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Hi pals, I've launched a fundraiser featuring hand-dyed bandanas, with 100% of profits to abortion funds.
There will also be a community hand-dying brunch on July 3rd, co-hosted with @LeslieLevings in El Sereno, CA, if you'd like to come hang out and dye your own bandana!
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Just throwing this out there: how about we *donโt* combat the loss of bodily autonomy for one group of people by proposing the loss of bodily autonomy for another group of people. ๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ๐ค๐คท๏ฟฝtwitter.com/OccupyDemocratโฆSXoUJ
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We all have so much justified anger, so much righteous and deserved rage, that it can be easy to forget we have more than one right way to save each other.
All the more reason to pass sanctuary city bills like we're doing in Ithaca. Prohibit government employees from cooperating with these bullshit out of state investigations. twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/โฆ
Retweeted by Carrie Cuinn ๐+๐ฎ+๐ฒ the unlabeled fan plant (I think it's a dracaena) I saved from the trash has perked up and gone back to green. โ๏ธ๐ฑ๐ฟ#ContainerGardeningn#TinyGardene#GrowYourOwnFoodo#PatioGardene#ApartmentGardeningn#CityGardene#TomatoPlantn#ContainerTomatoese#EdiblePlantst#EdibleFlowersrs
Patio garden update (for those who need a little beauty today): Snapdragons + celosia are blooming. The cherry tomato shrubs got their first blossoms; our standard tomato plant we call "Big Mama" is fat & happy. There's green hot peppers just waiting to turn red, and -
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Our government can't regulate guns carried ON your person despite massive numbers of people killed by guns everyday but can regulate what a person (not only women) does INSIDE their body by criminalizing safe abortions. We told you it was coming but it's still so fucking tragic.
If you want to make a difference in your community, check out your county's advisory boards. They're most always looking for volunteers, and you affect policies for everything from environmental management to mental health. Here's my county, for example:
tompkinscountyny.gov/legislature/adโฆ
It's vital that everyone knows how to shut up when being questioned by the cops. All you say is:
* Why did you pull me over/enter my shop/etc.?
* I'm not discussing my day with you.
* Am I being detained?
* (and if you are) I invoke the 5th & I want a lawyer.
THEN YOU SHUT UP. twitter.com/karmaonesixoneโฆ
I spent a couple of hours caring for various plants in my container garden yesterday; very pleased to see my dill plants (which were drooping and yellowing) are all bright and fresh this morning! A little pruning goes a long way.
Now to take that energy into editing a story...
This is amazing. I love seeing all the advances in programming and tech we make just to better visualize what life might be like with species that disappeared off the planet millions of years ago.
I also really want a couple of cutie raptor buddies to be my friends, please. ๐ฅฐtwitter.com/dacrookie7/staโฆs
If you're intrigued, you want to see more, check out the classic trailer on YouTube:
Whatever you're imagining from the pics above, I promise you're not quite prepared for this movie. It's fabulous, it's ridiculous, but it totally and completely commits.
youtu.be/I3czCEgxDDM
Plus there's a lot of this, if you're interested in that sort of thing. (I know who you are.)
Also, there's a lot of god-meddling, and a very evil princess in spandex... Also Circe in a one-piece bathing suit, but honestly that fits with everything else.
He fights stuff! Bad guys, gods, and a surprising number of robots for ancient Greece...
To all the folks thinking "What if mythology, but science fiction??" for their next project, please let me introduce you to one of the greatest movies off the early 80's:
HERCULES, starring Lou Ferrigno
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A beautiful example of a different type of epic story, one that begins with the safety and comfort of service to the State, and ends with the relief of returning to it, rather than seeing conquest or glorious battle as the end all and be all for a heroic figure. twitter.com/egy_philosopheโฆ
Lying in bed, reading Twitter on my phone in the dark, when suddenly this little paw lands on my chest, as if to say "Human, go the f*ck to sleep."
- both of those problems can be fixed by mixing colors together or adding a little water.
LONGER REVIEW (FOR MY PATRONS ONLY): patreon.com/posts/product-โฆ
For my Patrons, I reviewed "Artist Loft" Gouache; $5.99 for 12 colors (12 ml tubes) at @MichaelsStores.
SHORT REVIEW: For what it is - an entry-level student gouache - it's not bad! Some colors were too thin (not enough pigment, almost watercolors) and a few too thick, but
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Our upcoming Summer Games at @IthacaCollege is the perfect way to join our movement. We still need more than 300 volunteers. Join us! #BeAFan
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Retweeted by Carrie Cuinn ๐+๐ฎ+๐ฒ - carved with #Flexcut tools.
Like all of my print blocks, it's hand drawn and #handcarved.
#printmaking #linocut #BlockPrinting #PrintmakersOfInstagram #Printmaker #HandCarved #contemporaryprintmaking #newyork #nativeplants #NYArtist #MushroomArt #WomenArtists #QueerArtists
Progress on my new print "Growing in the Dark" (Enoki mushrooms, a NYS native plant). About 3 hours of carving so far; pretty much done with the tiny mushrooms, working on cutting out the background now. ๐ 4"x6"#Speedballl mounted linoleum block, carโฆinstagr.am/p/CfEtoXRrJlo/BN
Breakfast tacos from last night's leftovers: chicken and corn off the grill, crispy potatoes, + cheddar and mashed avocado. ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฎ#TacoTuesdayday
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Just for my Patrons: a little peak at something new in my sketchbook ๐ธ๐patreon.com/posts/680410110t
Bleak to see anyone say, โtrans rights are not a priority when we are headed for literal fascismโ as though the attacks on trans people and all queer people at this point arenโt a major part of the plan to develop new scapegoats, police more people, and build literal fascism.
