Feather Flores ❄️☕️

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I could use some comfort reads recommendations, if anyone's got some

Color Game — How Well Can You Remember Colors? We show you colors. You recreate them from memory. Challenge friends to beat your score. It's harder than you think.

The Color Game. “Humans can’t reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. We’ll show you five colors, then you’ll try and recreate them.” I scored 39/50 but got a perfect score on one color. [dialed.gg]

[“Take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be human and isn’t yet, or used to be human once and isn’t now, or ought to be human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.” — Mr Beaver, The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe]

C. S. Lewis tried to warn us about AI

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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If you’re helping to provide food to neighbors who are avoiding going out because of ICE, reminder that some of them will be observing Ramadan soon and providing them with nourishing and festive foods or at least a quality/fancy box of dates on top of what you’re already doing would be A+

It's Time to Get Loud About the Books You Love - Reactor Some ideas to help keep literature and the book community alive.

In a time of book bannings, AI, and decreased library funding, the best thing you can do to support books is be very, very loud about them. @mollytempleton.com on how we can help the authors we love:

remember when everything was possibly cake and we were driven mad by the possibility that everything was cake? don't you wish everything was possibly cake now instead of probably ai? we were such fools to squander a cake-based reality.

an orange cat is inside a cat travel carrier looking neutral, cool and calm. you can tell he isn’t screaming because his mouth is closed

Practicing being cool and calm. Look how much I’m not screaming

Bird Snuggles into Photographer’s Chest And Stayed With Her for Warmth on a Snowy Day (LOOK) A photographer Fay was visiting a park when a friendly robin came over and nestled right atop her camera near the warmth of her jacket.

Bird Snuggles into Photographer’s Chest And Stayed With Her for Warmth on a Snowy Day (LOOK) www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bird-snuggle...

Checklist written on a cute cat notecard from Loaf on Paper Brooklyn. •Is it FUN? (to draw) • Is it FUNNY? • Does it move the plot FORWARD? bonus ... • can you create FRICTION between text & image?

current “do you really want to draw this scene” list — if it doesn’t check any boxes, i make sure i know why it’s there (usually vibes)

a dachshund-mix looks like he's sneering bc his top lip is stuck on a canine tooth on his left side (viewer's right)

Bagel says "fuck ICE"

#DailyDoggo

Good night, Minneapolis. Rest well. May your grief give way to tender connection. May your anger fuel your collective action. May the memory of our martyrs become a revolution. There are more of us than there are of them. Take care of yourselves and your neighbors. We will make ourselves whole. ❤️

Me either! Clearly some people are just blessed by TM gods

I hope you didn't pay too much. But so glad you get to go!!! 😊💜

Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura live stream Watch the live stream of Rakiura the kākāpō on the remote, predator-free island of Whenua Hou/Codfish Island in Aotearoa, New Zealand. This is the first breeding season for this critically threatened ...

There's a nice relaxing kākāpō stream you can watch online instead of, i dunno, other stuff
www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...

Man, everywhere you look lawyers are still flinging themselves into fights. I know some people will disagree about the usefulness of taking shit to court but I think it's important that we're still doing that. We're still behaving as if the law has meaning.

Screenshot from Ticketmaster's confirmation page showing the members of BTS under the words "You got 'em. Let the Anticipation Begin."

Sharing some much-needed joy:

After I queued poorly and struck out in every BTS presale this week, today my partner somehow queued **UNDER 300** for SEVEN DIFFERENT DATES.

Seven! Different! Dates! (wtf Ticketmaster??)

Still in shock, but anyway—best part of the year, here we come!!! 💜✨💜✨💜

Camellia
January 22nd 2026

There's a call for a general strike for tomorrow, 1/23.

If you can strike, great! Not everyone can.

If you can't you can still:
go to a protest/rally
donate to a strike fund or mutual aid fund
be childcare for someone protesting
call/email your electeds
write an op-ed for your local paper
etc!

Most of the moral messaging in children's television programming when I was a kid was utterly uncontroversial at the time, and would be attacked as woke indoctrination today.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Local Woman Has Hobby: Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s Pigeon Paintings “Everything that we think is disgusting about human life, pigeons wear without shame.”

So many things are bad right now, but I interviewed @maggietokudahall.bsky.social about painting pigeons and small acts of survival. 📸 by @estefancy.bsky.social

Today is Monday, Jan 5
Good morning ❤️

Well, the regime sure chose a hell of a way to start the year. And our job remains:

eat
take your meds
hydrate
tell your people you love them
let them love you back

We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other & fight like hell.

This pigeon has the look of someone who was dragged to the party, but put on the silly hat & did the festive thing because they love you, but now would like to leave, please and thank you.

Heads up, the annual year-end free trial period for Publishers Marketplace is live.

Great way to do research for those of you gearing up to query in the New Year. lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/12/a-pm...

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm.

The Pigeon Hustle | PBS Nature Documentary YouTube video by Nature on PBS

This is an extremely cute pigeon documentary if anyone needs an extremely cute pigeon documentary

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKEL...

"You MUST write every day" and here's why that's trash advice: danieljosolder.substack.com/p/writing-be...

Every artist, get more self indulgent NOW! Draw your ships kissing, draw your blorbos, draw that idea you’ve been putting off (you’re good enough to do it!!!), redraw that old art, draw yourself wearing a cool outfit, draw a better world- just draw!!!