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behold: what has been taking up my time for the past two and a half weeks!

this piano was a public art commissions for the city! it's covered in dinosaurs that have actually been found (and in the case of 3 of them, discovered) in my home state of colorado. i'm super happy with how it turned out and i had a blast painting it :^)

[image id: a piano painted with various dinosaurs. the left half of the piano represents the dinosaurs in their fossilized form as bones surrounded by fossil leaves and debris. the right half of the piano is the dinosaurs alive in their natural environments. among the species featured are fish, ammonites, orthocones, a plesiosaur, pterosaurs, a brontosaurus, a triceratops, a stegosaurus, and a fruitadens]

#yooo thats so cool! #one of the few upsides of my province is that its also a great area for finding dinos #so now i'm thinking of a piece like this done with dinosaurs found in Alberta #especially since we're home to the most well preserved dinosaur ever found #borealopelta markmitchelli my beloved <3

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You know I find it very weird when people make fun of trans men’s names and then it’s just …. Popular names.

Like woah a trans man named himself Oliver ?? Crazy. It’s almost as if it’s been in the top 100 popular boys names for the past 4 years or something.

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EVERYBODY DO THE WENIS 🕺 THE WENIS IS A DANCE 💃 EVERYBODY IS A GENIUS 🧠 WHO KNOWS IT IN ADVANCE 👯

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I have an end-of-life patient to whom I spoke today. She burst out laughing and said, "It was all such fun. I just had so much fun." I wish this for everyone. I wish that we each would meet death laughing, with little regret and even less fear.

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#i shower every day unless the executive dysfunction gets me #my hair is very thick and gets extra tangly if i skip a day #but ive gone like a week+ without showers/baths when camping. its not really that bad #its really not so bad if youre out in the woods

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Gotta be honest, I think bidoof's law is extremely stupid

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#like if it were just the game footage then yeah thats a funny level of dickishness whatever #but the added facecam of him looking painfully bored ruins it. he's not having fun. the other players arent having fun. #so what's the point??? he's just being a prick for the sake of upsetting other people #man is going out of his way to add misery to the world and not even having fun with it. absolutely douchebag

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Okay this is a question that has been on my mind for the last few days

no nuance allowed unless you add tags/comment

#...some of y'all wouldnt leave the goddamn dishwasher running while you're gone??? really???? #wtf is your presence going to do for a dishwasher/laundry machines. they run their cycle. then they turn off. #and a slow cooker is literally meant to be left going for an entire day. 12+ hours in a slow cooker is not unusual #leaving the house is not a relevant part of that process

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So I was writing a small paper in Microsoft Word and the program suddenly crashed (I saved a couple minutes before, thank god) and I get this message in the corner of my screen two seconds afterward

what the fuck

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obviously i love jhutch and im usually very quick to defend his overly enthusiastic allyship in the 2010s because a) i do genuinely think he cares about lgbt rights and b) i was in highschool in the 2010s, i remember how huge it was for a famous person to be even slightly supportive of lgbt people, let alone doing actual charity work

but some of the things he said were unfortunately extremely funny in hindsight

#yeah the headline choice is basically clickbait? #they're trying to get people to see the headline and go “he wants to do WHAT” #then they get mad and open the article for more details on how he's gone homophobic. and find that he's not it's just out of context #it's kinda scummy. also this is why you gotta read an article not just the headline

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What's distressing, but also important to understand, about JK Rowling hitting the "Denying trans people were targeted in the Holocaust" point is that it's kind of the last stop before she just goes full alt-right weirdo.

Joanne is denying the Holocaust (if a group was targeted, denying they were targeted is Holocaust denial) and that's going to lead to pushback from historians and experts. But Joanne is too deep in to believe what anyone who disagrees with her says, so she's just going to dismiss what those historians and experts tell her. And once she's disbelieving them about that one thing, well it's just a tiny step to start disbelieving them about other things.

This isn't by accident either, transphobic circles are swarming with far right agitators, ready to use hatred of trans people as an in to recruit people into their causes. They have handbooks for this sort of thing and they are, unfortunately, good at it. I suspect Joanne will be spouting coded versions of Great Replacement stuff by the end of the summer.

This is not a plea to try and pull Joanne out. She's too deep in, and even if she wasn't, she's already demonstrated an inability to examine her own prejudices, an unwillingness to hear criticism and a weakness to flattery. She is perfect recruitment bait for people who know what they're doing, and my impression is she's surrounded herself with people like that.

No, this is to understand two things: First is to use her as an example, to understand how a well meaning liberal can chase their own prejudices down a very dark rabbit hole. We are none of us immune to propaganda and even if we can't change what's happened to her, we can at least use it to protect ourselves.

And second is to understand that one of the main reasons you can't pull Joanne out of the transphobic pipeline is cause she is the pipeline now. She is the transphobic banner bearer now, she is funneling money and attention to these groups, she is their most famous celebrity and she is helping recruit people. Being able to show people how far she's gone, how deep into the right wing rabbit hole she's going, is important to help other people who still think she just "Had some concerns" know where her path leads.

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This shit is so hilarious I had to reactivate this blog just to share it:

Enjoy that תסורח with your הצמ dumbasses.

#antisemitism #textbook example of cultural appropriation honestly #...backwards hebrew. how do you even fuck it up that badly i dont understand #were they pulling the hebrew from something that was pirated and mirrored??? its the only explanation i can think of that makes any sense #i mean it's incredibly stupid that they fucked it up that hard. none of this makes sense #but BACKWARDS HEBREW. WHAT.

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Afternoon Tea in the Garden of Clarence House, 1897. (x) Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince George, Duke of York later King George V, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Princess Victoria Melita, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Princess Mary, Duchess of York later Queen Mary, Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine.

#damn thats some old footage #and a very good dog

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"there are many jews involved in the columbia encampment, and there was even a kabbalat shabbat service and a seder" and "antisemitic things have been chanted at the columbia protests and there's a serious unaddressed (and dismissed) antisemitism problem in the movement" can both be true

like. portraying this as "a group of people who hate jews and want to intimidate and block them" isn't correct, but neither is "it's all a smear and nothing we've ever said or done could ever be antisemitic."

ugh. i just. its so frustrating bc on the one hand you've got people lobbing around the word antisemitism like a club to be used on political opponents, and on the other hand you have people who respond to that be closing their ears to any and every attempt to be called in for antisemitism. and then you get labeled a zionist and not-worth-listening-to for attempting that call-in, so the people who are trying to address it get pushed out

and the jews who remain often feel that as allies it's their duty to squash any internal sense that someone in the movement is antisemitic, believing that it's really their white/jewish fragility or their zionist brainwashing coming up.

the upshot of which is that the antisemitism problem doesn't get resolved when oh my god, it would be so easy. just listen to folks calling you in and learn about antisemitism and how it functions just like allies do for any oppression. empower jews in your space to speak up, with love and firmness. stop assuming every call-in is a threat by bad actors.

like there really are ways to move forward. why can't we take them?

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