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Oregon Randy
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Part time Cryptid, Photographer of night skies, Landscapes, and deliciously living. 🤘🏳️‍🌈
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Instead of supporting corporate billionaire swine on Black Friday you can support the lovely rescue swines at @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social instead! And sheep, goats, horses, donkeys, cows, ducks, turkeys, rabbits, and more! ❤️
merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 16d
We are so excited to announce our first Patreon raffle! We have a huge pile of merch that you can have a chance to win just by signing up for our Patreon blog at the $5/month level or higher: patreon.com/Merrymac?utm...
Photo of a bunch of Merrymac merchandise arranged for viewing. There is a sweatshirt, t shirt, mug, beanie hat, tote bag, book entitled piglet’s big day, a fridge magnet, and many stickers.
November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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mrsavilerow.bsky.social
Will someone please ask the 89 million Americans who didn't vote in the last election if they are being affected by anything this administration is doing to the other Americans?
November 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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aussiastronomer.bsky.social
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:

Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
I smell burning, is the turkey done?
pbsnews.org PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d
The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii Island continued its intermittent eruption Tuesday, shooting lava 400 feet into the air.

Video showed the molten rock flowing down Kilauea as smoke fills the air.
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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joshsternberg.com
MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension.

She got the joke.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke
What the Georgia representative learned in Washington
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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ridingrobots.bsky.social
Jupiter, itself home to massive auroras, rising through auroras and clouds on Nov. 11.
Jupiter appears as a bright star in a night sky colored purple with auroral light. The planet is rising over a dark ridge, its light reflected in the waters of a lake in the foreground. Woodruff Narrows Reservoir, Wyoming. Photo: Bill Dunford.
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
HA!
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
For this #WaterfallWednesday in revisiting June Lake Falls at #MtStHelens! From the best vantage, the waterfall doesn't feature very strongly, but it's 74 feet tall (22+m)!
So here it is prominently featured with the lake below. 😁
#📸 #ECK #Scape #LandscapePhotography #WashingtonState #hiking #nature
A photo of a tall waterfall dropping from a rugged forested cliff side just above small lake, which reflects it softly. The left side of the waterfall shows exposed grey vertical cliff face. While the right side has large evergreen trees rising alongside. In the lake in front and to the right of the falls is a standing snag with no branches. It has a charcoal coloration. The show between the large and the falls has a number of small brushy plants, with the water tumbling down between them into the lake. The large water is mildly disturbed, giving reflections in it a soft quality. In the foreground in the lake, a grey wet log rests, and serves as a bed for small clumps of grasses in Fall colors of gold and light orange, from left to right, the left side being more bare of grasses. Faint details of soft dark features under the water show through the clean water.
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
Just a spot of late Fall color along The #Deschutes river where it meets the #ColumbiaRiver in #Oregon.
I thought these might be fitting due to the pervasive grey conditions here lately. No idea what they are, but they are #flowers! Splashes of color in a drab #scape.
#📸 #hiking #ECK #Fall #small
A photo of a cluster of small pale pink and red flowers. The flowers are mainly from bottom center, up through the middle of the image, and spread out sparsely across the top. The flowers are a rough bell shape, with very pale pink petals, and small red stripes down the petals. The colors reminded me a bit of a candy cane. The remainder of the scene is a tangle of green background grasses, and dried tan stems of other taller grasses sparsely criss crossing the image.
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
(They'll do it, but it'll take 3 seasons)
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
This is an incredible image of comet 3I/ATLAS, taken by Satoru Murata ICQ Comet Observations group on 16 November 2025 from western New Mexico.

