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Juin-Reed🔞 @juinreed.bsky.social · 9h

Lineart is bourgeois

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Kyle Hopkins @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social · 11h

“The North is calling on you to see us”…
www.adn.com/opinions/202...

Opinion: The world needs to know about what the storm did to Western Alaska

Entire villages face impossible choices to leave the lands their ancestors have called home for thousands of years.

www.adn.com

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Feb 1

#ACAB

nerd: hey fellas, i hear alot of calls for abolishing police. but how will we stay safe?

buff shirtless bald guy on laptop:
King, police abolition is not about defunding every department instantly. It's about a gradual process o strategically reallocating resources, funding and responsibility away from police and toward community based models of safety, support and prevention. The people who respond to crises in our community should be people who are best equipped to deal with those crisis.
insanely buff guy on couch with laptop:
Friend I want to echo that last statement and dig down a little further. Crime isn't random. Most off the time, it happens when someone has been unable to meet their basic needs through other means. By shifting money away from police and toward services that actually meet those needs, we'll be able to get to a place where we won't need to rob banks.

jacked dude in gray tee shirt at a desktop pc:
Couldn't have said it better myself, King! This is bigger than just police brutality; it's about how the prison industrial complex, the drug war, immigration law and the web of policy, law and culture that forms our criminal justice system has destroyed millions o lives, and torn apart families. Cops don't prevent crime, they cause it, through ongoing violent disruption of our communities.

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sorrel 🪴 @mmechanicat.bsky.social · 1d

this is amazing holy shit.

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vich @vichblen.bsky.social · 15d

healing my inner child via mercy kill

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Griffin @alnus-sitchensis.bsky.social · 1d

People outside Alaska need to realize:
Typhoon Halong in Western Alaska has caused perhaps the first, big interregional climate change driven displacement in North America. We need sustained attention/resources on recovery to keep Halong victims from suffering as their worlds are turned upside down.

Griffin @alnus-sitchensis.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciated national media covering it, but the headlines with just the number missing/rescued didn't get at it - nearly 2,000 people have been displaced from their homes. With the cost to rebuild, only temporary shelter, and no clear commitments from the feds/state to find a long-term solution

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Nikki 'Samyazan Scion' Ophan @nikkiophan.bsky.social · 2d

a better world IS possible

youtube thumbnail, video is titled "Everybody eat the Pear peacefully" featuring several bees, flies, and beetles eating a squished pear on the ground

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sorrel 🪴 @mmechanicat.bsky.social · 1d

lrp i promise human beings are amply capable of generic mediocre copywriting

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 1d

Proposal: instead of giving ChatGPT tens of billions of dollars to fail to create artificial intelligence, give me, an Actual Intelligence, a mere $10 million and I will gladly do a spreadsheet wrong for you from time to time for a modest fee.

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 2d

this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters

@amagire@mastodon.social

elevated horror: what if you're grieving your loved one TOO MUCH?
folk horror: what if a child's disability could EAT PEOPLE?
supernatural horror: what if your childhood trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
psychological horror: what if your adult trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
body horror: what if your gender dysphoria could EAT PEOPLE?
slasher horror: what if a random guy was trying to kill you, instead of a cop or your boyfriend?

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sorrel 🪴 @mmechanicat.bsky.social · 2d

i wish i’d never discovered “giving up.” before college that was just never an option and now i’m lowkey a lazy, fearful, avoidant creature that wants to flee when the work is too hard, or too easy, or too fast, or too slow

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Jaimie Whitbread @jaimiewhitbread.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that your local foxing society will be re-commencing their annual meetings this month! They meet from dusk to gloaming in the spooky, autumnal wood. This week’s topics of interest will be yowling, yammering, and, of course, yippering!

#foxes #fall #spooky #foxart #kitsune #oilpainting

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sorrel 🪴 @mmechanicat.bsky.social · 2d

more info about the environmental and social impacts keeps coming out to the point that i don’t even need to go for the “it’s fucking soulless plagiarized slop” argument of my heart

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sorrel 🪴 @mmechanicat.bsky.social · Sep 10

we use so many synthetic fertilizers and outside inputs to feed our lawns and gardens. at the same time, we literally throw away the nutrients that are cycling through naturally

very crude illustration of how plants fit into the nitrogen cycle. all plants need nitrogen to grow, but most nitrogen is not usable to them. “conventionally” (aka since mass agriculture and synthetic fertilizers were invented) we add fertilizer to stimulate growth. plants uptake nitrogen into their tissues and, when those tissues die, bacteria help return those nutrients to a usable form in the soil thru the decomposition process. this cycle gets majorly interrupted when we bag up the leaves, over-tidy the soil surface around our plants, etc — and then we have to add those outside inputs back in

full disclosure: all of this is 1000x more complex in real life

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sorrel 🪴 @mmechanicat.bsky.social · 3d

the culture war has just pushed me further towards being a woowoo pervert marxist tbqh

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sorrel 🪴 @mmechanicat.bsky.social · 3d

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sorrel 🪴 @mmechanicat.bsky.social · 3d

oh i feel this SO hard. the idea that you have to Earn your right to draw by practicing to “perfection” first really, really grates on me

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clare @sadderlizards.bsky.social · Apr 3

your email finds me deeply unwell. teetering on the edge really

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sorrel 🪴 @mmechanicat.bsky.social · 3d

all of this is making me so sad and angry

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sorrel 🪴 @mmechanicat.bsky.social · 3d

(especially colonized communities who never choose the system that they live under, which creates the conditions for their lifeways to be eroded and their communities to be displaced)

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sorrel 🪴 @mmechanicat.bsky.social · 3d

listennnn. i’m from alaska. by and large, i hate the government.

but this year has been crystallizing a lot of my thoughts about the needs government SHOULD fill. an instrument of authoritarian power vs. a distributive network that has deeply enshrined responsibility to take care of its people.

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sorrel 🪴 @mmechanicat.bsky.social · 3d

conservatives want the takeaway to be “what’s government good for? who even needs it?”

but large-scale crises are where centralized resources and aid distribution are needed most. looks like the future holds a lot of local organizing and re-inventing the wheel bc they’ve left us all in the dark

sorrel 🪴 @mmechanicat.bsky.social · 3d

the state of alaska and local orgs ARE responding, but these communities are going to need a lot of helping rebuilding and, in many cases, relocating

these are native villages that’ve been sounding the alarm about climate change for years

we can rely on the fed gov to help in crisis less than ever

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sorrel 🪴 @mmechanicat.bsky.social · 3d

all we can do is help each other

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sorrel 🪴 @mmechanicat.bsky.social · 3d

the state of alaska and local orgs ARE responding, but these communities are going to need a lot of helping rebuilding and, in many cases, relocating

these are native villages that’ve been sounding the alarm about climate change for years

we can rely on the fed gov to help in crisis less than ever

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sorrel 🪴 @mmechanicat.bsky.social · 3d

as far as i can see, the federal government hasn’t even responded this disaster yet. trump can’t even be bothered to say something insulting or lob a paper towel for a photo op. his admin has already systematically defunded resources for these communities this year

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