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🌌 Sasha R. Jones 🔜 BLFC Dealer's Den

@sasharjones.bsky.social

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traditional artist, high desert dweller ✨ NB, he/they 🌿 forest queer, decolonial communist, naive animist 🏮 汉语学生 📍Living in O'ga P'ogeh Owingeh, unceded Tewa land 🪶 sasharjones.com 🎨 https://t.me/sasharjonesart 🍂 patreon.com/sasharjones

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones 🔜 BLFC Dealer's Den @sasharjones.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚩 HOW TO ORGANIZE IN THE FURRY FANDOM 🚩

Video now live at youtu.be/UcxQ2CY5zdg

Full slideshow and notes at www.notion.so/Talk-Notes-H...

How to Organize in the Furry Fandom

YouTube video by jonathanvair

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 4d

looking into the article, important part to it is this was initiated by italian unions, making it possible to organize such action at all. which reinforces for what and why such union restrictions exist in america. keeping labor down doesn't just generate wealth, it also suppresses other movements.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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Echo Mary -> BLFC! @echomary.bsky.social · 5d

Seeing this message getting reposted via ai-slop motivated me to make it better so here you go

A photo of a piece of paper saying, "surround yourself with people who fight for you in rooms you aren't in."

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones 🔜 BLFC Dealer's Den @sasharjones.bsky.social · 7d

Glad to hear it is useful! The thing about the ego's attachment to feeling bad was especially highlighted by a good friend of mine earlier this year-- I especially remember it because they described it as a sort of "gnashing around" or something like that.

🌌 Sasha R. Jones 🔜 BLFC Dealer's Den @sasharjones.bsky.social · 7d

A relatively short public update post on where I'm at right now:

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Burn Out | Sasha R. Jones

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones 🔜 BLFC Dealer's Den @sasharjones.bsky.social · 7d

Remember that sometimes the way ego rears its head is as self-pity. The attachment to feeling bad or pathetic in some special way-- by being cruel to yourself in ways you would never be to your friends.
It's a hard vortex to get out of but so so crucial to learn how to recognize and escape from.

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones 🔜 BLFC Dealer's Den @sasharjones.bsky.social · 7d

In order to show up as a good organizer, youe going to have to do your personal homework. You are going to have to view it as an ongoing, life-long endeavor to understand your way around your own ego and how to set it aside.
Otherwise you will get caught up in infighting instead of shared struggle.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 9d

You can delay capitalisms contradictions but you cannot stop them unless you get rid of the whole system. They will always reveal themselves. They will come back

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones 🔜 BLFC Dealer's Den @sasharjones.bsky.social · Mar 29

"Dusk Lynx Portrait", 4" x 6" acrylic on reclaimed bamboo panel, 2024
The original painting is still available, as are prints: www.sasharjones.com/store

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tg @twotrickpony.bsky.social · Sep 4

IMPORTANT PSA: You will NOT see posts from non English speaking artists if your content language is set to English!

Make sure it's *unset*!!! If you're following Chinese artists or whatever and wonder why their posts never show up on your feed this is why!

Go in: Settings > Languages> Content Languages and make it *unset* !

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones 🔜 BLFC Dealer's Den @sasharjones.bsky.social · Apr 1

"Red Dragon", 4" x 5" mixed media on gesso-primed reclaimed bamboo flooring panel.

A fun piece from last year! This felt like really hitting my stride w/ the mixed media materials I've been picking up, namely poscas and wax pastels in this case.

Prints available at sasharjones.com/store/red-dr...

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones 🔜 BLFC Dealer's Den @sasharjones.bsky.social · 12d

Suffering bad burn out again. Some things gotta change in order for me to stop winding up in this position every 8 months or so, and we are working on figuring that out.

In the mean time, if I'm slow to respond or otherwise behind on a thing, feel free to give me a nudge.

Thanks for your patience.

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones 🔜 BLFC Dealer's Den @sasharjones.bsky.social · Apr 9

🔹 special power 🔹
mixed media painting

this piece was an expression of a desire, almost a prayer— to find your special power, your inner reserve of potential, or the power to make change in yourself or the world around you, to hold that capability in your hand in and in your heart.

