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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall

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I make things to look at. Atheist vegetarian blood donor art guy. Dispenser of cat food. Streams on Twitch at Twitch.tv/the_velvet_ape . He/him/his/they/them/theirs

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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 16h
Making faces
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
WHAT IF SOMETHING HAPPENS - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKLETEN TRYEN TO CHILL OUT BUT WHAT IF SOMETHING HAPPEN'S, YA GOTTA BE PREPARED, AND WHAT IF DA WORST POSSIBLE CASE SCENARIO'S, THEN YA GOTTA KNOW AHEAD OF TIME, AND BEING HYPERVIGILENT SUCKS UNTIL SOMETHING GOES WRONG AND THEN YOUR PREPARED "I KNEW IT" AND DA TEXT : ALWAYS UNCOMFORTABLE, NEVER RELAXED, WHAT IF SOMETHING HAPPENS - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN I KNEW IT -DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Stream time. Making the art, listening to CDs twitch.tv/the_velvet_ape
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the_velvet_ape - Live on Twitch
This guy is wearing a camera on his head. Listening to music on compact discs and working on an art | Streaming art.
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I put a disused gasoline-powered lawnmower (with bag and charging cable for the electric starter) on the curb. Within 5 minutes, two dudes in a pickup truck towing a U-Haul trailer stopped across the street to claim it. The magical freebie spot next to the driveway continues to astound.
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Throwback Tuesday! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTa0...
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They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng (BEST QUALITY Official Music Video)
YouTube video by ParticleMen
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My cat bumped my arm while I was applying ink to paper. After a period of waiting for some emotions to subside, I chose the sunk cost fallacy rather than scorched earth. Hoping it won’t be the only feature people notice. Such wonderful creatures, cats, aren’t they?
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Camera on head stream twitch.tv/the_velvet_ape
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the_velvet_ape - Live on Twitch
This guy is wearing a camera on his head. Listening to music on compact discs and working on an art | Streaming art.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The conclusion of ArtPrize every year underscores how much of a misfit I am in this area where I should feel at home. But getting my art out of Grand Rapids would involve me having some of my shit together, and as everybody knows, my shit seems determined to be apart forever.
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Husky by the Geek @huskybythegeek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mina the Hollower - The Good Harvest (Septemburg) goes Metal
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bovino left and many people stopped giving a shit.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The unsettling lecture where I posit that the things people most say to their beloved pets reveal, conversely, the things they desperately wanted to hear from their own parents when they were children, e.g., "There's my pretty girl!", "Such a good boy!", "I love you so much!", etc.
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Caturday
A picture of my cat laying in grass
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I yawned and my cat stuck his damn paw in my mouth
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mental health wise, I’d say this year has been one of the worst for me in a while. You, me, and everyone else, eh?
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Camera on head stream twitch.tv/the_velvet_ape
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the_velvet_ape - Live on Twitch
This guy is wearing a camera on his head. Listening to music on compact discs and working on an art | Streaming art.
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I sit down on sofa to sketch. Cat sits on me, making it more difficult to find a position for sketching. I give up trying because I can’t sketch comfortably. I take a nap with the cat. I scapegoat the cat but I probably wouldn’t have come up with anything anyway. Ugh. Grr. Zonk.
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Navigating a sensitive region
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Knothing knew
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dragonweirdo @dragonweirdo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mina the Hollower doin a lil dance Song: At Last We Rest (Old Graveyard) by Jake Kaufman
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dreamed about rejection. One of my long time online acquaintances. I was at her door. She asserted that I always loved her. I didn’t say anything. She told me to go away forever. I turned around and walked away. There are no good dreams.
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 30/09/2026
In the hallway of the Old Cartoonists’ Home
In the hallway of the Old Cartoonists’ Home
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On the stoop with the Chedster
A picture of my cat lounging next to the front stoop
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Probably a good sign that some of my first thoughts upon waking up are about how much I’ve screwed up my own life to the point of not seeing any good outcomes for my future existence as a living human.
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MACHINE GUN youtu.be/1k29HRpInuU?...
