[chessna2]

American friends: If you are so convicted to donate to food banks during the ending of SNAP benefits, as someone who worked in nonprofit, please know it is much more impactful to donate MONEY than it is to donate food. Food banks can order items in bulk and get them tax free, and it gives them the flexibility to order what they need.

Check on your neighbors, help each other out 🙏🏻

[waterbugsanonymous]

hi, this is your gentle reminder and PSA: there are ELECTIONS happening in November 4th. PLEASE GO VOTE. Trump is the most unpopular he has ever been, but does that mean your average independent, or republican will vote for a dem this time around-likely no- they probably will just skip the process entirely if they don’t have a candidate they feel strongly about. this is why i’m asking YOU SPECIFICALLY to make sure to go vote. and i don’t wanna hear any doomerism shit about how voting is a waste of time bc of whatever, guys voting is the last of anything we have it is clear most of these people who represent us do not actually care, HOWEVER trump currently has the house, senate and courts and making it even slightly harder to do anything or having a large enough group to speak out against what he’s doing will help hundreds of thousands of people in the US. now more than ever is it important to make sure that they know that we do not stand for this

[thearchaeologicalwitch]

Hey!

THERE ARE FUCKING BALLOT PETITION PROPOSALS ON THE BALLOT THIS YEAR.

THINGS LIKE WEED, CENSORSHIP, VOTING RIGHTS ETC. GIVE A SHIT AND LOOK IT UP ON YOUR STATE'S ELECTIONS/ SECRETARY OF STATE PAGE.

[musicalhell]

SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS ARE HAPPENING, I DON'T CARE IF YOU DON'T HAVE OR WANT KIDS THEY STILL AFFECT YOU

[ughestrada]

VOTE!

And anyone saying "voting doesn't work" is either not paying attention, or some MAGA bot. If voting didn't work, the Republicans wouldn't be trying to gerrymander, they wouldn't be attacking mail-in ballots, they would keep trying to make it harder for married women and poor Americans to vote (look up the SAVE ACT), and the Voting Rights Act (which may or may not get entirely gutted next year), would be left alone.

Voting IS one of the most important things you can do, because it's the ACTUAL CHANGE! Along with protesting, community organizing, and mutual aid. So, yeah, don't JUST vote and put your head in the sand, VOTE, CAMPAIGN, PROTEST, SUPPORT MUTUAL AID! All those things! You want your left leaning change? Then get involved with politics, instead of just sitting there and complaining.

VOTE!

[shuploc]

Armand drawing 🎨

[lochnessieart]

Happy Halloween from Astrid and Delphi! They are an alien and astronaut (respectively) this year!

Even though Astrid is no longer with us, I still wanted to celebrate with her and it was the first time since her passing that I was able to draw her, I miss her so much

[bbrothertedd]

[one-of-the-alphas]

[ariiohh]

To fall in love in october. 🤎🍂

A new cozy illustration for my autumn collection.

🦊🌱 Find the hq drawing on my ko-fi shop gallery. (Link in bio).

[dominiqueramseyart]

Deep waters, i'm drowning in deep waters, slowly drowning me deeper

2023

[queam]

More mass effect humanizations

[anexperimentallife]

[theknightlywolfe]

[victusinveritas]

[missdreamgirl32]

Reminder that the charges against Boston have not yet been dropped and she is still under house arrest and facing up to 15 years in prison. Her husband has a gofundme to raise funds to her legal defense here:

Donate to Support Briana Boston's Legal Defense, organized by Daniel Boston

This fund is to support the bond payment, continued legal fees and other expenses … Daniel Boston needs your support for Support Briana Bost

[possiblyunhinged]

In the past year, especially with the recent elections across Europe and in the US, it’s become blazingly clear that regardless of your political leanings, everyone is fucking fed up to the nines. You can see it in our attitudes towards traditional media and government. Sure, we land on different conclusions about what might get us out of this mess, but the reality is—it’s not in our hands. It probably never has been.

The Luigi Mangione situation has truly blown my head off my shoulders—the sheer arrogance and disconnect from normal people that traditional media and government officials have shown. Take the Mayor of New York, for instance. Sweet Jesus. He’s like a character from a shit pantomime. Whether you’re on the left or the right, he’s the villain of the piece. People are done. And let’s be real, it’s only going to get worse—because I’m a positive princess like that.

Trump isn’t going to magically make prices drop; he’s literally said as much. I can’t fathom a single politician who could genuinely make a difference when the CEOs already hold all the power. Musk and his ilk were invited to the table long ago, and let’s not forget the donors—pouring huge amounts of money into all political parties. It’s a silent agreement: their influence comes first, their profits are prioritised, and the rest of us are left to scrape by.

What gets me is how people still talk about “the rich” like it’s actors and musicians pulling the strings. Sure, they’re rolling in it, and the entertainment industry has plenty of rot, but compared to the wealth of CEOs? Negligible. The real bastards are the ones we couldn’t even name. The ones cutting corners, exploiting workers, and choking the planet with plastic while pocketing the profits.

Meanwhile, the entertainment industry puts on this Truman Show pantomime—a performance of accountability so we can cheer and boo. Every public takedown, every cancellation, every PR scandal—it’s all theatre designed to make us believe the system works. And while we’re caught up in the spectacle, what the fuck are the people at the top of the means of production doing? Bumping up their profit margins and giving themselves bonuses.

These people live without consequences. And when the internet (rightly or wrongfully) memed the murder of a CEO, they responded with Gotham-level theatrics to reassure their donors that they’ll always protect their own. They even tried to pin terrorism charges on a man whose frustrations most normal people can empathise with.

Why is it that those in power are never arsed about creating a spectacle of a CEO in handcuffs, dragged out for decades of exploitation? Because the system doesn’t just protect them—it is them.

At this point, the only thing these people are achieving is making everyone angrier. And the politicians we like? They’re the ones who seem to reflect the nonstop screaming going on in our heads. The incompetence, the lack of solutions, the sheer disregard for normal lives—it’s all making tensions worse. And it’s going to blow up in their faces. (Not literally—calm down, loves.)

I know I sound like David Icke, okay? But sincerely, I’m fed up and I would love nothing more than a shred of accountability for billionaires—and for politicians and journalists alike to do their fucking jobs.

It’s embarrassing.

[emmavakarian-theirin]

Kaidan Alenko for @soldiermom1973 :)

[wilwheaton]

[traycakes]

Citizens United is not the problem, Buckley v Valeo is. That was the case that legalized bribery by claiming that campaign donations have first amendment protections - that "money is speech." After that, the only barrier oligarchs had was campaign contribution limits, which Citizens United offered one way around.

If Citizens United is overturned but Buckley v Valeo left standing, bribery and corruption will still be legal and all oligarchs will have to do is find another way around contribution limits. The focus on Citizens United and "corporate personhood" is a distraction from the actual source of what is happening.

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

A bit of a palate cleanser for everyone.

[gaylor-moon]