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medieval weevil :)

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I feel like pirating media that isn’t sold or offered anywhere legally anymore shouldn’t be called piracy. Girl thats archaeology

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🍂 The Ever-changing Cabinet 🏺

Here are the results of the first Curiosity January, hoping there will be more to come!

Challenge completed with 17 stamps and infinite possibilities of variation! I love the representation of cusiosity cabinets as places packed with little secrets and stories to be discovered from an new perspective each time. Which is why I’m very pleased with the modular aspect of this print. So many different versions can be made by moving the blocks around, which makes the printing process a lot more playful. I’m always excited to create new arrangements!

⏳ Prints will be coming to my website later this month ⏳

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Here's a fun idea: make your own Pawn!

What's a Pawn? Little guys I made up for my fantasy world-building project SeQuester. They're puppets powered by spirit-bound weapons.

How to make one: -Metal head -Puppet body -Spirit-bound weapon (doesn't have to be a sword) -Big cloak (optional) -Have fun!

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You! Have been visited by the gnome of executive function! Reblog to send them along to make sure they visit the next person in need!

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been traveling...

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Okay all -- few quick thoughts about the Elon Muskifying of the government, especially the takeover of the Treasury and associated financial data for every single US citizen and organization, that we are learning about in detail today.

Don't panic. This sounds bad, because it is bad. It's really, really bad. It's outrageously fascist bad. But we've still gotta take a deep breath and get through it.

This is the kind of shock-and-awe exercise of untrammeled fascist power where they are absolutely counting on gleefully terrorizing, paralyzing, and stunning you into mounting no resistance, or just giving up and giving in. They are literally live-tweeting it in real time and boasting about all the access and influence they have right now. They want you to know about it and feel like you can't do anything, so you might as well let it happen.

We have to show them that's not true.

TIME TO MAKE SOME NOISE. Because it's Sunday night, I've gone ahead and contacted my state Attorney General and both senators by email (but come Monday morning, we should all be calling). Here is the email that I wrote to my AG:

Dear Mr. [AG],

As you will be aware, today (February 2, 2025) the Trump administration has granted wide-ranging access to sensitive US Treasury data, including the personal and private information of [state] citizens, to Elon Musk's so-called "Department of Government Efficiency." Musk is an unelected private citizen who has no legal right to access this data, and is engaging in extensive intimidation and coercion to fulfill his personal and harmful ideological agenda. The present and material harm that this causes to US citizens, [state] residents, and basic laws of government, privacy, and financial security is direct, unconscionable, and actionable. I strongly urge you, in your capacity as [state] Attorney General, to file direct suit against the Trump administration, Elon Musk, the "DOGE" office, and any identifiable individuals who have taken part in this action, in order to protect consumer data, citizen privacy, and basic faith and trust in government.

All the best,

[Qqueenofhades]

Short! To the point! Doesn't waste time, tells him what I want him to do, how Elmo's nonsense directly harms the residents of my state, and why he should take action to stop it! And frankly, given how on-the-ball blue-state AGs have been thus far, they're probably already working on it. You are very welcome to copy-and-paste this message and fill in your AG's last name and your state as appropriate. Super easy to do. Takes five minutes. Call tomorrow.

If you are in a red state, your voice is particularly important right now. The Trumpsters are counting on and are even emboldened by blue state pushback, but you really need to make it start coming from Republican strongholds. Congressional Republicans will only feel the slightest amount of unease about docilely enabling this BS when it starts threatening their own personal power. Hit them where it hurts.

Other lawsuits are coming. Marc Elias, Democratic lawyer extraordinaire, is well aware of this situation and has noted on Bluesky that more lawsuits are in the works. He often wins his cases. This does not mean that you shouldn't loudly make noise elsewhere, but please remember that this is one of those 24-hour periods where, as noted, they are counting on demoralizing you with a nonstop blizzard of bullshit. It does not say anything about how this will play out long-term or the opposition that can and will be mobilized to stop it.

Once again: courage. Take the small steps that you can do today. Then take a breath and get off social media for a little while. Try to take the long view. One step at a time, we will get through this.

Courage.

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it's a really scary and sad time in the US right now. but you guys have absolutely blown me away with your generosity - we SOLD OUT of protect trans kids stickers. that's almost $3,000 raised for transcontinental pipeline to help relocate folks from unsafe states to CO ;_;

and, since it looks like we're in it for the long fight, i ordered more stickers. if you want to make a donation and pick up a sticker at the same time 100% of proceeds go to TCP

thank you all for making this fundraiser happen, i am blown away. it's felt good to help, and not just be a bystander in all of this. it's scary and sad and i'm afraid for the future, but i also know we're in this together and it turns out we can do pretty great stuff together. stay safe, love you all 💙🤍💖

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Esoteric Analysis of Banh Mi:

Crusty Bread: Aspect of Saturn. Leavened wheat is symbolic of transformation and assumption. The foundation from which the sandwich emanates.

Maggi: Aspect of Jupiter. As tin exhalts copper to form bronze, salt exalts all ingredients.

Pork Belly: Aspect of the Sun. Every sandwich must have it's primary ingredient. The heart and soul around which the ingredients revolve.

Vegetable medly: Aspect of The Moon. As shredded carrot wanes, so must the pickled daikon wax. Acid requires balance in all things.

Liver Patê / Cilantro: Aspect of Mercury. Subtle and mysterious, yet essential to the greater whole.

Mayonnaise: Aspect of Venus. Fat is temperance. The medium which soothes and cuts an irascible flavor profile.

Sliced Jalapeno: Aspect of Mars. There is no harmony without strife.

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Cursorbirds originate from the Unreal, and only occasionally use reality as a corridor

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a lil sneak peak on what i'm working on now 👀

alt: Camera (shallow focus distance) pans from right to left, close up to an approximately 2cm long trilobite slightly moving forward while its antenna and butt jiggles (palaeolenus) among a tight cluster of Neobolus brachiopods (not mollusks but they have a similar bivalved shell that resembles clams except the top and bottom shells are not exactly the same, but the left and right is symmetrical unlike in clams). on some of the brachiopod shells are even smaller parasitic organisms of unclear affinity, only recognizable from their conical pointy tubes

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Rectangl

(alt: vetulicola rectangulata swimming, it's an early stem chordate, somewhat tadpole-like motion, the 'head' in rectangulata has a rectangle shape in the front and more oval at the back, there's a line dividing the top and bottom half of the 'head' which contains five round openings identified as gill slits. It has a pointy Shark like dorsal fin at the top followed by a flat segmented tadpole like tail sticking out after the top dorsal fin)

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David Lynch is directing dreams now btw

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DOECHII'S full performance of catfish and denial Is a river at the GRAMMYS

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pink pony club full performance at grammys 2025

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"the magnus archives sounds cool! what are the content warnings?"

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Meanwhile, on the boxed set of Twin Peaks I paid $49.99 for with the worst captioning I've seen in my life