Mickey’s in Cognitive Decline
@mickeybiz.bsky.social
Sober Artist and mother in TX finding new ways to create and live with progressive illness. Agender, Queer, Autistic, Trauma and Coma survivor. (Re)living their life. Over 18 is best.
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Howdy, I’m Mickey.
Medically retired professional artist, mother, and curious human living with progressive illness.
Believer in ✨Community✨
I share old projects and works,
Works from current photo series on body and identity
And general bits of life scattered about.
I’m a bit of a nerd.
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Medically retired professional artist, mother, and curious human living with progressive illness.
Believer in ✨Community✨
I share old projects and works,
Works from current photo series on body and identity
And general bits of life scattered about.
I’m a bit of a nerd.
More 👇🏻
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I revere experts who share their perspective with the world the way that Ruth does. If you care at all about reducing gun violence, you should be following her. She's the real deal.
This is a post about the trauma of gun violence. How it ripples through communities, and how one shooting impacts countless people. It’s about how once the shooting is over the trauma of that shooting lasts forever.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I revere experts who share their perspective with the world the way that Ruth does. If you care at all about reducing gun violence, you should be following her. She's the real deal.
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AI is not the solution to a lack of brilliant ideas. There is no shortage of brilliant ideas. There's just woefully selfish assholes withholding money from all the people with brilliant ideas to prop up a giant tech bubble they hope will birth some sort of 4chan deity before it destroys the world.
December 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
AI is not the solution to a lack of brilliant ideas. There is no shortage of brilliant ideas. There's just woefully selfish assholes withholding money from all the people with brilliant ideas to prop up a giant tech bubble they hope will birth some sort of 4chan deity before it destroys the world.
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Just found this quote on the youngest’s old montessori birthday poster thing and now my heart is melting:
(In the family section)
“Mama: is special. Her colors are the best colors.”
(In the family section)
“Mama: is special. Her colors are the best colors.”
December 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Just found this quote on the youngest’s old montessori birthday poster thing and now my heart is melting:
(In the family section)
“Mama: is special. Her colors are the best colors.”
(In the family section)
“Mama: is special. Her colors are the best colors.”
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My doc appt at the fancy new Brain Health facility is tomorrow. It has been a bit since i felt hopeful about an appointment.
More community and psych supports available for the damaged place my brain has landed in.
Resting as much as i can today.
And making a list of any bigger changes.
More community and psych supports available for the damaged place my brain has landed in.
Resting as much as i can today.
And making a list of any bigger changes.
December 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My doc appt at the fancy new Brain Health facility is tomorrow. It has been a bit since i felt hopeful about an appointment.
More community and psych supports available for the damaged place my brain has landed in.
Resting as much as i can today.
And making a list of any bigger changes.
More community and psych supports available for the damaged place my brain has landed in.
Resting as much as i can today.
And making a list of any bigger changes.
So I don’t like either song Bastille covers in this mashup…
But the end result is kind of magic in how changes the tone of everything.
(Maybe it’s just a “Daddy’s Girl was an alcoholic thing” though
youtu.be/8pZi7CXE2ac?...
But the end result is kind of magic in how changes the tone of everything.
(Maybe it’s just a “Daddy’s Girl was an alcoholic thing” though
youtu.be/8pZi7CXE2ac?...
Bastille cover Miley Cyrus' We Can't Stop in the Live Lounge
YouTube video by BBC Radio 1
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
So I don’t like either song Bastille covers in this mashup…
But the end result is kind of magic in how changes the tone of everything.
(Maybe it’s just a “Daddy’s Girl was an alcoholic thing” though
youtu.be/8pZi7CXE2ac?...
But the end result is kind of magic in how changes the tone of everything.
(Maybe it’s just a “Daddy’s Girl was an alcoholic thing” though
youtu.be/8pZi7CXE2ac?...
Almost done with my Midnight Club rewatch and i had forgotten how similar Natsuki’s story is to mine and sobbed last night.
Such a great show.
Such a great show.
December 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Almost done with my Midnight Club rewatch and i had forgotten how similar Natsuki’s story is to mine and sobbed last night.
