Kasey Feral Smith
@kaseysmith.net
Artist, writer, historian, ghost sign expert, leftist, Vermeer fangirl, American living in the Netherlands. she/her http://www.kaseysmith.net/
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Kasey Feral Smith
@kaseysmith.net
· Nov 16
It's reintroduction time! I'm a multidisciplinary artist who makes art about memory, place, & craft. In 2022 I moved from Oakland, CA to small village in the Netherlands. To restart/recenter my career, I'm putting myself through a "conceptual apprenticeship" with the greats of Dutch & Flemish art.
I made the decision to leave in 2021. Being an immigrant is quite stressful, but not living in America absolutely rules and makes it worthwhile. Especially given how much human rights in the states have backslide.
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I made the decision to leave in 2021. Being an immigrant is quite stressful, but not living in America absolutely rules and makes it worthwhile. Especially given how much human rights in the states have backslide.
Found the worst shoes ever in a Haarlem thrift store. They fit. I did not take pics and I did not buy them. :P
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Found the worst shoes ever in a Haarlem thrift store. They fit. I did not take pics and I did not buy them. :P
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The Terrifying Eye Ball Light!
Source: The Hypnotic Eye and Russ
Source: The Hypnotic Eye and Russ
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The Terrifying Eye Ball Light!
Source: The Hypnotic Eye and Russ
Source: The Hypnotic Eye and Russ
The countdown to the true death of the penny begins. abcnews.go.com/living/story...
A penny short: US mints final 1-cent coins after over 230 years in circulation
The final one-cent coins were minted in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
abcnews.go.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The countdown to the true death of the penny begins. abcnews.go.com/living/story...
Working on some ✨fancy✨ guerilla art.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Working on some ✨fancy✨ guerilla art.
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I need nerd help -- I thrifted this odd little ceramic box in the Netherlands. Which IBM building is this???
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I need nerd help -- I thrifted this odd little ceramic box in the Netherlands. Which IBM building is this???
I need nerd help -- I thrifted this odd little ceramic box in the Netherlands. Which IBM building is this???
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I need nerd help -- I thrifted this odd little ceramic box in the Netherlands. Which IBM building is this???
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trust is neither given nor earned. it forms naturally between people who share the experience of having listened to Skinny Puppy at or after 3 am in the dark by themselves
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
trust is neither given nor earned. it forms naturally between people who share the experience of having listened to Skinny Puppy at or after 3 am in the dark by themselves
Going to the thrift store is hunting and gathering. Shopping on eBay is farming.
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Going to the thrift store is hunting and gathering. Shopping on eBay is farming.
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I made a random compliment generator today because I wanted to make something nice :)
Compliments 💖
You deserve to hear this
dr.eamer.dev
November 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I made a random compliment generator today because I wanted to make something nice :)
How evil/brilliant would it be to serve an all brassica Thanksgiving? That family is broad enough to actually work...
Last year, I cooked a gluten free & vegan Thanksgiving dinner where every dish was purple. Eggplant, ube, plums, purple rice, purple potatoes, lavender, etc. It was fairly epic. I'm thinking of doing an all green dinner this year. Is that going to be too boring or too easy? 💚
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
How evil/brilliant would it be to serve an all brassica Thanksgiving? That family is broad enough to actually work...
Every time Tim Kaine makes a terrible vote it further proves my Lieberman Theory -- that every losing VP candidate ends up being the absolute worst, most useless person. (Walz may be the exception)
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Every time Tim Kaine makes a terrible vote it further proves my Lieberman Theory -- that every losing VP candidate ends up being the absolute worst, most useless person. (Walz may be the exception)
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I looks like 2 or more cases of shingles correlates to a higher likelihood of dementia. See this free article.
Shingles itself can be horribly painful; I've had it once, & the minute a vaccine for it came out I rushed to get it & say Never Again!
#ProudBlue wapo.st/4qQVFzK
Shingles itself can be horribly painful; I've had it once, & the minute a vaccine for it came out I rushed to get it & say Never Again!
#ProudBlue wapo.st/4qQVFzK
How a childhood virus can contribute to dementia later and what you can do
A new study suggests that the shingles vaccine may help prevent dementia by reducing the risk of varicella-zoster virus reactivation
wapo.st
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I looks like 2 or more cases of shingles correlates to a higher likelihood of dementia. See this free article.
Shingles itself can be horribly painful; I've had it once, & the minute a vaccine for it came out I rushed to get it & say Never Again!
#ProudBlue wapo.st/4qQVFzK
Shingles itself can be horribly painful; I've had it once, & the minute a vaccine for it came out I rushed to get it & say Never Again!
#ProudBlue wapo.st/4qQVFzK
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Consider how the marketing for genAI, which is an instrument of fascism, mirrors how fascism presents its enemies as both incredibly strong and pathetically weak.
"It's the future, it's inevitable, we're using it for literally everything, here is proof we did NOT use it in this commercial"
"It's the future, it's inevitable, we're using it for literally everything, here is proof we did NOT use it in this commercial"
November 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Consider how the marketing for genAI, which is an instrument of fascism, mirrors how fascism presents its enemies as both incredibly strong and pathetically weak.
"It's the future, it's inevitable, we're using it for literally everything, here is proof we did NOT use it in this commercial"
"It's the future, it's inevitable, we're using it for literally everything, here is proof we did NOT use it in this commercial"
Last year, I cooked a gluten free & vegan Thanksgiving dinner where every dish was purple. Eggplant, ube, plums, purple rice, purple potatoes, lavender, etc. It was fairly epic. I'm thinking of doing an all green dinner this year. Is that going to be too boring or too easy? 💚
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Last year, I cooked a gluten free & vegan Thanksgiving dinner where every dish was purple. Eggplant, ube, plums, purple rice, purple potatoes, lavender, etc. It was fairly epic. I'm thinking of doing an all green dinner this year. Is that going to be too boring or too easy? 💚
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Just saw someone refer to the Wellbutrin tablet as an Everlasting Sobstopper
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Just saw someone refer to the Wellbutrin tablet as an Everlasting Sobstopper
Well, that's gross. www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/s...
Spotify weigert om controversieel AI-lied uit Nederland over asielzoekers offline te halen
In Nederland zorgt een nummer dat door AI gegenereerd werd voor grote controverse. Het anti-immigratielied is het 17de meest gestreamde nummer op Spotify bij onze noorderburen. Ondanks de ophef kiest ...
www.demorgen.be
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Well, that's gross. www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/s...
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get in bitch we're destroying the west
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
get in bitch we're destroying the west
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Read it and your day will get better. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Read it and your day will get better. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
I've struggled with suicidal ideation since I was 8 years old. Just terrifying, unbidden thoughts of self destruction that have only quieted with YEARS of therapy/sobriety. If I'd had access to ChatGPT in my youth -- hell, up until about 35 if I'm being honest -- I'd be dead. No ifs, ands, or buts.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I've struggled with suicidal ideation since I was 8 years old. Just terrifying, unbidden thoughts of self destruction that have only quieted with YEARS of therapy/sobriety. If I'd had access to ChatGPT in my youth -- hell, up until about 35 if I'm being honest -- I'd be dead. No ifs, ands, or buts.
Tattoo Idea -- The Demon Core in the crook of my arm so it opens and closes when I flex.
November 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Tattoo Idea -- The Demon Core in the crook of my arm so it opens and closes when I flex.
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Why paint The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee on poster tubes? This Rembrandt, stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, was cut from its stretcher & rolled up by the thieves. If it still exists, it's probably sitting in a tube just like these, hidden away in someone's attic or basement.
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Why paint The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee on poster tubes? This Rembrandt, stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, was cut from its stretcher & rolled up by the thieves. If it still exists, it's probably sitting in a tube just like these, hidden away in someone's attic or basement.
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Friends don't let friends follow Alt National Park Service. This is so weird and inappropriate!!!
AltNPS's post is full of the same lurid details and breathless dramatization as their previous attempt at ICE raid erotica from a few weeks ago.
Things that AltNPS could not possibly have witnessed, and which aren't reported anywhere else.
Things that AltNPS could not possibly have witnessed, and which aren't reported anywhere else.
November 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Friends don't let friends follow Alt National Park Service. This is so weird and inappropriate!!!