Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social)
Duelling Roys. Works in progress. Process studies.
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The sixties were a looooong ass time ago and we’ve been circling the drain ever since
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
To another country offering more education and a better salary and even a better education since we got rid of vast swaths of stem scholarships. We are still in the fuck around phase of systematic intellectual atrophy. But we fixin’ ta fin’ out!
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
In the 1960s. They also taught how to identify all the trees and plants that grow around us. Now youll be lucky if they can list all 151 original starting pokemon. We have systematically set ourselves up for the massive brain drain we are currently experiencing where anyone worth anything escapes
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
In american exceptionalism while we slowly outsourced all our manufacturing, tech, and biopharm jobs to pretty much everyone else, gutted our education system and shived corn syrup down our throats like they were fattening us for market day. Yes maybe they did teach times tables in the third grade
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
When they pulled down a map of america in front of the blackboard, it was just america. No Canada sitting on our head, no russia giving our left ear eskimo kisses. Just america in a sea of blue. None of the kids grew up with any idea of how we are connected to everyone else. They grew up believing
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
They had us doing times tables and cursive in second grade in germany. When i moved to the states we didnt begin to cover either till fifth grade. And they wondered why i checked out. This was in the 70s and 80s. I cant imagine its gotten any better since then, here.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Its amazing how you can hear certain images so hauntingly clearly. Epic.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Gonna have to vomit for a minute here. Where icome from we get sick to our stomach when people reference one of our favorite bands we had to throw away because the lead singer was a sexual predator scumbag. Ran and hid in new zealand till the legal statutes ran out. Dont get it twisted
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Apologies for the clandestine quality of this image. I found a box of 35mm slides and currently have no way of transferring them to digital format easily.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social)
Digging through my boxes in an ongoing struggle to make sense of and pare down my life, i found this old self caricature, made in 1994, it is the first known project i did in adobe illustrator during my freshman year at school of visual arts.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
He’d have already been deported. Maybe check the florida everglades, it might not be too late.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Ooh this makes me wish bluesky had a laugh react. Figures they’d come over once we’ve managed to alienate the rest of the world. Thanks trump.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
I added its barcode to the back of my skull in 1991. #5260011275 Yes, it scanned at the store. 😜
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Preach! Y’all inclusive till someone is being visible in their struggle near enough to make y’all slightly uncomfortable. Then its throw us under the bus time. Don’t wanna get any of that stank on ya!🤯
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh yeah, that was my ex compound-mate. No -the other one. The one you’re thinking of was the actual on-the-master-list pedoph1le that lived in a school bus converted to vegetable oil.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social)
Work in progress. Aren’t we all. This one hits me in the feels. At least the demons have a name. Knowing makes it less confusing and less scary. The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know. Evan Cairo, audhd cptsd esq. at your cervix i mean service.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s a loss I’m willing to eat.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
I dont ever personally feel the need or desire to play a video game where anyone fucks, fictionally or otherwise, but i will defend to the d34th, people’s right to do so, with the gvns and bvllets bought with my visa card.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social)
@dirgemagazine.com ferris bueller, you’re my hero.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Lucccckkkkkyyyyyy!
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social)
@jzellis.bsky.social thought you’d get a kick out of this: youtu.be/IWZQB9zDD3Y?...
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
I have good luck banging the bottle against a table or floor, hitting the cap on the corners and rotating so that the paint seal cracks loose a little and then i apply the adjustable wrench. If you have one, a vise grips pliers is lockable and minutely adjustable!
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social)
Blast from the past wellington court mural projects participation mural circa 2016?
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes its clear your story is one of laziness fear and falsehood. Its clear the only finger you lifted was to press the prompt button.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Good luck. There are no innocent men.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Comm?
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Hi! Old artist here. I keep an adjustable pipe wrench as part of my painting supplies so that i can grip and open tubes and bottles of paint that my wrists cant manage. Good luck out there!
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
When the homeless man defacated in the aisle and sat masturbating furiously across from me in the L train, i looked up only briefly from my book to see a full trainload of people cowering at the other end of the car. Pffft. More space for me to stretch out till union square transfer.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Has he not met your ex wife?
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
When i see headlines like this, my first thought is always, “man, wizards of the coast are stepping way out of their lane here.”
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Bullet RESISTANT vests😂
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Um, what transition? These two photos are the same! The call is coming from inside the house!
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Outside world is literally causing me to want to self harm. I do t want to be part of this foul timeline. Give me back my bowie or let me pass softly into the ether. There is nothing left for me here.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
And to think these safeguards are put in place simply to give the illusion that they care about self harm, while simultaneously letting racism sexism bigotry and anti trans content run rampant. In fact the very act of restricting communications on one of the few mediums left to connect with the
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
So livid. Complete clusterfuck. This timeline needs to implode. We do not deserve this gift we have been given, and im. Starting to be really okay with humans slowly rendering themselves obsolete and atrophy themselves out of the loop. This world should not be left in the hands of such abject fools.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social)
Today in an adult autism group on facebook, the entire group was prevented from having a normal conversation about tatooing because we arent allowed to use certain words like gun, needle, flesh, muscle, pain, fear, skin, in various combinations of otherwise benign intent or context.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Gotta make up for some of the other cast members i guess!
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
And nothing of value was lost. Even the real police are fake. Good riddance either way.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social)
Work in progress red panda study. An excuse to practice with different material combos. Aiming more for cute maximalist sanrio esque. The world is growing dark. Have some art to hold the door from slamming shut completely.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Im not gonna go so far as to say he deserved to get mouth cancer, but man did his shitty opinions do a lot of damage to a lot of careers.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Its a bird! Its a plane! Its a stupid man!
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Afghanistan?
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Well duh. Didn’t Bayer buy Monsanto?
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Isabella Rossellini wore blue velvet and that was all the tribute I needed. Hollywood is an ourobouros of greed and sociopathy. I expected less and was pleasantly surprised.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
A bigot, a rapist, a warmonger, and a jerk walk into a bar. The bartender says, “What’ll you have, donald? I thought you didn’t drink?”
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Filling out forms are my kryptonite. See also being put on the spot to accurately describe your art and fill out alt text when all you want to do is post your art.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Our efforts to continue in this place, that there won’t be any more room for the pain our parents bestowed upon us. I for one would love to hear what other songs you have in your heart.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
By Christlike I mean the traits and teachings people generally ascribe to the dude. Personally beyond the golden rule I find all the other horseshit to be superfluous and disingenuous. We may never be truly “over” any of it but maybe someday our lives will be so full of the good stuff that came of
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Than pretty much any self described “Christian” I’ve ever met.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Sadly you’re not alone in your experience, but luckily you aren’t alone in your journey moving forward. I send you big (only if consenting) hugs of solidarity and know that we will find moments of joy and peace amongst the ripples of epigenetic horror. You’re already stronger and more Christlike,
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Your3 the one that interjected yourself into our conversation. If you can’t do the time don’t do the crime, you chicken nugget.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
I give a rats bunghole what you do. I was responding to another person. Sorry you’re too slow to read anything more than 100 characters.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
All the shit our parents pulled. Ye-h. Fucking hilarious.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Not sure why it’s hilarious. I’ve been watching as time marches, that the narrative has begun to be pushed onto gen xers and off of boomers, after a lifetime of watching as boomers perpetrated a constant stream of the worst shit on he next generations and all of a sudden WE are getting blamed for
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Post boomer Generations into the wood chipper, I guarantee it’ll happen to you next, if we keep whispering our generational traumas down the lane.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Listen, I’m not gonna go to bat for an entire generation because I’m no spokesman for anything except maybe surviving intense trauma and still having a soft heart. The country is massively fucked right now, you need to find your allies wherever you can. Don’t make the mistake of throwing entire
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
E was designed to try and scoop up broken people from all the post boomer generations. Hell the machine even targeted Latinos to vote against their own interests.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
All I’m saying is we don’t decide as a generation to fuck everyone that comes after us, that was our parents, the boomers. A lot of male gen xers who weren’t taught how to fend for themselves found solace in the sweet embrace of sociopathic charlatans, but it’s not a generational thing, that machin
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Us don’t fall for that trap but it was a giant multi headed machine that funneled them into the meat grinder and it was the fucking boomers that set up that machine to do that very thing.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
A high percentage of gen xers have indeed lost their way because the boomer far right machine corralled a looooot of male gen xers into the alt right pipeline through Jordan Peterson Joe Rogan propaganda. Yes, some of us got lost but I truly feel they were hoodwinked and brainwashed. A shit ton of
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
I promise you with all my heart and soul that everything I just ranted is true from my vantage point. I weep for the future but I’ve been stripped bare of hope.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve personally watched for the last 40 years as the boomer dems keep sticking their limp wrists and pointy heads deep in the sand and letting the sociopathic faux conservatives ass rape us all into the clusterfuck we have now, one failed talking point at a time.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
That was boomer divisiveness that fed us all the third party is pointless trope. Tons of us were Jill stein Stans and Bernie bros. Our boomer parents are all literally mad to the gills with duplicity and greed.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Kind that our parents are selling out from under us for Pennie’s on the dollar and I’m sorry but it’s gonna be up to you guys to turn this ship around before you find yourself being blamed for everything wrong with the world by YOUR grandkids.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Self worth, independence, critical thinking, and environmental consciousness while our boomer parents systematically dismantled everything that society had built up to better civilization, for short term profits and crushed it all up their noses. So here we are, all broken and bleeding onto the gr
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Nored. I’m not gonna say that we deserve a hall pass for every shitty thing gen xers have perpetrated upon the world but epigenetic trauma is passed on from generation to generation and we did our fucking damnedest to not pass that shit onto the next batch while also trying to instill a sense of
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Path. We were never taught how to navigate the world and never given the tools to succeed and most of the gruff individualistic bravado you see displayed on toxic TikTok’s are obvious defense mechanisms or desperate cries for help. When we spoke up, no one listened. When we spoke up again we were ig
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
To help ourselves let alone each other. Those of us that haven’t succumbed to unloving ourselves, are often either so disassociating or teetering on the edge of a violent explosive shitstorm of emotional deregulation waiting to explode the next time a cop beats another innocent black person to de
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Bing to carry our undiagnosed mental conditions into the world to crush us and grind us into psychological basket cases. We are honestly doing the best we can with zero support systems and cobbled together scattered friend groups made up of people in the same condition, I e barely in any condition
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Call and mentally -busy us, and leave us to fend for ourselves, raise ourselves and get thrust into adulthood with minimal supervision and even less education about how the world works. Those of us who escaped a childhood of being medicated into a submission did so by just plain being ignored and ha
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Just so you know we were the first generation to be royally fucked over en masse by the boomers because they were our parents and their first order of business when they cast aside their hippie beads and took hold of their bmw keys was to systematically ignore their own kids, or worse,sexually physi
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Definitely looking this up! Thanks so much!
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Whoah like terminator two reference?
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Man I hope wherever Jon lajoie is, he’s happy as fuck and living his best life. That was some grade A satire, like 25 years ago. He couldn’t make that today coz a bunch of incel neckbeards would call him a betacuck on Reddit, and then doxx him.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Your genitaliaaaaaaaa
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Motherfucker those are cautionary tales not a fucking recipe book!
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks for my next screen name!
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Mirth is a virtue. Silliness is precious in a world that is cold and full of sociopaths waiting to exploit every perceived weakness. If you can find someone who is as willing to be soft in a hard world, stay soft together even when you’re hard. Humour in the face of adversity, brother. Stay real.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
And I still have all my precious fingiez!
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
If you don’t wake up the following morning with the head of your cock crammed past her uvula, I will cut off one of my own fingers.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Find out when she is due to arrive and have a hot bath ready for her and a glass of her favorite relaxy beverage. Have the bed made and the house cleaned so she doesn’t get shocked by the sheer chaos of returning to a garbage heap. Offer her a no strings attached massage after her bath. Sleep.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Calling this prèt a porter entry level effort “getting spiffed up” is mildly insulting to anyone who’s put in any sort of effort whatsoever.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
“Man with super basic capitalism costume signaling compliance to the system briefly realizes his tenuous and never ending struggle to remain part of the club without being fed to the machine.”
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Mirth is a virtue.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Great production wasted on absolute steaming pile of garbage. I hope somehow you can all profit off this awful audio onslaught without anyone actually being forced to sit through the whole thing. Thank god for the back button. This is an insult even to the vacuous dance pop genre itself.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social)
Um… what the everliving fuck?! youtu.be/eTpUtjiJQnQ?...
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Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social)
Just saw that DoorDash is forcing trans folk to deadname themselves to customers without their consent, with no recourse. DoorDash corporate hanging up on people inquiring about this. DoorDash is not an ally. Fuck DoorDash.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social)
youtu.be/xfHq3iLy56Y?...
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I met a dude once at that shithole called burning man who had this candle crown getup. His name was nambla the clown. Like of course it was. Couldn’t think of a more fitting place to meet such a mensch. Beautiful drawing. Did not expect to be triggered. Guess I have some more shadow work to do.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Shame on you. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
You are a traitor to your craft and the entire profession of illustrator. No ethical ai art when they were all trained on real artists’ work without their permission. But I’m gu3ssing you know that already- and you just don’t care, because you’re finally getting the attention you never got before.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
I take back literally every nice thing I ever said. I didn’t realize you were a fraud. Get a soul, you hack. Unfollowing.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait, are these made with some ai program?
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s only fair, coz this year the president can blow me.
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
But of course, if the president blows…
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
I apologize for mansplaining a legend, it was more so that others might hear of it that weren’t aware, and become inspired to a little direct action of their own. I don’t mind throwing myself under a bus for a good cause. Good luck out there. We are rooting for you!
Evan Cairo (@k41r05.bsky.social) reply parent
So could they. They were badass, and might have some helpful tips for this next generation. Think of them as the Martha Stewart of guerilla warfare!🥸