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k. dino pop @kashtastical.bsky.social · Feb 16
Cute lil tufts of moss and lichen, clearly enjoying the chance to defrost in this afternoon's warm sunlight (-6c but who's counting)

#silentsunday
#lichensubscribe
#magnificentmoss
Cute tufts of moss and lichen stretch eir sweet selves up and into the strong, stark winter light. Hints of the evening's cold temps and thick frost remain in the corners and crevasses of the fallen over tree ey are colonising. In the foreground, thick dark green moss with dark red brown tendrils reading for the sky. In the background, trumpeting lichen crowding each other for metaphorical tea. And just below centre frame, a decorative pinecone bridging two of the moss Tufts. The picture practically breathes with relief for the coming spring
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. Part 2 of 2:
8. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer runs into a 34-year-old painter at a party and the painter says to the writer that he is just back from Los Angeles and he says with some surprise that he had a really good time there and he asks why does she think that happened and says it's because New York is so boring now that Los Angeles is fun in comparison and that's true and it's one reason but the real reason is that they don't know the people who are dying there. 9. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has dinner every night for 11 nights in a row with the same 32-year-old musician while he waits for his biopsy to come back because luckily for her she is the only one he trusts enough to tell. 10. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer… …trying to make plans to go out of town flips through her appointment book and hears herself say, ''Well, I have a funeral on Tuesday, lunch with my editor on Wednesday, a memorial service on Thursday, so I guess I could come on Friday, unless, of course, Robert dies.'' 11. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when the world's most famous artist dies of complications following surgery at the age of 61 it doesn't seem like he really died at all - it seems like he got off easy. 12. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that at a rather grand dinner held at a venerable New York cultural institution and catered by a company famous for the beauty of its waiters a 39-year-old painter remarks to a 36-year-old writer that the company in question doesn't seem to employ as many really handsome boys as it used to and the writer replies, ''Well, it doesn't always pay to be popular.''
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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ingridsue.bsky.social
I’ve seen clips of Fran Lebowitz speaking eloquently about her experiences in those horrific early days of the AIDS epidemic in NYC, but somehow never read this gut punch of a piece until today. Damn.
alexdecampi.bsky.social Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 1d
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:
1. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when a 36-year-old writer is asked on a network news show about the Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community particularly in regard to the Well-Known Preponderance of Homosexuals in the Arts she replies that if you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with ''Let's Make a Deal.'' The interviewer's lack of response compels her to conclude that he has no idea what she is talking about and she realizes that soon many of those who do know what she is talking about will be what is generally regarded as dead. 2. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that on New Year's Eve Day… …a 36-year-old writer takes a 31-year-old photographer to get a chest X-ray and listens to him say with what can only be described as a certain guarded hope, ''Maybe I just have lung cancer.'' 3. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has a telephone conversation with a dying 41-year-old book editor whom even the most practiced verbal assassin has called the last of the Southern gentlemen and hears him say in a hoarse whisper, ''I'm sorry but I just hate old people. I look at them and think, 'Why don't you die?' '' 4. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that an aspiring little avant-garde movie director approaches a fairly famous actor in a restaurant and attempts to make social hay out of the fact that they met at Antonio's and will undoubtedly see each other at Charles's and Antonio's and Charles's are not parties and Antonio's and Charles's are not bars and Antonio's and Charles's are not summer houses in chic Tuscan towns - Antonio's and Charles's are funerals. 5. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer is on the telephone with a 38-year-old art director making arrangements to go together the following morning to the funeral of a 27-year-old architect and the art director says to the writer, ''If you get there first sit near the front where we usually sit and save me the seat on the aisle.'' 6. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 24-year-old ballet dancer is in the hospital for 10 days following an emergency appendectomy and nobody goes to visit him because everyone is really busy and after all he's not dying or anything. 7. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer takes time out at a memorial service for the world's pre-eminent makeup artist and a man worth any number of interesting new painters to get angry because the makeup artist's best friend and eulogist uses a story that she has for years been hoarding for her book which she can't write anymore anyway unless she writes it as a historical novel because it's about a world that in the last few years has disappeared almost entirely.
December 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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natepost.bsky.social
A haunted house for people with cPTSD, but it's just a room full of people saying "Everything happens for a reason."
October 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
Anyway, the tl;dr to take away from all this is a thing I have been repeating for ages, which is that extremism symbols function on a plausible-deniability basis. People who use them 100% rely on normal people going "I had no idea, so maybe he didn't either."
October 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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leftistlawyer.com
Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.

We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.