A painting of a hooded anthro figure crouching down and grounding their clawed palm on the ground in a powerful gesture, with light and color flowing up through their arm. The drawing of the figure is simple and gestural, but rich with texture and atmosphere.

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 14d

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 14d

Giorgia Meloni, Italy's PM, is a far right fascist who supports Israel, but the general strike Italians carried out 2 days ago scared the shit out of her. Strikes are the most effective way to get politicians to do what you want them to do. Shut down profit and they stand to attention.

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Tara Bush @tarabush.bsky.social · 16d

Owl Dreams
#birdart #art #sciart

Commissioned drawing of a barn owl. The owl is drawn from the side, it has a subtle crown made of decaying sunflower petals. The image is very low saturation. Background is black. Multimedia.

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones 🔜 BLFC Dealer's Den @sasharjones.bsky.social · Apr 8

🔹 Entropy 🔹
9" x 12" mixed media on reclaimed panel.

Probably my most important painting from last year. A wolf made of falling apart, a radical and fierce acceptance of the decay and change of self, of becoming a part of everything else.

Original sold, prints available: sasharjones.com/store

A painting of a wolf's face staring straight on at the viewer with an intense expression. Sharp strips of color make up the face of the wolf, but as those strips radiate away from the center, they lose form, as though the wolf is coming apart.

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 23d

normalizing mask wearing makes criminalization, from this kind of surveillance to mask bans, way harder. you wearing a respirator to the grocery store, on transit, in healthcare is a practice of solidarity with the most marginalized in your community on more than one level.

Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 23d

A problem with most people thinking COVID-19 is no longer a threat is that I just had a weird loss prevention dude follow me around a grocery store (occasionally coughing) because he could not fathom that anyone wearing a face mask (despite me also using a cane)- wasn't nefarious. We're in a surge.

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones 🔜 BLFC Dealer's Den @sasharjones.bsky.social · 24d

Prints and such: sasharjones.com/store

Store — Sasha R Jones

Prints, Merch and Original Art by artist Sasha R. Jones.

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones 🔜 BLFC Dealer's Den @sasharjones.bsky.social · Feb 16

🔻 Desert Raven 🔻 oil on panel, 2019

A painting of a raven perched on a desert stone. In this lighting, the feathers of the raven are not black, but have an iridescence, with hues of blue, violet, green, and the warm reds and coppers reflected onto the feathers by the environment.

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones 🔜 BLFC Dealer's Den @sasharjones.bsky.social · Apr 2

"Ash Dance" 4" x 6" mixed media (mostly acrylic gouache and ballpoint pen) on toned paper mounted on reclaimed panel.

Another experimental mixed media piece from last year, this time inspired by Phil Hale's work.

A drawing of an anthro coyote figure wearing a robe with a hood, mid-pose in some sort of dance or active gesture. It is mostly painted in various tinted neutrals, with orange light on the figure.

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Sophie @sophiefrommars.bsky.social · 25d

This will happen but the swing is not a passive thing that will just pop out of nowhere, people have to organize. And they are and they will. It's going to change but it's going to change because we make it change

onion person @junlper.beer · 25d

the right will continue to raise their fascistic ideology and lust for blood, the pendulum must swing back. it will happen. how do you sustain a society that makes it dangerous to be online or function in public? this cannot last

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 26d

Sunlight doesn’t disinfect, because fascist ideology isn’t a mold, it’s a fire. You have to starve it of oxygen.

Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 26d

all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 25d

guys i think we all need to get good with the fact that debate culture is not and never was geared toward arriving at knowledge that is simply not one of its goals

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones 🔜 BLFC Dealer's Den @sasharjones.bsky.social · Apr 4

🔻 Sunlight Prism Coyote 🔻
4" x 6" mixed media on old book paper mounted on reclaimed panel

Artwork of a coyote facing the viewer, rendered in an array of mostly red, yellow, and teal hues. The text from an old book peeks through behind the artwork, and parts of the coyote are abstracted into radial geometric forms.

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Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.bsky.social · 26d

You gotta randomly tell ppl in your life you proud of them, how they’ve affected you. How happy you are for them. There is no right moment. Make it awkward. Make it random.

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