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@renandpen.bsky.social
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Gary Numan in the streets, David Bowie in the sheets, Robert Smith in the skeets. mind-wandering bendy abolitionist nerd still soapboxing about the isms. rambling on about music, video games, books, movies too. she/they 🧱🌈 🎃😷🎧📼🎮🫖✨
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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · Jun 28
in case you need a reminder. or a dragon.
An art print sits above the head of a red and orange Lego dragon, from the DnD set. The print had a medieval frame around it in rainbow coloring. The text, also in medieval fonts and rainbow coloring reads “I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me” A small crochet goblin and mushroom and assorted things on the shelf. If you zoom in, you can see a smaller print from the same artist (link below and in reply to this), also medieval design, there’s a knight with the trans flag colors on their cloak, it’s putting a jousting lance through a dragon’s gullet. Text on it reads “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/outoutbriefcandle/
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 6h
cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 4h
This was sold as black but looks dark green in sunlight and other Goth Problems
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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 3h
okay this was a fun little one
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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 5h
That’s definitely a big part of it! Most days I’m too mentally exhausted to watch anything new especially, or with subtitles or longer films etc. I am also finding things don’t seem as scary, which I think is also very much related.
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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 5h
popcorn + candy + some witches 📼
Movie poster for Two Witches. It’s a dark poster, with 8 people, their faces lit, various facial expressions from scared to confused to worried, there are two large long and pointy-nailed hands on the sides
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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 5h
it’s October 10 and I’ve not watched nearly enough scary movies this season. I watch them year round but like to amp it up in fall. Time to get my shit together.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6h
I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 8h
cleaning out my fridge, so of course “wrap kraft singles around meee” is in my head @lapsoirium.bsky.social
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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · Jul 17
Bloc Party singing: do you wanna come over and clean out my fridge?
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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 9h
just keep hearing her belt out “cruel” in my head because I have to work on a Friday afternoon and that is indeed very cruel 🎧
St. Vincent - Cruel
YouTube video by StVincentVEVO
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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 10h
okay, i am making this soon
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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 10h
well at least one is green, phew
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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 10h
is that good
a list of major market indexes, all of them down between 1 and 3% for the day, except for vix, the volatility index, which is up 31.59%. the djia is selected, with a 5-day chart showing ups and downs before a steep decline today
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 10h
That's wild. If you know anything about ICE agents, looking scared, changing your demeanor, etc are eminently reasonable reactions
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thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d
Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.
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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 10h
Seriously though.
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 13h
I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 13h
youfeellikeshit.com my therapist told me about this. it's a little walk through on how to feel better when you feel like shit. im working through it now. it is, delightfully, in twine
Need a nap?
youfeellikeshit.com
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Weltschmerz, The Musical 🧿 @weltschmerz.bsky.social · 13h
HEAR HEAR!
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Jillbles @jillbles.bsky.social · 13h
I'm just thinking that, if there's an other side to all of this, maybe we let the old iconography, built on lies about American exceptionalism carried on the backs of our atrocities, go by the wayside.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 13h
Happy Friday. We are shipping zines today, and I just got Spongebob stamps. The first 5 people who DM me a mailing address get a free zine. www.mulebooks.com/store/dont-b...
Don't Build the Torment Nexus! zine — MULE BOOKS
It’s a wee 3×5 zine with an essay inside and some fun collages. You want it. You want more than one.
www.mulebooks.com
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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 13h
coming soon to my wall!
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 15h
The illustration for @nicolefroio.bsky.social's piece on Kneecap goes so hard! Want it on your wall? 50% of all profits from our Free Palestine collection will be donated to Palestine Children's Relief Fund!

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Saoirse Don Phalaistín 12x16 Poster
The official shop of The Flytrap Media. Buy merch, and support your favorite feminist media collection!
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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 13h
Being in solidarity is really important to me and to my fellow worker-owners @theflytrapmedia.com. I’m glad that we are in a position to be able to support the PCRF like this. Palestine will be free.
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 15h
The illustration for @nicolefroio.bsky.social's piece on Kneecap goes so hard! Want it on your wall? 50% of all profits from our Free Palestine collection will be donated to Palestine Children's Relief Fund!

theflytrapmedia-shop.fourthwall.com/products/sao...
Saoirse Don Phalaistín 12x16 Poster
The official shop of The Flytrap Media. Buy merch, and support your favorite feminist media collection!
theflytrapmedia-shop.fourthwall.com
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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 13h
this is even more true 3 months later, but I’m very happy it is finally Friday
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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · Jun 20
fridays don’t quite hit like they used to but still, here’s a good one 🎧
BLOOD ORANGE - Champagne Coast
YouTube video by DrGaldino
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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 17h
Meanwhile in #Portland
Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 18h
Portland Frog gets it
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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 14h
There is no end in sight for rising prices.
Corporations will pass on the costs of the tariffs to consumers and add extra on top.
The top 20% of earners are accounting for almost 70% of goods sold.
40% of total investment is in AI.
75% of folks are paycheck to paycheck.
This will not hold.
After tariffs, prices changed direction When factoring slowing price increases before March, the 4% jump on imported goods since then would climb to 5.4%. Prices on domestic goods would rise to 2.6% from 2%. Price index (1 = Jan. '24) 1.02 Major tariff announcements 1 Imported Domestic 0.98 0.96 Domestic trend Imported trend 0.94 Jan '24 Apr '24 Jul '24 Oct'24 Jan '25 Apr'25 Source: "Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs." HBS Working Paper. • Data from 01/01/24 to 09/08/25. Jul '25 Harvard Business School Working, Knowledge
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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 14h
This is the most Portland thing ever, and I love that it’s going to change the national image of PDX that right-wingers have worked so hard to trash
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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15h
As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward
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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 14h
okay but why
A package of bacon, the label reads Wendy’s double-smoked bacon with the famous Wendy’s fast food chain logo, a cartoon of a young girl with red hair in pigtails, blue bows on each; she smiling and collar on her shirt is designed to read as “mom” if folks really look at it.
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