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Renaissance Yeti [graphic + UI/UX designer/artist/tenor/musician/producer/VO/actor/DJ/radio host] Twitter eXpat learning to spread his wings again, also @paauron here https://linktr.ee/chestcarpet
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ICYMI: If it’s a Shutdown, it’s not on Dems!

submitted 9 hours ago • 515 comments

Donald Trump replacing a black four-star general with a white three-star general as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is everything MAGA claims they hate about DEI: giving a less qualified person the job based on their race, not their resume.

submitted 1 day ago • 183 comments

Alright, you know what? I'm gonna branch out into things I never thought I could before. Watch, y'all. ✨️

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This Bill Knott poem hitting different on this day

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

LET HIS CROWN PERISH.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Let yourself be moved towards loving people more freely and ferociously than ever before. Let these times radicalize you because you love people, need people, and want wellness, goodness, and happiness for people more than anything else. Art: @kiracyan.design

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Me for the past few weeks... months, maybe. 🥺

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

“Happy President’s Day!” — Mark Twain

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t doom scroll. Read this. They want you exhausted.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

submitted 9 days ago • 504 comments

Roses are red, Elon's a knob,

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 9 days ago • 1910 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

submitted 10 days ago • 793 comments

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

submitted 9 days ago • 401 comments

Bearpadart.squarespace.com/ It’s real tough to feel anything but hopeless these days but we have to keep fighting, keep being ourselves and keep loving as big and as hard and openly as possible. Our identities might be struck from the records, but that doesn’t change who we are.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history. How fucking dare they Old vs. new

submitted 10 days ago • 186 comments

cat calls

submitted 17 days ago • 55 comments

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

submitted 42 days ago • 402 comments

Skeeting “I should record a DJ Mix” every day until I do I should record a DJ Mix

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Daily task: ❌❌BOYCOTT AMAZON! ❌❌ This is a tough one I know but here are some other options! ✅ Costco.com ✅ Famers markets ✅ Thrivemarket.com ✅ CVS.com ✅ Trader Joe's ✅ Ulta.com ✅ Poshmark.com ✅ NewEgg.com ✅ Ikea.com Art by @trilemma.bsky.social - love it! 💙 Please SHARE‼️‼️ #fuckjeffbezos 🖕

submitted 13 days ago • 805 comments

Making sense of the world is our main purpose; though there's a degree of peace you have to make with not knowing everything.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment