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RFK took the vaccines. So did his kids.

Now he wants to deny millions the privileges of science he enjoyed.

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Stargate SG-1, 03.14 Foothold

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Revolutionary

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[ID: Photos of a relief sculpture of a leaping horse, inspired by the palaeolithic cave paintings of Lascaux. The horse starts as a painting at the rear and is completely three-dimensional from the shoulders, so it appears to be emerging from the block of clay. Following behind the horse and wrapping around the back of the block is a painting of another horse. Each photo shows a different angle. End ID.]

First block horse of 2025. Will be available on my Etsy shop Sunday 11th May 7PM GMT. eredhes.etsy.com

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“The world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully. But also… by telling the story of the world, we are changing the world.”

— Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

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Haiku July, Day 27

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Starting my speech at the Omelas city council with a child acknowledgement statement

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Finally starting to work on this drawing again.

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Good to know the Navy has not changed in hundreds of years.

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[so horny my penis is whistling like a tea kettle] what? i cant hear you over my penis

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Once I was three margaritas deep to the wind at a beach club in Cozumel on my “day off” (in quotes because I’m always lookin n lurkin), and I saw a Pygmy raccoon grabbing an enchilada or something from an unsecured garbage bin and I was so upset. SO upset. And I’m just sitting there in my beach chair next to him (I deliberately choose to sit near the garbage) like “Hello? Sir? Do you know you’re endangered? Dont eat that!” And there were some other tourists who were now looking at me funny and I was MORTIFIED. So embarrassed. Because, and I quote, “I’m an idiot. He doesn’t speak English.” And then turned back to the raccoon and desperately went “Señor Mapache! Sabe que está en peligro de extinción? No coma!” In my very southern accent a la Peggy Hill.

Anyway, here is a picture of him I drew.

Pygmy Raccoon (Procyon pygmaeus)

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Marble statue of the jackal-headed god Anubis (Hermanubis), associated with mummification and the afterlife, holding the Caduceus of Hermes in his left hand, dating from the 2nd century. Now in the Vatican Museums and Galleries.

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This isn't your area, but I'm not a huge fan of the pronouns in the headers of the character introductions in the article "The Legends of Edge of Eternities." The text already has their pronouns in it, putting it right up there with their name makes me feel like I'm on a Zoom call with my HR department.

Let me explain why this is important. When you are part of the majority, you’re used to being the default. You get comfortable with something being not stated, because it’s assumed it’s what you expect it to be.

The change to stating things up front is an attempt to change how we view new things. Rather than just assume it’s the default, the idea is people learn that there isn’t one default, that there’s an expectation that there are multiple options.

Yes, this is a change from the past (and change is difficult), but it’s one being done to try and expand how we as a society absorb new information. Once it becomes the norm to explain how you wish to be seen/addressed it helps make differences a core to our interaction as opposed to an outlier.

In short, it’s being done to make the world more accepting of differences.