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artisall.bsky.social
Artist specializing in oil painting, drawing, assemblage and installations, jewelry maker, serial renovator of vintage homes, avid reader, nature lover, vegetarian, feminist, poet.
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In praise of complexity and beauty and all the times they're the same thing. Gate's poem is here. www.davidgatepoet.com/store/p/0vcw...

The Antarctic ozone hole won't disappear until ~2060-2075, but it's not growing thanks to the Montreal Protocol phasing out ozone-depleting substances. There's a chance recovering from CO₂ emissions will take a similar path but will take much much longer. ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/meteorology/...

Unleashing bamboo: A nature-based solution to rid world of plastics that can replace many single-use plastics, including straws, cutlery, cups, bowls and food packaging Single-use items also represent between 30% and 50% of all plastic use. dialogue.earth/en/nature/un...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

Manyaku Mashilo (South African, b. 1991), We have always known to look to the Centre, 2024 Acrylic, ink, red ochre on canvas

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

We are here:

There’s something happening in this country.

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

George Monbiot | Neoliberalism: The Ideology at the Root of All Our Problems truthout.org/articles/neo...

"Once I called an editor there very excited about pitching him a piece on this very subject and, before I even got started, he said “Is this another piece about rich people? Because if it is, you don’t need to bother.”

Just leaving this here as a reminder:

Using our “global strength” to force an invaded country into concessions with an invader makes us complicit with the invader. It’s like returning an abuse victim to the abuser’s home. Shameful. Wrong. Un-American.

Yes, screwing artists and writers is foundational to the whole rotten cake. Thank you, Gary.

Elon Musk's DOGE now has access to your personal Social Security data. There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is.

Gentileschi was raped at the age of 18 by Agostino Tassi. During his trial, she was the one who was tortured to "verify" her testimony by having cords wrapped around her fingers.

@andrewsimms.bsky.social speaking my language at #LYP2025: International climate negotiations don't work to get us to our climate goals because there is no technofix for 40+ billion tonnes of CO₂ emissions; we have to change our lifestyles and be reenchanted with our planet.

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Brazilian artist Evelyn Tannus, known for tattoo designs on her ceramics #WomensArt

The road to fascism is paved with the bodies of people who can no longer afford healthcare, housing and groceries because of government policies that shovel money to the .001%.

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

Michael Steele goes off about Elon Musk and DOGE: "They've got your data, dumbass...I want somebody to show that they care enough to get off their fat ass and say something about it." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

"What he's doing is illegal, if you care about law. It's massively expensive, if you care about expense. It's a national security crisis, if you care about national security. It's unconstitutional, if you care about the Constitution."

Waiting for the entire country to rise up against this fascist coup.

Kollwitz lost one of her two sons on the battlefield during the First World War in 1914.

The elite war against public wellbeing proceeds.

You’d think that the agency’s name—“National Nuclear Security Administration”—might have led someone to at least ask, “Hey, what do these guys do?”

A bipartisan special parliamentary inquiry in Australia today said big tech is “pillaging culture, data and creativity” to train AI, and must license and pay for training data. This is how all governments should respond to this technology. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...