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Dusty Piñata
@ideoplast.bsky.social
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Good enough tattoo artist / Denver, CO

Former tech person
Annoying.

Watches #terribleTubi movies

@ZeitgeistTattooDenver.com
https://zeitgeisttattoodenver.com
https://instagram.com/heatherreynolds_tattoos
https://heatherreynoldsart.com
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ideoplast.bsky.social
Dusty Piñata @ideoplast.bsky.social · 22d
Thanks Andy, Gretchen, Travis, Paul, Sarah & Wink - we made a donation of $280 today to the Food Bank of the Rockies thanks to you! 5 days left in 2025 for flash. Book now @ calendly.com/tattoosfromh...
Thanks & happy holidays!
#denver #tattoo #newtattoo #tattoosky
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ndrew.bsky.social
every single “masculinity” influencer should be required to get in the ring against a professional boxer once they hit 500 subscribers
December 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
ryanmarino.bsky.social Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19h
“It is not clear what the research question is. It seems to be about the safety of the vaccine rather than its effectiveness, but both are already well-established, and to undertake such a study in a population where almost 1/5 of the adult population has a marker of infection seems extremely risky”
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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older.bsky.social
No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.
americasvoice.bsky.social America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 2d
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was born in Maryland. She has a valid U.S. birth certificate, medical and immunization records, and sworn affidavits.

Yet, ICE claims her documents are “not authentic” and has held her in immigration detention for days.
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
“Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
When It Happens
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN. It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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stephenrodrick.bsky.social
I met Melissa Hortman in October of 2024. She was smart and kind. I heard about her murder in a LA hotel room and it dropped me to my knees. So I went to Minnesota and talked to her kids, parents, and friends. This is not true crime, this is Melissa in real life. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story
www.rollingstone.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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shaneanderson.bsky.social
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Most towns could absolutely support one “culture bar” — a bar that’s programmed for cultural tv events like award shows.

This is separate from the Oscar’s news that prompted this comment.
bobbin.bsky.social bobbin.bsky.social @bobbin.bsky.social · 4d
All I ever wanted was an Oscars cocktail bar experience the way sports fans get sports bars…
December 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
ideoplast.bsky.social
It’s time again for some Talkin’Bout at @zeitgeisttattoodenver.com !
We’ll be hosting a how-to on fixes & repair (so bring those q’s - and if you’ve got a busted-bike, bring that too)! I bike year round - you should too!
#tattoosforgrownups #community #denverbiking #coloradobiking
A cute drawing of a cat and a dog in overalls. The cat holds a wrench and the dog is walking with a bicycle. SUN DEC 21 @ 4P ZEITGEIST TATTOO 1151 S HURON 80223 Talkin’Bout fixing bicycles
December 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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rightlegpegged.bsky.social
A stinging rebuke of Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s transportation priorities from @allencowgill.bsky.social &
@ladyat5280.bsky.social
#BikeDen
🎁link
www.denverpost.com/2025/12/17/d...
Mayor Johnston, bowing to business interests and wealthy families, is moving Denver’s road safety backwards (Opinion)
During this latest budget crunch, when DOTI staff members were being laid off and safety projects went unfunded, the city found nearly $100,000 to replace a thoroughly vetted design to accommodate …
www.denverpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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rajandelman.bsky.social
He's making a list
He's checking it twice
He checks it again
OCD is his vice
Santa Claus keeps checking his list
December 18, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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polotek.bsky.social
This supports my early theory about why people are obsessed with LLM tech. The underlying value proposition.

