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thinking "whatever happened to good art collectives" lately but so many of my peers are atomized and obsessed with making art that is only reflective of their "lived experiences", their specific intersections of identities, and being idiosyncratic to the end of making sure they don't speak for anyone else or at least speak so abstractly that they speak for no one. like listen to me i'm an authentic voice no one else can speak for me to the point of no connection. bastardized ideas about consciousness raising that turns collaboration and constructive criticism into moral vivisection or platitudes. there's no curiosity here. you can't be in conversation with other artists when you're so anxious about being a closed off identity

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found this sick keyboard at the thrift store and the mouse that comes with it is sick too

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hi i compiled a bunch of unfinished tadc art/sillier stuff ive done within the last while that im p sure ill never get around to polishing

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sorry ragatha! ocd ptsd combo move NOW!

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She’s 30. To me.

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Public Pool Spandau Nord - Eline Brontsema , 2024.

Dutch, b. 1988 -

Woodcut, 71.2 x 47.9 cm. Ed. 23.

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Btw, you can donate to menstrual hygiene kits for Sudanese women, which I would highly recommend if you can

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/padsforpeace/

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I think it's so funny how we bred JOBS into dogs. I have two shih tzus and they were bred to be lap dogs. All they care about is looking cute and cuddling with people. Meanwhile my grandma has a border collie and that dog needs to feel so useful all the time, he acts like he will pass away if he doesn't have a job to do constantly

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Actually full disclosure until like a couple months ago I thought that Severance and Succession were the same thing. They're both three-syllable titles that start with S and from the scattered posts I saw on my dash appeared to involve mostly people looking very distraught in business-y environments. Eventually I started to pick up on the sci-fi stuff but for a while I was just like "Man, this family is even more fucked up than I thought!"

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I might make an art blog cuz I wanna draw and post again. 2024 was shit for me and 2025 ain't looking too good either but at least I don't have "art block" anymore. Art block in quotes cuz it felt way deeper than art block. Anyway I should have made one sooner but this blog was originally an art blog so youknow.

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Full moon Cats on rooftop by Paul Bransom, 1885-1979

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Friedrich von Amerling, Liegender Setter (1836)

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it has been interesting seeing the tides turn back from people criticizing the education system to making fun of individuals for lacking knowledge (eg. the meme like "actually, they told us about the scramble for Africa in hs, but you were too busy doodling.") have you noticed this too/ any thoughts?

i think that those points aren't very kind, but are in many ways not only correct but expressing rightful frustration at (mostly white) students' selective memory for historical events/general knowledge, contingent upon whether or not they believe said information applies to them. like, i'd wager the average high school aged kid in africa probably has more knowledge of the scramble for africa (though they may not know it in normative u.s. textbook terms) than many u.s. students, despite a nominally more "developed" educational system. why? bc when you're living in a multiply-colonized society facing the material impacts of said ongoing colonialism every day....this shit is not avoidable. you know it whether you want to or not. meanwhile, many of those living in the imperial core - at least for now - can literally and figuratively tune out the violent realities that they (we) are party to + beneficiaries of. in a choice between being razzed for not paying attention in school, and having my community razed, enslaved, and stripped of resources in order to satisfy colonial greed....well, i'm gonna taking the razzing any day, even if it seems mean.

i also think the age dynamics here are worth noting: people say this to each other from adult to adult, typically because the ignorant adult claims that the u.s. educational system alone is at fault for their lack of knowledge (always concentrated around issues of empire and white supremacy and, curiously, never about the fandom they happen to be obsessed with....). except...no. because they're adults with an internet connection - the accusation that they were "doodling in history class" is a gesture at a broader set of decisions to remain ignorant & incurious long after history class/high school has ended. maybe your school taught you about the scramble for africa (most likely it was at least mentioned) and maybe not. but in a conversation between adults on a global internet, with free resources only keystrokes away (and in many cases bundled and handed to us by public scholars) the choice to "keep doodling" is an active one and a political one, and the blame rests on the shoulders of the privileged who refuse to learn about empire's "Others".

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art block sob emoji

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So... I promised myself I was going to cut back on the politics posts, because I need to protect my mental peace. But this one...

ICE has reportedly been picking up members of the Navajo Nation, as well as members of other Native nations, in urban areas of Arizona and telling them that they do not accept either state IDs or Certificates of Indian Blood (CIBs) as proof of U.S. citizenship. ICE is detaining them as having no identifiable U.S. citizenship.

So, you know.... the actual, true native citizens of the soil we call the United States. Yeah.