Brianne Opal

You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.

begging with my entire heart for election results across the map which force the Dems to finally begin internalizing the lesson that throwing trans people under the bus is going to fuck them repeatedly

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

God I miss sorting Halloween candy.

i don't care if you're here legally and i do not care what you buy with SNAP. you could not pay me to care!!!

every couple of days the official white house website says "we want to kill you. we want to destroy everything you love. we are the living incarnation of death and we shall sweep life from this earth like an unstoppable whirlwind" and its like oh. ok. do i still have to pay taxes

Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

baseball posting is unambiguously good for Bluesky. not my thing but we desperately need some lighter topics round these parts

They're going to change the clocks this weekend and the president is powerless to stop it. Because he's weak and a loser. That's what they're saying sir

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you are allowed to have ice cream for dinner.

If you're going to donate to a local organization to help with the incoming food crisis, PLEASE do a bit of research first.

There are a LOT of organizations that are heavily religious and conservative who WILL discriminate with who gets their assistance.

I concur. Now more than ever I need to see an adorable baby in festive Autumn outfits—or sitting by a pumpkin. Or atop a barrel of apples. Or by a scarecrow.

An animal hide covered in blue felt with a floor plan of a museum drawn on it

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

“Why are librarians burning out and so constantly anxious and depressed?”

You can also use this link to find local food banks to donate to if you have the means!

a doctored photo of the back of a $20 bill featuring the White House being demolished by an excavator

ok who did this? ☹️

While we are waiting for the bubble to burst, there is no shame in doing other work than the kind of things you've rightfully felt a lot of pride in making a living from. It is painful to have to reevaluate your career path because every boss thinks you can be replaced by three spellchecks in a trench coat, but it is not embarrassing. The dignity doesn't come from the money. It comes from cultivating skills and having insights and offering something meaningful to other human beings (and sometimes animals too, but they're less dedicated readers/viewers, I imagine).

This week's newsletter contains a pep talk for people doing creative work in the age of AI boosterism, and I was once again a generative AI hater. Read the whole thing here: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/154-dangelo-...

“If you’re angry about THIS, but not about THAT—“

Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,

…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

Jake and Elwood blues, The blues Brothers, say I hate Illinois Nazis

It’s been a pretty good life philosophy for me and I see no reason to turn my back on it now

kinda want one of these tbh

Contact Me! — Claire Willett

Extremely specific ask!

in search of leads for OREGON ONLY artists, crafters, creative practitioners for ArtsWatch story about protest art / art as protest. poets, knitters, muralists, anything. happy to anonymize you for safety if preferred!

ping me here: www.clairewillettwrites.com/contact-me

Middle aged women, they are fucking done with it. Aunt Deb from Friends of the Library is to the left of Zohran

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.