SuperSimp (he/they)

@photopotamus.bsky.social

fat queer hippo artist, photographer, freak artistic nudes & horny comments http://photopotamus.art open for real media or Paint commissions, & photography in the greater chicagoland area 💖

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 15h ago

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

I've talked before about how audiences will flock to SFW creators and drool at the concept of them doing NSFW but as soon as you *do* NSFW work a lot of people no longer respect you as a human being but instead just someone that makes stuff for the crank bank

Speak Easy Art 🔞@speakeasy-art.bsky.social · 4d ago

Seeing some of my fave "big-name" artists on BSKY joking that they might have to stoop to making erotic art to make a living has me miffed. Erotic art has A) been artistic subject matter in all time periods and cultures, and B) Erotic artists are ALWAYS at the front of threats against the arts.

Hope & pleasure & beauty & love keeps me going but in the middle of the night I cry a lot bcuz I am overwhelmed by how much we all are suffering, and how much more suffering we all have yet to go thru i want to believe

⚠️⚠️⚠️ boosting this again for awareness! if an "artist" suddenly DMs you with links, or exhibits odd behaviour, check the handle of the sender to see if its a fake! scam accounts frequently lack a posting history to prevent tracing!

🍊 tsu@tsurudraws.art · 2y ago

⚠️PSA ABOUT SCAMMERS There's been an uptick in impersonators who target users with easily swappable handles (i's for l's, o's for 0's, varying repeated letters, etc) They will always 1) block the original artist 2) target users who have replied with interest, either thru QRPs, replies, or DMs (+)

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 3w ago

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...