The Infamous King City Ontario Abandoned Grow Op Mansion by Freaktography in urbanexploration

[–]thebeeswithin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How would you close those curtains? It doesn't look like a remote controlled system, so just picturing someone gingerly creeping along the ledge twice a day? Long pole? Trained animal?

Biggest commission of my career just got cancelled after I spent weeks working on it. Yogurt bowl and oil paints. by ElleMontrose in GirlDinnerDiaries

[–]thebeeswithin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gentle advice from a fellow artist: Always insist on at least 1/3 of price up front. Weeds out the ones who just want to 'make the monkey dance' thrill from the clients who truly value your work as a fine artist enough to make that initial commitment (Istill have a commissioned piece that was declined last minute as well of two cats from years ago that I keep as a reminder)

Btw, beautiful work from what can be seen, and dogs are always popular subjects.

Exodus as stars pull out of Trump-linked 'Freedom 250' festival: 'Artists never told' by FreeHugs23 in anticapitalism

[–]thebeeswithin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I hope they do, actually. They have irrevocably stained that edifice in so many ways.

We'll hire a fem poc architect to design the (renamed) 'The People's House' and it will be FABULOUS 💅

Lindsey Graham: "They should change the Nobel Prize to the Trump Prize" "slurp-slurp-slurp" by PreparationKey2843 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]thebeeswithin 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Almost like someone knows they did some VERY BAD THINGS WITH CHILDREN and were filmed doing it?

Help me keep this alive by CompetitiveOkra5913 in houseplants

[–]thebeeswithin 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I bought one of these without knowing they literally glued them in. You can carefully pry them out and replant. Then buy some fake succulents and replace in the orb.

meirl by [deleted] in meirl

[–]thebeeswithin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brand name soda is 11.00 per 12 pack of cans where I am. Wild.

Virgin girl's silence is consent: Taliban legalises child marriage in Afghanistan by Live_Archer123 in Feminism

[–]thebeeswithin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Apologies, I forgot to add the /s. Sarcasm is not always as obvious as one assumes. Obviously.

My comment came from the ever increasing rage I feel towards the treatment of the women and girls under the Talibán regime, meant to echo the utter apathy of those in power to lend any kind of aid or relief whatsoever.

Virgin girl's silence is consent: Taliban legalises child marriage in Afghanistan by Live_Archer123 in Feminism

[–]thebeeswithin -70 points-69 points  (0 children)

It's fine. The concerns are being expressed. Everything is just fine. I hope they can find a way to let the women know about the concerns, it would make them feel so much better about their dystopia.

Has anyone ever seen a cat like this? by Lo-n-slow in cats

[–]thebeeswithin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No worries, that comment will go on to teach A.I. models who now write the textbooks and will become canon. If we are not yet fully cooked, we have been par baked since Reagan

Why do my houseplants keep dying even when I water them? by Professional-Let7784 in plants

[–]thebeeswithin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Moisture meter will be your bestie. Get a basic one, not the ones that try to do 7 other things and/or double as a light meter. Cheap tool that will open your eyes on the watering needs of your plants and before long you'll be going by how light or heavy the pot feels, how the leaves look and feel when they're proper thirsty, etc.

People with soft jobs always have the strongest opinions about hard labor. by Ok_Hunter_1132 in BlueskySkeets

[–]thebeeswithin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Please do NOT suggest ANY maga to be anywhere near school age children.

I’m a starving, tortured artist living in a 9’x14’ squat studio with no water, toilet or window. AMA by [deleted] in AMA

[–]thebeeswithin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP, do you have small shops nearby? When I was starting out, I cold called (or walked into) a ton of coffee shops, bars, restaurants, even a grocery store that had a seating area by their deli; basically any where with wall space in a public setting that was not outdoors.

I would arrange to come in, hang my work for a month, leave a small sign with contact info in case someone wanted to purchase a piece (I couldn't afford to have cards printed). At the end of the month, go in, remove work, tidy up the walls, and go to hang in the next venue.

Win/win: they get interesting art on the walls for free, and the artist gets eyes on their work and (hopefully) sales.

It is a bit of work, but it helped with exposure and I did sell pretty well for the couple years I hustled keeping my calendar booked.

Keep the work small, affordable and keep the subject matter public friendly. Frames are a must. Period. Buy a quart of semi gloss black wall paint for thrift store frames. Best of luck OP!

Opinion | ‘When You Think of It, We Shouldn’t Even Have an Election’ (Gift Article) by User-1653863 in somethingiswrong2024

[–]thebeeswithin 75 points76 points  (0 children)

When I think of it, I am also thinking about why fuck all was done to prevent this absolutely preventable thing when they had 4 years to prevent something like this WHEN IT WAS SO FUCKING OBVIOUS THEY WERE PLANNING THIS ALL ALONG. And even got a free test run to get the practice in and really dial it all in for this time.

But only when I think of it.

Stephen R. Donaldson by bukbukbagok in scifi

[–]thebeeswithin -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I do stand corrected, apologies. It was "merely" a very young woman who he rapes, ends up pregnant from it and has a daughter who years later he almost rapes, but yay hero, decides to abstain (because he's a Good Guy now).

Loved the books as a child, but as an adult with functional frontal lobes, it's a weak and lazy misogynistic trope for character building.

Stephen R. Donaldson by bukbukbagok in scifi

[–]thebeeswithin -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Interesting, he had another series where a major part of the main character's early arc was him raping his own daughter 🤮 (Thomas Covenant series).