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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

It’s AI. Bluebirds don’t snuggle like that. Also those are both males because AI can’t tell that most songbirds are sexually dimorphic

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

What’s a poster you had in your room growing up?

Photo of a medieval tapestry depicting a unicorn in a circular fenced pen under a tree

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I’ll follow you! I think you have to go into your preferences and let anyone send you friend requests and follows. I just looked at mine and saw it was set to nobody allowed to friend me

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Coming up for air from bad cold/power outage/solo parenting with a sketch of the hellebores in my yard

A drawing of hellebores, an early-blooming flower, done with magenta, green, and white ink and watercolor, on chartreuse paper

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 18/04/2025

People, who due to autism or any other reason, can't pay taxes, hold a job, play baseball, write a poem, go out on a date, and/or use the toilet without help ~still have value~ and I think that's getting lost

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/04/2025

"Hell is waking up one morning and feeling like your rights were stripped away overnight, only to realize it’s been happening gradually over your lifetime—and for much of that time, all you did to try to stop it was vote."

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Meditations on Hell

“I’m coming to Boston, I’m bringing hell with me.” —Tom Homan, “border czar” and former acting director of ICE - - - Hell is not a lake of fire, no...

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Ha ok! Yes it is quite gallows humor here!

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The business closing signs have been up for a few months. The tarriff one went up this week though!

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Love your turkey vulture! I have two bird tattoos by Pittsburgh tattooist Jessi Cramer! Here’s the big one, an American Robin perched in a redbud tree.

A photo of a woman’s torso standing in front of a brick wall. Her upper arm features a freshly completed tattoo in black ink of an American Robin perched in a flowering tree.

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

#printpromptmonday this week is #foliage ! Trying to challenge myself with some fast carving so I made this trillium and printed it on some gouache brushstrokes. #reliefprint #printmaking

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Thank you! You can’t see this in the image but I have it sketched in so the unicorn is starting a big fire with its horn because that’s a bit where I’m at these days 🫠

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This week’s #printpromptmonday is #inprogress so here’s a #linocut I’m carving. It’s a big departure from my bird-centric work but I needed something in my life with a bit of whimsy!

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Neat! Thanks and I’ll be checking it out!

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Thank you! Yes, literally hundreds of prints 🫠 I attached them to panels that I installed on the gallery wall and that made it go a bit faster.

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Detail here of the birds, relief print on reclaimed paper with gouache and watercolor embellishments.

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Coming very late to #printpromptmonday with this big installation I made in 2019, Lesser Bodies. It’s about the collapse of chimney swift populations in the US. Not in the water, but I was inspired by the motion of water circling a drain.

Artwork of thousands of paper birds spiraling towards the corner of a room

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I’m really enjoying your work. Do you put together multiple plates in one print to get this clear color separation?

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Actually that seems like 4/5 of your family. 😸😸 Dad’s quite outnumbered there and should just admit defeat.

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Ok so I just finished reading @stephenking.bsky.social ‘s The Stand for the first time and I’ve realized Dump is basically a manifestation of Randall Flagg. Sociopath leading through fear and harsh punishment. Stranger than fiction indeed.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Slight edit: Nazi porn bar

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

@strangford.bsky.social I definitely had to chase one out of a print studio once! They’re curious little things!

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

It’s #printpromptmonday and today’s theme is #flipped! Here’s a linocut I printed using the same block twice on one paper. They’re starlings, a beautiful, smart, fascinating bird that’s also invasive where I live (in the US).

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

If you see this, post something red! ❤️ (look closely, it’s there!)

A collage of a small bird with red feathers on the top of its head

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1Hood Power @1hoodpower.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Don't Buy Where You Can't Work. DEI boycott on Friday Feb 28th.

Economic boycott. Don’t buy stuff on Friday Feb 28th. We have power. No Amazon, Walmart, target, fast food, gas. Ok small business. Use cash.

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Monday moth. Colored pencil, ink, and collage with linocut and woodcut

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

He’s not a king. He’s not even a tyrant. He’s just a petty con man surrounding himself with yes men. Don’t crown him with your words.

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This is so gross. Time to stand up to this orange bully, America.

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This should terrify everyone. Title I funding provides free school lunches, teacher training, & more. The government is essentially saying, get rid of the programs we don’t like or we’ll take away your lunch money. Kids in poor rural areas stand to lose the most.

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The Department of Education has given schools a deadline to eliminate DEI programs

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Cynthia Jackson-Hammond, president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, about the Department of Education's two-week deadline for schools to eliminate race-...

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Can’t make this stuff up

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Drop something yellow. Here’s a cool mushroom from Ithaca, NY.

A cluster of pale yellow mushrooms growing up from wet leaves.

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I’m back for another #printpromptmonday with an etching of my (#indoors) cat Freyja from 2008. My work has changed a lot since I did this piece but I still really love it.

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

At this point I only trust McClains to ship through the mail!

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

my sweet babies reminding me that little pockets of the world are still soft and warm and nice

two cats are cuddled together on an orange couch

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It’s the first #PrintPromptMonday organized by @gemmatrickey.bsky.social and @strangford.bsky.social! This week’s theme is #IntotheWild . Here’s a collagraph I made using Tetra-Pak (a milk carton, specifically!) of a white-throated sparrow. #collagraph #printmaking

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Politics In The Wild @politicsinthewild.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I can’t even hear you saying that response in my head.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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Of course it’s a coup

Miss the obvious, lose your republic

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Maria Mangano @mariamangano.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

FYI for anyone in Pittsburgh, PPS passed a resolution in 2017 barring ICE from schools. They’ll have to go through the superintendent to do anything. www.boarddocs.com/pa/pghboe/Bo...

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