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@mckaypaints.bsky.social
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Teacher, artist, runner, dog mom #uglydogs

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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
YES THIS!!! I remember doing a lab in my osteology class in college where we measured the pelvic girdles of the lab skeletons and guessed (forgive the clumsy language) whether each was likely XX chromosomes or XY. But the lab TA was VERY clear about how unreliable it was and how gender was different
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
As a teacher I’ve learned one of the best ways to get groups of people to never want anything to do with you again is to give them a set of unclear or inconsistent rules so they’re constantly having to guess what they did wrong. So yeah, not the best way to keep people @moderation.bsky.app
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
You know how it feels like conservatives live in a different reality than everyone else? Now imagine most of the people around you live in that reality. And you still organize and work and keep the faith though you know it may never pay off and in most rooms everyone thinks you’re crazy or stupid
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/07/2025
I will try not to ever tell you how to feel. I won't tell you not to be frustrated, angry, sad, despairing, spiteful, or whatever else. I firmly believe feeling what we feel is often crucial to feeling a way Through it. But i will ask 2 things: Don't tell other people how to feel, & Don't give up.
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Gale Kellum @galekrn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
SOS
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I am having a sudden and intense plantar fasciitis flare up. It bothered me for years, and then suddenly didn’t and I’m almost in a panic because if I can’t figure this out, I can’t run and if I can’t run right now I am going to lose my goddamn mind.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I bet it’s going to offend someone
Floral background painting of oranges and pinks with dark greenery. In the foreground reads “HE’S AN IDIOT” in black.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Don’t look now, but I have a joke about Medusa
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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The line moving forward for every single one of us who actually opposes this dude is, "I stand with the protesters." No one needs your hot takes about optics. Democracy lives or dies by what happens next with this.
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Friends, you may or may not know that my last two teaching jobs prior to this were….not awesome. One downright traumatic, one better but I was particularly ill-suited to the “toughen up” style of management - I think that I’m tough in certain ways, but I’m also extremely sensitive in other ways.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Working on making art that will offend more people. Sending it out into the universe.
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Alt National Archives @altnatarchives.altgov.info · 04/05/2025
One of the most inspiring essays I’ve read on resistance. www.vnews.com/Column-A-tim...
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Column: A time for bravery
It is no longer enough to be good; it is time to be brave.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Critical thinking in this administration: if these # ‘s aren’t pulled out of his ass, I’d guess that teen boys get tested if they have a condition that results in low testosterone & adult males get tested for multiple reasons - certain cancers, fertility - and it’s not a given theirs is low.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I worked at a bank for a few months after I graduated college in a really conservative town. One of our regular customers was this really lovely trans woman who I had met a time or two in the local queer community. My supervisor was my age but extremely conservative and a complete mean girl.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Because this is happening only to them? Or because Fox News has convinced them their small town is the only place it’s happening and counts on them being too afraid of big cities to check?
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is something I’ve been trying to put my finger on for awhile but couldn’t quite put into words, this terror of having to look inward so you lash out.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
One of my favorite parts of the year is when I get to teach 15th-17thc art history - it’s like “Yes the Sistine Chapel is amazing but did you know it exists because Michelangelo is a petty bitch?” And “Let’s talk about Caravaggio’s beef with the church for painting Mary both too sexy and not pretty”
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march. They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I just need to point out that when US government classes learn about the filibuster now, no one ever again has to hear that the longest one was from a fucking bigot
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
45? minutes until Senator Booker puts Thurmond's record in the grave with Strom Thurmond
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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 15/03/2025
#UglyDogs, Yes, we are in contact and I would kindly ask to maybe not bombard them with messages right now. :) They have a lot of things on their plate right now. The GoFundMe is still open, and their merch store is here: www.rerunkennel.com/shop
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Shop | Rerun Kennel
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Karen Zack @kjzack6.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It’s not too late to call, they haven’t voted yet. #UglyDogs
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
AWOOOOOOOOO #uglydogs
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Natisbusyknitting @nslachance.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
#igivearod #uglydogs Repost/ Amplify and/or Donate we are almost there & this closes today (+ donations marched by GM!) I just supported Igivearod 2025: Supporting Rural Alaska on DonorsChoose. Help a classroom in need today. www.donorschoose.org/igivearod25?...
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Igivearod 2025: Supporting Rural Alaska | DonorsChoose
The Igivearod fundraising drive is a grassroots effort to support rural schools across Alaska and other community organizations along the route of the Iditarod Sled Dog Trail Race. Learn more at ig...
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
#UglyDogs I just ended up in a taxi with an extremely nice driver with zero sense of direction and also traffic laws, really. We backed up in the middle of the street when he missed his probably 4th turn. Too bad Queen Pepe is busy, I could have used her navigation skills and good sense.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I am currently so enraged I can’t see straight. Someone at my job needs a paper copy of a completed form I emailed to them and is insisting I print it for them. They have a printer in their office. I don’t even have a printer on my floor.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Don’t mind me, kids, continue with your dress rehearsal, just over here openly weeping while painting your set because a 12-year-old sled dog I’ve never met is leading her team to Nome 😭😭😭 #uglydogs
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social I’m sure you’re crazy bogged down right now with, well….everything, but as an #actuallyautistic person do you have resources for how NT parents can explain autism to their newly diagnosed kid? He’s super sensitive and anxious so they don’t want him to think it’s a bad thing
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
What a bunch of absolute dumb fucks
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 16/02/2025
DOGE isn’t real.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I have seen so many conservative accounts elsewhere asking if teachers realize hiding students from ICE is a federal crime. As if we didn’t reconcile ourselves after the first school shooting that happened after we started teaching that we might have to take a bullet for these kids.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Hey #art folks: any ideas for making your own stencils of patterns? I’d like to make my own rather than buy premade for a number of reasons but I have no idea where to start. The ones I have are slightly thicker than, say, an overhead transparency but still pretty flexible.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
A quick rant on trans hate. Just because it matters right now. For cis het white men who are out for trans people? This is not about biology or science or whatever. This is about gender roles and how we perform them and what happens to people who don’t do it correctly. It’s about control.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Anthony Weiner is dipping his toe back into politics like he thinks it’s been long enough. Like, sir. Your name is the mnemonic. Some of us may not recall the particulars but we’ve got the basic gist.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
White dog with brown spots and pink nose wears a dragon costume - his head pokes out of the mouth and he stares up at us clearly asking, “but why?”
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
My great aunts moved to Hawaii in WWII and set up shop as sex workers. As in, that’s what they moved there to do. They sent money home but they did well and kept quite a bit. One bought herself fancy earrings when she had enough disposable income and I inherited them and wore them at my wedding.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Reminder that it’s not rude to just say “reminder” and the need to couch it as friendly or gentle makes you sound like a patronizing fuck
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Just a little needed levity for the moment - a friend told me this afternoon that our mutual student was legitimately trying to be me for Halloween 😂😂😂 He mentioned it really casually in passing, so I thought he was joking but apparently he was serious 🥹
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Running - harder and faster when I’m upset so I feel like I’m about to get much faster very quickly - and painting and drawing. Occasionally I’ll do some yoga, and I’ve forced myself to sit and read more often in the last week than I have in awhile.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Trying to decide if it’s worth anything to save any of my previous stuff from the Musky place, or if I should just cut and run.
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Run, teach, paint, scream into the void, repeat @mckaypaints.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
If my fucking psychiatrist brings up using a planner to cure my ADHD one more goddamn time….
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