A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird

People who are following me and have fundraisers: I do not have any money to spare, that's why I've had a little fundraiser to help pay for taking basic care of some street cats who live under my porch. My roof leaks, my car is 22 years old. I don't have anything to give you but cat photos.

Doing this weeks reading for ethics class. It's a tough read. It is on immigration. The wildly out there examples in this essay ... are pretty much all things that are currently happening.

This. I have not been to one for over two decades, but I know they look like themed casino restaurants, yet somehow ... worse. Only missing the slot machines. The person who dragged me in there? Racist ex mother in law.

Why don't we just ... abolish sex segregation in sports? And just stick with weight classes. Oh, wait. It's because dudes cannot handle anyone being better than them, because patriarchy, right?

This made me weepy just reading it. Yeah. This.

Seasonal decor is happening.

I have started the application process for transferring to a university next fall. Scary! Exciting! Terrified of the financial aid cliff!

I have been on the edge of heartbreak all day and I am not sure why. Maybe it's because I did my ethics midterm and chased it with election judge training and then came home and did more ethics homework. Ethics gives me the screaming icks about humanity in general.

Like I'll see people be like "Shakespeare made a mistake about X historical thing in Y play" and it's like, no, he didn't. That was not a goal of the enterprise.

Americans, please don’t worry about your child coming home from school a different sex. Worry about your child not coming home from school because they were shot to death.

I need to clean my drafting table. I also have Ethics homework. We are covering the Death Penalty thus week. Timely, and depressing, and makes me want to deep clean my tiny studio instead.

Use reference. I’m serious. I get it that somehow you or someone convinced you that using reference is “cheating.” It’s not. You are just hindering yourself.

Today I am torn between unsurprised, resigned horror at the storm damage facing every coast we have (with a side of worry about folks in those places) and irritation (also unsurprised and resigned) at having to close my house up and put the ac back on. In mid October. Because 90+ and humidity.

This is ostensibly a conversation about Ravelry & fiber arts influencers — but it's actually a conversation about the freelancification of creative work, the decline of institutions that made that work sustainable, and the hollowing out of the creative economy: www.patreon.com/CultureStudy...

Doing art history homework and I am yet again struck by the way religion is both a propelling force for artistic expression and a driver of the very worst that humans are capable of. Humans can be ok, but we should not be weaponized with any sort of dogma.

Many people like to laugh at medieval illuminations of stag-snails, oh those funny medieval artists making up anim...

QRP with your moon art One of several pieces I made with moons last spring.

The firing squad execution would certainly not be televised if the person being executed was not a brown man with an islamic name.

I wonder sometimes if people would actually buy my art or if it is just going to remain a thing I do that people will tell me I should sell.

I survived the algebra midterm, despite fighting the entire time with my dyscalculia. I like math. It is numbers and symbols that hurt me and my broken brain that makes me need to triple check my work.

Jaws. I was tiny, my aunt (18) and uncle (15) were babysitting, and *they* wanted to see it. About the point the tiny kid gets eaten through the yellow floaty, I was under the seats and crawling away, uphill. After, they found me pressed against the back wall, still under a seat.

I want to know which edition of the Art History text actually maps to the midterm I just did on "chapters 24-29." Half the essay questions didn't actually apply to the assigned reading, and half the assigned reading didn't apply to the essay questions. I'm guessing reorganized chapters.