pencilton
@moonleg.bsky.social
Teacher, intermittent artist, sporadic writer.
“art’s most ardent and morose admirer”
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“art’s most ardent and morose admirer”
matthewpshelton.com
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I wrote about a pedagogy of tracing, and tracing and teaching as metaphors for each other, and the gap between what we can see and what we can create.
I wrote about a pedagogy of tracing, and tracing and teaching as metaphors for each other, and the gap between what we can see and what we can create.
January 24, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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I wrote about a pedagogy of tracing, and tracing and teaching as metaphors for each other, and the gap between what we can see and what we can create.
I wrote about a pedagogy of tracing, and tracing and teaching as metaphors for each other, and the gap between what we can see and what we can create.
Damn leo’s over here about to crush my dreams of being a widely-read author of pithy, soul-stirring passages about the relationship between consciousness and technology
Stay in your lane pope!
Stay in your lane pope!
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Damn leo’s over here about to crush my dreams of being a widely-read author of pithy, soul-stirring passages about the relationship between consciousness and technology
Stay in your lane pope!
Stay in your lane pope!
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
this piece by @jamellebouie.net is tough. I especially appreciated the subtle but pointed invocation of Dubois’s conception of the ‘psychological wage’ of whiteness. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...
October 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
this piece by @jamellebouie.net is tough. I especially appreciated the subtle but pointed invocation of Dubois’s conception of the ‘psychological wage’ of whiteness. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
October 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
hollow victor, ink and water soluble pastel on cardboard, 2023
October 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
hollow victor, ink and water soluble pastel on cardboard, 2023
untitled, mixed media collage, 2015
October 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
untitled, mixed media collage, 2015
thank goodness moon pics
just can’t quit failing
just can’t quit failing
October 9, 2025 at 6:02 AM
thank goodness moon pics
just can’t quit failing
just can’t quit failing
a circle’s just a line turning into itself
August 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
a circle’s just a line turning into itself
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Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
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This is the post Trump loyalist Charlie Kirk used to swing Sen. Joni Ernst's vote for Pete Hegseth, who if confirmed will be by far the most extremist cabinet official in modern history. Note the "tool" he used: Trans rights. The absence of centrist solidarity for trans rights made that possible.
January 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This is the post Trump loyalist Charlie Kirk used to swing Sen. Joni Ernst's vote for Pete Hegseth, who if confirmed will be by far the most extremist cabinet official in modern history. Note the "tool" he used: Trans rights. The absence of centrist solidarity for trans rights made that possible.
this post is a navel gazing bummer, sorry. you’re welcome.
been kind of stuck on this image of doubting Thomas, fbow. i know copying Caravaggio is basic. but i enjoy the friction of embracing doubt as a self discipline—doubt about oneself, the world, one’s place in it—
been kind of stuck on this image of doubting Thomas, fbow. i know copying Caravaggio is basic. but i enjoy the friction of embracing doubt as a self discipline—doubt about oneself, the world, one’s place in it—
January 9, 2025 at 4:27 AM
this post is a navel gazing bummer, sorry. you’re welcome.
been kind of stuck on this image of doubting Thomas, fbow. i know copying Caravaggio is basic. but i enjoy the friction of embracing doubt as a self discipline—doubt about oneself, the world, one’s place in it—
been kind of stuck on this image of doubting Thomas, fbow. i know copying Caravaggio is basic. but i enjoy the friction of embracing doubt as a self discipline—doubt about oneself, the world, one’s place in it—
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The movie “Flow” is nominally about a little black cat surviving and finding friendships with a capybara and lemur, among others, in a flooded, post-apocalyptic world, but it is also about managing anxiety during crisis by focusing on the community you are in. Also it was made in Blender.
December 1, 2024 at 5:20 AM
The movie “Flow” is nominally about a little black cat surviving and finding friendships with a capybara and lemur, among others, in a flooded, post-apocalyptic world, but it is also about managing anxiety during crisis by focusing on the community you are in. Also it was made in Blender.
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John Coltrane’s drawing of music, given to Yusef Lateef in 1967 via
@openculture.bsky.social
www.openculture.com/2017/04/the-...
@openculture.bsky.social
www.openculture.com/2017/04/the-...
November 13, 2024 at 6:32 AM
John Coltrane’s drawing of music, given to Yusef Lateef in 1967 via
@openculture.bsky.social
www.openculture.com/2017/04/the-...
@openculture.bsky.social
www.openculture.com/2017/04/the-...
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The Democrats spent months telling people that the other guy is an authoritarian dictator who will end democracy and they have said nothing about how to stop him now that he has won the election
“Leadership”
“Leadership”
November 28, 2024 at 2:04 PM
The Democrats spent months telling people that the other guy is an authoritarian dictator who will end democracy and they have said nothing about how to stop him now that he has won the election
“Leadership”
“Leadership”
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“On Prison Radio, Johnson said Eshiet had told him that “the racism and abuses, the hard and inhumane conditions at Red Onion, were so intolerable that he and others were setting themselves on fire in desperate attempts to be transferred away from the prison.”
Inmates burn themselves in protest at ‘inhumane’ Virginia prison conditions
Officials acknowledge prisoners have harmed themselves but say they did not set themselves on fire or self-immolate
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 7:24 PM
“On Prison Radio, Johnson said Eshiet had told him that “the racism and abuses, the hard and inhumane conditions at Red Onion, were so intolerable that he and others were setting themselves on fire in desperate attempts to be transferred away from the prison.”
what does it mean that my parents’ cosmology of junk is my mood board
December 1, 2024 at 4:10 AM
what does it mean that my parents’ cosmology of junk is my mood board