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Amie Ghoulingham 🎃 @aimkag.bsky.social · 57m

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Amie Ghoulingham 🎃 @aimkag.bsky.social · 59m

When our cats do this to each other, we call it “balding” so the second I saw this photo, I said “Bald!”

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Amie Ghoulingham 🎃 @aimkag.bsky.social · 1h

😳

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Amie Ghoulingham 🎃 @aimkag.bsky.social · 3h

Ew.

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Amie Ghoulingham 🎃 @aimkag.bsky.social · 4h

We’ve noted the same, which is disappointing. Not only because of texture issues, but also sometimes a bean burger just hits.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 8h

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.

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Amie Ghoulingham 🎃 @aimkag.bsky.social · 5h

I may putz with it again before I sign it, but this is the general gist.

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Amie Ghoulingham 🎃 @aimkag.bsky.social · 5h

“Ohiopyle” watercolour on paper 2025

A watercolour painting of Ohiopyle by Amie R Gillingham 2025

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Amie Ghoulingham 🎃 @aimkag.bsky.social · 7h

I am very hopeful on your behalf!

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Amie Ghoulingham 🎃 @aimkag.bsky.social · 7h

I think so. And I have yet to be disappointed by any of J’s friends which have been universally delightful, excepting the Extra Child #ifkyk

Amie Ghoulingham 🎃 @aimkag.bsky.social · 7h

It’s in the resting phase where I don’t look at it for an hour before attacking it again with Much Gusto!

I have to say I love painting exactly the way my watercolour teacher told me not to in college: treating my “delicate” watercolours like acrylic. WTF shouldn’t I?

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Amie Ghoulingham 🎃 @aimkag.bsky.social · 7h

Dang!

Amie Ghoulingham 🎃 @aimkag.bsky.social · 7h

They’re staying through Halloween. And they have never been to PA before so J wants to show him 🍁

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Amie Ghoulingham 🎃 @aimkag.bsky.social · 7h

Lookit those little guys! 😍

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Amie Ghoulingham 🎃 @aimkag.bsky.social · 8h

Snippet of my current WIP #ohiopyle

A partially completed watercolour painting of a Rocky river cove backed by trees

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Hiding in the Burgh @hidingintheburg.bsky.social · 10h

That last one is very important. Reminder why:
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Amie Ghoulingham 🎃 @aimkag.bsky.social · 9h

Grateful my eldest had the tiny scrap of time in American history where being accepted for who he is was relatively easy. I don’t want the rest of his life to be an uphill battle. Trans rights are human rights.

ACLU @aclu.org · 10h

This LGBTQ History Month, we’re not just honoring the past — we’re fighting for a future where all trans youth can grow up and thrive as themselves.

Blue graphic with a quote in pink and white text reading "Our son is trans. He knew he was a boy, long before he had access to social media or had met other trans people... My son is alive and has a great life because of gender-affirming care.” The quote is attributed to: Anonymous parent of a trans child

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Amie Ghoulingham 🎃 @aimkag.bsky.social · 10h

I completely forgot to share these yesterday for Indigenous Peoples Day. The Carnegie Museum of Art has a fantastic permanent collective of native art, both ancient and contemporary, all of which includes context and historical background.

Beadwork on antelope hide depicting the Battle of Little Bighorn (Battle of the Greasy Grass)

Abstract anthropomorphized bone artifact with a moon face and a bird

A stone figurine of a native woman with a hand drum

Several Hopi katsina dolls in a display case

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12h

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.