And once again

if NOTHING else, listen to DDAT movement 2: Attention, right fucking now PLEASEE. This song is like a movie.

I Die You Die #10

A Mode Of Control #8

From the article:

“If you look only at the trend of species declines, it would be easy to think that we’re failing to protect biodiversity, but you would not be looking at the full picture,” said Penny Langhammer, lead author of the study and Executive Vice President of Re:wild. “What we show with this paper is that conservation is, in fact, working to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. It is clear that conservation must be prioritized and receive significant additional resources and political support globally, while we simultaneously address the systemic drivers of biodiversity loss, such as unsustainable consumption and production.”

This massive meta analysis (for those not familiar, a study analyzing the results of many studies on similar topics) found that the vast majority of conservation efforts show much much better results than doing nothing. In many cases, biodiversity loss was not only stopped but reversed.

let me explain: in america at least, the lower class have significantly worse health outcomes, even when accounting for other factors. just being poor is enough to make your overall health worse. we don’t know that being fat makes your health directly worse, like the data just isn’t there, but for a moment, pretend it does.

imagine going to the doctor with a health problem and the doctor looking at your chart and saying well, this problem will be less severe if you go up an income bracket. have you thought about becoming rich? it would really help. start by saving a little money every month.

ridiculous, right?? very few people successfully go from working class to rich, it just doesn’t happen on a large scale in society. maybe for a time you pick up some overtime hours, spend a little beyond your means, and appear rich. but eventually you burn out, your car needs to be repaired, and you return to being working class.

we do have this data: only some people can successfully lose large amounts of weight, and only a tiny fraction of people who lose that weight actually keep it off for more than a year. telling people to lose weight for their health is just absurd because they almost certainly can’t do it any more than they can double their income for their health.

i guess my short for Cartoon Cartoons came out today! i finished it in 2021 when i was still very new to blender...but i still like it!

"but you have to keep living!!" how about you let me live in peace without questioning my mask all the time? how about you let people live instead of alter their existence or stop it completely by letting deadly viruses spread?

as always when i need to vent, it turned into a perzine. it took me forever to make this one because it's digital so of course the opportunity to edit, edit, edit, doubt what i'm saying and how i'm saying it, was too tempting. but i'm throwing it into the world it's a blog post but in zine form (blog posts are actually zine contents put online to me and it's very 2026 to phrase it as if the analog was the one copying the digital ik ik)

a zine about covid, masking, and live since 2020

free digital copy here you can download to read or print it: https://ko-fi.com/s/edb5bc7958

read in browser: https://starkittyzines.itch.io/but-you-have-to-keep-living-zine (doesn't work great on smartphones)

Marginalia on my jacket! This was such an impulse project but I’m very pleased with how it turned out!

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