Thimblewinder
@thimblewinder.bsky.social
aka Marissa: artist, 90s zinester, etc.
she/her (they/them is ok too)
she/her (they/them is ok too)
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You can make art.
The biggest step isn't getting good at art, it's being willing to make art that doesn't match the idea of "good art" in your head.
Making a lot of imperfect art is an essential step toward making perfect art; a counterproductive goal you shouldn't have anyway.
Just make art.
The biggest step isn't getting good at art, it's being willing to make art that doesn't match the idea of "good art" in your head.
Making a lot of imperfect art is an essential step toward making perfect art; a counterproductive goal you shouldn't have anyway.
Just make art.
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
You can make art.
The biggest step isn't getting good at art, it's being willing to make art that doesn't match the idea of "good art" in your head.
Making a lot of imperfect art is an essential step toward making perfect art; a counterproductive goal you shouldn't have anyway.
Just make art.
The biggest step isn't getting good at art, it's being willing to make art that doesn't match the idea of "good art" in your head.
Making a lot of imperfect art is an essential step toward making perfect art; a counterproductive goal you shouldn't have anyway.
Just make art.
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The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
Once I was at Darwin’s across the street from Harvard, waiting for my sandwich. An older man came in, walked to the front. “I’m picking up my sandwich,” he said. “Name?” asked the barista. “Larry Summers,” he said. I rolled my eyes, probably audibly. No last names at the sandwich place, LARRY!
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Once I was at Darwin’s across the street from Harvard, waiting for my sandwich. An older man came in, walked to the front. “I’m picking up my sandwich,” he said. “Name?” asked the barista. “Larry Summers,” he said. I rolled my eyes, probably audibly. No last names at the sandwich place, LARRY!
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This afternoon, OUSD sent an email alert to parents confirming ICE activity in West Oakland.
We are re-sharing COYOTE's 'What We Can Do About ICE' guide to help our communities stay ready and empowered in alarming moments like this. Please share with your neighbors and friends.
We are re-sharing COYOTE's 'What We Can Do About ICE' guide to help our communities stay ready and empowered in alarming moments like this. Please share with your neighbors and friends.
What We Can Do About ICE
ICE is in the Bay Area. And yes, we can all do something about it.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This afternoon, OUSD sent an email alert to parents confirming ICE activity in West Oakland.
We are re-sharing COYOTE's 'What We Can Do About ICE' guide to help our communities stay ready and empowered in alarming moments like this. Please share with your neighbors and friends.
We are re-sharing COYOTE's 'What We Can Do About ICE' guide to help our communities stay ready and empowered in alarming moments like this. Please share with your neighbors and friends.
Before coffee business idea: “David’s Hide Piercings” body piercing parlor and it’s Frasier themed.
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Before coffee business idea: “David’s Hide Piercings” body piercing parlor and it’s Frasier themed.
I have an affinity for SNL—from a Making Art perspective, it’s impressive to *create something new* each week, even when it’s not funny. It’s at its best w/ a host who’s the right combo of acting chops, humility, and on board with weird silliness—this Saturday’s was 100% that! Nicely done.
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I have an affinity for SNL—from a Making Art perspective, it’s impressive to *create something new* each week, even when it’s not funny. It’s at its best w/ a host who’s the right combo of acting chops, humility, and on board with weird silliness—this Saturday’s was 100% that! Nicely done.
I’m not even trying to read these emails and I feel like each one I come across is more inane than the last. Like what a bunch of boring, self-important buttheads.
November 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I’m not even trying to read these emails and I feel like each one I come across is more inane than the last. Like what a bunch of boring, self-important buttheads.
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I voted a few weeks ago! If you haven’t already, today’s the day 👍🏼
November 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I voted a few weeks ago! If you haven’t already, today’s the day 👍🏼
Today I was unloading the dishwasher and gently tapped a bowl against another bowl and it reverberated the initial beats of Tone Loc’s “Wild Thing” 🥹
November 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Today I was unloading the dishwasher and gently tapped a bowl against another bowl and it reverberated the initial beats of Tone Loc’s “Wild Thing” 🥹
Road work outside my dentist’s office is making truly horrifying drilling sounds, feel it in my teeth, very Halloween, thank you that’s disturbing.
October 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Road work outside my dentist’s office is making truly horrifying drilling sounds, feel it in my teeth, very Halloween, thank you that’s disturbing.
Happy Halloween! I’m celebrating with a dentist appointment where I’ll reveal the nightguard I’ve had for 6 months and already gnawed through in my fitful slumber 😱
October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Happy Halloween! I’m celebrating with a dentist appointment where I’ll reveal the nightguard I’ve had for 6 months and already gnawed through in my fitful slumber 😱
Shout out to the person in my neighborhood who had removed the “MA” on the back of their Tacoma, that made me smile.
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Shout out to the person in my neighborhood who had removed the “MA” on the back of their Tacoma, that made me smile.
Nobody asked, but I do look at photos of events I thought about going to and see how many people are wearing masks, and… I guess I’m glad I stayed home?
October 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Nobody asked, but I do look at photos of events I thought about going to and see how many people are wearing masks, and… I guess I’m glad I stayed home?
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@thimblewinder.bsky.social and I are ruminating on what our Service Bots would be like if they were trained on our zines. Hers would be too arch and mine would be dour and inclined to complain. Hashtag be ungovernable
October 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
@thimblewinder.bsky.social and I are ruminating on what our Service Bots would be like if they were trained on our zines. Hers would be too arch and mine would be dour and inclined to complain. Hashtag be ungovernable
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I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.
I’m so curious how many people were out marching in Oakland today! I was feeling kind of low energy and periody but it was good to be out there.
October 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I’m so curious how many people were out marching in Oakland today! I was feeling kind of low energy and periody but it was good to be out there.
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
You ever wake up and sing some Lisa Stansfield to the cat while you make breakfast? It’s nice.
October 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
You ever wake up and sing some Lisa Stansfield to the cat while you make breakfast? It’s nice.
Well well well, on the morning of the shakeout. CLEVER.
October 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Well well well, on the morning of the shakeout. CLEVER.
Coming to terms with the fact that I really do not resonate with the idea of book club AT ALL but that a film discussion in a small group MIGHT be something I’d be into.
October 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Coming to terms with the fact that I really do not resonate with the idea of book club AT ALL but that a film discussion in a small group MIGHT be something I’d be into.
In the most recent episode of Dressing For Myself, I made myself a pair of elastic-waist barrel leg jeans in a lightweight denim AND THEY ARE AWESOME
October 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
In the most recent episode of Dressing For Myself, I made myself a pair of elastic-waist barrel leg jeans in a lightweight denim AND THEY ARE AWESOME
Me to two kids wearing frilled felt headbands: “Hey, are you guys axlotls? COOL.” Halloween season at work has begun!
September 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Me to two kids wearing frilled felt headbands: “Hey, are you guys axlotls? COOL.” Halloween season at work has begun!
Chicken update: mailed my grandmother (101, in nursing home, missing stuffed chicken) a new chicken with a bell on it. Was informed that BEFORE IT ARRIVED one of her aides had MADE HER A NEW CHICKEN 😭💗
September 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Chicken update: mailed my grandmother (101, in nursing home, missing stuffed chicken) a new chicken with a bell on it. Was informed that BEFORE IT ARRIVED one of her aides had MADE HER A NEW CHICKEN 😭💗