I'm taking action on June 14 to remind Trump and his enablers that America has No Kings. Join me in Portland, OR to reject authoritarianism and show the world what democracy really looks like. app.sosha.ai/s/exP6atkC

There we go.

I would not have predicted that large universities would show more courage than either Big Law or corporate media. Good for them.

Portrait of Amália Rodrigues by Eduardo Malta (Portuguese) - Oil on canvas / 1949 - Museu do Caramulo (Portugal) #womeninart #art #portraitofawoman #fineart #womensart #portrait #oilpainting #EduardoMalta #PortugueseArtist #MuseudoCaramulo #beauty #style #Malta #portraitofalady #PortugueseArt #1940s

“Pretty as a Peacock” #CollageArt #AnalogCollage

Keep those signs close. One of the organizers of “Hands Off 2025,” @50501movement.bsky.social, announced that Saturday, April 19th will be the next national day of action. Keep in mind, all of these protests are organized by humans, so accounts and websites won’t immediately have all dates.

“Jello Mold Visionary” #CollageArt #AnalogCollage #MixedMedia

Looking at the headlines, April 4, 2025 #sqrlpix

Hey, noting here that some update turned off the “Require Alt Text” and “Large Alt Text” settings under Settings>Accessibility. You probably want to check your settings and re-configure for best bsky citizenship practices. (Yes, require alt-text; Large Alt Text is at your discretion.)

Very honored to have 2 pieces accepted to this show. Friday, April 4, 2025, 5-9 pm, First Friday Opening reception for NO / STALGIA for artists, family and friends. Art at the Cave hrs: Tues-Thurs 11-5 & Fri-Sat 11-6; 108 E Evergreen Blvd, Vancouver, WA 98660, (360) 314-6506, www.artatthecave.com

“BFFs” #CollageArt #MixedMedia #VintagePhotos

“Keepin’ time” #CollageArt #AnalogCollage

If you believe that only the “fit” should survive and the rest are excusable deaths, that’s eugenics. Every life is important. Every disabled person is worthy of life. Disability is part of nature. If you live long enough, you will become disabled. We’re all vulnerable and all valuable.

NO / STALGIA show: artatthecave.com in Vancouver, WA opens Friday evening, 4 April 2025. Gallery attendance is free. Features many collage artists from the PNW Collage Collective. Stay tuned for more details. Excited to have two of my pieces accepted; here is one.

Fierce little storm on Wednesday night caused hundreds of these brilliant blue Velella velellas to wash up on the beach in Oceanside on Thursday morning. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velella #OregonCoast

Beachcombing haul from a mini-vacation this week in Oceanside, OR. Mostly small agates (chalcedony) and cool rocks including a nice green jasper, with a few sea-polished shell fragments. #beachcombing #agates #OregonCoast

Corina by Niki Tong Yuk Ying (Hong Kong) - Oil on canvas / 2020 - Paintings in Hospitals (London, United Kingdom) #womeninart #oilpainting #art #womensart #portrait #healthcare #fineart #nhs #hospitals #NikiTongYukYing #womenpaintingwomen #PaintingsInHospitals #service #portraitofawoman #oiloncanvas

📢 #Altgov Announcement Coming to you live & in living color - and also occasionally on yellow parchment... and that one time from a bathroom in Florida - is @altnatarchives.bsky.social Put on your white gloves and press that follow button!

@sentimentbot.bsky.social ??

Walk along the quay just west of the San Marcos ferry dock, and this view across the Grand Canal to the Basilica Santa Maria Della Salute opens before you. Perhaps you'll want to take a gondola over this Baroque landmark. (Acrylic on 11"x14"x1.5" wood panel) #acrylicpainting #veniceart #gondola #art

This is going to kill many public libraries, especially in rural areas. If you use a public library, you will be impacted. #imls is a dust mote in the federal budget. It also provides things like internet at your local library so people can apply for jobs and kids can do homework.

