Kelli

Creating is resistance.

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

{ mixed media } Courage : art by me inspired by a tutorial from Melanie rivers #art #mixedmedia #paint

Lyse Marion

I love working with charcoal. Charcoal Pine is one of my personal favorites, and many people own a print of it around the world. I love hearing from people who say something like, "I rented a cottage in the mountains and this was hanging on the wall!"

I understand that everything is really fucked up, but I implore you to stop telling people not to make jokes about it. We are hanging on by a thread and some of us have no other means of coping.

Your daily affirmation: If the universe is infinite, then that leaves a lot of room for your nonsense and tomfoolery.

diarrhea Taylor Farms, salmonella chicken parm, bags of frozen blueberries that straight-up kill your ass heavy metal sourdough, listeria soup bowl refreshing summer popsicle that's filled with shards of glass we didn't start the fire...

I don't want email summaries I don't want youtube video summaries I don't want search summaries I don't want anything made by a water-guzzling liar and thief with no mind, soul, or bigger purpose other than making everything around me worse, uglier and warmer. No amount of pop ups will convince me!

Wow! 🥺😭 youtube.com/watch?v=AnbE...

“birthing is hard / and dying is mean” — Langston Hughes

{ poem } sacrificial silence #poetry #poem #writing

{ mixed media collage } scarlet darkness #collage #mixedmedia

{ poem } keyboard space #poem #writing #poetry

{ collage } lucent clarity #collage

{ poem } link pinkies #poem #poetry

Some recent artsy projects.

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

Gen X take no prisoners.

The thing with Gen X and music is that yes we had grunge but we also had rock and funk and hip hop and rap and pop and house and trance and lounge and reggae and soul and Gregorian chants ffs.

How a Clean, Tidy Home Can Help You Survive the Atomic Bomb: A Cold War Film from 1954

This is a supervillain monlogue. I will never understand how anyone can watch this man say things like “a whole civilization will die tonight” and fail to recognize evil when they see it.

“In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.” -Baba Dioum

Langston Hughes

This is monstrous.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "If there was ever a time for Republicans to find their spines, it's now, when the Commander in Chief readily admits that he is choosing to put our troops' lives at risk without a legitimate imminent threat to our homeland or our citizens."

write your bad poetry yourself. bad poetry by humans who tried is cool.

The people that needed a separate halftime show are the same people that needed a separate water fountain.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

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Even in decay SHE offers beauty

You don't need to be great at everything. Specialize instead. Become known for writing erotic haiku about moon ghosts, or folding life-sized origami lions and animating them with dark magic.

Elton John's Tiny Dancer and the bus scene from Almost Famous.

Autumn Leaves, Franklin Booth, 1911.

No matter where you live or if you’ve never protested before, there’s a local No Kings Day event for you. Join a peaceful protest to make it clear that We The People will never bow down to a wannabe king: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Another temporary “Gaza Peace Deal” has been achieved. Hamas and Israel have agreed to cease fighting. In theory Israel should also cease bombing civilians. After more than 60,000 people were killed by Israel, Gaza will be allowed to attempt to rebuild again.

Gemini: Sorry you didn’t get raptured. Jesus was going to bring you until 10,000 people signed a petition against it.

when 2 ICE agents come to abduct our neighbors, Chicagoans can band together and force them to flee. This is deeply embarrassing for ICE/CBP and Greg Bovino and shows how much Trump's war on Chicago relies on their numbers and the willingness of people to look the other way.

Sunday best the church ladies wearing fresh gossip #SenryuSunday #senryu

listening to music in a dark room is a love language

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