my mother used to be a secretary at dupont in the 80s, and one day an executive came out of a meeting really upset and just blurted out to her that he had this dream that dupont had contaminated the world's oceans with plastics and that the sky was on fire and simply lol

Thank you to all of the creatives who applied for this year's ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. It was truly an honor to consider you for this microgrant.

We're overjoyed to announce this year's recipient, Mukethe Kawinzi!

We know Mukethe will do great things with this support.

1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun.

Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found.

WSJ owes a full retraction and apology.

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Updated portfolio with one of the coolest projects I did: The Wild Seed Project's 2025 planting guide! I got to illustrate the cover, spots, and six spreads all featuring native plant communities. Altogether painted ~80 native species!

→ julianplum.com/the-wild-see...

#kidlitart #sciart #gouache

Love for people to look into my eyes and discover deep within them a terrifying secret that paralyzes them with fright

The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to announce the Smokelong Quarterly Fellowship for Trans Writers for Spring 2026! Applications are due on September 1st for our spring residency period which runs from January through May! www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/07...

Poet wings & wormholes in the wood. A $150 emergency room copay & The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Bloody buckteeth & lizard-tongues. Slabs of muscle & slicing the roast.

beestung #24 is here!

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It must kick ass to live in the Pokémon world where ghosts exist but they're only Pokémon so it's basically obvious the human soul is not real and the human body perishes for-ever

Recent reasons Philly is best city (ongoing):
1. Guy gave me a high five while biking over spring garden bridge and all his friends cheered.
2. Neighbor who pilots an RC car that goes like 50 miles an hour up and down our block.
3. Biker who stopped in the middle of the road to cuss out a motorist..

"I am haunted by sylvan ghosts. I grew up in forests, and every one of them is being systematically destroyed."

—Shantell Powell

i wrote about the premeditated speed at which the NCAA sold out its trans athletes, and how history proves this quality of fear-mongering cruelty won’t stop here

"Evil has visited the earth in many forms. Now it returns as: THE CAR [honking noises]"