ina lina
@inasketch.bsky.social
Artist.
Art Educator
Urban Sketcher
Cartoonist
Inaugural recipient of the Paul Klee Humanitarian Award
https://www.instagram.com/ina_sketch/
Art Educator
Urban Sketcher
Cartoonist
Inaugural recipient of the Paul Klee Humanitarian Award
https://www.instagram.com/ina_sketch/
I know times are hard for everyone. It's hard for me to ask for help, and I'm grateful to you for considering it. Thank you.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I know times are hard for everyone. It's hard for me to ask for help, and I'm grateful to you for considering it. Thank you.
Smart internet friends: how do you stop siblings who are preventing you from seeing your mother, excluding you from conversations about her care, and attempting to deny you your share of inheritance?
August 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Smart internet friends: how do you stop siblings who are preventing you from seeing your mother, excluding you from conversations about her care, and attempting to deny you your share of inheritance?
I appreciate Courtney's take on this. My hot take: I advocate open communication with your children.
Also: special surveillance shoe = my new band name
Also: special surveillance shoe = my new band name
I mean, if you want to do that you can just carabiner it openly to their belt loop and you can wear one too and you tell them why openly without buying a special surveillance shoe.
July 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I appreciate Courtney's take on this. My hot take: I advocate open communication with your children.
Also: special surveillance shoe = my new band name
Also: special surveillance shoe = my new band name
Me, too, except I'm scrolling on my laptop in bed, and it's technically only 1:50am.
It’s MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
man what the fuck
July 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Me, too, except I'm scrolling on my laptop in bed, and it's technically only 1:50am.
"Baby*" Bio MWF (*as my med school bf at the time called it).
After the extremely long, multiple choice midterms and finals, my friends and I would go to the West End for morning celebratory whiskey shots, pretending we were beatniks (except we didn't drop out of school).
After the extremely long, multiple choice midterms and finals, my friends and I would go to the West End for morning celebratory whiskey shots, pretending we were beatniks (except we didn't drop out of school).
What was your favorite early clas NOT in your eventual major. Mine was Ethnomusicology: an introduction to folk music.
I invariably get, "Ooh anthro that was my favorite class/cool professor" from people I meet. I tend to think soms of it is our outré material, being willing to talk "taboo" subjects in a cross-cultural context.
Ironically MY favorite class was probably Geology 101...
Ironically MY favorite class was probably Geology 101...
July 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"Baby*" Bio MWF (*as my med school bf at the time called it).
After the extremely long, multiple choice midterms and finals, my friends and I would go to the West End for morning celebratory whiskey shots, pretending we were beatniks (except we didn't drop out of school).
After the extremely long, multiple choice midterms and finals, my friends and I would go to the West End for morning celebratory whiskey shots, pretending we were beatniks (except we didn't drop out of school).
In college I applied for a job @ Cartier. I had to take their ethics test. There were questions like "The janitor takes $100 from the till to buy lifesaving medicine for his child. He repays it the next day. Do you fire him?" I wouldn't & I didn't get the job. Worked @ the Russian Tea Room instead.
god i'm so tired of job hunting in 2025 dog i'm NOT TAKING your little personality test!!!! get the fuck out of here!!!!!
July 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
In college I applied for a job @ Cartier. I had to take their ethics test. There were questions like "The janitor takes $100 from the till to buy lifesaving medicine for his child. He repays it the next day. Do you fire him?" I wouldn't & I didn't get the job. Worked @ the Russian Tea Room instead.
