arwyn
@arwynsays.bsky.social
i make yarn, things with yarn, and opinionated declamations. read the alt text and wear a mask.
playing with procreate to #MakeBadArt
playing with procreate to #MakeBadArt
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arwyn
@arwynsays.bsky.social
· Aug 11
we are increasingly surrounded by agendas needing to convince us that reality doesn't matter, that our senses & experience & memory & history don't matter. that how we measure & feel & what we love don't matter.
making refutes that. art proves that a lie. make something beautiful. something real.
making refutes that. art proves that a lie. make something beautiful. something real.
using a very broad definition of beautiful here. i don't mean pretty, or pleasing, or not-ugly. i mean beautiful in the way pain, hurt, survival, death, existentialism, doubt, the inherent absurd contradictions of humanity can be beautiful.
but also i mean pretty. that works too.
but also i mean pretty. that works too.
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Don't say "it will die in the senate"
Say "I will kill it in the senate"
And then call them. It takes so few calls, comparatively, to make it feel like a wave crashing over them. We need to be the wave, again and again.
Say "I will kill it in the senate"
And then call them. It takes so few calls, comparatively, to make it feel like a wave crashing over them. We need to be the wave, again and again.
December 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Don't say "it will die in the senate"
Say "I will kill it in the senate"
And then call them. It takes so few calls, comparatively, to make it feel like a wave crashing over them. We need to be the wave, again and again.
Say "I will kill it in the senate"
And then call them. It takes so few calls, comparatively, to make it feel like a wave crashing over them. We need to be the wave, again and again.
i was a bodyworker, BC. i mostly worked with queer/trans adults. every single person i worked with who had a history of binding as a teen STILL had issues accessing their full breath. we do*permanent harm*, even when our kids survive, by pretending they don't know who they are and what they need.
The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors.
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
House passes bill to criminalize transition care for minors
The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related medical care
www.nbcnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
i was a bodyworker, BC. i mostly worked with queer/trans adults. every single person i worked with who had a history of binding as a teen STILL had issues accessing their full breath. we do*permanent harm*, even when our kids survive, by pretending they don't know who they are and what they need.
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if you are a trans teen right now, you do not have the lifetime of experience with the united states federal legislative branch to cope with “this will *probably* die in the senate” on top of the rest of your life and that right there feels like a fucking flavor of abuse at scale.
I haven't been in the pediatric trans healthcare system since 2019 and I can barely look at these headlines without wanting to puke.
Can't imagine the fucking damage this is doing to trans kids today.
Can't imagine the fucking damage this is doing to trans kids today.
December 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
if you are a trans teen right now, you do not have the lifetime of experience with the united states federal legislative branch to cope with “this will *probably* die in the senate” on top of the rest of your life and that right there feels like a fucking flavor of abuse at scale.
i would much, much rather have a robust public school system and a prolific public transit system, but as it is, the neighborhood schools fail half my kids and the transit system doesn't pick up the slack. blaming parents for systems failures is just sparkly misogyny.
This is obviously a, ah, provocative take on the subject, but it indeed an enormous societal problem that children have stopped walking or biking to school. There are plenty of individually rational reasons parents might drive their kids to school, but, in a wider context, no good reasons.
December 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
i would much, much rather have a robust public school system and a prolific public transit system, but as it is, the neighborhood schools fail half my kids and the transit system doesn't pick up the slack. blaming parents for systems failures is just sparkly misogyny.
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1125/1340, I've got til 8am to get it paid.
Trying to #crowdfund not losing my storage unit. The auction is in the morning on the 18th, I have to pay by 8am eastern the 18th to stop it. And they jacked up the rent again, of course. I'm gonna lose my housing end of month, I'd really like to not lose my stuff. PurpleHel on venmo&cashapp
50/1340
50/1340
December 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
1125/1340, I've got til 8am to get it paid.
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This week, I turn 43, in a time where Mar-a-Lago face is dominating the headlines and I’m increasingly confused about what aging even looks like. www.patreon.com/posts/146014...
What do I do with this old-ass face? | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz
Get more from Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz on Patreon
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December 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This week, I turn 43, in a time where Mar-a-Lago face is dominating the headlines and I’m increasingly confused about what aging even looks like. www.patreon.com/posts/146014...
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Spend £2 on this unique zine made by me and then raid your yarn stash and end up with a unique scarf made by you. AI couldn't take the photos I took or write the text I wrote for me and it can't crochet for you either 🧶
Looking for a very easy and very silly crochet project to amuse yourself with over the holidays?
CHAOS CROCHET.
A new zine to guide you in creating a unique scarf according to the whims of a six-sided die.
michellicopter.itch.io/chaos-crochet
CHAOS CROCHET.
A new zine to guide you in creating a unique scarf according to the whims of a six-sided die.
michellicopter.itch.io/chaos-crochet
Chaos Crochet by Michellicopter
Create a unique scarf shaped by fate
michellicopter.itch.io
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Spend £2 on this unique zine made by me and then raid your yarn stash and end up with a unique scarf made by you. AI couldn't take the photos I took or write the text I wrote for me and it can't crochet for you either 🧶
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quick and (literally) dirty sketch for today's #MakeBadArt
The News compelled me to change the message just a smidge.
The News compelled me to change the message just a smidge.
December 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
quick and (literally) dirty sketch for today's #MakeBadArt
The News compelled me to change the message just a smidge.
The News compelled me to change the message just a smidge.
quick and (literally) dirty sketch for today's #MakeBadArt
The News compelled me to change the message just a smidge.
The News compelled me to change the message just a smidge.
December 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
quick and (literally) dirty sketch for today's #MakeBadArt
The News compelled me to change the message just a smidge.
The News compelled me to change the message just a smidge.
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I choose to start. I choose to have faith that something can grow from starting, however that endures, grows, succeeds. I choose to do the work of hope and keep doing it without waiting to see how it turns out. "How it turns out" is a luxury for afterward, and there's fires that need lighting now.
December 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I choose to start. I choose to have faith that something can grow from starting, however that endures, grows, succeeds. I choose to do the work of hope and keep doing it without waiting to see how it turns out. "How it turns out" is a luxury for afterward, and there's fires that need lighting now.
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This is an unsubtle season in an unsubtle year. It's an unsubtle time. But amidst an era of cruelty that's blatant and broad, destruction and deprivation that revels in its vulgar enormity, we have this unsubtle season to share broad, blatant, vulgar, enormous courage. Kindness. Hope. Why not?
December 16, 2025 at 5:18 AM
This is an unsubtle season in an unsubtle year. It's an unsubtle time. But amidst an era of cruelty that's blatant and broad, destruction and deprivation that revels in its vulgar enormity, we have this unsubtle season to share broad, blatant, vulgar, enormous courage. Kindness. Hope. Why not?
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Nothing is forever. And forever makes everything else brief. And brief doesn't mean worthless, or failed. If a whole world matters, a corner of it does. If eons matter, sparks and gasps do too. And saving everyone looks huge from one angle and small from another; saving one person is the same.
December 28, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Nothing is forever. And forever makes everything else brief. And brief doesn't mean worthless, or failed. If a whole world matters, a corner of it does. If eons matter, sparks and gasps do too. And saving everyone looks huge from one angle and small from another; saving one person is the same.
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I was raised with the story of oil lasting eight days as a miracle. But the thing is, lasting even for a flicker is a miracle, too. If anything is miraculous, it's all miraculous, depending on where you stand. And all of it matters. All of us matter. No matter how long we have to burn.
December 28, 2024 at 2:24 AM
I was raised with the story of oil lasting eight days as a miracle. But the thing is, lasting even for a flicker is a miracle, too. If anything is miraculous, it's all miraculous, depending on where you stand. And all of it matters. All of us matter. No matter how long we have to burn.
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Everything and anything is out there in the dark. If we want to have any chance of finding that future we hope for, a future of liberation and justice, courage and love, decency and compassion, we have to hold onto each other as we go. Please, please, don't forget.
And then take a breath. Try again.
And then take a breath. Try again.
December 26, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Everything and anything is out there in the dark. If we want to have any chance of finding that future we hope for, a future of liberation and justice, courage and love, decency and compassion, we have to hold onto each other as we go. Please, please, don't forget.
And then take a breath. Try again.
And then take a breath. Try again.
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To some degree, no good thing we can imagine was ever the likeliest possibility. But hope moves in unknowable places, curls in hidden seeds, stirs in unseen eggs full of stars and yolk and darkness. When the breath of making moves over the waters, the waters are still dark and deep.
