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This is slide my entire personality and I'm not sorry about it.

The best photo I took at Dashcon 2

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The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

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AWOOOOOOOOO!!!

I'm so excited to share that I'm helping a stacked team of journalists start a new, worker-owned alt-weekly style publication in the Bay Area! We're fundraising now and would love your support.

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a few doors down from me my neighbors have a squirrel bar nailed to the tree in front of the sidewalk, not exactly this but something like this:

it's been there for years and they never "stock" it so it's just sitting there. anyway, i thought it would be cute to make a little squirrel out of sculpey and leave it on one of the stools in the middle of the night. i also made a little sculpey beer bottle with its own label.

it lasted exactly one day and now it is gone. it didn't fall off, i stuck it on with tape. what do you think happened to it? your most fantastical and wrong answers only, please

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bark beetle patterns

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Sidney Sime (British,1865–1941) - Wild Beast Wood

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Hi... A beloved member of the Trans Nerd Meet Up community in San Francisco is going thru a rough time and urgently needs money to help with rent and bills.

Please help as much as you can — anything helps! <3

And please spread the word!

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do you want to see the best trail cam photo ever

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José María Velasco (Mexican, 1840-1912), Cardón, State of Oaxaca, 1887. Oil on canvas, 61 × 46 cm. Museo Nacional de Arte, INBAL, Mexico City

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This is not a new protesting technique! The first time I read about it was 1998: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/21/nyregion/cricket-invaders-turn-an-auction-into-madness.html

There have been a bunch of examples since, too.

I remember reading about this in the newspaper and being like “I want to be like them one day.” It got me interested in activism!

One of the people behind this 1998 cricket protest wrote a book called Direct Action full of these kinds of things and how to think about and plan actions like this.

Go forth a cricket! Or something like it!

picketing terf conferences is OUT, releasing 6000 live crickets into the audience of a terf conference and watching chaos erupt as everyone scrambles to evacuate is IN

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Things worn down by people.

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I took a letterpress class yesterday! Was really fun, and I am pleased with my first attempt at making a poster.

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sometimes I feel like people who freak out about keeping science fiction and fantasy separate and distinct are like that little kid who doesn't want the peas and carrots to touch on their plate. It's all imaginative fiction, folks. Most science fiction is a little bit fantasy and most fantasy is a little bit science fiction. It's all good and categories are fake.