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I’ve been slowly working on illustrating my own Tarot deck about black cats.
I have a long way to go, but I’m nearly done with the major arcana.
Here are some of my favorites:
I set myself a design challenge (as I often do). I wanted to limit the color palette and the brush styles to create a very consistent look.
And since each card focuses on black cats, it forces me to think deeply about symbolism and design to make sure the meaning of each card is clear and each design is unique.
But there’s still a lot of variety coming through. It’s not all class, or all silliness - just like cats
I have a forearm tattoo of the cats in this one ☝️
I’m so happy with how both of these two managed to feel dark, but adorable at the same time.
And then there’s this one absolute diva:
Most of these used my own feline friends for reference.
There are more but I don’t know yet how many I want to share online. If I can actually complete the entire deck I would love to have it made. But I have a ways to go, so for now I continue to chip away, one card at a time.
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Paying your way through college by selling weed or doing Only Fans or whatever is infinitely more honorable than joining the military to get an education. Never forget community college is an option and you do not have to contribute to American imperialism to attend. I knew a girl who had scholarships but sold her dirty socks and underwear to pervs online for living expenses and she is stronger than any US marine for that.
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for the jewelry crafters and the macrame enjoyers alike, as both I love this
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Going to sleep right now but please leave me Kennett fic recs
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is spending millions to turn the chronically online into deportation agents, according to internal communications reviewed exclusively by the Washington Post.
The agency’s $100 million marketing strategy, detailed in a 30-page document distributed to ICE officials this summer, includes a massive push to flood the digital market with geo-targeted and content-based advertising. The plan even names specific platforms, like Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Substack, and Rumble, a popular “alt-tech” video platform frequented by conservatives.
1,103 days left
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why-must-my-username-be-clever:
Biden (or rather his administration) actually did do a few good things like acting on antitrust laws and marginally improving some regulations, but in the end, none of that matters because he did nothing to prevent an authoritarian dictatorship from coming to power and immediately sweeping all that away. His only lasting legacy are tens or hundreds of thousands of murdered Palestinians.
This is the only Biden post that really strikes at the core of my feelings. He DID do a lot of good stuff, undeniably, but in the midst of a crisis he didn’t do the thing that REALLY mattered, preventing fascism from getting power in America. Because of that, the only legacy from his time is his failures
At best, his administration was just a brief inflection in America’s slide towards tyranny, civil war, and collapse. Not a reversal of the decline; not even a slowing of the decline; but a slowing of the rate at which the decline was accelerating.
Just out of interest, what could he have done? I read a book from Bierling “the disunited states: the political system of the US and the future of democracy” last year and I can’t think of one thing Biden in particular as a president could have done.
Ended the filibuster, for one; used the outrage over Roe v. Wade to expand and pack the Supreme Court; started D.C. and Puerto Rico on the path to statehood. Hell, the Dems probably would have at least won Michigan if he hadn’t cut a blank cheque to Netanyahu for exterminating the Palestinians. And, as the last year has shown, there are a number of other, dubiously legal things that Presidents can apparently get away with. A scorched-earth “lawfare” campaign against the GOP would not also have been outside the ream of possibility.
Also, unironically, he could’ve not run for a second term.
It was a pretty open secret that most Democratic voters had only begrudgingly voted for him the first time and after a full term where he just Let Things Happen, fewer people saw him as an acceptable option. Sure there’d always be that core of “Vote blue no matter who” constituents but that group is absolutely shrinking and the Democratic party should’ve realized that sooner. Had the campaign begun as Harris’s or they’d gotten just A Competent Person Who’s Younger Than 70 in the first place they would’ve had a much stronger turn out.
Heck, I think Harris might’ve won if her campaign hadn’t been “I will be exactly the same as Biden policy-wise”. Choosing to back up literally everything your former running mate decided to do during the most controversial year of his term is not the way to win over people who didn’t want to vote for him.
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Analyzing the politics of a work that’s meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be “political” in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator’s beliefs?
Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw
Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it’s possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.
I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS
I went outside and got an education, that’s where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.