Such a great show.
Such a great show.
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If you’re not a Hoosier could you please share this post for any of followers who may be?
There is NO DIGNITY in being expected to die a tediously slow & terrible death when we have the ability to empower people to end their suffering and exit their lives on their own terms.
There is NO DIGNITY in being expected to die a tediously slow & terrible death when we have the ability to empower people to end their suffering and exit their lives on their own terms.
HOOSIERS: PLEASE click the link to support 2026’s End of Life Option Act (HB1011).
I spent much of 2025 caring for a friend who suffered far too long from Leptomeningeal cancer before her death in Sept. Watching her suffer needlessly was devastating.
#HoosierSky
deathwithdignity.org/campaign/pas...
I spent much of 2025 caring for a friend who suffered far too long from Leptomeningeal cancer before her death in Sept. Watching her suffer needlessly was devastating.
#HoosierSky
deathwithdignity.org/campaign/pas...
December 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you’re not a Hoosier could you please share this post for any of followers who may be?
There is NO DIGNITY in being expected to die a tediously slow & terrible death when we have the ability to empower people to end their suffering and exit their lives on their own terms.
There is NO DIGNITY in being expected to die a tediously slow & terrible death when we have the ability to empower people to end their suffering and exit their lives on their own terms.
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There’s a piece about my #SciArt #symptomatology #embroidery series in the latest issue of Interalia Magazine. #MedSky 🧪
The Symptomatology Series - Interalia Magazine
Lia Pas is a multidisciplinary artist who works in image, text, and sound exploring body and states of being. She was an active composer/performer and poet/librettist until 2015 when she became disabled...
www.interaliamag.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
There’s a piece about my #SciArt #symptomatology #embroidery series in the latest issue of Interalia Magazine. #MedSky 🧪
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New little cutie available on my website 🥰
She is handmade inspired by folk art and designed to look wonderfully weird and perfectly imperfect.
littlebirdofparadise.bigcartel.com/product/blue...
#art #handmade #bsnm #originalart #artsky #mhhsbd #CraftBizParty
She is handmade inspired by folk art and designed to look wonderfully weird and perfectly imperfect.
littlebirdofparadise.bigcartel.com/product/blue...
#art #handmade #bsnm #originalart #artsky #mhhsbd #CraftBizParty
December 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
New little cutie available on my website 🥰
She is handmade inspired by folk art and designed to look wonderfully weird and perfectly imperfect.
littlebirdofparadise.bigcartel.com/product/blue...
#art #handmade #bsnm #originalart #artsky #mhhsbd #CraftBizParty
She is handmade inspired by folk art and designed to look wonderfully weird and perfectly imperfect.
littlebirdofparadise.bigcartel.com/product/blue...
#art #handmade #bsnm #originalart #artsky #mhhsbd #CraftBizParty
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Day 15 #ArtAdventCalendar • This is a depiction of the tingling in my tongue due to #MECFS: paresthesia (tongue 2) (2018). #SciArt #symptomatology #embroidery
December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Day 15 #ArtAdventCalendar • This is a depiction of the tingling in my tongue due to #MECFS: paresthesia (tongue 2) (2018). #SciArt #symptomatology #embroidery
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A birch #tree in the cold December wind. Shot yesterday for #BlueSkyMonday
#timelapse #clouds #sky #infrared
#timelapse #clouds #sky #infrared
December 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
A birch #tree in the cold December wind. Shot yesterday for #BlueSkyMonday
#timelapse #clouds #sky #infrared
#timelapse #clouds #sky #infrared
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Lineage in the Snow
short video
My artwork, Lineage is so beautiful in the snow. As I recorded, fences and shadows of fences kept getting in the way. Fitting symbolism for a person with a uterus seeking freedom in this world.
short video
My artwork, Lineage is so beautiful in the snow. As I recorded, fences and shadows of fences kept getting in the way. Fitting symbolism for a person with a uterus seeking freedom in this world.
