In the years since I transitioned from a newsroom into an arts communications role, I’ve seen how the absence of consistent arts coverage affects our community — in part because artists and organizations increasingly come to me with their questions, concerns, & stories, unsure who else is listening
25.01.2026 16:53 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
No seriously, ask him about the Mon Monkeys
🎨: @mariozucca.bsky.social
I have spent this year keeping a running list of Trump's impacts on the arts since he took office, and I hate that it's nearly the end of December and there are still miserable things to keep adding
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21.10.2025 18:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This app sucks. I miss (old) Twitter.
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If you're like me and depend on @wesa.fm's news and arts coverage, please join me in becoming a member or scheduling a monthly donation to the station in response to the federal administration's crushing decision to cut funding
19.07.2025 00:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Are you a Pittsburgh-based artist or creative in need of a studio space? I'm helping to promote this really cool opportunity to win one of two new studio co-sharing memberships to Atithi Studios in Sharpsburg!
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We also only averaged five voters per hour, worked 15 hours, and made less than $12/hour (and no free pizza!)
I'd love to see Pennsylvania find ways to encourage more election participation. I dunno the answer, but maybe it's time to revisit open primaries, adjusted hours, and expanded education.
While working the election polls, we also had to spoil a ballot from a Registered Republican who signed in, received his ballot, then got pissed when he realized he couldn't vote "straight Republican" and left in distress, despite us explaining that everyone on his ballot was Republican.
21.05.2025 23:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0While working the election polls yesterday, I had to turn away a handful of voters who were not registered Democrats or Republicans. They didn't realize they couldn't vote in the primaries. (There were no ballot questions in the borough where I was stationed.)
21.05.2025 23:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Averaging 5 voters per hour. Local elections matter, people! Don't sit this one out!
20.05.2025 17:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Working the election polls today in McKees Rocks and we've had a grand total of four voters come through so far in our first hour
Gonna be a longggggg day
Still undecided on who deserves your vote for Pittsburgh Mayor? During a time when federal arts & culture funding is being stripped, @pghartscouncil.bsky.social invited mayoral candidates to address the importance of supporting the arts at a local level
www.pittsburghartscouncil.org/blog/pittsbu...
Religion is so weird. 💨
08.05.2025 16:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Quit smoking 15 years ago today. God, I could use a fucking cigarette.
07.05.2025 00:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anyone know anything about The Pennsylvania Independent? Never heard of them until this week, and seeing mixed reviews online of their legitimacy
08.04.2025 14:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Remember when we thought someone mailed him anthrax? Memories 🎶
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"In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word 'gay,' including ... an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb."
apnews.com/article/dei-...
Please don't let this mayor's race end with Tony Moreno.
04.03.2025 02:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I only ate half of my delicious burrito this evening, so I could save it to avoid spending money tomorrow. Please clap.
28.02.2025 03:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Say what you want about alternative medicine, but yesterday afternoon, my acupuncturist did gua sha on my neck and I crashed at 8PM and slept through the night after months and months of insomnia.
14.02.2025 16:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Famous older white male actors John Turturro and Christopher Walken lean into each other, touching foreheads, while standing amid a bunch of green plants
Greatest love story ever told?
John Turturro on Severance is just pure beauty.
Is there anything worse than dental pain? (Well, besides our entire country right now, of course.) But my god, I had a filling come out earlier this week and I haven't been in this much physical pain in so long. Take care of yr teeth, people!
07.02.2025 20:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The world feels more uncertain than ever. Harmful ideologies, once whispered in the shadows, are now openly expressed and legitimized through legislation. But, as our CEO Patrick Fisher shares, the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council's commitment remains unwavering.
04.02.2025 13:31 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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With a bilingual website, print magazine, and a brand new podcast, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council grantee María Manautou-Matos is championing the region's Latine community
03.02.2025 21:03 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Who else hasn't had the energy to put away their Christmas tree yet?
01.02.2025 00:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
