🐚 ms_xenophora 🐚 @xenophora@mastodon.art

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“Time Alone 2” - Long rect. in br. green w/lt. tooth texture. 3 rows ea. w/doubled black over white diamond shapes. 3 in top row, 4 in cent., & 5 in bottom. Alt. details over these: 3 tiny metal butterflies, 5 white watch faces, and 4 scraps of “pasted on” text from ads. (No other colors, just duotone effects.) Butterfly shape repeats in lg., faint “chalk” marks on the green “paper.”

Lefty Voter: "JFC but I was conned by Obama. I was under a spell & didn't know how to criticize what I saw & heard. I really was desperate & fell hard for his whole pitch, but never again."

Same Lefty Voter, a few videos later: "Don't dig this Lefty candidate. He has no charisma. He's bland & just recites facts. Here's my detailed list of what he's got wrong, BTW."

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Me: "So... you're saying that bland recitations of facts are in fact better for you, the voter?"

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I have another small art project on the back burner. If you're comfortable with languages besides English, I'd love your help with it:

What's the most coherent and/or poetic way to translate the following sentence:

"Will the rose survive?"

I know online translators exist, but they're not always sufficient.

Thanks in advance. ☕

Without anti-militarism (or anti-interventionism) your anti-fascism is doomed to be as frail and hollow as a blown-out egg. :(

"Hi I'm Fred The *~*Prog*~*Creative*~*. For 3 yrs. straight I will attack mainstream Dems to get the social capital & hits I crave. During the election year it's different. I slam Greens & any other Left off-road challengers using the same bullshit vote-Neolib-or-die arguments rags like *La Nation* were already peddling when I was still learning to read.

"I'm Fred & I don't really understand shit but ha ha ha I win b/c neither do my fans."

Taking a whack at pretend "hand-coloring" of B&W clips in Photoshop using multiple layers and honestly... it's not bad.

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I wish I could remember which podcast I heard this on, but it was re: some celeb who whined about how people on social media were mean to them. The response, roughly: "You don't get to be the King Of The World and also universally loved. That's not the way it works. That's not the way it's ever worked. Kings have always been hated, and with good reason. So just go retreat to your bejeweled gold gazebo and get a pedicure and shit if you're having a bad day."

On the off chance any of those artists are reading this: you rock. Keep doing what you do. 🎨 🔥

BTW, I saw on my trip home today that the #blm art placed over That Fancy Handbag Store's windows was being carefully removed. Too bad. I'd rather have that to look at 5 days a week than expensive dross I never wanted and couldn't afford if I did. :/

...Excuse me if I don't GAF about some ultra-rich dipshit's tears in *Harpers* or wherever. They'll be rich and surrounded by sycophants forever. Now a relative fraction of the world's population is audibly annoyed at some horrible bullshit they said, which doesn't strip away Golden Dipshit's wealth or prestige in any significant way. Boo hoo.

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The very fact that so many of us weigh in on this when almost none of us will ever have to worry about it negatively affecting our own daily lives... kinda' makes its own point. Doesn't it?

IOW, I have a better chance of being struck by lightning than ever reaching a cancel-worthy level of popular/material success. Also, I can literally be fired for no reason or any reason from any job, pretty much. Right now, and for always...

Bought a cute li'l can of dolmathes to share & and there's an odd number! Why is Greece trying to break up my marriage?! WHY?!?!

Watching the antics Over Yonder of the Jesse Ventura stans has made me change my mind: 12-year-olds should not be given the vote after all. Sorry.

You know you spend too much time on Fedi when you see someone ride by the bus stop on their bike, and you can really only see the eyes and a bit of hair. But you're sure they're that One Really Cool Person On That One Instance With All Those Selfies, but you can't DM them to ask if they're out biking just now because that would just be too intrusive and weird. 🚲 🎭