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A high heel from the rear so the heel is closest to the viewer. Everything is in shades of blue ink.

At this rate it’s going to be renamed shoetober because I can’t leave the shoe alone. Amsterdam acrylic ink in phthalo blue. Pen and brush on watercolor paper. #inktober #inktober2025

Frey is not a "security blanket" unless your idea of security is one that doesn't include unhoused people.

A high heeled shoe in shades of purple.

Inktober day eight. I didn’t like the prompt again so I decided to branch out and do the shoe in purple. Daler-Rowney acrylic ink in purple lake on toned watercolor paper. #inktober #inktober2025

Ink drawing of a chocolate chip starfish. It’s a five legged starfish in a pale orange with a reddish center that looks like it’s got chocolate chips around the center and down her arms, they’re probably teeth or similar.

And this one catches me up to yesterday, which is as good as it gets until I make today’s art. The prompt was “starfish”, this gal is a chocolate chip starfish. Daler-Rowney ink in autumn gold and volcano red, Sennelier pre-filled black brush pen, and a Uniball. #inktober #inktober2025

A deer from the shoulders up gives the viewer the stinkeye. The ear to the left has a black smudge where the ink ran.

Oops, that was day six. Here’s day five, the prompt was “deer”. This is what happens when I have to post a bunch of stuff and it’s not in the same sketchbook, it gets out of order. This is all Sennelier pre-filled brush pens and a watercolor brush on watercolor paper. #inktober #inktober2025

Red and black ink drawing of a red high heeled shoe.

Inktober day five. Just when you thought I was done with the shoe, I got a prompt I wasn’t into. Darker-Rowney acrylic ink in crimson and Sennelier black pre-filled ink pen on toned watercolor paper. #inktober #inktober2025

A sailboat on a calm sea under the moon, with most of the page showing a giant female anglerfish lurking underwater. Little fish are fleeing the anglerfish. Everything is in green tones.

Inktober day four, prompt was “murky” so that obviously an excuse to draw a giant anglerfish. Daler- Rowney acrylic ink, Sennelier pre-filled ink pen, and white out on toned paper. #inktober #inktober2025

A drawing of a crown in pen and colored ink.

Inktober day three, the prompt was “crown” and I used it. If I were better at people I’d have drawn Coronabeth but I’m not so I didn’t. Ink and pen on watercolor paper. #inktober #inktober2025

Cartoony drawing of a cat’s face. The cat is thin and glaring at the viewer.

Inktober day two. I ignored the prompt to draw G’s cat, she got a photo that was irresistible and then I didn’t draw anything else that day so here it is. Daler-Rowney ink in antelope brown. #inktober #inktober2025

A teacup and saucer in shades of brown.

Inktober! I had a stupid phone issue for a few days so I’m behind on posting but it is resolved now so here we go. This is Daler-Rowney ink in… antelope, I think. I wanted to see if I could shade it like I was using watercolor. #inktober #inktober2025

I love your writing but wish you would put alt text on stuff like this. It is unreadable on my phone, and unreadable for people using screen readers. Not all of us are reading on a full-sized screen or with our eyes.

You'd have thought lying about your evidence should be a major red flag

(from here archive.ph/2025.10.06-1...)

Veterans Affairs doctors banned from writing surgery referrals to private providers for trans vets “Stripping that basic medical function away is not about cost or bureaucracy, it’s about punishment,” executive director of Minority Veterans of America Lindsay Church told The Advocate.

The Veterans Affairs Department press secretary directed me to Doug Collins’s comments that “if veterans want to attempt to change their sex, they can do so on their own dime.”

These trans vets are trying to do that by getting referrals to non-government doctors.

www.advocate.com/news/va-doct...

A red high heel seen from an angle, toe towards the viewer.

I’m almost done with this shoe, I promise. Well, for now. It’s going in my studio for future still life purposes. Watercolor and white gel pen on watercolor paper. #watercolor

A script you can use if you’re not good at speaking on the spot.

I'm a lawyer in the disability field. Social Security has been vastly understaffed for the entire length of my professional career and it was only getting worse before DOGE chose to make a mess of it and "cut corners". Pay attention to the people capitalism doesn't value and how they're treated.

Putting soft chairs anywhere that people have to wait. A hard chair isn’t much of an improvement over standing, and waiting in a long line is hell on my joints.

Red high heel in watercolor. The shoe is seen from the side, heel to the left, tag down the center of the sole with a little bleed into the sole where I wasn’t patient enough. The shoe is on toned paper, kind of a beige-tan color.

Red high heel in watercolor on watercolor paper. #watercolor

Her lawyer writes like he’s getting paid by the word.

It doesn’t need a lot of help. What a tea.

A red high heeled shoe seen from the back and a little to the side so the heel is closer to the viewer and then the shoe extends forward and to the left. The shoe casts a shadow behind it and to the right.

Same shoe, different view, cheap movie. Watercolor on watercolor paper, a mix of the set I inherited from my grandmother and a lovely Kuretake set my aunt got me. #watercolor

that's because this is a totally reasonable way to live your life, in thrall to that little bit of bergamot.

I've seen a lot of people misunderstanding what this does and does not mean and Melissa does a great job explaining it's first and foremost a media strategy. Importantly, none of this is new and has been used against other groups and activists (Muslims/Palestinians, BLM, immigrants)

People act like there are only two outcomes to this moment in history: Trump-style neo-confederate fascism wins, or we do. But there's a third, more bleak, more likely option, and it's what we saw after Reagan-Bush: a realignment where this simply becomes the new normal long term.

I'm going to leave this here because I even see a lot of leftists regularly speaking about 'what the country wants' when in fact NO. MOST PEOPLE DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS MAN and LESS THAN 50% of people who voted actually voted for him.

At least 43 outlets shared anti-trans misinfo after Charlie Kirk shooting: TJA | Xtra Magazine A report from the Trans Journalists Association found that 43 outlets published misinformation about “transgender ideology” after Charlie Kirk’s killing

Research conducted by @transjournalists.org “identified 43 outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The Daily Beast running with the disproven stories of a ‘trans shooter’ and ‘trans bullets.’”

A red high heeled shoe, the kind where there’s a bit for the heel and toes but not much in between them. There’s a darker red tag in the middle of the sole. The background is a pale olive.

G found a shoe on the way back from grabbing groceries so we both painted it. Here’s mine. Watercolor on tinted paper. #watercolor

Sometimes little stuff makes a difference, and masking is a way to protect each other AND piss off conservatives. I honestly don't get why it's not more popular as a way to be visibly anti-fascist and engaged in community care.

Mask up when you go out. It’s not nothing and it really helps folks like me be in public at all.

Streisand was trying to get people to stop talking about her and the effect was that her attempts to get people to stop made it worse. That’s not Kimmel’s situation at all, he wasn’t trying to get people to shut up.