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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Just a little doodle in honor of Sandwich Guy being found not guilty.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I just need to share how my cat lays on the back of the couch. Behold the Tangie Sploot.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Today I had to sit on hold with my health insurance while they sort out with my provider why one of my claims wasn’t paid. Apparently they can’t do that unless I sit on hold the whole time while they confer. There is no more perfect time to sit and draw a historically accurate medieval trebuchet.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This was an installation I made in Boston back in 2019. I wish it wasn’t still relevant and needed. But it is.

Image of a side view of the Boston Public Garden’s Make Way for Ducklings bronze sculpture piece by Nancy Schön, with mother duck Mrs. Mallard followed by her 8 baby ducklings. The bronze ducks are covered with cages made from chicken wire and pvc pipe by artist Karyn Alzayer, with each duckling wrapped in a small mylar blanket. There are 2 baby ducklings per cage, with Mrs. Mallard caged alone, a total of 5 cages.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

That mural panel I have been working on finally got installed!

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

My submission for America: Nature's Gift mural mosaic. My assigned palette was Warm. Can’t wait to see the final mural! connect.muralmosaic.com

A stylized painting of the Boston skyline with a red and orange sunset.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

On slow days, sometimes I like to henna things I find on the ground. Today there were lots of goose feathers on the ground near where I set up my tent at the farmers market.

A collection of 4 Canada Goose feathers spread out on a purple tablecloth with henna designs drawn on them, and a henna cone nearby.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I keep thinking about how women are most at risk of being murdered by abusive men after they've decided to leave the relationship and it's not exactly a subtle comparison to what's being done to the USA at the moment

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We said arts are vital. But instead this all has to be real. We all could have enjoyed movies, ballets, plays, books, poetry, music, art, etc exploring this subject. But no. Now we have to live it just so there will be a story to tell. WE COULD HAVE JUST MADE UP A STORY, YOU ABSOLUTE RIVER ROCKS

Screenshot of a post by user Sonny Bunch from 4/7/25 that says: It will never cease to amaze that Americans basically just got bored of having the best lives on the planet so they elected a lunatic to blow it up in the hopes of building some microwave factories for their children to find meaning in.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Did some henna for myself this week. #artist

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Robert G. Reeve @robertgreeve.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead” even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.

On her first day in the facility, Becky asked for a scrap of paper and a pen, and began to draw the inmates on the table next to her. She was immediately inundated with portrait requests. A Mexican woman called Lopez, who had a photo of her children stored on one of the iPads, told Becky she would buy her some paper and colouring pencils from the commissary if Becky drew her kids. She soon became the dorm’s unofficial artist-in-residence, with women huddling around the dirty mirrors to make themselves look presentable before they sat for her. They would decorate their cells with Becky’s drawings, or send them to their families. Lopez declared herself Becky’s manager. “She kept saying, ‘Becky, you need to ask for stuff in exchange. Ask for popcorn.’ And I’d be like, ‘Lopez, I don’t need anything.’ I thought, I’m here briefly, you’re stuck here a long time. I’m not going to take your food away from you.”

A three by three grid illustrating in blue pen cartoon portraits of women in an ICE detention center. “Mrs Kailey,” Bana, Lewelyn, Ikram, Asil, ‘Auntie,’ ‘F.Z,’ Kseniia, and “P.A.” Two have light hair, three have glasses, one wears a hijab, one poses, and one holds a drink.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I know most of the news is awful, but I’m painting this mural panel. And it’s going poorly in so many ways (part of why it’s now in my dining room instead of my garage). But I’m still at it, and I’m pretty proud of how it’s looking so far. #painting

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an indoor cat in possession of a good home (with the freshest water and highest quality food) must be in want of the paint water. #painting

A cat standing on a painters dropcloth in front of a mural panel, preparing to drink out of the dirty paint water container.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I was going to get the train today. But I am increasingly concerned at the deficit I’m running with Great Northern Rail. I buy a lot from them and they purchase nothing from me. Tempted to apply a 20% tariff. Sure my tickets will cost 20% more but it might mean I buy fewer and reduce the deficit.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 02/04/2025

Solid advice. Keep your eye on the future victory, not the temporary doom.

Sidewalk chalk message says: "Start imagining the revolution. Stop imagining the apocalypse."

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This is a cast I took of myself just prior to my double mastectomy. Covered with fabric pieces and painted with henna-style designs. I’m pretty proud of how it came out. #acrylics #decoupage

A plaster cast of a torso, covered in galaxy print fabric with an overlay of floral henna style designs in metallic silver paint.

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John Chen @johnchen.com.au · 29/03/2025

hear hear

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

It would be great if we could collectively stop asking people if they’re pregnant. I’m just fat. Please stop asking.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Community building unravels fascism. You don’t have to start from scratch with building community though! Find a local nonprofit and ask what volunteer help they need. They’re all struggling with decreased funding. Good advice🧵

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Something I finished recently. Acrylic on canvas #AcrylicPainting #CanvasArt

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

For anyone else with chronic GI issues.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 20/03/2025

Jamie Raskin asks citizens to mail in a request for Freedom of Information Act regarding DOGE accessing your social security information. Just print the form, mail it to DOGE, and then get on a list for Raskin to alert you to updates about the request. jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

My two pieces currently on display for "Our Warming Planet: “Visions of a Sustainable Future.” I’m pretty proud of how both of these came out. Above, Fox Skull; Below, Bobcat Skull. Henna on bone.

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dalzay.bsky.social @dalzay.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Chuck Schumer is an imperative sentence. Chuck him.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

My submission for America Together: Nature's Reflection mural mosaic. My assigned color this time was green-this is what I came up with. You should do one, it’s super fun! connect.muralmosaic.com

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Whenever I go to bake, I forget how happy it makes the baking powder. I really should do it more often. Sorry you’ve been neglected so long my friend.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Artists have a unique power to inspire change. Not just to help people feel on a visceral level the weight of problems, but also to communicate the near endless possibilities for solutions, and energize people to take action. As an artist, it’s my duty to do that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIpu...

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In Malden, artist Karyn Alzayer says "you can’t have rebirth without letting go of the old”

YouTube video by CivicSciTV Network

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Just a little bit of henna for tonight.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We start with one day so that it can lead to another, and another, and another.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Just got an email from SSA on their Slam the Scam campaign. Included was a link to report scams directly to them. I went ahead and reported DOGE and Musk through their portal. You can too, here is the link: secure.ssa.gov/oig/scam/

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Report Scams | Office of Inspector General

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Not feeling very celebratory these days, but decided to do some henna for myself to honor some small wins in my own life.

Image of a person’s hand and arm with henna designs, laid across their lap.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Year of the snake and year we take back the Gadsden flag.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I miss that tiny sliver in the 90s when every electric device had a retractable cord on it. Why did we stop doing that?

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

At this point, class-action settlements from tech companies’ malfeasance is becoming a legit passive income stream.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Is there some rule somewhere that smoke alarms only start the low-battery chirp in the middle of the night?

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Staying with the in-laws for a few days, and enjoying the unintentional Chappell Roan reference in their all-pink guest room.

Photo of a pink bottle of automatic spray freshener titled Pink Peony, with the caption “I’m gonna keep on dancing at the pink peony club.”

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I mean, a folding chair could also work too.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Every time I see something about the incoming DOGE, my brain translates it as Department of Governmental Enshittification. Seems accurate.

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Karyn Alzayer @kalzayer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Just joined here and so far my feed is almost exclusively photos of star clusters, galaxies, nebulas, sunsets, and the moon. Definitely not complaining, but I gotta say, I didn’t expect such a literal take.

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