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Jess Liotta 🍄

@jessliotta.bsky.social

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Dual class 🇺🇸/🇮🇹 (siciliana, e imparando italiano). I’m a mushroom forager, parent to two very fucking cool kids, silken windhound owner, and food obsessive; be ready for me to be annoying about all the above. PNW now, CA before, PNW before that. She/her

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · Jan 23

Omg no wait, NOW it’s a yearbook photo

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 10h

I emailed the guy who originally drew Pepe to see if he had any comment about the current frog reclamation, and he was like uh what are you talking about

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

the reporter going “so just to be clear, you guys are frogs now because of the other frog? there’s no other significance to the frog thing?? I would love for there to be more to it than that” and the frogs are just like “nah man we’re here to support the original frog”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe an inflatable frog is my hometown’s symbol of resistance, and yet of course since I am from here I absolutely can

this is old school homegrown “rioting over the airport changing its carpet” Portland freak shit. it transcends the Portlandia mythos. writers would not think of this

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 22h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 1d

They even took the 24 hours off the sign, losing them AND the Roxy was truly the end of an era

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 1d

Ha VL opens at 8 AM and never misses

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 1d

They haven’t been 24 hours since before Covid :(

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah everything SUCKS but humans are still silly wonderful beautiful creatures who collaborate with slugs to make videos like this. So. All is not lost.

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 1d

The 🐸 emoji is OURS now motherfuckers

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 2d

Huge support to the inflatable frog costume person in Portland for both embarrassing the regime and reclaiming frog imagery from the internet right.

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 2d

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 2d

I may even break into the bag of shame of overripe bananas stashed in the freezer and make TWO banana breads

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 2d

This is gonna be me today, I can feel it. I even remembered to take my adderall and everything this morning so I really like my odds

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 3d

God Original Sin whips ass, doesn’t it?? I wanted to buy one when they did a print run and it fully slipped my mind. I should ping Joyce and ask if there’s still any kicking around. 👀

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3d

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 3d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 3d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 3d

I’m a card carrying non praying atheist but I nevertheless fully endorse this

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 3d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 3d

A critical piece of information that this article is lacking is that for a UC Berkeley person who wins a Nobel, it is generally understood that the biggest perk by far is that you are given access to a permanent, reserved, Nobel laureate only, PRIMO parking space near your office on campus

Berkeleyside @berkeleyside.org · 3d

He won for research on the world of sub-atomic quantum tunneling that advances the power of everyday digital communications and computing.

Nobel Prize in physics goes to UC Berkeley scientist whose work advanced quantum technology

He won for research on the world of sub-atomic quantum tunneling that advances the power of everyday digital communications and computing.

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 4d

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 4d

When my older kid went to kindergarten, all kids at his school were fed breakfast every day. The first day included Cheerios, but… he had literally never seen cereal. That night he was telling us about school and said “I didn’t like the breakfast so much. They gave us little crackers in milk.”

Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 4d

Oh for added chaos context, usually this was a breakfast food

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes butter but mostly they were just experiencing Oops, All Peas

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 4d

Cousin to previous: Generic supermarket bakery lofthouse cookies (you know, the soft cakey ones with seasonal frosting and sprinkles). Complete with too-much-baking-powder aluminum tang. I made bougie ones from scratch once and to say they didn’t hit the same is a galactic understatement

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 4d

I cannot be trusted with cans of spray frosting, ideally with so much artificial coloring that it adds its own flavor. If one comes onto my possession I will squeeze it directly into my mouth at a rate that surely reduces my life by weeks, possibly months.

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 4d

When my kids were tiny they requested we create a dish of hot peas fresh from the microwave, mixed 1:1 with frozen peas direct from the freezer. They asked for it constantly and called it Hot Peas, Cold Peas and it was genius. I swear with the right sauce you could probably serve that shit at Alinea

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