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More shenanigains from Leli's birthday yesterday :P

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Broadchurch S2 BluRay Extras

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I don’t even have a caption for this help me help me there are gay people in my head and they won’t leave

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I will be at @sjmade-blog's Holiday Fair this weekend! The Holiday Fair will be November 29-30 11AM to 6PM PST. Located at the Santa Clara Convention center, it is an all ages, indoor venue with free admission. There will be lots of door giveaways and fun activities as well as a ton of vendors! More details including about parking is available on the SJMade website.

🌈 The Pride Angels pins, stickers, and keychains will be making their debut at the Holiday Fair if you want to grab them ahead of the online release!

I will have a few special deals for the Holiday Fair:

My usual discounted convention prices for all items.

A big box of pick-your-own seconds pins.

One-of-a-kind ceramics including cat plates by a guest artist.

Free postcard and ✨random gift (keychain, sticker, who knows!) with every purchase.

If you’re in the area I hope to see you there!

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🌟 SURPRISE UPDATE 🌟

Grab your sparkly Christmas stickers now 🥰 There are also old Patreon rewards and the usual prints available!

KO-FI SHOP

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Behold, the most boopable of snoots!

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Excuse the format (I made this for instagram since that's what the publisher wants, rip) but this is basically a shorter, easy-to-read version of the history section at the back of my new book.

(Part 2 || The book)

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Disclaimer: I'm extremely not an expert, and this is only scratching the very surface of complex topics that are hard to simplify. I mostly made this to EXTREMELY rec these books and podcasts, and would urge you to go check them out if you're not familiar!!

This stuff might seem obvious to some of you, but let me tell you, I do NOT think it's widely known in the general UK population.

Imo a lot of the general (especially white) public think that the Windrush generation - Caribbean migrants brought in to help rebuild postwar Britain in the 50s - were the first Black communities in the UK. And yet there's deliberately not much focus on why the Caribbean has links with northern europe. HMMMM

(Britain loves, for example, to celebrate the abolition of slavery without mentioning WHAT CAME BEFORE IT - Britain being the biggest trader of enslaved people, with more than 1 million people enslaved in the British Caribbean. They literally just did it overseas.)

Telling the truth about history or British imperialism gets this massive manufactured backlash at the moment. There are so many ideas prevalent in UK politics - anti-Black, anti-refugee, anti-trans - based on going ‘back’ to some imaginary version of the past. Those are enabled by a long tradition of carving parts out of the historical record, and being selective about whose histories get told and preserved. Even though the book I was making is a fun rom-com, by the time I finished researching, I decided to make an illustrated history section at the back too (this is a mini version). My hope is that readers who haven’t come across these histories might get an introduction to them - and some pointers of what they could read next to get a clearer view of our past.

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"You wouldn't punch a beautiful lion with glasses, would you?"

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fashion is cyclical

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@guerrilla gardeners, solarpunks and plantarchists of all stripes we need to make a good guide to growing food stealthy style

i'm talking growing in rental properties without alerting the landlord, growing on vacant/unused land, stuff like that

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Maize

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TIL about the Lia Radiological Accident in the country of Georgia in 2001. I learned that if you are camping in the wilderness in the middle of winter and you come across some metal cylinders in the middle of the woods that give off heat for no perceivable reason you don't want to use them for warmth.

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Family gathering.

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GALAXY PICNIC

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Gargoyle Gecko (Rhacodactylus auriculatus), family Diplodactylidae, endemic to New Caledonia

photograph by TikisGeckos

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Smooth-fronted Caiman aka Schneider’s Dwarf Caiman (Paleosuchus trigonatus), family Alligatoridae, Manu Biological Station, Peru

photograph by Nick Volpe