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Expressionist, monochromatic painting of Edith Piaf with pale skin and red lips resting her hand against her neck, her eyes closed, surrounded by swirling red hair that blends into a dark red background. Acrylic painting on canvas by Alyssa Elliott, 2012.

I’m really torn. I’ve already painted her, but gifted her to a friend and I want her for my hallway now but I’ve already painted her. 🤔

Think this weekend will finally be spent staying in town and doing cozy activities. First up, a fresh cup of tea and painting with Placebo playing in the background. 🥰

And yet so many still want to run with the narrative that houseless folks are all addicts or mentally unstable. I’m ready for the really unprecedented times where America takes care of *all* Americans.

30% of adult Americans have criminals records. ICE would have found 180 criminals if they RANDOMLY detained Americans

And that’s the rub, everyone wants you to excuse bullshit and bigotry from their faves.

lol but make America healthy again 🤡

Capitalism says productivity is the most important metric in determining value

That you must “earn” everything, even food, housing and healthcare.

How do you earn it? By working until you die.

It teaches people to see children, the elderly & disabled as expendable.

It enriches the wealthy only

Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them

sure sex is great but have you ever supported your artist friends during the holidays by buying their lovely work?

I imagine it would lead to being able to purchase clothes, food, and utilities without the only choices being purchasing from corporate monsters killing the planet or the corporate monsters killing humanity and democracy (and usually also the planet).

Tbh I think these are the exact types who would get into heaven. In order to enjoy heaven you have to cut all ties to empathy, otherwise you’d never be happy knowing that fellow humanity is in eternal agony. Seems pretty on brand to me.

Nothing to see here 🤣😭

Tho truly, it’s lowkey disastrous at times and it took me til my late 20’s to determine the word ‘visualize’ wasn’t a metaphor.

I believe one reason for their disdain for public health is that it is based on and recognizes our interconnectedness as human beings, as inhabitants of this earth, in direct contrast to the dominant culture's emphasis on individualism.

It’s crazy to me that Megyn Kelly is getting more backlash for defending pedophilia than Trump or ANY of the men in these files are getting for DEFENDING AND/OR BEING PEDOPHILES

You wanna know what I'd do if some media figure I like ends up on the Epstein list? I'm gonna forget they ever existed. I've done it before. I will do it again. I've been doing it forever anyway. No cultural object is so sacred that I must keep it in my life if its creator is a monster.

“But you ran on cleaning up the garbage!”

Yes…and people are not garbage. And a lot of the garbage at encampments comes from illegal dumping from housed people.

We should just stop people from becoming homeless in the first place.

People are roasting this lede, but NYM is actually correct to print it. Toilet paper is so scarce in prisons that it is sometimes used as a currency.

It shouldn't be restricted, for any person, but the fact that it isn't for her (and her alone) is a sign of extremely special treatment.

Women aren’t viewed as inherently valuable. We’re not treated as subjects, just reflections, and are apparently only worth discussing when it’s about what we’re doing to or for men.

How do you help someone across the world when a&e keeps sending them home and the home care teams keep rescheduling way out and they can’t get admitted into a psychiatric care center?

For a kinky ladies discord, my babes really do bring their full selves and that is so beautiful and amazing, and so so heavy to help hold at times.

Honestly thinking I should get properly trained to help folks who are in distress/suicidal because even having been there, what are the right words?

This is more insulting than the Dems pretending the voting wasn’t strategic and was instead just a ‘few out of touch Congress members’.

And a few weeks? Lol my anger hasn’t subsided in over nine years, hun.

COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.

There’s nothing quite like the familiarity of your favorite bookstore and the joy of having a chai while reading all cozied up.

The smartest thing a politician can do in 2026 is to come up with a bold plan for shoring up and EXPANDING public libraries. Call it Project 2050. It's a way to reintroduce the grammar of commoning and the commons to a new generation in a way they can easily grasp. Such low hanging fruit.

lol normalize asking people how they're doing after they ask about how you're doing.

That wound was torn open long before then even. We enslaved the people who stewarded this land for a hundred years prior to when we started bringing them over on ships.

don't worry folks, the earth is backed up in the clouds somewhere

It’s endlessly frustrating how search engines have gone to shit; even with AI turned off it is so cumbersome to find what I’m looking for when it’s very specific.

Three children were killed by lawn darts in the 70’s and they were banned in the US.

ChatGPT has caused how many deaths at this point?

If corporations are people, why aren’t we holding them criminally liable?

The most corrupt administration in American history.