Mandrake

@mandrakefern.bsky.social

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Disabled. Fierce self-advocate. Lover of Pokémon and fiber arts. Seeking equality in the world. Dreaming of a better tomorrow. 💜🖤🩶🤍 Ace 💛🤍💜🖤 Non-binary They/them

Screen shot: social studies final exam. Question: “What made the spread of disease during the Columbia Exchange so harmful to Native Americans?” Answer C is chosen “They had no natural immunities to European diseases.” It is marked *incorrect* Answer D is: “They had stronger immune systems than Europeans.” And it says that is that correct answer.
Sleeping orange tabby cat curled up with paws curled in human hand.
Closeup of light blue sock heel carefully darned with matching yarn.
Two reddish brown salamanders tucked neatly under a ledge of rotting wet wood on a mossy concrete block. One has an enlarged abdomen and is likely carrying eggs.
Chicken, dumplings, carrot, potatoes in a savory dark broth in a mustard yellow colored vintage bowl with a black ring around the edge.
The Pokémon milotic, a serpent-like creature, cream in color with accents of blue and fuchsia.
Closeup of a large rustic round loaf of bread with a browned crust.
A large round loaf of home made bread fresh from the oven sitting on parchment cooling.
A portion of a book page that reads: “…Hippocrates observed in 400bc that illness continues as long as food is administered. No one ever stops to ask if eating prevents healing. This book will explain how, by not eating, we can heal illness, lengthen lifespan and maybe….even live forever. Recent scientific discoveries in cellular and anti-aging research have produced the data to support this idea.”
A graphic novel cover entitled “Diary of Genocide: 30 Seconds from Gaza” by Mohammad Sabaaneh foreword by Illan Pappé.
Closeup of two glazed round baked donuts sprinkled with red sugar sprinkles inside a clear glass Pyrex container.
Closeup of orange tabby curled into a ball with a view of his little punk toe beans, a pale little fuzzy tummy and a little pink nose poking out from under his front leg. Fast asleep and cozy in an off white fuzzy catbed.
Large Orange tabby cat sitting on an olive green 1970’s La-z-boy. His paws are slightly hanging over the edge touching each other, almost crossed. He’s looking slightly to the left of the camera. There’s a rainbow woven blanket on the back of the chair and a mosaic crochet rainbow throw blanket.
Graph with a title “Cost of purchased power price change year over year” horizontal dates on the bottom starting at 2021 to 2025 on the left. Vertical axis shows rate change from -3.0% and goes up to 16%. 2021: -3.0%. 2022: 0.0% 2023: 3.0% 2024: 1.0% 2025: 16%
Orange tabby cat sleeping all snuggled next to his human’s arm.
Small cream colored book with simple graphic of a cat batting a yarnball and text that reads “Lessons From Cats for Surviving Fascism” by Stewart “Brittlestar” Reynolds. It’s resting on the back of a massive orange cat that’s taking up his space on a human lap.
Closeup of sleepy orange tabby cat cuddled I an envelope of crochet blanket. His toes are sticking out showing cute little pink toe beans.
Sleeping orange tabby asleep in an envelope of rainbow, black and white striped mosaic crochet blanket.
First person perspective of their leg wearing black doc marten boot with teal laces and black jeans, foot resting on a shattered fallen tree covered in lichens. A mess of broken green shrubs and branches wet from last nights wind storm.
A piece of construction equipment with an attached claw arm in the center of a demolished White House, looking as though a bomb has gone off, plaster/concrete rubble twisted and mangled around metal, brick…. Roof shingles ripped and torn away from the gaping hole in the side of the building. The sun is out, the leaves on the trees are green and the iron and stone pillar fence is in the foreground.
AI generated slop image of a massive bowl with what looks to be a pile of mashed potatoes in a soup of tan “gravy”, a sprig of mint garnishing the pile and a slab of raw pink chicken at the side. scattered around the bowl is a spoon with questionable white-ish color granular, a smattering of what appears to be ginger root both sliced and whole, another spoon filled with mysterious white powder, and the most absurdly massive whole apple to the far left side of the image. In the background is an image of someone holding a spoon in one hand containing the mysterious dubious tan heavy liquid from the bowl as if they are about to eat it. Their other hand is on their abdomen with a glowing anatomically incorrect image of a stomach superimposed over the top. Text as the bottom reads “what is gastroparesis and how can diet help manage it? Gastroparesis is a chronic condition where delayed stomach emptying leads to digestive discomfort. Adjusting one’s diet…..” and it is cropped after that.