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Alexandra Samios
@xanboni.bsky.social
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Skating, poetry, politics, history, gardening, Chicago, random. I make art. Antifa's girlfriend.
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Cat TV is the best tv
A black cat watching a red bird on a computer screen
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar #PrideArt #QueerArt
One of my Pride series. Most of them were rainbows, this one is a little more in your face. Shows also how the paper turns into a book
Paste paper painting (flour paste and acrylic on paper) in black and pink. Texture is made with by flicking a plastic basting brush across wet paint, plus some finger prints. there are stencils of pink triangles and the word queer scattered across the surface. The tapes-bound book made from the paper shown standing, spine out. (Available for purchase, DM me)
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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There's a reason he doesn't keep this on his desk
Truman's "The Buck Stops here" desk sign (The and here are in script, BUCK STOPS is all caps)
December 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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#BlueSkyMonday. #UkraineArt and #ArtAdventCalendar Day One. I'm working on turning this into an actual advent calendar for Ukraine. (Normally I make these paste papers and turn them into book covers, but this was so beautiful I couldn't bear to cut it up)
abstract painting (acrylic on paper). The bottom half is bright yellow with brown and orange swirls, and wavy lines emulating stalks rising into the top half, which is all blue with swirling lines suggesting wind and poofy white circles suggesting clouds. The world contracts to the edge of my window bay The edge of the computer screen One containing my small yard The other keeping the world away The window shows the sunflower blooms Yellow flowers against blue sky The neighbors cars as they drive through Yellow flowers against the blue Against the rubble and the din You cannot keep the world From getting in
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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This little guy was sheltering from the snowstorm on my front stoop, huddled up against the screen door. I dislodged her when I opened the door (couldn’t see her from inside). So sorry baby I hope you find a new safe place!
A tangle of snow covered trees viewed from under a scallop-edged awning. A grey dove sits on a branch.
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Post your favorite "Transformers" character. Wrong answers only.
Skater in a shiny green shirt and black pants with gold decorations. He has a pony tail and is seen three-quarters view gesturing off screen with his stretch our right arm. He has a huge smile on his face because he just freaking one US Nationals with one of the most iconic long programs in US figure skating history. (Jason Brown, Riverdance long program, 2014)
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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I started sending handbound chapbooks instead of holiday cards about 5 years ago. Proof copy for this year's "Chronicle of the Rebellion". Cover art by @theblindwoodchuck.bsky.social coming! #poets
a tall thin blue book with a handwritten title "A Chronicle of the Rebellion" (actually there's no "A" in the title I just forgot my own title) lying on a wooden surface Title page: Chronicle of the Rebellion/a poetry cycle for 2025 A page showing the table of contents: Table of contents: Chronicle of the Rebellion A poetry cycle for 2025 By Alexandra Samios SALUTE Know Your Rights Breadcrumbs On the eve of the Inauguration Late February Stories This is not a candle What’s next Palimpsest Archeology Respite Fist On Tyrants A page showing one of the poems: What’s next Proceed Like this cat Draped bonelessly over my thighs Like her, I am currently wondering Do I simply give in to this moment Or do I use my murder claws To hang on
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Here is Slim trying her very best to be a tuxedo cat but only able to manifest a couple white dots #Caturday
A black cat sits on a low table looking suspiciously into the camera. She has a little white fur triangle on her chest and another in each haunch. There is a green bench couch with a plaid pillow in the background (i quite like that pillow)
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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"you will be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:
Cloris Leachman as Phyllis (with her blonde hair in a messy updo wearing a full length yellow and pink paisley dress) and Valerie Harper as Rhoda (dark hair parted in the middle, wearing a plaid knee length dress) stand behind Mary Tyler Moore (seated on a stool, wearing a dark red crew neck sweater and orange skirt, with her hair in a perfect flip).
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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I wasnt quite ready to give up my garden but I get a little pang that I didn’t buy the beautiful vintage condo overlooking this park every time i walk through it.
A native plants bog with the half timbered vintage building where I didn’t buy that condo in the background. (Indian Boundary Park, Chicago) Looking over a rustic fence at a pond and island with two large willow trees nearly bare in the fall gloom. Begins it is the “castle” another vintage apartment building so called bc of its turrets.
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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I did in fact spend several days sitting in a cardboard box when I first moved here.
A thin older woman with pink hair sleeping in a very large cardboad box. (Must have been an appliance box, bc my house had no kitchen when I moved in) Also, god I was thin.
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Oh dear lord I need this item (antique Wedgewood, lol is there a bank I can rob?)
A small very round teapot (maybe 6-8"? looked small in the video) fashioned to look like an ear of corn. The body is golden kernels with green leaves wrapping up from the bottom (like an ear of corn). The handle and spout are green. My mother collected ceramics shaped like flowers, fruits, and plants, so stuff like this goes /straight/ to the hippocampus in a cloud of oxytocin. Can literally feel my pupils dilating.
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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I just want to thank #birdsky for this morning! So many wonderful pictures. Have a poem about a bird:
A poem next to a bird head painted on a silver tray (that is, the tray is the "canvas") The bird is looking straight at the viewer; its head & neck are white, with a wild uncombed crest of thin black feathers. The poem: Rolling off the bed I nearly squash the cat When I straighten the covers I dislodge her entirely She takes a swipe at my ankle As she stalks indignantly off I stumble to the bathroom To rinse my dry mouth And catching a glimpse In the early silver of the mirror Wonder how quickly I can make coffee
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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there are 4 types of guys online. no exceptions
Radar, Father Mulcahey, Frank Burns, Hawkeye (from the tv series)
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Slim, a black cat, looking at me with those half-mast eyes that say either "you are my favorite creature in the world" or "I am plotting the best path to you liver when you die"
Slim, a black cat, looking at me with those half-mast eyes that say either "you are my favorite creature in the world" or "I am plotting the best path to your liver when you die"
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Slim threw up on the sheets, forcing me to 1. make the bed on a Sunday (yes I am a person who also makes the bed, except Sundays) 2. Wash the damn sheets and 3. change the sheets my absolute 100% least liked chore in the world. She is very lucky she looks like this:
Slim, a black cat, looking at me with those half-mast eyes that say either "you are my favorite creature in the world" or "I am plotting the best path to you liver when you die"
November 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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I watched yesterday's pairs & men's short this morning. This says "Pairs Short" but it's the Pairs short PLUS the Men's short (includes all ads and commentary but amazingly it lets you fast forward past the ads)
Peacock streaming tile: Figure Skating Pairs Short Program 21 hours ago, with Skate America logo
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the ULP strike.
Eastern Meadowlark, a yellow-breasted bird standing on a white wall, acrylic on silver tray, by San Francisco artist Bill Samios (my cousin!)
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The aurora looks incredible tonight here over the lake in Chicago
Glowy, nebula-like clouds over a large body of water, all golden and pink.
November 12, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Important to remember, even though it hasn’t surged on years, that mid November is a normal date for the first snow
Dusting of snow on bright red leaves
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Everything’s awful so here are some molasses carrot muffins made with the last of my gorgeous garden carrots
Muffins in a basket lined with a yellow gold napkin
November 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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QT if you agree
black cat impersonating a load of bread on my stretched out legs
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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I'll see your cutout and raise you:
A map of IL US House district 9, which is literally shaped like salamander
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Slim likes the heated blanket (don’t need sound but of you turn it on that’s @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social on History Hits doing a gunpowder plot what if
November 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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I love this recipe
Two cottage loaves. They’re somewhat orange bc of the 3 cups of Thai peppers which also give them a lovely bite
November 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM