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matthewjbest.bsky.social
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I miss Pose

Untitled, by Joan Mitchell, 1992, šŸ“ø via @dimfilipovic.bsky.social

New tattoo day.

#swasticars seem to be disappearing

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

It dawned on me that PresidentMuskVPTrump are the aliens from Independence Day. Destroy the country, strip everything away, escape to Iā€™m guessing Russia.

Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

Itā€™s not that I donā€™t often wish Iā€™m painting when Iā€™m not but sometimes there is *that* painting that is just so ā€œonā€ itā€™s all I can think about.

Presidentsā€™ Day protest Hartford, CT . Feeling inspired, great turnout. Proud of Connecticut

Protest prep

I got rid (I think) of all my trump supporter Facebook friends in 2016. The only one left is my mother in law (who doesnā€™t vote) and I think I use Facebook mostly to torment her.

Why canā€™t we just accept that February is awful and hibernate?

I ate an egg today. I feel so naughty.

Another reason not to use Airbnb- www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

Work in progress. Happy to have a solid day of painting. Channeling Abracadabra/Lady Gaga, magic 8-ball, Madonna, scissors. Empty spaces will be tarot cards. #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #contemporaryartist #gay #gayartist

Museums/galleries posting they are closed during snowstorms like people are coming anyway.

I havenā€™t listened to abracadabra yet today

Grateful I had to do titers to check my vaccination levels a few years ago and still immune to measles. Thanks anti-vaxxers.

Itā€™s been a rough week. My suggestion- Cherā€™s album of ABBA covers, Dancing Queen. You will smile.

This yearā€™s mood- cat puke-centric Valentineā€™s Day cards.

youā€™re seeing more literal erasure of trans people from history every day *every* day. right now. thereā€™d be NO Stonewall without trans people itā€™s absolutely enraging cis queer folk, we need you to not stand for this. donā€™t let them erase us. WE. HAVE. ALWAYS. EXISTED.

I think about this often. Iā€™m part of a generation of gay men who were realizing we were gay in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. It was terrifying, we lost so many of the people who would have been our role models, we were feral.

Watched Pretty Woman for the first time instead of the Super Bowl.

Puppy Bowl XX. Not fascist.

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