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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 25d

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · Sep 18

Have been thinking about continuing relevance of Dada artist George Grosz's political critiques. His scathing 1926 painting "Eclipse of the Sun" portrays alliance between feckless political & military leaders and capitalist financiers. Grosz, branded "degenerate" by the Nazis, fled to the US in 1933

Image of table at which sit headless figures, a military figure, and a top hatted capitalist whispering in his ear. The sun above includes a dollar sign

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Aaron Olson-Reiners @aolsonreiners.bsky.social · Sep 14

Jacob Lawrence, “Revolt on the Amistad,” 1989, screenprint on paper.

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Aaron Olson-Reiners @aolsonreiners.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Ru Kotryna (@rukotryna)

light writing poems we can only read for a moment.

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · Sep 3

Excited to present this great essay by Ashanty Rosario, a talented young journalist who attends Newtown High School in Queens, about how she's experienced the arrival of AI in the classroom.

"These programs have destroyed much of what tied us together as students."

I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.

The end of critical thinking in the classroom

www.theatlantic.com

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Annelise Gadoury @annelisegado.bsky.social · Jan 7

Same applies to painting !

Anne Lamott @annelamott.bsky.social · Jan 7

How to write: Stop not writing. Keep your butt in the chair. Write really bad small sections of the whole—passages, moments, episodes, memories—til you have an incredibly shitty 1st draft. Then take out the boring parts, the lies and pretensions. Then write a better 2nd draft.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · Sep 7

A thread devoted to Jacob Lawrence, one of the great American artists of the 20th century, born #OnThisDay in 1917. First up, one of my favorite paintings by him: Sidewalk Drawings, which celebrates visual power of human mark making with two girls exuberantly drawing in chalk on a city sidewalk

Painting of two girls drawing various images - a castle, a sun, a ship, a flag, etc. - on a city sidewalk

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Aaron Olson-Reiners @aolsonreiners.bsky.social · Aug 21

Congrats! Big day!! I remember that feeling!

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Aaron Olson-Reiners @aolsonreiners.bsky.social · Apr 30

A looser approach. This feels right. (Acrylic)

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Aaron Olson-Reiners @aolsonreiners.bsky.social · Apr 25

Ink drawing.
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Aaron Olson-Reiners @aolsonreiners.bsky.social · Apr 23

Recent drawing.
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Aaron Olson-Reiners @aolsonreiners.bsky.social · Apr 21

Each mark a reaction to the last. A conversation between intention and accident. Guided by repetition while leaving room for the unexpected turn. Trusting the hand.
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Aaron Olson-Reiners @aolsonreiners.bsky.social · Apr 18

In my experience, it works best to maintain at least a 3:1 drawing to thinking ratio. Draw, draw, draw, think. Anything less than that invites analysis paralysis (for me, anyway).
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Aaron Olson-Reiners @aolsonreiners.bsky.social · Apr 16

Recent work.
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Aaron Olson-Reiners @aolsonreiners.bsky.social · Apr 15

Four in a row.
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Aaron Olson-Reiners @aolsonreiners.bsky.social · Apr 12

Work in progress.
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Aaron Olson-Reiners @aolsonreiners.bsky.social · Apr 11

WIP.
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NPR @npr.org · Apr 9

Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism

Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

www.npr.org

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Jenie Gao @jeniegao.bsky.social · Apr 2

Fènghuáng 鳳凰 is a mythological bird that disappears during times of political corruption.

They only reappear before humans after a transition to new leadership and an era of peace and justice.

40" x 30" #woodcut on canvas, one half of diptych

#printpromptmonday #magic #fenghuang