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@ConsoleWitch@pdx.social
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I believe in radical kindness. I don't always succeed but I always try.

Former Principal Operations Engineer at Twitter

Hacking is weaponized critical thinking.

I'm the partner of a brilliant professor of botany, a pilot, and a cloud engineer. I'm interested in social justice, and politics. Warning, I live an evidence based life so your wacky theory about elderberries will be met with skepticism. Oh, and I have cats.

I'm NOT interested in *men* or violence of any kind.

Dear restaurant owners, do not link to Facebook. Otherwise, your customers see:

- Error message: Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid.
- A big login prompt, that cannot be dismissed.

What your customers don’t see:

- Your menu
- Your location
- Your opening hours

"ai does not work the way you think it does, and if it did, it would be unethical to use it the way you want to"

[EN] Happy Pride! This is part of my series of animals embodying the Progress Pride flag! See the making of here: https://gwennseemel.com/blog/2022/0325-rabbit/

[FR] Joyeuse Fierté! Voici une des image dans ma série d'animaux incarnant le drapeau de la Fierté du Progrès! Découvrez la création ici: https://gwennseemel.com/fr/blog/2022/0325-lapin/

#mastoart #fediart #illustration #painting #peinture #acrylicpainting #traditionalart #aYearForArt #ArtMatters #mentalhealth #lgbtq #lgbtqia #feminism #feminisme #QueerArtist #NonbinaryArtist

A disabled woman named Alma Bowman spent 30 months, nearly three years, in ICE custody during the first Trump regime.

The daughter of an American veteran, they revoked her status because she wrote $1200 in bad cheques twenty years ago. Which she paid back.

When she finally got out of the camps, she worked with the US government as a whistleblower to prosecute detention centre employees who were sterilizing immigrants without consent.

Who were performing unnecessary hysterectomies and tubal ligations.

She used her real name. She stood up for injustice. She tried to protect others.

Now ICE has taken her again, and the media have been largely silent.

The MAGA crowds are cheering because they have no compassion.

No one should be treated this way.

I’m going to keep saying her name until she gets the attention she deserves. She needs to be released.

Justice for Alma.

https://www.advancingjustice-atlanta.org/news/aaaja-almabowman

#ice #immigration #fascism #almabowman #uspol #authoritarianism #disability #ableism #eugenics

Advancing Justice-Atlanta Calls for Immediate Release of Alma Bowman and for Federal Government to Recognize Her Claim to American Citizenship — Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 02, 2025 CONTACT: James Woo, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta, Director of Communications, media@advancingjustice-atlanta.org ,

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta

Life is hard enough, be kind to others.

I saw this around the internet: Don’t be the reason someone skips a meal, hates waking up, or feels left out. your words and actions stick with people forever.

You don't have to like everyone but kindness and respect go a long way.

This protest poster is the top selling design in my print shop at the moment, and I'm grateful for that twice over: once for the sake of my income and once for what it says about Americans' desire to fight tyranny.

Find designs that make excellent protest poster and t-shirts here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/gwennpaints/shop?artistUserName=gwennpaints&asc=u&collections=720273&iaCode=all-departments&sortOrder=top%20selling

#mastoart #fediart #illustration #portrait #painting #acrylicpainting #protestart #arttalk #artist #aYearForArt #ArtMatters #lgbtq #lgbtqia #feminism #QueerArtist #NonbinaryArtist #nokings

I worry at times that I’m the coyote with a black hole for a heart, sucking up all the other coyotes’ songs and keeping them from reaching anyone else. Mostly though, I recognize that I can also be the one who does the singing to fill others’ hearts.

Check out all my paintings about mental health: https://gwennseemel.com/everythingsfine

#mastoart #fediart #illustration #painting #acrylicpainting #traditionalart #arttalk #artist #ArtMatters #mentalhealth #lgbtq #lgbtqia #feminism #QueerArtist #NonbinaryArtist

Everything’s Fine, Surrealist Paintings About Mental Health by Gwenn Seemel

Illustrations of feeling like you have a black hole for a heart, like you don’t know how to communicate where you’re at, and other mental health issues by American painter Gwenn Seemel.

Gwenn Seemel