Monique Laban
@moniquelaban.bsky.social
Everywhere else I’m endorphinique. I write. https://www.moniquelaban.com
The biggest fallacy out there is that art can't be learned. The notion that it's gatekept away because some people are born with ability and some people aren't. No. It's a skill. You improve it. The Mona Lisa wasn't 101 art. He worked on plenty of shit to get there.
someone's selling a couch and this is the pic they posted
Seeing more and more @beehiiv.com and @buttondown.com newsletters from my mutuals. Good work, y’all.
I liked it as a kid too. But people always do all this throat clearing about what a singular work of children’s literature it is on an art level when we talk about this and I just don’t think we have to at all
Hi, it's me and yes it's because of racism and racist policy!
In Trump’s economy, Black adults and their families face worsening job security and financial stability
The Trump-Vance administration inherited a strong labor market with record employment and wage gains. But after a year of the administration’s economic mismanagement, workers are feeling more vulnerab...
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It is utterly damning of this country that a "Check If Your Salad or Your Guacamole is Especially Likely to Make Your Ass Explode" app is necessary, but since it is, I guess it's a good thing one exists
Daniel Carlson@danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 2d agoThis site lets you scan barcodes to see if they’re part of Taylor Farms: www.taylordetector.com
will never not be funny to me how harry potter was venerated for getting a generation of kids into reading when really it just got them into harry potter
2024, my boyfriend and I talking about his sister's photo of the dinner she made: lmao she can't cook 2025, my fiance and I talking about his sister's photo of the dinner she made: lmao she can't cook 2026, my husband and I talking about my SIL's photo of the dinner she made: OH NO HOW DO I HELP HER
If you grew up in the smallest, ruralest, whitest, and middlest areas of small rural white middle America, especially if you’ve got just enough brown in you for them to notice, then you know exactly who those fucking people are. You also know they’d break immediately from the smallest inconvenience
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 4d agothere is in fact a group of people that genuinely only understand force, and they’re the rich white MAGAs who constantly jerk off in public about how everybody they hate “only understands force”
watching my wife try to hire someone to work under her this week has been wild- like 98% of all resumes aren't even real candidates and come from fraud farms trying to use AI to scam a paycheque to a fake candidate, we have officially hit a point where the biggest global growth industry is fraud
As I've said before, the Trumpists are *hunting* trans kids. The media is silent. The Democrats are silent. And someday they'll all claim they fought against this. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/anti...
Anti-trans news site outs Olympic skater's trans sibling - LGBTQ Nation
Women's gold medalist Alysa Liu has a sister competing in track and field in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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very online but not like in a way where I know what anyone is talking about
dear local business owners, nobody is going to tell you they’re bailing on your business because of the AI ads. they’ll just stop going. in a year you’ll have run out of customers and you’ll be totally mystified as to the reason
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 6d agoHello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...
The Purge but it's the one night of the year that everyone who says they'll "circle back" actually does
Please share this widely, especially if you are a New Yorker.
Alex Segura@alexsegura.com · last wk.We are seeing an increased ICE presence in NYC - making it imperative that NYers KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. I wrote a comic with @mayor.nyc.gov @nycimmigrants.bsky.social @davidhahn.bsky.social @elllewrightart.bsky.social @tayloresposito.bsky.social to do that! DOWNLOAD: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/co...
A lot of adults came out of Covid with trauma and that tends to send folks searching for healing but a pet theory of mine re: children/teens is that families suddenly exposed to each other 24/7 had a catastrophic effect on who those families thought they were and parents freaked out.
Thickest novi eboraci ®@worldwidewoman.blacksky.app · 7d agowait y’all. How big of a factor is COVID in the cultural shift towards purity/religion? 🤔
Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
I got a personalized rejection from a dream publication and I'm floored. Wow.
Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · last wk.Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
if you make art of any kind, express yourself for an audience of others in any way, you are a pornographer. you arent next, you're part of it now.
Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 2w agoa bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...
My half-formed thoughts from my screening of The Odyssey during which the speakers blew out halfway through so it was difficult to understand the crunchy dialogue: Why Matt Damon??????????? Go ahead girl give us nothinggggggg
Dua Lipa Dance Performance on Stage
Alt: Dua Lipa Dance Performance on Stage
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