A Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis Cardinalis) In Feeder City On This Warm Afternoon.

shoutout to the most unhelpful reminder ive ever put into my phone

Delphinium

Finally got this thing mounted! I’m so happy with how it looks! 🍊🍊🍊

Koi (Hong Kong, 2024)

puppy gromit

Maybe just due to my own experiences over the last few years, but I've grown really weary of people framing violence as a trade off.

"I'd rather have violence A than violence B!"

Yeah, but you'll probably just have both.

I want to live in these beautiful places ...

For me this isn't even about empathy or sympathy (though there's value in those as well), it is just straight-up a human rights thing. Once you have decided that there is *any* category of human that can be treated as less-than-human you've said that humanity is conditional, and so are the rights that come with it. You've already lost, you've granted the fascists their point because *you agree with them* that some people don't deserve to be treated like humans.