Thinking about Mardi Gras times in New Orleans and this 3 bedroom apartment I had on Esplanade 12 years ago a few blocks from the quarter and how we split $450 total rent between 3 people. Not $450 each, no. SPLIT. 3 ways. Ridiculous 🤭

My latest shop update: 3 new designs, several new items and sets 🖤🇵🇷👇 #PuertoRicanArtist #PuertoRico #BlueskyPR #art #illustration

I'm not into sportsball, but I did watch the halftime show tonight for the first time since 2008. If you want to bring a slice of Puerto Rico into your home, please go check out @destinytoro.com! I wish I could buy the whole shop! www.destinytoro.com

Such a niche post for anatomy and hypermobile patient nerds, but deeeep and numerous SCM trigger points will absolutely be my mental undoing. Can I just have a right side SCMectomy, is that a thing.

The Borikén Mail Club is the part of my business that provides me a stable, recurring income. My current goal is 20 new members to ensure my most basic needs are regularly met, I have 17 to go to meet that goal! borikenmailclub.com

🖤 Support Puerto Rican artists 🇵🇷 You can share our work and posts for free 👇 You can sign up for our newsletters 👉 buttondown.com/toro You can hire or spend money with us 👉 destinytoro.com Every bit of that helps us survive, gives us momentum, and helps us share our art with the world.

Happy Mardi Gras to all who celebrate! 💜💚💛

BRAINS is just $1 for the next day, you can snag a digital copy of my 40 page comic about the joys of thinking and perceiving and BEING a human instead of so-called AI doing all the thinking for us. It is a love letter to the brain (and hate mail for the AI garbage) (shares appreciated!)

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Happy Mardi Gras #Stunday 🖤

“There has always been resistance to all forms of oppression, as we know through our bones that there have simultaneously been disabled people visioning a world where we flourish, that values and celebrates us in all our myriad beauty.” -Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice @thellpsx.bsky.social

I have a.. rough.. history with assuming good faith. And I am a low income, disabled person trying to survive with the only skill I can use for work. So if you follow me, like my posts, comment and you make and/or share AI images, I’m not going to assume good faith. It’s an immediate block. #NoAI

I'm still in the hospital for an urgent health issue, I NEED prepared foods, medical & health supplies delivered when I return home. PLEASE match $30 rec yday thx to A, $1115’s needed, $80 of it today! #BIPOCMA #HelpSky #SettlerSaturday Cashapp, PayPal, Venmo are all mayasdivinedesigns

I also have a webshop again! You'll find both my books, all my zines either in print or ebook format, and art prints. saimihanma.com/shop/

Disabilities are very disabling me today so here’s Belly, she said to tell you to be like her and go have a nap if you can 🖤

Trump is planning to install a statue of Columbus at the White House. For anyone who needs a reminder, here is why we don’t celebrate Columbus.

🖤 NO ONE IS GATEKEEPING ART FROM YOU 🖤

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You’ll see a bunch of lists of Puerto Rican authors…and many won’t feature horror or crime writers. We also exist. We also make history.

1/ Rewatching the halftime show last night, I thought of this time I was driving for Lyft in New Orleans and I picked up this guy from the airport and drove him to the quarter. He was a musician, brought his gear with him for some shows. I was listening to a Puerto Rican playlist- like Bomba and

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

"The question is, 'What *does* Taino art look like now?' Look around. It looks like art made by..Puerto Ricans... Just as it looks like Bad Bunny onstage at the Super Bowl. Just as it looks like me sharing what I see when I look at the mountains and plants and animals that surround my home..."

Ah, Bad Bunny left you with questions about power outages, storms, and our hatred of colonialism? Don’t worry, I got you. I’ll show you the aftermath of a storm, take you to the beach, show you what hides under the waves. I’ll show you our magia… www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

QRP with your skull art 💀

My knee is finally healing up! But the problem with having EDS is all the compensation my other leg has to do & subluxes as a result. Meaning there are periods of time where I just haven’t been able to walk at all. Reallly wishing I had my old power wheelchair rn. I had to sell it a cpl years ago 😭

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

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let me hop on this wave and recommend some good books on Puerto Rican history for people that feel inspired by Bad Bunny to learn about us, our history, and our culture

Anoche le deje una cajita con grama pa' Benito y le pedí que sacara a Ñengo Flow en el jaftaim show, amén 🙏 🇵🇷 #SuperBowl #PuertoRico #BadBunny #orgulloboricua #puñeta

"The question is, 'What *does* Taino art look like now?' Look around. It looks like art made by..Puerto Ricans... Just as it looks like Bad Bunny onstage at the Super Bowl. Just as it looks like me sharing what I see when I look at the mountains and plants and animals that surround my home..."

🧵 A portion proceeds from some of the items in my shop will go to orgs doing local work here in Puerto Rico, esp conservation efforts. Like my Sapo Concho mug supports the Puerto Rican Crested Toad Conservancy 👇🐸

🖤 Support Puerto Rican artists 🇵🇷 You can share our work and posts for free 👇 You can sign up for our newsletters 👉 buttondown.com/toro You can hire or spend money with us 👉 destinytoro.com Every bit of that helps us survive, gives us momentum, and helps us share our art with the world.

➕➕ #Stunday Sunday ➕➕ 📍Puerto Rico, 2009

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NEW: Puerto Rico municipal police officers are calling federal immigration agencies when they encounter migrants during traffic stops and at court hearings. In one instance, the cops held migrants at their police station until CBP arrived. 1/x thelatinonewsletter.org/p/puerto-ric...

Lil game of hide and catch for #caturday 🐈‍⬛

For U.S.A. followers: If you want to learn a bit more about Puerto Rico so you can actually get a better of sense of why #BadBunny hits so different, you should start listening to "La Brega". You can go to SEASON 1 and start there but you could also start here: futurostudios.org/episodes/1-p...

New in the shop: Resistencia Series 🖤🇵🇷 destinytoro.com/shop/all/resistencia Read more about the drop here & sign up for future shop updates: buttondown.com/TORO/archive/shop-update-resistencia/ #art #illustration #PuertoRico #BlueskyPR #BskyNightMarket

1/ It isn't just a halftime show. It isn't "yay the MAGAs are mad!" For some of us, it is an entire childhood in the diaspora being starved of our language, food, music, land, our whole culture and being forced to assimilate and shut up about it.

My latest shop update: 3 new designs, several new items and sets 🖤🇵🇷👇 #PuertoRicanArtist #PuertoRico #BlueskyPR #art #illustration

🔷 #BlueSkyArtShow #Sunlight 🔷 destinytoro.com/animation #SolarEclipse #art #illustration #animation #PuertoRicanArtist #IndigenousArt

I forgot to post this yesterday! One year ago yesterday, by far the most popular social media post I’ve ever had in my life of course it’s Belly 😂🖤 She deserves it.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

New in the shop: Resistencia Series 🖤🇵🇷 destinytoro.com/shop/all/resistencia Read more about the drop here & sign up for future shop updates: buttondown.com/TORO/archive/shop-update-resistencia/ #art #illustration #PuertoRico #BlueskyPR #BskyNightMarket

I painted this 8 years ago this week. Probably my most favorite sign work I did as a sign painter! Painting the logo required a lot of creative problem solving and creating my own techniques for executing it. So proud of the process and the result.

1/ Please read Gabriel's thread. Watching AI encroach on how we make and use money is really bringing me to levels of rage I'd rather not be in. Thinking about this in the context that due to AI automation at 2 of the banks I use, I literally can't move money or make certain transactions.

New mugs for the Resistencia Series 🖤🇵🇷 destinytoro.com/shop/all/resistencia Read more about the drop here & sign up for future shop updates: buttondown.com/TORO/archive/shop-update-resistencia/ #art #illustration #PuertoRico #BlueskyPR #BskyNightMarket

🎥 Part 3 | Our Sámi guide, Anne Maret Buljo from Tromsø Arctic Reindeer explained what colonization in the 19th-20th centuries meant for the Sámi people. Stay tuned for more & support Indigenous storytelling worldwide: crushingcolonialism.org/donate/

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New designs for the Resistencia Series are up in the shop 🖤🇵🇷 destinytoro.com/shop Read more about the drop here & sign up for future shop updates: buttondown.com/TORO/archive... #art #illustration #BlueskyPR #BskyNightMarket