Itβs time
09.11.2025 04:16 β π 56 π 14 π¬ 1 π 0@victorfitzsimons.bsky.social
I make things to look at. Atheist vegetarian blood donor art guy. Streams on Twitch at Twitch.tv/the_velvet_ape . He/him/his/they/them/theirs
Itβs time
09.11.2025 04:16 β π 56 π 14 π¬ 1 π 0it's #sumo time again!
The Day 1 English language super schedule for the November Grand #Sumo tournament is ready to party! kewey.furvect.com/sumo/2025/11...
bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also donβt wipe your ass
07.11.2025 20:55 β π 6798 π 1051 π¬ 38 π 42LEFT
07.11.2025 23:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I wonder what the ideal way to have a pro-artist ecosystem would be? Meaning a system that genuinely rewards quality and experimentation. I don't think expert/peer review is best because it tends to ossify old things or be subject to fads.
07.11.2025 15:45 β π 23 π 1 π¬ 4 π 026 years ago today, we got The Simpsons greatest βdeeply buried dirty semi-jokeβ (and many of us didnβt get it until years later). βE-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)β premiered November 7, 1999.
07.11.2025 15:24 β π 287 π 89 π¬ 5 π 8As it turns out, people did not understand what mass deportations would look like.
07.11.2025 04:37 β π 664 π 111 π¬ 12 π 1Brain sabotage really stinks, brains gotta stop with the sabotaging. Hope is nice to see out there but I also hesitate to lean into it.
05.11.2025 18:31 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0obama's new library looks like where they take your ass in City 17.
04.11.2025 19:19 β π 351 π 37 π¬ 9 π 1You guysβ¦
04.11.2025 16:18 β π 2146 π 374 π¬ 81 π 14The muscles are definitely getting some targeted exercise. It has only been 1 full week, maybe after another week or two I will notice some improvement.
04.11.2025 15:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thereβs probably an election today where you live, if you live in the USA. Do the thing.
04.11.2025 15:03 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I had my second meeting with an occupational therapist about my shoulder issues. I have been doing the home workouts.
04.11.2025 01:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I heard a crunch underfoot as I stepped out the side door. Somebody had left a packet of chicken flavored ramen on the step.
01.11.2025 14:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Slotkin is right that Trump is ready to βbring the full weightβ of the government against political enemies. But she voted to confirm so many of Trumpβs people to do that.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Dan Caine, DHS Sec. Kristi Noem, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby, and moreβ¦
Tempted to do so, but I bought the treats already. While I could sit on my stockpile of sugar and enjoy it into next year, might as well offer it to the neighborhood trick or treaters, get it out of my refrigerator.
31.10.2025 19:28 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I could have gotten some of this stuff done if I had started earlier. But the desire to do it didnβt seem to be in me this year.
31.10.2025 18:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I donβt want to carve anything. I donβt want to pass out candy. I want to set the bowl on the stoop this year.
31.10.2025 18:33 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Carve pumpkin tomorrow.
30.10.2025 23:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I tried to make something fun and stupid to wear for passing out candy to trick-or-treaters but Iβm just not able to summon the persistence to see it through.
30.10.2025 23:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0New York Times headline reads: Trump Hotel Workers Campaign for a Union, Over the Boss's Objections
New York Times headline reads: Trump Moves to Strip More Federal Workers of Union Protections.
But his assertion that diversity weakens unions ignores two things. First, labor unions have a long history of multiethnic coalitions. Second, it was the capitalists and political elites who tried to *exploit* ethnic divisions to maintain power. There is only one person here trying to stop unions:
30.10.2025 08:06 β π 3129 π 505 π¬ 11 π 15JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. π§΅
Am I in depression season? Feels like maybe.
30.10.2025 08:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Caring about money is so anti-absurd of me
28.10.2025 16:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
27.10.2025 23:54 β π 2902 π 1035 π¬ 86 π 87I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
28.10.2025 14:07 β π 9931 π 2870 π¬ 74 π 81No, people paying for my art is a laughable notion
28.10.2025 10:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0