/swee... I wrote up a script for people unsure what to say or who have anxiety about calling. fellow cis people, you have no excuse to not put your lives on the line for trans people. we are past the point of simply hoping things improve.

The feeling of having known something to be true, deep within your very being, only to have it confirmed as such. There's just nothing like it: defector.com/jeffrey-epst...

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO

"You've worn that grin into your face and it will never come *off*..." #discoelysium

This a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.

please believe and understand: if this is allowed to happen, there is no world where it does not get extended to adult care within a year or two. they intend to ban all transition care for everyone, all trans health care.

Annabelle views Weasel with pure, undisguised disgust and loathing

I'm working on trans pessimism #3 , which like the others is an attempt to counteract the neoliberal identity politics that sometimes holds us back. check out the previous issues if any of that sounds interesting! www.etsy.com/listing/6971...

We’re scruffy and muddy, but we’ve made it to the first thaw

In addition to continuing to downgrade Americans health, this further illustrates why we cannot depend on the private sector to pick up the work being put down by the government to improve both American and great global health.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: One of the biggest reasons the right wing couldn't make Charlie Kirk stick as their Reichstag fire is that none of them, including his own widow, actually and sincerely gave a fuck he died

"one of things" is funny but I really like how he said "travel to Moon" the way a normal person says "travel to Boise"

Out for dinner last weekend

We made The Big Mamdani

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Someday I want leather gloves that fit my mutant hands

"I saw the mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone- everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the word. It has to take it off, just for one second. to do the deed."

I swear to god, I left this cat alone for two fucking minutes with a jar of red beets. Two. Minutes. #CatsofBluesky

was epstein uniquely responsible for evil or is he just the one obscenely wealthy person whose emails we're getting to read

Thanks to the American Artists Professional League and to juror Frederick Brosen for selecting my painting, "Afternoon in Rome" to receive the Princeton Artists Award at the 97th Grand National Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club here in New York City #art @bsky.art

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

"microtransactions in games started by cabal of pedophile elites for the purpose of indoctrinating kids into an economy" Ok. Well, we all knew it was evil somehow but I really didn't expect Epstein to be responsible for why video games are bad now. That's just not what I would've thought.

Caught napping! She’s never let me pet her while lying down before, she usually gets up. She rested her massive head on me for a bit.

Stinky baby songs

Maddening how so many corporate, medical, and government websites simply do not function and yet it somehow becomes the user's fault if we can't complete whatever impossible bureaucracy we've been tasked with

Look at her

Repaired Alecto’s noseband today. Taking the damaged strap off -