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Fun little update: the company is implementing these changes to my schedule this Monday, so I lose 18 hours and my full time status (i.e. no benefits). Even just spreading the word helps!

not to be like personal on main (i am just a brand entity after all) but I have the worst luck with jobs and it's beyond my control; my day job is cutting hours so I will once again be annoying about my commissions LOL thank yew

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not to be like personal on main (i am just a brand entity after all) but I have the worst luck with jobs and it's beyond my control; my day job is cutting hours so I will once again be annoying about my commissions LOL thank yew

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DOGE just froze funding to vital Federal and Indigenous conservation programs devoted to supporting the very delicate and tenuous existence of the black-footed ferret.

I fell in love with these animals as a kid traveling to our National Parks. Their rarity and ferocity made me sharply aware, even as a child, of just how much of a responsibility we have toward our environment. I can't bear the thought of them being a fucking casualty of Trump and Musk.

Look at them! They do war dances.

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Opening up my commissions! I'm gonna take 3 active slots and 5 waitlisted, I think...

If you're interested, please check out my TOS + form here!

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#Repost @gogreensavegreen

You might be more than one. You might be different ones at different times. 🫶🏽🫶🏽 you might not be one of these. There are more roles 💪🏽 but this is an amazing intro.

You can’t just like the idea and envision yourself in one of these roles you have to figure out how to be about it ♥️🫶🏽

Via @deiloh & @fablefulart

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These were my most recent batch of c0mmissions! I had a lot of fun with them :> Thank you to Luno (@/moonlitcircus) (other c0mmissioner would like to remain anonymous) My queue is free so if y'all would like to I still have slots open for the foreseeable future~ artistree.io/erindrawsstuff

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These were my most recent batch of c0mmissions! I had a lot of fun with them :> Thank you to Luno (@/moonlitcircus) (other c0mmissioner would like to remain anonymous) My queue is free so if y'all would like to I still have slots open for the foreseeable future~ artistree.io/erindrawsstuff

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Gamers can you please use this post to share positive news about nature and our environment

Everyday I feel crushing sadness and defeat about the state of the world and need encouragement

Feel free to share simple helpful advice on how we can do better for the planet

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COMMS ARE OPEN!

WELP I just had to spend more than half of my paycheck on replacement retainers, so if y'all are feeling generous and able to do so, commissioning me would help me tremendously lol

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COMMS ARE OPEN!

WELP I just had to spend more than half of my paycheck on replacement retainers, so if y'all are feeling generous and able to do so, commissioning me would help me tremendously lol

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COMMS ARE OPEN!

WELP I just had to spend more than half of my paycheck on replacement retainers, so if y'all are feeling generous and able to do so, commissioning me would help me tremendously lol

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Listen to me. Listen very carefully:

They are trying to wear you out.

They are trying to wear you out, and they own most major social media now, along with many major media outlets. The disinformation machine is cranking along. You are going to have to slow the fuck down and read things before you help them wear out other people, too.

So you just saw a post about a real scary bill, hunh? Republicans want to make it a capital offense to pet dogs and repeal The Sky Is Blue Act of 1793, declaring the new official color of the sky to be squant? Damn, that sounds scary.

Let's go look up this fictitious "Make The Sky Squant Again Act" on GovTracker* & on the official legislative tracker on congress.gov!

Well, let's see... GovTracker estimates it has a 1% chance of even getting out of committee and a 0% chance of being enacted, while congress.gov says this bill has 2 cosponsors who have been in the House and combined total of less than a month. The bill doesn't have any actual text, and it was referred to 5 different committees.

That fictitious bill and a hundred others like it are quite literally not worth your time, and more than that, continuing to wring your hands about it and tell other people about the scary scary squant sky bill only does their work for them. It scares people, it makes them spend time and energy on it, and it wears them out. It is a legislative Gish Gallop, meant to throw so many things at people that we can't keep up.

Even calling or messaging your Rep in this case means their staffer has to waste time responding to you and letting you know that Representative Buttzonheads definitely won't support making petting dogs a capital offense, a thing that will never, ever happen regardless.

Staying engaged in this environment is going to require protecting your heart and protecting your energy, yes, but also protecting the energy of others. This is why WWII propaganda posters also included ones taking people to task for spreading panicky rumors and undermining morale.

Do you know why most observant Jews don't eat chicken and dairy together, even though the ban is on red meat and dairy together bc you're not supposed to cook the calf in the milk of its mother?** It's not because we think that chicken might secretly lactate or Just Because. It's because the rabbis decided that if I'm sitting out in public and eating turkey and cheese together, someone might glance at the turkey and mistake it for red meat and think, "oh, well, I know that Spider is a good Jew, there must have been a change, or maybe I can just justify it to myself that if Spider does it, it must be permissible to bend the rules just that much." And I would then be accidentally leading my fellow Jew astray. We are responsible for being even more careful for the sake of others than we are for ourselves.

It's the same principle here. We need to really be careful about the information we are spreading and check things past reading a news site. Is it true? Is it relevant? Is it meaningful? Is the news site one I recognize? Can I find meaningful independent corroboration on another site, which is to say, if I find an article about it on a second site, is it just quoting or rephrasing this site?

Yeah, that is a lot. But that's how we keep them from using us to lead our fellows astray.

*GovTracker is an independent site. They explain their methodology in their About section.

**I cannot say enough how I am not at this time interested in going on a Jewish Side Quest About Dietary Laws on this post. Usually, I love it, but hold off this time, please, y'all. Let's stay on target this once.

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COMMS ARE OPEN!

WELP I just had to spend more than half of my paycheck on replacement retainers, so if y'all are feeling generous and able to do so, commissioning me would help me tremendously lol

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COMMS ARE OPEN!

WELP I just had to spend more than half of my paycheck on replacement retainers, so if y'all are feeling generous and able to do so, commissioning me would help me tremendously lol

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despite the insanity of 2024, it was a pretty decent art year for me. I started rediscovering why I wanted to do art in the first place, so I was very experimental with painterly styles. I'm determined to fill every month this year!!

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