Oh shit I'm so sorry, I hope he gets the care he needs and everything goes well. 💚

you are not a violent abuser BECAUSE you have mental health issues. You can be a violent abuser who is ALSO mentally ill. The mental illness is not the cause of your domestic violence.

Just saw the term "sanewash" and need to once again state extremely clearly that if you smear the fascists in charge, making destructive decisions with their own free will, as "insane", I do not trust you.

They aren't insane, they are fascists.

You conflating those things is appalling and telling.

Hello just thinking about bogs again

The comparison of liberal Zionists to Nazis, for instance, is repugnant and not much improved by Piker clarifying that he opposes ethnostates. What made the Nazis notable wasn’t their support for an ethnostate. Ethnostates are common. What made the Nazis notable was their effort to exterminate the Jewish people

I often complain that liberal zionists seem to think this, and then Ezra Klein just outright fucking typed it out.

*Every* ethnostate is founded on genocidal violence, and the nazis were just a purified exemplar of such; to focus solely on their extermination of Jews ignores the Roma etc.

I want sushi

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

The PSL, which is unfortunately still very influential on the left/movements in the USA, is one of the best examples that we can't "left unity" or "don't fight about political differences, just organise" our way toward liberation.
They're horrible, from the worst campism imaginable to rape coverups!

We cannot move on from the Prairieland case as documented by @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social.

We cannot avert our eyes from an injustice this grotesque and far-reaching.

We cannot allow a beautiful idea like anarchism to be equated to terrorism.

We cannot let the state trample us all.

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff

Oof. I'm sorry you're dealing with constant demoralizing AI bullshit

no one teaching college is paid enough that they are receiving appropriate compensation for the damage to our work process inflicted by AI adoption. no one

*except maybe B-school profs who use it to generate assignment prompts and then do their grading, idk

To my ears, waulking songs have the same appeal as shanties. I can't help wondering if they didn't share the recent upswing shanties have had in part because they're traditionally women's songs.

I was so nervous flying back to the US yesterday bc this worst case scenario is always in my head. I always carry a habeas petition and cash for filing when I’m returning, just in case. Also suggest my friends and family do the same.

"Crow", pencil crayon/graphite on watercolour paper, 9x12", 2026- $450(Cdn). A drawing of a crow perched on a post in profile, looking back at the viewer with its beak open . The feather's are drawn in purples, blues & blacks.

"Red-tailed Hawk", pencil crayon/graphite on paper, 8x10", 2026- $450(Cdn). A realistic colour drawing of a red-tailed hawk. The bird is perched on a branch looking back at the viewer over over its left shoulder.

"Great Horned Owl", pencil crayon/graphite on paper, 8x11", 2026- $450(Cdn). A realistic colour drawing of a great horned owl perched on a post. Its body is facing to its right, its head is facing to its left.

"Peregrine Falcon", pencil crayon/graphite on paper, 9x9", 2026- $450(Cdn). A colour drawing of a peregrine falcon in profile, facing left. It's perched upon a stone bird's head building gargoyle.

Bird, bird, bird, bird. Descriptions & prices in alt-text. DM if interested. #art #birds

I'm starting a turkey vulture today. And trying to include more interesting perches, not just boring old wooden posts.

Palestinians in Gaza fear famine returning as Israel cuts off food amid Iran war Once Israel and the U.S. launched their war on Iran, Israel closed the crossings into Gaza and cut off all aid. Palestinians in the Strip now fear a return to famine amid food shortages and soaring prices.

Once Israel and the U.S. launched their war on Iran, Israel closed the crossings into Gaza and cut off all aid. Palestinians in the Strip now fear a return to famine amid food shortages and soaring prices.

mondoweiss.net/2026/03/pale...

#Palestine #Israel

I do appreciate cis advocates of trans healthcare, especially in these times, but I do wish more of them would let go of the "experts know best" framing. I'm aware it's safe, palatable, sellable, but there's a century of "experts" torturing, converting, and sexually abusing trans people. So.

If you want to make the philosophical argument that the soldier pulling the trigger for imperialist masters and the ones he aims his gun at are both victims of a violent system, you better actually acknowledge who is harmed first and who is harmed more in that exchange or you're just doing apologia.

I thought it was really interesting seeing how the cute little creepers use that curved bill of theirs to reach underneath tree bark for food! #birds

A closeup portrait of a male mallard in profile, their head glossy emerald-green, their breast a deep chestnut, what little is visible of their body a pale taupe, with a thin white ring around their neck. Their bill is yellow with a slight black tip, and their warm brown eye looks rather kindly.

Portrait of a duck. #birds

Anti-fatness is a load-bearing pillar of white supremacist patriarchal capitalism, and the human toll is immense - both on fat people who face medical bias, discrimination, etc, and on people of all sizes who develop eating disorders.

In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel

No one before Ben has ever considered that trans women might actually be effeminate gay boys. No one has ever suggested such a thing to us, repeatedly, in a bid to prevent us from transitioning, or developed entire typologies around the idea, or reinforced it in multiple academic fields!

like, the americans that told me yes the military is maybe overwhelmingly middle class but they are also there for economic reasons didn’t want to grapple with the implicit underlying ideology that it is acceptable to enlist for money

the funny thing is I tried to explain that to several people but it simply goes over their head that “economic incentives” can only be a compelling reason to become a murderer if there is a societal consensus that becoming a murderer is an acceptable career option

I think what is being missed about the discussion around the class character of people in the US military is that American society straight up has a cultish devotion to the institution of military service that transcends those class barriers.

Let’s see if the EU and UK decide to stand with Spain or if they will throw Spain under the bus to keep allowing the US to use their territory for its illegal war

A grey coloured eastern screech owl, sitting in their hole in their tree in the bright winter sun, their eyes closed in apparent contentment. The owl is quite small, with small tufts of feathers on their head that look like ears, and remarkably bark-like mottled plumage. Their feathers are fluffed up in the cold so that they look almost spherical.

The most perfect feathery orb! #birds

Even setting aside the metaphysics of transition, part of embracing gender diversity is understanding that some people simply do not fit healthily in the gender they were assigned at birth and *do better* when living as a different gender.

"Transing the gays" conspiracy is built on the idea that you can be gender nonconforming up to a point, but you should not cross the line between the genders, you should not assert a gender identity different than the one society says you have. That isn't really accepting gender diversity.