lofty withers

actual pony 🌈 she/they ✨ author ✒️ actual pony 💖 BLM 🏴 ACAB 🦄 header by boldfrontiers pfp by Moony art at @lofty-does-art

[kurkumaart]

[purr-in-ink]

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[crimethinc]

Blinding the Cyclops—Wrecking the Panopticon

Camera Hunting in the Metropolis

https://cwc.im/blindingthecyclops

An anonymous researcher waging a personal war against surveillance infrastructure tests some of the same tactics movements have recently employed from Greece to Hong Kong.

[kropotkindersurprise]

This is a good article that really captures how regularly doing small acts of vandalism really teaches you to look at your surroundings in a different way and trains you to be security conscious, but most importantly, is incredibly fun and exciting. Check out my CCTV tag for more inspiration, tips and tricks.

[rat-thingo]

my personal mane 6 designs!

this is how i personally see the mane six as people, except not really people because they still have their wings and horns and stuff

(separate under cut)

[key-pair]

in case folk outside the UK aren't abreast of our news, the British press just hounded a black academic to death

[key-pair]

a rough timeline of events (from memory, there may be inaccuracies, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)

Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic

the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal

this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately

somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large

following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor

today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea

the British tabloid press remains, and will always be, fucking evil

[eroscestlavie]

trying to be a writer is so scary. like what if I’m actually a Wronger

[anasabdin]

I couldn't [ 10 colors ]

[onenicebugperday]

Emerald moth, Cathydata batina, Geometridae

Found in Central and South America

Photo 1 by stephenluk, 2 by carrollperkins, 3 by desertnaturalist, 4 by damontighe, 5 by julianbiol, and 6 (for scale) by smejiadu

[lofty-does-art]

pages and marginalia

two complete (small) pages. this time we have new marginalia. these pages include the art fight attacks on gameslotel, @runtedbrain, MaluXD, @fourleafisland, toripixel, and just-in-jest.

[organiczine]

A mini zine I made about the importance of bats in agriculture.

If you’d like the printable version, drop a DM and I’ll send you the file. Let’s break the stigma and support our only flying mammal together!

[natalieironside]

I hope everyone involved in the design, manufacture, sale, implementation, installation, and use of flock cameras gets grabbed by the devil and taken to Hell without dying like Reverse Enoch

[natalieironside]

People who destroy traffic light cameras should be hoisted up on the shoulders of the crowd and acclaimed in triumph like ancient heroes

[wizardarchetypes]

i know it's been said on here and said again but people do so desperately need to genuinely do intentional work to build distress tolerance and start figuring out how to recognize the differences between danger, discomfort, and when a situation that is merely uncomfortable is triggering an emotional flashback in your bodies because it resembles a past situation that actually was dangerous which makes it difficult to realize/believe that this moment is merely uncomfortable.

[wizardarchetypes]

i spoke to an allistic person who said their autistic classmate had a meltdown in class, during which the autistic classmate collapsed to the floor in the middle of the room, screaming and crying. they said it was "terrifying" and they were arguing for the autistic student to be removed permanently from the program.

when i asked whether their autistic classmate's meltdown was dangerous or merely uncomfortable, they said, "i felt like i was in danger!"

i understand that. but that's not what i asked.

[wizardarchetypes]

"i shouldn't have to experience that."

yes you should, actually. that's life. upsetting things happen. no one should have to experience any discomfort. but we do. we get stung by bees and sunburns and headaches. we live in bodies in the world.

autistic people are human beings who have the right to exist in society, including during meltdowns. having one class of your entire semester interrupted by a singular meltdown is not anymore of an infringement upon your entitlement to education than having your class interrupted by a fire alarm or cancelled for a snow storm.

one of my peers once experienced a cardiac event 10 minutes into class. it was terrifying. it was desperately upsetting. i was contacted by the school and offered counseling because i happened to be the one who managed the situation until paramedics arrived. everyone was worried about my classmate first and foremost, and then about me. no one blamed anyone, and certainly when my classmate happily recovered and returned to school, no one thought they should be removed from the program.

the difference being that people believe a disabled personal, especially with cognitive disabilities, in crisis are not experiencing something outside of our control, but instead that we are in fact making a choice to make a scene, out of malice.

[izzypaw]

i miss drawing ponies

[missstrogen]

Everyone else is doing it. Why not you too? Join us, become a girl <3

[la-fee-verte]

I shared a poem about being trans in a server full of "cis" guys and within ten minutes one of them was in my DMs and we were working on untangling some feelings about gender and presentation. This is the good you can do by ignoring the egg prime directive

[izzypaw]

flutterbat :D

[punkitt-is-here]

catching feelings like a dork

[punkitt-is-here]

they're getting....somewhere!!!

[punkitt-is-here]

be more careful next time, okay?

[punkitt-is-here]

more human RD and Fluttershy stuff! RD was the one who convinced her to join track in school

[timsplosion]

Caught the brainrot, had to draw human horse lesbians.