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Eran Fowler

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🚫NO AI He/They #artsky #transart #lackadaisy crew Insomniac, illustrator, and background painter for animation. I make political POD designs on the side. eranfolio.com https://www.redbubble.com/people/eranfowler/explore

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · Jan 24

I have a huge backlog of art which I haven't posted here yet, so I'm going to do that. Going to make this a thread. Starting with some of my more political paintings.

Painting of a boy huddled in a corner, wearing VR goggles, surrounded by neglect and decay.

Wolves devour a fallen sheep, while the rest of the pack slaughters more behind them. In the center, a blood-stained sheep wears the skin of a wolf and eats along with them, attempting to convince the wolves he is one of them. The wolves are not fooled.

A smirking oligarch drips oil from a completely saturated suit, standing knee-deep in water with an iridescent chemical film across the surface. He holds an expensive coffee in one hand, and a smartphone in the other. The screen illuminates him with a ghoulish glow. Around him float the oil-coated bodies of countless people, and in the distance an oil tanker billows black smoke. The sun is a flat red disc in a smoke-brown sky, and silhouetted against it is a mountain in the shape of a stock market crash.

A hunting dog stands protectively over a family of pheasants, growling while her master lifts a shotgun. She disobeys his orders and her training. A flock of chickadees swoops around her, picking loose threads from her fluorescent orange hunting collar to free her from it.

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 8h

Exactly. Treating market forces as inevitable is to completely ignore how much power we have over the shape of the playing field.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 19h

Farmers grow what they grow because of farm policy.

We don’t need all the soy and corn that we grow, but those are the commodities that receive subsidies and markets.

If we want something better, if we want to heal the Earth and grow food, now is the time to do it.

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 9h

Happy #portfolioday! I'm Eran Fowler, an American illustrator based in Canada. Looking for remote work as a background painter for animation, or as a cover artist.

[email protected]
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A trio of skeletal angels is chained and bound together, dripping with mutated flesh. They try to pull apart and reach upward towards a radiant sun, but only burn beneath the rays.

Medusa stands protectively at the mouth of a cave, holding up one hand with a glowing curse half-cast. Behind her are a crowd of cowering women and children. In the foreground, two men advance menacingly, but are stopped in their tracks as the curse begins to turn them to stone.

Lord Charon offers his skeletal hand from his perch above an ancient boat, backlit by a red sky. The boat is laden with candles melting into piles of gold coins. Ghostly hands grasp at the boat from the water below.

A stag composed of the night sky stands cornered in the snow, the moon hung suspended between his antlers. All around him, a pack of wolves made of snow circles and leaps towards him, teeth bared.

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 12h

Meanwhile, "Libs of Tiktok," a hate page ACTUALLY directly responsible for dozens of bomb threats and stochastic terrorism attacks, and countless cases of coordinated doxxing and harassment, is totally fine and still running.

Facebook takes down page that Justice Department says was used to harass ICE agents

The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday that Meta had complied with its request to take down a page on its Facebook platform that the agency said was being used to harass ICE agents in Chicago.

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 17h

Can you imagine being one of the poor unfortunates from a hundred years ago who would have KILLED to have access to the incredible medical advancements we have now, and being told that in the future, people would intentionally reject these lifesaving blessings?

Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you! 😊

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Trump sir do not let woke antifa change the clocks this year. They plan to do it and they say you are powerless to stop them

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Dr Lisa 🇰🇳🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈❤️🥳🧘🏽‍♀️🎸🏝💃🏽🛸 @xitter-refugee.bsky.social · 1d

🙏🏽❤️

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 1d

In all seriousness though, this should have been done long ago, just as the bare minimum. Each generation that allows this injustice to stand makes us complicit.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 1d

"Man seen at multiple protests can only be paid actor, not an activist" is some next level projection

Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 1d

Only the most important ones- mine, my parents, MAYBE my closest friend. I didn't have enough room in my brain for more than that.

Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing is ever a problem until it's their problem. These people have the moral-social development of kindergartners.

Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 2d

Social ostracization is really the least of it. That should go without saying. Everyone who's a part of this monstrous machine should be facing lifelong material consequences.

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Spryte M. ♿🏳️‍🌈♀️🎮✍🏻🪆🧩🦅 @sprytemagnus.bsky.social · 3d

@theradr.bsky.social I believe this is your gem of wisdom

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 3d

See, persecution is when people are mad at him specifically and say mean things about it. Black bagging someone off the street and sending them to a gulag is not persecution and totally fine.

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 3d

A hit dog hollers? He sounds like someone with skin in the game. Either he's ICE, someone he knows is ICE, or he's the kind of Nazi who just really loves what they're doing.

Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 3d

Meme of soldiers pepper spraying a protestor, with the words "A fascist government doesn't announce that it's fascist: it declares antifascists enemies of the state"

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 3d

I would love for this to be true, but it's misquoted. The clause simply lists them as people who could potentially BE impeached, it doesn't say that they automatically go en masse if the president goes.

Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 3d

They might as well indict her for jaywalking. Wow, what a criminal. 🙄

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 3d

To be clear: I am sarcastically paraphrasing what I know they actually believe, in a manner that demonstrates how illogical it is.

I'm also referencing this:
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread."

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 4d

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, they're really laying it on thick here. So he's gonna die soon huh

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 4d

"It's not discrimination! Gay and straight alike have the freedom to marry someone of the opposite sex."

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