Reposted by Mary HawkinsBrian Stillman @brianxrayfilms.bsky.social · 02/02/2026My new album TERMINAL DAYS is up for pre-order now! Anti-Fascist Industrial Metal Madness! NegativeAgent.Ampwall.com/album/Terminaldays 021
Reposted by Mary HawkinsNick Wolf @nickwolfscm.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Thanks to @brianxrayfilms.bsky.social and @sethpolansky.bsky.social for the chat, and make sure you all check out Igniting the Spark! 294
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Today's 1st read: a dense-but-good scholarly article that I've had open as a tab forever. Identifying seemingly "small" acts of resistance enables people to see themselves as capable and resilient instead of broken or depressed. TW: violence + assault. www.responsebasedpractice.com/wp-content/u...responsebasedpractice.com 010
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Our collective loss of existential appetite is a healthy response to a profoundly unhealthy situation. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comThis Isn't BurnoutWhy Your Creative Job Isn’t Fun Anymore 020
Reposted by Mary HawkinsNegative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Gonna take a second to brag about my awesome wife @maryhawkins.bsky.social, who illustrated these PSAs for swimming safety in NYC. She also created animated versions. It’s wild seeing her art on busses, in subway stations, on kiosks, etc, and I’m super proud of her! #NYC #PSAs #SwimSafety #Art 281
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025This morning's reading: "while the digital world has removed all friction, the physical world is where the friction still lives. Not the good kind... but the bad kind: the exhaustion of trying to hold together systems that no one’s willing to invest in anymore." kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...kyla.substack.comThe Most Valuable Commodity in the World is FrictionAI Chatbots, Newark, and the West Village Girls 010
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 14/05/2025www.itsnicethat.com/articles/the...itsnicethat.comIrasutoya: the best-known illustrator in Japan, that you’ve probably never heard ofOur Tokyo correspondent tells the fascinating story of the one-man illustration machine behind the free-to-use clip art service that’s shaped the nation’s visual language. 020
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 02/05/2025We're still hoping to have Gotham games here, but in the meantime... www.change.org/p/say-no-to-...change.orgSign the PetitionSay NO to Pickleball and YES to Expanding Roller Skating at The LeFrak Center 000
Reposted by Mary HawkinsAndré Treiber @andrebttx.bsky.social · 24/04/2025This protest sign hits pretty damn hard, big props to this teacher 025388
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Today's reading: "We create more than ever, but it weighs nothing... movement isn’t meaning. ... Light things shape culture, but rarely shape us. ... Creation [is] a process of becoming....You don’t just create heavy things. You become someone who can." www.workingtheorys.com/p/make-somet...workingtheorys.comMake Something HeavyWe're creating more than ever, but it weighs nothing. 000
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 18/04/2025This morning's reading... I'm hopeful-not-hopeful for our solarpunk future where not all of us make it? Ooof. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.com‘All of his guns will do nothing for him’: lefty preppers are taking a different approach to doomsdayLiberals in the US make up about 15% of the prepping scene and their numbers are growing. Their fears differ from their better-known rightwing counterparts – as do their methods 010
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Alice Guy-Blaché, an early director who made thousands of films (at one point, her studio was putting out three a week!) but was erased out of the story of early cinema history... www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-...acmi.net.auAlice Guy-Blaché: female filmmaking pioneerAlice Guy-Blaché was one of the first people to make a narrative film, and she helped create over a thousand films as either director, producer or writer. 011
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 07/04/2025The Sky Has No Edge... Stop motion with mosaics from Invisible Friends, a group of expat Russian animators. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-lc...youtube.comУ неба нет края - Sky has no edgeYouTube video by Юра Богуславский 000
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 28/03/2025www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...thebulwark.comHow to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident MovementAOC, solidarity, and people power. 011
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Reading this a little late, because: firehose, but... "The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration." newrepublic.com/post/192660/...newrepublic.comTrump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate GroupsThe Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant. 010
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 22/03/2025"If liberal democracy is to thrive and not just survive in the 21st century, we must develop a deeper understanding of the attraction of alternative political conceptions and their envisioned good life that competes with it." www.noemamag.com/from-statecr...noemamag.comFrom Statecraft To Soulcraft | NOEMAHow the world’s illiberal powers like Russia, China and increasingly the U.S. rule through their visions of the good life. 110
Reposted by Mary HawkinsPostcards4CA @postcards4ca.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Thank you for voting! 0134
