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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

a critical weakness in far too many left-wing spaces is the lack of any real strategy for dealing with people who weaponize social justice language to lambast and tear down others while framing even the mildest - let alone well-deserved - pushback against them as bigoted abuse.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The reason that lesbian bar mask story blew up is that an insane amount of cruelty and emotional abuse is tolerated in certain lefty communities as long as it’s justified by the right buzzwords. Similar to how certain churches torment their members in the name of Christian love.

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Quinn with Some Animals, acrylic paint on paper

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Behind all the mainstream criticism of the Lucas Museum is one important idea: its the only major art museum created by an artist.

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Robert Delaunay, Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon, Paris 1913 (dated on painting 1912) botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Empathy is a complicated thing but if you go around saying "I don't understand and I don't want to" you don't have it.

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

no, this guy: archive.is/0Nv3c (missing audio here): www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GJA... and this guy artillerymag.com/at-home-in-t... and this guy torontosun.com/news/provinc... and this guy podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... and this guy familyllb.com/2025/10/09/a...

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

the descendants of the alchemists finally accidentally achieve alchemy's goal. "some 29 trillionths of a gram". there's a lesson in here somewhere.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Happy #WorldLizardDay! Here's an x-ray of a Green Lizard, from an early volume of X-rays produced by Josef Maria Eder, a director of an institute for graphic processes, and Eduard Valenta, a photochemist, both from Austria. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e... #onthisday #otd

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Shut up about woke or not woke or Cancel Culture and go back through every *single* person who got fucked over one by one and find out if they deserved it and if not: fix it. Then shut up again.

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The usual rule is : if you can get 10 people to email me saying they want a specific image as a print, I will make it available as a print.

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Semen Tsevelev @tsevelev.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Oooh I'm beginning to understand art.

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Hans Bellmer, The Machine-Gunneress in a State of Grace, 1937 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…

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DJ @darnich.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Have a safe 4th.

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

people are finally turning on fandoms, and you know what that means: all of those 25 or so years i've spent online alienating people and making confounding creative decisions is finally going to pay off. i expect the dollars to start tumbling in any minute now

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The texas GOP has a crawling red floor monster?

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

from "Laney's Dead" ink and acrylic paint, concertina sketchbook

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

There was, if I recall, a flat fee for the Graphic Canon. I get royalties off my Pynchon book however.

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

In Bugonia, when he starts playing "Basket Case" and hooks Emma Stone up to the torture machine to see if she is an alien, I assumed the test was gonna be that if she could listen all the way from the early stuff to American Idiot then she couldn't be human.

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Semen Tsevelev @tsevelev.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I am now going to randomly quote some paragraphs from Jules Verne's fantasy classic 20000 Leagues Under The Sea. ...others from the Gulf of Mexico, remarkable for their imbricated shell; stellari found in the Southern Seas; and last, the rarest of all, the magnificent spur of New Zealand...

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Nate Silver wrote a post-mortem on the business side of FiveThirtyEight and there's probably all kinds of stuff people will argue with but an interesting upshot seems to be that on big media balance sheets having a Really Really Popular Website still counts for fuck-all

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

While this dichotomy applies broadly to an idea like "What world do you build? 'Relevant' dystopia or 'escapist' utopia/funhouse?" I think there's more to it than just reflect or distract: art can push audience's minds into a space where they learn skills and habits of thought that'll help survive.

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

its a lot more fun to yell that something's over the line than to say where the line is

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"You Really Should Shut Up" acrylic paint, resin, mixed media

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

What is it like to serially announce political positions that are trivially obvious to everyone you hang out with irl and then they go viral? Is that a fulfilling hobby?

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Semen Tsevelev @tsevelev.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I remember guys like that writing similar wishes to me, back when I lived in a city that was bombed by Russia on a regular basis.

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

another day another 4chan nazi recommending i specifically be murdered

anti-semitic attack on me screencapped from 4chan

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Zoe @zoethorogood.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

BlueSky is the only platform where people will complain about my art being ‘sexualised’ omg get a grip… even if that were true, u guys realise sex and sexuality are not Bad right. It’s okay to have body parts and to draw desirable characters like

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Alan Moore made every single comic book ever made seem worse then Grant Morrison made every single comic book ever made seem better

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

in this very serious french cop show, the provincial police chief is a grumpy middle-aged woman who likes death metal, the detective is a hot trans blonde and when they make the conspiracy wall they cut out the victim's head like a little valentine

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