Devotion

Saw this news and I had to make a rough sketch about it. 🥹 We humans always underestimate the empathy and care of other animals..

Soooo mosquitoes made it to Iceland which is a bigger deal than it might seem

Leopards, meet face

Exactly one year ago today:

So the big studios are abandoning the US and turning the staff workers into contractors to get out paying for healthcare.

The United States is losing one of its defining industries because of not having universal healthcare and the people are going to be even more vulnerable to the industry.

Burcum: Will the Senate betray the Boundary Waters? This is not a drill: The Senate is poised to blow up Boundary Waters mining protections, columnist Jill Burcum writes.

Do we really want to live in a country where our most treasured wild places can be stripped of their protections at any moment? #BWCA www.startribune.com/us-senate-up...

Concentration camps. If objective is to close camps, voters must view them as vile & without any merit. Many voters believe "detention facilities" are necessary for law/safety. Plus they fit legal definition of concentration camps (which is NOT same as extermination camps.)

also the toads have been singing since 4 pm

however I also replaced a house vent and as of today completed ~25% of an outdoor sectional I'm building so I'm ready to start my new career as dyke handyman

today I got to file an intellectual property case with Etsy and I also get to have a Discussion with a client so I think I have had enough of being an artist for now

Nuthatch hex sign in pink and black

Two color print on wood! 🌸

Leftists don't call ourselves antifa but some well-meaning history professor who points out WWII was antifascist will get shadow banned, chilling speech.

I see a lot of people saying "this will affect more on the right" but "antifa" outright is not banned. The word + a "content level threat" (like the 'threat' above I guess) will trigger a penalty.

"If “antifa” is mentioned in the context of “references to historical or recent incidents of violence” [...] Should Meta apply this rule as written, the company could, for instance, restrict posts comparing the antifascist nature of World War II to the contemporary antifa movement.

She reportedly parted ways with Bezos with a jaw-dropping $38.3 billion in Amazon stock. Their divorce settlement included a 4 % stake in the online retail giant or 19.7 million shares. Under the agreement, Bezos kept 75% of the couple's Amazon stock, along with voting control of her shares. Jan 11, 2023

MacKenzie Scott has given away over $19 billion in the last 5 years and experts say she's 'changed entire fie... MacKenzie Scott acknowledged another $2 billion in donations as 2024 comes to a close.

MacKenzie Scott, worth $41.1 billion, is on a philanthropic tear and has donated an estimated 46% of her net worth.

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started.

Just. Tax. Them.

A map of the U.S. shows state-by-state numbers of public library visits per capita in 2023. States are shaded green according to visit rates. Source: USAFacts.

Public library visits by state. Visits reflect an estimated annual in-library use.

🏣 highest DC 4.46
🏣 KS 3.79
🏣 OK 2.80
🏣 NM 2.62
🏣 AR 2.35
🏣 TX 1.59
🏣 lowest HI 0.93

from Institute of Library and Museum Services, 2023

Desecration or Curiosity: Orienting Ourselves Toward Space On Artemis, capitalism, and the logics of colonialism

I wrote a little thing about how we orient ourselves toward the moon, thinking with the work of @blmckean.bsky.social on neoliberalism

"Who gets to decide what future generations will see when they look at the moon through a telescope? Will there be a democratic process for deciding?" 🧪🌒🔭

A doctor wearing red robes and healing with touch as people pray on. Okay sure Jan

colonizing or advertising or otherwise changing the moon for profit will be my joker moment

Right now, all decisions about the moon 🌔 are being made by a small number of people from just a few countries, almost none of them democratically or semi-democratically selected

Whatever they do today will reverberate for generations.

So maybe a name isn’t a big deal. But what it signifies is. 🧪

We need to think deeply about our responsibilities to future generations — globally — with respect to the night sky. Who gets to decide what they will see when they look through a telescope at the moon? Right now there are no democratic processes for that. 🌔🧪🔭

Does this post frame the issue in the ways that I’d like? Not especially. But it wouldn’t hurt Americans to interrogate the foundational belief that Americans get to make decisions about the solar system without democratic, global input and to situate the story in context: plans for moon dominance 🧪

What’s shitty about the discourse about this post both on Threads and here is that there are genuine concerns about colonialism with respect to the moon, including for example: www.cnn.com/2024/01/05/w...

🧪🌔🔭

We have seen this before, with the kidnapping of Maduro or the mass protests against ICE raids – fake images of real events. While these synthetic images fictionalize reality, they are not necessarily meant as disinformation. Rather, they both illustrate and cater to wide-spread expectations
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Related: hearing the toads for the first time this year / here is a song a few years ago

A close up of bluebells, violets below them, bare branches and gray skies behind

A pair of white violets streaked with purple, their green leaves growng out of a wood retainer

Stepped outside to a world that smelled like the inside of a rotting log 👍🏻 👍🏻

https://theycantalk.com/ Panel 1: Two beavers . One says, "Look what we can build when we work together" Panel 2: The other beaver says, "Imagine what we could destroy."

Heehee, 🤭. Imagine.

I’m hearing reports that nobody did a dang thing today, despite having many dang things to do

Who else lost an entire day

Commissions, $150 single $200 pair. Pay on sketch approval, minimal edits. Three exmples are shown of drawings of a scissor tailed flycatcher with a sprig of Indian blanket, a male and female cardinal with goldenrod, and california quail and poppy.

taking a few bird + plant sprig commissions! email katesheridanart@gmail.com with your bird, your plant, and any relevant reference