"What if you didn't need to interact with other humans in order to get what you want?"
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
ideoplast.bsky.social
A growing garden of flowers for lovely Lori! Pansies and viola healed, Daisy and hummingbird fresh. Excited to add more to this bright and whimsical piece!
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@zeitgeisttattoodenver.com
#tattoosforgrownups #denver #tattoo #newtattoo #tattoosky #flower 🌱
A delicate bouquet of daisy and pansies with a small hummingbird on a lower outside calf/ankle. A delicate bouquet of daisy and pansies with a small hummingbird on a lower outside calf/ankle. A delicate bouquet of daisy and pansies with a small hummingbird on a lower outside calf/ankle. A delicate bouquet of daisy and pansies with a small hummingbird on a lower outside calf/ankle.
December 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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stuhorvath.com
Nothing is content to be what it is any more. Things are constantly be trying to be something Else, until they find the one thing they are so bad at that it kills them.
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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jeremyzorek.bsky.social
*shlorp shlorp shlorp shlorp shlorp*
an STM XE40 bus sitting in a pool of water that reaches about to the front bumper
December 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
ideoplast.bsky.social
Ca-caww! A lovely Saturday was had with the ladies from CAWW (Colorado Annual Women’s Weekend pinball tourney) - y’all are absolutely lovely!
@zeitgeisttattoodenver.com
#tattoosforgrownups #pinball #denver #denvertattooshop #tattoo #tattoosky #newtattoo
A photo of four smiling women, one of whom is getting tattooed on their rear right shoulder by me! A magpie with its left leg atop a pinball tattooed on the back of a woman’s calf. A magpie with its left leg atop a pinball tattooed on top of a woman’s knee. A magpie with its left leg atop a pinball tattooed on the back of a woman’s upper right arm.
December 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Of course, if economic and social life collapsed, the process might go into reverse, and birth rates could be expected to rise again. But is that really what you want?
For my part, I’m heartily sick of people who think collapse is the answer to anything.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
7/13
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
www.monbiot.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
ideoplast.bsky.social
2025 Social Media Catchup: I’ve worked with Daphne since day one (of their 18th bday) and was delighted to catch up with her (and Ashe!) while she took three Halloween flash pieces home this year
#tattoosforgrownups @zeitgeisttattoodenver.com
#denver #tattoo #newtattoo #tattoosky
Small tattoo of a clown with a red nose and mouth with a big ruff collar and spider legs and most coming out of the hat on its head A circular tattoo of a biblical angel with many eyes and six wings An art deco tattoo of lilies and skulls on the outside wrist
December 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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juniorhoncho.bsky.social
insanely good thing to say when you enter a room
December 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
Again a big part of socialization in the US and elsewhere is a bedrock belief that Black people making *any* demands on your time, attention, resources, behavior or principles is an unfair imposition and should be handled as such whenever possible.
December 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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lindaholmes.bsky.social
I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
andizeisler.bsky.social Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 10d
men’s loneliness gets “more airtime”?

baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years

“more airtime” is hilarious
“There's been a lot of discussion about men and loneliness recently, but Pew Research suggests that men and women experience it at about the same rate. It's just that men have gotten more airtime when it comes to talking about their loneliness and its impact on their health.”
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
ideoplast.bsky.social
I’m certain one of these days this is what will kill me
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10d
how do women not die of rage aneurysms every single day
December 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
ideoplast.bsky.social
Couple of well-loved projects which didn’t make it to social media because I am old and forgetful. Loved Lindsay’s half sleeve we got to finish in early 2025 (also see a predrawn skull/hand piece from 2023 on forearm).
@zeitgeisttattoodenver.com
#denver #denvertattoo #tattoo #newtattoo #tattoosky
Left upper arm with turquoise neotrad rose tattoos which have skull centers. They are arrayed with black leaves and soft green leaves. Interspersed are salmon colored flowers which are a little like half-opened cherry blossoms (they are fictional) and little stems with small black leaves on them. Left upper arm with turquoise neotrad rose tattoos which have skull centers. They are arrayed with black leaves and soft green leaves. Interspersed are salmon colored flowers which are a little like half-opened cherry blossoms (they are fictional) and little stems with small black leaves on them. They are above a skull and hand tattoo with salmon flowers in a similar style on a forearm which I completed in 2023. in a similar style in a similar style
December 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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johnperich.com
You will never be sold control over your own life, but you will be sold an increasing number of ways to *perform* control: wellness, self-actualization, personal branding, self-publishing, rent-to-own, calorie counts, ad tag opt-outs, newsletter opt-ins.
October 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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marcusjmerritt.com
Slowly you start to realize that you actually died years ago, and this is your afterlife: being animated a few seconds at a time at your granchild’s whim to provide statistically likely answers to their most inane and narcissist questions
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM