Fred W-J

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Environmental scientist, textile artist, enthusiastic dancer, gaming when time allows, strangely fond of bugs. She/her

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She makes a great argument.

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Project 2025 is terrifying. The people behind it are also weird. Meet John McEntee, who ran personnel for Trump's White House. He also runs a shady "dating" app for lonely MAGA men. The marketing for the app is more pathetic than you're imagining. www.salon.com/2024/07/10/t...

Project 2025 leader John McEntee founded an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA menwww.salon.com In Trump world, there's always money to be made by sowing the destruction of American society

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“Gay Furry Hackers” Claim Credit for Hacking Heritage Foundation Over Project 2025theintercept.com The hacker collective SiegedSec says it infiltrated the conservative think tank to oppose its campaign against trans rights.

I’m just painting through the rise of fascism.

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was telling my dad about my horrible summer camp ideas and he instantly defeated me with unexploded ordnance disposal summer camp

inventing novel and frightening summer camps for children and teens • air traffic control camp • dr. john stapp rocket sled camp • parallel parking camp • tax camp • quality control camp

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Friendly reminder that Ronald Reagan was called senile so often it became a running gag on SNL and the late night shows. He then won 49 of 50 states in the 1984 election.

Have you supported your local abortion fund lately?

Scientists already know that abortion restrictions and bans increase the number of dead women, but a new study on Texas shows that it also increases the number of dead babies. So that's very cool, very pro-life 🧪 skepchick.org/2024/07/texa...

Texas’s Abortion Ban is Killing Babiesskepchick.org It’s no secret that when a state or a country restricts access to abortion, more women die. They die seeking unsafe illegal abortions, they die at the hands of abusive partners, and they die from p…

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This is your reminder that the Union did not enter the war to end slavery but discovered that ending slavery was the only way to win the war. Everything that has brought us here needs to be dismantled if we want to survive. That’s not radicalism; that’s pragmatism.

“Mom, I think I figured out why you and [partner] haven’t gotten married. Either it’s because his house is full of fragile stuff, or he’s your brother.” -6yo who doesn’t understand why she hasn’t been a flower girl yet.

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How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform Oil Well Cleanup in State After State www.propublica.org/article/oil-...

How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform Oil Well Cleanup in State After Statewww.propublica.org In New Mexico, oil companies agreed to work with regulators to find a solution to the state’s more than 70,000 unplugged wells. After months of negotiations, the industry turned against the bill it he...

I’m a cover girl, y’all.

Friends! The July/Aug issue of ASIMOV's Science Fiction Magazine features an epic story of hope & deep time by Stephen Case. This marks my first Major magazine cover. Available online & on shelves at your local Barnes & Noble. 🧡💙⚔️🎨 #digitalart #clipstudiopaint #sciencefiction

Annie is overjoyed that I’m chilling on the couch with her. You can tell by her face.

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Ok Pratchett fans, I finished my complete Discworld re-read and now II'm flailing to find similar style writing to read now. I tried to re-read Hitchhiker's and it was disappointing in comparison. What's a good *Pratchett-esque* author to read now? Please read my request carefully before replying.

The Ewok movies scared the heck out of me.

The scene in Labyrinth with the monsters who swapped heads was really creepy as a kid. Right up there with the skeleton in Last Unicorn and the candy monster in Raggedy Anne-- all mentioned up and down the thread. Share your kiddie Nightmare Fuel!

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Got out and painted again at the Albuquerque Botanic Garden with @fredwj.bsky.social Trying to solidify that Art habit. Very happy with this one. I want to jump in again and tighten it up with some white pencil highlights. 💙⚔️🎨

Watercolor painting at the botanic garden today.

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A new contender for my top 5 favorite quotes I’ve said to journalists emerges www.theassemblync.com/environment/...

What Is Really Going On With Charlotte the Stingray?www.theassemblync.com It’s been months since a Hendersonville aquarium blew up the internet with Charlotte the stingray and her “miracle” pregnancy, and experts and fans are concerned.

Just saw a meme that says “If your eyes are on Rafah, help us find our hostages.” If the IDF thinks the hostages are in Rafah, why are they indiscriminately bombing Rafah and massacring the people sheltering there? (Key word: indiscriminately, ICYMI) (1/2)

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Really think I might need to do an explainer now on "how to talk to your parents about the Microplastics found in every Testicle" study, because, friends, the Boomers have Questions.

3M has known PFAS accumulated in blood and caused illness for sixty years.

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe www.propublica.org/article/3m-f...

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safewww.propublica.org Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

Some cool news from this weekend. Congratulations to Amy Appelhans Gubster! www.sfgate.com/sports/artic...

This 'bats—t crazy' Bay Area grandma just set a major recordwww.sfgate.com Amy Appelhans Gubser on Saturday became the first person in recorded history to swim from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands.

Watercolor dogwood flowers, painted today at the local botanic garden.

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Texas activists pushed abortion restrictions in NM cities and counties, records show • Source New Mexicosourcenm.com Emails show former Texas attorney and the founder of the “Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn” initiative influenced N.M. local governments.

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It's rattlesnake season in Arizona, where the number of bites has surged. And it turns out most of what you thought you knew about the reptiles isn't true.

Lessons from rattlesnake class in the American Southwestwww.npr.org It's rattlesnake season in Arizona, where the number of bites has surged. And it turns out most of what you thought you knew about the reptiles isn't true.

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Bone Collector Mermay 2023 #mermay #art #watercolor

Watercolor tarantula. Learning learning learning.

It’s such a strange place to live. The state of New Mexico is so rural but the state legislature is fairly leftist. Then the city governments are weirdly conservative in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. It’s been absolutely awful to be unhoused here.

The city has violated a court order and its own policies by discarding the personal property of thousands of homeless people, who have lost medications, birth certificates, IDs, treasured family photos and the ashes of loved ones. www.propublica.org/article/albu...

Albuquerque Is Throwing Out the Belongings of Homeless People, Violating City Policywww.propublica.org The city has violated a court order and its own policies by discarding the personal property of thousands of homeless people, who have lost medications, birth certificates, IDs, treasured family photo...

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I am thrilled to share that the incredible @ddelgadovive.bsky.social has written an extraordinary guest post over at Life is a Sacred Text on the claim we hear sometimes about Jews being Indigenous. It’s one of the most thoughtful things I’ve read in a while—and so worth your time.

"Are Jews Indigenous?" A Quechua Jew Weighs Inwww.lifeisasacredtext.com Guest Post from Daniel Delgado