If you are an agency employee asked to take a polygraph contact a lawyer *immediately*. I am more than willing to immediately respond to anyone being pushed into this. My email is in my bio and my signal is NationalSecurityCounselors.16

Me: “So why’d you text me from work at 8 o’clock at night asking me to cut up carrots and celery?” My son in the most teenaged way possible: “Cuz I’m boutta have some, I can’t let my fiber intake get too low, twin!” Y’all, I think we must have done *something* right. 🤣

Photos from last night's Signs of Resistance exhibit, and what information we have about the next show! We are looking for submissions for a late June LGBTQIA+ Pride Month exhibit! Follow the link to learn more! #CallForArt #MentoneAlabama #PrideMonth www.comingupviolets.com/single-post/...

This thing is ONNNN! #ArtGallery #Protest #ProtestSigns #NoFascistUSA #FuckTrump #MagaIsACult #SaveOurDemocracy #MentoneAlabama #Alabama #BlueDots

Tomorrow night!! I’m so excited, the goofy-ass anxiety dreams have already started! Last night I slept through the party that happens tomorrow night 🤪 www.comingupviolets.com/protestshow #Mentone #MentoneAlabama #Protest #NoFascistUSA #Alabama #GalleryShow #ArtShow #LookoutMountain #ProtestArt

If I were in charge of everything, the only people whose hair was crazy in an *unflattering* way would be people who do harm to other people.

I LOVE IT when we, the people get together and make it clear that no, it’s not “go woke, go broke,” it’s quite the opposite! @athreadofhope.bsky.social

For those who have just found me because of those Boss Bitches of Beanery: Hi! Nice to meet you! This is my art account. This account doesn’t post much political stuff - I keep that over at @athreadofhope.bsky.social , also me, where I try to post a hope-inspiring news item every day or two! 👋🏼 👋🏼👋🏼

The studio has been transformed into a 1. A mess, and 2. A protest sign clinic ! I’m taking all the battered protest signs the local Democratic club has collected overall our past protests and rallies, and rehabbing them!

I am so SO GRATEFUL to @dailybeanspod.com for reading my letter on air and inviting folks to our May Day Protest Sign Gallery Show! The scream I scrumpt when I heard my own name and then when Dana said it was such a good idea! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Thank you ladies, and F fascism! #protestArt

WHAT This is very good news!! @athreadofhope.bsky.social

Well we found my son a car and put down a little deposit to hold it but now even though I have the money in my bank account, I can’t find any way to GET the money, because they will only let me withdraw a certain amount per day and it will take me a week to get the money out little by little. 🤬

There’s gonna be so much solidarity it’s gonna be craaaazy. Solidarity, and cheese and fruit. #Mentone #MentoneAlabama #Protest #ProtestSigns #ProtestArt #Resistance #GalleryShow #Alabama

Dude’s truck is blasting the most stereotypical country “STICK TO YOUR GUNS SON MAKE ME PROUD YOU DONT EVER BACK UP YOU DONT EVER BACK DOWN” We get in the car and my son says, “I want to invent a device I can put on his car that anytime he tries to throw it into reverse, it just plays that line. 🤣

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your cat! I’ve decided this is the greatest photo of Tiramisu that has ever been taken and I will not be taking questions at this time.

WHEW so my son and I just were literally, no exaggeration, almost killed by a cop. Driving NE on rt 27 east of Summerville, GA, got in the left lane to go around an old beater and was INSTANTLY confronted by a cop car, coming at me head-on in my lane not even thirty feet ahead of us. He had come

At the Old Bailey Gallery in Birmingham, AL for the Kate Quarfordt “Sun Glyphs” opening party.

Flyers are happening! www.comingupviolets.com/protestshow

Co-signed to the fullest extent. Goodbye, CBS. #GoFashLoseCash

We’re looking for protestors to display their signs & volunteers to help with set up & break down for this event in Mentone, Alabama that is completely free and to the public for both attending and exhibiting. Come one, come all, except fascists! #Alabama #LookoutMountain #MentoneAlabama #Protest

In a past life #Brooklyn #SadLittleCloud #Graffiti #StreetArt

Going through photos on my computer to see what I can delete to make space, and I came across the treasure trove of old facebook posts about the stuff my kid says and I'm barely holding my face onto my head I'm laughing so hard. This child has always been hilarious. #SmallOneExplains #MomPosting

BLOG POST: Announcing our upcoming gallery show, Signs of Resistance. An event for sane, democracy-loving blue dots in our red state to be in community and another opportunity to display our protest signs, will take place in #Mentone, #Alabama. #MentoneAlabama #LookoutMountain #Resist #CallForArt

You know the children of the 80s are getting old when they’re putting Mario Bros branding on OLD SPICE.

