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It's always wild to me when people are like, "Oh I couldn't be an abolitionist because of all the sexual violence," meanwhile prisons are one of the biggest *sources* of sexual violence. Meanwhile the criminal "justice" system retraumatizes survivors, while the vast majority of rapists are never

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don’t usually share medical stuff because I am not in a position to verify if it is true - but this one caught me. I lost my aunt, the sweetest woman I ever knew, to glioblastoma in 2005. She had a hard life but was always kind. I wonder how the drug would impact those with autoimmune diseases.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Iowa? You mean Idaho? Ohio? Hawkeyes? Hawks? I call perjury on the guy who’s confused by my confusion!!!

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Giving a talk on Naive Art in November and this is a great reminder.

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Harold Richer @haroldricher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Neo luddites gobbo here

A goblin with a sledgehammer on a pile of broken electronic devices. It is written "down with AI ! AI destroys the planet, steals from artists and enriches billionaires"

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is so true it more than hurts.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If someday we find out that this is all a simulation and none of us are real, I hope it turns out that I’m cake and not that I’m AI.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As someone who wrote their thesis on a time period specifically set beginning with the Peasant’s Revolt, the Robin Hood discussion surrounding “The Uprising” is making me so angry. There are *other* folk heroes, people!

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I imagine that all media related to the crawl is garish and bright in the way that is mildly painful to look at, but also exciting.

Princess Donut from the “Dungeon Crawler Carl” books depicted as a fluffy purple cat with pink heart sunglasses and a tiara is shooting lasar beams out of her eyes in this image. Surrounded by the words “Princess Posse” and with an 80s inspired background. No AI. Human drawn by Lauren Bonney.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Before I cut off communication with my birth family they once asked me how I got to be like I am. What they meant to ask, apparently, was how did I become a Macklemore when they raised me to be an Ed Sheeran? They could have tolerated me if I had shut my mouth. I never asked for their tolerance.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The one lynching recorded in the county where I grew up in Michigan was because a white man refused to pay the Black Union Army Veteran working his land & accused him of threatening the white women in his house when he came to collect his pay. The town killed him & named the place Deadman’s Hill.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Before there was Drag Race, us queer kids had reruns of The Cher Show.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In November I’m giving a talk on Naïve Art and how important it is in the age of GenAI. Welcome to the revolution.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The new @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social ads are actively trying to lose my vote.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I come from a family of white supremacists. Raised in it so deep it took me decades to crawl to where I’m @ now. I’ve gone no contact with them to cut ties w/ that way of life for me & for my children but every day I have to scrape off the lingering threads that bind me to it, and I will forever.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Everything is Illuminated” is an underrated film about family trauma and memory. It’s the most Ukrainian *American* film I’ve seen but I’d love other recommendations. It’s a film about immigration and refugees. Here’s an illustration of the moment before the revelation I did this morning.

Image of a person walking on a path between fields of sunflowers to a small home with white washing hung to dry in the sunlight. Above text reads “Everything is Illuminated”. The image captures a scene from the film by the same name. Illustration by Lauren Bonney without the use of AI.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When I tell Boomers it will take generations to recover and they look at me in horror because they want to see the promised land. We will wander the desert till all of you are gone.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“If that counts as sexual assault then almost every woman has been sexually assaulted”. Yes. Bingo. Almost every woman HAS been sexually assaulted. Many of us have had it happen more than once. The problem isn’t the definition, it’s rape culture.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

ADHD woman has a bad day, wonders “what if?”

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you’re over the age of 40 and read smutty monster novels, thank Tim Curry. May he rest in Darkness.

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Tim Curry's Devil Laugh

Alt: Tim Curry's Devil Laugh from the movie “Legend”

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

what a blessing to have living during a time of someone who was so actively kind, who understood that true power and grace have everything to do with how much you give, and nothing to do with how much you can take.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Yesterday I got a text that someone had found my 10yo daughter, alone in a kayak on the river. Her father (my ex) had been so busy with his friends that he didn’t see that she which route she took around an island. He left my 7yo son alone on a bank to look for her. No one had phones. 1/

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Still thinking about the Luddites I came across this. How fascinating it is to watch what might be the germ of a neo-Luddite movement around surveillance technology. And a guy writing a nudge-wink, fuck-the-man, banger of a country song makes me feel American in a way that for once isn’t pejorative.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Begging folks to wake up and realize that the massive increase in food borne illness and infectious diseases is not an accident. This was always the goal. The regime removed protections because they want “the vulnerable” to die. Fascism and eugenics go hand in hand.

cnn.com

Foodborne illness outbreaks are especially bad this summer | CNN

Federal data suggests that this is a particularly bad summer for foodborne illness outbreaks in the US.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️

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sarah l. hawthorn (A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING '26) @slhawthorn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

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!

