It's terrifying to stick ones neck out and genuinely articulate for oneself, by oneself, without the backing of some higher entity justifying that articulation. And so rather than risking ones neck, we often seek representation through some external authority (even if that authority is fabricated).

into what

It's always nice to bump into a friend This beautifully coloured Heliotrope Moth (Utetheisa pulchelloides) was sitting face to face with a very tiny and rather spikey looking Leptozestis sp. moth at our moth light recently. #teammoth #mothfacefriday #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist

#OtD 27 Mar 1943 gay anti-fascist Willem Arondeus led a group in bombing the Amsterdam Public Records Office that Nazis used to identify Dutch Jews. Arrested, before his execution, Arondeus wanted it to be known that "homosexuals are not cowards." stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9931...

I don't think many people are clued into the long history of public libraries facilitating publishing and self-publishing. americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/06/02/g...

I despise when tech execs describe resistance to a new tech product or paradigm as "being scared" i.e. "I understand why musicians are scared but.." it's so condescending. being politically against something or exercising your right to opt out can come from many places other than "being scared"

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Anita Rée (1885-1933) - Witte bomen, 1922 /1925 Olieverf op doek.

i'll go along with a lot of bullshit in a cover letter but i refuse to write that i "take direction well". who the fuck puts that in a job ad

The myth of the Hamitic race in religious and pseudo-scientific literature: an African perspective www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-myth-o...

Peacock teapot by Carol Long, US ceramicist who draws influences from Art Nouveau and plant and animal life #WomensArt

job references are an evil thing

The cover artwork titled 'Unfinished Fragments' was created by Palestinian geographer Samir Harb. The drawing purposely appears as incomplete to convey this sense of “no State,” a decentralized model where heterogeneous fragments exist alongside each other. thefunambulist.net/shop/no-stat...

Little did I know, but the Japanese anarchist Taiji Yamaga was also quite the artist. These sketches are beautiful.

I think making a full-throated, unambivalent case for unrestricted migration is one of the more important tasks for public intellectuals in the rich countries.

really sucks how everyone online giving "tips" for jobseekers is a massive bootlicker who muddies any useful advice with ridiculous stuff like this. true of both pros and amateurs, but the latter is exponentially more pathetic

Powerful men being dumb and evil is like the second basic fact you learn after hitting puberty as a girl. If only it had been possible to communicate with anyone who’d ever been a girl.

rare good fb post. "What pelicans returning to the Brisbane River suggests" www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

just learnt today that virna lindt's new album is finally out. been waiting for it for the last few years, it's her first in forty years. highly recommend her first one if you like arty synthpop with spy vibes

one of the most fascinating and underappreciated characters in an underappreciated era. its so hard to find more than crumbs about and by her

kinda fucked up theres no mangrove emoji

The beauty of mutual aid is that it is fundamentally just that. It can adapt to different situations and get more complex but its logic is fundamentally simple and easy to understand.

Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), contemporary fine artist living on a re-wilding farm in Wales who has created a series of 'Garden Icons' - inspired by local wildlife #WomensArt

Bushfire sunset

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1. As you walk around, patterns of vegetation around us, the plant communities, may seem like something static or set, especially because trees and systems live at different speeds than we do, but what we often thing is set, "natural," "co-evolved," "good", "bad" etc, is a constant pattern of flux

In einer Art Sexualangst scheute man sich, neue Gestalten zu zeugen und die Wandelbarkeit der Welt zu verstärken.

I never realised quite how pink or large an oystercatchers' feet are. Sooty Oystercatcher on the rocks. #birds #brisbane

when you’re considering the subtleness of the sea

Sigh. Since pieces are going around using "medieval peasant" as a perjorative again, here's your reminder that they were way better organized, more rebellious, less superstitious, more aware of sanitation and way more ingenious than you've probably been taught. I've written about this *a lot.*

Some of my most favorite people are principled anti-work grifters. Let’s not sully their fine names by lumping in this shiftless fascist

i've not paid much attention to his acting but this is a banger quote. brissie lad too 🌞

just randomly discovered a great artist i'd never heard of before from a footnote in an old book about politics

yikes