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Jan

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I, Too, Am Robot.
Mixed media collage, March 2025. Paper, acrylic, watercolor, pen and ink.

My hand holding a collage up for photographing. The collage is composed of three shiny purple metallic female-shaped robot figures overlapping with gold metal prongs of a computer chip. Words cut from print material create the phrase “I, too, am robot.”

May 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM

Jan

@jannypie.bsky.social

New mixed media collage; my twist on a quote about insomnia from comedian George Carlin that goes, “There are nights when the wolves are silent, and only the moon howls.”
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Mixed media collage on white paper. The collage is a watercolor landscape evoking woods at night under a starry sky. A female figure in the center holds her face and hands to the sky in a supplicant gesture. Handwritten cursive text reads, “there are nights when the moon is silent and only I howl.”

March 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM

Jan

@jannypie.bsky.social

I consider reaching the first day of March as having survived the Winter, so congratulations to everyone we made it through another one 🙌

Art illustration done in black ink and watercolor. A horizon line curves in the background, with slight shades of a red rising sun above and the green of grass below. The top of the page looks grey and cloudy, but the bottom has a wash of sunlight across the ground from left to right. On the left side of the ground, the word February has been written in all caps and given depth, as if the letters had been carved deeply into the earth like shadowed chasms. The inner end of the letter Y has stairs rising from its depths, and small dark figures of people trail up the stairs and to the right half of the page. There, the word March has been drawn in letters that stand up from the ground, the opposite treatment of February. The letters of March are colored in warm yellows and pastel blue and green.

March 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM

Jan

@jannypie.bsky.social

Our collective action (actual money and our presences online, which they monetize) is really scary to the bad guys, so it’s important to me.

Image text reads: ECONOMIC BLACKOUT FRIDAY FEB. 28, 2025 12AM-11:59PM
OUR FIRST OFFICIAL ACT:
"TURN IT OFF"
•For one day we show them who really holds the power.
WHAT NOT TO DO:
• Do not make any purchases. • Do not shop online, or in-store
• No Amazon - No Walmart - No Best Buy Nowhere!
• No McDonalds
DO NOT SPEND MONEY ON FOOD:
• Fast Food - Gas - Major Retailers
- Do not use Credit or Debit Cards for non essential spending.
WHAT YOU CAN DO IF NECESSARY:
• Only buy essentials of absolutely necessary items such as [Food, Medicine, Emergency Supplies)
•If you must spend, ONLY support small, local businesses.
SPREAD THE MESSAGE:
• Talk about it. • Post about it. • Document your actions that day!
WHY THIS MATTERS:
• Corporations and banks only care about their bottom line.
• If we disrupt the economy for just ONE day, it sends a powerful message.
• If they don't listen we make the next blackout longer.
• This is our first action. • Our numbers are powerful.
• This is how we make history.
SHARE THIS MESSAGE

February 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM

Jan

@jannypie.bsky.social

I have seen a lot of Parable of the Sower circulating which makes me happier than many other dystopian analogies- particularly the second half of the duology - did you know the Christian American’s slogan was Make America Great Again?