December 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Lineage in the Snow
short video
My artwork, Lineage is so beautiful in the snow. As I recorded, fences and shadows of fences kept getting in the way. Fitting symbolism for a person with a uterus seeking freedom in this world.
short video
My artwork, Lineage is so beautiful in the snow. As I recorded, fences and shadows of fences kept getting in the way. Fitting symbolism for a person with a uterus seeking freedom in this world.
My doc appt at the fancy new Brain Health facility is tomorrow. It has been a bit since i felt hopeful about an appointment.
More community and psych supports available for the damaged place my brain has landed in.
Resting as much as i can today.
And making a list of any bigger changes.
More community and psych supports available for the damaged place my brain has landed in.
Resting as much as i can today.
And making a list of any bigger changes.
December 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My doc appt at the fancy new Brain Health facility is tomorrow. It has been a bit since i felt hopeful about an appointment.
More community and psych supports available for the damaged place my brain has landed in.
Resting as much as i can today.
And making a list of any bigger changes.
More community and psych supports available for the damaged place my brain has landed in.
Resting as much as i can today.
And making a list of any bigger changes.
Rob Reiner was my childhood…moreso even than Spielberg or Lucas.
I can’t find words for what happened; maybe because the story is too familiar to that of a family i knew in recovery.
But it feels heavy. And we lost one of the best of us.
I know that.
I can’t find words for what happened; maybe because the story is too familiar to that of a family i knew in recovery.
But it feels heavy. And we lost one of the best of us.
I know that.
December 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Rob Reiner was my childhood…moreso even than Spielberg or Lucas.
I can’t find words for what happened; maybe because the story is too familiar to that of a family i knew in recovery.
But it feels heavy. And we lost one of the best of us.
I know that.
I can’t find words for what happened; maybe because the story is too familiar to that of a family i knew in recovery.
But it feels heavy. And we lost one of the best of us.
I know that.
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The phrase "it'll end in tears" is usually offered as a warning by someone predicting disaster.
"It will end in tears" is best used to name good things — especially good lives.
When a good thing ends, we weep.
"It will end in tears" is best used to name good things — especially good lives.
When a good thing ends, we weep.
December 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The phrase "it'll end in tears" is usually offered as a warning by someone predicting disaster.
"It will end in tears" is best used to name good things — especially good lives.
When a good thing ends, we weep.
"It will end in tears" is best used to name good things — especially good lives.
When a good thing ends, we weep.
@tinyarms-tinyart.bsky.social
I tried to do a little drawing of what i kind of saw for when the “kind lady” came in the room to warn him.
Everyone else: Aster reads Sherlock Holmes stories on her patreon and i love it.
I tried to do a little drawing of what i kind of saw for when the “kind lady” came in the room to warn him.
Everyone else: Aster reads Sherlock Holmes stories on her patreon and i love it.
December 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
@tinyarms-tinyart.bsky.social
I tried to do a little drawing of what i kind of saw for when the “kind lady” came in the room to warn him.
Everyone else: Aster reads Sherlock Holmes stories on her patreon and i love it.
I tried to do a little drawing of what i kind of saw for when the “kind lady” came in the room to warn him.
Everyone else: Aster reads Sherlock Holmes stories on her patreon and i love it.
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December 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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‘Provisional Atlas’
chalkboard, chalk, pastel, ink, and wilderness map on birch panel
24”x 30”
From a series about #memory. Recording, erasing, rewriting, reworking while creating a history; leaving on the surface a gist of what’s important.
#ArtAdventCalendar #sciart 🧠
chalkboard, chalk, pastel, ink, and wilderness map on birch panel
24”x 30”
From a series about #memory. Recording, erasing, rewriting, reworking while creating a history; leaving on the surface a gist of what’s important.
#ArtAdventCalendar #sciart 🧠
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
‘Provisional Atlas’
chalkboard, chalk, pastel, ink, and wilderness map on birch panel
24”x 30”
From a series about #memory. Recording, erasing, rewriting, reworking while creating a history; leaving on the surface a gist of what’s important.
