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Nina Gonzalez

@ninagonzalez.bsky.social

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Co-host & Business Manager - Mobile Suit Breakdown, Producer - The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne, Master Calligrapher (EA brush-calligraphy), crafter, nerd, hobby-collector. Español / 日本語 ok! gundampodcast.com lydiadisappears.com pfp by sleepysigil

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 2h

Morning Spew for Night Owls—Did New York's last big tax increase on the wealthy actually drive our millionaires to Florida?

No, absolutely not, says a new study.

And other links to start your day!

The 'Myth' of the Fleeing NY Millionaire

And other links to start your day Tuesday.

hellgatenyc.com

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Thom Coffyn @mecha-tho.bsky.social · 4h

It wasn't the lingering smooch with fairy voyeurism?

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Aura Battler Dunbine has won me over. Just saw a guy recite a death poem before being crushed to death by the fiery rubble of his castle.

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Nina Gonzalez @ninagonzalez.bsky.social · 4h

seemed like a pretty good death poem, too

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Aura Battler Dunbine has won me over. Just saw a guy recite a death poem before being crushed to death by the fiery rubble of his castle.

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Video Games Out of Context 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @indiegamesooc.bsky.social · 9h

Okami

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 11h

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Nina Gonzalez @ninagonzalez.bsky.social · 12h

I‘ve rummaged around in secondhand stores, gone to museums, watched movies, built themed playlists, flipped through old art books, gone on long walks…

Nina Gonzalez @ninagonzalez.bsky.social · 12h

Make a little solo-date with yourself every week to “fill the well.” It doesn’t have to cost money, and if it does it can be cheap (some small, delightful indulgence), it just needs intention - this date CAN be relaxing, but that isn’t its purpose. The purpose is inspiration.

MounaBat @mounabat.bsky.social · 13h

Question for fellow creatives!
What's some art/creativity-related advice or technique that you feel like changed you/your process forever?

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 1d

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 11d

Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?

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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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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"Instead of Columbus, we should celebrate all Italian women for being so hot." this is a genuine thought I had this morning. I'm sharing it as an act of contrition. please do not get mad at me. please do not become passionately enraged with your fiery tempers and strike me with a heavily-ringed hand

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I thought this was lovely.

"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion."

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"Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York."

A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.

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Nina Gonzalez @ninagonzalez.bsky.social · 1d

I am certainly excited to watch more of it

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@mecha-tho.bsky.social and I just watched the first episode of G Gundam for the upcoming season of @gundampodcast.bsky.social !

(and live-recorded our reactions, for eventual patron-exclusive bonus content!)

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Koboldscrossing @koboldscrossing.bsky.social · 1d

wayward sisters 🧹🐈‍⬛🌝

paper cut illustration of a witch walking her a black cat on her back

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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びがぁ @vigwer.bsky.social · 1d

完成。そーいえば体育の日でした。

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 1d

The Firmament Above the Temple https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/484861

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 23d

Everyone could use a reminder that the idea behind our system of government is that we cede some of our power to it in exchange for it working on our behalf. When it stops doing that it becomes illegitimate and must be changed. The idea that the people can "betray" a government organ is perverse

David Noll @david.noll.org · 23d

In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Brian R. Marvel, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, which represents over 87,000 public safety officers, said he was outraged by the passage of the law.

He said in a statement that he believed that California did not have the authority to regulate federal agents, so it would ultimately apply only to local law enforcement officers, which he called a “troubling betrayal that California’s local law enforcement community will not soon forget.” He said that limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state.

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 2d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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HAM: Calligraphy (Bot) @hamcalligraphy.bsky.social · 2d

Ten Panel Screen of Calligraphy: Five Couplets by Sin Wi, Yun Yong-ku, O Se-ch'ang, Kim Sŏng-kŭn, and Sŏ Sŭng-po https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/148557

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Anonymous Fund and David Berg, Esq., Bequest Fund

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 3d

From: Fair, then Partly Piggy (1988), dir. Toshio Hirata, Oh! Production

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Mark Rothko @markrothko.bsky.social · 3d

Yellow, Cherry, Orange
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4812

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