PuppySizedDinosaur

I'm an artist. I paint, I sculpt, and I do whatever else strikes my fancy. For more of my work, to contact me, or request commissions or shop my etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/SabrinaKuchtaDesigns

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talking like point-and-click game narration to the bugs in my room

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you can't get out that way!

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that's not very helpful.

[generic-internet-name]

maybe the open window will help.

[generic-internet-name]

try the open window instead.

[the-big-mood]

Stuff like this makes me question if I’m actually passionate about anything

Although he lost the use of both legs, Xie Junwu from Jiangxi Province never lost his sense of freedom. Watch him take on a skateboard from

[angealainn]

[geeky-jez-deactivated20231025]

[naamahdarling]

I should know better than to reread this thread whenever it comes across my dash. I always cry.

Mr. Rogers was there for me when my parents materially COULD NOT be, and he taught me so much about being in love with the world.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

You guys need to see this because my brain has decided "have you heard of seventy dollars??" is a widely known meme I can reference regularly (it is not)

[synnthamonsugar]

The pilot -> astronaut pipeline makes complete sense but is also funny to me. There's a secret second sky and if you get good enough at doing sky you can do space.

[sumikatt]

Kerry Guinan

Artists, 2019

Series of six blank canvases (70x70cm) signed by the factory workers that made them in Daler Rowney, Free Industrial Zone, La Romana, the Dominican Republic.

Images: Photograph of 3 canvases from the series in the solo exhibition 'Our Celestial Sphere' at Pallas Projects, Dublin, 2019.

Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick Institute of Technology, and Fingal County Council. Images: Pallas Projects/Studios & Kerry Guinan.

(Original caption from artist’s website)

Series of six blank canvases (70x70cm) signed by the factory workers that made them in Daler Rowney, Free Industrial Zone, La Romana, the Do

And after contacting the Irish Museum of Modern Art and being referred to a curator (!), they provided me with the caption information that was used when displaying the work for the Staying With The Trouble exhibition in 2025 (thank you so much IMMA staff!!)

Artists is a series of blank, square canvases, each signed by a staff member in the manufacturing facility that produced the canvases in the La Romana Free Trade Zone, the Dominican Republic. The manufacturer, Daler Rowney, is a popular supplier of art materials in Ireland. The artist coordinated the project remotely by contacting the facility manager. The signatories volunteered to take part in the project upon invitation. They are Johan Rivera, Carlos Roa, Aneury Rondon, and Orlando Saldivar.

Anyways, I’d spent about the last 6 hours of my life trying to find out this information after some discussion on artist supply chains came up on the dashboard. Hope you enjoy the work as much as I do.

[free-and-to-none-accountable]

'“The U.S. Army brought the leading citizens of Ohrdruf to tour the facility, which turned out to be part of the Buchenwald network of concentration camps. A U.S Army colonel told the German civilians who viewed the scenes that they were to blame. One of the Germans replied that what happened in the camp was 'done by a few people,’ and ‘you cannot blame us all.’ And the American, who could have been any one of our grandfathers, said 'This was done by those that the German people chose to lead them, and all are responsible.'" "The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough. I ask you to consider what the Mayor of Ordruf might have thought before he died. Maybe he felt like a victim. He might have thought 'How is this my fault? I have no jurisdiction over this.' Maybe he would have said, 'This site was not subject to local zoning, what could I do?' But I think, when he reflected on the suffering that occurred at this camp, just outside of town, that those words would have sounded hollow even to him. Because in his heart he knew, as we do, that we are all responsible for what happens in our community.”

Arizona Right Watch (@azrww.bsky.social)

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before

A Surprise Zone of Interest

We are All Responsible for What Happens in our Community

Cindy Gallop

There are ordinary heroes everywhere. All hail, the good citizens of Surprise, Arizona! '“The U.S. Army brought the leading citizens of Ohr

[boogiepopmeup]

KEEP SHARING THIS SHIT AND KEEP TALKING SHIT ON SURPRISE!!! They are now saying they aren’t going to stop this

Arizona Right Watch (@azrww.bsky.social)

Surprise Mayor Kevin Sartor gave a press conference about an hour ago regarding the planned concentration camp in an industrial warehouse at

[aloeverawrites]

Arizona Right Watch also posted a video of within the warehouse.

I recommend watching it.

This, this is the first time I've seen a concentration camp before it became a concentration camp.

This is the first time I've seen a place and known that people are going to be tortured there, that people are going to die horribly there. If it's not stopped.

We have to stop it. We just don't have any other choice.

You may have seen pictures of concentration camps after they were liberated, but this is the first time you've seen a concentration camp before it became one.

You saw photos of an atrocity you couldn't do anything about.

This is not that.

[emcheeseman]

been completely glued to the Artemis II coverage all week, I love space

[tribblefarmer]

The Artemis II images are making me emotional for a lot of reasons but one of them is:

[odinsblog]

Below are screenshots of posts from another older post, from 2014 asking about the origins of the comic book image above

Here’s the EC Comic

[loucifersbitch]

if you need me, i’ll be sobbing on the floor. humans, man

[arielmh]

Photos from the Artemis II flyby of the far side of the moon on April 6th 2026

Earthset and the solar eclipse

[typhlonectes]

[florallychaotic]

Im gonna be so real can yall actually talk about ways we can support trans women in the UK instead of giving all the attention to fucking JKR. I already know that Harry Poter sucks, I wanna know how to actually HELP people. Something something you have to love the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor

[snowonthebeachmp3]

trans actual uk - trans led and run advocacy, education and empowerment organisation

fiveforfive - collective fund for trans women and girls and transfem causes

gendered intelligence - trans led advocacy org

mermaids - supports trans youth

akt - lgbtq youth homelessness charity

loving me - domestic abuse service for trans people in england

not a phase - for trans adults

[hail-dondus]

It looks like they’re dropping a teaser trailer for the new Harry Potter reboot tomorrow

Just a few important and gentle reminders:

🫶🏻 DO NOT WATCH THIS FUCKING SHOW 🫶🏻

If you claim you support human rights - not just trans rights but human rights in general - yet still plan to watch this show, unfollow me. You’re a fucking hypocrite and I don’t want you following me.

Do not watch it even if you’re hate watching it, it still contributes to streaming revenue and views!

The adults in this reboot of the franchise are FULLY accountable for choosing to do this show and accepting a pay cheque over supporting a minority group. Even if they claim they support trans rights, they’re cowards and don’t actually support them at all.

The kids do NOT deserve abuse or hate, whether it’s because you’re comparing them to Dan/Rupert/Emma or because you’re boycotting due to the author’s views. They are literal CHILDREN.

Your nostalgia over a children’s series about kids going to school is NOT more important than trans people being respected and having rights. As long as JKR is still alive, she profits off of this.

[demonicae]

And, just so you know, JKR profiting off of HP has DIRECTLY led to the disintegration of trans rights in the UK.

For example...

Transgender girls told to leave Girlguiding groups by September

It follows an announcement in December that transgender members would be banned from joining.

From yestersday. This follows on from the UK supreme court ruling last year that equalities laws would be based on 'biological sex only.'

That supreme court ruling got through, not because 'everyone believes in it.' But because JKR directly payed MASSIVE amounts of money into right wing thinktanks, politicians, and TERF influencers.

Harry Potter directly funds transphobia and anti-trans laws in the UK.

She pours her money into the J.K Rowling women's fund. Meaning Harry Potter revenue directly pays for right wing transphobic pearl clutchers to take trans people to court and to stamp out the rights of trans people in the UK.

It is also hurting cis women in the UK because now we're all fucking paranoid about being 'transvestigated,' being abused in public (for 'not looking cis enough') or being denied services because some snotty billionaire decided she gets to decide who is or is not a 'woman' (based entirely on her weirdo, white, billionaire-class definition of the word.)

[sexcromancy]

some lowdown on the storms in hawai‘i: there have been two (possibly going on three) straight weeks of historic storms in the hawaiian islands. these are enormous rain dumping weather systems, also bringing wind and high surf. these storms are so bad because they are coming up from the south (called a kona low), rather than east to west as most of our weather moves. some areas have gotten as much as two feet of rain in a matter of hours. because of the unusual direction of the storm, infrastructure and the environment are ill-prepared, and break easier. the worst affected areas right now are the north shore of o‘ahu, and the east and southern shores of hawai‘i island. it is a crazy and still-developing situation as damage is being assessed from this past weekend, and its still raining.

here are some articles on the damage: the wahiawa dam on o‘ahu is one of the biggest stories right now; it is owned by the dole company (owners of former plantation land across the islands) and the company has neglected repair for several years. this is a survey of damage from waienae and hale‘iwa on o‘ahu. this is an accounting of some damage in kona on hawai‘i island. this is a less detailed article about school closures. sadly, there is very little investigative reporting on hawai‘i island and it is hard to find reliable sources. anecdotally, I know many homes are still without power for almost two weeks.

finally, here is a list of places to donate money for recovery efforts. the most important things right now are food and shelter needs for people displaced from their homes. i also have aggregated links to gofundmes etc, but please ask me for those individually; i dont feel comfortable sharing them on the big wide internet. the concern is appreciated; it can be difficult to convey the scale and variety of damage because hawai‘i nei is not very well understood.

[the-big-mood]

[wizardshark]

How do I explain Plato's allegory of the cave to my cat?

[sexshopshenanigans]

gato’s allegory of the fishtank

[snivy]

literally everything is unisex if u stop giving a fuck

[kyrianne]

When I worked at Target, it was during the winter, and this guy comes up to my register with a neutral-colored beanie with a fake fur pompom on top. All embarrassed and cringing, asking me if it was a woman’s hat and if it would be weird for him to get it.

I was like, “It’s just a hat. If you like it and you wear it, it’s not a woman’s hat, it’s just your hat. You don’t need to follow what the tag says if you don’t want to.” And it was like I gave him some kind of awe-inspiring wisdom he’d never considered, and he left with that hat on his head.

More cishets need to hear and internalize this message because so many of them are avoiding things that would make them happy just because of it having a label on it for whatever gender.