Retweeted by Carrie Cuinn ๐+๐ฎ+๐ฒ Just saw a wild armed politician video?
Felt a strong need to Quote Tweet?
That's because YOU are the target audience.
You're helping this person enter the news cycle.
Stop it.
Here's how: Quote Tweet friends, screenshot enemies.
Better yet, focus elsewhere.
Retweeted by Carrie Cuinn ๐+๐ฎ+๐ฒ For Father's Day I made @DonP pan de sal (a Filipino bread he was craving - slightly sweet and topped with homemade breadcrumbs before baking) which I served as little sandwiches with his fave salami and: a goat cheese with herbs, one with "everything" sโฆ instagr.am/p/CfAic7ON5bD/
Betty Bormer was born 8 years before the Civil War ended. When she spoke to the Federal Writers' Project in 1937, she recalled the day freedom came to Texas, the day now celebrated as #Juneteenth.
The Library has preserved Betty's story & many like hers: loc.gov/collections/slโฆ
Retweeted by Carrie Cuinn ๐+๐ฎ+๐ฒ I made a curry for dinner tonight so I made naan (from scratch) to go with it. These are fresh out of the pan and brushed with melted butter โ๏ธ and they taste 10 times better than they look! instagr.am/p/Ce9n_MvrP-6/
Yesterday was Lou Sullivan's birthday โ โ our beloved kin, our Transcestor. Lou was from outside Milwaukee, WI. He was born in 1951 and kept a diary his entire life. His collected diaries, We Both Laughed in Pleasure, changed my life.
๐ฏ๏ธ A Trans Thread ๐ฏfp
Retweeted by Carrie Cuinn ๐+๐ฎ+๐ฒ Queering the universe at the speed of light ๐twitter.com/dieDoktor/statโฆm
I'm humbly asking for your vote for the #HugoAward. This is my last chance at Best Editor, Short Form & Best Semiprozine for 7 years of work at @escapepodcast.
No South Asian has *ever* won a Hugo. No BIPOC has won Best Editor. Your consideration is greatly appreciated. ๐e
Retweeted by Carrie Cuinn ๐+๐ฎ+๐ฒ From my latest WIP:
Abraham knew what land was: the great wild spaces between cities which he had never seen, but which existed to fatten the pig at his breakfast table, to clothe him in soft linens, and drip honey into his mouth. twitter.com/ZZClaybourne/sโฆ
Started carving my first new print since January: "Growing in the Dark". These are Enoki mushrooms, an edible plant that's grown wild in Asia and North America for thousands of years, making it an official NY State native ๐ (4"x6" mounted linoleum blโฆinstagr.am/p/Ce5yw7UugBF/aw
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Except it's always possible to transcribe podcasts. The people doing the podcast decided transcripts aren't worth the time to do themselves or money to pay someone else. That's a choice they're free to make of course, but we make excuses for them by saying it's not possible. twitter.com/KMHerkes/statuโฆ
The word "palaeontology" was used for the first time, on record, in January of 1822. By Henri Marie Ducrotay, a French Anatomist, in Journal de Physique.
Happy 200 years then, "palaeontology"! ๐P
Retweeted by Carrie Cuinn ๐+๐ฎ+๐ฒ The person specifically checked out books from Pride displays - books the library had chosen as most helpful, positive, uplifting stories for people to read this month. They've tried getting them back but so far... All they can do is wait. Let's get more books on their shelves!
Our wonderful local library @tcplny got hit by a weirdly homophobic move: someone checked most of their QUILTBAG+ books out just so no one else could read them during Pride month. The solution? Buy more queer books! ๐๐๐๐๐งกโค๏ธ
Here's how you can hegivebutter.com/QueerBooksforTโฆNiuxc
Inspired by this @misstessowen piece on the connections between white nationalism and environmentalism, here's a thread ๐งตon the famous environmentalists who were also racists that I came across while writing my book White Borders.
Buckle up...
vice.com/en/article/wxnโฆZ
Retweeted by Carrie Cuinn ๐+๐ฎ+๐ฒ Woke up at 4:30 am because a thunderstorm developed overnight and I was worried about the baby plants on a shelf outside so after I moved them - and got rained on in the process - I wrote the outline to a new short story that might be Bradbury, might be horror, we'll have to see?
๐ธThe Museum's special exhibition Extinct and Endangered: Insects in Peril opens in one week! It'll feature macrophotography of incredible insect species from specimens from the Museumโs research collection, taken by@LevonBissPhotoo.
โก๏ธDetails:bit.ly/39xIEboI (3/3)
Retweeted by Carrie Cuinn ๐+๐ฎ+๐ฒ Sun's out, tum's out โ๏ธ instagr.am/p/Ce1BrxOryUN/
Hey friends, if you are putting together a SFF short fiction anthology, maybe invite my buddy @aphoebebarton? She writes an excellent story.๐twitter.com/aphoebebarton/โฆw
In the last month (since I was in the hospital) I slept on average about twice as much as any month in the last year or so before that. Most of it has been recovery sleep but I'm starting to feel... Awake? Better? I don't want to jinx it but I'm actually getting things done?
Incredible: For $10 million, a public university in effect โsoldโ part of its art museum to a rich artist of no distinction for permanent display of her paintings latimes.com/entertainment-โฆ
Retweeted by Carrie Cuinn ๐+๐ฎ+๐ฒ Friends, today is the last day to sign up for my newsletter in order to get SIX FREE BOOKS tomorrow (for my birthday!) :D :D :D The link will go out bright and early on 6/14/22 and will remain live for a week. Happy Pride!
books.bookfunnel.com/merc-birthday
Retweeted by Carrie Cuinn ๐+๐ฎ+๐ฒ If these books take you back in time, turn to page 9. If they make you feel old, turn to page 50 โฆ
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