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modestlyhottownie.myatproto.social
Alex is Alive 🏳️‍⚧️
@modestlyhottownie.myatproto.social
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Artist, writer, cat co-owner, and the friendly ghost beneath every bed. Art is slow, but expect a lot of politics, horror, art, and cat posts! (if I ever forget to add alt feel free to tell me.) A struggling optimist. 📧: [email protected]
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BTW,

I follow artists, journalists, scientists, and really any cool folk.

Because I’m hopeful and curious I do sometimes follow people who aren’t as left.

I’m an inconsistent poster.

I’m just an unknown artist who reflects on history, family, and the absurdity of horrors we all live in.
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On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back
Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.
newrepublic.com
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I get that bsky is trying to make this application appeal to people who are not terminally online -- i.e. not all of us -- and I wonder if that's like board game companies chasing casual gamers, or Democrats chasing swing voters. As in, I'm not sure those people exist.
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A good news story from the Lake Tahoe area, where Hope and her cub Bounce were going to be euthanized as nuisance bears, hemmed in by development and necessity. But the community wouldn't let it happen, keeping watch, & working hard to retrain the bears. Now they seem to be out of danger for awhile.
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Inflatable Halloween costumes are really more of a long-term investment this year given how effective they are in fighting fascism.
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The Wage Transparency Act is in effect on Wed.

It requires employers in MA with +25 employees to disclose pay ranges in job postings.

It also gives employees and job candidates the right to know the pay range for a position when applying, getting promoted, transferred or beginning a new position.
How new wage rule in Mass. could affect your paychecks
The bill's authors said the measure will reduce gender and demographic wage gaps.
www.wcvb.com
10 horror movies to get to know me by (sans emoticons) (not a comprehensive list and in order of how I’d probs share them):

Nope
The Return of the Living Dead
Sinners
They Look Like People
Aterrados
Hereditary
Night House
Talk to Me
Pulse
Lake Mungo
10 horror movies to get to know me by (not a comprehensive list, or in order)

🩸Messiah Of Evil
🐟Exorcist III
🔪Alice, Sweet Alice
🪰Phenomena
🌫️The Fog
🚼Noroi The Curse
🧑‍🤝‍🧑They Look Like People
📺Ghostwatch
🎄Black Christmas '74
🪦Dead And Buried
10 horror movies to get to know me by (not a comprehensive list, or in order)

🐕‍🦺 The Thing
🐣 Alien
🐺American Werewolf in London
🫠 Hereditary
👍 Evil Dead 2
🍼 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
👀 Event Horizon
🦵Misery
🔑 1408
🌖 The Endless
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Will never forget getting home from studying one night in 2000. My housemates were watching Fox and Ed says, "We never went to the moon!"

I just went to the kitchen and made dinner and went to bed. My bad! Never giving this kind of BS a pass again
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MFW when there's more bipartisan consensus to bring my telenovelas back than there is to get my SNAP benefits back
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ART FUNDRAISER FOR AMAL AL-HAJ

Naser's lung condition is worsening.
He needs surgery desperately OR HE COULD DIE!

Donate $10 or more to Amal's GoFundMe.
Follow the written instructions to claim your print of choice in physical or digital format (4 options; physical US only).

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We don't cast off one segment of society to save ourselves. It's a betrayal of everything we're trying to defend. It's a cowardly kind of self-preservation.

If your plan for escaping this bank robbery involves deliberately killing a few of our fellow hostages, maybe sit this chat out for a while?
This is why Gavin Newsom is a non-starter for me.

Sure, he's "a fighter" who's landed a few good punches on Trump, but that's not the same thing as a leader.

A real leader doesn't fight back against an authoritarian takeover by using the most vulnerable as his shield.
I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.
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The greater good is served when human rights aren't up for debate.
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Would someone who is a Dem elected please start showing the Nazis burning books in May 33 in Opernplatz after raiding the wait for it….Institute for Sexual science providing gender affirming care
Same attacks!
@abigailspanberger.com
@booker.senate.gov
@aoc.bsky.social
@sanders.senate.gov
it.it
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More than that. Just two days ago in an interview he said he supports Republicans changing California state law to repeal anti-discrimination protections that Democrats passed for trans people so that he can ban them from sports.
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Human rights for all human beings — a conviction with which I will not compromise. Dems need to find this conviction & never let it go.
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Dr. Kruse, I am not surprised that you support Trans folks, but seeing someone of your social magnitude support the Trans community is always such a massive relief. Things are getting scary for our Trans siblings. Thank you for continuing to fight for ALL of us b/c none of us should be left behind.🏳️‍⚧️
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The greater good includes trans people. They too must enjoy the greater good. There is no greater good if one or more groups are excluded and suffer for the majority to enjoy it.
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Remember when Trump framed the “trans issue” as protecting women’s sports, and Dems tried to split the baby on an actual policy, pissing off everyone?

Trump was always going to try to eliminate trans people from existing.

Don’t try to be reasonable with morons.
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Hi, trans person here. I don't want to be a "sacrifice." I just want to live my life with dignity. I don't think that's too much to ask.
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Not on trans rights he’s not. We have been relentlessly promoting better candidates (literally all of them; AOC, Bashear, Pritzker) but the pro-Newsom right wing army attacks any time we do.
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I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 1d
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
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Since it's Halloween, here are a few cat horror movie posters and Halloween drawings. Take a look at my profile to see this year's Inktober. If you like what you see please follow and visit my print shop at nathannunart.etsy.com - Thank you and Happy Halloween!
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A kitty and its emotional support skull for spooky season!

I draw cute critters and have a shop here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/jmor...
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I've decided to re-launch my Patreon. I'm currently working on my next graphic novel so I'll be sharing progress there, and I'll also be restarting my risograph print club. I now have access to a risograph duplicator so I can more reliably and affordably print!
Jenn Woodall | Patreon
creating comics, illustration, stuff
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