TFW you hear the metallic clink of your mailbox and you rush outside to see what great new collage images and bits are there in your junk mail. (Today: SCORE!) #collage #AnalogCollage

Semi-regular reminder: Please use alt-text, especially for screenshots of flyers, letters, text posts, etc. For people that use screen readers or the like, those sorts of posts are like throwing up a blank wall.

A #painting for you. "Cobh II" came from a day I spent cycling from one online friend to another, stopping in the Cork Harbour town to paint this view of the town from the pier. At one point my stool collapsed and with my dodgy knees I was like an insect on its back. Good times. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

April 19th, 2025. createtoliberate.org is organizing a day of national art activism. @abbetuck.bsky.social #LiberalResistance #Artivism

An album cover for the moment.

Just to be clear, a big reason @altssa.altgov.info and I are here is because it's painfully obvious to employees that SSA is being sabotaged. They want it to break so they can kill it and blame us. We need all your help to spread the word far and wide so these people can't escape responsibility.

The ADA was won after a series of battles. This was one of them. 🖤🖤🖤

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

For anyone who wants to nerd out about writing alt text for artwork, this is a great post: "Alt Text for Artwork, Alt Text as Artwork" by someone at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. It contains best practices & four practical tips. aestheticsforbirds.com/2024/05/02/h... #accessibility

🗣️🗣️ ACTION ALERT: 🗣️🗣️ Help us tell regional leaders at JPACT/Metro to oppose an upcoming MTIP Amendment for the proposed $1.9 Billion Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion. Now's a critical moment to tell local elected officials how you really feel about this expansion: www.nomorefreewayspdx.com/MTIP2025

Link has details. “ART FOR A CAUSE” CALL FOR COLLAGE ART Check it out: The Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Program (AHP) at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital’s second Call for Art, “Art for a Cause” for World Collage Day, May 10, 2025. www.instagram.com/p/DG4ZPs1RTW...

Pro-tip for university administrators: when the government illegally cancels your grants, your first response shouldn't be "you kind of have a point."

“Inch by inch” is an 18” x 18” collage made up of 144 smaller (1-inch square) mini collages. This is part of Let Er Rip, on show through early summer. If you’re in Portland, come on out to Up Up Books (1211 SE Stark) tomorrow, Sat Mar 8, from 5-8pm for a reception ☺️ #pdx #collage #portlandart

Next week, most all of North America will be in prime viewing range of a total lunar eclipse & blood moon phenomenon. The shorter wavelengths of light (like blue) are scattered more than longer wavelengths (like red), creating this spooky illumination.

Arty has been reading your bluesky posts and wants to see you in his office.

Inevitably, there are more stories from other women scientists in the comments. This crap needs to have stopped a century ago.

Close-up of a low textured dish form a recent firing. #MarineLife #ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture #howiamaco #colourful #joyous

The Sun Came Up Slowly oil on linen sold The sun came up slowly, taking its own sweet time, doing the job right. It bathed the world in soft pastels, in rose and soft yellow and rich brown. It warmed the ground, the leaves, the grasses. - Chad Oliver #portrait #art #oilpainting

Please please ALT TEXT YOUR IMAGES. I'm seeing so many cool things lately that I can't share because they don't have alt text. If you want your art, your screenshots, your message to get to a wider audience on here, the simple action of writing alt text for it will help.

Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart. medium.com/nightingale/...

In times of revolution, many things change. If we are able to rebuild our research bodies, one thing we would Iike to see change is for-profit scientific journals. Scientific publications should be open access if government-funded and journals should at minimum be non-profit. 💙 Aaron Swartz

This will not be the first economic blackout or the last. But it's a place for new people to start, and for others to continue their boycott. Eat. The. Rich.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Some people might keep candy in fancy glassware. Around here, it’s agates. 😁 #agates #rockhound #ourhouse #photography

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

I haven't posted my own work for a few days. I think it's time to share Stand With Ukraine.

I stand with Ukraine.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org