That's the revolution.
September 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
You know what? I was raised by peaceniks and wasn’t even allowed to play with toy guns and Thich Nhat Hanh is my go-to theorist on empathy so my reaction to a lot of this is different from some of my friends and I don’t think these articles telling people how to feel are doing anything useful
September 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
kashtastical.bsky.social
This entire thread ☹️
gregggonsalves.bsky.social Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 28
Every American has to decide what they are going to do now, because your government is out to kill you. Perhaps in January, this might have seemed like hyperbole, but in late August, it sounds like just another Thursday morning in the United States. 9/
August 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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elizhargrave.bsky.social
If you can read a story of this level of raw pain and come out the other side not supporting trans rights with your whole being, *you* are the one that has something wrong with you.
August 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
kashtastical.bsky.social
the sound of blackbird feet dancing on the rooftop of the greenhouse, clearly happy about the thunderstorms dissolving this impossible heat into soft and steady, cooling rain

#birdcallout
July 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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sachacoward.bsky.social
So much manufactured outrage against queer folk in the culture wars, boils down to cis/het folk blithely strolling into queer spaces and queer conversations and completely misunderstanding them.

Let me explain 1/
June 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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erininthemorning.com
Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out.

Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.

This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.

Take it here:
To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
trevorredcap.trvr.org
May 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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evacide.bsky.social
Q&A from a talk I gave last week.

Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"

A: Fascism. It's fascism.
May 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
This works on EVERY SINGLE FUCKING CHART graphing any single economic indicator in the US
twesq.bsky.social TW @twesq.bsky.social · Apr 29
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
kashtastical.bsky.social
Sunset yesterday: as soft and pink as an aurora over the fields to the fjord, a bright brush of rainbow curving up into sky
A horizontal picture of yesterday's sunset. The sky is as soft and purple pink in the fading light as an aurora, hugging the horizon and bathing the fields as they curve and swoop gently to the fjord, not visible in the pic but very much there, just on the other side of the treeline. As for the fields, even the rich chocolate of the recently planted field to the left and the fluffy bright green of the new grass in front are fading to pink in the kiss of evening light. Tying the image together, and just right of centre frame, is the bright whisker of a rainbow as it curves up into sky.
April 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
kashtastical.bsky.social
today in mcas fuckery -

got a big angry mast cell rash bc i had the audacity to have blood drawn to check on my mast cells
April 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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evacide.bsky.social
I can no longer tell if I'm holding up surprisingly well right now because I did all of my grieving for the future back in 2024 or if I have just reached a state of emergency dissociation so extreme that I will not be feeling my feelings until 2026.
April 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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pamdorra.bsky.social
We need to use the right words. Don’t just repeat what the regime calls it. Think, rename it to be more accurate.
slack2thefuture.bsky.social David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · Apr 8
Kidnapping.

Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.

Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.

A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
evanbernick.bsky.social Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Apr 8
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.

-You cannot legally deport people without due process.

-You cannot legally deport citizens.

-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
April 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
kashtastical.bsky.social
hallo smol waving fren
an image of the shallows of the local fjord, almost exactly centre of the previous pic. the water is so clear here it feels like looking through air, only the smallest hint of bubbles giving away the liquid composition. rocks and shells are strewn haphazardly across the image, in the way a small child might decorate an iced cookie or cake with sprinkles and sugar pearls. in the very centre frame lays one small starfish, approx. 3cm across, only the second such friend i've ever met in this water. eir body is pink with hints of purple where the texture is moist pronounced, several of eir arms ending in white like the tip of a pencil or a cat's white socks. eir left arm is bent up as if in a welcoming hello, inviting the viewer to take a step closer and come splashing in
March 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
kashtastical.bsky.social
A shortstack of pancakes (mushrooms) nestled into the mossy feet of a shaggy pine tree on this bright, windy, definitely spring day

Any guesses about the kind of mushroom? We've been joking about their visual similarities to pancakes, stroopwafels, injera, shelves...
a vertical pic of several large mushrooms, just the caps, all snuggled on top of each other and into the mossy feet of an usually large needle tree that was more droopy shag than anything else. the mushrooms are a gorgeous chestnut brown, thin and woody, wrinkling upwards at the edges in the way that very thin pancakes or very thick crepes do, lovingly decorated with pine cones, the greens and browns of pine needles and bright pools of early spring light.
March 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
kashtastical.bsky.social
Yes.
bandherbooks.bsky.social b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · Mar 16
Would seeing a guinea pig in a bucket hat help
Guinea pig in a bucket hat
March 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
kashtastical.bsky.social
Just some pixie cup lichen looking glam with eir pine needles friends at the foot of this tree
The foot of a tree, haphazardly covered with last year's pine needles, showing a young colony of pixie cup lichen stretching eir sweet seafoam green heads every which way. This photo is one for contrasts: the broad slate of the tree bark looking more smooth than it is - the bright dallops of seafoam green lichen emerging from the crevasses of bark - the dusting of pine needles, roan with age, every which where. The colours, the textures, the way this still life is so very full of life, however styled, however small. The work of winter continues, slowly giving way to spring
February 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM