@lraff1.bsky.social

Therapist. Artist. Introvert who is frequently wrong in an embarrasingly loud voice. Finally old enough for Medicare and very excited about it. I don't reply to DMs, but my posts are open to replies.

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1 day ago
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Yup. That's the one.

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1 week ago
A subdued, realistic painting of a bowl of fruit. A vivid colored, naive abstract of a picnic scene.

The fruit is how I first learned to paint. That was maybe my second painting. I've only done maybe 20 so far in my life and Im proud of that one. The abstract picnic scene, I finished today. My first abstract. I know it isn't any good. But, man, was it fun. And it's all mine. I wanna do it again.

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1 week ago

Go get 'em, kids.

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2 weeks ago

I feel this, so I donate and March and I will vote. Oh, how I will vote. There is one thing age has given me that the young folk don't have. I realize time washes away all, and he is about fifteen years further down that sewer drain than I. When he goes, the rest will all scatter like roaches.

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2 weeks ago

You're there, Clarence.

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2 weeks ago

Get a site with electricity and bring an orange extension cord. There's no escaping the wall of the wild.

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3 weeks ago

Hee hee.

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3 weeks ago

Kinda like the look a child might have in their eyes when being trafficked, held against their will and threatened by someone more powerful.

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3 weeks ago

The country is counting on you.

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3 weeks ago

This is one of the most pathetic look-at-me things I've ever seen. Sigh. Anyway....

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3 weeks ago
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Wow.

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3 weeks ago

We earned it.

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1 month ago

Those big boxes of wine ain't gonna buy themselves.

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1 month ago

She did knock the awfulness outta the park.

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1 month ago

No surprise there.

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1 month ago

"The answer, my friend, is blow it out your ass."

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1 month ago

Why children? What is the reason? Of course, the answer is clearly hate. This must end.

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1 month ago

Stunning stupidity from Mr. Paul.

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1 month ago
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.)  If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

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1 month ago

I would also like to mention Goya and Monet. In fact, if you count not just physical but mental idiosyncrasies, there are probably more famous "disabled"artists than there "normies." By definition, you gotta be outside the norm to create what has not been created before. The opposite of A fucking I.

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1 month ago

Henri Mattise? Toulouse Lautrec?

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1 month ago

Van Gogh...clearly too disabled to paint. Ditto Frida Khalo.

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1 month ago
Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.

Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.

Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.

Get them out!

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“Everything we know about skin has been learned from so-called scientific studies funded by large corporations who have a financial stake in keeping our musculature covered in an unnecessary layer of man-made flesh,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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1 month ago

I just want to say that not seeing evil in real time does not make you evil no matter how much you are told otherwise. Thinking you see evil but not being sure doesn't make you evil, either, but do speak up. There is a ton of grey area in there, but one thing is certain. Doing evil is fucking evil.

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1 month ago

Conservatives seem to have no creatvity, no imagination, no ability to see anything chromatic. It must be hell.

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1 month ago

You can't prove it because it never happened. The GOP just lost. You look fraudulent in the face, though, Mr. Johnson. Really, really sneaky lookin' guy.

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1 month ago

I love them, even if Benji is conflicted.

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1 month ago

I barely know any of the "best old artists."

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