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#pixelart

we didn't bring our laptops to our mini-moon and also spent minimal time on our phones. it feels like whiplash to go back to staring at a screen all day. idk how my mind processed this much light for so long.

Your feeling of entitlement to free art does not supersede the reality of artists living at the poverty line.

The sneak peek and full album are yet to come but I’m already in love with the pics (and video clips) from Erica Reade Photography

Twelve and a half months in a relationship, five months engaged, married yesterday on the thirteenth anniversary of our first date ❤️

Replace every how-to-publish panel with one on the material realities of publishing. This is where I’m at.

Three tiny needle felted houses standing together. They each have one big eye and are staring directly at the viewer.

A needle felted flower creature sitting in a diamond-shaped house. Its single eye peeks out of the flower-shaped ledge on the front of the house.

finally some new items (and some old items too!) in the shop at chicorystart.net

#art #needlefelting #fiberart

This is a victory for the LGBTQ+ community and for our entire city. It’s a reminder that New Yorkers won’t let our history be rewritten.

Our administration will keep working to ensure LGBTQ+ New Yorkers can live safely and with dignity in our city.

Likewise!

A huge number of cradle Catholics I’ve heard talk about him—lapsed or not—have gone on to talk A Certain Way about adult converts, and I think non-Catholics don’t really understand this part of the culture because Protestantism is so much more loosey-goosey about a lot of this kind of stuff

Jesus is a literal prophet in Islam, practising muslims hold him in pretty high regard. It's when you ask people in the West who make Christianity their personality about Islam that the disrespect flows

Yup, same. It was unfair then and I was told to suck it up, it’s unfair now and I’m tired

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Simon was our letterer for BE NOT AFRAID, and he's a major reason why the project turned out as well as it did -- Mr. Phim's angelic script, over and against the shaky regular script of the mortals, builds the mood beautifully without ever being too heavy of an effect.

Yale University, your money is tainted by your demands for Zoom calls. Peter Thiel, on the other hand.... your money is perfect

absolutely incredible ending to this saga

This was the presser opening:

"Formerly, press conferences worked in a way that the propaganda media asked questions that were written for them by govt... We will now give the floor to those Hungarian outlets who are still independent."

was just saying this. it doesn’t matter that I’m doing well right now. my field is gutted and my job could disappear next year, next month, etc. and theres a bunch of guys with money going “all according to our plan to make thinking work obsolete”. the mood is grim!

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections: Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again." Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired." •.. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 22m He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." ... Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 20m Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately. "The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

"bro you are fate-fucked" is one of the best lines evah.

buddy, they don’t even let me we gardena in geardagum

Big fan of Headley’s, “bro.”

I spent last month calling every single service provider and bargaining them for discounts, cancelling our few remaining media subs so I could sign up again at a discount rate, and going through every bank and card statement to see what we could cut

"The right’s characterization of higher education is a fiction. Students across the ideological spectrum feel free to express themselves, think their education is worth the cost and don’t think their views are silenced." Only 3% of Republican students feel out of place on campus for their views.

There's growing disquiet in the military. The Iran war made it worse Since Trump began his second term, his administration's use of the armed forces has left a growing number in the military unsettled, according to NPR interviews with service members and advocates.

Hotlines for US soldiers thinking of leaving the armed forces as "conscientious objectors" are being overwhelmed.

Almost all the calls mention the bombing of the girls' school in Iran that killed more than 100 school children.

www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

i never said you have to get formal training or a degree of any kind. study can be self-study. practice can be making lots of drafts. experience can involve sending your work out to galleries/publishers and/or sharing it online. i just mean actually doing the work. not just fantasizing/aspiring.

Treble Clef: here are the notes I hope you like them ☺️

Bass Clef: I moved all your stuff, good luck finding anything, Ds are Fs now fuck you

Some writers are great at being public figures but others write, a solitary profession, exactly because we aren’t good at that.

Even a fantastic sum of money might not be enough to make you change your basic nature. What to do?

If you’re Helen DeWitt you write something funny & honest.