I truly believe that if free exploration of one’s own sexuality was normalised and always had been throughout history, then we would have long ago figured out that people who are totally heterosexual are a small minority.

A tree falls in the woods. …free woodchips! …free mulch! …a ton of compost!

On this Trans Day of Visibility I’d like to help one of my oldest friends’ need for a helping hand be more visible! If you can give or share to help a transgender NYer and excellent human being who’s lost her job not become homeless til she finds a new one I’d appreciate you so much.

ALERT! Butterfly on my phlox I repeat- BUTTERFLY ON MY PHLOX!!! #PhloxYeah

Come on, Fort Payne Alabama, we need to step up our game!

It was a nice day. A little chilly. Only trouble was the usual few jerks who shouted dumb crap out of their cars as they drove by, and one single counter protester who started blasting a bagpipe rendition of Amazing Grace over a bullhorn every time one of our speakers went up.

Amazing turnout for rural Alabama! #NoKings #FortPayneAlabama #FortPayne

Please help a friend out if you possibly can! I know times are tough for everyone right now.

🫡 An absolute BADGE of HONOR. I will wear it with pride. Thank you for adding me to this list, hopefully every one of you fascist bootlicking AI slop-pushers will block me and I’ll never have to interact with any of you ever again. Good riddance!

If you haven’t already this would be a great time to cancel your Hulu. Fuck you, #Hulu. www.reddit.com/r/BuffyTheVa...

At long last… it’s a wrap on the “Mando Norris” helmet! This was a collab between my wasband and me, for our son’s cosplaying enjoyment at MoMoCon 2026. I did all the painting except the yellow-green base color. #StarWars #FormulaOne #Cosplay #Mandalorian #LandoNorris #Handmade #MomoCon

March 29th here in #Mentone, #Alabama! #WomensHistoryMonth

Having the freedom to do something does not mean you have the right to never have to find out how what you’re doing affects other people. I’m sick and tired of people who don’t understand that.

Every spring, I discover our garden and woods all over again. Azure Bluet!

So, so fun. 😮‍💨 #POTS

With no context, how are you starting the week?

Working on a new set of these again, because every time I paint more, people come in and buy them! 😅 Yes, even here in Alabama! #Handmade #NoFascistUSA #Y’allMeansAll #Magnets #SmallBusiness #BlueDotInARedState #TransRightsAreHumanRights #MentoneAlabama

Ran across this photo I took on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia, near Fancy Gap on July 30, 2024. Damn I love fog. And the color of trees through fog. And the Blue Ridge Mountains. #Photography #BlueRidgeParkway #Virginia

not only do you not have to watch you can log off and not read any of the posts about it you can read a book about wizard detectives bake a cake hug your dog paint a picture go to bed early get a drink with a friend plan your garden start a jigsaw puzzle knit a scarf do some stretching take a bath

Okay, I’m going to bed and I really reeeeallllyyyy hope that I wake up and hear that the number of people who watched the alternative State of the Union addresses was higher than the numbers for the lying, hateful, pedophile, rapist! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🙏🏼

They are really doing this outside, at night, in February. 🥶 I know it’s not half of what Minnesotans have been dealing with but still, brrrrr. #PeoplesSoTU

I’m extremely touched that my great friend Tobey Miller liked my portrait of our friend Leia Chitwood so much that she had it framed this way and put it up at our local Democratic Club office. 💓 #ColorPencilPortrait #Prismacolor #memorial #DekalbCountyDemocrats #FortPayneAlabama #Handmade

Big sale on big tall goth girl clothes! Help a gal out! Get cool stuff! Win-win. #Gothic #GothClothes #WomensClothing

My son is having his 17th birthday party. I’m relaxing on the porch w fruit, cheese & wine and listening to, PUT ME ON YOUR BACK, LOGAN! JUST TRUST! YOU’RE COOKED, IAN! AAAAAH! MY BALLS! I AM BEING FOR REAL MOLESTED!! AAAAAAAAHHHH!!! MY BOOTYHOLE!!! PUT ME DOWN!!! (I checked. No molestation.)

I’m trying again to listen to A Train In Winter, a book by Caroline Moorehead. I strongly recommend it for anyone emotionally study enough to handle it. It’s gut-wrenching, I’m openly crying while listening and I don’t know if I’ll be able to get through it. Here’s a pretty typical quote.

Folks, I'm looking for an #amigurumi crochet artist who'd like to sell their wares in my Mentone, Alabama shop. It helps if you live locally, but if you're willing to ship and add the shipping costs into your prices that's fine! #CallForArt #CallForArtists #SmallBusiness #Crochet #Handmade