uspol, abusers
The other thing is; they pulled this horror during Pride Month. Divide and conquer (don’t think about X, you must worry about Y), keep your victim exhausted, don’t give them anything that feels like accomplishment, try to control all access to information. Whether it’s children behind chain link partitions, conversion therapy or what they’re doing to us now, it’s a consistently abusive attitude.
the discourse
A stressed animal will run, fight, or go to ground; helplessness overlaps conserving energy.
We, right now, have very limited means to “fight” and fewer to “run.” I don’t want to condemn myself for not fighting, not fighting enough, I don’t like feeling censured and I don’t have the heart to condemn others for “going to ground.”
If you gotta withdraw, DO IT, there’s enough going on your voice will be crucial whenever you feel like you can cope again.
pol adjacent
Outside of anthropogenic climate change, environmental concerns are through what I too consider necessity, bumped from priority to fifth rate issues by constant vicious class warfare and bigoted horrors.
If you fight a war on multiple fronts you’re bound to lose somewhere, and biodiversity or conservation are real low priorities, it feels like talking about them is almost privilege. How much will be gone forever by the time there’s resources to look that way again?
Ty for reading.
So Therezinosaurs have no teeth and weak jaws so whatever they are isn't a normal meat-eater.
They show up near flooded areas, which makes digging for invertebrates an option. But, I'd wonder whether they were also insectivores; that's a very insectivore looking pair of forelimbs and weak jaw and as far as I know big African style ant mounds don't fossilize.
uspol activity
Called Contra County Supervisor offices and ask them to break contracts with ICE and close a facility, talked to people at 3, left message on one, chickened out on calling the last since cold-calling is never easy.
Called about a state thing, wrote into EPA, called Senators to request EPA Administrator's removal from office, ran out of steam again. Clearly stating my name or location of course makes me paranoid, and of course nothing changes through legal channels.
Done for now.
like the world's teetering towards mass extinction and I'm currently aging and unemployed in a country which is becoming one of the less nice parts of the third world, so I have things to worry about other than developing art; the world's also full of amazing artists and I never know who's gonna completely blow me away next; and here *I* am, apparently trying to become some weird hybrid of Iain McCaig, Claire Wendling, Edouard Guiton, Mike Ploog and a batch of other influences.
uspol, more anger
by the way, Hilary Clinton is still a fucking collaborator, a fucking hypocritical class warrior, and I'm not interested in anything she has to fucking say.
If it were November 2016 I'd vote for her again, and I'd still loathe myself for having to do so.
and fuck bringing up ANYTHING a Bush has to say anything. If you're a fucking Bush, you relinquish your right to pretend to be the good guy about anything, FUCK THAT NOISE!
uspol
FUCK YES!
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/tesla-model-3-production-has-been-sabotaged-according-to-cnc/
and of course the fucking intestinal nematode claims its eeeeevil competitors, but fuck it, I don't care, anything that hurts that evil man's profit margin and breaks his non union company is great in my book. I can remember when I was the sort of liberal who would never say shit like that. 2015 was an okay year, really.
uspol, birdsite link
finally some good news!
https://twitter.com/HeadphoneSpace/status/1008895175425449985
"I have a really dumb "ask a lesbian" question."
"um okay but heck if I'll know."
"I've been trying to think of good if futuristic biker gang/roller derby names and so far I came up with Joan Jettbike, Strawberry Shortfuse and Betty Deadsong, but I'm now kinda stuck."
"M-Alice, Heidi H-Bomb, Minuet ToMidnight, Gloria Guns, Ivana Killue. Tritium Tina."
"It's better than I was doing, even if I did come up with Laura Pain Mace."
"Fara Fallout! Molly Mushroomcloud, Patti Plaguerider, Angel Bomb."
Lots of random gunk, but some drawings and cooking talk too. Obsesses about DnD and related topics. Left-leaning/profoundly frustrated politics. Black lives matter; trans rights are human rights.
Occasionally NSFW art and discussion, please do follow if you're 18+.