"How does one hate a country, or love one?" Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.

illuminated illustration for @calamarti.bsky.social 🖤💀

"the em dash means you used ai" "the oxford comma means you used ai" "the semi-colon means you used ai" should all authors now just resort to absolutely no grammar or punctuation in their works whatsoever so people who don't even read leave us alone

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

from the moment it was founded activists and human rights watchdogs have warned that DHS was constructed to be an almost unaccountable private paramilitary force at the president's sole disposal.

Finished my design for Ghost Parker! Was very much inspired by Chinese funerary practices, specifically burning incense and spirit money/joss paper @malevolent.ca #malevolent #malevolentthreshold #malevolentfanart

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

Just hours before the 2026 #MetGala, hundreds gathered in the Meatpacking District to watch people walk down a different red carpet in custom couture. The "Ball Without Billionaires" - a runway show co-hosted by fashion stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson and 'Abbott Elementary' actress Lisa Ann Walter

It's been bothering me lately how often the general response to my news coverage is "I need to leave this country," especially with how hard I push for community organizing and direct action. I know not everyone is equipped to fight back. We're all tired and scared. But you can't outrun fascism.

It’s hilarious how the only thing that’s bipartisan anymore is tech industry data farming. Destroying communities for data centers, data collecting and surveillance via age verification, shoving AI in children’s faces: all fast tracked.

This just plainly makes it even easier to gerrymander the absolute fuck out of black people. I dont know what the most effective way to fight the supreme court is, but at the very least call your rep and demand action www.congress.gov/members/find...

A Starbucks manager left this comment on one of our posts 👀

Sorry if I've been swinging wildly between these two concepts lately. These times are really trying.

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."

Mr. President, sir, helpful reminder:

Every single day that I take a shift as a substitute teacher I have to look at where the emergency backpack is, where the looped chain and anchor for the door is, if the opaque internal window covers by doors are in good shape, and the safest corner of the room to huddle the children.

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

everyone should have a library card even if you never check anything out because it helps the library's numbers but also they have so much more than books I'm sure you can find something

for the record, this program is FAR more cost effective than paying outside aides or dooming the disabled and elderly to nursing homes. which is what happens when people can't afford to leave work to care for their loved ones...

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made nearly $100 million in his first few months and holds one of the highest CEO-to-worker pay gaps in the country... all while our stores suffer. How do we fight corporate greed? WE ORGANIZE! ✊ CONGRATS to Springfield, MO baristas who just won their union election!

“I dont think my art is good enough to make this comic/webtoon/visual novel/game” You should make it, because even if your art isnt where you want it to be, the constant practice you gain while working on a project will rapidly improve your skills as oppose to just waiting

Reminder: it is literally NEVER too late to start masking again. And if you, like my family and I, have never stopped masking -- nice job! Keep it up! Cmon. Make masks cool, yall. You're better than this.

Let’s Go!! Starbucks baristas just can’t stop winning! These cuties jumped at the chance to vote Union Yes! We’re so excited to welcome the newest kids on the block from Santee, CA! They join the over 11,000 already Union Starbucks workers across the country!👏✊🎉

where i create from

I see this every once in a while and tonight OP gets to be the effigy I light on fire for this: AI is the best way to make your ADHD symptoms worse. You are getting quietly addicted to the dopamine high of feeling like you got something accomplished and you didn't. OP is ableist/giving shit advice

my ocs when i put them in slutty outfits that they would never ever wear

Forgot to mention: this is the one and a while call for the "lurker tax" If you only ever lurk on my art, never commenting, sharing or supporting financially: this is now your time to contribute so I can make more art :) Thanks lurkers! You can make a difference if you top!!!

My sad little promotional flyer for Furry Fiesta because of the PH ban there. (Seriously, it's hurt the show so much!) Hoping I'm maybe able to come back to Texas next year with the USB/DVD to spread the good shit around.

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Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

Queer rights are labor rights! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

If you need a writer (especially comedy writing), an artist (illustration, comics, character design, etc), or like, little office rat who scurries around and gets coffee or whatever, PLEASE get in touch. I am nice and fun to work with and my brain plasticity is exceptional and I'm strong and brave

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.

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me wen i use my brain haha

Any action taken by the state, whether it be Kansas or California, to erase trans people from the body politic, including restricting access to healthcare, is eugenics and part of a fascist racial project. You cannot be anti-fascist and anti-trans at the same time.

Democrats should run on breaking this up. I don’t even care if they can’t do it right now. Make a stand against state-run media.

The most powerful thing you can do for yourself is to work hard to kill any shame you feel about sex and your sexuality.

please keep contacting your representatives and demanding they oppose online censorship bills like KOSA, The Screen Act and advocate for the protection of section 230 www.congress.gov/members/find...

Enterprise is renting thousands of vehicles to ICE. Tell them to side with us, not the feds terrorizing our communities. #ICEOUT https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-enterprise-ice-out-now/

the best thing about mamdani doing something is realizing "wait mayors can just do that?" the second best thing is seeing people twist themselves into pretzels to pretend any of this is somehow bad

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...