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bucolic dirtbag
@boldfashioned.com
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whitney they/her, going to art school in my 40s to legitimize my hobbies

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bucolic dirtbag @boldfashioned.com · Oct 17
There’s some finishes I’ll get to this weekend but I did create my dream S/S 94 Westwood inspired gown.
the front of my Westwood inspired gown, a purple frothy thing the back of my Westwood inspired gown, a purple frothy thing - also you can see bits of the neon tulle in under layers a close up of my draping me in my kitchen at midnight when I finished wearing said gown
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pleasantchime.bsky.social
I hear “well it’s always important to double check an AI’s work” so so often and it’s like…..yeah you can say that all you want but you know it won’t happen right. It just won’t. Like have you spent any amount of time around human people in society
February 13, 2026 at 1:02 AM
boldfashioned.com
This is such a great read and made me feel so much better about the work I’ve been doing articulating why I am in art school in my late 40s and why my art is more meaningful than I was giving it credit for
dansheehan.bsky.social Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 4h
Did low effort content pave the way for AI? While it's easy to blame big tech, the recent onslaught of slop caters to an audience that has proven time and time again that they prefer quantity to quality. I talked about what it looks like to reclaim your taste and, by extension, your self respect.
You Have To Care
How thoughtless art paves the way for AI slop and how I'm freeing myself from it.
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February 13, 2026 at 1:27 AM
boldfashioned.com
Rhasan had my favorite appetizer from my favorite restaurant in Oakland ready for me when I got back from school this evening, which he had made based on a youtube video from Mind of a Chef.
Rhasan’s slow-poached egg yolk, smoked dates, alliums & malt and an unpictured glass of bubbles Slow-poached egg yolk, smoked dates, alliums & malt from Commis in 2021
February 13, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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puddleofbrain.bsky.social
My doctor told me to watch commercials for medications until I find one I think looks good and then text him
February 11, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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jessfink.bsky.social
A shirt design to raise money against ICE! www.bonfire.com/ice-is-inhum...
Proceeds from this shirt will go directly to NorCal Resist www.norcalresist.org
ABOLISH ICE
A shirt design/illustration of icicles looking like a cage, behind which several children are trapped and crying. The text reads "ICE IS INHUMANE"
February 10, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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postoctobrist.bsky.social
This fucking court won’t let ANYTHING self-identify
politicsuk.com Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 1d
🚨 NEW: The Supreme Court has ruled that oat milk can no longer be called milk
February 11, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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cheatlines.co
I'm going to continue to push back on the "you have to ~believe in~ amd ~prepare for~ AI" stuff. Working slobs like myself didn't have to "prepare for" computers or internet, either it becomes a thing in your industry or it doesn't.
February 11, 2026 at 5:41 PM
boldfashioned.com
I have to start an art project today so I'm doing what any sane person would do: look at incredible work done by people who don't have a deadline in 1 week and then berating myself for not having ideas
February 11, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
‘Tödlein’, Death as an archer.
Made from pear wood.
Dated to before 1519; artist: Hans Leinberger
www.khm.at/kunstwerke/t...
February 11, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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byelacey.bsky.social
smh you’ll never be able to afford a house if you keep eating every day
February 11, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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roseschmits.bsky.social
This is every article about ai being sentient
February 11, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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cheatlines.co
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caroleeena.bsky.social Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 7d
Scotland has passed a law that all new buildings must install ‘swift bricks’ which are hollowed out bricks to help nesting swifts and other endangered birds! Swifts are especially endangered because so many chimneys now have chimney caps. Swifts return to the same nesting spot year after year.
February 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
boldfashioned.com
I reread Fahrenheit 451 for the bit last week and ai summaries are At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
Fahrenheit 451 Beatty peered at the smoke pattern he had put out on the air. "Picture it. Nineteenth-century man with his horses, dogs, carts, slow motion. Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests, Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending." "Snap ending." Mildred nodded. "Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume. I exaggerate, of course. The dictionaries were for reference. But many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet (you know the title certainly, Montag; it is probably only a faint rumor of a title to you, Mrs. Montag), whose sole knowledge, as I say, of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed: now at last you can read all the classics; keep up with your neighbors. Do you see? Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more."
February 10, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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lesja.bsky.social
The beauty of neoliberal biopolitics is that being a good biopolitical subject can take so much work that people don't have time or agency left for other shit
niedermeyer.online e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 3d
starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Dec 10
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
February 9, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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sparklemarkers.bsky.social
In AI apologist bingo, “here to stay” is the free space
February 9, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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cathygjohn.bsky.social
that's literally it. who gives a fuck at that point
February 8, 2026 at 10:32 PM
boldfashioned.com
A thing that keeps bothering me about people talking about how fast you can write books, make podcasts, etc, is why should I bother reading/listening/looking at something you didn't think was worth the time to make?
mbkplus.bsky.social Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 4d
The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered
February 8, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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legendarium.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 1:57 PM
boldfashioned.com
For art history this week we had to do sketches in the style of 4 pre-set artists. It was way more fun than I expected, and also demonstrable proof that practicing drawing does make it easier. I am so much better than I was a year ago.
a sketch of a still life in the style of Cézanne a sketch of a still life in the style of Seurat a sketch of a still life in the style of Gauguin A sketch of a still life in the style of Van Gogh
February 8, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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dankmccoy.bsky.social
"Tell me you know nothing about the Muppets without telling me you know nothing about the Muppets."
February 7, 2026 at 2:20 AM
boldfashioned.com
A weird thing about the art I’m working on is that I’ve realized I’m inching towards a stupidity niche level of expertise on 16th century armor.
February 8, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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shakespeherian.bsky.social
Good God, Niles, no wonder the man went to prison. I spent the longest weekend of my life on that island with nothing to drink but *chilled* brandy.
themanburglar.bsky.social Butts McGee (eClaire) @themanburglar.bsky.social · 5d
Frasier would be in the Epstein files
February 8, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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johnchesskey.bsky.social
I know you’re joking but literally this is the illegal backflip they’re referring to
February 8, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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edithcharles.bsky.social
“There’s no such thing as unskilled labor” is problematic because it excludes bassists in punk bands
December 27, 2023 at 4:17 PM