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Next week, I graduate with my BFA in Art. This was my final piece of Illustration coursework. Hoping that it'll be part of the pitch package for a real book before long. 😊

Billions of Mouths to Feed Like most birds, the passenger pigeon was omnivorous, feeding on a wide variety of plant and insect matter. The most important of its food sources were mast-producing trees. A single pigeon could eat half its body weight in a day, and flocks wandered thousands of miles in search of a bountiful harvest; it was this habit of travel that gave the bird its name. Pigeons showed a preference for the mast of the American beech, the white oak, and the American chestnut (a tree whose own catastrophic population collapse, resulting from imported disease, may have played a role in the concurrent decline of the pigeon).

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made an insect-themed tarot deck for a dear friend over the summer and I figured I'd share some of my favorite cards with y'all

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The Iranian Regime is going to execute rapper Toomaj Salehi for supporting protests of Jina Amini’s murder by the regime in his songs.

Iranian activist Elica Le Bon says, “Iranians in the diaspora picked up on the fact that the regime tends not to execute people who become known to the international community. We have seen many examples of prisoners that were either released on bail or had their sentences commuted through our “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media, using hashtags to garner attention for their causes, and even before social media existed, through getting the stories of political prisoners to international media outlets. Once reported on, and once the eyes shift to the regime and the reality of its pending brutality, realizing that the action is not worth the repercussions, we have seen them back down and not execute. For that reason, this is part of an urgent campaign for readers to talk about Toomaj as much as you can, using the hashtag #FreeToomaj or #ToomajSalehi. Every comment makes a difference, and if we were wrong, what did we lose by trying?”

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Victor Nizovtsev

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IRT uncertainty regarding the student protests.

being open and loud about your opposition is not a small thing. it is effective and it is important, even on an individual level. this is historical fact admitted to in the fucking pentagon papers! the state drafted history of the vietnam war that was leaked by whistleblowers! it is a direct admittance to that fact, that it does work, straight from the mouths of the warmongers. who is leading you to believe otherwise and why?

(from People's History of the United States)

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Excerpt from "Short Talks" by Anne Carson

[text ID: Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels.]

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Me: I hate gossip

Also me:

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The Scorched Bride, Robert Wun

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THE DEATH OF THE VIDEO STAR

Worthy Undone wakes up in the apartment of a woman who reincarnates people for a living, and has to deal with the world she created. Killing God is as easy as a baseball bat to the head and a lifetime of guilt afterwards; it's even easier when She stays dead afterwards, but Worthy isn't quite that lucky.

The Death of the Video Star is a visual novel about dealing with the aftermath of killing God, and maybe having to kill Her again.

The game is currently available to purchase on itch.io.

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This bloodbath has gone on for far too long. At the start of this aggression, the school year had barely just started. The academic year ends in just a month. Everyone, from first graders to university seniors, have lost an entire year at least. I say at least considering even if there is a ceasefire today, Israel had destroyed literally all universities in Gaza and damaged over 400 schools. Lest we forget also Israel's deliberate targeting of university professors and academics.

You absolutely cannot mistake the intent behind all of this.

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ever since i was a little girl i've always wanted a hysterectomy

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Lamb to the slaughter

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Basically a poor recreation of this comic, my apologies to Hakobe

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they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.