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K. Thor Jensen

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · Jan 11

It's just too many good T-shirts. Eight pages of good T-shirts now. I will never stop. I will never die. www.teepublic.com/user/kthorje...

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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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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 7h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 7h

New Punisher

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 9h

she lives in non-euclideanville

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

dying at rightwingers falling for what looks like an ai generated turning points USA half time show with special guest “measles”

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 12h

oh cool a new marvel comic came out where the art isn't dogshit, now let me take a big drink of water and read the speech balloons

Panel from the new Punisher book. A woman is talking on the phone. Her speech balloon reads "REALLY? If that's true, I'd pay HANDSOMELY for that INFORMATION! I feel like I'm swimming UPSTREAM over here. I'll alert the authorities to keep an eye out in New York and you do ANYTHING you can to get me a name, UNDERSTAND? Okay LATER."

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 12h

she is literally one of the dumbest people with a byline anywhere on the planet

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 13h

stop lathing please, I’m getting dizzy

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 13h

it’s that kind of parenting day

A four panel comic called TEENAGERS
Panel one: a figure is speaking to a slightly larger figure: “SO WHAT YOU'RE
TELLING ME IS THAT THERE ARE RULES TO LIVING IN A SOCIETY”
Panel two, same art: “AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE TRIED TO BREAK THOSE RULES AND ENDED UP BROKE, ALONE AND MISERABLE”
Panel three, same art, no dialogue, the small figure is scratching their chin
Panel four, same art, the small figure is now pointing at the larger figure: “IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFERENT FOR ME, THOUGH.”

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 13h

Sorry was eating beans. I’m mixed in Craig Thompson but his most recent book GINSENG ROOTS is incredible. Nick Drnaso’s ACTING CLASS also might hit your spot. For more genre stuff, FREE PLANET and DROME are very good.

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 13h

There are many media figures I find consistently dumb. But there’s a rarefied air - Flanagan among them - where I can’t stop imagining them drowning to death in the rain like a chicken with their beak upward, they’re just so absolutely braindead.

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 13h

This guy… this guy is ON ONE. The story is slight but it’s all in the telling and the telling is out of this world. My dude has the Grid Magic.

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 14h

what idiot called it sora and not slop motion animation

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 18h

good afternoon

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 18h

lol, lmao, things of that nature

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 18h

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 23h

Cede your brain to Mecha-Hitler

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

I am straight-up going to have nightmares about this

In the video Smith posted online, he said Neuralink engineers had started using language models including ChatGPT and Grok to serve up a selection of relevant replies to questions, as well as options for things he could say in conversations going on around him. One example that he outlined: “My friend asked me for ideas for his girlfriend who loves horses. I chose the option that told him in my voice to get her a bouquet of carrots. What a creative and funny idea.”

These aren’t really his thoughts, but they will do—since brain-clicking once in a menu of choices is much faster than typing out a complete answer, which can take minutes.

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 𓅰 🐱 @lucavi.bsky.social · 1d

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

Now I'm researching urban legends and uh... excuse me?

Alexandria's Genesis is a purported genetic mutation that gives its carrier purple eyes, shimmering pale skin, a lack of body hair, and a lack of menstruation while still remaining fertile. The legend originated in a Daria fanfiction written in 1998, and since the 2000s has seen circulation on internet forums and social media.[7]

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

Mark I don’t make typos

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

ask the dictionary www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wha...

The Inside Poop On 'Spoopy'

Notes on a new Halloween classic

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

if I could get away with a whole night of Hellraiser trivia I absolutely would, but no, it's just Halloween week so I'm making it spoopy across the board

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

"They wanted to substitute one kind of undertow for another. I had a much more explicit sexual encounter between Frank and Julia, but they said no, let's take out the sodomy and put in the flick knife."

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