An illuminating Report from inside the war zone

It’s cloud season! 🥳

Sunbeams / morning things ✨

Look at my babies. LOOK AT THEM

Found this old unfinished piece of my lil Klip Dagga witch deep in my procreate stacks. I kinda love her. What should I do with her? #illustration #illustrator #klipdagga #witch

Book cover progress shots #booksky #illustration #procreate #bookcoverart

JUST LOOK AT HIM He’s been following us around all morning and this is the one we’re gonna tame, I feel it in my bones

Hey, squirrelfriend

Concept/practice sketches for an upcoming set of book covers I’m working on. Hands are hard, but it turns out drawing masc figures is even harder (for me). My men all come out looking like Kardashians fresh from the salon at first go. #booksky #illustration #illustrator #sketches

📣 TAKE ACTION CA! Toolkit & context here: bit.ly/crcclosure

You know all the fables and fairy tales I read as a kid had me out here believing people would be learning lessons left and right when I got older and yet

ENJOHY ✨

Gagging 🤣

A Tennessee woman is studying to be a nurse and works nights cleaning buildings. ICE recently deported her husband, leaving her alone with three kids and another child on the way. She's about to lose her car and home. Would you consider donating to help? www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-hel...

As if COBRA pricing wasn't predatory enough (congrats for being newly unemployed, here's your $1000/mo premium), Wex, the company that handles cobra payments, charges a $20 fee for every single transaction. Fuck all these people and fuck this system.

JOIN MOTHERS FOR THE SECOND ANNUAL MOTHER'S DAY ACTION AND SPIRITUAL EVENT! 📍Saturday, May 10th for a rally at 3PM with impacted mothers from across the state 📍Sunday, May 11th, Mother's Day, at 10:30AM for a spiritual service

A federal judge in Maryland has extended a ban preventing the Education Department from sharing data containing personally identifiable information with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

Lots of talk on “law and order,” and “tough on crime” legislation, from both sides of ‘the aisle’. Why? As @prisonpolicy.bsky.social reports: 💣 Crime rates are *historically* low 💣 3/4 of all jail bookings are for *nonviolent* charges 💣 3/4 of people in jail have *not* been convicted of a crime

BREAKING: US President Trump has signed an order reversing sanctions imposed by the Biden administration on Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

Kittening

Please stop telling me that crime must be deterred. Studies have shown over and over again that in the context of criminal law, deterrence theory is a myth. It doesn't work. It never has. That's a copaganda myth. Poverty is the cause of most crime. Eliminate poverty, and you eliminate most crime.

🚨Mutual aid for Black Angelenos displaced by the fires:

waaaaay too many people in the middle imo

I stand by this.

for the potato fears not death

I had a dream last night that someone scolded me for not adding alt text to my star photos so I logged on this morning to apologize. Turns out it was a just a visit from the ghost of Christmas future, the final holiday boss. I’ll change my ways, I swear.

Every so often a client ignores me and talks with the police because they're convinced they can just clear things up and EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. it makes things worse and EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. it's "that's not what I said though" and "but they lied to me." DON'T TALK TO COPS WITHOUT YOUR LAWYER. EVER.

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It doesn’t even seem like real life sometimes

boop 🌟

Free Free Free

“Palestinian medics said eight people, including children, were killed in the Musa Bin Nusayr School that sheltered displaced families in Gaza City.” This has become a regular occurrence that barely elicits a shrug.

"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'." "Okay, now don't be mad but..."

A portal door opened up in our mountain.

O the theater

ID cards found as mass graves are now being uncovered across Syria, showing the extent of the regime's brutality. Remember the world was prepared to normalise with this monster!

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Emad. Emad worked at his father’s fruit and vegetable company and was also a Python programmer. His wife @ayazaqoutfromgaza.bsky.social and him were able to flee Gaza in February but her family remains there. They also are struggling in Egypt.

If you’re looking for an alternative to the usual Christmas festivities I highly recommend you rent a Lexus, put a giant red bow on top of it, park it in your neighbor’s driveway Christmas morning, make yourself some coffee, relax and watch the fireworks

the pillars of creation, from chandra and webb. simply stunning 🌌

"Autohomicide is homicide instigated remotely by giving an oppressed person the desperation and means by which to destroy themselves, usually through self abuse, risk taking or suicide." - Heather Marsh, Abstracting Divinity #BindingChaos #BookSky

I’ve given away 5 cannabis coloring books and raised almost $200 for Ahmed’s family. Here’s today’s donation, thanks to a few generous supporters! 💕💝 Shipping started today, there’s still time to get a book before the holidays. Visit pookiemcnoodles.com for details.

I worked at one of the big Covid hospitals in 2020 and people threatened us all the god damn time. To our faces “I’ll be waiting in the parking lot to beat your ass” credible threats. Cops wouldn’t do ANYTHING

The bazillion women who have been threatened by a significant other or ex would like a word.

$60K could be life-changing for a McDonald’s worker, but headlines like this show how the ruling class uses empty promises to divide us. These rewards aren't about justice, they're about turning us against each other. Solidarity is our strength, don’t let them take it away.

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