Were his bone spurs misdiagnosed cankles?

Is there a Bluesky for aging-parent-support or yeah-I-get-it? The country is a dumpster fire, so what a dumb thing to post today, but: my widowed-dad is in the hospital on his 50th wedding anniversary at age 85 and my heart breaks for him. We’ve been here since 11:30 am and now it is 7:30.

This is a bare-minimum comfortable and easy gesture in a left-anchored western MA area on a night I am at one of my jobs. My heart + thoughts are with those who are “rioting” for justice—being what America should be, ideally. Thank you. @jesseduquette.bsky.social , your shirt continues to be a hit.

Cows serving some bucolic landscape

Still dirty from my gardening job, but the hat had to be tried on immediately.

Ahahahaha…what happened here?

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More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

Worshipping false idols, etc.

No one is talking about how April 20th, the alleged date of the Insurrection Act being implemented is also Hitler’s birthday and I can’t quite chalk that up to coincidence (it probably is, but damn).

Soaking wet, due to rain. Did the thing in Western MA. #handsoff

I think I took this during the 45 years at some point. Seems even more pertinent now.

What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. —Jane Goodall Pictured below: I had my very first official adult drink with her on my 21st birthday!

Well guys, I (sorta) made it. My photograph is in the Italian Rolling Stone. A fun moment as I wind down my photography “career” and turn it back mostly into a hobby as I go back to school for something completely different. 🌱 @ringdownmusic.bsky.social , signed by @nonesuch.com

If Trump gates higher education so much, why is Barron at NYU

Crazy to think it’s good my mother isn’t alive to see this. She lived here on a green card. This man was tortured. To be fair, I acknowledge this happens to not-white people of every “legal” status every day. Profoundly effed that we don’t hear about those cases the moment they happen.

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

There is a book from my childhood—maybe East German? About a mayor in a small town who demands everything be the same, so one by one all the houses are painted grey and everything colorful in life disappears. In every ensuing appearance on his balcony to address the townsfolk, he gets larger and 🧵

Leni Riefenstahl, eat your heart out.

So the Kennedy Center IS still capable of a fine performance

I'm just a boy Standing in front of an orange lump Asking it to die.

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Wrapped up in a woolen tartan blanket, seated in an Adirondack sipping broth on the sanitarium balcony while breathing in the cool, dry Western air, I dab at the blood I’ve just coughed up, thankful we now have a public health system with traditional values.

Times are fucking dark and I’m a middle-aged lady and I’m angry as fuck and soon enough it will probably be a crime to show ankles or whatever so let this go down on the record because for fuck’s sake.

the GOP/maga are Morlocks (not a compliment) and the democrats are Eloi (also not a compliment) and if you’ve read HG Wells in your childhood maybe you feel similarly.

Another tshirt for my collection #nazisraus

The remarkable thing about leaving places like meta is it becomes quickly clear how little anyone misses you.

Soll’s keinem überraschen

Just in time for me to be going back to school! #nazisraus

“She says it was like a horror movie. They were screaming in different rooms” I would argue no one should travel to the U.S. right now because it’s important to vote with your wallet. Don’t spend tourist dollars there Another reason? The threat of being detained by ICE. It’s not safe in America

Turns out Bluesky has censored two of my recent posts…so maybe not as body-neutral as I was hoping. Pfui.

I opposed the Trump presidency before..uh..at the same time a ton of other people did. Pre-election 2015.

I love this video trend in Germany showing what various workplaces would look like without immigrants. Immigration is a fact, and always has been. It’s a beautiful thing.

Always. And also, incidentally, happy birthday to the incomparable artist who is helping us through: @jesseduquette.bsky.social 💥

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Just a small selection of tshirts 1. Tshirt by Josh Odam (find him online: healingwhileblack.me — not sure if he’s still making tshirts, I’ve worn this since 2016) 2. Tshirt by Ash + Chess — commissioned by Target and then pulled off shelves in 2023. Buy it, link in comments. 3. My own design.

Andrew Tate has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins

A hill I die on is that it shouldn’t be up to an artist to write a perfect grant proposal. Our work should be focused on our work and not kowtowing to juries who play money god based on words. Yes, I am licking my wounds, but goddamn. It’s been a tough day for several reasons and now rejection.

I keep almost giving up on photography because I just can’t build a career out of it. I’m sick of working menial jobs in the hopes I’ll get a big break. I’m 45 and it won’t happen. I live in the wrong place for what I do: not weddings or senior pics. That’s all. Just wanted to say it out loud.

Fucking over artists is not the only reason AI sucks

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

First death of an unvaccinated child from measles in Texas. A disease we had eradicated until people stopped using vaccinations. We are tragically likely going to see how awful Trump's pick of RFK Jr. is for our country, and the complicit Senate Republicans who voted him in.