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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 6h

Either Pompeii or Qumran, and both for the same reason. We have a treasure trove of artifacts from these settlements, and you could spend a year putting a name to every plaster face, or putting a name to every scribal hand.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 10h

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

18/20, Three Musicians, Pablo Picasso, 1921

Three Commedia dell'Arte playing music together, filtered through the lens of Cubism. On the left is a Pierrot, playing a clarinet. In the middle is a Harlequin playing a guitar, and on the right is Dottore holding sheet music. There are various accoutrements on a table including tobacco and a pipe, and if you look carefully beneath Pierrot and Harlequin, you might spot a dog. I have a soft spot for the Commedia in art since they are an influence on my comic.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 11h

Another issue with the "X is a distraction from the Files" is that we don't actually need the Files. We have Epstein's victims who say that Trump was there and also raping people. We don't need Epstein's written testimony, we don't have to value the words of a rapist over his victims.

Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 11h

I maintain that "X is a distraction from the Epstein Files" is just the Blueanon version of "Trust the Plan. It's not a conspiracy, it's just an evil organization doing two different evil things.

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 12h

the epstein files aren’t dropping & this isn’t a distraction from them.

this is a fascist setting up the field to eliminate every point of friction that might impede an attempt to seize absolute power.

quippy posts about epstein are delaying your realization of, & motivation to fight, that fact.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 15h

a close up of a person 's hand in a black and white photo

Alt: the dancers from the song "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega. To me they (along with the Doo-doo-doo chorus) are the most memorable part of the song. Probably because they are hip hop dancers dancing along with a spoken word piece which feels slightly out of place. Not that I hate it.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 15h

*Charley. I always get that wrong.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 15h

I would still be arguing because Charlie Pride was also cool. All Negro League baseball players were, by default, cool. Plus he had a golden voice.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 15h

Did a Nashville insider write this? Because Nashville execs were literally the only people on Earth that thought Johnny Cash wasn't cool.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 15h

I feel like there is the ghost of a good movie in here (and it's probably just Minority Report again.) But there is genuine commentary to be made on our criminal system and it's use of profiling, surveillance, and AI. But I don't think this movie will be it.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 17h

All Conspiracy Theories Eventually Loop Back to Antisemitism.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 1d

Despite being kinda silly (a lot of these animals don't even form groups) there is something very beautiful and poetic about them and I feel like Juliana Berners put a lot of thought into each one of them.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 1d

Some of them are so beautiful, and some of them have become Innocuous. A Pride of Lions. Others aren't quite Innocuous but they are still very well known. A Parliament of Owls, a Business of Ferrets, a Clowder of Cats, a Murder of Crows, etc.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 1d

so I have been reading up on Terms of Venery (aka the collective nouns for animals in English, since English doesn't have a quick and easy way to turn "thing" into "bunch of thing" like stockade collonade etc.) They were mostly just made up by one Medieval Woman and they are both amazing and dumb.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 1d

post a meme made by you

The Charlie Kirk meme where his head is too big and it says "Answer me this liberals. If I am so transphobic, why am I buried in a unisex bathroom?"

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 1d

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

17/20, The Son of Man, Rene Magritte, 1964

A painting of a sober-middle aged man, dressed like a banker in a bowler and coat, standing in front of the ocean on an overcast day. A green apple floats mysteriously in front of his face, completely obscuring it.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wow I read more of that interview and Ari tried so hard to get David Simon to say some variant of "AI is okay for some stuff" and he would not do it.

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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 1d

BREAKING: Burger King workers are on strike in Oakland due to pregnancy discrimination.

The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵

#UnionsForAll

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like the "we have to sacrifice certain demographics in order to win elections" rhetoric would be more of an actual argument if Democrats did anything to win elections. They don't even run in half the states.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/vy6seqOQIVQ?... TIL this is Dr. T'ana from Lower Decks.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 1d

Then Perish

barack obama is smiling while wearing a suit and a striped shirt .

Alt: A zoom in gif of Barack Obama smiling then suddenly becoming serious. I used it to invoke the old "Then Perish" tumblr meme.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 2d

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

16/20
Depth, M.C. Escher, 1955

A print by MC Escher of Flying Fish, all having a sort of Star-shaped Pattern, flying in an endless shoal through the sea (or is it the sky.) I love this piece. I have based a starship design off of it, and I have a vague idea of using it as the basis of my imagining of a Taoist Concept in a future work. There is so much I could say.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 2d

Actually I changed my mind every single American should eat it once. Then maybe the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution might have as many advocate groups as the First and Second.

Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 2d

As far as I am concerned the only thing that anti-immigrants should be allowed to eat is Synthesized Food Gruel. Like Soylant or whatever (I was tempted to say Nutraloaf but literally nobody not even racists deserve Nutraloaf.)

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

I know this is said a lot but if you hate immigration, you can only eat the foods of your people prior to 1492. So for people of European descent that means not just no indigenous foods (no potatoes, no tomatoes, no corn), no Mexican food and no soul food either - there's no slavery exception clause

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

Man…man.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 2d

it's literally just fried dough it has no right to smell so good.

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Kevin Forbes @kevinforbesarts.bsky.social · 2d

it's up on my end. Maybe it's just an issue with the mobile site?

a screenshot of The Atlantic from a desktop computer with a time stamp (7:43 pm EDT)

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