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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛
@blushandmumble.bsky.social
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According to my mayor, loser with a nasty cat blanket.

Artist, lawyer, cat rescuer, zinester. Disabled punk lesbian. She/her. Postcrosser. Locked Tomb fan.
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blushandmumble.bsky.social
He’s floppy and likes to be held like a baby. The fluffy tummy is not a trap.
A solidly-built fluffy black cat sits in the center of a grey cattasaurus donut with his front feet draped over the side. He is looking towards the camera. There is a radiator behind him, a few leaves above, and a wood floor below.
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
So I have this rosy maple moth plush and yesterday I decided to paint her. Gouache on mystery paper I inherited. #gouache #carandachegouache
A gouache painting of a plush toy rosy maple moth. The moth has a big round body, yellow with pink face and wings, with yellow antennae like bunny ears and little rounded pink feet. She is on a colored background, purple underneath shading to red and then orange above her.
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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bombsfall.bsky.social
idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
For today’s art I decided to try another shoe, my new TMA Eyes boots. I did these in ink, J. Herbin 167, Émeraude de Chivor, and a lovely gouache set I got as a birthday gift. The ink isn’t waterproof, so it changed some of what I was doing. #inkallyear #watercolor #gouache
A green boot by TMA Eyes folded over about halfway up. Behind the boot is an upper background in yellow, lower in blue, both covered in orange polka dots.
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
Yesterday’s art is a very basic watercolor with my little Derwent travel set, which I keep in my bag so I can watercolor any time I like. In practice this mostly means I don’t have to borrow watercolors from my wife if I stay at her house. #watercolor
Watercolor painting of two purple tulips above a large red and yellow flower with a big green leaf in a clear vase.
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they overturned women’s constitutional right to an abortion three years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
Yesterday’s art is a portrait of a friend. I wasn’t able to make the life drawing event they posed for, but my wife took photos. Local drag performer CK in pen and marker. #marker #crayolamarker #supportlocaldrag
A person with a round face, blue eye and lip makeup, thin lines of blue mustache and beard, and blue wavy wig - darker at the top and shading to light at the bottom. There’s some smearing of the pen above the eye on the left side as you look at the image.
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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kentuckylantern.com
Higher gun ownership rates lead to more gun homicides of pregnant women, new study says.
@nhassanein.bsky.social @stateline.org
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/18/h...
Higher gun ownership rates lead to more gun homicides of pregnant women, new study says • Kentucky Lantern
Homicide rates among pregnant women increase with the rate of firearm ownership, finds a state-by-state study.
kentuckylantern.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
I give basically no fucks about the "male loneliness epidemic" as it's a straight people problem and women have actual serious problems like inequity, but this is interesting.
amandamarcotte.bsky.social Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 10d
People have a good reason to resist acknowledging the male loneliness crisis. They correctly perceive that women are being blamed and told to fix it.

But the real cause is predatory capitalists who profit on keeping men isolated and online.

www.salon.com/2025/11/17/d...
Don’t blame women for men’s loneliness. Blame capitalism
There’s a lot of money to be made off angry, isolated men
www.salon.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
It’s my birthday, please show me your cats!
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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chantalalive.blacksky.app
Stop taking madness out of your equation when you talk about homelessness. It's very transparent to us. You have no solidarity with the mad in any aspect of your life & the only way you can feel sorry for a homeless person is if you think they're "normal" like you.
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
It’s November so inktober is over and I’m back to messing around with whatever. Pen and crayon in a sketchbook.
A pen and crayon drawing of a squat and rounded toy unicorn, think gummy bear proportions. She is yellow with a blue mane, laying on her side and casting a shadow from an overhead light.
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 AM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
Yesterday’s watercolor is predictably the shoe from an angle I have not previously explored. Watercolor and pen on mysterious paper I probably inherited. #watercolor
A red high heel seen from the top. The shoe is outlined in rings of blue and purple.
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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xlix.me
A bridge is a question between two certainties.
PHOTO by Anas Jawed. A lone person crosses a gently arched bridge that spans a dark, still body of water, wrapped in dense fog. Bare trees frame the scene on either side, their forms fading softly into the mist. The atmosphere is hushed and dreamlike, with the bridge seeming to float in a world suspended between land and sky.
November 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
Whatever you do today, it's a good day as long as you don't rank Jacob Frey.
November 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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amandamarcotte.bsky.social
The Democratic establishment's ugly reaction to Zohran Mamdani reveals an unpleasant truth.

They would rather lose elections than change.

The addiction to rich donors and consultants is killing the party. But Mamdani shows a path out. An analysis.

www.salon.com/2025/11/03/z...
Zohran Mamdani knows how to win
Not just in New York — Mamdani's campaign shows how to inspire voters nationwide
www.salon.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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babadookspinoza.bsky.social
*yelling at the firing squad before me* My tax dollars pay your salaries!
November 2, 2025 at 2:14 AM
blushandmumble.bsky.social
Daniel Abraham Follow @abraham.bsky.social If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net October 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM Everybody can reply 667 reposts 74 quotes 1.8K likes 10 saves
November 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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stephanieburgis.bsky.social
Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
We Have AI Now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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October 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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museum.of.emilyk.art
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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harmscommitted.com
"[R]eproductive punishment."

"The aging reproductive body, especially in the form of menstruation, menopause, and post-surgical healing, is not protected within carceral institutions."

"Reproductive aging in this context is not simply biological. It is political."
#USA #Healthcare #Incarceration
The Furnace: Climate, Confinement, and the Cost of Reproductive Aging Behind Bars – Scalawag
The aging reproductive body, especially in the form of menstruation and menopause, is not protected within carceral institutions.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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bobbylewis.bsky.social
coming off of an article about french towns tilting less toward fascism if the tour de france comes through, one thing reads especially clear from this: in all human interaction, people want to feel important. sometimes that stems the tide of monsters. other times, monsters use that to play you.
gravelinfluencer.bsky.social Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Sep 18
Yesterday Fresh Air did an interview with Robert Draper, who has covered Charlie Kirk. And this section on Draper's relationship with Kirk said a lot to me about modern access journalism, and the soft coverage we've seen in the wake of Kirk's death.
GROSS: After you profiled Kirk, and I think that was published back in February, you stayed in touch with him. And I think you were texting each other the day before he was killed. DRAPER: That's correct. I'll tell you also, Terry, that the story, as you say, was published in February of this year. But I would say for a full year prior to that, Kirk and I had been getting to know each other, and he would often reach out to me. And I thought this was an interesting aspect to Kirk, that he would reach out to me just to run things by me. Not asking so much for my opinion - because, as a journalist, I couldn't give it - but just as a reality check, he'd say, I'm hearing from the right that this particular viewpoint is prevalent from the left. Am I just living in a bubble, or is that true? GROSS: How would you respond to that? DRAPER: Well, sometimes I would say, you know, I think what you're hearing you're hearing from the right-wing media ecosystem, and it's not supported by reality as I understand it. And he would take that and be grateful for it. There was also a time I reached out to him, I remember, to say, I'd like to talk to you off the record about the religious context in which so many people in the MAGA community are viewing Donald Trump. Can you explain to me how they see him as this sort of flawed vessel, like King David or something? And he was very fluent in describing that to me. And so we had that kind of back-and-forth well predating the publication of the story, and continued to since then. I had dinner with him in D.C. once, I think, a couple of months before he was killed, and I remember he brought security with him. They sat at the bar. And he seemed very casual about it, which is not to say that he was utterly unconcerned. But it was essentially the cost of doing business, that that was just the world that we were in. I was texting with him the day before the assassination because I wanted to come to Arizona and have dinner with him and his wife to catch up on various things. But also, there's a major magazine project that I'm beginning. And I wanted Kirk's thoughts about it, but not on the phone and not in writing. It just required a face-to-face. And he wrote back saying, absolutely. We would love to have you over for dinner. Just pick a date in September. And I think I sent, a few hours later, the text, how about September 23? And obviously, I never heard back.
October 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM