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35/he/him/Chicago * perpetually naïve cynic * real-ass contemporary artist (mostly ballpoints) * MAGAts/nazis not allowed *
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Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.
*not a flying toy
Holy crap, Quora comments are the greatest sometimes
These people can only conceive of win-lose situations, and so they forgo win-win arrangements in favor of lose-lose arrangements
weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him
I’m all for this going forward…. He hates Court room. “F” it…. Pay up! I guess the Grand Ball Room will have to wait ole Donny 👦 Boy!
I remember the other four or five times I’ve seen this kind of article drummed up over the past several years. China always says that crap and then changes its mind, to manipulate the prices of shit.
Boob Berry?
You want me to ask the cat why Gudger College is the best? ‘Cuz, the cat’s gonna get it.
This fist was made for you, Lenny
It’s DIGNITY!
It all started back in Nineteen Tickety Two.
I don’t understand. Those were non-starch potato chips…
Thanks! This was on the north side of Chicago, looking east over Lake Michigan
This should be a Five Alarm Fire on every G'ddamned media outlet in the world. I very rarely post a link to someone else's newsletter...as I have my own. This, however...is a MUST see. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
#photo of man taking photo at the end of the world
The Astros are bringing back my favorite October player: Carl O'Scorrea
Best 600 bucks I ever spent. I use that line all the damn time
Just starting to combine 20th century metalwork with my aesthetic—took me long enough, jeez
Since Jebediah Springfield was actually Hans Sprungfeld, the bloodthirsty pirate, I’d say that’s among my favorite disguises
bohemian urban photography, or bohurgraphy—my forte ever since I had a supercomputer in my pocket
All the RelubliCONS, RepubliCLOWNS and RepubliCOWARDS totally support President Pedophile. Every last one of them are UNFIT for PUBLIC OFFICE. Or any office for that matter.
Letting the heart of the cards guide me as I listen to the Katamari Damacy soundtrack and draw underneath a tree down by the river. Good day off. Needed one of these.
The US’ much vaunted “checks and balances” are wholly based on a presumption that the legislative, executive and judicial branches, and the free press, would be populated in the majority with people of courage and character. No provision was made for the possibility that presumption could fail.
Severance reflects the dystopian world tech billionaires want: Eagan cult = praise of founders and AI’s quasi-religion. Macrodata refinement = tech companies extracting our data. Division of worlds = digital echo chambers and union crushing. White supremacy = enslaving people deemed lesser than.
i love how insane everyone is becomeing
Ask yourselves this question daily and the answer becomes very apparent!!
You’re not evil for asking why the president cut services and let your family drown.
lol, never saw plants v zombies played by anyone before, let alone a speedrunner. I’m all about the Pokémon gen 1 speedruns, traditionally, though gen 2 is perhaps a tad more enjoyable. Anyway, bang-up job on the run! Yay GDQ!!
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lol, rounders
Ykseulb — .5mm #ballpoint & #watercolor #pen on 3x5” 130lb #archival #card #experimental #abstractexpressionism #traditionalmedia #blackandblue #negativespace #contemporaryart #oneofone #meditation #drawing #bsky.art #selftaught #composition #concept #movement #penstrokes #minimalism #wabi-sabi
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People outside the United States have no idea what's going on here. They don't know that people are being kidnapped from the streets by masked thugs. Or that people are held and deported without due process. Or that the government ignores court orders. Or that we are building concentration camps.
“The New American Gothic” Criselda Vasquez Oil on canvas 72” x 48”
Dang, this really hits all the feels! What a great job, wow.
3x5” 0.5mm #ballpoint #pen (papermate inkjoy, black) on 130lb #archival #card actually saw a spot where I could put my #signature, which feels good. Prolly gonna try doing that whenever I can. #bsky.art #abstract #drawing #original #signed #series #oneofone #traditionalmedia #inkart #contemporary
every single R in a swing seat who votes for the cruel mess will lose in 2026. Write. It. Down.
Papermate Inkjoy 0.5mm ballpoint on 3x5” 130lb card gonna start popping out more of these 3x5”ers while using this clothcover book as the drawing surface. Ees nice. #bsky.art #drawing #inkart #ballpoint #abstract #negativespace #unique #traditionalmedia #untitled
Faah-LAMING!
We now have a concentration camp in Florida. Stop pretending any of this is normal. If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person. Be human.
All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight
Hellooooo, Mr Brooks!! 99 years young. Holy crepes, Batman.
Incredible nightmare fuel
The most futile undertaking one could ever endeavor to pursue is to attempt to make a Republican understand what it means to be an American.
You go, James Webb telescope!! What a great discovery. Also, that photo totally looks like the moth painting!!
Moths and I have developed a fortuitous spiritual connection over the past 6 months or so… something about the gateway to the spirit realm. Crows have been observing me, too. Always glad to have crows on my side. Wonderful piece, feels very ethereal
Bunn-o-saurus!! What a graceful creature
Ditto—anywhere I’d like to go “in public” is either too expensive to be sustainable or just overrun with posers occupying human bodies
Let’s see… Susan Sarandon, Kate McKinnon, Amy Poehler, Amy Sedaris, Jane Krakowski, and Scott Adsit. And David Cross and Bob Odenkirk. Lol
Golden raisins, currants, dried cranberries, dehydrated strawberry slices… it’s the “oops, all berries” pie
“Of course we have our ways of eating elephants, but they’re egregious and I’ll take no part.” -Mother Chorizo from her famous ‘Sermon on The Gout’
They want to shit on their cake and eat it too. Fucking idiots.
then you’d be all right
MAMA MIA!!