#ArtAdventCalendar #sciart 🧠
chalkboard, chalk, pastel, ink, and wilderness map on birch panel
24”x 30”
From a series about #memory. Recording, erasing, rewriting, reworking while creating a history; leaving on the surface a gist of what’s important.
#ArtAdventCalendar #sciart 🧠
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![[looks like an excerpt from a book maybe]
7. Whatever the problem appears to be, apply direct pressure. Everybody agrees on this.
8. Also remember the "ABC" rule of first aid:
A
Bone
Coming out through the skin is very bad.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dbzmdmsaz6lkhb4tv3culzme/bafkreidtua7g2cdbiw32syfz6a6w5djjqyzzealrssazo6ph33u5w4bfcq@jpeg)
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“She was the single artificer of the world
In which she sang. And when she sang, the sea,
Whatever self it had, became the self
That was her song, for she was the maker. Then we,
As we beheld her striding there alone,
In which she sang. And when she sang, the sea,
Whatever self it had, became the self
That was her song, for she was the maker. Then we,
As we beheld her striding there alone,
December 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“She was the single artificer of the world
In which she sang. And when she sang, the sea,
Whatever self it had, became the self
That was her song, for she was the maker. Then we,
As we beheld her striding there alone,
In which she sang. And when she sang, the sea,
Whatever self it had, became the self
That was her song, for she was the maker. Then we,
As we beheld her striding there alone,
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The Great Migration Built Harlem: Then Jazz Lit the Fuse
The Great Migration was not only a demographic event but an aesthetic engine: a mass movement that rerouted memory, labor, and aspiration into new urban geographies, where Black life had to be re-seen and re-sounded under modern conditions.
The Great Migration was not only a demographic event but an aesthetic engine: a mass movement that rerouted memory, labor, and aspiration into new urban geographies, where Black life had to be re-seen and re-sounded under modern conditions.
The Great Migration Built Harlem: Then Jazz Lit the Fuse
This lesson is for Tony, because I can’t separate what I know from the way he taught me to feel it.
open.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The Great Migration Built Harlem: Then Jazz Lit the Fuse
The Great Migration was not only a demographic event but an aesthetic engine: a mass movement that rerouted memory, labor, and aspiration into new urban geographies, where Black life had to be re-seen and re-sounded under modern conditions.
The Great Migration was not only a demographic event but an aesthetic engine: a mass movement that rerouted memory, labor, and aspiration into new urban geographies, where Black life had to be re-seen and re-sounded under modern conditions.
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A lil live snippet from my performance this week. Please note that this post was not sponsored by Fanta, unfortunately
#nostalgia #80s #synth #livemusic
#nostalgia #80s #synth #livemusic
December 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A lil live snippet from my performance this week. Please note that this post was not sponsored by Fanta, unfortunately
#nostalgia #80s #synth #livemusic
#nostalgia #80s #synth #livemusic
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Turns out even punks
Can catch the holiday cheer
Just with distortion
#cartoon #Christmas #holiday #season #tistheseason #winter #jacket #punk #snowman #pins #badges #rockhands #coal #cold #snow #carrots #libertyspikes #fashion #digital #digitalart #dailydrawing #dailyart #art #artxbrid #request
Can catch the holiday cheer
Just with distortion
#cartoon #Christmas #holiday #season #tistheseason #winter #jacket #punk #snowman #pins #badges #rockhands #coal #cold #snow #carrots #libertyspikes #fashion #digital #digitalart #dailydrawing #dailyart #art #artxbrid #request
December 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Turns out even punks
Can catch the holiday cheer
Just with distortion
#cartoon #Christmas #holiday #season #tistheseason #winter #jacket #punk #snowman #pins #badges #rockhands #coal #cold #snow #carrots #libertyspikes #fashion #digital #digitalart #dailydrawing #dailyart #art #artxbrid #request
Can catch the holiday cheer
Just with distortion
#cartoon #Christmas #holiday #season #tistheseason #winter #jacket #punk #snowman #pins #badges #rockhands #coal #cold #snow #carrots #libertyspikes #fashion #digital #digitalart #dailydrawing #dailyart #art #artxbrid #request