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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

Part of what happens with this strict separation between "policing" and "immigration enforcement" is the refusal to connect the dots on a child being shot in Mississippi and a father being shot in front of his child in NYC because this Black guy happens to be from Senegal.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Everything's wet and it hasn't even rained yet. More video in Peter's 🧵

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"It’s a city living under military occupation." 🧵 Invisible to most of us, but terrorizing people in the cities where they're deployed.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Challenge accepted. I give myself a year. Maybe I'll just diagram all the steps first. 😂😇

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A 🧵 of joy for a Saturday morning. Thank you, Gina.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My mother? Bagpipes? Ouija board? Transistor radio tuned to a ballgame? Sketchbook? Pizza? Whoopie Cushion?

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My self portrait as Mont Sainte-Victoire. #Art #ArtofBluesky #Pastel #Drawing #SelfPortrait

Artwork by @inasketch
self portrait as Mont Sainte-Victoire
pastel, 9x12 inches
Inspired by Cezanne's Mont Saint-Victoire, 1902-06, where my head and face become the mountain, my shoulders and bust are the foreground, appearing to be underground.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Kind of a dumb one, but my daughters & I enjoy The Big Year and would love to see it with a female cast. So, topically, I'll pick the cast of 9 to 5, with Jane Fonda playing Steve Martin's role, Dolly Parton playing Jack Black's role, and Lily Tomlin playing Owen Wilson's role.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Heh. #wrongtakeaway I read this and thought, "Wow, they make five different sizes of chocolate eyeballs? That's commitment to the bit." The following paragraph (not shown here) clears it up: five different size *packages* of eyeballs. Oh well, a girl can dream. 🎃👁️🍫

A screenshot of text that reads:
Halloween Chocolatey Eyeballs
On Aug. 31, Crystal Temptations recalled five sizes of its Halloween Chocolatey Eyeballs because the products contained whey, a milk-derived ingredient that was not disclosed on the packaging. People with a milk allergy or severe sensitivity could experience a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume the candy.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here's the #comic I made for the 20th anniversary.

A four-panel comic by @inasketch
Black ink/fountain pen line art
Panel 1) Looking up at the Twin Towers from below.
Panel 2) A woman with a bicycle over her shoulder descending flights of stairs. The text reads: "one time when i worked on the eleventh floor in an art gallery on 57th street, we had to evacuate because of fire. i carried my bike down those eleven flights. i think about the firefighters who flirted with me that day."
Panel 3) Philippe Petit walking on the tightrope he rigged between the two towers in August 1974.
Panel 4) A woman wearing an I <3 NY shirt stand with her hands in her pockets, with the New York skyline behind her. The text reads: "from the supreme court installing bush to the towers coming down to war propaganda and torture and televised bombings and executions to conspiracy theories, america lost its mind twenty years ago and we still haven't found it."

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Also a single mom, I had a one year old and a home daycare. It wasn't until the first mom came to pick up her baby that afternoon and said, "You don't know what's happened, do you?" that I heard about it. I waited until after I put my baby to bed that night before I turned on the news.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of the times my mom visited me in college. It was the first I'd heard of polar vortex. She has dementia now, otherwise I would ask her what the hell is in that bag & did she really drag it all over New York?!

A woman stands in heroic pose (or braced against the wind?) on the docks in NYC with water behind her, and behind that, the skyline of lower Manhattan, including the World Trade Center. She is bundled up against the cold, with a scarf covering the lower part of her face. She holds a very large bag at her side.

A woman with hat, scarf, gloves, and long coat sits on a low wall in front of the World Trade Center. She waves to the camera. Next to her is a very large bag.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here's the #comic I made for the 20th anniversary.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This reminds me of going to PS1 Museum in the previous century, before their renovations & merger, when you'd walk down the hall, see an abandoned piece of rusty equipment and a shredded extension cord and wonder if it was part of the art installation. Ah, the good old days. #Art

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's a lovely rainy morning in southern California. Here's a comic I made when I first moved back here. Now that I've been back for several years, the thrill of a rainy day has returned. ☔ #comics #ArtOfBluesky #ItNeverRainsInCalifornia

A four-panel comic by @inasketch
Ink & watercolor
Panel 1) A woman stands looking out a window. The text reads:
"It rained last night."
"Since I'm staying at my mom's, I instinctively went to the window to check the gutter."
Panel 2) A young girl in pink pajamas looks out the window* at a car approaching the gutter swelled with rainwater. The text reads:
"Growing up here, it was a big thrill when it rained enough to flood the gutter."
Panel 3) The girl jumps excitedly, with arms and braids flying, when the car drives through the flooded gutter making huge waves, The text reads:
"It was especially exciting when a car turned the corner."
Panel 4) The woman from the first panel, now outside in a yellow raincoat, with an umbrella, doing her best impersonation of Gene Kelly's dance, splashing water with her foot along the curb, and singing, "I'm singin' in the rain..." The text reads:
"After years of living in New England, it's funny to me that rain was the big weather event as a kid."
*It's the same window view in panel 1 and panel 2, but my mom remodeled at some point. So the current window (panel 1) is fancy with brown wood, an almost a bay window shape, and a curtain across the bottom half. The old window (panel 2) is flush to the wall and painted off white.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Heh. I was voted "Best Personality" and "Friendliest" in my 8th grade class at a K-8 school. When the teacher told me, she said I had to pick one... So, yeah, I may've peaked in 8th grade. #Bluesky #PutMeInCoach

