rhetorix

rhetorix

@rhetorix.bsky.social

artist, writer, neighborhood bartender. research, wonder, beauty, abolition. host of the Murder, She Won’t Shut Up About podcast 🇵🇸

83 Followers 146 Following 46 Posts Joined Nov 2023
8 months ago

Guess people didn’t listen to Life In Cartoon Motion by Mika like I did. Didn’t take it to heart

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9 months ago

I handled/installed the piece he’s standing by once - it was pretty ingenious - some artworks are smarter than others - and the insides of the segments are interesting, all wood and scribbles, so rough and organic compared to the exteriors

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9 months ago

iPhoto memories needs to stop showing me my ex bff every day or I swear I’m chucking this phone through a window

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10 months ago

shadowbanned on instagram again for antizionist sentiments in the stories. I miss 2007 tumblr every day

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10 months ago

Turns out one of them was actively bleeding

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10 months ago

The sexual tension between two drunk straight dudes in front of the dive bar rn is insane

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10 months ago

Every single thing that began as a "feminine" and thus "less worthy" trade is now male dominated: brewing beer/ale/sake and making wine was traditionally always done by women. Now every white dude with a beard and Chacos wanna mansplain alcohol to me.

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11 months ago

someday I will show art at a gallery that cares enough about their artists to NOT reformat all my work’s titles and descriptions on a lazy whim !! someday !

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1 year ago
Cardi B in blue sequined tracksuit. Angela Lansbury on close to the same outfit in color and texture.

cardi b giving angela lansbury: thread

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1 year ago

Pretty 💖

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1 year ago

Stealing this marshmallow garnish for my small town cocktail bar immediately

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1 year ago
A notecard with the prompt, "What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you?" The handwritten statement below says, "My momma’s ashes were displayed on my table in my tent. I came back one day — and EVERYTHING was gone, including her ashes. They were clearly labled 'In loving memory — my mom, my best friend…' and her name. Her ashes were all that I had left of her. No one stored my stuff. I called tons of places and NO ONE knew anything. It is very difficult for me still, everyday. No warning, no remorse, nothing."

When cities clear homeless encampments, workers often take people’s belongings — including important documents, survival gear and irreplaceable mementos.

Over and over, people across the U.S. told ProPublica they were devastated by such losses: https://propub.li/3WScD3g

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1 year ago

At every step, the liberal insitutionalists insist that the only valid means of resistance is the rotten husk of their institutions.

Anyone who tries to stop fascism using non-instutionally-approved means will be lectured, scolded, pacified, and — ultimately — violently suppressed by the state. 11/

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1 year ago

my favorite Barbara Kruger fact (we have a mutual friend) is that she is obsessed with the Real Housewives

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1 year ago

the teen at Staples can’t print my flyer because their computer keeps crashing. the AT&T worker can’t update my plan because his tablet keeps crashing. these are ELECTRONICS COMPANIES. how lucky we are to live in a time where decades of corporate disinvestment in labor are coming home to roost

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1 year ago
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It feels like this

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1 year ago

I love going to the laundromat and smiling at children and holding doors open for people or them for me and taking a little walk around and sipping my tea while the machines run. just a happy little critter in a little society experiencing a happy little hour in time.

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1 year ago

I got my steps today in the neighborhood I live in, distributing flyers for the neighborhood coalition I’m part of creating, bringing money for improvement and events into our area, bitch I participated today and I’ll participate tomorrow

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1 year ago

I am continually surprised by my straightness like this can’t be real

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1 year ago

Absolutely - the gesture being made in a bad attempt at edgy humor does not make it any less inappropriate.

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1 year ago

Everyone was angry and uncomfortable to some degree or another. I would have said something if the regular hadn’t, but it was a very tense and complicated interaction. He claimed to hate Nazis and was just making fun, but I agree with my friend, the display was unnecessary and triggering.

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1 year ago

Varied. Some fell silent. Lots of wide eyed glances at me (bartender) to confirm that it was uncomfortable. A Native friend of mine who is a regular there spoke up first and said “you don’t need to do that here” and the Polish guy was defensive, played dumb even, but backed down eventually.

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1 year ago

Bartending at the fall of the American empire is a tricky business

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1 year ago

randomly an older Polish man found himself in my inland northwest cocktail bar tonight. Dude thought it would be funny to do some fake sieg heils while dancing like “this is what the nazis do” and, well, people reacted. It was a cultural historical maelstrom. It was a fucking mess

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1 year ago
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mending, bourbon, and true crime to self-soothe

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1 year ago

And mediating dementia arguments about how to pay for assisted living may not show up as calories burned in the Health app but believe me, it’s not without its consequences

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1 year ago

24/7 care of two ailing octogenarians is not light work, folks. I’m averaging 6k steps a day just in fetching heating pads back and forth, like, that’s *before* I pace back and forth in the driveway for an hour to regain my sanity after they’re asleep

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1 year ago

forgive me father for I have sinned, it’s been six years since I backed up my computer

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1 year ago
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1 year ago
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“the lake, the lake at dawn”

spray paint, acrylic, fabric, thread, masking tape, screenprint, and inkjet print on found wood
44 1/2 x 48”
2024

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