A small orange Mycena mushroom with a translucent stem grows boldly from green scaly moss on top of a log. All photo by me

Here is a nice mushroom

Illustration of a girl reading a book to a handful of lambs and two dragons in a big field. It's a beautiful day out so everyone's sunbathing instead. Drawn by gdbeeart in May 2025, paint tool sai

class is in session!

"Scientific insiders." You mean...scientists? The people who do science and understand it? I'm not saying they're beyond suspicion, but when I look at the US over the past 20 years, I do not have the impression that our major problem is that _scientists_ have too much power.

MOVE bombing 40 years later: A day of reflection and remembrance Forty years ago today, city officials made the unconscionable decision to bomb its own people.

40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

What You Need to Know About the MOVE Bombing And how Philadelphia became "the city that bombed itself."

today marks 40 years since Philadelphia police bombed the Black liberation group MOVE's home in West Philadelphia. 6 adults and 5 children burned to death. over 60 homes were destroyed from the resulting fire, and over 250 people left homeless. (resharing @kimkelly.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com)

Illustration of a human version of Saturn with rings and moons. They have liquid hair in multicolors, and orange/green/yellow ombre skin. They are wearing a tank top with a transparent sweater. Drawn by gdbeeart in May 2025

Planettes #3: Saturn

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.

Pulpy book cover for the comic Dust n' Dread. The two main characters are standing at the bottom looking up towards a monster with glowing eyes.

Happy #webcomicday!

Do you like cowboys? Do you like monsters? Do you like cowboy monsters? Then you should check out my comic!

Dust n' Dread is a horror comic about an undead corpse and a pathetic werewolf hunting monsters in a very weird west, and doing a very bad job at it.

dustndreadcomic.com

NEW: Minnesota’s graduation rate just reached the highest level on record.

Two years ago, we made the single-largest investment in public schools in state history.
 
Today, we’re seeing the results.

Can’t watch the Sinners movie as I’m afraid of the girlish longing I feel any time I see Michael B. Jordan’s (beautiful, beautiful) face. You understand. 😔

Here are some actionable suggestions if publishers want to actually help Black and Brown writers (rather than some publicity stunt that helps one or two people, gives a pat on the head to the publisher, and does nothing for anybody else).

1. Actively hire more Black and Brown people in publishing.

Does anybody remember playing these games as a kid?

Miss Universe Philippines has a mythology theme going on this year, which is great for anyone whose interests contain both monster girls and mahou shoujo villains (like yours truly).

2 skeins of yarn at an angle. On the left is platinum Pilgrim and on the right is ecliptic Violet. They are surrounded by blue flowers and silver beads

2 skeins of yarn. In the middle is platinum Pilgrim on a bed of ecliptic Violet. They are surrounded by blue flowers and silver beads

🎵Purple yaaaaarn, purple yarn...🎵

An order of two of the new arrivals in silk sock weight yarn. Gorgeous eh? I love how this new silver had purple undertones that play with this deep violet. 💜 🧶

#indieyarndyer #yarnsky #yarnlover #yarnaddict #handdyedyarn

I put together charts with standard measurements of ten women's sizes, seven men's sizes, and twenty children's sizes from infants to teenagers, with separate charts for girls and for boys
You can download them

www.10rowsaday.com/library

#knitting #knit #handknit #beginnerknitter #justknitting

Getting that surgery where they break my legs to make me even taller than all my lil manlet friends 🥰🥰🥰

i should draw shit like this again

found this painting from 2014

Rhododendron for a warning. Amaranthus for hopelessness. Coltsfoot for justice to be served.

Mal and Gabe are really good friends and life's been hitting them (and Scooter) pretty hard, please consider helping and sharing if you can!

if you thought signalgate was bad… just wait, there’s more

Others have pointed this out already but the Booker's "stunt" is him literally Doing the Job - impassioned speechmaking is supposedly the main reason for Senators to exist and the only reason any of them from before the United States was established are remembered by name

If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Hydrangea needlepoint finished (14"x14") and on the blocking board. I'm happy with it. Black velvet sew-in piping ordered. I'm still deciding in the backing fabric. I'll put in an invisible zipper as well. Another finished project feels good.
#needlepoint #hydrangea #embroidery #sew #sewing #pillow

here's a joke from kingdom of loathing I've been thinking about for close to 20 years

Friend: do you keep a log of the mushrooms your forage

Me, thinking of the log I brought home that was growing oyster mushrooms: yes

Dark Grey and mustard yarn skeins with green and red specks with an open skein on right.

Dark Grey and mustard yarn skeins with green and red specks scattered around a picture of a Black man playing a trumpet

Dark Grey and mustard yarn skeins with green and red specks with roses and beads scattered around

Dark Grey and mustard yarn skeins with green and red specks lined up with leaves and beads scattered around

A fluffy order of merino yarn in aran weight inspired by a trumpet player named "John Blanke" who served in the royal courts of Henry VII & Henry VIII. 🧶

#indiedyedyarn #handdyedyarn #yarnsky #yarnlove #yarnaddict #indieyarndyer #blackhistory

Illustration of an astronaut standing in a red and orange flower field, holding an old fashioned phone. The phone has a speech bubble that says, "you are not alone." Drawn by gdbeeart, 2025, paint tool sai

you are not alone.

Siren Head Plushie Finally, a soft, miniature version of that creep you've seen on the internet for the last half a decade! Bring this little guy home.For more amazing Trevor Henderson content, Click Here!

Finally, an official plushie version of this weird creep i invented! Launching soon!

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Nice Doggy