Love this plot by @ingrid - “Matewan, West Virginia (the region depicted in this drawing), is best known for the Battle of Matewan, a shootout between members and supporters of the local coal miner's union and agents hired by the local coal company to break up a strike. 20% of sale will be donated to Matewan's West Virginia Mine Wars Museum.”
https://wares.lifewinning.com/products/matewan-a3-plotter-drawing
@platypus "I'm pretty tall so I'm going to die young like a big dog" destroyed me
https://youtu.be/NUrz5s-7Tdc?si=rM3YKqpwUf-VxbzC it is a minor thing but: SNL cast one of my favorite gen z TikTok comedians this season and she got to do a bit last night and I feel like a proud parent for no good reason
https://www.usip.org/grants-fellowships/fellowships/peace-scholar-fellowship-program this is the program BTW, it's funded by the DoD's Minerva Research Initiative https://minerva.defense.gov/
I would like to do some fundraising for Helene mutual aid and Gaza and Lebanon via drawings soon but unfortunately have to get out of the negative bank balance first
added a new plotter drawing to my shoppy shop today: https://wares.lifewinning.com/products/moab-plotter also am currently in a pretty bad place cash-flow wise so if you have been thinking you'd like some plotter art now's a good time to buy
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-93/ this week in sentences: except everything, building rn, burgers, theorists of all persuasions, putrescence, flicker
the anthropocene is a very useful concept i just think it's funny how academics lose their minds at "fun new word just dropped"
That being said I love when Mari is in town because in her absence I wonder if I made her up, last night she regaled us with the story of how she was in a tertiary way involved in stopping a recent coup attempt in DRC and that her project making apps for snails is over bc the snails all died