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Gabriel Liston

@lastwater.net

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Drawer, painter, illustrator, whistler Images of water history and domestic life he/himmish lastwater.net banner: oil painting of pink sky over Umatilla lands

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · Jan 24

Re-introduction: I am Gabriel Liston, painter.
Everything starts in a notebook, as a cartoon.
I was the twink in art school carrying the preschooler, a hunting knife, ibuprofen.
Now the old man scribbling in a library book.
Work for hire, work for sale. Happy to listen.
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oil painting of an aspen tree meadow in autumn. There is a tiny apple tree in the foreground, a young woman with pink hair and overalls in the mid-ground, and a bit of an A-frame beyond the trees. The light is bright, the grass and clouds are tall.

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David Sterman @davidsterman.bsky.social · 9h

There’s still a roiling of local/regional stories on this and yet so little pick up in major US press of a case that even if AFRICOM was right about the target raises serious questions.

www.hiiraan.com/news4/2025/O...

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 9h

Hinton? Oooh! That's one of the most beautiful stretches of rail travel in the US.

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ren 🗡️ NYCC C-43 @renstrapp.com · 14h

Come to C-43 and get dyke comics, bro #NYCC

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 14h

Would be pretty cool if this was how politics usually occurred instead of this being completely unexpected of anyone running for office.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Jeremiah Hayden @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social · 14h

In Washington DC earlier this year, scenes of local police and National Guard members sweeping homeless encampments appeared under Trump’s crackdown in the city. Here’s what other cities’ troop presence reveals about their roles, and what to expect if troops show up in Portland.

If troops arrive in Portland, will they sweep homeless encampments like in D.C.?

www.streetroots.org

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cassie @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social · 23h

To anyone who organizes events, please try to make your main entrance an accessible entrance. Showing up to an event where everyone is directed to enter via stairs and you have to have people go track down event organizers to get an accessible entrance opened isn’t the most welcoming vibe lol

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

This story is NUTS

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Look, I've never skeeted about this before but when I was at NYT I was involved in a sexual harassment thing. I was not the person lodging the complaint (nor was I the harasser). I was a corroborating witness let's say. Anyway, NYT did the right thing and fired the harasser.

BUT

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

[disclaimer: i'm just talkin, these are normative statements, idk and am not commenting on what infrastructure exists irl]

there has to be a way to absorb some of these people into state health departments..or set up an interstate body to keep tryna do this work..we just cant lose all this capacity

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 1d

Oh my! Yup, you are a genius.

Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 1d

Oh, Brain, you troublemaker you

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 1d

An illustrator alerted me to the attached email. Someone is impersonating me! Offering #kidlit illustrators fake deals!

This is not me! The deal-structure/schedule is insane. The deadline is quite friendly?! 10 picture books in 3 years?!

Please let me know if you receive an email like this!

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 1d

A better example is Dartmouth, which basically just short circuits the whole thing by not taking it seriously.

Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

president.dartmouth.edu

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 1d

Moonrise, Sunday, 5 Oct 2025, Portland, Oregon

Small oil painting of a yellow moon in a pink halo in a slate blue and violet sky hanging between two fir trees, dark but for the last trace of the day's glow

Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 2d

I rather like this notion, but it does seem a bit of a workload for the entire family to dump, suddenly, on our oldest daughter.

Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 2d

Additional activity noticed this week in Portland Oregon

Ink sketch of a bearded man in a ball cap and sunglasses running from a kid with an Afro, in soccer shorts and socks, who in turn is being chased, at a slight distance, by a toddler going at max speed.

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Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 2d

incredible investigation by @972mag.com
– and an indictment of western media outlets who have disseminated fictionalized visualizations created by the Israeli army in order to justify the destruction of civilian infrastructure

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 2d

Now the only worms in my head are earworms.

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 3d

@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...

Bridging archives: The role of IIIF in global manuscript preservation

India’s manuscript tradition is among the richest in the world, spanning centuries, languages, and disciplines. Yet, much of this vast repository remains fragmented, fragile, and inaccessible. The tec...

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 3d

Thanks! I needed to grab an audiobook on Libby for mixing paint. Waiting for Busman's Holiday to come in, but Black Water Rising is available now!

Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 3d

receipt
youtu.be/yURO6sTifOY?...

Transit Talks: Portland's FX2 with Councilor Candace Avalos

YouTube video by 1000 Friends of Oregon

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 3d

Highly satisfying protest singalong:

youtu.be/KYG7-d_Q9zU?...

Chumbawamba - The day the nazi died (live)

YouTube video by Giorgos Dimitropoulos

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 3d

Successively felted the inside of my throat yesterday by spending three (four?) hours trimming and blowing out this unhappy customer.

Photo of a large, black Newfoundland dog standing gingerly in the sunshine by the front door. He is coarsely trimmed from tail to (still overly huge) head. He is looking back at us reproachfully.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Great Excitement!!!!!!!!!!!

J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 3d

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

www.arc-humanities.org

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 3d

When a post gets any traction on here, but way less than usual on meta, it's an easy way to see that meta is fucking with me again

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 4d

There's something about hearing a hooting howl on a dark, leaf strewn October evening that levels up my main character energy.

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