JBL75

@jbl75.bsky.social

Salty winter grownup

The pre-order is closed and the final extra quantities of tees are now locked on my site. Thank you to everyone who already ordered a tee, we sold almost 300 in two weeks which is INSANITY. If you haven't got one and want one, the final extra stock is available and will likely sell out quickly!

🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝@pepperraccoon.com · 4w ago

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A detailed dark fantasy style illustration of a black robin on a branch, holding a tiny spiked mace. The words Black Robin are in high stylised handlettered text, and the border features Chatham Island forget-me-nots.

Hildegard -- always a free thinker -- wondered if maybe* if baby eels came from the sea, & adult eels went back to sea, that it was possible that the ocean was where they got busy. Weird, right? She also thought they grew from eggs...another bold (and correct!) guess. 2/2

Meme. Photograph of an eel out of water, on wet sand. The eel is dark in color, and slick looking. Physically slick, not car-salesman slick. There are hints of white along the bottom; this is likely a silver eel, having made the color transition to survive in the deep ocean on it's way back home to the Sargasso. It's current coloration doesn't do much to disguise it on a beach, however.

I use this eel somewhat frequently in memes, because I love how grumpy it looks. It's DONE with all this. Tired of you, tired of fresh water, tired of frickin' herons. It's expression is that of a very harried middle-school librarian trying to impose quiet on a room full of 13 yr old boys on Ice Cream Day.

Meme text reads:
"A little privacy, please!"

Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller. Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch. No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2 🗃️🧪

Meme. Painting of St. Hildegard, from the shoulders up. She is dressed up in her nunnish finery. Her wimple is white and very creased, so that she looks a bit like a mummy and her veil is the dusky black of that suggests it's been through the wash many times. She has something like a crown on her head, with little spikes that look for all the world like duck feet. The saint's eyebrows are hard lines like windshield wipers, & her nose is ski-jump smooth.

Her head is surrounded by a nimbus of blue with a white outline, set against an orange background. She is looking up and towards your right, as if she's watching a possum that's about to drop onto the person sitting next to you. Her mouth is set in a tight smile. She's likely thinking about sex again. And maybe not just eel sex.

Hildegard provided us with the first written description of the female orgasm, so it's quite possible that she's got that on her mind.

Meme text reads:
"Medieval Eel Truth:
It's all about the Bingen's, baby!"

i cannot say loudly enough that this unthinkable devastation lies directly on the other side of gen AI and gargantuan data centers and our failure to staunch fascism bc we're too busy handwringing about pronouns and woke, but it's coming for us all and it is a reckoning bsky.app/profile/birm...

John Birmingham@birmo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

That imagery of the Himalayan tsunami smashing into the multi-story building in Nepal was horrifying, but then murder always is, isn’t it? That’s what happened at that border crossing: mass murder

Just noting that we have fully repeated the process of our response to the climate crisis: not only ignoring urgent warnings and actual research from experts, but deliberately exacerbating the harms and accelerating the industry around the collapse. just did that again, but to our brains this time

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are very gradually going to start realizing with horror how completely we have fucked the brains of an entire generation.

Account from a teacher of students suddenly being unable to complete an assignment  not amenable to AI

So, dear actors, just take the job, cash your check, and stop making excuses. YOU DO NOT CARE. Also, I'm not telling anyone to burn their copies of HP, but supporting new projects essentially means giving money to that woman to fund hatred and harm toward an already vulnerable community. L (3/3)