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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.
Lastwater.net

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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Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 7h

Now the only worms in my head are earworms.

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 19h

@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 · 19h

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 · 20h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 22h

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

J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot take her seriously with those hair extensions. Not because she has hair extensions, but because she has badly done hair extensions.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 1d

Get your comments in!!!! Oct. 17 deadline!

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Rafael Walker @rafaelwalker.bsky.social · 1d

Happy to announce that both my departments—English and Black & Latino Studies (BLS)—are hiring for TT positions this year!

In English, we're hiring in Anglophone South Asian.
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Jobs | City University of New York

cuny.jobs

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Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social · 1d

Often times, when we’re having heightened feelings in a group or relationship, on some level it feels like life-or-death, even if we logically know its just the dishes or the money or the jealousy or the disagreement in the meeting.

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 1d

well, fuck

Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 1d

it's obvious why Wall Street would want to buy a stake in the *federal* student loan portfolio -- it's a special kind of debt that can't be waived away in a personal bankruptcy

shifting debt from govt to the market would also crush borrower assistance possibilities

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt

The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

www.politico.com

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 1d

It was a venting, but I'll look into scanning it for prints, or just sell the og and donate the sale to the PIRC

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Linette🌻 @ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social · 2d

Massive Monitoring Moon-Mirror Moonshot

ClaireViolet @ultraviolet.gay · 2d

building a circular moon-sized mirror behind the moon so that we can check the back like after a haircut

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 2d

Mmm

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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 2d

What the actual fuck?

Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 2d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 2d

An older story but still alive for us.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...

Killing of Kendra James - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 2d

Here in Portland feeling weirdly relieved by the PPB actually protecting protestors from the Feds, yet still thinking back to their killing of Kendra James.

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 2d

STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS

Carol Fenton @cfpdx.bsky.social · 2d

KATU interviewed the guy in the frog costume at Portland ICE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlDR...

Outside the Portland ICE facility amid ongoing protests and the legal battle over the deployment

YouTube video by KATU News

www.youtube.com

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 2d

It's downright distracting

Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 2d

Was painting. Got sidetracked by pastels and kaiju.

A rough, bright pastel sketch of trump from a video, mouth open, palms out, probably saying something about Portland burning, as the inflatable-suit frog from the Portland ICE protests looms up close behind him.

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 2d

Was painting. Got sidetracked by pastels and kaiju.

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Cari Luna @cariluna.bsky.social · 2d

A wonderful family in our neighborhood will soon lose the home they've been renting for over a decade from REACH, a local housing non-profit that is selling all of their houses to a for-profit business. One home in the neighborhood has already been sold and flipped at market rate. More will follow.

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