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Reblogged roaldamundsen
During a series of artist residencies at national parks, Jym Davis began creating papier mâché masks of a historically misunderstood animal: the bat.
Reblogged onesizedgirl
I love being friends with prostitutes and transsexuals and artists and drug dealers and perverts and queers
Reblogged fancyratlady
Good US news because I think we all could use some of it:
- The Marines are to be withdrawn from LA. The extreme escalation many of us feared did not happen thanks to the people of LA and the soldiers themselves who said "no".
- The "Good Trouble Lives On" protests may not have been as big as the previous "Hands Off" and "No Kings" protests (likely due to heat + being planned on a weekday), but still 1.6k protests were held across the USA with thousands joining in with the peaceful protest.
- The Trump administration has been ordered to restore $6.2 million in grant funding to nine LGBTQ+ and HIV-related nonprofits. This is fantastic.
- Pittsburgh City Council has passed bills to protect its LGBTQ+ citizens.
- California has stepped up to partner with and support The Trevor Project. Let's go, Cali!
- Another win for California: Reports show that California is powered by two-thirds clean energy. This is a historic first and it keeps getting better!
- The ACLU of Louisiana has secured the release of two wrongfully detained Iranian LSU students.
- The Republican governor of New Hampshire has defied her party and shot down a book banning bill.
- Shareholders have pushed back on corporations' anti-DEI proposals, forcing companies to face the fact that diversity is good for business... And reminds us that the majority does not agree with the removal of DEI, no matter what MAGA wants us to believe.
- Since November, 69 of the 110 Supreme Court lawyers tasked with defending the Trump admin's policies have quit.
Don't let anyone tell you that there isn't hope, that there aren't people fighting and working and just as scared and angry as you are. You are not alone. Peaceful protests, contacting reps, and simple non-cooperation is how we sustainably and successfully push back against authoritarianism.
"We're cooked" is the devil talking. Giving up, rolling over, and perpetuating the idea that we've already failed is exactly what MAGA wants. Don't give them the satisfaction. Don't make it easy. Continue to look after each other and support your communities where you can. Keep protesting, keep calling, keep writing, keep loving. The heart is a muscle the size of your fist; we can get through this as long as we continue to stand up and say "no".
Reblogged sweatermuppet
decentralize and clean up your life!!!
- use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.
- use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).
- use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.
- get rid of bloatware
- use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite
- use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.
- use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.
- use storygraph instead of goodreads.
- use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions
- use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.
- use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp
- make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge
- use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google
- use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)
- use flashpoint to play archived online flash games
- find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books
- burn your music onto cds
- use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe
- use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes
- use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail
- remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X
- remove bloatware on samsung X
- use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta
- use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.
feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3
last updated: march 18th 2025
Reblogged sweatermuppet
readings: essays & articles
- reassuring ghosts and haunted houses
- fish recorded singing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds
- what people around the world dream about
- poet and philosopher david whyte on anger, forgiveness, and what maturity really means
- oranges are orange, salmon are salmon
- how memories persist where bodies and even brains do not
- the avant-garde musical legacy of the moomins
- the weight of our living: on hope, fire escapes, and visible desperation
- disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
- what is better ー a happy life or a meaningful one?
- after my dad died, i started sending him emails. months later, someone wrote me back
- on the igbo art of storytelling
- what the caves are trying to tell us
- promethean beasts — how animal uses of fire help illuminate human pyrocognition
- the art of loving and losing female friends
- on memorizing poetry
- the ecological imagination of hayao miyazaki
- reading in the age of constant distraction
- holly warburton illustrates tender moments of love and light
- romancing the fig: what one fruit can tell us about love, life and human civilization
- mystery and birds: 5 ways to practice poetry
- can a plant remember? this one seems to — here's the evidence
- why female cannibals frighten and fascinate
- when you give a tree an email adress
- fear not — horror movies build community and emotional resilience