inonly just noticed they did not include the title of the painting on my name card 😭 idk what happened there oh well

hiiiii everyone ... especially to any Philly residents, please go vote for my painting this Saturday! :) ♥️

while OCD is different for every person i do think its essential to remember how difficult social media can be for you if you have it and are very reliant on it. its suuuuuch an easy compulsion to post, to do numbers, to release anxiety and tension. and everyone is mad online

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

had a really nice day today! made lemon mackeral sandwiches for us for lunch, cuddled and started work on an Extra Hard jigsaw puzzle i won with my girlfriend, watched some videos with her while we attempted to solve it, made us burgers for dinner, sent her home :')

RIP Assata Shakur, never recaptured never defeated, the world has lost one of its great lights 💔

evelyn took me grocery shopping and hid some of my items from view so i was forced to let her buy them for me .... 😭

As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Ok, @k80way.bsky.social did it. What the hell is going on with Bluestockings???? Only at @hellgatenyc.com hellgatenyc.com/what-is-happ...

my oil painting teacher plays a lot of music i enjoy in my free time (1940s-50s love & heartbreak songs + billy joel, etc) while we paint which is great Except when the breakup songs come on and i must focus Very Hard elsewhere

ive really liked going to art classes and if theres any program or location offering tuition assistance for them and youre not sure what to get out and Do and make friends i really recommend them if you can

democrats if this happened in the US

hiiiii everyone ... especially to any Philly residents, please go vote for my painting this Saturday! :) ♥️

'Horizon Interrupted', this is my entry for the annual "Trash Free Waters" painting contest. described as "beautiful and upsetting" this piece tries to capture a contrast i myself experienced while playing the philly treasure hunt. based off of pictures of real trash i took!

Why fund science, you ask? www.bbc.com/news/article...

this weeks oil painting class was to take last week's painting, and rework the canvas with the complimentary colors of the original palette. this resulted in a variety of purples for me, and rotating it to portrait after painting it in vertical

this is the most chotinered a chotiner interview has ever chotinered

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

tylenol doesnt cause autism but i wish it did

real "what if the world were made of pudding?" moment

cant believe its new years already

i really dislike learned helplessness about skill acquisition. it is extremely straightforward to look up how to do something you don't know how to do on your phone and at least understand the parameters of the problem well enough to try to improve at it

💔 bluestockings is having to close :(

yay i did it :)

everyone do not solve or go out to the current eric the puzzler puzzle until after 6:30 ... im at work right now and cant go claim the prize until im done

science is green, math is red (or orange). english/lit is blue

dont think i told this story bc i was playing my cards very close to my chest earlier on in not mentioning evelyn online, but on our second date i stopped by her apartment first and discovered her living room wall decor is what she calls her "conspiracy wall"

NEW: Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom announced today that they have all recognized the State of Palestine

evelyn likes eating a bagel for breakfast every morning like clockwork so this morning i got to take her to the bagel place in my neighborhood and she liked it :)

aw man

every time i hang out with my girlfriend she explains at least one of her magic the gathering decks to me. i dont go here, i dont have room in my brain to learn magic, so i just listen and nod and tell her shes so smart

roxanne has been a good friend of mine for many years now, as is her girlfriend here rhiannon; hoping my two friends can build their happy life together here in philly :)

Hey everyone -- I want to say thank you to everyone who has donated or even just shared my moving fund so far; we're almost halfway there! My move is in a little over 4 months away now, which is sooner than you'd think!! I'm really excited, and hoping that I can land in philly with a fresh start <3

got this shot coming home from art class last night

for oil painting class we had to pick a painting to be a color reference this week. i picked one by the sci fi illustrator John Harris, and here's what i ended up with

ETSY WITCHES ARE HAVING A MOMENT

please dont ask me what i had to spend today on additional supplies for oil painting class. i had misunderstood the supplies list due to shared bullet points not meaning 'optional/interchangeable'

[smiles] i was the first to solve a special "extra hard" puzzle that ended up not getting used .... :) i love winning

for oil painting class this week i have to email a favorite painting to my teacher for use in class. id love if people would share a favorite painting of theirs for me to consider / use as inspo as i try to select one myself

the lesbian sports bar in philly opens this weekend 🎉

it happened to me. met a local artist whose work i really like, wondered how he funded such an elaborate project, go to his website, "i currently work for lockheed martin—" WHY!!!!?

id love to talk more about how this event went! it was really fun! basically the first hour was an open hour to do or solve a variety of puzzles, including one in the zine Eric made about the treasure hunt, there was a great musical artist performance, then the awards ceremony & Q&A +

had a great day at the official party for puzzlers from the treasure hunt. here's my team's official certificate, referencing my first long email to Eric where I said "I've always wanted to be a Dan Brown protagonist" 😭

mfw anyone asks "wtf is happening" during a movie

had a great day at the official party for puzzlers from the treasure hunt. here's my team's official certificate, referencing my first long email to Eric where I said "I've always wanted to be a Dan Brown protagonist" 😭

the season approaches us ... i got butternut squash soup in a jar i want to reuse for cleaning my oil pain brushes ... soup and grilled cheese time soon

theyre manufacturing the housing crisis to catch all the 22 year old assassins by making it impossible for Gen Z to move out of their parents place

i realized i needed some glass or acrylic slabs as a palette for oil painting class and someone left a cool funky picture frame on the street. YOINK!

took evelyn out for brunch today! her tie matched her converse which i found cute

all i will say about the news i received today is that i cannot wait to Discuss it with my therapist this week