Alex Gazda

Everyone hold your crown jewels close tonight. You never know when they can be taken from you. #RIP #Colonialism

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“From the depths” by William Balfour-Ker. A lavish party of the wealth is interrupted by an upraised fist breaking through their dance floor; underneath we can see the entire party venue is built on the shoulders of the marginalized and lower classes.

“From The Depths,” William Balfour Ker

Alex Gazda on Substack Waldeinsamkeit Alex Gazda, Nov., 2022 . I know a quiet place where songs of fireflies flood the twilit air and heaviness h a n g s around your shoulders like a velvet cape. ....

A poem from 2022 that never saw the light of day:

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I am unfortunately entering a phase of obsession with American political history.

a Lear’s fool could save me rn

save me Lear’s fool

Lear’s fool, save me lol

i'm starting to think that making the guys that make video game graphics cards a load bearing pillar of the entire american economy might have been a bad move

Nvidia lost the equivalent of the entire GDP of Mexico today.

100.000 Menschen in Berlin, 70.000 in Köln: In dunklen Zeiten sind wir ein Lichtermeer der Hoffnung! ♥️

Wir stellen uns gegen die AfD und gegen die Pläne der Merz-CDU, gezielt eine gemeinsame Mehrheit mit den Rechtsextremen im Bundestag zu suchen.

Wir sind die Brandmauer!

picture of Beloved by Toni Morrison on a desk

Hey you! Find a copy of Beloved by Toni Morrison and read it along with @heymrsbond.com and I in February, one chapter a day—starting a week from today! #BelovedFebruary

(Reading in community feels like exactly the thing we need right now, right?)

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business.

Costco
Meijer
Kroger
Giant Grocery
Ben & Jerry’s
Ulta, Macy’s
Old Navy
Nordstrom’s
TJ Maxx
GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…)
Dollar Tree
Walgreens
Wegmans

Were there

Really…..Just Stop!

Bitch I'll quit rn

"Things might be tough but it's great for artists! They'll create more!" You might not believe me but going through a lifetime's worth of stress Every Single Week for years and years- is actually not the optimal set of circumstances that inspires artists to create

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And like a guilty thing I creep
At earliest morning to the door.

He is not here; but far away
The noise of life begins again,
And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain
On the bald street breaks the blank day.

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 7
Lord #Tennyson
(1/2)

Dark house, by which once more I stand
Here in the long unlovely street,
Doors, where my heart was used to beat
So quickly, waiting for a hand,

A hand that can be clasp'd no more—
Behold me, for I cannot sleep,

NOW: More than 98% of #Costco shareholders have just rejected an anti-DEI measure

The attempt to force Costco to audit their #DEI work was by an anti-inclusion lobby group:

"The proponent's broader agenda is not reducing risk for the Company but abolition of diversity initiatives." - Costco Board

I want to draw
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when the sky comes alive ✨

I will never, ever get over this.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how music and singing as performance art have a special relationship to temporality; that hearing a live concert (that is not recorded) is a bit like watching an artist paint on a canvas that is erased shortly after its completion—and how it is therefore collaborative.