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a black trans woman was made homeless and had to suddenly relocate! please circulate and repost this fund so she can stay stable and get groceries as she gets back on her feet gofundme.com/f/urgent-suppo…

Rest In Peace, Tom. He was left in a coma, turned 22 while in that coma and passed away on 13th January 2004.

All of this in one shot. He wanted it BAD.

Please remember that provincial governments are starving public systems for private interests

Please help spread the word: I’m honestly shocked to see my illustration being used on T-shirts sold at the Monte-Carlo Masters without my permission or a licence. I never expected something like this from such a major tournament. If someone from the organisers sees this, please contact me so we can resolve this properly. @montecarlorolex @atptour

lindo como os artistas estão respondendo à cafonice das IAs com a onda mais criativa do século

How Enslaved People Used Quilts as Maps to Escape To Freedom. (Quilt Codes & the Underground Railroad)

zendaya’s running that a24 marketing team like the navy

I love how tichina arnold is extremely famous in Brazil 😭

Each bee has four wings. So this veil took about 5,000 dead bees to make. A single healthy hive holds up to 60,000. Luci Jockel is a jeweler out of Rhode Island School of Design who only uses bees that died of natural causes. She found beekeepers who’d lost their hives and made a deal: she’d put in physical labor helping them rebuild, and they’d give her the wings from the bees that didn’t survive. A Rhode Island beekeeper named Paul Whewell had lost everything to a harsh winter. She worked his hives, learned to keep bees from him, then started her own colonies with her dad. Other wings came from rooftop hives at the RISD Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the MAD Museum in Manhattan. Each wing is about half the width of a dime. She glued them one at a time with archival glue, the kind museums use to preserve artwork, to create a material she calls “bee wing lace.” The pattern comes from Dutch lace collars she studied in 1600s portraits at the RISD Museum. Nine years of work. The finished piece is a mourning veil, made to grieve the bees it came from. Jockel started building this in 2017. Back then, US beekeepers were already losing around 40% of their colonies every year. Last year it hit 55.6%, the worst since tracking began in 2010. Commercial operations lost 62%. In raw numbers: 1.6 million colonies gone in twelve months, with damage above $600 million in replacement costs and lost honey production alone. Bees keep most of your food supply running. About 75% of US crop production depends on them. California’s almond harvest alone needs 1.4 million hives trucked in every spring, roughly 60% of all managed colonies in the country, for a crop worth $6 billion a year. Total annual value to American farming: $34 billion. She needed 5,000 bees and nine years to build one veil. One in every three bites of food you eat depends on the ones still alive.

🚨 CONVICTED: In Oregon, the rain that falls on YOUR land... isn't yours. Gary Harrington built 3 reservoirs on his own 170-acre property to collect rainwater & snowmelt for fire protection. The state said: "Drain it. All water belongs to us." He refused. They hit him with 9 misdemeanors, 30 days in jail, and a $1,500 fine. This is government ownership of the sky. What’s next... your air? Your backyard dirt? Actually... Yes 👇

🚨: NASA releases new image of planet Jupiter captured by James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built.

Just beautiful!

Patrick Ball gets emotional when talking about paying off his student loans after three months of working on ‘The Pitt’ in new interview with Cultured Magazine: “ I paid off my student loans like three months into The Pitt, and that was a really profound moment ‘cause I thought I was gonna die with it. It’s a huge burden to carry, and a lot of people carry it. I was $80,000 in debt and I had been through a series of failed relationships where my financial insecurity was a real problem. I had just thought that was going to be my life forever, and that is a really heavy thing to live with. Paying off those student loans and getting back to zero, I remember being like, Man, if this show works, great. If it doesn’t work, they can’t take that away from me. I am out of debt. No take-backsies on that.”

Kelela announces new single “FILE DELIVERY” out tomorrow.

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This is devastating - this is so so devastating. DCI has been a dedicated and incomparable resource on Palestinian children. To lose this organization is to lose so much documentation of Israeli crimes against Palestinian children.

They are pricing us out of life and y’all solution is just to lock in and make more money.