My sister’s cat and I have a deal that every so often when I visit she sits there in the sink and I turn on the tap just a trickle. She does not otherwise address me.
Rose Mallow
@swamp.bsky.social
Do no harm, take no shit. Recent transplant to the PNW. Growing native plants and gardening for critters. 🐝🪱🐌 *** Pfp: bright green flower buds from a Rose Mallow plant I grew. Banner: a light pink Rose Mallow bloom in the sun.
It's Textile Tuesday, and you know what that means: a piece by artist Faig Ahmed called "The Dragons of Karabakh" that's woven to look like an antique Central Asian carpet is melting off the wall into a puddle. More about the artist here: faigahmed.com
Somehow I wound up at the Smolenski Park prairie restoration with two nearly-dead camera batteries, but at least I had just enough of a charge in one to get some photos. The place was filled with life today! So many butterflies! #prairie #nativeplants #insects #birds #Wisconsin
Let us examine the set of circumstances that led to this Eulimnadia clam shrimp living out its entire live cycle in a styrofoam cup on the ground.
This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
I’m approaching 50 of these, does anyone want to print them nicely into a book and send them out to my low double digits marketable audience for me?
Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Imagine being this photogenic 🪲ID Guess: White Garland House Hopper #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts #spider
Regency-era mugs, gifts for #19thc children who managed to stick to their books & learn to read. Their mottoes are grim but maybe necessary admonitions, too, for the academic who's soldiering on while coming to terms with the fact that it's August now. I.e. I feel seen. #AcademicLife
GIRL SNAKE CATCHER. she makes a snug little income by securing reptiles for traveling shows SHE JUST GRABS THEM (The Washington Bee, Washington DC, November 8, 1902)
Don't pretend that any of this is about protecting girls. It's about justifying prejudice and I want no part of it
spent the morning deep cleaning in the doctors office and apothecary. look how satisfying, the way these glass eyes shined right up made me very happy before after
here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?
As a Religious Studies professor, this directly targets my livelihood in a way that makes a mockery of any supposed profession of concern the administration has ever expressed for me as a Jewish person on campus.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
When trying to understand the Right Wing, it helps to realize they have spent their lives pretending to be someone they aren't and sublimating parts of themselves they hate and that they have to project that pain and hatred onto others because the tension is so unbearable it will destroy them.
If you're curious about how the right is going to try to frame the horrific fires in Spokane Washington, it looks like they plan to blame them on homeless people, local (DEM) city leadership, and state (DEM) mismanagement of forests. So, many of the same frames as the LA fires.
ok time to get going on club fulfillment BUT FIRST YOUR STICKER OF THE MONTH, by dictatorial fiat, is STREET SNACKS join this very INSTANT or be crushed by the weight of regret the rest of your days ko-fi.com/thxnywy
His name is Wilson 😌 first painting for #AugustAdventures2026 - prompts are Peak & Song! #gouache #sketchbookart #artist #illustration
Shut the fuck up -sent from my Westinghouse smart fridge
