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Mandasmews

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PDX artist finding inspiration in travel, history, and the antics of my mischievous cats - creative musings with a touch of wanderlust.

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Mandasmews @mandasmews.bsky.social · Nov 20

I completed this painting a year ago. The state of the world seems to be stuck between chaos and indifference.

#painting #art #shareyourwork #postelection #reflection #fire #cats

Painting depicting people sitting and drinking wine while a fire is erupting behind them

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Mandasmews @mandasmews.bsky.social · 3d

Agreed!

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PDX 503 Oregon @portlandia503.bsky.social · 4d

With all that's going on it may seem trivial to look at art, but it's a good time to take a breather and look at art. urbanartantiques.com/2025/10/13/%...

🎨 Portland Art Openings – First Thursday, November 6

The post highlights various art exhibitions in Portland galleries, featuring receptions at specific times. Notable galleries include Russo Lee, Augen, Froelick, Blue Sky, and more, with a suggested…

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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 5d

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

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LGBTQ Shrink @drronholt.bsky.social · 11d

We all deserve the right to marry.

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 10d

"There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, than the will of evil."
- Gandalf the Gray

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Laura Spector @lauramakesart1.bsky.social · 13d

If you’re around at 12pm CST, join my online lecture (FREE). Register at:

uthealth.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 14d

I keep thinking about how General Gronewold said that the Oregon Guard would protect Oregonian protesters. I would love to see the Guard stand in front of that blue line at the ICE building and protect protesters from the illegal and brutal actions of ICE. What a powerful image that would create.

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Antiques Mysteries and Great Paintings @greatpaintings.bsky.social · 15d

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The Girl Who Waits: Eastman Johnson’s Haunting Vision

Eastman Johnson’s painting, The Girl I Left Behind Me (1872), captures a moment of tension and yearning. The nameless girl, standing on a foggy bluff, symbolizes those left behind as her hair…

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Mandasmews @mandasmews.bsky.social · 14d

I love this ❤️

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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 16d

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 18d

“I love America more than any other country in the world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

~James Baldwin

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 24d

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.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 21d

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

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Laura Spector @lauramakesart1.bsky.social · 24d

Join me!
Artist Talk @ The Jung Center of Houston!

Part of the series “Community for Conscious Aging”. Snacks & refreshments provided.

Saturday, Oct 25 | 2 - 3:30pm CT | FREE

Register Here:
junghouston.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/j...

#Houston #Art #Jung #ArtLecture #VisualArt #Painting #Texas

Afternoon Artist Talks | Laura Spector: Personal Stories (In-Person)

Saturday, Oct 25 | 2 - 3:30pm CT | FREE | Join the Community for Conscious Aging as we meet the artist behind The Jung Center Gallery’s current exhibition: Personal Stories, and enjoy a rich, intimate...

junghouston.app.neoncrm.com

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 24d

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 24d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 29d

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 29d

Thoughts from today: when you're sharing news stories, are you framing your presentation of said story in a way that promotes your ultimate goal of restoring democracy? Are you motivating people to take action? Or scaring the shit out of them? Is your framing aiding the fascists or fighting them?

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · Oct 3

Having a hard time keeping up with things in your daily life?

World outside seems upside down?

No longer enjoying the same things you once did?

Future feels dark and scary?

You may be experiencing fascism. Fortunately, there’s a cure!

#GeneralStrike #Protest #Resist #CommunityDefense #MutualAid

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Laura Spector @lauramakesart1.bsky.social · Oct 2

If you’re in Houston and want to go to the Health Museum art show “Age In Our Times” get your tickets here:

thehealthmuseum.org/events/agein...

#Houston #Art #ArtShow

Age in Our Times - Preview Reception - The Health Museum

Join us for an exclusive preview reception celebrating the opening of our newest exhibition, Age in Our Times.

thehealthmuseum.org

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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · Oct 2

Celeste dos Cravos (2025), acrylic gouache (+ tiny bit of watercolour) on hot pressed paper (A3)

The traditional version of the illustration I painted digitally last year, now as I had first envisioned it :)

Illustration by Eleonor Piteira featuring a woman on a balcony, holding a bouquet of red carnations, giving one of them to a soldier passing below, placing it on the muzzle of his gun while he looks up at her. All around, other soldiers walk beside him, some wearing red carnations on the muzzles of their guns too, others waiting for their turn to get one. On the background, Portuguese tiles frame the woman, while the balcony's railing slowly transforms into a streetlamp typical of Lisbon (with a caravel and 2 ravens, the symbols of the city).

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · Oct 1

Kaiser in Oregon has Covid vaccines available. Just FYI. Getting mine and my flu shot today. Because vaccines save lives. And good public health is community care.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Oct 1

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Mandasmews @mandasmews.bsky.social · Sep 28

We're working on it!

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · Sep 22

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD JUST LET US HAVE A FEW MOMENTS OF HOPE

Do y’all not understand how hope is active? How it is motivating? How it drives people to fight?

If you try to stamp out every last ray of hope and every good moment and every tiny bit of happiness you have truly doomed us all.

David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · Sep 22

There’s a certain type of poster that seems to think it’s helpful to stamp out anything hopeful in the name of being realistic about how bad things are.

Don’t be that poster.

We know how bad things are. But for most of us, hope helps a lot more than your cynicism.

Rebellions are built on hope…

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Sep 20

A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.

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