@kimcarsons4.bsky.social
artist, mensch
Irreverent Sideshows (writer/director)
Irrelevant Slideshows (visual art)
Irreverent Sideshows (writer/director)
Irrelevant Slideshows (visual art)
work in progress
January 31, 2026 at 9:24 PM
work in progress
January 31, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Today's soundtrack -
jimmyduckholmesees.bandcamp.com/album/cypres...
jimmyduckholmesees.bandcamp.com/album/cypres...
Cypress Grove, by Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
11 track album
jimmyduckholmesees.bandcamp.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Today's soundtrack -
jimmyduckholmesees.bandcamp.com/album/cypres...
jimmyduckholmesees.bandcamp.com/album/cypres...
One finished, one on the go.
January 16, 2026 at 10:03 PM
One finished, one on the go.
work in progress -
January 6, 2026 at 4:36 PM
work in progress -
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Today I wrote about what it means to write a free newsletter with voluntary subscriptions, and the delicate gift that it is to have a readership, and re-shared 12 essays from the year that was.
www.the-reframe.com/goodbye-to-2...
www.the-reframe.com/goodbye-to-2...
Goodbye to 2025
State of the newsletter, an invitation to upgrade, and an end-of-the-year round up of essays.
www.the-reframe.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Today I wrote about what it means to write a free newsletter with voluntary subscriptions, and the delicate gift that it is to have a readership, and re-shared 12 essays from the year that was.
www.the-reframe.com/goodbye-to-2...
www.the-reframe.com/goodbye-to-2...
Lol. And yes. He's a diamond that will make you shine. But you better get used to emails where every sentence starts with a big fat 'No'.
"But while the school was positive and uplifting and smothered in positive affirmation, C.C. … wasn’t. He was a sort of ragged, black-clad, old punk, mercurial and dark, with a penchant for the contrary. He did almost nothing because he was supposed to; he followed no-one’s schedule or instruction."
On Becoming A Storyteller: A Berlin Memoir by Jessica Ciccarelli
There’s a five-mile block in the northernmost part of Prenzlauer Berg that I haunted during my last weeks in Berlin. Within this five-mile block, I allowed myself to fade in and out of memories – I…
burninghousepress.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Lol. And yes. He's a diamond that will make you shine. But you better get used to emails where every sentence starts with a big fat 'No'.
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“Language itself has humor in it. I really like that flapping of words, where it’s like the wind gets into them and they kind of flap between meanings.”
From our Art of Poetry interview with Alice Oswald in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/QNsju7Z
From our Art of Poetry interview with Alice Oswald in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/QNsju7Z
December 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“Language itself has humor in it. I really like that flapping of words, where it’s like the wind gets into them and they kind of flap between meanings.”
From our Art of Poetry interview with Alice Oswald in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/QNsju7Z
From our Art of Poetry interview with Alice Oswald in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/QNsju7Z
Sahel Sounds Label Sampler, by Various Artists
13 track album
sahelsoundscompilations.bandcamp.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Finally completed last week,
December 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Finally completed last week,
Magdalena '94 (Live), by Ben Vaughn
track by Ben Vaughn
benvaughnmusic.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Please, please read our latest update to @liznangel3.bsky.social's long-running appeal for my wife and me.
It has been a pretty tough month and we are still looking for funds to get us to the end of next month.
Even if you're unable support us financially, please consider re-posting this link.
It has been a pretty tough month and we are still looking for funds to get us to the end of next month.
Even if you're unable support us financially, please consider re-posting this link.
Donate to Support a Voyage to Find Home, organized by Liz Cullinane
Hello, my name is Liz Cullinane and for the past four years, I have been inspired to raise… Liz Cullinane needs your support for Support a Voyage to Find Home
www.gofundme.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Please, please read our latest update to @liznangel3.bsky.social's long-running appeal for my wife and me.
It has been a pretty tough month and we are still looking for funds to get us to the end of next month.
