"What we’ve built in the name of conservation is not a refuge but a mirror—an architecture of reassurance. The Endangered Species Act, the IUCN Red List, ... all reflect our need to see progress, not life. They allow us to measure our virtue even as the world empties around us."

“It's both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects" was such a simple message that was so thoroughly and viciously rejected, but i think many of you still need to learn it

It's been two days since my last donation and I still need another $2,390. I've been doing really bad physically and stress from money certainly hasn't been helping. Please, please, please help out so I can stop having to worry about this. Thank you. #TransCrowdFund #DisabilityCrowdFund

"Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion."

"The idea of a perfect health is interesting only in a scientific point of view. Sickness is necessary to individualization."

"Public interference with poetry rests on the popular delusion that an immediate commerce exists between historical truth and poetic truth; that the historical universe is potentially the poetic universe.

Heh. To a messed up, edgy gal like me, this tour isn't even that warped.

The World Was Enough But Now It's Too Late <-- my new idea for a Bond film

If you are a person heartsick at the way this fascist government is persecuting vulnerable people and you don't know what to do about it, here's something easy that takes two seconds: help keep my struggling friend housed so its precarious situation doesn't worsen

i think that people who use headphones in public places like trains are selfish. keeping all your cool music and podcasts to yourself is genuinely sociopathic and deranged behavior. play it on your phone's speaker and let everyone enjoy it, or don't play it at all

swearing under my breath as i shake the absolution machine, kick it, jostle it back & forth until it forgives me

I just don’t think that the most reprehensible behaviors justify the massive systematized capture, torture, and labor extraction of so many people, many of whom have committed crimes of poverty.

Eslam www.gofundme.com/f/62znrd-hel...

You can donate at any of the following places to help: Paypal: paypal.me/deathpigeon Cashapp: cash.app/$deathpigeon Venmo: venmo.com/u/Zara-Storm Please at least share this. Thank you so much for any help you can give. #TransCrowdFund #DisabilityCrowdFund

Band-tailed Pigeons are so beautiful

or are they??

Remember, Canada: "Nation-building" means "extractive industries to profit corporations".

Here is a drawing I did of Zoe Rosenberg who was found guilty of felony conspiracy and 3 misdemeanors for rescuing chickens from the cruelty of Perdue's Petaluma Poultry. Zoe faces more than 5 years in prison. Free Zoe Rosenberg. Pen and ink on paper.

I live here, yes this is nonsense, if you care to support the mobilization of watch groups and rapid response teams, donate to the org holding it all together and training people pircoregon.org

osip mandelstam

actually trauma was invented by reactionaries to sell more Past

meme my wife made :)

Hridindu has been transferred back to FCI Marion IL to finish his 90 month sentence after beating civil contempt charges for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury. Hridindu Roychowdhury #51111-510 FCI Marion PO BOX 1000 Marion, IL 62959

spotted in florence oregon — but the touristy bit, so don't get yer hopes up ya filthy coasters

"Urbex/Rurex and the Picturesque: Chasing What Cannot Be There" by Michael Templeton (from his column Wander Lines) “As you might imagine, the Freudians have had loads of fun with this shit.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/wander-lines...

don't be so self-righteous with people you don't know. you've seen what it does to people; there's so many examples. just because the advertisers like it when your interactions with strangers operate on mutual bad faith doesn't mean you gotta default to that

Two Birds by Vasily Kandinsky, 1907 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137908

With regard to toxic drug poisoning deaths, First Nations women died at 8.5 times the rate of other BC women in Jan-June 2025 and First Nations men died at 4.6 times the rate of other BC men in the same period. The toxic drug crisis is also colonial and solutions are being suppressed by government.

it's confirmed that oregon and washington state food stamp funds have been put on people's ebt cards with the full monthly amount. better stock up before they try to freeze it again.

techies, yuppies, & bougies should not be making jokes about "rent lowering gunshots". who do u think ppl are trying to scare away to keep rent down

'I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it.' -Mary Shelley, 'The Last Man,' 1826

positive news. imo ATB's hauling oil should also be banned, I think they're sketchy and a workaround for this ban and they will cause a spill. globalnews.ca/news/1151276...

laura riding

Every day I see shit from people calling themselves communists or anarchists or abolitionists and they’re like, in the future you can work yourself to death ten percent less, the jails will have a circle A on them, the cops who beat you will be crust punk cops

society was created so that we might know the joy of day drinking

"to create," synonym of "to produce," the call for creativity — the demand for more production, sneaking in the window while we lock the doors

Grist’s new “positive tipping points” story hails renewables and native gardens as proof we’re turning the corner. But we’re not swapping oil rigs for solar fields. We’re building both, accelerating destruction, and pretending it is progress. apple.news/AkJOdYHxNTO-...

Today is Quintidi the 15th of Brumaire in the year 234. Brumaire is the month of mist. Today we celebrate turkeys.#JacobinDay More information on turkeys

traveller's conundrum is passing so many little free libraries & friends of the library bookshelves in town after town & having to struggle between wanting all the books & not wanting to carry any of the books. but if i start tabling again i can just give them away......

barbaric hell country

"He who has too many words can only be alone."

Landscape with Factory Chimney by Vasily Kandinsky, 1910 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137159