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

“Desk Set” from 1957 perfectly explains how the human element is in control of computers and that computers will give you bad information whenever they can. It’s an anti AI, pro tech film. Plus the two leads are charming, undiagnosed neurodivergent adults.

Emerac, the computer from the movie “Desk Set”, with text beneath. A line from Katherine Hepburn in response to the bleeps and bloops made my the computer as it calculates reading “Bope bope a dope to you.”

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My ex left both our kids unattended in cars so he could go shopping inside of buildings alone. Each time they were <2yo. The first got iced in bc it was so cold out. The second got spotted & reported to authorities. I couldn’t get full custody. The courts don’t want kids to miss out on “dad time.”

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Family courts favor abusive fathers at the expense of women and children’s lives, because the court system disbelieves abuse victims. www.law.gwu.edu/fathers-are-...

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"Fathers Are Favored In Child Custody Battles, Even When Abuse Is Alleged" | GW Law | The George Washington University

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Most of the land in most farm counties is owned by 1-5 families. They run the place like their own personal kingdoms. There is SO much resentment and straight-up fury about this in rural areas. The fact that no political party's even really trying to speak to it is wild.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you’ve watched more than six times Hard mode: No Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, any Marvel, Disney, or Studio Ghibli

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Six String Samurai Face Kick

Alt: Six String Samurai Face Kick

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Glen Hansard @glenhansard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

With broken hearts we announce the passing of Glen Hansard in the early hours of this morning. We are still dealing with the shock of it all, so we kindly ask that the privacy of Glen’s family, colleagues and friends is respected at this difficult time. . Photo by Mikolaj Rotowski

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Giant employer of immigrants in NE Iowa, in the same town a massive immigration raid in 2008 rounded up hundreds. It was so traumatic that birthrates in immigrant communities across Iowa dropped. Now immigrants will be pushed through structural barriers to collect aid at the risk of their freedom.

decorahnews.com

Major Fire at Agri Star Plant in Postville; Smoke Advisory Issued, Hundreds of Jobs Potentially Impacted

The cause of Tuesday's fire has not yet been released, and it is unclear when the facility may be able to resume operations.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Prisons don’t solve problems. When the enslavement of incarcerated individuals was enshrined in our constitution the systemic oppression and targeting of marginalized people - most notably Black people - was assured in perpetuity as a means for white wealth to grow. Abolition now and forever.

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Be Jay, Do Crimes. @templinjay.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Since this is growing some legs, it’s probably a good time to point out that you have a food bank near you, and it’s better to donate money than canned goods- they can stretch your dollar way further than you can. And they always need volunteers, for those of us who have more time than money.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

just heard a foundation declare its mission as reducing "polarization" as though there's some sweet spot halfway between white supremacy/radical inequality/climate denial and the opposite we should all aim for. There isn't. Been railing against it forever.

theguardian.com

Stop glorifying ‘centrism’. It is an insidious bias favoring an unjust status quo | Rebecca Solnit

The notion of a neutral and moderate middle is a prejudice of people for whom the system is working, against those for whom it’s not

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Underpainting is so key in all my character designs. It reflects the personality of the character and by letting it bleed through I can give them a glow. This is what it looks like in an unfinished piece. Vibrant peach beneath rust and steel blue. No genAI, just digital painting.

Digital work in progress of a fantasy being with horns and wings and glasses.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Some days the most you can do is repeat “Help. Help. Help.” Silently ad infinitum. And when you learn about chronic illness and flare days and burnout it makes a little more sense. It doesn’t go away, but it makes more sense. And you know who to ask for help. And you hope tomorrow is better.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The feeling when you have had a CSA share with your local farmers for years & can get salad mix and blueberries without fear of parasites. Not everyone can grow their own food. Not everyone can afford to buy local. When I was using the food pantry produce was always a problem. Help others. Now.

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