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Gabriel Liston
@lastwater.net
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Drawer, painter, illustrator, whistler
Images of water history and domestic life
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banner: oil painting of pink sky over Umatilla lands
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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · Jan 24
Re-introduction: I am Gabriel Liston, painter.
Everything starts in a notebook, as a cartoon.
I was the twink in art school carrying the preschooler, a hunting knife, ibuprofen.
Now the old man scribbling in a library book.
Work for hire, work for sale. Happy to listen.
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oil painting of an aspen tree meadow in autumn. There is a tiny apple tree in the foreground, a young woman with pink hair and overalls in the mid-ground, and a bit of an A-frame beyond the trees. The light is bright, the grass and clouds are tall.
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I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:
1. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when a 36-year-old writer is asked on a network news show about the Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community particularly in regard to the Well-Known Preponderance of Homosexuals in the Arts she replies that if you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with ''Let's Make a Deal.'' The interviewer's lack of response compels her to conclude that he has no idea what she is talking about and she realizes that soon many of those who do know what she is talking about will be what is generally regarded as dead. 2. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that on New Year's Eve Day… …a 36-year-old writer takes a 31-year-old photographer to get a chest X-ray and listens to him say with what can only be described as a certain guarded hope, ''Maybe I just have lung cancer.'' 3. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has a telephone conversation with a dying 41-year-old book editor whom even the most practiced verbal assassin has called the last of the Southern gentlemen and hears him say in a hoarse whisper, ''I'm sorry but I just hate old people. I look at them and think, 'Why don't you die?' '' 4. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that an aspiring little avant-garde movie director approaches a fairly famous actor in a restaurant and attempts to make social hay out of the fact that they met at Antonio's and will undoubtedly see each other at Charles's and Antonio's and Charles's are not parties and Antonio's and Charles's are not bars and Antonio's and Charles's are not summer houses in chic Tuscan towns - Antonio's and Charles's are funerals. 5. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer is on the telephone with a 38-year-old art director making arrangements to go together the following morning to the funeral of a 27-year-old architect and the art director says to the writer, ''If you get there first sit near the front where we usually sit and save me the seat on the aisle.'' 6. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 24-year-old ballet dancer is in the hospital for 10 days following an emergency appendectomy and nobody goes to visit him because everyone is really busy and after all he's not dying or anything. 7. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer takes time out at a memorial service for the world's pre-eminent makeup artist and a man worth any number of interesting new painters to get angry because the makeup artist's best friend and eulogist uses a story that she has for years been hoarding for her book which she can't write anymore anyway unless she writes it as a historical novel because it's about a world that in the last few years has disappeared almost entirely.
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Dumas actually planned to work his way through the periodic table, but fortunately he died before we got The Man in the Helium Mask
December 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I will die before I let these avaricious fuckers deskill me for profit.
karoline.bsky.social Karoline @karoline.bsky.social · 2d
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Photo byJustin Hocking of young artists in mid-90's NW Portland. Paul is holding my kid's doll, and Beckett her squeaky martian, but where was my kid that day?
Black and white photograph of NW 12th St in Portland, Oregon, circa 1996. Three young, white men look back at the camera as they step into the street. The one in the middle has a baby doll flopped over his arm. They all are wearing slightly scruffy sweaters. The building kitty corner from them is the old brewery icehouse before it was converted into the Weiden and Kennedy HQ.
December 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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New! @wordgarbler.bsky.social revisits an old favourite with Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and @sakbari.bsky.social is excited about Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.

Listen at megaphonic.fm/spouter/87 or on your podcast app.
87. Waiting for Godot / Theory of Water. | The Spouter-Inn
Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.
megaphonic.fm
December 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Remains of a past library: a “pierced” book of a so-called chained library. #bookhistory
A once chained book, nowadays in the Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg. The copy: Deutsche Bibel 1604 (2* Th B VII 81). The piercing: a metal thing made to have your book chained to a desk or shelf.
November 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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I am now stepping away from the internet because Cassie just gave me something really interesting to think about
wilsonxcassie.bsky.social cassie @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social · 2d
I hadn’t really thought about it until today but the fact that transit police have their own special branding and separate force probably contributes to the narrative of transit being disproportionately unsafe, which is frustrating given that it’s drivers who are killing people.
November 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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I hadn’t really thought about it until today but the fact that transit police have their own special branding and separate force probably contributes to the narrative of transit being disproportionately unsafe, which is frustrating given that it’s drivers who are killing people.
November 30, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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🇵🇸🍉
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
josiegz.bsky.social Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 1d
When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. A combination of experimental microgrids, solar panels, and storage kept power on for many businesses and residents.

spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
Could Microgrids Be Puerto Rico's Answer to Endless Blackouts?
Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes
spectrum.ieee.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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If you need to get presents for teenagers this holiday season can I recommend these graphic novels that I am buying for my teen: BROOMS, HELLO SUNSHINE, and S.I.R.
A bookshop.org shopping cart showing three graphic novels: on top, Hello Sunshine (teenagers, mystery mental health); in the middle S.I.R. (teenagers yuri with motorcycle jousting); at the bottom, Brooms (teen witch illegal broom racing in the U.S. south). They’re all amazing, buy them
November 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Community Life Drawing happens at Daydreamer Public House in St Johns, PDX, Mondays 6-9pm. 15$ (for the model). Food and bevs available.

Come build your own reference library of clothed action(ish) sketches!

(pretend V Bunyan's Train Song plays over this video)
November 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.

Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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I think about this bit from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern pretty much every day.
Photo of a crinkled page tacked up on a basement beam. An ink drawing of a terrified horse with an arrow sticking out of its forehead like a horn, is suspended by cursive text that reads, I'm sorry it wasn't a unicorn. It would've been nice to have unicorns, Tom Stoppard.
November 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Dan has impeccable taste
dansinker.com dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d
Tis the seasona and all that, so I put together a little gift guide of cool artists, makers, authors and other good stuff I like a lot. All rad, no bad. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
All Rad, No Bad | dansinker.com
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November 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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I really need some 20 x 16 inch panels to prep for painting.

What furniture could I cut up without the family noticing?
November 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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It's extremely vital to remember that these artists aren't just being replaced by AI, they're being replaced by AI using the artist's work. The artists are being replaced with THEMSELVES, only free. That's the situation here
October 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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KOSA will obliterate trans people's ability to have spaces and even communicate online. It MUST be stopped.
fightforthefuture.org Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 3d
Tell your lawmakers to oppose the Kids Online Safety Act- there are better ways to protect kids online without throwing other vulnerable people under the bus.

www.stopkosa.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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WRITERS! Want to troubleshoot, level up your work or learn a new medium? Bring joy back to your writing practice or come back from burnout?

I have openings for coaching clients! Drop a line to jay.edidin(at)gmail(dot)com with the subject COACHING QUERY for a free consultation!
Coaching for Writers
Want to troubleshoot a sticky project? Level up your work or learn to tell stories in a new medium? Bring joy back to your writing practice, push past a block, or come back from burnout? Establish …
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November 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Everything on my shop is 25% off for Black Friday. I wanted to highlight a few pieces on the verge of selling out.

#1. My sparkling absinthe serigraph, inspired by Yeats' ode to Maude Gonne. Only two left

www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/9amf3...
"Was There Another Troy for Her to Burn" Serigraph *ALMOST SOLD OUT* — Molly Crabapple
With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind That is not natural in an age like this, Being high and solitary and most stern? Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there anothe...
www.mollycrabapple.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Wrote a thing.
An Insult Is a Confession: Notes on Journalism in the Time of Trump
There's been a lot of fuss about Trump recently calling female journalists "stupid" and "piggy" though there's nothing really new about his misogyny toward that sub-population (I am so old I remember ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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fwiw: If you're not in a position to randomly drop by my studio itself, Lastwater has a whole-ass shop for ordering directly
Available in the studio — Gabriel Liston
Originals paintings, prints, book tiles, and color reproductions from the notebooks
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November 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
publius24.bsky.social John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 4d
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM