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@pell.portland.or.us

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Old trans chick from Cascadia. Ex-t.b, ex-soc.motss, ex-programmer, admitted bicycle framebuilder, actual socialist. she/her

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · Jul 28

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I regret that I am unable to favorite this post as much as I want to favorite it.

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · Jul 28

Sooo I was at a coffee shop and the girl in line behind me decided to ask if I’d heard about Jesus.

In the United States.

In 2025.

“I have heard the sales pitch, yes,” I said. “I’m happy with my current religious services provider and not looking to make a switch.”

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 2m

Well, when you grow up in a cave on the dark side of the moon and only see american culture through a lens of leave it to beaver and the jetsons, all those items will seem exotic as well as practical.

Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 8m

That's one of the promo images for LoaS?

She, as she sang a few albums back, polishes up real nice.

Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 10m

The absolute fuck?

What sort of asshole would firebomb someone's house?

Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 1h

A monument to playing fast and loose with dangerous materials. The USSR's safety culture failed here, and the reactor explosion was the sadly inevitable result.

Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 1h

It is amazing, isn't it? I went the other way, but the absolute relief of not having those *things* flopping around was the greatest feeling in the world.

Hopefully your chest incisions will heal up quickly to the point where moving your torso won't feel like it's tearing in half!

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 2h

If you in any way think holding democrats to an impossible standard, and refusing to ever give them any credit under any circumstances, and outright lying about them on a regular basis, is bad, you are “blue MAGA.”

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 1h

Oh no of course not! He is more than welcome -- we insist that Ezra vote for us because we're better than the Republicans and he should be grateful that his sacrifice will make things better for the rest of us.

Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 11h

Gaaaaah! Diet via internal revolution :-( Shit, that sucks even worse and you have my (sigh, powerless) condolences.

Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 11h

"I’m allergic to both rice & beans."

Ooooh fuck that's awful. Two perfectly good staples ruined because your body hates them :-(

Are there any grains that you can eat, or is a broad spectrum "... and your little dog too!" ?

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 11h

Mellon just wants to do to the military what he did to the Boston & Maine.

Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 15h

damn.

Looking good, and I love the dress/top -- is it a wrap or cut with a proper amount of plunge?

Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 15h

That sounds like a perfect choice; baggy clothes are not nearly as hot as they were a couple of years ago, but they still look good.

But, hey, you'll rock whatever you decide to wear! 99% of a man looking good is confidence, and your deliberate choice to stop cosplaying female IS pure confidence.

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 20h

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text.
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Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 19h

Oh hell bsky needs an edit feature:

^noticeable

Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 20h

Jeff Bezos is licking fascist taint extra hard so he can get that space contract.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 21h

how have we not stopped this madness

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21h

we're a week from that tomfoolery with the clocks again

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 21h

You got it, but I think that's the first video where you lifted something absurdly heavy and it looked like it was *work*!

(for comparison, me and a 35 lb curl would be me whimpering in pain as the barbell tries to pull my arm off :-)

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 22h

I might go down, but there will be blood under my nails and I'll take them with me. ✨

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

personally I take great solace from trying to stick to a “if I die it’ll be with my teeth in their throats” kinda approach to life

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

dooming accomplishes nothing for nobody other than for your enemies

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 2d

The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 22h

people admitting on main that they're reawakened gholas, couldn't be me

Grandmaster B-Hud @yodacat.bsky.social · 1d

Still not sure when she moved there but as you can see, it was in her ancestral DNA to seek it out.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 22h

I know right? "Legal" loses all meaning when the dictator has been given get out of jail free cards both by the courts and legislature!

Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 22h

Sexy Texas-Mexican Railway roster

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Large Marge Sent Me 👻 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 1d

Also, keeping this handy should I ever run into binary bullshit discourse again. No. We’re not making another set of boxes. Don’t mistake a conceptual label for an incredibly wild and varied reality.

Paragraph from DILF: Despite what the "trans" vs. "cis" binary would imply, there are not only two sides. There are not only two genders, either. Some trans people need to transition medically or socially, and some don't; different trans people often require different forms of treatment; some of us are men, some are women, some are both or neither or something else. Intersex people do exist and are about as common in the population as natural redheads. "Trans" is a useful umbrella term for people who aren't cisgender, but "the world" is a useful term for every place that isn't your house. The outside is bigger and more varied than the inside, in both cases.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 23h

:-)

Never been to SC, but the only times I've actually had boiled peanuts were on the road in NC.

Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 23h

(I could probably find boiled peanuts in pdx, but even though we punch way above our weight with food, we're still a small town grown big.)