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The standoff with agents happened on Jan. 8, one day after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis. Wooten’s refusal to comply with ICE was captured on video and posted to Facebook.
The agents tried everything to intimidate the guard.
“You can’t come back here, bro,” Wooten can be heard in the video saying to an agent wearing a mask and sunglasses. “I’m talking to your manager,” the agent said. Wooten responded: “No, you’re talking to security, I’m in charge.”
ICE left empty-handed. Wooten said he just stood his ground, “10 toes down.”
“I was doing my job like I’m supposed to,’’ Wooten said. “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. I just want to make my family safe because I’ve been here three years.”
(Source: facebook.com, via kawuli)
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Looking at what national news outlets are up to right now, one might not realize a whole major US metropolitan area is, you know, sort of under attack by paramilitary forces. Wild.
im sorry the What is being What now???
While it’s not going unreported entirely, what’s been happening in Minnesota and in Minneapolis–Saint Paul in particular since Renee Good was murdered is not getting the attention it should be.
There are already 2000 gangsters from DHS deployed, and “hundreds” or “1000” more are on the way, depending on which Trumpland person you ask. As a point of reference, the Twin Cities’ actual police total just under 1200 (600 in Minneapolis and 590 in Saint Paul according to the depts’ sites).
The feds there are more or less attacking people at random. They’ve gone door-to-door for “citizenship checks” (completely illegal). They’ve knocked doors down when residents haven’t complied (obviously also completely illegal). In addition to abducting and brutalizing the immigrants they come across during their rampages, they’ve done the same to US citizens of color and are also harassing, stalking and physically attacking observers.
Here are some local sources:
ICE intensifies Twin Cities operation after killing of Renee Good, protests (MPR News—link won’t embed)
Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists (MPR News—link won’t embed)
Below are some videos from observers. I’m linking to Bluesky because that’s where I saw them, though many are originally from/also available elsewhere. I apologize for the rancid formatting below but it was the best I could do quickly-ish. The images are previews; click the links in the timestamps to watch.
Elliott Payne (@elliottpayne.org) January 12, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Mickey Kuhns (@mickeykuhns.bsky.social) January 12, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Dumb Meg (@dmbmeg.bsky.social) Jan 11, 2026 at 6:10 PM (You need to be logged in to see this—while it’s unclear what happened to the victim in this one, there’s no reported death so far; CW for heightened violence)
Dom Ervolina (@dominicervolina.com) Jan 11, 2026 at 8:42 PM (You need to be logged in to see this)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 12, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 12, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Sundae Gurl (@sundaedivine.lol) January 10, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) January 12, 2026 at 9:19 PM
SaltyBitchables (@saltybitchables.bsky.social) January 11, 2026 at 4:19 PM
News2Share has more on YouTube:
I also recommend checking out this guy’s work:
Schools had to cancel classes due to threats from ICE, and the city districts are offering virtual learning for children who are scared to leave the house.
High schoolers had classes canceled all last week because hours after Good was murdered, Border Patrol gents attacked them as school was getting out, tackled, beat and handcuffed staff, and tear gassed students.
Just a note of the scale/how it’s affecting people at every level and in every context.
Mix of agencies too: CPB, DHS, ICE.
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“Friends outside of Minnesota please read. I’m sharing a post written by a personal friend and medical doctor:
Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:- ICE agents are cruising areas with immigrant-owned businesses, and kidnapping patrons and employees alike. Yesterday they abducted two US citizen employees at a suburban Target, one who was begging them to allow him to go get his passport to show them.
- ICE is going door to door in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, asking residents where their immigrant neighbors live. Read that again. If it sounds like something out of your high school history textbook, that’s because it is.
- ICE is targeting schools and school buses. They pepper sprayed teenagers and abducted two school staff members at the high school up the street from me on Wednesday. Police are literally escorting school buses to ensure children can get to school and home safely. The Minneapolis Public Schools have moved to virtual learning for the next 4 weeks because it’s unsafe for children or teachers to physically come to school.
- They are targeting hospitals and clinics. Patients are scared and are cancelling their appointments or just not showing up. Kids are missing their checkups and vaccines, folks aren’t getting their cancer care, etc.