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Before I read the text of this Mike Luckovich comic, I noticed the similarity of its composition with a panel from a four-panel comic of mine that I made in a Friday Night Comics workshop a few years ago, illustrating some song lyrics we chose. Of course I chose Townes Van Zandt. #comics #whiskey

Panel 4 from the four-panel comic by @inasketch
Ink & watercolor.
A small yellow house on a hill, with one tree on the left. A figure stumbles down the hill holding a bottle and a glass. The sun is rising. The text reads, "early in the morning. ~townes van zandt"

A four-panel comic by @inasketch with the text provided by lyrics from the Townes Van Zandt song, Dollar Bill Blues.
Ink and watercolor.
Panel 1) A man in a blue flannel shirt spilling his glass of whiskey, drunkenly stumbles into a table, sending the whiskey bottle flying. There is a chair knocked over on the floor. The text reads:
whiskey
be my dyin' bed
Panel 2) Now he's stumbled into the bedroom where a woman is sleeping. He says, "tell me where to lay my head"
Panel 3) She wakes and says, "not with me" and the text reads "is all she said"
Panel 4) A small yellow house on a hill, with one tree on the left. A figure stumbles down the hill holding a bottle and a glass. The sun is rising. The text reads, "early in the morning. ~townes van zandt"

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026

Anyway that’s how you wind up in this rhetorical game of whack-a-mole where every concept associated with Black people is transformed into a “politically divisive” term to be avoided- DEI, woke, defund, CRT, intersectionality, identity politics, police and prison abolition, affirmative action etc-

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

10 Things I Dislike Immensely* About You *the phrase my mom would always offer as correction when I said I hate someone/something

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I was hoping this was the time she told the story I referenced earlier, I looked up the whole interview. It's worth watching. 💗

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Dolly Parton - Here You Come Again - Full Interview (Carson Tonight 1977)

YouTube video by Dolly Parton HD

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A favorite bit of hers, that I've been unable to find on youtube, is from the Carson show, when she spoke of getting fan letters, even nasty ones, and one said, "You dress like a slut. You wear too much makeup, etc." Dolly added, "That's the last time I heard from mama."

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Funny, I made this comic about the creepy sexualizing of robots, and now it looks like the last panel was prophetic. #comics #art

A four panel comic by @inasketch
Panel 1) guy on a date with a cylinder-shaped robot. He says, "I thought you'd be more attractive when I agreed to this date!"
Panel 2) The robot replies, "I am a fully functional I-25 prepared to satisfy your needs. Why do men always imagine robots as sexy young women??"
Panel 3) The guy responds, "But... But... Casella, Rosey, Seven of Nine, Kristanna, Fembots! I want my dream girl!!"
Panel 4) The robot has shape-changed into his mother, and says, "Junior! Don't be disrespectful!" He falls out of his chair, "AHHHHHH!" The text reads, "Is that better?!"

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I had a college internship w/ Joan at the end of the last century. Working with her on her PS1 installation (and photographing it for her), hanging out in her Soho loft, meeting cool people (including flirting with Willem Dafoe), was an experience of a lifetime. I'm happy she's still telling tales!

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Today's my daughter's birthday. Thursday is the day we get in the food pantry line at 6:30. They open at 8. They put a box in your car & there's a shelf of oddities from which to choose one thing. Today there was a cake. I'm grateful for generous friends and for this sweet gift from the universe.

A beautiful white-frosted cake with assorted berries on top. My daughter has placed six candles on the cake, and I lit them, ready to sing.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As a kid, I used to sing this, complete with the Ruby Keeler "yoo-hoo-hoo-hoo"s. My daughter inherited all my dad's old songbooks, and she's been playing it on the trumpet. 💗🎺🎶

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Footlight Parade | Human Waterfall | Warner Archive

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Classics

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thank you so much to everyone who has donated & shared my link. I am very grateful. I'm trying to raise enough for a moving van & storage unit for our belongings before we move into our car on the 31st. I'm scared & stunned that it's come to this. Any amount helps. Thank you for considering it.

