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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 4h

Daily figure drawing practice.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 16h

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 10h

Tower in the Woods

#inktober #inktober2025

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 2d

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

Gina Bellman
@Ginabellman

I absolutely -definitely- positively was not in Paris Yesterday. #LouvreHeist.

[A photo of Gina Bellman sitting in an ornate restaurant holding a wine glass and wearing a red beret.]

(The joke here is that one of actress Gina Bellman's most famous roles over the last ten years is as a master thief, doing thievery.)

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 1d

Convergent at the nexus where neurospicy and fetal cross: me.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

Cleve Jones gave a riveting, rousing speech at San Francisco's No Kings rally yesterday, and he's graciously allowing me to publish it. He began: "The pronouns I use the most are the ones probably understood the least by those in the White House today. They are WE, US and OURS."

Cleve Jones: "This Is Our Country"

This is the first guest essay at Meditations in an Emergency. I'm proud to bring you yesterday's speech by the great Cleve Jones, who has for nearly half a century been a key organizer for the global ...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3d

Trump is now planning to occupy San Francisco. He must be upset about the messages they’ve been making on Ocean Beach.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 3d

No Kings protester with an NSPM-7 sign (!)

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 3d

It’s always amusing when I see an anime movie hyped as a Global Phenomena! and I’ve never heard of it and the trailer looks exactly like all the rest. Yes, I do watch anime.

OK, so, fandoms may be global but they’re not universal.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3d

The MAGA crowd seems very triggered that yesterday’s protest was historic, their comments are everywhere. In total, 22 MAGA individuals were arrested for attempting to attack peaceful protesters. Arrests were made in OH, KY, CA, SC, NC, MI, OR, FL, VA, TX, and PA.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

If you were at the No Kings events, please wear a mask for the next few days.

Covid is not over.

You can infect others before you feel symptomatic.

People are losing their healthcare. They’re losing their food assistance. They’re losing housing.

We need to protect each other.

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 4d

The thing about No Kings the GOP doesn't seem to get isn't that we hate you as much as it is that we recognize you for what you are.

You're a threat. You're a threat to our lives, our livelihoods, our families, our friends.

We WILL drive you out of power. You haven't given us any other choice.

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Frederik Hornung @frederikhornung.com · 4d

Giant Crazy Pumpkin, felt like drawing an original retro pulpy monster to fit the Halloween season!

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 4d

Based on today’s turnout, I’m hoping folks do stay in for the long haul. And yes, I hope their next questions about what to do next, and how to do it. Listen to the long term activists, folks. Listen to your Black and Brown friends. Review how we did it back in the 1960s and 80s.

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 4d

here is my favorite sign from today

square concrete slab on the ground with “OLD DYKES AGAINST TECH BROS” stenciled onto it

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 4d

I hear you. My nuanced take is that finally, finally the folks with formerly unquestioned privilege are joining the protests that Black folks and LGBT folks like me have done for years. And their presence is a sea-change: rich privileged people protesting an oligarchy is a new thing.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe he’ll have a stroke from apoplexy.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 4d

Canyon Road

B&W ink and color brush pen versions.

#inktober #inktober2025 #drawing #brushpen #penandink #pencil #poetry

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5d

One of the less understood beauties of a transition to a renewable economy is: you cannot invade a country and steal its sunshine and its wind, and you will not need to. The uneven distribution of fossil fuel, esp. oil, has corroded geopolitics for more than a century....

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 8d

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 5d

Thread with factual history notes.

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 5d

It is impossible to understand the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act cases without the context that John Roberts has hated the Voting Rights Act since he was working to water it down as a 26-year-old Reagan staffer. This is his life’s work, and he can’t wait to finish the job.

Killing the Voting Rights Act Is John Roberts’s Life’s Work

As a 26-year-old Reagan staffer, Roberts was already convinced the Voting Rights Act had to go. He can’t wait to finish the job.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 5d

Well, that was a very satisfyingly productive evening. Three laser engravings from my brush and pencil figure drawings, all usable, one of them exceptional. Very satisfying indeed.

#laserengraver #figuredrawing #pencil #artmaking

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 5d

Define you music taste in eight artists:

Steve Reich
John Cage
Olivier Messiaen
Shriekback
Brain Eno
Laurie Anderson
King Crimson
Astor Piazzolla

Ba-at 💀⚖️🦇 @ma-at.bsky.social · 5d

Define your music taste in eight artists (hoo boy…)
Bjork
Fugazi
Wu-tang
Jeff Buckley
Plastikman
DJ Dextrous
Sylvester
Kim Deal

Emily ‘Cutie of Darkness’ AF 🧛‍♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨ @rockstarelise.com · 6d

Define you music taste in eight artists:
Skinny puppy
Alison Krauss
Nine Inch Nails
Old blind dogs
Thrill kill Kult
Massive attack
Jean Dawson
Taylor Swift

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 6d

Reflection

Office for the evening: learning to use the new laser engraver at Makerspace. It’s a fantastic tool. This is an engraving on basswood from my pencil drawing. Look at how well the shading detail comes through. Exciting!

#drawing #artmaking #laserengraver #makerspace

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