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 21/03/2025“I am tired of mainstream media pretending that neutrality and gullibility are the same thing.” Thank you to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for that gem. Catching up on email newsletters, and that was lovely… 040
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 21/03/2025A hopeful history… I didn’t know the full story of Muncie Indiana: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...dansinker.com What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com 000
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 20/03/2025substack.com/home/post/p-... "It doesn’t reward depth, patience, or complexity. Instead, it rewards the immediate & the easily digestible. ...What does that do to creativity? Inspiration? ...what ideas never had the chance to grow because they were harvested too early ...their smallest form?"substack.comInstagram and the Creative ProcessWhy are we still here? 000
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025This morning's reading: "this is dark stuff: A $160b AI company and a $2 trillion tech giant invoking the need to maintain technological—and implicitly, military—superiority over China...to justify eroding artists’ already meager rights and protections." www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openai-and...bloodinthemachine.comOpenAI and Google's dark new campaign to dismantle artists' protectionsOpenAI and Google have cozied up to Trump's imperialist approach to AI for a shot at tearing down artists' copyright protections. 000
Reposted by Mary HawkinsRise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Members of the House AND the Senate are home during recess NOW through Sunday, March 23rd. This is our time to send them a message. Welcome home @schumer.senate.gov 👋 New Yorkers are calling on you to #Resign Times Square ✍️ @karinschall.bsky.social #StopTheCoup #FightFascism #RiseandResist 821060
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 07/03/2025This evening's reading: a long, loving tribute to Gorton, a font whose letterforms that were right in front of us the whole time, aresluna.org/the-hardest-...aresluna.orgThe hardest working font in ManhattanA story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today. 020
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Today's morning reading: a whole set of bad practices in leadership and work/working-together cultures, written nearly 25 years ago by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun. I bet your favorites are on there... Go check! www.cwsworkshop.org/PARC_site_B/...cwsworkshop.orgWhite Supremacy CultureThis is a list of characteristics of white supremacy culture which show up in our organizations. Culture is powerful precisely because it is so present and at the same time so very difficult to name or identify. The characteristics listed below are damaging because they are used as norms and standards without being pro-actively named or chosen by the group. They are damaging because they promote white supremacy thinking. They are damaging to both people of color and to white people. Organizations that are people of color led or a majority people of color can also demonstrate many damaging characteristics of white supremacy culture. 020
Reposted by Mary HawkinsRise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Our friends, Resistance Revival Chorus, were on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social with Paris Paloma. They sang the theme song to our Womxn’s March! Pure beauty & power 😭 Join us SATURDAY, MARCH 8 at 11am in Washington Square Park. @50501movement.bsky.social @womensmarch.bsky.social #womensmarch #Resist 89438
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Basically bookmarking this for myself: a project to categorize all those seen-it-everywhere aesthetics and design movements from the last few decades. (h/t to Patrick Butler for sending this my way...) cari.institute/aestheticscari.instituteCARI | Aesthetics 010
Reposted by Mary HawkinsAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/03/2025The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to fire more than 80,000 employees. 39357171842
Reposted by Mary HawkinsNnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025So they really think I’m going to spend the next four years hanging on every word he vomits? Haha, that’s cute…and not going to happen. Anyway, tonight’s read: 1583972
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 05/03/2025I don't think I was prepared for this to be the first film I watched this morning... Amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=49-p...youtube.comPerpetuo (Joško Marušić, 1978.)YouTube video by Zagreb Film: The Art of Animation 000
Reposted by Mary HawkinsJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org18f.orgWe're not done yet | 18F 31689269230849
Reposted by Mary HawkinsAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Check Tesla Takedown for event details and organizing information. If there isn’t one in your area, start one! Aim for a 12 PM gathering at your local showroom. Next week, let’s make an even bigger impact and show them how many of us there really are! Will you join? 152661242
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Me: You know, I should really read something fun for #womensHistoryMonth. My TBR pile: 120
Reposted by Mary HawkinsRise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 02/03/2025In 2018 Rise and Resist organized powerful protests and awareness campaigns in IDC districts to defeat Cuomo’s fake “democrats.” We need to remind people about this part of Cuomo’s history. He has never been on our side. 115240
Reposted by Mary HawkinsJoan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Very fitting that Cuomo announced his campaign on the first day of Women's History Month. Women will make him history. #hellnocuomo 1320724
