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Beastmaster General, Re-Animator

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Loose in the cat room once again. Local reading expert and synthesizer enthusiast. Listen to my music at https://thealliterates.bandcamp.com and https://lucidfugue.bandcamp.com and listen to my podcast at https://www.buzzsprout.com/2361632

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Beastmaster General, Re-Animator @beastmstrgeneral.bsky.social · Nov 12

This is my band, we sound like the unholy spawn of Killing Joke and Hawkwind. Start with the songs Nothing New & Carrion Birds

The Alliterates

The Alliterates are a psychedelic punk band, born from the Covid lockdown. A wide range of influences, including glam rock, post-punk, and doom metal. Made up of former non-concurrent bass players of ...

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Beastmaster General, Re-Animator @beastmstrgeneral.bsky.social · 13h

A pedophile that sends his masked goons to put people into concentration camps has doubts about the state of his immortal soul

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 13h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Beastmaster General, Re-Animator @beastmstrgeneral.bsky.social · 15h

Quit being boring.

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · Sep 10

"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators

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Beastmaster General, Re-Animator @beastmstrgeneral.bsky.social · 17h

Captain Murphy from Sea Lab: “You got any stuff that doesn't suck?”

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 18h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 6d

If you’re an ICE agent (or someone familiar with their upcoming raids) who wants to talk, especially about Broadview, I am mandawritesthings at proton dot me.

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Beastmaster General, Re-Animator @beastmstrgeneral.bsky.social · 18h

All my apes gone 2

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 19h

Beastmaster General, Re-Animator @beastmstrgeneral.bsky.social · 21h

Too many people told tech bros they are smart

Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 1d

I can't believe this is real

Beastmaster General, Re-Animator @beastmstrgeneral.bsky.social · 1d

That was probably the best show I’ve been to

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

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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Beastmaster General, Re-Animator @beastmstrgeneral.bsky.social · 1d

There was a saint at the show who saved my phone after I lost it in the pit at the @ekkoastral.bsky.social show

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Beastmaster General, Re-Animator @beastmstrgeneral.bsky.social · 1d

I’m always glad when I’m neither among the oldest or youngest guys at a punk show

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 2d

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 1d

Hannibal’s tactical masterstroke at Cannae was the capstone of a brilliant Italian campaign against the Romans and their allies, but it was not enough to win the war. This video explains why Hannibal failed despite battlefield success:
youtu.be/NNaQuE-DAsc

Why Hannibal Failed

YouTube video by Tribunate

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 1d

the new Superman movie is pretty solid but it's unbelievable cowardice to come so close to making a Superman who listens to 90s ska and then back down

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Beastmaster General, Re-Animator @beastmstrgeneral.bsky.social · 1d

I have never relied so much on free hotel coffee on a trip as much as I have now. Thanks tariffs

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

After Careful Thought, Teen Applies To College Where Family Donated Building https://theonion.com/after-careful-thought-teen-applies-to-college-where-fa-1819577078/

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Beastmaster General, Re-Animator @beastmstrgeneral.bsky.social · 1d

The croissant has eyes!

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 4d

bluesky benefits:
- some cool people
- secondmost lowtax owner

tumblr benefits:
- gays
- art
- gay art

mastodon benefits:
- you default to being in the top 3 of funniest people on the site
- CWs to filter any mention of the UK

twitter benefits:
- adolf hitler
- the screams of unbaptized orphans

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Beastmaster General, Re-Animator @beastmstrgeneral.bsky.social · 2d

They made me leave my shoe at the bar for collateral for the light up Frankenstein glass drink

Two drinks, one in a light up glass shaped like Frankenstein’s monster, the other in a Spam can with a penis straw

Beastmaster General, Re-Animator @beastmstrgeneral.bsky.social · 2d

When all this is over, Stephen Miller should be extradited to Venezuela for all the fishermen he’s murdered

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 2d

Buildings in Oregon are made out of hemp and gender

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Beastmaster General, Re-Animator @beastmstrgeneral.bsky.social · 2d

I always assume he had a few beers in him whenever he recorded vocals

Beastmaster General, Re-Animator @beastmstrgeneral.bsky.social · 2d

It is a reference to a kid’s cartoon from the 60s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooter_...

Tooter Turtle - Wikipedia

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