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Donate to Help Ina's Family Make A Fresh Start, organized by Ina Lina

I'm Ina. I have spent the last five years caring for my mother who has dementia. Due to … Ina Lina needs your support for Help Ina's Family Make A Fresh Start

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdInABush — any bird in a hedge/bush. California Quail, 2026 📷 by my daughter using an iphone8 through binoculars #Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife

A California quail sticking its head out of the lovely pink flowers of native buckwheat.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Mekka is right of course. The woman in this old comic of mine from when covid vaccines were being rolled out is not technically my relative, but she is a racist ivermectin sipper. Even last year when my stepdad was hospitalized w/ covid & was very sick for months, she denied it was real. #Comics

A four-panel comic by @inasketch
Ink & watercolor
Panel 1) In my mom's living room. I'm standing, holding my coffee cup. Another woman is sitting on the couch. Written in cursive over the scene is: "my mom and my stepdad's sister were having a discussion that sounded dangerously political. my mom turned to me for help. so i asked our houseguest the important question that no one else had asked." I ask, "Are you vaccinated?" She responds by asking, "Are you?"
Panel 2) We are now face to face. I say, "Yes." She says nothing (there's a word balloon with three dots).
Panel 3) Same scene as above. I ask, "ARE YOU?" She says, "No I'm not and I never will be."
Panel 4) Close up on me. I say, "At least now I know what we're dealing with." She's morphed into a maga hat, and asks, "What are you dealing with?" I say, "You're sharing a bathroom with my daughters who've only had one shot." She says, "There is no pandemic. I saw on the internet that one of the vaccines is making people sterile." I say, "I'd like to make some people sterile."

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

As I've mentioned, I'm rereading all my old diary comics since I'm not really making comics right now and feel bad about it. So anyway. Here's another post by Tressie that reminded me of another comic of mine... #PleaseClap #Comics #Dementia

A four-panel comic by @inasketch
Ink & watercolor
Panel 1) Mom and I in the garage. She's leaning over her table saw and I'm waving my hands in a "No" gesture. The top text box reads: "Yesterday my mom couldn't remember how to turn on her table saw." Mom says, "I think it's this button right here." The bottom text box reads: "I convinced her not to use it."
Panel 2) Mom and I are outside under her fuyu tree. I'm holding a long 2x4 that I'm trying to fit under a branch for support. Mom has her arms raised in a guidance gesture. She says, "Over just a little more." The bottom text box reads: "We were making supports for the fuyu's fruit-laden branches."
Panel 3) I've gotten the board in place and turned to face my mom. I say, "That was hard. I want a little applause." Mom, clapping, says, "You deserve a beer."
Panel 4) I'm in a grocery store, in the beer aisle, reaching for a bottle. The top text box reads: "Later that day, shopping at Tokyo Central with my daughter..." My thought bubble reads, "Hmm... Nice idea, mom."

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This reminds me of a time when I was driving across country, a guy pulled up next to me at a rest stop, commented on my bumper stickers, and said he had to ask, "Do you believe in the 2nd amendment?" For my safety, I refrained from saying, "Dude, it's not Santa Claus!" Instead I said, "Yes. Do you?"

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Pictures are working again! Post something stupid from your phone. [I thought for a second I didn't have anything stupid on my phone 😇 ] #Skills #Metaphor

A photo of a red t-shirt on a hanger in a thrift store (I did not buy it, alas). On the left, it says "MY SKILLS:" above a laughy cool guy emoji with a game-thingy. On the right it says "YOUR SKILLS:" above a surprised frowny poop emoji with a game-thingy.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And now we're cooking together. She's making focaccia, and I'm making eggplant & bok choy with lemon. I splashed a little water in the pan before I put the lid on to help things cook. She said, "I want all that liquid gone."

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The Dude Stirring His Drink

Alt: The Dude Stirring His Drink

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Talking with my daughter earlier today, I made a CUNY/SUNY mixup, and I feel like pretty soon the grasshopper is gonna snatch the pebble from my hand... #Old

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is my contribution to the Tillie Walden discourse, from when she hosted a Friday Night Comics workshop with The Believer magazine, before SAW took it over. I look forward to reading her book. #Comics #ArtOfBluesky #Art #Portrait #Vermont

A comic portrait by @inasketch in ink, watercolor, and color pencil of Tillie Walden as she hosted a zoom comics workshop. She is wearing a knit hat and glasses. A door and some bits of her workspace are also depicted. Under her portrait are the words:
tillie walden
DRAWING
WORLDS
THE BELIEVER

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is a comic I made 5 years ago yesterday. I had breakfast with my mom at her favorite diner this morning. She leaves out a lot more nouns and verbs in her stories now. She still enjoys a tasty breakfast, though, and for that I'm grateful. #Comics #Dementia #ArtOfBluesky

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hi. I'm the stone stairs to the basement record shop you would've fallen backwards down as you laughingly watched your adorable new-walking one year old daughter playfully pushing her stroller toward you on the city sidewalk.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Pin-tailed whydahs are so cool. Video by my daughter. #Birds #BirdsOfBluesky #Nature

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Her: I'm lost. Me: You've given me an earworm. "Lost and alone on some forgotten highway..." Her: I thought you'd sing "I'm a rollin' stone all alone and lost..." Me: I consider it a parenting success that Hank Williams is in your brain. I'm embarrassed my brain went to John Denver first. #Music

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