From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

He can say whatever he wants and we aren't forgetting about the files

Thanks for the reminder!

Back cover of Genesis displaying a closeup photo of the scaley arm of a marine iguana on a volcanic rock

j.lulu_photography
..Lulu🦋
Great blue heron
📍Anna Maria Island, FL
Gulf of Mexico

Book cover of Genesis by Sebastião Salgado. Black and white photo of a vast mountain and valley landscape, a river running through the valley from top to bottom and a heavy rain storm cloud at the top of the river

Phenomenal work of photography by Sebastião Salgado #reading

I just found out about them and I'm obsessed

I just finished this and it's fantastic!!

I completely missed trans day of visibility AGAIN

Literary fiction in a penguin branded orange vending machine

A Penguin Books vending machine, with a selection of books I wouldn’t have expected to see at a train station

Do you ever think about the last cicada of the season

The Snow Fairy: Japan's Cutest Bird Weighs Only 8 Grams 🐦❄️

The Snow Fairy: Japan's Cutest Bird Weighs Only 8 Grams 🐦❄️

This is what it's all about

Photo of a partial page of a book "Chapter One".... "After procuring several fervent assurances that his wife would apologize sincerely and deeply for his absence from Rosings that evening. Mr Collins reluctantly died."

Perhaps the best opener to a Pride & Prejudice sequel in The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod.
#reading #janeausten

Not to make everything about Heated Rivalry but Project Hail Mary would have been 100x better with one of those leading actors instead of woodface Gosling. Bring back facial expression!! #projecthailmary #heatedrivalry

Chalk on pavement saying "KILLING IN THE NAME OF:" then a drawing of a blood drop next to a dollar sign and a caricature of Donald Trump

Blue chalk art on pavement depicting a fighter jet bombing some buildings and a child's school bag with love hearts on it, sitting in a pool of liquid (implied blood) with love hearts in it as well

I love chalktivism #nelsonnz

The less celebrities you care about the happier you are

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Nice

Cartoon from 1910 with the heading "Sufffagists on the War Path" showing four women - two wielding umbrellas - beating a policeman lying on the ground, one is jumping on him. The caption says "jump on him. He is only a mere man". Watermarked London Metropolitan University.

Happy International Women's Day

Laura Jane Grace has been trying: "does your God have a big fat dick? cos it feels like he's fucking me"

I miss the oceangate disaster

"Factory owners capitulate!
Victory through workers' unity!
If those who do not work must starve
Then capitalists must starve!"
Strike slogan from Capitalists Must starve by Park Seolyeon, translated by Anton Hur #reading

Spent the weekend in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara. Good food, vibrant culture, many hotties, but too many sad pigeons for my liking
#justiceforpigeons

Reading The Lilac People by @todd-milo.bsky.social and it's beautiful and devastating and scary 😭

Please it's the best graphic novel I read last year

Depends what you're into I guess

We are never going to forget that the whole world watched as Israel burned Gaza for years. There is no actual ceasefire. No help is coming, there is nothing else that can happen to convince the world to help, we've seen it all. What tipping point could possibly exist?
#gaza #freepalestine

A card from a game is held up with a picture of a gruff looking dog "Gaspode", the card is held next to a real dog sitting down looking at the camera, a border terrier who looks similar to Gaspode but cuter

Gaspode and a gassy pup