December 26, 2024 at 8:29 AM
To some degree, no good thing we can imagine was ever the likeliest possibility. But hope moves in unknowable places, curls in hidden seeds, stirs in unseen eggs full of stars and yolk and darkness. When the breath of making moves over the waters, the waters are still dark and deep.
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So many terrible things are likely, and always were. But any student of history--anyone who studies the lit-up places of the past--will tell you likely and inevitable are not the same thing, and the path to the present is full of strange, unlikely, unpredictable moments, choices, people.
December 26, 2024 at 8:26 AM
So many terrible things are likely, and always were. But any student of history--anyone who studies the lit-up places of the past--will tell you likely and inevitable are not the same thing, and the path to the present is full of strange, unlikely, unpredictable moments, choices, people.
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So I want to begin, here in the night with you, here at the start of a new chain of this thing I do to light up candles in the darkness, with the deepest reassurance I know: we don't and can't know what's next. We can make excellent guesses, illuminated by past and present, but it's dark out there.
December 26, 2024 at 8:21 AM
So I want to begin, here in the night with you, here at the start of a new chain of this thing I do to light up candles in the darkness, with the deepest reassurance I know: we don't and can't know what's next. We can make excellent guesses, illuminated by past and present, but it's dark out there.
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That's the thing I always try to remember here deep in the belly of the year where we keep our secrets and our beginnings and our grief: to our broken present moment, here and now, all we have is what we brought with us. For more, for better, we rely on hope, and that's out there in the dark.
December 26, 2024 at 8:03 AM
That's the thing I always try to remember here deep in the belly of the year where we keep our secrets and our beginnings and our grief: to our broken present moment, here and now, all we have is what we brought with us. For more, for better, we rely on hope, and that's out there in the dark.
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We fail. We lose, get lost. We find ourselves having to redefine everything we are and try again, in a new place, a new time, in the dark. (The lamp was lit in the past. It's the past that's illuminated. Of the present, we can only see as far as the fires we have. The future is always beyond sight.)
December 26, 2024 at 7:57 AM
We fail. We lose, get lost. We find ourselves having to redefine everything we are and try again, in a new place, a new time, in the dark. (The lamp was lit in the past. It's the past that's illuminated. Of the present, we can only see as far as the fires we have. The future is always beyond sight.)
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Rededication, not just dedication. Things get broken. Things get lost. Things get defiled and desecrated. Homes get occupied, revolutions become the new regime in need of deposing, liberatory hopes need to be remade and reworked and fought for and grown for and fixed and fed and rededicated again.
December 26, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Rededication, not just dedication. Things get broken. Things get lost. Things get defiled and desecrated. Homes get occupied, revolutions become the new regime in need of deposing, liberatory hopes need to be remade and reworked and fought for and grown for and fixed and fed and rededicated again.
mmmm hey where's my "warning before reblogging an image without alt text" toggle?
December 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
mmmm hey where's my "warning before reblogging an image without alt text" toggle?
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1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.
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third one. looks like a cheat cuz you've seen the doodle before, but that lettering took me forking HOURS okay. #MakeBadArt
December 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
third one. looks like a cheat cuz you've seen the doodle before, but that lettering took me forking HOURS okay. #MakeBadArt
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at the coast in astoria, i made eye contact with a sea lion in the river from like 15' away on the pier. i said hi and waved; it raised its flipper back at me. can i prove it was deliberately mirroring me? no, but a sea lion waved at me and you can't convince me otherwise.
December 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
at the coast in astoria, i made eye contact with a sea lion in the river from like 15' away on the pier. i said hi and waved; it raised its flipper back at me. can i prove it was deliberately mirroring me? no, but a sea lion waved at me and you can't convince me otherwise.
EVEN IF we buy this incorrect assertion (lol speak for yourselves, dullards), what makes people free to make the big leap with risky ideas are:
time
money
food and housing security
not worrying about bankruptcy (eg from healthcare costs)
y'know. the things the techbros & fascists are stealing.
time
money
food and housing security
not worrying about bankruptcy (eg from healthcare costs)
y'know. the things the techbros & fascists are stealing.
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
EVEN IF we buy this incorrect assertion (lol speak for yourselves, dullards), what makes people free to make the big leap with risky ideas are:
time
money
food and housing security
not worrying about bankruptcy (eg from healthcare costs)
y'know. the things the techbros & fascists are stealing.
time
money
food and housing security
not worrying about bankruptcy (eg from healthcare costs)
y'know. the things the techbros & fascists are stealing.