Worked very hard on my Girl Containment System (closing the bedroom door so the cats don't have zoomies on me in the night) and accidentally Contained all Girls (forgot my partner still needs to brush her teeth).

Pretty uncomfortable w the implication in some of the chat today that British Muslims’ concerns are somehow less electorally valid than those of people from other backgrounds. Quite a lot of reductive implications that gaining the support of Muslim voters is somehow dishonest or gaming the system.

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

It's interesting to see so many people speculating about what Muslims collectively think about the Greens' stance on trans people's rights and whether that could be a problem for their strategy while the Tories fielded a gender crit and absolutely ate shit.

🌿‬,,

Initially, Vesper and Pippa look like they must be related. But they are in fact very different breeds of cat. Vesper is a Goblin Princess and Pippa is a Giant Owl.

underappreciated but very funny gorton and denton sideplot: the conservatives nominating literal sex matters (uk terf group) trustee charlotte cadden, only for her to get the worst result for the conservatives in by-election history and lose her deposit

Quick cormorant for the box project box #boxproject

Day 1 of letting the cats out their settling-in room. Vesper has not moved from her box. Pippa went as far as the kitchen, then looked around, gave a big, sad miaow, and then ran back into the front room and hid behind some furniture.

decided to give the piece a little more umph.

1 raven dad 19 raven kids

30周年！

As we all said, Labour didn't win in '24: the Tories lost. People consistently voted for whoever would beat the Tory candidate and Labour were the overall beneficiaries. When there's an actual alternative, we see how colossally unpopular Starmer's fash-curious management consultants truly are.

One casualty of the racialisation of class: people fail to recognise that most Bangladeshi and Pakistani people in Britain are working class That they have the highest rates of poverty And that historically economic and related factors have been the key driver of their voting behavior

Given far right activists were roaming about Gorton Denton yesterday pulling bullshit and labour focused their entire efforts on punching left, it feels like a vindication for the idea that the public wants to not be so fucking miserable.

it's not the issue of this story, but it is a transparent example of how the "cars are freedom" narrative is a complete farce. when the state controls your movement and can immobilize you on a whim, you are not free. car dependency is an arm of fascism for the car *IS* fascism and must be abolished.

Shouldn't have blocked Andy Burnham, innit.

Time Cube went offline in early 2016. Restore Time Cube, restore the better timeline. The children need to know about the Cube.

I would draw them once more years later, after some fears of becoming the "pinecrab guy"

I made this in a couple of hours and posted it a few days after another piece which I spent a full month on. While the latter got a pretty mute response and sold few prints, this little critter ended up being one of my most viral pieces. It's was a good lesson in learning to have no expectations

On the warm southern rocky shores, you can meet these colorful hermit crabs 🐚y¡¡y✨ With colors like this, they stand out even in the dark, and even when tucked inside their shells. True idols of the tide pools🫧 ͛.*

And if you haven't seen any my YouTube channel, I got some....okay videos on there.

You can’t quantify the good that gets done by a single book (sales figures, circulations, citations). You cannot quantify education. Believe me, they have been trying my whole life, and now we’re here.

That rural library that’s a lifeline, that program that was poorly attended but changed the lives of the people who were there, the entire concept of ILL. I’m seeing it at university now, too. They only want to fund things that “produce”. Humanities don’t “produce.”

Re: university funding— There’s a wider picture here about how social goods have been subject to “metrics” I’m really familiar with from libraries. Justify your funding with circs, with door counts. Justify your programming budget with attendance counts. This is how you lose things that matter.

Horses. Up there with bicycles as the bane of many an artist. However, I figured out a foolproof way of drawing them, and I want to share that with you! 😊

Of course isn’t just driving. It’s voting. Working. Travelling. Picking up a package. Applying for credit. Applying for a job. Renting a room. Filling prescriptions. Visiting loved ones in the hospital. Not expired either, but legally invalid.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

the noble gryphon [ #art #creatureart ]

As a Lebanese in the UK, it’s so nice to see this racist drivel so openly expressed in the British press. Fuck you Allister Heath :) Vote Green. (Also maybe we should clean the Thames before pretending that adding anything to it makes it worse.)

I mean, seriously. Look at that nonsense. Catnip? Nothing. Recorded purring? Happy place. Silvervine makes her stoned as hell though.

Sounds like they used this man as a weapon against his will and then set him up as a scapegoat afterwards.

Today @lhardingwrites.bsky.social saw Pippa sitting on the printer and said "Philippa McIntosh!" in a stern voice, and now the concept of an almost nine-month-old cat named Philippa McIntosh is embedded in my mind.

I think people still underestimate the extent to which the panic over an increase in trans boys transitioning is about the belief that AFAB bodies are rightfully for breeding and should be preserved as property belonging to their future husbands.

💲💚🐈‍⬛️ Benny is home and feeling better day by day. The bills are still absolutely destroying me. If you can throw me anything, or share this post I would be forever thankful. ko-fi.com/owllog

Let’s see how far a man walking into a mosque with an axe in Manchester last night is down the BBC News page

Ahh yes because what we all need is for patients to be afraid to tell our doctors if we're feeling better or not, to associate all healthcare with the DWP, and to tie NHS funding to how many of their patients have jobs. That'll fix everything. /s

WIP. Inspired by old motherboards.

At this point it really does feel like some people on the production team did this deliberately for "content".

*clack-clack of tiny teef* PERILAMPUS 😍 I hadn't seen one of these stunning blue nuggets in like 3+ years. Perfect, perfect creature. 💙 (they're hyperparasitoids of hyperparasitoids, and so damn cool enough on that merit, but also they can look like this)

♥️ Nautilus ♥️

Meet my newest creation: Iris the. I designed, hand-sewed and hand-embroidered her. Hundreds of years ago, Iris the was known as Iris the Terribly Powerful, Horribly Magical, and Awfully Cruel. Recently, though, she's been experiencing a bit of an identity crisis. www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

I see the ableism. I see the antiblackness. And YOU see people that need to be put in their place, whether it's demanding Davidson receive some kind of punishment or demanding Black people stop feeling things.

The fact that Black folks with tourettes are getting torn apart from both communities for not being sufficiently punitive enough is actually proof that we're not fucking having a productive discussion and that we refuse to see who the real villains are: the BBC, the BAFTAS, and structural bigotry

A wholesome dinner with friends.

My TBR can mow stare at me judgementally.

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

Both entities released apologies which existed to protect their own image and separate themselves from the situation. Ideally, I imagine both Davidson and the actors involved would have appreciated a mediation to help them talk privately and then possibly publicly about a very charged interaction.

Let's be super clear: It is very right to be disappointed with how BAFTA and the BBC handled this. At minimum, it fell to both as entities that created the conditions for this situation to emerge to be equally committed to helping all individuals meet equitably and address any issues. They did not.