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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 13h

Inktober 29: not the shoe! I got my little unicorn out again, she’s awesome. Daler-Rowney acrylic ink in volcano red. #inktober #inktober2025

A little unicorn toy on its side. The unicorn is a very rounded teddy bear shaped unicorn done in shades of pale red.

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 16h

Inktober day 28, all shoe all the time. I love this ink, I can almost taste the grape flavor. J. Herbin watercolor ink in poussière de lune on toned paper. #Inktober #inktober2025

A high heeled shoe in shades of purple, think grape flavor, seen from the side.

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 16h

Inktober day 27. I was messing around here. Shoe in Daler-Rowney acrylic ink in sap green, one of my favorites. Kakimori steel nib and brush on toned paper. That kakimori nib has been a solid purchase, recommended if you like dip pens. #inktober #inktober2025

A high heeled shoe seen from the side in shades of green.

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 1d

Inktober day 26, I decided to try that angle again since I had trouble with it the first time, I figure because I was just looking at it and I keep moving my head. Daler-Rowney acrylic ink in velvet violet, kakimori steel nib and paintbrush on toned paper. #inktober #inktober2025

A high heeled shoe on its side in shades of purple on toned paper.

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 3d

Inktober day 25, finally starting to relax a little. The shoe in Daler-Rowney acrylic ink, I don’t remember the color name, applied with a brush and my trusty kakimori steel nib, on toned paper. #Inktober #inktober2025

A high heeled shoe on its side in shades of pale blue, casting a shadow beneath it.

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 4d

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text.
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Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 5d

"[R]eproductive punishment."

"The aging reproductive body, especially in the form of menstruation, menopause, and post-surgical healing, is not protected within carceral institutions."

"Reproductive aging in this context is not simply biological. It is political."
#USA #Healthcare #Incarceration

The Furnace: Climate, Confinement, and the Cost of Reproductive Aging Behind Bars – Scalawag

The aging reproductive body, especially in the form of menstruation and menopause, is not protected within carceral institutions.

scalawagmagazine.org

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 5d

Inktober day 24, today I went wild and used two inks! I wanted to see how I’d do at reproducing the colors with just two inks, and I didn’t mix them, at least not deliberately. Shoe in J. Herbin watercolor ink in lie de thé and Marabu Graphix Aqua Ink in crimson. #inktober #inktober2025

A red high heeled shoe with brown sole and inside lays on its side, casting a shadow. The toe is closest to the viewer.

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 5d

Inktober day 23, still with the shoe. I was at G’s and had to do something from a photo I had, and I just happened to have some pictures of this shoe. Sennelier pre-filled ink brush pens and a Uniball Vision Elite on hot press watercolor paper. #inktober #inktober2025

A high heeled shoe in red ink with black outlines, seen from the side.

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 6d

Inktober day 22, shoe shoe shoe. This ink is wonderfully bright and weirdly here that means the darkest spots on the shoe aren’t the darkest spots in the picture. Daler-Rowney acrylic ink in emerald green on toned paper. #inktober #inktober2025

A high heeled shoe seen from the side in shades of green ink on toned paper.

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 7d

coming off of an article about french towns tilting less toward fascism if the tour de france comes through, one thing reads especially clear from this: in all human interaction, people want to feel important. sometimes that stems the tide of monsters. other times, monsters use that to play you.

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Sep 18

Yesterday Fresh Air did an interview with Robert Draper, who has covered Charlie Kirk. And this section on Draper's relationship with Kirk said a lot to me about modern access journalism, and the soft coverage we've seen in the wake of Kirk's death.

GROSS: After you profiled Kirk, and I think that was published back in February, you stayed in touch with him. And I think you were texting each other the day before he was killed.

DRAPER: That's correct. I'll tell you also, Terry, that the story, as you say, was published in February of this year. But I would say for a full year prior to that, Kirk and I had been getting to know each other, and he would often reach out to me. And I thought this was an interesting aspect to Kirk, that he would reach out to me just to run things by me. Not asking so much for my opinion - because, as a journalist, I couldn't give it - but just as a reality check, he'd say, I'm hearing from the right that this particular viewpoint is prevalent from the left. Am I just living in a bubble, or is that true?