Even if you're unable support us financially, please consider re-posting this link.
It has been a pretty tough month and we are still looking for funds to get us to the end of next month.
Even if you're unable support us financially, please consider re-posting this link.
"Discomfort might actually be the baseline experience of being human."
open.substack.com/pub/cybeleca...
open.substack.com/pub/cybeleca...
On Meaning and Antimeaning
Tolerating ambiguity as an antidote to blind consumerism
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"Discomfort might actually be the baseline experience of being human."
open.substack.com/pub/cybeleca...
open.substack.com/pub/cybeleca...
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"I wandered down a path without any sense (nor care) of where I was going. No purpose, no intention, no destination — a random walk in the dark."
anna f., aka @kimcarsons4.bsky.social, on her new, 2D adventures in mixed media.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/26/t...
anna f., aka @kimcarsons4.bsky.social, on her new, 2D adventures in mixed media.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/26/t...
this by anna f.
Photos/artwork by anna f. All this started on a lonely bench at Frustration Station. There I was, sitting, with a crushing sense of defeat, of failure, and a nagging urge to engage in some kind of …
burninghousepress.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"I wandered down a path without any sense (nor care) of where I was going. No purpose, no intention, no destination — a random walk in the dark."
anna f., aka @kimcarsons4.bsky.social, on her new, 2D adventures in mixed media.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/26/t...
anna f., aka @kimcarsons4.bsky.social, on her new, 2D adventures in mixed media.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/26/t...
....and another one.
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
....and another one.
Framed and ready to go.
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Framed and ready to go.
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LOVE this short doc 🩵🩵🩵
Lindsay Kemp in 'Funky Road' by Stephen Maclean (1975)
This is "Lindsay Kemp in 'Funky Road' by Stephen Maclean (1975)" by nendie pinto-duschinsky on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the…
vimeo.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
LOVE this short doc 🩵🩵🩵
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"Governments should classify these chatbots not simply as another form of media, but as a dependency-fostering product with known psychological risks... Regulation would start with universal laws for A.I. companions, including clear warning labels, time limits, 18-plus age verification..."
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“The real existential threat of generative A.I. is not rogue super-intelligence, but a quiet atrophy of our ability to forge genuine human connection,” writes Lauren Kunze, the chief executive of Pandorabots.
“The real existential threat of generative A.I. is not rogue super-intelligence, but a quiet atrophy of our ability to forge genuine human connection,” writes Lauren Kunze, the chief executive of Pandorabots.
Opinion | A.I. Sexbots Are Dangerous. We Should Know.
At least a quarter of the more than 100 billion messages sent to our chatbots are attempts to initiate romantic or sexual exchanges.
nyti.ms
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"Governments should classify these chatbots not simply as another form of media, but as a dependency-fostering product with known psychological risks... Regulation would start with universal laws for A.I. companions, including clear warning labels, time limits, 18-plus age verification..."
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We are between a rock and a hard place, pleading for help.
An excerpt from our latest @gofundme.com update:
www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...
An excerpt from our latest @gofundme.com update:
www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...
November 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We are between a rock and a hard place, pleading for help.
An excerpt from our latest @gofundme.com update:
www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...
An excerpt from our latest @gofundme.com update:
www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...
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"Most artists I know are like this. Finding time to make art while working another job, or taking care of loved ones. They improvise. They get better. They get worse. They get better again.
"Really it mostly comes down to that first thing: finding time..."
"Really it mostly comes down to that first thing: finding time..."
My Truck Desk by Bud Smith
October 29, 2025 – “Now that I had my Truck Desk, that vehicle was my very own rolling cubicle.”
www.theparisreview.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"Most artists I know are like this. Finding time to make art while working another job, or taking care of loved ones. They improvise. They get better. They get worse. They get better again.
"Really it mostly comes down to that first thing: finding time..."
"Really it mostly comes down to that first thing: finding time..."