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i write, draw, bake, and spin in circles. rainglows on Ao3, leah.frog elsewhere. https://linktr.ee/leahfrog

[leahfrog]

What would you do if you had to hurt the little human who wants to be your friend?

My first book, The Viridian Dream releases July 30th in both eBook and paperback formats! Both will be available on Amazon, and eBook is already available for preorder. You can preview the book at http://leahfrog.com :)

The artwork in the paperback is all grayscale and lower quality due to print limitations. The artwork in the eBook is the same as it is on the website, sans being glazed.

Please help me spread the word! Thank you!

[leahfrog]

The book is out! You can get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9LF7774

Thanks so much to everyone who has supported and encouraged me along the way. I'm so grateful!

[catchymemes]

[rosetintmyworld84]

[kingscrown666]

This was better than I imagined

[leahfrog]

Some Rowan/Nova art for Halloween. Rowan grew the pumpkins himself.

[thecollectibles]

Life on the Bayou by Laure de Chateaubourg

[theconcealedweapon]

Homes are expensive because of landlords hoarding them for profit, not because of regulations.

[gmbeowulf]

Time to bring back my favorite picture: The reason there have been so many food and consumer good recalls in the past few years. (If you got listeria from cold cuts? Direct result of Trump's actions!) Regulations exist to protect consumers from profit-hungry corporations.

[inhumaninterest]

Remember, there is no "lesson learned" from those regulations. They aren't safety procedures where now that people know putting lead in cinnamon is a bad thing that they won't do it even if you take the regulation away. The regulations were created because, when given a chance, these people leapt at the chance to destroy housing, poison food, and blight the planet.

Everytime a regulation like that is removed you should be concerned about who was being "held back" by a law preventing them from selling disease riddled meat.

[thatgirlonstage]

A salient example, since lead got brought up specifically—

A while ago it occurred to me to wonder how long we’ve known lead is poisonous, since it was so ubiquitous in paint and construction and so many other places until just a few decades ago, so I went on a wiki dive to see when the first alarm bells were sounded about the health hazards of lead.

Want to guess?

Ancient Rome.

People have known lead is poisonous since at least Ancient Rome.

It didn’t stop people using it.

Your safety regulations are written in blood, not by accident, not because people didn’t know there were dangers, but because without them, blood is cheap.

[headspace-hotel]

Lead was used as a pesticide in the early 20th century, so I reckon we knew it was poison

[bogleech]

Let's not forget that a chunk of workplace safety regulations are owed to the coal wars, when Appalachian miners had to wage an actual civil war against their bosses, police, military and hired goons just to get any rights at all on the job; their employers preferred to hire militias and kill people rather than agree to pay for better safety equipment and give people breaks.

Then there were the "radium girls" in the 1920s who worked at factories assembling products that used radium in order to glow in the dark. They were told to use their mouths to wet their brushes so the company could save more time and material. Their bodies began falling apart, literally, their tissues were dying and breaking off, and the retaliation they led - while any of them were still alive - resulted in a set of laws addressing workplace related illness, setting in motion waves of additional regulation and scrutiny we all still benefit from.

There's more events like these all through history, industries willing to kill people to save money, and all that ever ended any of it was the "government interference" hated so much by conservatives. Almost every single regulation they fight against or already destroyed was a response to a big business damaging human beings over as little as a few cents at a time.

Meanwhile, the rules and red tape conservatives enjoy and enforce are the kind that limit where homeless people can sleep or what food stamps can buy.

[fantabulisticity]

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire - Wikipedia

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.[1] The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and girls and 23 men[2] – who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, falling, or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Italian or Jewish immigrant women and girls aged 14 to 23;[3][4] of the victims whose ages are known, the oldest victim was 43-year-old Providenza Panno and the youngest were 14-year-olds Kate Leone and Rosaria "Sara" Maltese.[5]

...