Structure within the major dust tail from the comet is clearly visible, together with two smaller jets trailing the nucleus and maybe even an anti-tail.
A bright, greeny–white splotch in the centre of the image is the nucleus and coma of comet 3I/ATLAS. To the upper right streams the major dust tail. The background comprises distant stars against a black background, with the NGC 4691 galaxy at upper left.
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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meakoopa.bsky.social
happening across media
kellysue.bsky.social Kelly Sue DeConnick @kellysue.bsky.social · 8d
"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:34 AM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
Woot! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
mollyroberts.bsky.social Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 4d
Lindsey Halligan's appointment as interim U.S. attorney invalid and dismissed the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James. Screenshot from order in the latter below:
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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yellowstonenpgeek.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 AM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
Late #Stunday post!
For some reason I was thinking back to the #landscape of the #Moab area.
Here's a well known area looking toward the #LaSalMountains.
I was on my way to Dead Horse and #Canyonlands that day, and stopped here to soak it up.
#EKC #Mountains #Snow #MountainMonday #📷 #pano #Scape
A panorama photo of distant snowy mountains under a blue sky with hazy thin clouds. Below the mountains are some complex landscapes near the Moab Utah area, showing jutting fins of red sandstone, and a variety of other sandstone landforms, as well as some mesas and snow free stepped landscape under the mountains. Further down toward the foreground are more tan and light orange stone exposures dotted with sage and juniper forest. The foreground is dominated by evergreen brush and leafless trees, and grey dormant grasses. In the low foreground is bare tan and grey stone, with patches of snow visible in spots on the far right and the left under a bare tree.
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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dennisoswald.bsky.social
The Fortress
The mighty Mesas of Utah unfold their beauty at at sunset.
#Utah #photography
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
#BluskyArtShow #Little #ChildOfTheEarth #JerusalemCricket
#Ammopelmatus #Insects #Oregon #nature
This little one, along with all the other insects we saw that day #hiking, were all moving slowly due to the chilly temperatures. Hopefully it dug itself a little den in the dirt.
A photo of a "Jerusalem cricket". These are not crickets, but that is one of their common names. The photo shows a small area of grass and small green plants on stall brown soil, sparsely criss crossed by light tan bits of longer grasses. In the center of the image is the insect, facing toward the top of the image. It has six chubby, segmented legs of an orange color. Three on each side of the body. It's abdomen is as long as it's back legs, looks a bit rotund, and has dark segmented rings around it's length, that are shiny. It's central body, or thorax, is where it's legs all attach, and is a dark orange color. It's head is the same dark orange color as the thorax, with one of it's small black eyes visible on the right side of the head. Just above it's right eye, one of it's two antennas begins. Both antennas are visible, and are a light tan color, and are long and delicate looking. It's colors make it contrast strongly against the green of the small plants it is laying across.
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true
Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
So there was only one thing that I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
( #Ministry )
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
They gave him the Uppers™ today. 💊
kevjg.bsky.social Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 6d
he never looks at JD that way
November 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
Fall can really be a season of confusion at times.
This single bright flower was the only one of it's kind I saw.
Everything else, except the tough low grasses, was well on it's way to being dormant, or dead for the rest of the year.
#Fall #Flowers #Nature #Hiking #Oregon #ECK
A close photo of a single bright flower in the lower left, with nine yellow petals, each having a three pointed end, and it's center with a red circle around small golden round bits. To it's your right is a bunch of dried old flowers in a bunch, with petals having a rusty color to their ends, and white toward the center. Their centers look a bit fuzzy, and are a dull tan color. Below all the flowers, in the background, are green leaves of short grasses, and longer curled and dried shoots of dead grass.
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
Dogs + Beach = ❤️
It's hard to imagine more pure joy.
branscombe.bsky.social Jonesy @branscombe.bsky.social · 7d
A nice cold dog walk on the beach.
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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blu-dot.bsky.social
Winter is near #Scape
#LakeMcDonald #Montana
#GlacierNationalPark
#SensoryArt #water
Clear linear demarcation of lake water reflecting light. The left side is a dark black emerald green, the right side has less contrast and shines white. A lone figure stands on a small spit above the light water. A couple walks along the bank above the dark water.
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
If you bundle up properly, you can enjoy the outdoors in a variety of conditions!
washingtontrails.bsky.social Washington Trails Association @washingtontrails.bsky.social · 7d
Fair-weather hiking? In your dreams. With the right layering system, you’ll be ready to experience trails all winter long.

Here are some tips for dialing in your layering system and staying warm during your cold weather outdoor adventures ❄️
#PNW #Gear #TrailSmarts #Hiking
Trail Smarts: Layering
YouTube video by Washington Trails Association
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November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
Power ⚡
Today's prompt is #Scape.
This view was pointed out to me on last weekend's hike, and I loved it because the wind turbines looked much more massive than the pylons by a bit of forced perspective. And they are huge!
#LandscapePhotography #ECK #📷 #hiking
A landscape photo of alternating layers of ridges, and cloud banks. The nearest ridge is covered in tan colored late Fall season grasses, and a few outcrops of exposed rock horizontally near the lower part of the image. Just over the top edge of the near ridge are four tall power pylons carrying power lines that run across the center of the image. They are contrasted by a low bank of white cloud behind them, that also runs across the center of the image. Beyond and above the near ridge and the low cloud banks is a further, taller ridge of distant mountainside that is darker, but also appears to be covered in low grasses and some rock outcrops that are darker still. Similarly, this distant mountainside also has six giant three bladed, white wind turbines just over it's crest. They appear to be facing right. Beyond them, the sky at the top of the image is clouded by darker mottled clouds.
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM