𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐞 (they/ze)

A design with a CrimethInc. light bulb logo, reading Everything you need to know about security culture, digital security, phone safety, protective gear, direct action strategy, street tactics, jail support, first aid, and more: crimethinc.com/ActionResources

This is a good time to learn about what sort of clothing you might want to wear to a demonstration, how to protect yourself and others from chemical weapons, proper digital security and security culture, direct action tactics, etc.

Resources about all that and more:

crimethinc.com/ActionResour...

“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Miraculously avoiding existential crisis when "Once In A Lifetime" plays multiple times during my shift at a job I'm putting in too many hours at because overworking is one of my most stubborn trauma responses #SameAsItEverWas

Black-Owned Farms Fill Gaps Left by SNAP Funding Delays From North Carolina to Mississippi, small businesses work to feed their communities while benefits are paused.

From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays

Remember when Biden dropped the COVID isolation guidelines down to just 5 days, not because of any actual medical science, but because the Delta CEO asked him to?

Our lives have always been meaningless to establishment Dems compared to the profits of the donor class.

:-/

A painting of a fire done with acrylic paint on white paper. Individual letters cut out from a magazine are pasted over the Fire that reads "I Hope That Some Day All Workers Will Realize How Powerful Our Collective Inner Fire Can Be."

"I Hope That Some Day All Workers Will Realize How Powerful Our Collective Inner Fire Can Be." Revisited. 7 x 10 inch. Acrylic/mixed media.

Linocut print in white paint on black paper of a Death's head moth and luna moth flying towards a new moon covered by a compass, moon phases in the background. Behind the moths are a saber pointing towards the compass and two antique ink pens pointing out from the deaths head moth's wings, a visual reversal of the way pins hold specimens' wings down, these pens seem to point outwards in both a protective and aggressive way, juxtaposed with the waning and waxing moon to show we keep expressing both when things are getting worse and when they are getting better

"We're in a very dark place right now, but through our actions the light will return" - @margaret.bsky.social

I was going off instinct when I designed this #linocut but the moment I heard this phrase, the full meaning of the piece was clear. We keep going, even when the light is gone 1/

A black kitten is posed on a long vintage sofa, shortly before pouncing

ICE is turning around now, escorted by Broadview police.

Crowd is jubilant.

Someone is shouting, "this is what it takes! They are turning around!"

In the context of payment processors trying to scrub everything even slightly sex-related from the internet I'd like to reiterate this take.

💙

Their absence and loss can feel downright violent. Sending love, this shit is not for the weak

I'm so sorry, friend 💔

picture of graffiti inside the bathroom of my favorite bar written in black depicting a brick(?) with the message on the face of the object stating "THEY CAN'T STOP US ALL!"

Israel Detains and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Meanwhile, there’s not a peep from mainstream media in the U.S.

I don’t see many people talking about this, but Christopher Smalls, Amazon labor organizer, was on a freedom flotilla that was captured and is now being physically assaulted in custody. newrepublic.com/post/198550/...

A small, mostly-black kitten with stripey sides is hanging put on a big old wooden windowsill.

oh, to be a kitten discovering the wonder of hanging out on the wide windowsill of a south city apartment

I'm so sorry friend 💔

genuinely moved by this

I know things are bleak right now, and to hear it from an elder community members is certainly sobering, but I am also uplifting by the living oral memory of how we take care of each other. "Show up, or shut up," as she said.

The first International Ms. Leather was Judy Tallwing McCarthey stands to the left, with Ms. Leather 2024 Goddess Indigo to her right

I want to share this moment while the memory is still fresh: I stood among a crowd of folks while THE first International Ms. Leather Judy Tallwing McCarthey talked about her greatest achievement: stuffing her boots full of medicine to be delivered to Midwestern folks with HIV/AIDS back in the day

I knew losing her would hurt but -- and I know everyone says this -- I really thought I'd have more time with her. This shit hurts more than I could have imagined. Gd fucking damn it. My sweet girl.

Apparently at least nine banners in solidarity with the defendants and the movement to stop Cop City appeared in Minneapolis alone.

Everyone everywhere needs to know about this case, because it represents an effort to set a new precedent for baseless repression targeting dissent of all kinds.

The idea that the fascists cannot be defeated is the core of all fascist propaganda if you are spreading it you are spreading fascist propaganda it's as simple as that

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I'm so sorry, Ruby

who up ouroin they boros rn

It’s the oldest profession because a lot of sex workers are disabled or are caregivers.

I've been consoling myself with the fact that the winter solstice has happened, and at least we are in the last half of winter, but the JanFebMarch final stretch is brutal

"Wake Up, We Have a Common Enemy." Magazine clippings collage on lavender cardstock paper. Might make a blog site to put all my odds n ends, but until then, here's an intro post 🦋