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Grey wolf

Big stretch:

I made a new friend while foraging poplar buds today! I got a big stretch, ear scritches, and a bunch of friendly awoos before this sweet little fox slowly sauntered back into the woods.

As Affirmation Coyote's M-F work-week friends are looking forward to the weekend, let us give a howl-out to our friends who work over the weekend.

not the mom friend, not the dad friend, but the scientifically accurate alpha wolf friend. you are my beautiful family and together we we will bring down so many large caribou

UBI won't happen because it would kill capitalism. Not because UBI would make people stop working. People LOVE putting in the work but only for things that matter to them or the world. UBI would kill the need for mindless bullshit jobs, and that's like the whole foundation of capitalism.

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hall of fame FT correction

The antebellum United States was an absolutely wretched, racist, and evil country. Somehow, the Confederacy was even worse. And on this day in 1865, it died. Happy Confederate Surrender Day. Rest in Piss to one of the most evil regimes in history.

Here's an alternative/additional action to calling reps to save our Forest Service - tell the brands who built their empires on public forest lands to speak out! They're bigger and have more power to push for this to stop. Flood their socials and direct emails. Remember, money talks saveusfs.org

Why is he so shapes? 🐈‍⬛ { #mypets | #voidcat | #Crowley }

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

Reposting more old art, the theme was Light 🔥

I don't think we talk enough about the effect of art on us. I can see one drawing I really really like and I'll be happy for the rest of the day I'm not exaggerating. Your art makes someone feel that way. Your art makes someone happy. Your art helps someone get through the day.

A bit of a different take on the amazing Artemis II launch footage. Here I stitched clips from the four Solar Array Wing Cameras to make this panoramic video. This is during the later part of the Core Stage burn until MECO and stage separation, sped up to 10x. 🔭🧪 #Artemis

MtG: Inkshape Demonstrator AD: Deborah Garcia Secrets of Strixhaven (c) Wizards of the Coast 2026 #MTGSOS #MTGStrixhaven #juliametzgerart my one humble contribution to Strixhaven! A very fun one though :D

Stay in the know, but remember to practice self care and touch grass and seek laughter and whatnot.

Woo-hoo! It is National Unicorn Day. Affirmation Coyote cannot confirm or deny the existence of unicorns. Pardon them while they try to wipe the sparkly glowing dung off their paw. www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day...

A classic short story about how much pain there is in loneliness 💔 goms.rocklinusd.org/subsites/Jen...

FYI, it’s now possible to hide the AI button on Telegram Desktop, but you’ve got to dig up a little to do so. Settings → Advanced → Experimental Settings → Hide AI Button If you don’t see the option, update the app first. (Unfortunately, still waiting for the option to exist in the mobile app.)

Take heed:

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

What I love about this point is it’s so obvious. It exposes the extent to which what most people mean when they say “we need to make a path of redemption” is “we need to perform redemption on behalf of people who have shown no interest in doing anything redemptive.”

Far too many in our culture see healing as something to be done on behalf of the abuser rather than the abused, and ego e it as repair not of the damage done to the victim’s life, but of the damage done to the abuser’s reputation— which is how we can tell that this is a culture of abuse.

Feeling you lack words to describe what’s happening in the world rn? happy to help: ‘yobanyi pyzdets’, loosely means ‘what a f*ckng clusterfck’ in Ukrainian. Pronounced as

There is an explanation for this, you know.

Us wolverines are tough as hell, but so are you. I believe in you.

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you? The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its stupidity.

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

"Why don't Americans—" we do. That's why many of my friends are in prison or dead.

It is National Empanada Day! Affirmation Coyote warns their human friends to beware biting into them when they are hot. This is never a problem with them. They only find half-eaten ones which are quite cool. www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day...

governor abbott took away our rainbow crosswalks but we replaced them with much more visible rainbow sidewalks, and some businesses have followed suit (one added rainbow exterior stairs)

whoa deep.

We elected an administration on the messaging that all of society’s ills were a result of DEI & immigration. So we’re left with no choice when we look at all this immediate & staggering abject failure, death & unnecessary suffering around you but to understand that it is a direct result of whiteness

The horror of sitting across from a Trump voter is the realization that they do not believe in universal human rights. Simple as. They believe in a tiered, racist and patriarchical system of humanity, and they're voting to ensure they remain at the top of it.

i drew this a couple years ago to vent about the state of things and people said i was "doomposting" but honestly things haven't gotten any better so the feeling remains

Happy Leland Melvin day to all who celebrate. 💚

Artist! Quote with your most detailed art! (Pls don't ask me how long I spent on this, I'll cry)

yeah hey if this is a dilemma for you, you're a bad human

"Calm down. He won't be that bad." "He won't go after political opponents." "He won't try to overturn an election." "He won't start a stupid, costly war." "He won't purge the military." "He won't use nukes." <--- We're currently here.

AHHHHHHHHHHHH 🌿🪶 (This is telephoto lens + harsh crop to maintain a respectful distance!)