I'm happy that Pee-Wee's bike will have a home at the Alamo. I'm less happy about the earworm. No, not what you'd expect ("The stars at night..."). Instead I have "Deep within my heart lies a melody...") 🎶
July 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I'm happy that Pee-Wee's bike will have a home at the Alamo. I'm less happy about the earworm. No, not what you'd expect ("The stars at night..."). Instead I have "Deep within my heart lies a melody...") 🎶
July 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Spent this week decluttering. Found a video camera that hadn't been used in ~20 years. Sure it was broken/useless, told my daughter to toss it. Better check first if a tape is in it. Might need power to open the door. Plugged it in; it came to life. There was footage of my 2yo & 4yo at The Gates. 🧡
July 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Spent this week decluttering. Found a video camera that hadn't been used in ~20 years. Sure it was broken/useless, told my daughter to toss it. Better check first if a tape is in it. Might need power to open the door. Plugged it in; it came to life. There was footage of my 2yo & 4yo at The Gates. 🧡
Decluttering, I came upon this New Yorker Talk of the Town piece on Cuomo from 7 November 2022. The dude is ick.
Go away, sex pest.
Go away, sex pest.
July 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Decluttering, I came upon this New Yorker Talk of the Town piece on Cuomo from 7 November 2022. The dude is ick.
Go away, sex pest.
Go away, sex pest.
Years later, after moving with them several times, I repurposed part of one as a window display.
July 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Years later, after moving with them several times, I repurposed part of one as a window display.
This prompted a memory of young ina living in New York: I bought a 5'x3' unfinished bookcase somewhere downtown, and took it home to my upper west side apartment on the bus!
I later went back for a second one.
I later went back for a second one.
In my ongoing search for more bookcases so books aren't just strewn about the living room, I'm now trying to figure out if it's worth it to go antique hunting for some globe-wernicke barrister bookcases
July 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This prompted a memory of young ina living in New York: I bought a 5'x3' unfinished bookcase somewhere downtown, and took it home to my upper west side apartment on the bus!
I later went back for a second one.
I later went back for a second one.
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Cannot emphasize enough that if you’re responding to people’s distrust of your motives for their community by loudly declaring yourself as an enemy now you’re not “getting back” at critics you’re confirming the wisdom of their perception.
July 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Cannot emphasize enough that if you’re responding to people’s distrust of your motives for their community by loudly declaring yourself as an enemy now you’re not “getting back” at critics you’re confirming the wisdom of their perception.
A ripe peach is summer perfection. This is peach's moment.
Morning peach doesn’t care about what you did last night, it’s here for you with sugar, hydration, and a soothing effect on the humors.
July 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A ripe peach is summer perfection. This is peach's moment.
This is lolsob and oh so relatable.
My knees sound like someone shaking a bag of dice
July 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This is lolsob and oh so relatable.
Although the context for this comment is a reply to people who are endlessly harassing her, it hits me as a general life lesson.
Do the work, Ina
Do the work, Ina
Things aren’t a secret just because you won’t work to know them.
July 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Although the context for this comment is a reply to people who are endlessly harassing her, it hits me as a general life lesson.
Do the work, Ina
Do the work, Ina
Yes, I pretend to be interested in global politics, but this is the content that I actually enjoy. 😂😇
Original barber just hit me up to ask if I’m coming in Friday, had to inform him of the situation. People can’t get lax in their relationships.
July 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Yes, I pretend to be interested in global politics, but this is the content that I actually enjoy. 😂😇
Yes! They're missing the genius part of "evil genius."
None of the rebellion-against-fascist-government fiction I consumed prepared me for having the world’s most incompetent buffoons bopping around terrorizing people, while whining about it on social media.
July 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Yes! They're missing the genius part of "evil genius."
Okay, I made my own, and their auto-generated ones are fun, too!
July 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Okay, I made my own, and their auto-generated ones are fun, too!
I worked at Kitchen Sink Press at the end of the previous century. When it was my turn to deal w/ the "slush pile," I came across this comic by Todd Ramsell. I don't remember if I sent him a rejection letter, but I had the comic pinned to my wall for years. I found it going through old papers today.
July 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I worked at Kitchen Sink Press at the end of the previous century. When it was my turn to deal w/ the "slush pile," I came across this comic by Todd Ramsell. I don't remember if I sent him a rejection letter, but I had the comic pinned to my wall for years. I found it going through old papers today.