you ever talking to someone and realise that they're not a "bigotry is bad because it is false," ally and are instead a "bigotry is basically true but you're supposed to be nice about it," "ally."

found this bug hotel on Facebook

A netsuke showing three rats eating a fish head. Made in the 18th / 19th century during the Edo / Meiji period. Believed to be carved from a sperm whale tooth.

A netsuke is a Japanese miniature sculpture that originated in the 17th century.

Julius von Klever - "Sunset" (1914)

“Cleaning the House” painting by Sally Welchman.

A librarian is a sort of automaton that is often placed behind desks in libraries. They're usually set up to appear as though they're reading a book or mindlessly scrolling the internet for verisimilitude's sake, but they're only actually active when a human comes up to the desk with a prompt for help. Otherwise, the librarians stay off to conserve power. Anyone, such as an administrator, who has been in a library after hours can attest to the eerieness of such lifelike creations remaining perfectly still in near darkness.

TWIN CITIES MUTUAL AID

The current situation in Minneapolis and St Paul is horrible at all times of the day. Just walking or driving around my neighborhood one will encounter multiple agents and arrests happen very quickly. They are going door to door and grabbing people in multiple neighborhoods. Mutual aid networks in the Twin Cities are very strong but in need of more support as SNAP payments have just been taken away again from Minnesotans. Here's some compiled places that need donations currently, other mn residents feel free to add more links.

WE TAKE CARE OF US

AYU has reached their goal for a distro truck and MNIW is no longer in need of donations but has put out a linktree for families directly impacted:

Also adding the link for Lake Street Distro

Isuroon is a halal food bank serving Somali families and is currently experiencing a flood of new aid requests, show them some love too

Beaded centipede bracelet, done as a christmas gift.

people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW

Why, out of the sudden, people are acting like artists selling merch is a crime against humanity? The idea is that merch is always produced in South East Asia (not China, for whatever reason, where most of the pins are made either way), causing human rights abuses and environmental degradation. I would totally understand if the focus was on big business with enormous and wasteful orders, but it's specifically small artists who wouldn't even be able to afford large shipments.

Since people love to assume shit, I fear this sentiment is going to negatively impact the guilty-by-association artists who make their own merch or use smaller local print shops and producers, which are in no way less ethical than your regular stores you buy food in daily.

But even if ALL, absolutely ALL artists were deeply unethical, exploitative and deranged villains who giggle viciously as they order a hundred custom pins from some Ali store in China, it's weird to pick up just on that when you already buy a gazillion of stuff produced or processed in China, knowingly or not (lots of things use components made in China and other places with big manufacturing powers and cheaper labor). There's a whole giant aggressive elephant in the room, but the focus is, yet again, on a shrew.

Brave Iranian women light their cigarettes with a burning photo of the Dictator Khamenei🔥✌🏼

Tight Quarters, by Stephanie Wallace.