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Cole

@shinypenny.bsky.social

180 followers 810 following 140 posts

Salty, Silly, Sharp. Artist (with my hands) (Commissions are open). Queer as in F-ck the Police. 🤙

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Cole @shinypenny.bsky.social · Sep 5

As long as we’re in the club house, I have all kinds of apocalypse skills and I also make art.

A watercolor painting by the artist of various work boots, and one high heel in the foreground.

A colorful, surreal acrylic painting by the artist of eucalyptus.

A semi-abstract colorful watercolor painting of a bee.

A pencil and charcoal illustration of a bayou shack

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sen. Baldwin: When RFK Jr. did this mass firing in the CDC, he ended up firing everybody in the childhood lead poisoning division. When Milwaukee public schools had a lead crisis and called the CDC for help, there was no one there to answer the phone. This incompetence has real life consequences

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · Jul 29

Why invite youth to develop and present their own art exhibition if you're just going to censor it when it scares your sensibilities.

Teen artists portrayed their lives — some adults didn't want to see the full picture

"What is it like to be a teen right now?" Young artists explored that question for two different exhibitions of their work this summer. But on the National Mall, their work was deemed too political.

www.npr.org

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JP @lojikul.bsky.social · Jul 30

We are gonna have charts for AI slop exposure by generation like we do lead

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Batman or halo @milesklee.bsky.social · Jul 20

pregaming the party by watching classic Looney Tunes

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Emma™ @cockremover.bsky.social · May 15

YES. posting worked. i have killed the hiccups

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merritt @merrittk.com · May 9

doodle. write poems you never show anyone. make banana bread. take pictures of birds. grow a plant. the goal isn’t to build job skills or “become a creative” it’s to just fool around and experience yourself and the world around you

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merritt @merrittk.com · May 9

this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people

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Cole @shinypenny.bsky.social · May 7

I’m having a full-blown health Crash—In retrospect, I should have seen it coming when I placed a can of seltzer over a fly and left it there for three days.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Apr 30

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.