Digital drawing in white ink against a black background of a sweet donkey in profile facing left. Only their head and neck are visible and their short, upright mane is "dyed" the pink, blue and white of the trans pride flag.

Almost time for #TransArtMay, which is a thing I made up where I draw mostly animals of all kinds with the trans pride flag colors incorporated in some fashion.

What kinds of creatures would you like to see? Insects, fish, birds, mammals, invertebrates etc welcome! I could use ideas, help me out?

The Dutch legal cannabis experiment one year on - leafie For decades, the Netherlands embraced a strange compromise: selling and consuming cannabis was tolerated, growing it was criminal. One year into regulating the entire supply chain across ten cities, t...

For decades, the Netherlands embraced a strange compromise: selling and consuming #cannabis was tolerated, growing it was criminal. One year into regulating the entire supply chain across ten cities, the Dutch experiment is thriving.👇🏻

www.leafie.co.uk/cannabis/dut...

‘The environmental movement needs many hands’: saving Australia’s biodiversity is getting personal Powered by individual donations and bequests, the country now has one of the world’s largest networks of privately protected and managed land * Change by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprint * Got a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at changebydegrees@theguardian.com Gifting land for conservation and leaving environmental bequests in personal wills are part of a quiet but rapidly growing revolution in environmentalism in Australia – motivated by individual efforts to address the climate and biodiversity crisis head on. As a result, Australia now boasts one of the largest networks of privately protected and managed areas in the world, with gifted land now covering over 10m hectares. Between 2019 and 2024, leading Australian environmental charities saw a 150% increase in bequest revenue, according to data from the 2025 Benchmarking Project report. Continue reading...

‘The environmental movement needs many hands’: saving Australia’s biodiversity is getting personal

What it can do for you - Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World Thousands of peer-reviewed scientific papers prove that mindfulness enhances mental and physical wellbeing and reduces chronic pain. Clinical trials, including a major study at the University of Cambridge,...

What has mindfulness ever done for us?! It's great for anxiety

I hate that!

Great work! Even when a #mentalhealth service is responsible for a region it seems to accept that many services will not be available to those #youngpeople who live rurally within.that.region.
What drives this?

How Location Is Shaping Young People’s Mental Health Nearly 1 in 3 young Australians live outside of major cities. Yet for many of these young people, accessing mental health support is significantly harder.

Nearly 1 in 3 young Aussies live outside major cities yet many face greater barriers to #mentalhealth support.

For some, help is hours away & others, it doesn’t feel accessible.

Next week, young people will share their experiences in their own words.

Read more: www.batyr.com.au/how-location...

was a reminder that ridicule can still work as a form of resistance, especially when power expects silence instead.

Here’s the truth of it. Trump’s lunatic threats of war crimes committed against the Iranian PEOPLE won’t change a thing. They will only start WWIII. We must take away grandpa’s car keys. And we must do it NOW.

Sarah Hanson-Young says her advice to the Australian women & children forced in detention in Syria is “form a soccer team”
“Then maybe the PM might care about you.”
“Who’s leading the charge on all of this?…
Pauline Hanson, the chief racist of them all” 🔥
#auspol

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Surely this can’t be a real president speaking 🤷‍♀️

Rob Jetten « @MinPres X.com I*lEThe friendship between Canada and the Netherlands is very close and goes back a long way. The Canadians played a crucial role in liberating our country. And more than a million people with Dutch roots live in Canada. We work together closely in the international arena, for example within NATO and in supporting Ukraine. This afternoon I had an introductory phone conversation with Prime Minister @MarkJCarney. We both have many serious concerns about the war in Iran and its impact on the region and the wider world. Along with our international partners, we are monitoring the situation closely and seeking solutions. At the same time, we remain fully focused on the war in Ukraine. During the call we also discussed opportunities to expand our cooperation in the areas of security, the defence industry, energy and trade.

I've heard a few times lately that a solution to being overwhelmed is to 'work on your boundaries'.

Hmm. It's obvsly a good thing to be self aware, but there's a big risk here of putting responsibility on exhausted individuals to mitigate the effects of knackered systems & relentless demands.

Family of Australian aid worker killed by IDF still waiting for answers Two years ago Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom was killed by an IDF strike in Gaza. Her family is still waiting for answers and accountability.

Israel's murder of Zomi Frankcom, an Australian aid worker, will not be forgotten.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Dancing us into disaster. Today’s Age cartoon

Excellent article:
'Normally in a vacuum, if you wrote an opinion piece calling for disabled people to have their support taken away from them to save money, instead of talking about actual problems with the system or taxing the fucking rich, you would rightfully be torn apart. /2

A political cartoon by Megan Herbert suggesting an urban landscape. In the right foreground is a heap of sandbags, beneath which is a crushed person, arms and leg protruding from beneath. The sandbags are labelled with various things: "Exploding Housing Costs", "Insurance Premium Rise", "Increased Energy Prices", "Grocery Price Gouging", "Council Rates Hike", and "Skyrocketing Fuel Costs". Dropping from the sky and about to land on top of the pile is a whopping sandbag labelled "Interest Rate Rise", having just been cut loose by a golden helicopter emblazoned with "RBA". RBA Governor Michele Bullock yells from the helicopter, "It was a very difficult decision!" while flying off towards a blue-skied horizon.

Crushing reality.
My cartoon in Thursday's @theageaustralia.bsky.social

No healthcare.
No free school lunch.
No child cancer research.

But those f*ckers have the audacity to set fire to $11 billion of our taxpayer funds by blowing up little Iranian girls???

I can't WAIT for the midterms. 🤬

Parody may have worked just as well

Oh good! I was hoping someone would enjoy it

It’s the words of wisdom we were waiting for in this time of global crisis!
#insiders

And all Barnaby does is turn on the true blue country boy prosody and stance as if it is all his voters require; oh, wait…🤷‍♀️

Strong Songs: A Podcast About Music Music: It's good. On each episode of Strong Songs, host Kirk Hamilton takes listeners inside a piece of music, breaking it down and figuring out what makes it work.

@kirkhamilton.com I am loving #StrongSongs - I’m telling you - have a listen - fortunately I am late to it so can devour Kirk’s vast back catalogue strongsongspodcast.com

White South Africans only refugees to US since October: New data Not a single refugee who isn’t a white South African has been legally resettled in the US States since October, according official data.

Trump's strategies for reinforcing the white, right-wing in the US.
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/u...

A ★★★★ review of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Thankfully, we’d never in a million years allow this many incompetent, unqualified, psychotic, unquestioning boobs to be in command of our world powers and their nuclear arsenals for this to happen in...

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" #DrStrangelove #Filmsky

Released OTD--29 Jan.--in 1964, Stanley Kubrick's DR. STRONGELOVE, OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB.
#filmsky #moviesky #StanleyKurbrick #DrStrangelove

this will always be one of my favorite moments in all of cinema. #TCMParty #DrStrangelove #31DaysOfOscar