- They are smashing windows in cars and homes.
- ICE is increasingly picking up Native Americans—again, targeting folks based on skin color alone.
- They are arresting and beating legal observers. A friend of a friend had her arm broken yesterday. Folks are showing up at local hospitals, brought in in ICE custody, with severe injuries that are absolutely inconsistent with mechanism of injury reported by ICE. (Think: patient appears to have been beaten unconscious, while ICE agent says he slipped and fell.)
I can’t emphasize enough that these ICE agents do not have warrants. There are 2,000+ agents here and they are simply hunting for anyone that’s not white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or a green card holder, they will kidnap you first and ask questions later.
But the community is fighting back. - Protests are happening every day.
- Community groups have been leading know-your-rights sessions for months, often to packed venues.
- Whistles are being distributed by the thousands, carried on keychains and worn on coat zippers, always at the ready to be blown in warning if ICE is spotted.
- Drivers are following ICE vehicles, blaring their horns in warning.
- Businesses are locking their doors even while open to keep employees and customers safe. As I type this, I’m standing guard at the locked door of our neighborhood burrito joint while I wait for my takeout order, so the employees can focus on their jobs. The place is packed with neighbors supporting this small business.
- Anti-ICE signs are posted everywhere. The community is making it crystal clear that ICE is not welcome here.
- Parents and neighbors are standing guard outside schools, organizing carpools, and escorting kids to and from school on foot.
- Parents of kids in Spanish-immersion daycare (there are a LOT of these daycares here!) are keeping their kids home so the teachers don’t have to take the risk of coming to work.
- Churches and community groups are holding fundraisers to buy and deliver groceries to families who don’t feel safe leaving home.
- Mutual aid money is going out to folks who can’t make rent because they can’t work or because a breadwinner was abducted, or who need a warm place to stay after their home’s windows were smashed.
THAT is what is happening here. This fight is ongoing and it’s horrifying to watch. But we are not backing down. To my friends in other cities and states, don’t think for a minute that this won’t happen in your town. It will. Be ready. Learn from us, as we have learned from Portland and Chicago and New York. Fight back. Don’t let us get to the last line of Martin Niemoller’s poem.”
-Grant Boulanger
Here’s an AP news brief with a little more info. It’s limited in the way major news outlets are right now but provides context that supports the personal account shared.
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Cool! I want to make this.
[Video description–
Video posted to VK Clips by @artworldvk showing the fabrication of a coffee table that tricks the eye into believing it houses a shaft that goes deep beyond the floor level.
The video starts by showing the viewer a glass-topped coffee table in a living room. Below the glass top there appears to be a brick-walled shaft that goes downward into the floor, so deep that the end point has disappeared into inky blackness and cannot be seen. Mounted on one wall of the shaft is a ladder consisting of vertical metal sidebars with rungs of rope hung between them. On the opposite wall is a vertical column of light bulbs that illuminate the shaft with a warm glow. Both the ladder and the column of light bulbs stretch downward as far as the eye can see, disappearing into infinity.
The video then cuts to an artist making a similar table. The base of the coffee table is actually a hollow wooden box, lined internally with brick-patterned surfacing on the four vertical sides and a smooth mirror on the base, facing upwards. The artist mounts a rope ladder on one inside face of the box, and a vertical column of light bulbs on the other. Additional metal rungs are also mounted on a third face.
A pane of dark-tinted glass is placed on top and the light bulbs are switched on at the same time that the general illumination in the room is switched off. Because the amount of light within the box is greater than that of the outside, the inside surface of the glass pane functions like a second mirror, facing downwards. With two functional mirrors opposite each other, one on the top and one on the bottom, the resulting infinite series of reflections creates the illusion that the depth of the box is extended far beyond the actual base when viewed from above, through the transparent pane of glass.
The video ends with a shot of the first coffee table and its brick-lined shaft extended downward into infinity.
End video description.]
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zoning out or imagining things is not dissociation. dissociation is a severe trauma response. fucking stop with this. you were not traumatized by your math homework and dissociating at your desk, you were uninterested and zoned out.
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