GROSS: How would you respond to that?

DRAPER: Well, sometimes I would say, you know, I think what you're hearing you're hearing from the right-wing media ecosystem, and it's not supported by reality as I understand it. And he would take that and be grateful for it. There was also a time I reached out to him, I remember, to say, I'd like to talk to you off the record about the religious context in which so many people in the MAGA community are viewing Donald Trump. Can you explain to me how they see him as this sort of flawed vessel, like King David or something? And he was very fluent in describing that to me.

And so we had that kind of back-and-forth well predating the publication of the story, and continued to since then. I had dinner with him in D.C. once, I think, a couple of months before he was killed, and I remember he brought security with him. They sat at the bar. And he seemed very casual about it, which is not to say that he was utterly unconcerned. But it was essentially the cost of doing business, that that was just the world that we were in.

I was texting with him the day before the assassination because I wanted to come to Arizona and have dinner with him and his wife to catch up on various things. But also, there's a major magazine project that I'm beginning. And I wanted Kirk's thoughts about it, but not on the phone and not in writing. It just required a face-to-face. And he wrote back saying, absolutely. We would love to have you over for dinner. Just pick a date in September. And I think I sent, a few hours later, the text, how about September 23? And obviously, I never heard back.

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 8d

Inktober day 21, and back to my favorite, the shoe! Marabu Graphix Aqua Ink in carmine, this is a watercolor ink. I was drawing this thinking it was the 22nd and I’d somehow lost a day but thankfully I was wrong. #Inktober #inktober2025

A high heeled shoe from behind and at an angle so the heel and toe are visible but the middle of the shoe is hidden by the angle. Everything is in shades of red.

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 9d

Inktober day 19. I was going to draw the shoe again but as I was selecting ink I saw my iron and thought that would be cool to draw so I did. #inktober #inktober2025

A line drawing of an iron standing on its end, in aqua colored ink.

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 10d

Of course it is! I had a great view when I lived there, and I still dream about that building.

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 10d

Why is TRYING to relax the worst, least-relaxing thing ever?

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 10d

Inktober day nineteen, all shoe all the time. Even G is like “how are you still drawing that shoe? It’s not that interesting” but she’s wrong, okay? So wrong. Dr. P.H. Martin’s Bombay ink in blue on what I think is hot press paper, I inherited this little book so who knows. #inktober #inktober2025

A high heel in shades of blue from a 45 degree angle so the heel is closest to the viewer.

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 11d

No inktober for the 17th, I was very busy having a migraine and wasn’t up for it. Today’s inktober is a watercolor of the shoe with this little set of glittery watercolors that G picked me up from Temu. It’s my inktober and I’ll watercolor if I want. #inktober #inktober2025

Watercolor painting of a red high heeled shoe in shimmery colors.

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 12d

it's a problem I've faced every time I reread - I want something with that complexity and also lesbians and there's not much out there that compares, other things that are fantastic are fantastic in their own way (which is fine). So go read comic books for a bit and relax?

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 12d

I've found that switching gears entirely is the best way, because nothing is similar.

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 13d

Inktober day sixteen, actually posted the same day! Try not to faint, sometimes I manage great feats like this. I went back to the little toy unicorn and made one of the messiest pieces I’ve done this inktober, which is fine. J. Herbin watercolor ink in diablo menthe. #inktober #inktober2025

An ink drawing of a squat, rounded toy unicorn in shades of blue-green.

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 13d

Inktober day 15, I don’t care what the prompt was because I have this great shoe. Daler-Rowney acrylic ink in scarlet. #inktober #inktober2025

A high heeled shoe from the top in shades of scarlet.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 15d

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 14d

Wearing a mask is a million times more fun than living with long covid, I promise.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15d

I would rather get a daily push notification from whoever it is you think is the most annoying person making you feel the worst about not masking than ever having to deal with long Covid, which I’m still recovering from.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 15d

If there are still people in your social circles who derided you for calling these people Nazis when it was already glaringly obvious (decades ago) drop them with prejudice. Especially if you are marginalized in any way.

They are the same people who will give you up to them.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15d

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 15d

White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.

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