Nicole Maki
nikimaki.bsky.social
Nicole Maki
@nikimaki.bsky.social
Perky nihilistic
Mixed-media artist 🎨
INTJ 💉t1d
Weightlifting 🏋🏼‍♂️
Oregonian🌦 by way of BC, Canada 🇨🇦
Trying to
Learn a complex mono-printing technique as simply as possible. Might be too much for my limited patience and attention span.
October 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Loving the sides of this painting. Since they are hanging so high up the wall; the bottom edge is highly visible.
October 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Really big floral painting (4ftx5ft) for our home. Used a giant snippet roll for the vase. #abstractfloral #art #fingerpainting
October 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Making my annual batch of Fire Cider. I don’t know a better immune booster! #firecider
October 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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"It's an entire political ad, from a major Democratic politician, that is exclusively defending trans rights. Has this ever happened before?"

This is amazing.
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
October 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Cleaned out my little flower garden for the year and made mono prints of the last seed pods on exam paper. These will bring a nice memory with them when I am making art over the winter. #gelliarts #gelliprint #gelliplate #botanicalprint #seedpods #exampaper
October 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Data center energy consumption has reached a record 5% of total US power demand.
#MorePower #EconSky
August 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The US US discovered debt as a natural resource around 2000, and has been exporting it ever since.

Excellent article by @bhgreeley.bsky.social

on.ft.com/40NNZmt
July 13, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Superman was so good. 10/10 and very on point for this moment.
July 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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July 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
July 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Section 5 Point 10 is a doozy.
The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.

Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".

Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.

substack.com/redirect/169...
June 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Finally finished my Vans. Abandoned this project a few years back and finally trying to reduce the UFOs around here (Unfinished objects)
June 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The world is burning… sewing lucky fish from hand painted fabrics - all ripped sheets and old clothes.
June 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
June 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Shut down the Senate.
Kristi Noem should resign in disgrace.
June 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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This‼️
May 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
In case anyone was curious about the Kuretake Granulating Watercolors I just swatched them. I really love how they react with each other (bottom right) and I can see using the Aurora Orange all the time as a fancy brown. Ditto for the blue. And the vividness of the violet cannot be overstated.
June 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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When he showed up to an immigration meeting in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen.

Then ICE arrested the Mississippi father of four, not even giving him a chance to say goodbye to his wife, whisking him away to a prison.

@nickjudin.bsky.social reports:
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
My new granddaughter 💖
May 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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anyway happy mother's day to most but not all the other mothers out there. i do not support all mothers some of you bitches are very dumb
May 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Despite President Trump's promise of cuts, the federal government has spent about $220 billion more in his first 100 days than the same time period last year.
My take: DOGE is a fraud. t.co/RT6cpM7YHP
https://cbsn.ws/3Gv7A3E
t.co
April 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
We just met with our contractor re roof/deck etc and he said with the tariffs and ‘uncertainty’ (regarding suppliers) the prices as of this morning jumped 22% across the board for things like roof shingles and all steel. 1/2
April 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Do traders have Stockholm Syndrome? Rally today appears based on WSJ report that we might have "only" 50-65% tariff on Chinese goods.
That's still a huge effing tariff - roughly triple the average effective tariff rate on China last year. US companies still don't have margins to absorb this
April 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM