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• illustrator, worldbuilder, author
• giant nerd
• feral trail runner
https://artistic-menace.com/

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Here’s an update on Blue and his great majesty (he was outside and then got fed directly before this. He’s very proud of himself for catching all the crickets).

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Damn. Imagine voting strategically to prevent the worst possible outcomes…

Le Pen's party (RN) got 143 seats. While a record, that's far (very far) from the 289 they hoped for to govern. How?! Hundreds of Left & Macronist candidates dropped out to help each other block the RN. And millions of voters then voted strategically to get that job done.

One of the fics that got me through my first year of college just updated after TWO YEARS of silence. Holy shit.

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i don't really care about millennial vs gen z sock length. the real question is: do I have any clean ones? the answer is no. welcome to real life. your choices are embarrassing or like really embarrassing

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What if we all just decided not to today?

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Got to hang out with this majestic crime gremlin last week. (He was eating plastic just a minute before this photo was taken.)

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The Black Panther Party learned that sickle cell anemia was a neglected genetic disease affecting mostly people of African descent. Although disease had been known since 1910, it attracted little govt attention and even less funding. So the Panthers set up a screening program. #BlackSky #Disability

"Approximately 1 in 365 African American children are born with sickle cell, according to the CDC.. Tens of thousands of lower-income families with children suffering from sickle cell disease have applied for SSI. But roughly 76% of those applicants had their requests denied between 2015 and 2020."

Thousands of Black children with sickle cell disease struggle to access disability paymentswww.cbsnews.com New data show how one federal safety net program has been out of reach for thousands of children who need it most.

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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.

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This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

tom nichols—of all people???—just made a good point: you have to talk about P2025 in simple real people terms. not policy wonk terms.

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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

For anyone who is obsessed with citations (haven’t double checked myself this is literally saved from elsewhere):

For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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"I have no idea who is behind it" It's Kevin Roberts, the guy who invited you in 2022 for the annual meeting of HF. The guy you praised and said would play a very important role in the future. The meeting when you said you'd rather be a dictator than a dumb person.

"I don't know these guys" "But I want to thank Kevin.... But I want to thank Kevin. He’s going to be so incredible, I know that for a fact, because I know what he did and where he came from and he’s going to be outstanding and congratulations to his very exciting new role and a very important role."

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Seems like "what parts of Project 2025 do you disagree with?" or "what parts of it are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal?" would be good questions for a reporter to ask the other elderly presidential candidate, but what do I know. on.ft.com/4ePQH0e

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making things is rad, make more things.

was sitting out watching the annual 4th of July parade the other day and 3 church organizations within 10 minutes of each other came out of the way, up into my friend’s yard to hand me a salvation notecard. I laughed at everyone of ‘em bc I look like this (pic below) but also: hey.

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Also as we get older we’re not supposed to fit in with the kids! Leave them alone! It’s normal and fine for them to find things outside their own age cohort extremely cringe.

Some Millennials in my timeline are insecure because Gen Zs are telling them their ankle socks age them. I can't stress enough that you don't need to care about what a bunch of 20-somethings think about your clothes, mainly bc you don't have to care about what ANYONE thinks about your clothes.

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It’s so funny that AI is already a dire existential threat to humanity but only because of the carbon emissions necessary to run it

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I keep seeing references made to 'leftists' who 'want 45 to win.' Who are these leftists? Are they strangers on the internet? I just don't see this. No one I know on the Left(s) is pro-45. I know some reactionary *moderates* who are though.

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Our friend Melanophryniscus biancae is a redbelly toad from Brazil who is named after the Brazilian biologist Bianca Luiza Reinert! Like many redbelly toads, they like to lay their eggs in the water filled cavities of bromeliad plants! (photo by H. Garcia)

Bringing back this old tumblr post for the 2024 election. The OPs were onto something here…

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Do you always mean to do it but forget? There's a bluesky setting for that!

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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

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Thought experiment: Imagine if Obama, after claiming an election had been stolen from him and being convicted of 34 felonies, was granted immunity by SCOTUS justices who had taken undisclosed luxury trips on George Soros' dime. The fact that you can't even imagine this scenario tells you something.

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Paw studies from Drawing Cats by Gladys Emerson Cook, 1948.

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The biggest turning point in you life as an artist is when you shift gears from thinking “I can draw these things but not those things” to thinking “I can draw anything! Quality not guaranteed, but I can draw it”

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fuck man, I don't even know what to say anymore. One political party wants to burn everything to the ground and institute theocratic, kleptocratic autocracy. I think this is bad, just one man's opinion.