[treecitysessions]

[endrae]

Finally cleaned up this lvl 10 design ref for uncle Naeem. Even, tho, the characters are currently closer to lvl 15 than 10, so one will probably suspect he will not get his next design before level 20 lmao

[sacred-portal]

[salmon-n-hazel]

Hawthorn

Shop print INPRNT | Scarves & Bandana: Ko-Fi

[thatwelshartist]

Couple of Thieves

I really like the colours you get on magpies, what at first glance looks like a other black and white bird is actually full of these wonderfully iridescent greens and purples

just a really spectacular animal

[weepingwidar]

Anthony Hurd (American, 1975) - You Have This Hold Over Me (2025)

[titsay]

orange

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[featherandstorm]

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

[genderkoolaid]

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

[giblekazam]

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Submission for @poketcg-art's Hoenn Pokédex collab

Original Illus. 5ban Graphics

[depsidase]

[battlevilla]

[pokemonarchive]

Latios & Latias GX (2018) - Tag Bolt Illustrator: Sanosuke Sakuma Team Up: 2019

[bruzum]

[jisuto]

[pangur-and-grim]

fairly reliably when someone is mean and weird to you on Tumblr, you can look on their blog and all their recent posts will be about how unhappy they are in their interpersonal relationships and/or how frustrated they are that their creative venture hasn't found success. and it's like ohhhhh okay, I get it. you're clawing at other people because you're actively drowning. my sympathies, that sucks, but I'm not a lifeguard so carry on.

[segamascott]

[werewolfetone]

The reporting on it has been terrible but I want to be clear about the Belfast riots from someone who lives here: the distinction of it being British loyalists who might kill people for calling them Irish doing the rioting does matter, not least because, in contrast to what knuckle dragging settlers on social media would have you believe, ‘the Irish’ have literally been patrolling the streets to protect migrants. Racism absolutely exists amongst Irish communities as well, but I need all of you to understand that in this specific instance you are doing more harm than good by spreading the false notion that ‘both communities’ are coming together in these riots, and by contributing to the British press’s refusal to name loyalist paramilitaries as still a major problem in this city. You don’t have to believe me, specifically, but please understand that there are multiple dimensions to our politics which cannot be ignored if the goal is actually to build a better society for everyone, and look into what people who actually live here are saying and doing about it before jumping to conclusions.

If you want to help people on the ground, you can donate to help affected people here.