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I am a birdwatcher, aspiring anarchist, a writer, a reader, a friend, and some other stuff. Or maybe I’m not. Often wrong, always learning. All views are my own. She/her.
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Thursday @haymarketbooks.org: Heaven Looks Like Us: An Evening of Palestinian Poetry, feat. anthology eds. @intifadabatata.bsky.social and Noor Hindi, and many many of the contributors (see image and alt text). In commemoration of Nakba Day. Donations to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social: t.ly/8FzO8

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

I counted 5 blue herons here this morning! Plus a great egret and a sandhill crane. I also got scolded by a swallow because I was standing too close to its nest.

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Wild geranium, a native Wisconsin wildflower.

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Virginia Bluebells

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Yesterday.

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Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

submitted 13 days ago • 49 comments

ICE has begun raiding the homes of American citizens. A widely shared story out of Oklahoma describes a disturbing incident where a woman and her children were dragged into their yard half-naked. Reports are mounting across multiple states of agents targeting the wrong properties.

submitted 14 days ago • 738 comments

"Tariffs are a great thing, just don't show them on your website to customers" is a flawless encapsulation of 2025 so far. No notes. 10/10. It's amazing how stupid these people think you are.

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

Monday

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I know you can read my thoughts, Bart.

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submitted 16 days ago • 325 comments

One day we’ll get texted survey links for using truck stop bathrooms based on info supplied to the truck stop by Google Maps. “Based on our data, it seems like you dumped it up real good during your experience. Rate how confident the toilet made you feel that it could suck your dookies down.”

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe its time to consider the fact that if these were actually “our” institutions two capitalists high off their own farts wouldn’t be able to dismantle them in 3 months time

submitted 17 days ago • 53 comments

This sounds like a win for marine wildlife though. 🐳 Yay!

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Print and Resist Zinefest was amazing! I got so much awesome stuff and talked to lots of interesting activists, artists and writers. ❤️🌸

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Fuck yeah, Milwaukee! Wisconsin isn't gonna put up with this gestapo-wannabe bullshit. 💖

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“The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.” - Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

some dumb motherfuckers , even libs , act like the relative lack of conservative professors is a problem . but american conservatism is an anti intellectual movement! might as well ask why there’s a lack of vegan chefs in brazilian steakhouses

submitted 18 days ago • 40 comments

Good morning and Happy Easter! 🐣 Who wants to help me find the Butter Butt? You Ready? Let’s GO!!! 📷👐🏾🖤🪶

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

The Wisconsin Conservation Congress is happening now, through 6 pm on Wednesday. You can vote directly on a lot of fishing, hunting, and other wildlife issues dnr.wisconsin.gov/about/wcc/sp...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

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"It is insanely delusional to believe that the Democrats are capable of changing in a meaningful way, and it is insanely delusional to trust them."

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

What To Know About The TikTok Sale theonion.com/what-to...

submitted 37 days ago • 17 comments

People wonder about my serene smile in the face of imminent economic collapse and the reason is quite simple

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

"The real villains, the worst villains, are the officials who respond to protests with performative applause while quietly continuing the crimes." -- THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

a big difference between saturday night when you're young and saturday night when you're no longer young is the meaning of ten o'clock. young ten o'clock means the night is really getting started. not young ten o'clock means sad because want to drink tea but can't do tea after 9 o'clock

submitted 39 days ago • 52 comments

Borders as we know them are a recent concoction. The passport system as we know it dates to the First World War. ICE was founded in 2003 as part of the so-called "War on Terror," a disaster for freedom in every way. These institutions are neither beneficial nor inevitable. crimethinc.com/borders

submitted 38 days ago • 8 comments

Finance Guy Doing Cocaine In Sad Way This Time

submitted 40 days ago • 80 comments

From THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

submitted 40 days ago • 5 comments

Anyone else afraid to file their taxes? I don't want to send my bank account information etc to some 19 yo incel who has never felt joy. Maybe I'll just file an extension. Dumbest part is I'm actually getting a lot of money back this year. Or, I was. But my personal info is too valuable to me.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

April Foo--

submitted 43 days ago • 9 comments

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

submitted 45 days ago • 275 comments

Who wants to help me find the Common Loon? You Ready? Let’s GO!!! #WiscoBirder 📷👐🏾🖤🪶

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

Friendly STFU Friday reminders: You DO NOT NEED TO GET ARRESTED! Do not just hand yourself over to the state. We must do everything we can to prevent our people ending up in state custody. THINK about how they will come after you & prepare. Be water & stay dangerous😈

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i love seeing Europeans and Canadians throw their american made snacks in the trash, because it's the exact same kind of performative inaction that americans do when we're mad

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“Legal justice is a Janus head with two faces, the one smiling fawningly upon the rich and influential, the other turned with cruel sneer toward the poor and friendless.” (Emma Goldman, 1912) historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2025/03...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Billionaires should not exist

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

cross-posting: if you have an iPhone, you may have pressed the power button 5x before. the phone vibrates briefly, you get options to call emergency services, power off, etc... this kicks the phone out of this AFU state. you can do it with the phone in your pocket. you should practice doing it

submitted 48 days ago • 28 comments

Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it

submitted 48 days ago • 38 comments

"Pikachu running from the police with protestors in Turkey" ok surely not lets just press play and oh no ok

submitted 48 days ago • 8 comments

I’m going to vote in this Supreme Court election even though I don’t really believe in democracy or voting anymore (see: November 2024). Fuck Elon though. I’ll do just about anything out of spite for these cartoon villain wannabe pendejos.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

chat is this good

submitted 49 days ago • 26 comments

I for one will never forgive or forget the people who ordered this - nor the people who voted for this.

submitted 49 days ago • 154 comments

Stuff like this is perfect because it shows how utterly devoid of creativity genAI evangelists are. Great you recreated a photo that already exists in a drawing style that only has currency because of who you're stealing it from giving the world something with absolutely no value or meaning.

submitted 48 days ago • 77 comments