Reposted by Mary HawkinsSonni @sonnimun.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I have supported DEI and Affirmative Action as something that we need as temporary measure until we have true equality but in one month Trump/Musk have convinced me that DEI and Affirmative Action must be be built into our system permanently. 081
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I've found over the decades that some of my best long-term/slow-burn friends have been former crushes (incoming or outgoing). There's something about caring for someone enough to consider starting a romance but realizing that y'all shouldn't that alchemizes well. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/s...nytimes.comRules for Staying Close to ExesNever talk about sex. Especially the sex you had with each other. 000
Reposted by Mary HawkinsSonni @sonnimun.bsky.social · 28/02/2025For those who are Catholics & practice Lent. Would love to see this boycott of harmful corporations be incorporated into Lent. Isn’t this consistent with the values espoused in the New Testament? I am not religious but grew up in New Orleans so Lent after Mardi Gras was a thing. 3134
Reposted by Mary HawkinsA Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 27/02/2025This! If you can switch from Whole Foods to a different grocery store and buy your books from bookshop.org instead of Amazon, that’s still a big step even if you feel tied to Amazon for other items. If everyone divested 30% that’s more than if a few people divest 100%. 21059574
Reposted by Mary HawkinsBut Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 26/02/2025This is *really* good. Definitely worth a read. On The Walll and the appeal of fascism, and being a Gifted Kid and the way that distorts you. 14714
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Thing I read this morning: "I don’t know exactly that I have some sort of prescription to offer. I don’t wish to suggest ..that any of us should deal with 'reforming' bad men. But maybe, at least, we can take each other’s loneliness seriously." magdalene.substack.com/p/the-future...magdalene.substack.comThe Future Childless Cat GuysSingle, childless older women have long been the cruel cultural avatar of loneliness and social failure. But as rates of single young men rise, that portrait is going to change. 010
Reposted by Mary HawkinsAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Trump threatened to sue journalists, authors, and book publishers who use anonymous sources. Granting certain sources anonymity is a common journalistic practice, especially when sources fear retribution. 17473631117
Reposted by Mary HawkinsGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 25/02/2025So they started out with ~100 existing staffers, 60 have now resigned. *21 FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY STAFFERS RESIGNED FROM DOGE, AP SAYS 381171386
Reposted by Mary HawkinsAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded an FBI task force investigating foreign influence operations, including those targeting U.S. elections. Additionally, she restricted enforcement actions against individuals who fail to disclose lobbying on behalf of foreign governments. 604134584425
Reposted by Mary HawkinsElana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025New Yorkers: we have an assignment. We have 5 strong options for mayor on a ballot with 5 spaces. Learn about: @bradlander.bsky.social @jessicaramosqns.bsky.social @zellnor.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @blakefornyc.bsky.social 210851
Reposted by Mary HawkinsJackie Rudin @jackierudin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025With less than 24 hours notice 1,000 people showed up for an Emergency Community rally at The Stonewall Memorial Monument to fight back against the NPS removing the T and Q from the Stonewall website. There is NO LGB without the T (or Q). We will NOT be erased and we will NOT leave anyone behind. 051
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Uuuggghhh -- I just got a spam text that literally started with hashtag-FoodBenefits-hashtag and then said standard spam junk about how my account had been put on hold. There's so much chaos out there (and more to come). People who need/have food benefits is not a group I want scammers to target. 010
Reposted by Mary HawkinsIt's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵 541328655
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Yes please! www.usermag.co/p/freeourfee...usermag.coA $30M plan to take back social media from billionaires+ Pervert winter, robot accessories, Snoop Dogg's LinkedIn, buzzcuts to break the internet, and Elon Musk gamer stolen valor 021
Reposted by Mary HawkinsRise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 16/02/2025“A particularly heinous villain’: a disdain for Musk sparked protests across US. Members of Rise and Resist pictured in the Guardian’s story on the Resistance. Join us tomorrow, Monday, in Union Square and 14th St at 1pm. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #StoptheCoup #EndOligarchy #resisttheguardian.com‘A particularly heinous villain’: a disdain for Musk has sparked protests across US50501 group gained national force with Musk as a target and is now working globally to thwart Trump administration 13714
Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 12/02/2025"The pivotal cultural moment came ..when William Shatner went to space. More than anyone, he represented that older, more idealistic view of technology... [he] finally realised that he was not in Star Trek. He was in Idiocracy. And the rest of us are too." iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...iandunt.substack.comHow to resist the tech overlordsBig tech has now made its position clear. It is on the far-right. Here's what happens next. 110