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Lo Fidelity Allstars - Disco Machine Gun [Official Video]
YouTube video by Skint Records
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WHEN - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKLETEN MADE OF WHEED AND BLUNT'S , "DYSTOPIA IS SO SCARY, IMAGINE IF WE LIVED IN A WORLD WHERE YOU WERE CONSTANTLY INTERRUPTED BY A GADGET YOURE AFRAID TO LOSE, AND YOU CAN STILL GET PIMPLES IN YOUR 30S AND 40S, THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO STOP, WHEN DO PIMPLES STOP " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I haven’t heard the song. I haven’t seen the movie or watched the show. I don’t know what the flying fuck you people are talking about 80% of the time. Get on my level, nerds.
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
About as dressed-up as I can get with the clothes I have.
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nice day to check out some ArtPrize. Consider checking out my ink circle if you're browsing around. Otono on South Division. Thanx.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
GUESS WHAT ? - dashare.zone ADMIN
A PERFECT SKELITIN ANGEL CHILLEN WHILE A TON OF OTHER SKLETENS ARE WATCHING THEM AND JUDGEN THEM AND THERE DOING THERE BEST OR ,HONESTLY ABOUT HALF OF THERE BEST, BUT THERE DOIN SOMETHING AND THATS GOOD I THINK, AND DA TEXT SAYS "THEY TOLD ME, YOUR NEVER GONNA MAKE IT, YOUR ALWAYS GONNA BE A FAILURE, DONT WASTE YOUR TIME, QUIT WHILE YOU"RE STILL AHEAD, YOU WONT SUCCEED, DONT TRY ,,,,, GUESS WHAT? THEY WERE RIGHT " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stopped bed-rotting long enough to donate blood
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
elon musk buying a chunk of major movie studios for shits and giggles while every artist and writer I know is out here saying please subscribe, please buy my book, please leave a review, please support me with a few paltry dollars
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not awake for an hour yet and I’m already defeating myself in my own mind. Ugh, what’s the point of even breathing.
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Operation. #tmbg #theymightbegiants
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I did an outdoor chore (hedge trim), and I did my basic exercises, so the autumn depression must be hitting at half strength.
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I can vote for my own ArtPrize entry once per day so might as well eh.
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yesterday while browsing ArtPrize, a guy identified my John Henry t-shirt and we started talking about the TMBG live shows we’d seen over the years, but the old lady he was with started walking away, so he walked away, and this is one reason why I feel like I fail to connect with the people of GR.
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My art’s spot at Otono for ArtPrize.
Artwork and mirrors on a brick wall
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s the opening day of ArtPrize. I should probably get out of the dang house and look at arts today. Maybe you’ll do the same? ArtPrize.org
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ArtPrize
Welcome to ArtPrize: A global canvas of creativity and community. Journey through groundbreaking art, engage with visionaries, and experience the magic firsthand.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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caffeine anxiety ego death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
my favorite Harry Dean Stanton quote
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Victor Fitzsimons is selling explanations to the wall @victorfitzsimons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trying to sleep on the sofa so my cat can sleep on top of me.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
YOUR ALLOWED - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELATAN SHOOTEN LIGHTING BOLTS OF ENERGY OUT OF THEM SELF AND IT SAYS "YOIUR ALLOWED TO BE LATE, YOU WERE BORN WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT, YOU OWE THE CLOCKS OF THIS WORLD NOTHING " AND ITS TRUE, YOU LIVE IN THE PRESENT TIME, YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR OR BOUND BY THE RULES OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE!!! NO ONE HAS THE MORAL AUTHORITY TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO LEAST OF ALL SOME DIP SHIT WHOSE RIDIN HIGH ON HAVING A SMALL AMOUT OF POWER! IF U EVER BEEN FIRED BY SOME MANAGER AT SOME SHITY JOB U KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!!!! LIKE IM GLAD THAT YOUR ALL HOPPED UP ON BEING IN CHARGE OF LOW LEVEL EMPLOYEES LIKE ME BUT YOU DONT HAVE TO TAKE IT OUT ON ME JUST DEVELOP A DEPENDANCE ON WEED AND BEER LIKE THE REST OF US DUMMASS - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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