Because the doors to the stairwells and exits were locked[1][8] – a common practice at the time to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to reduce theft[9] – many of the workers could not escape from the burning building and jumped from the high windows. There were no sprinklers in the building.[10] The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers.

[bogleech]

THEY WERE LOCKED IN, UNABLE TO ESCAPE THE FIRE, IN ORDER TO "DISCOURAGE UNAUTHORIZED BREAKS AND REDUCE THEFTS."

Businesses like Amazon are doing absolutely everything they can within the law to "discourage" breaks and thefts, but the law says you can't fucking lock your workers in like prisoners. They currently would if they could, and they'd love those rules to disappear.

[guessed-starred-deactivated2025]

god. i didnt even know about that part

[slavetomyheadcanon]

REGULATIONS ARE WRITTEN IN BLOOD.

Not the blood of the shareholders or the executives, but the workers. Ordinary people just trying to make a living.

[devinellekurtz]

He wants some bread… 🥖🥐 Twitter I Instagram

[devinellekurtz]

HE IS OFFICIALLY A BOOK!!! Out now, wherever books are sold!

[yuumei-art]

I'm having an Autumn Sale! 20% OFF all orders, and an extra $14 OFF all wall scrolls! Use discount code FALL24 at checkout on YuumeiArt.com/shop We've got koi lanterns, prints, artbooks, postcards and more! Sale ends on Oct 10th.

[homunculus-argument]

Random linguistic worldbuilding: A language with six sets of pronouns, which are set by one's current state of existence. There's a separate pronoun for people who are alive, people who are dead, and potential future people who are yet to be born, and the ambiguous ones of "may or may not be alive or aleady dead", "may or may not have even been born yet", and the ultimate general/ambiguous all-covering one that covers all ambiguous states.

The culture has a specific defined term for that tragic span of time when a widow keeps accidentally referring to their spouse with living pronouns. New parents-to-be dropping the happy surprise news of a pregnancy by referring to their future child with the "is yet to be born" pronoun instead of a more ambiguous one and waiting for the "wait what did you just say?" reactions.

Someone jokingly referring to themselves with the dead person pronouns just to highlight how horrible their current hangover is. A notorious aspiring ladies' man who keeps trying to pursue women in their 20s despite of approaching middle age fails to notice the insult when someone asks him when he's planning to get married, and uses the pronoun that implies that his ideal future bride may not even be born yet.

A mother whose young adult child just moved away from home for the first time, who continues to dramatically refer to their child with "may or may not be already dead" until the aforementioned child replies to her on facebook like "ma stop telling people I'm dead" and having her respond with "well how could I possibly know that when you don't even write to us? >:,C"

[homunculus-argument]

@witchofanguish it is also used in poetry and plays, ghosts talk like that. Imagine being in a folk story, staying overnight in an abandoned cabin and in the middle of the night there's a knock on the door and a bellowing voice going

LET ME IN.

and from the "me" alone you know that whoever is out there is not one among the living.

[atlinmerrick]

OP IS PLAYING 6D CHESS WE GO HOME NOW.

This is brilliant.

[anneemay]

12 September 2024

[anneemay]

His name is Matt Nelson

13 September 2024

[anneemay]

"My name is Matt Nelson and I'm about to engage in an extreme act of protest. We are all culpable in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.... We are slaves to capitalism and the military industrial complex. Most of us are too apathetic to care. The protest I'm about to engage in is a call to our government to stop suppling Israel with the money and weapons it uses to imprison and murder innocent Palestinians, to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza, and to support the ICC indictment of Benjamin Netanyahu and other members of the Israeli government.... A democracy is supposed to serve the will of the people, not the interests of the wealthy. Take the power back. Free Palestine."

[leahfrog]

I drew this for no good reason, and it spurred someone to write a Firefly crossover, so here I am sharing the art at their behest.

[stateoffelicity]

Sign the Petition

Justice for Lakeith Smith and A’Donte Washington!

Please sign the petition!!!

[iguanodonwildman]

So I checked up on this case, and it turned out his sentence was reduced…

to 55 years.