Martin “Jiminy Glick” Short!
Kristen Wiig! Rachel Dratch!! Maya Rudolph!!!
Craig Ferguson!!
For me, Hannibal Buress and Sam Richardson can just give a single look and make me pee my pants from laughter
I think MJ could pull it off… iunno, gotta be quite the personality
I thought they used to thrive on ambiguity. This is unambiguously fucked behavior.
I’m Barney! Like Barney’s hair! … Barney doesn’t have hair— WOULD YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP, he’s like a CLOTH. Cloth is HAIRS, just little tiny haaairs. Even his MOUTH has little hairs — perhaps the greatest moment in comedy history… this sketch lives rent-free in my head #itysl #TimMeadows
Every time
Based upon the uproarious response, I may be a rarity. I can visualize images in my “mind’s eye”, and simply refuse to represent them in favor of a more worthwhile originality. So shoot me. LOLOLOLLL
Thank you, Mr. Takei, for your courage in calling out cowardice.
Blissful indigestion allows resignation to the shadiest reaches of the human psyche, where incommunicado tempest priesthoods build the toastmaster communication strategy around the human realization that we will never be enough for this planet—never have been. #poem ca. 2018-2019
I blame the lead poisoning and Hulk Hogan, brother
Rát Aidyl is her name backwards. Coincidence? I think not.
What a difference a flip makes. This here is “Hank of Dankness” from two competing viewpoints. He could be either, or neither. Unsure. #inkart #ballpoint #pen #watercolor #acrylic #abstract #linedrawing #color #study #paper #spectral #selftaught #original #oneofone #bsky.art #traditionalmedia
Any #artists on #bsky.art just have a natural disinclination to depict “real” things? For me, attempting to conceptualize “representing” an “object” is like putting the positive charge of a magnet against another positive charge end. They just slip off each other. Iunno, just curious.
Added 3 #brushpens to the #ballpoint concoction from yesterday—would have done a bit more this session if Chairman Meow over here didn’t like my drawing substrate so much. #inkart #contemporaryart #abstractexpressionism #pen #drawing #paper #cat #progress #WIP #bsky.art
It felt good not to moan and bellyache all day about being treated like a pawn in the game of life, so here’s another drawing. #inkart #traditionalmedia #ballpoint #pen #bsky.art #abstract #drawing #penonpaper #original #improvisation #linedrawing #negativespace #composition #saturation #minimalism
I’m sick of bitching and whining about evil motherfuckers, so here’s a drawing I did today. #bsky.art #WIP #inkart #ballpoint #pen #traditionalmedia #penonpaper #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #contemporaryart #lineart #freehand #selftaught #movement #physicalmedia #wabi-sabi #abstract #ink
White people need to devote more time to shaming each other. Remind your sister that her political choices produce tangible harm, making her a bad person. Let her know that no amount of deflection can change the fact that her soul is rotting inside her chest, desperate for a less bile-filled cavity.
And he rhymed it at the end there. Noice.
I’ve mainly been drawing with only black ballpoint pen these days. Back to watercolor brush pens over the past week, feels nice to take a sabbatical from saturation and re-evaluate my relationship with color. You hear that, warm and cool reds?! I’m coming for ya. #bsky.art #color #journey #drawing
It is now your patriotic duty to block JD Dunce from accessing your BSKY feed. Do not allow these slimy cretins to infiltrate this platform. There’s a reason they’re doing this, and it can only be bad. They’re terrible fucking criminals who don’t deserve any dignity or acceptance. K thanks.
Yeah Honda!! That’s so bad-ass.
Hope isn't just a feeling—it's a catalyst for change. President Obama shares two competing visions of America and why the good story will win.
Make ICE famous
I STILL TO THIS DAY CANNOT BELIEVE THAT TIM WALZ TOOK OVER THE ENTIRE 2024 RACE BY CALLING THEM "WEIRDOS" AND IT COMPLETELY DEMORALIZED THEM AND THEN ***THEY JUST STOPPED DOING IT***
Are you sure it’s not 413% more safe?
Shorter people have more compact internal organs and less work for their heart to do in their lifetime (circulating blood and whatnots)—I feel bad for people on the taller side. Not to mention the back problems. I’m 5’10”, and I kinda wish I was like 5’8” instead. Might squeeze another year in. lol
NY Times is a surging tire fire, just like most media outlets in the US.
Great column on transit scaremongering. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
I think a single shift in a restaurant or factory would have killed him as “Drumpf Prime”, back in his ‘80s heyday of raping women and “writing” shitty books. Can we get a time machine and make that happen?
This babbling fool can’t even fucking check his spelling before fucking being tiny-dick white fuck spouting off about Juneteenth without saying Juneteenth. Absolute worst human trash that ever existed. What the actual fuck. Make Dornalt Drumpf again. Fuck.
The soup! THE SOUP!! Cumbill’s Tumitty soop!
Why do these Nazis have to be so fucking stupid? Fuck.
Yeah, but that’s not a catchy narrative for the idiots
I love your smugness. This wasn’t about fun, it was about DEI initiatives. Reinforcing a circular argument that has very little bearing on the spirit of the original poster’s intent doesn’t qualify as “practice”, it counts as glomming onto a dangerous mindset because someone else did it. Nice job.
Go figure.
