Alessandra Giampaolo Keener

Call for LGBTQ+ Artists More joy, less guilt Exhibition dates: October 1 - 25, 2025 Deadline to apply: September 5, 2025 www.DCSisters.org/2025-Call-For-Art The DC Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Baltimore County Arts Guild

Call for Art: More Joy, Less Guilt
DC Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and the Baltimore County Arts Guild are hosting an art show in October, full of all kinds of flirtatious fun. Submit your 2D art by 9/5. Free to apply.

#Baltimore #Maryland #CallForArt #LGBTQ #art #QueerArt

2 food pantry structures laying on top of a pallet, waiting to be installed

The Reisterstown Community Fridge has been gifted 2 food pantries. One is freestanding and the other will require a post to be installed. Who has a site in Baltimore County that can host these and foster mutual aid to combat hunger?

So very sorry for your loss. She looks like she was quite the sassy queen. Curious - Did she have a favorite language that she responded to for "cheese"?

Point of ethics for TV journalists: Inform your interview subject BEFORE you put a camera in their face that you will be using AI for your final segment. Informed consent matters.

Genuine question, which period of angry women singers ate you referring to?

And now we need to know how you made amends to Missy.

Baltimore County councilman endangered police and his family, police and court records say Baltimore County Council member Todd Crandell endangered police inside his Eastpoint Mall office in June 2024, in an incident that came to light after his wife took out a protective

Look at that: Police *can* use non-lethal force to defuse calls for service when an out-of-control person w a gun is involved. And shame on Baltimore County Council & Todd Crandell for covering this up. Alcoholism is no excuse for domestic violence.
www.dundalkeagle.com/news/local/b... #PoliceReform

Facebook post from Alessandra Giampaolo. Text reads: The TV reporter was here for 1.5hrs today. I doubt she'll air anything I said that **I** thought was important to share about community fridges. i talked about how food shouldn't be politicized and yet our current administration is doing just that. I spoke about the enormous food waste that happens at all levels of American society. I spoke about starving children in Gaza and how Egyptians are creating their own food "rescues" by throwing plastic bottles filled with food into the Mediterranean Sea so that Palestinians can fish them out of the water to eat. | talked about the "good old days" of being able to work a minimum wage job and being able to buy a home and support a family and how that dream is gone because the minimum wage has never kept pace with inflation and how now a minimum wage job cannot even afford rent let alone groceries. | spoke about the large number of seniors who stop by our fridge because after decades of working FT, their social security doesn't allow for them to live with dignity and they cant afford to buy lettuce and eat a simple salad. Today was not a particularly good day for me, in terms of using a filter and speaking in a way that others want to hear. But, I spoke my truth and I have no regrets.

What happens when you're trying to give positive press about Community Fridges but your filter is set to "off". The reporter was lovely, but I suspect she'll have different parameters for what can actually be aired.

#FoodNotBombs #MutualAid #Baltimore #ActuallyAutistic #FightFascism #FreePalestine

+ for getting a new credit card after some fraudulent billing = all those recurring subscriptions I've been meaning to cancel for the last few months are no longer on autorenewal.

#winning #MakingLemonade

I can't seem to DM you. I'm guessing because you dont follow me. I would love to get some figs next week, if possible, for myself and to share in my community fridge.

Not that I'm encouraging such subterfuge, but imagine if a bunch of antifa folx got hired by ICE - got their student loans forgiven - but somehow stood around stupidly and kept throwing proverbial sand in the cogs of "justice" so arrests weren't actually made.

We never really talk about the years of missed satisfaction that comes with adulthood and not having as many boo-boo scabs to pick. #iykyk

Flannel quilt squares laid out in a pattern, waiting to be sewn together

2 rows of flannel quilts squares sewn together with white muslin. The flannel is a red, white, and blue plaid; a green and blue plaid; and a dark blue and black plaid.

Starting a new lap quilt project using 3 generations of flannel shirts. Going to use a yellow fabric for the backing but still undecided about the border.

#quilting #quilt #sewing #ColorScheme

The fridge feeding a Baltimore neighborhood and leading a movement Since coming together earlier this year, the Bmore Community Fridge Network has expanded from four community refrigerators to 15 and counting across Baltimore.

I've been humbled to see how Reisterstown has come together to help our community fridge become a self sustaining outreach project in less than one month. The picture is of one in Baltimore city.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/food...

#MutualAid #CommunityFridge #DoGood

Time to stretch, get up, and fight more fascism today.

#cats #CatsOfBluesky

Vape Fluid Warps The Skulls of Fetal Mice, Study Shows Pregnant mice exposed to the base ingredient of most vape 'juices' develop babies with smaller, narrower skulls, a new study has found.

Pregnant mice exposed to the base ingredient of most vape 'juices' develop babies with smaller, narrower skulls. It suggests that even nicotine-free vapes may not be safe, especially if you're pregnant.
www.sciencealert.com/vape-fluid-w...

Serious question for parents with public elementary school kids: Do 6-10yos know how to entertain themselves without digital devices or TV? Asking for one tired GenXer, whose been watching neighbor kids this summer.

#kids #ParentingAdvice #parenting

How long does it take to retrain your fingers' muscle memory to know just how far apart keyboard letters are on a new laptop? #iykyk #1stWorldProblems

Screenshot of an IG reel. Shows a 30 something male nurse biting his lip. Text: POV you have to go clean up the patient's bleeding ear who had it bitten off by the 6yo girl he just sexually assaulted. But he is still your patient

I cannot fathom ever having been that brave at the age of 6. At the same time, it makes me so angry that 6 year olds have to be that fiercely brave.

#feminism #SA #wtf

Money can't buy peace of mind, but it can hire someone to help with housecleaning and organizing ... and that comes pretty darn close.

#caregiving #DailyWisdom #SelfCare #gratitude

Concentration camp? -mass detention without trial -targeted group persecution -state of military control -harsh, inhumane conditions -isolation and surveillance -fear as a tool of control

An large outdoor mini fridge sitting on top of a wooden table. Text: Reisterstown Community Fridge. Take what you need for today. Enjoy the food at home return tomorrow if you're still hungry. No questions asked. 303 Shirley Manor Rd.

#Reisterstown Community Fridge is soft launching today. We will be ramping up our volunteers to keep the fridge stocked, so please be patient as we get ourselves into a good routine. Want to help not? Feel free to DM me.

#MutualAid #CommunityFridge #Baltimore

KAL editorial cartoon

The Baltimore Sun fired its editorial cartoonist KAL – Kevin Kallaugher, 2-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - because the media no longer likes publishing the truth.

Guns don't save lives in the hands of police. A tragic story, through and through, beginning with the judge refusing to waive the guardianship fee and police not intervening with social services once they saw a pattern of calls for service with the 70yo woman. #Baltimore #bcpd

You've got to be a special kind of evil to shoot firefighters who are responding to a fire.

Wooden structure in the process of being built. It measures about 5 feet tall by 4 feet wide and 3 feet deep. It will hold a large mini fridge and has shelves for pantry food items.

We are less than 2 weeks away from our #CommunityFridge and #PeriodPantry launch in #Reisterstown. The shelter pantry should be delivered within the week. Starting to think about how we'll decorate it. Paint? Mural? Mosaics?

#MutualAid #Baltimore #FoodNotBombs

We really are living in dystopian times. The Violent Femmes are playing at Baltimore's Lyric Opera House in October.

#GenX #punk #MakeItMakeSense #Baltimore

You can still disagree with the ideologies even if you understand them.

My point is that propaganda wants to deprive you of the CHOICE to understand them.

Without education, a system can make your choices for you.

The best way to make free choices is to understand your options.

“All forms of education are political b/c they can enable or inhibit the questioning habits of students, thus developing or disabling their critical relation to knowledge & society.” One important implication: “Rote learning & skills drills" inhibit kids' "civic & emotional developments.”
-Ira Shor

A team of African game developers spent 2yrs researching real artifacts that have yet to be returned by museums. The learning potential with the Relooted video game is huge.

#gameschooling #homeschool #teachers #EduSky