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Here's a crazy idea: let's stop pretending that institutions under capitalism can be changed for the better; it's time to focus on mutual aid, solidarity, self-governance and community. Let's build ephemeral utopias.
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Anarchist Advent, part 11: reasons to be an anarchist

NEED I SAY MORE (taken from Boston Food not Bombs on Instagram, but really fitting)
December 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
catsmas eve hike with the bouncing bugger. #adventurecat
December 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Yes, I needed to draw this instead of working
December 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Throwback to when it wasn't 5°F outside and Fats could stop my heart by climbing cliffs #catsofbluesky
December 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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BURN!
Werner Herzog trolling Elon Musk with silence #elonmusk #wernerherzog
YouTube video by Cinema Autopsy
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December 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Leafy liverworts and feather mosses keep me company in watching the ice melt. It can be healing to slow down enough to hang with my plant friends; if watching paint dry is dopamine detox and iNat IDs are dopamine farming, then ice melt is dopamine herbalism. #appalachianridgeandvalley #adhd
December 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
A year of learning watercolor by painting my cat
December 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Fire severity reduces tick populations, but landscape context shapes their recovery 📊

Using field data, remote sensing, and SEMs, this research offer a scalable approach to monitor ecosystem and disease vector responses to wildfire 🛰️🧪🌎 @samsambado.bsky.social

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
November 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Fats Waller: adventure cat at large.
Today in trail training, we attempted Dragon's Tooth in Catawba Valley. Only made it halfway, but she made great progress learning to share the trail with humans and dogs. Next time, she'll make it.
#adventurecat #caturday
November 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
As a STEM grad student, my workstation looks less like a sterile bench, supercomputer and Erlenmeyer flasks and more like esspressotinis, a yoga mat, and an emo playlist at high volume. Do not follow my example. #neurodivergent #queerstem #ecology
October 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Warning to hikers on the AT! A man-eating tabby cat was spotted today hunting from the canopy. Quercus Montana provide perfect cover for cat pouncing and bug eating. #trailcat #caturday
October 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
When Flora guides disagree and contradict, what do my fellow naturalists do? Salicornia/Salcocornia is a beautiful example of disputed taxonomy.
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
October 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Gentian, gentle rain, & a genial cat up on War Spur. #catsofbluesky #jeffersonnationalforest
September 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Early autumn colors of ridgetop oak, buckeye and hemlock forests. We discovered that the strips of early yellow that appear in August halfway up the Blue Ridge slopes arejust buckeye. Doing what buckeye does. And beneith them, autumn blooms. www.inaturalist.org/observations... 🌿🌍
September 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Guys, remember when Aang refused to kill Fire Lord Ozai? That moment changed me forever. I can't stop thinking about it.

On one hand, would I refuse playing football with a dictator's head? Probably not.

On the other, I want to find a way to just take away their bending powers, Aang-style
September 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This podcast is the meaning that's missing from my relationships in grad school. Harsh, but my community has been holding me back: debating whether fascism is real. Makes isolation more appealing.

Not trying to send more traffic to spotify, it's what works for me.
open.spotify.com/episode/4ciE...
Prentis Hemphill
open.spotify.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your naaame AND PRONOUNS"
September 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Being queer sometimes means
The cis will be uneasy if we "make it our whole identity"
But if we don't, they misgender us, are blind to us, accuse us of deceiving, claim they feel violated
There's no correct way to be queer
September 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Episode 187: Alison Bechdel
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September 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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"A Beast Touch the Mountain" showcases some of the incredible local residents who have worked for years to protect their beloved community from the #MountainValleyPipeline. Watch tonight's screening at #Roanoke's Grandin Theatre at 7 p.m.
https://loom.ly/Oou2cj0
Documentary details Bent Mountain's fight against Mountain Valley Pipeline
The documentary A Beast Touch the Mountain detailing the fight of several Bent Mountain residents against the Mountain Valley Pipeline will be screening at the Grandin Theater on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The writer and director of the film will also be available to answer questions after the film.
roanoke.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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“The playbook–stretching laws like Rico to cast dissent as organized crime won’t vanish, especially amid a surge of authoritarian and openly fascist politics,” [Will] Potter said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Prosecutors’ ‘Cop City’ case collapses as judge tosses Rico conspiracy charges
Two-year attempt to prosecute opponents of police training center on criminal conspiracy charges ends in failure
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Late-wave Caterpillar season in the mountains! This is just from looking at the fuzzy wiggler. She never even tasted him. www.inaturalist.org/observations... #caturday #adventurecat
September 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM