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Bix F.

@bixfrankonis.bsky.social

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That dog is hit again. That slow.dog is hit again. With his see-through skin. The kind of skin you can see through. He’s shot again.

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Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 9d

Welcome to the #IndieWebCarnival for October 2025.

Your prompt:

EGO.

Check the post for details.

bix.blog/posts/2025-1...

#Blogging

Frank Black - Hang On To Your Ego (Official Video)

YouTube video by 4AD

www.youtube.com

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Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 1m

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 5h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 16m

So is my current state of autistic burnout in a “just do a comfort rewatch” place or a “maybe watch that Hunger Games prequel” place. It’s tricky, because are my resource levels in need of a known signal or an unknown signal in order to regulate.

Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 21m

Two decades ago at New Old Lompoc for Red Sox postseason, the signal went out and I tried to connect my iPhone to their stereo to at least play the radio feed.

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 10h

Now with #AltText

A black background has white text at the top that says “amphifa.” Two flags over each other, common antifa flags, have a black flag and a green one. An image of a green frog facing left with a blue ascot sits on the black flag. Circling the flags is the text, “amphibians against fascism.”

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Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 28m

Bought.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 40m

What a great moment to wash your eyes and nose out with the incredible Kirkus Prize-winning book *In Sensorium: Notes for my People* by perfumer and novelist Tanaïs #BookSky
www.harpercollins.com/products/in-...

Ebook is $1.99 right now!

Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 39m

I fully expect a large inflatable animal contingent at No Kings here next weekend.

Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 41m

Looking across a vet exam room at a gray and white domestic shorthair cat loafing on an orange counter but wedging her head beneath the adjacent exam table.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 1h

Of course I sat down and wrote about my first (at least that I’ve been consciously aware of) nonverbal experience.

#ActuallyAutistic #Blogging #BixDotBlog

I Start Fighting A War, I Guarantee You’ll See Something New

Last week, shortly after I noted that the hits kept coming, and that I did not need any more weight, I mentioned on my statuslog that I was exempting the coming week (the one ending right now) from an...

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Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 2h

No idea if it was a new experience for the vet staff but it could not have gone more smoothly.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4h

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Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 2h

This is basically r/Portland the last three weeks.

Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 4h

Surprise surprise: to my knowledge I’ve never been either happenstantially or deliberately nonverbal but how much further dysregulated I felt after 40 minutes of therapy now has me writing out things in Apple Notes to show people at the vet instead of talking. New experience for me.

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Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 4h

Everything is dysregulated and I’m body tired despite not doing anything so now there’s a mood dive and I still have to get my cat to a 4:40pm appointment and not have a meltdown in the bright claustrophobic exam room because the exertion is happening when I should be respecting autistic burnout.

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Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 6h

To further litigate an off-topic pet peeve though - Oregon's public meetings law prevents the sponsor(s) of legislation from soliciting and gathering co-sponsors in advance beyond a quorum. This is a perfect example of an item that should be co-sponsored by the entire council at this agenda stage.

Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 6h

Looks like yet another late night at next week's evening Portland City Council meeting -- but in a good way this time. #WarRavagedPortland fights back.

Two big agenda items on next Wednesday evening's City Council agenda: a resolution denouncing attempts to deploy the military, and an ordinance to specifically codify sanctuary city protections.

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Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 6h

Neither that nor

from:bixfrankonis.bsky.social

show anything for three days.

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 7h

It’s wild to see the Pope, street gangs, police, protestors, regular people who would have been unnatural allies to say the least, coming together because everyone understands that ICE is the new Gestapo and we have a duty to stop them.

And then you have police union president Aaron Schmautz lol

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 10h

Fuck you Aaron Schmautz. This is why we kept you out of the labor council.

Portland police union head welcomes fed support to help ‘horrifically understaffed’ cops end ‘burst’ in crime

President Donald Trump has signaled he wants to send National Guard units into Portland, Ore., in order to protect the city as well as ICE facilities, which he said have come under attack by Antifa…

nypost.com

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 7h

More information on this developing story here from another Chicago television network:
www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...

WGN News employee detained by federal agents on Chicago's North Side, videos show

Videos show a WGN News employee being detained by federal agents Friday on Chicago's North Side.

www.fox32chicago.com

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Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 6h

But… but…

#ActuallyOdotistic

I’ve always got at least one rewatch going amongst all the current television I follow, and these days it’s Star Trek: Deep Space Nine—still the best Trek series, and Benjamin Sisko is still the best ...

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 8h

did not expect to be escorting a concussed sapsucker to the upper west side today but tis the season for finding stunned birds on the sidewalk and schlepping them up to wild bird fund (migration season)

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 8h

Would I could find a fine frog!

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Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 8h

I swear to god if they take out the frog.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 8h

Hey do me a favor. Go to search and just put in

from:me

and tell me if you see any of your posts more recent than three days ago.

Because I don’t.

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Jonathan Maus @jonathanmaus.bsky.social · 9h

I believe the video highlights a pervasive cultural bias that favors drivers and is skeptical of bicycle riders, and it shows how that bias plays out in some police-cyclist interactions.

BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 9h

"My suggestion would be to use the bike lane... you easily could have moved over and prevented that hostile situation... you guys are both ignorant, you guys both instigated each other." - PPB Officer Kyle Williams to a @bikeleague.org certified cycling instructor

bikeportland.org/2025/10/10/l...

Learning from bodycam footage of police response to road rage collision

One example of the pervasive cultural bias that favors drivers and is skeptical of bicycle riders.

bikeportland.org

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