Ol' Salty, Pirate Saltasaurus. A bit of silliness which became a personal favourite. Sepia ink over blue pencil on Strathmore grey toned paper, 110 × 143 mm, from 2013. #ArtAdventCalendar

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 1: sunlight filtered through leaves in a deep forest Entrelac knitting in variegated wool 🧵 1/2

Wait, what's this I see? Could it be the beginning of another year of #ArtAdventCalendar? #owls

"Little Dance, Little Bugs" 2022, digital for fun & print products 🦗 #ArtAdventCalendar

Oh, #artadventcalendar, how I've missed you! Here's a something for the eyes: high up in the Warner Mountains above Modoc country, northeastern California

Id rather go for work-life balance than be "successful" by the metrics society tells me are important. Id rather take the sick days to get my bodymind back on track (and thank heaven for sick leave). Id rather be perceived as middling or unmemorable. Id much rather have a lifetime of happiness.

Got to be part of a safety drill--I mean absurdly accidentally triggered at 911 level lockdown--and can now scientifically confirm: 9th graders cannot shut up to save their own lives.

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Why is it always "that sexual assault perpetrator is a brilliant man who has contributed so much to science so we should excuse his behavior" and not "look how many women and girls will never contribute to science because he ruined their lives".

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be

Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and Broadway to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop makinge a living. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?

I can Wednesday with this to run on--hell, yeah!!!

Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

everything else sucks so bad except the story of the dam removals and the returning salmon. i guess if we all die at least we die with salmon

“Today, Dr. Frankenstein's descendants keep promising that Al won't destroy civilization while ignoring Shelley's point, that the inventor is more dangerous than his monster.”

If you walk in a two-way hall, follow driving rules. (THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING)

Canon👇

"That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times." Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

Read this thread. We could all use a bit of hope, love, compassion and a reminder of the good in the world.

Journalism and teaching are some of the most valuable yet thankless jobs in our society. I want to thank everyone who wakes up in the morning excited to teach others or inform their fellow humans for terrible pay.

@leeleekins.bsky.social Welcome to the neighborhood!

“From Twitter/X to FB to TikTok to Washington Post to CBS. Any opposition to this fascist project needs to focus, in part, on building and/or securing information infrastructure to ensure channels of dissent exist & remain available. The Dems have taken this infrastructure for granted. It’s gone.”

I made a new friend out in the September sunshine. Gopher snake living a great life!

One year after dams were torn down, an Indigenous writer sees a healing Klamath River "I used to always say, I want my great-grandmother’s river back. And I feel like I am just getting to know my great-grandmother’s river." www.latimes.com/environment/...

The United States has had senators outright say free education/Healthcare would drop their military enlistment numbers. That is why. Keeping people poor and desperate keeps their ranks full. The rot is at the top.

Necessary tools from the bad old days (or: the smallest taste of why marriage equality matters.)

Found the welfare queen! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...

Paralyzed by irony: finally got IT to realize the actual account lockout problem I was facing at 1:30 on the day before students return. Almost 2 weeks of trying and I'm sure I'm famous over there. But maybe my misery gets to be why they establish a button to clarify Google or Windows login? FFS!!!

I save this for when people are you're not doing enough-ing. How many air conditioners could you run on 400,000 litres. (every 2 weeks) Billionaires are the threat. Not air-conditioning. And people seem to forget, that solar & wind actually power AC just fine.

Because many things are very stupid...here's a stream orchid, epipactis gigantea, from high in the Trinity Mountains, growing snuggled up to a tiny fen full of cobra lilies, darlingtonia californica. There's magic if you look (sometimes for weeks on weeks of adventuring!).

If you are able, do three kind things today: one for yourself, one for somebody else, and one for the world. We can't make everything better, and we can't yet put an end to this terrible administration and its campaign of unrelenting evil. But we can do small, good things: beauty, grace, connection.

The world of isolated teens will only improved by this, right??

Gift link: A reminder that maybe y'all didn't grow up with a wide-eyed rebel hippy mama, and we will easily lose the progress that came out of the rebellion of the 1960's...

When they say “be the change you want to see in the world”, they don’t mean like you should act like it’s already changed. You have to do the work. Sorry you can’t shitpost your way to revolution.

somewhere along the way, teaching fiction and poetry became a kind of squishy thing to do, as opposed to drilling "real skills," but for centuries reading literature was at the heart of serious education and it's a mistake to dismiss it

Aye, If you are taking any SSRIs: Fluoxetine (Prozac), Sertraline (Zoloft), Paroxetine (Paxil), Citalopram (Celexa), & Escitalopram (Lexapro)… You have an increased risk of heat rash, heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. Especially if you are neurodivergent & struggle with Interoception.

Unserious people who are also disingenuous are being the loudest right now. Pay attention.

unrelated to anything, but just a reminder to NEVER let anyone dull your enthusiasm for anything. be loud, be excited, be unhinged. as long as you're being respectful, you're not doing anything wrong. people who try and kill that joy, who make it out to be a bad thing, aren't worth keeping around 💜

When the wet bulb temp goes above 95F, the human body can no longer cool itself no matter how lean the body composition or low the resting heart rate. The southeast don't fuck around and it will kill you these days.

We live in a rogue and dangerous country. Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.

Just summer stuff: trying out fish and chips in little towns!

This will not end well...but we knew that when they said AI.

This is going to kill people. You don't have to go too far into the backcountry to get in a life or death situation.

For anyone panicking and regular coping skills aren’t working, I read from another poster that playing Tetris can help significantly after a traumatic event. Research confirms. Slava Ukraini 💙💛 www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what... Thank you for this valuable info @inv1nciblesummer.bsky.social