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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i dont think i've seen any of Zulawski's other movies, have you?

zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

yeah the rewatchability of it seems to stem from the fact everything in it is a funhouse mirror for everything else--also the weird boyfriend's insane performance

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

its so confident and wild that he just describes the plot entirely then manages to keep you hooked all the way through anyway

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Very true--one of the people who did this to me shared this post.

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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 · 15/09/2026

Venice BEach, Hollywood Forever cemetery, if you have a drinking budget go to downtown, an eating budget go to Silver Lake

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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 · 28/08/2026

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

bro the bouncy texture of a hot dog with the depth of a steak i am curious and if you're not are you even american

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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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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

aggerheart designer Matt Mercer & the Ennies themselves both dogpiled on a harassment campaign explained here archive.is/0Nv3c the audio clips admitting it here youtu.be/8GJAJNbF2Tg?... mainstream media confirmed it artillerymag.com/at-home-in-t... and torontosun.com/news/provinc...

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

still sucking the dicks of a bunch of people you know lied about rape. cool kelvin. thanks bro.

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

i'm asking a question in earnest. There are many pleasures in life (and in radical art) besides the hope that it will actually materially change conditions on the ground. I'm not asking to bid to debate: I'm asking whether you've seen it change anything in our lifetime.

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

does it? i've seen so many people act as if they've become enlightened or taken action by supporting art and then completely not taking the message of that art to heart. maybe art can change things over a scale longer than our lifetime but then who cares?

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

What about all the women who identify that way?

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DJ @darnich.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Have a safe 4th.

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I think part of it was Germaine Greer being a big BBC personality? Like british tv is a small world and they often appear on tv shows together

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

well for me, it feels like a costume design problem but literally nobody else seems to care, so I don't know

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I feel like that looks like a sneaker issue is still salient

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

well whether you thought it "worked" or not, Endgame was gobsmackingly popular and made lots of money. I thought the main problem is they still havent fixed the problem that most of the characters look like sneakers

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zakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

the book, rpedictably, got a really bad rap among exactly the people it was complaining about. The "takedowns" say simplistic things like "but like maybe I don't _care_ about the person I harmed, so why should i try to resolve my conflict with them" but are still popular and get circulated

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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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