“… we will never get clean air without public pressure, and there will never be public pressure without public awareness that COVID is dangerous. As long as the public continues to treat COVID like a cold the government has no incentive to move on clean air.”

— @juliadoubleday.bsky.social

Good evening. There are good things happening in our communities. How might you add to the good?

www.ktvu.com/news/grassro...

Many find them annoying, but I'm a huge fan of Blue Jays--especially when I can capture their beauty in flight! 💙💙💙 #Bluejay #CentralPark #birding

Yes

What’s happening here in Chicago is people building on the connections and relationships and networks they already have

So you get mom groups organizing whistle brigades and amateur sports teams meeting up to fold zines and such

This small 80% of the American population that lives in urban areas is completely out of touch with the 20% majority

They have a donation page off his profile

Happy to block anyone whose contribution in this moment is to immediately police the language people are using to describe fed invasions of their cities. People are going to be imprecise. They are experiencing immense trauma. If you haven't had a gun pointed at you recently, maybe sit this one out

TEEFS

This place is great and a few blocks away Spacca Napoli is also excellent

Both have outdoor seating but I don’t think either has heaters, so

Margies Candies by the station is a neighborhood institution if you want to cap off with a low-frills ice cream

you know this attitude is a truly a perfect illustration of how the modern left can't duplicate the Civil Rights Struggle, only cargo cult it

I was telling one of my homegirls earlier today that it's cliche to say "this isn't normal" but also folks wouldn't say it so much if mainstream media and the powers that be weren't normalizing all the time

Anyway,

You have to understand that there is NO accountability for ICE even in theory. You can't sue an ICE agent. They won't be criminally prosecuted for violating your rights. They won't be fired. THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM ICE IS TO RUN FROM ICE.

There was much indignant arm waving about STUFF at my gym today, let’s just say

It is still one of this city’s Best Things

A regular reminder that we are all one covid19 infection away from being permanently disabled.

We are all one virus away from the weight of a racist and ableist healthcare falling on us.

And we are all one healthcare cut away from having to fend for ourselves if we are sick.

The tension between "these daily atrocities are the new normal and you have to go on living anyway" and "these atrocities should never be normalized/the world should stop"

Thanks!

you have the right to not hang out with assholes. you deserve not to hang out with assholes. you are under 0 obligation to socially interact with assholes in your free time.

it is truly terrible that our culture tricked so many people into thinking that they’re obliged to be friends with assholes!

Need to practice your expressions? I've gotchu! The expressions pack features 133+ expressions from 3 different angles, for a total of almost 400 photos. The file is HUGE at 1.7GB so make sure you're on your computer for this one! Get it now for $12+ on Ko-fi ko-fi.com/s/655ef0826e

#Pose #PoseRef

🎉SURPRISE PACK!🎉 Male character reference sheet, featuring @blumineck.bsky.social This is a @ko-fi.com exclusive pack. For just $5+, you'll get 12 pose reference sheets to make your best character art ever! Get it here: ko-fi.com/s/9c507dfc0c

#Pose #PoseRef #OC #OCsky

A few other ideas:

*impeaching top DHS officials
*criminal referrals for potential lawbreaking
*more aggressive defunding
*much stricter codified limitations

Full piece here:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Yeah, similar vibes. Same with Newsom and all the "blue MAGA" people. It feels like all these folks' approach to politics consists almost entirely of gotchas, outrage, forced teaming, and "blue-no-matter-who" voting pushes. It's very tiring and not what the moment needs.

Welcome Twitter / X refugees:

The culture on this platform is to block trolls rather than engaging with them. Doing so makes the environment less contentious and more pleasurable for everyone.

Oooo