55 years for a unsuccessful burglary, theft, and the murder of a friend that was killed by police, when his only crime was breaking and entering when he was 15 years old.

This is the most up to date article I can find on it: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-lakeith-smith-65-years-idUSKBN243246

Fact check: Lakeith Smith was sentenced to 65 years in prison for murder, burglary and theft after his friend was killed by police officer d

Correction July 6, 2020: an earlier version of this check concluded it was true that Lakeith Smith was sentenced to 65 years in prison after

[iguanodonwildman]

As of March 2023, his sentence was reduced to 30 years. I know there’s a lot going on in the world, but if you can even just spread his story, please do! It makes a difference.

Police killed his friend. A judge resentenced him to 30 years for murder

WETUMPKA, Ala. (AP) — LaKeith Smith was 15 when a police officer shot and killed his friend when the teens were caught burglarizing homes in

[chilewithcarnage]

his petition is still sitting at 911,000 out of a needed 1 million signatures. maybe if we start spreading the word again we could get some justice for Lakeith

[wizardarchetypes]

He needs to be released yesterday and the law that put him in prison needs to go.

[fintan-pyren]

academic who writes a paper and just puts "credit to original author :)" for all their citations

[thebiclub-deactivated20231228]

this reddit post is so good.

a trans guy who is also a butch who dates both men and women-- I aspire to be like this. oh, to play 5d chess with gender.

[emperorclaudiusofficial]

[sayruq]

[catchymemes]

[tgirl-thucydides]

my parents trying to figure out what to get me for christmas

[abeeribrahim2006]

Please do not ignore me 😞💔🙏

My mother makes us bread despite the difficult situation and the lack of necessities of life 😔

The war has entered its 11 month and everything is getting worse 💔

@sar-soor @nabulsi @el-shab-hussein @fairuzfan @90-ghost @ibtisams @northgazaupdates2 @alhabeilfamily @aria-ashryver

Donate to Help a family from Gaza, organized by Yaser Matar

Hello, I am Ibtisam Al-Habil. My suffering began in 2014 when my husband was martyred, and I was … Yaser Matar needs your support for Help

[enby-life]

“Nonbinary people don’t owe you gender neutrality” means “nonbinary people can have full beards and look 110% masc and not tuck and still be nonbinary” just as much as it means “nonbinary people can have long hair and wear makeup and have boobs and still be nonbinary”

Nonbinary does not mean “feminine lite” it means “nonbinary”

[enby-life]

This post was specifically aimed at the INTENSE double standard within the community.

I can’t even think of a fluffy way to say this but if a nonbinary person is masculine presenting without being gnc in some way, they’re thrown under the bus. By transphobes, by allies, by the community. 99% of comments or replies to a post about nonbinary gender presentation are always some flavor of “let nonbinary people be feminine” Which is good!

But when every discussion and every post and every media portrayal is “feminine person that wears fancy makeup and either binds or wears sports bras” it’s a problem!!! Just get it out of your head that nonbinary is “woman lite” or “gender neutral afab” or “masc but only if they’re super gnc about it”

[oodlenoodleroodle]

A lot of people will use having trauma as an excuse. “I was traumatised by men, I can’t allow anyone that looks like a man anywhere near me.” And we have to start saying no, that is not acceptable.

Like even if you can’t afford therapy for your trauma, it is still your responsibility to learn to deal with it. You cannot make your trauma the problem of total strangers. Not cis men, not trans men, not trans women, not intersex men, not intersex women, not nonbinary people, no one.

If your trauma means that you can’t share a queer space with people who have never done anything to hurt you, purely because of how they look – then you gotta leave the space. You need to practice until you can, but if you can’t then you are the one that has a problem. And you need to stop making your problems other peoples problem.

If you make a space for “women and nonbinary people” and a masculine-looking nonbinary person with a beard shows up and you have a problem with that? You are a fucking bioessentialist terf.