@leahrosekessler
Picture book author, voting rights advocate, biologist, former teacher & science educator, repped by Natascha Morris. She/her www.leahrosekessler.com https://www.schulerbooks.com/book/9781576879849 (Banner from RAT FAIR - illlus by Cleonique Hilsaca)
So please, if you can, I’d love to have this thread list pro-Trans everything. Creators, craftspeople, writers, artists, activists…if you or someone you know deserves some celebrating, bring it the fuck on, okay?
Post links if you can.
Buy stuff if you can.
They hate when people stand up.
I wish I liked wearing rings. Look at these beauties!
I miss having cats who loved each other this much. 😍
The needs we're receiving at Adopt a Rent today are huge needs, most of whom are for people who still need January, February, and March rent.
Can you help us cover even part of one rent?
Wow… yeah
An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that." Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.
Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.
Yikes
The FEMA Higher-Education Symposium will not be happening again this year. So, as we did last year, we are hosting a free/virtual Emergency Management Colloquium in its place.
The Colloquium will take place June 3-4 and the deadline for proposals is March 15th (soon!!).
Hope to see you there.
But first is next month’s very under-the-radar race.
Details here: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-su...
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
I’ve been back and forth about whether I like changing twice a year or not and which one to keep if we pick one soon with it, but this might have just decided me on daylight forever.
I have little patience for learned helplessness and absolution-seeking. Our founding document opens with "We The People."
Either we, the collective citizenry, have power or we don't. This ain't Schrodinger's democracy.
We have power. It's incumbent upon us all to seize it.
Many hands=light work!
Legacy media is failing democracy. Six years ago, I decided to do something about it. I started Democracy Docket from scratch.
Today it has 400,000+ subscribers. But to protect democracy, it needs to grow. Subscribe now: bit.ly/4qmEiFz
Congratulations!
Look out!
I wore them at work when I moved to a new, drafty office building in SF. Game changer.
I truly wish more people would read science fiction and not just watch big-budget adaptations. SF authors have thought about the ethics of the creator vs. the (technological) creation / created ever since Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.
Knowing humans, perhaps long before then.
NEW: Believe it or not, it’s that time of year: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is next month.
Liberals have a huge opportunity: if they win, they can lock down the majority of this court thru 2030.
That means they’d have it in the next presidential race, a big democracy guardrail.
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When the US govt terminated the National Nature Asst, @phillevin.bsky.social + the author team were determined not to let that stop them.
They re-organized, set up an advisory committee, found funding…and now the brand new Nature Record is open for public comment. 👏🌳👏🌲
Check it out (link below)!
A graphite pencil drawing of a calico crab.
If you see this, post a crab! 🦀🦀🦀
This is is at $1825/2100!!
$275 to go!
people not in Texas, let’s get ready to open our wallets to whatever grassroots orgs are helping voters navigate this fucking bullshit (media campaigns, carpools and transport, door knocking, whatever is needed)
this fuckery cannot stand
Congratulations!
transcript of a NYT podcast ad: This is A.G. Sulzberger. I’m the publisher of The New York Times. I oversee our news operations and our business. But I’m also a former reporter who has watched with a lot of alarm as our profession has shrunk and shrunk in recent years. Normally, in these ads, we talk about the importance of subscribing to the Times. I’m here today with a different message. I’m encouraging you to support any news organization that’s dedicated to original reporting. If that’s your local newspaper, terrific — local newspapers in particular need your support. If that’s another national newspaper, that’s great too.
the publisher of the new york times wants you to subscribe to the handbasket
www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe
It took me until my 40s to realize I can just nope out of a book if it’s not for me.
You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off.
Leave your comment here:
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Oh and just remember - once you’ve decided a minority’s human rights are up for debate, you’ve decided HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UP FOR DEBATE.
To everybody who framed all of this as “The Trans Debate,” well done! You’ve opened the door to The Anybody Debate.
Even if you think you are in a state that has not done purges
Please check your voter registration regularly thos year, and tell everyone you know to check theirs, too.
The games are afoot.
I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.
At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.
