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ina lina
@inasketch.bsky.social
Artist.
Art Educator
Urban Sketcher
Cartoonist

Inaugural recipient of the Paul Klee Humanitarian Award

https://www.instagram.com/ina_sketch/
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Thank you to everyone who has been so kind & generous to me in what’s been a horrible year. For the first time I was not able to see or speak to my mother at christmas because my malignant narcissist brother is succeeding in excluding me from my family. I will need legal help in the new year.
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I'm Ina. I have spent the last five years caring for my mother who has dementia. Due to … Ina Lina needs your support for Help Ina's Family Make A Fresh Start
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Fair warning: for the first time since July, I have internet at home!

Thanks to my generous friends. ❤️
a woman is sitting on a bed with a laptop and waving .
Alt: a woman is sitting on a bed mock-angry typing on a laptop. She has a theatrically snarly expression on her face.
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January 8, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Someone asked me to comment on the anniversary of Jan 6. I will consider having comments on it….should it ever end. We are very much still reaching for the nadir of this reclamation. No time yet for historicizing it. Still trying to survive it.
January 6, 2026 at 4:30 PM
As the world falls apart, I’m trying to keep my family together. Please help us if you are able. Thank you all for your donations and for sharing the link to my gofundme.
gofund.me/46d779f23
Donate to Help Ina's Family Make A Fresh Start, organized by Ina Lina
I'm Ina. I have spent the last five years caring for my mother who has dementia. Due to … Ina Lina needs your support for Help Ina's Family Make A Fresh Start
gofund.me
January 3, 2026 at 9:01 PM
So far she’s read Guy Delisle’s Factory Summers, Mimi Pond’s Over Easy, Julia Wertz’s Impossible People. Tonight it’s Keiler Roberts’s The Joy of Quitting. I have to decide which Gabrielle Bell to give her tomorrow: The Voyeurs, Lucky, or Cecil & Jordan… Advice?
#comics #graphicnovels #booksky
We’ve had no internet at home since July. The upside? My daughter is reading a ton of books. First was my art history books. Then history & cinema books that were my dad’s. Now it‘s my graphic novels. Each morning at breakfast we discuss what she read the night before. She misses her streamers tho.
January 3, 2026 at 4:44 AM
We’ve had no internet at home since July. The upside? My daughter is reading a ton of books. First was my art history books. Then history & cinema books that were my dad’s. Now it‘s my graphic novels. Each morning at breakfast we discuss what she read the night before. She misses her streamers tho.
January 2, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Every time I see the post about the mayor’s wife’s shoes, I sing this to myself.
January 1, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Hmm…
January 1, 2026 at 5:12 PM
May 2026 be better for us all.
Thank you to everyone who has been so kind & generous to me in what’s been a horrible year. For the first time I was not able to see or speak to my mother at christmas because my malignant narcissist brother is succeeding in excluding me from my family. I will need legal help in the new year.
Donate to Help Ina's Family Make A Fresh Start, organized by Ina Lina
I'm Ina. I have spent the last five years caring for my mother who has dementia. Due to … Ina Lina needs your support for Help Ina's Family Make A Fresh Start
gofund.me
January 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Thank you to everyone who has been so kind & generous to me in what’s been a horrible year. For the first time I was not able to see or speak to my mother at christmas because my malignant narcissist brother is succeeding in excluding me from my family. I will need legal help in the new year.
Donate to Help Ina's Family Make A Fresh Start, organized by Ina Lina
I'm Ina. I have spent the last five years caring for my mother who has dementia. Due to … Ina Lina needs your support for Help Ina's Family Make A Fresh Start
gofund.me
January 1, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Our weird universe today.
December 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Talking with my daughters over breakfast this morning…

25yo: What’s stoicism?
23yo: It’s like Buddhism for men.

😂😂😂
December 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Got some movies from the library that my daughters had never seen.
So far we’ve watched

Bringing Up Baby
Paper Moon
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
High Noon
Gentleman’s Agreement

One more to go in the pile, slightly newer: Paris Texas.

I enjoy watching with them and hearing their opinions.
December 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Again a big part of socialization in the US and elsewhere is a bedrock belief that Black people making *any* demands on your time, attention, resources, behavior or principles is an unfair imposition and should be handled as such whenever possible.
December 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far and/or shared my link. I really appreciate it.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I know times are hard for everyone. It's hard for me to ask for help, and I'm grateful to you for considering it. Thank you.
Donate to Help Ina's Family Make A Fresh Start, organized by Ina Lina
I'm Ina. I have spent the last five years caring for my mother who has dementia. Due to … Ina Lina needs your support for Help Ina's Family Make A Fresh Start
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October 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
In college I applied for a job @ Cartier. I had to take their ethics test. There were questions like "The janitor takes $100 from the till to buy lifesaving medicine for his child. He repays it the next day. Do you fire him?" I wouldn't & I didn't get the job. Worked @ the Russian Tea Room instead.
god i'm so tired of job hunting in 2025 dog i'm NOT TAKING your little personality test!!!! get the fuck out of here!!!!!
July 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The female gaze
July 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I'm happy that Pee-Wee's bike will have a home at the Alamo. I'm less happy about the earworm. No, not what you'd expect ("The stars at night..."). Instead I have "Deep within my heart lies a melody...") 🎶
July 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
curious siblings for #caturday
#cats #siblings
📷 by my daughter
July 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Something else unearthed as I declutter.
A decisive moment, perhaps.
#Democrats #History
July 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I'm still going through old stuff. Here's a Jules Feiffer #Superman comic from one of my dad's old playboys, July 1959. And here I thought the "sensitive man" stuff didn't appear until the late60s/early70s.
#comics
July 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Spent this week decluttering. Found a video camera that hadn't been used in ~20 years. Sure it was broken/useless, told my daughter to toss it. Better check first if a tape is in it. Might need power to open the door. Plugged it in; it came to life. There was footage of my 2yo & 4yo at The Gates. 🧡
July 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Decluttering, I came upon this New Yorker Talk of the Town piece on Cuomo from 7 November 2022. The dude is ick.

Go away, sex pest.
July 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Years later, after moving with them several times, I repurposed part of one as a window display.
July 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This prompted a memory of young ina living in New York: I bought a 5'x3' unfinished bookcase somewhere downtown, and took it home to my upper west side apartment on the bus!

I later went back for a second one.
In my ongoing search for more bookcases so books aren't just strewn about the living room, I'm now trying to figure out if it's worth it to go antique hunting for some globe-wernicke barrister bookcases
July 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM