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Alex Weston (he / him)
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Public Historian and Filmmaker in St. Paul, Minnesota. Occasional lecturer, artist, and writer. Full-time nerd.
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There’s no reason ever again for any Democrat to suggest moderating on trans rights. There was never a moral reason but now there’s no political reason either.

Somebody tell Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg. it’s joe-ver.
November 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Dick Cheney dying on the same day that NYC elects its first Muslim mayor is pure fuckin’ poetry.

#Cheney #Momdani #USpol
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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I’m told that the results of a single election reflect a perfect, unchanging, and inescapable spirit of the Volk, so I will expect us all to start respecting the American people’s desire for Woke Maximalism.
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Reading about #Louvre heist has inspired me to get out my Henry Mancini records. That guy sure could make crime sound swanky.
October 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
October 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM
#Inktober Prompt #14: trunk

Harry Houdini and his wife Bess by the trunk used in their “Metamorphosis” trick, which was the act that first brought attention to a young Houdini in the 1890s.

#inktober2025 #inktoberday14 #inkdrawing #noai #madebyahuman
October 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
October 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
October 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
October 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#Inktober Day 8

Prompt: reckless

Han Solo at the precise moment he begins to regret charging a group of stormtroopers.

#inktoberday8 #inktoberreckless #hansolo #inkdrawing #noai #madebyahuman
October 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
#Inktober Day 7

Prompt: Starfish

I decided to imagine how a medieval monk illustrating a bestiary might envision a starfish if they had never seen one but only had vague and exaggerated written descriptions.

#inktoberday7 #inktoberstarfish #medievalbestiary #inkdrawings #noai #madebyahuman
October 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Every sentence in this piece disturbs me and makes me deeply worried for the future of the human race.

#noai #ai

As schools embrace AI, more students are using it as a friend

www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...
As schools embrace AI, more students are using it as a friend : NPR
A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.
www.npr.org
October 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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DEI for me, not for thee.
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October 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
#Inktober Day 6.

Prompt: Pierce

A Styracosaurus and a Pachycephalosaurus. The dinosaur nerd in me would like to note that both species are native to North America in the Late Cretaceous. So the scene you see here is 100% scientifically plausible.

#inktober2025 #inktoberday6 #dinosaurs
October 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM
#Inktober Day 5.

Prompt: Deer

A skeleton of a megaloceras, also known as the “Irish Elk” (a misnomer since it is neither specifically Irish nor is it an elk), an extinct species of deer that used to range across Eurasia.

#inktoberday5 #inktoberdeer #inkdrawings #paleoart #noai #maderbyahuman
October 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
#Inktober Day 4. (This one took a while, so I’m a couple days behind.)

Prompt: Murky

#inktoberday4 #inktobermurky #inkdrawings #noai #madebyahuman
October 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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#inktober day 3 crown

There is no meaning of shiny things other than to horde them.
きんきらものは、蓄えること以外に意味がない

#inktober2025 #inktoberday3 #crown
October 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#Inktober Day 3.

Prompt: Crown

(My mind went immediately to Macbeth, though if you want to take this as a more general commentary on the blood-soaked origins of the institution of monarchy, that works too.)

#Inktober2025 #inktoberday3 #inktobercrown #macbeth #inkdrawing #madebyahuman #noAI
October 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
October 4, 2025 at 3:43 AM