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The Gay Spade
@os-inman.bsky.social
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Giddy Oregonian, vanarchist, writer, artist, bone collector, runner, gardener, currently digging my own grave, friend to all cats, chocolate and tea enthusiast, boat obsessed, they/them
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chriswoodyard.bsky.social
The Ghost Story, Alfred Bestall, 1930
#Christmasghoststories
An old man with a cane in a chair is silhouetted against the fire. He is telling a Christmas ghost story to a group of adults and children while a giant ghostly knight leans on the mantlepiece, listening.
December 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
os-inman.bsky.social
Stopped at Multnomah Falls on our way into town to see the extra falls from the crazy rain we've been having. It's normally not quiet, but they were making such a racket with all the additional flow. The path from the parking lot to the lodge had been totally submerged & partially washed out #oregon
photo of Multnomah Falls, the first drop from the top of the gorge and the second drop under the footbridge into the pool. Normally there is a massive rock at the base of this pool but it's completely covered in water with this high rain flow. Also there is a second falls dropping from a spot to the right of the original and joining it after that first drop. The background is early winter bare trees and dark rocks from rain, but lots of color from the bright green moss and all the freshly felled trees busted open by this storm, a deep vivid orange. landscape photo of the little bridge that crosses the stream below Multnomah Falls, taken from the falls side looking toward the parking lot, I-84, and the Washington shore line across the river. The bridge is low, just enough clearance for people to pass under, and a path normally goes under it to the east of the stream it covers, but the high water rose and covered the path, leaving it in many inches deep of mud after it receded, and taking a good deal of the pavement and support with it, so that part of the path is constructed of dirty sandbags. Several people carefully pass through.
December 21, 2025 at 6:36 AM
os-inman.bsky.social
Went into town to see Knowledge Fight live. That was fun. Stopped in Gresham for some home brew supplies and found a pair of shoes and a nice cup of coffee and shit falafel. What a stomach ache from that falafel. After the show found pretty lights in Brooklyn and at Potato Champ (got fries too).
landscape photo of marquee for the Aladdin with Knowledge Fight at the top. Photo of a building in Brooklyn a residence I think, with narrow leafless deciduous tree covered in twinkling golden lights, all in a row down the whole block. up close photo of a christmas tree at night with large multicolored lights on it and a few ornaments. Taken at Cartopia on Hawthorne. Picture of a pair of shiny black dress shoes sitting as though ready to be worn, on the sidewalk beside a building in downtown Gresham at night
December 21, 2025 at 6:15 AM
os-inman.bsky.social
Began this some time ago, but found it hard to make time for creativity. Had the fortune of being invited to Sun River for a weekend to art & drink (coffee) & catch up with a friend. Friend did not mind when I stunk the place up cooking after I could not find a burger store #PeterIredale #painting
photo of a lazy susan in a pale shade of wood that has had the wreck of the Peter Iredale at sunset painted on it in dabs. It sits on a table with a pointsettia and holly printed vinyl cloth picture of the same lazy susan with the in progress painting of the wreck of the Peter Iredale on it in dab painting. It sits on a counter near an incredibly large and deep sink. What a sink. Painting supplies from my friend's work of art are in the background. Lazy susan in a pale shade of wood sits on a white vinyl table cloth with turquoise polka dots, and on the lazy susan has been started a painting of the wreck of the Peter Iredale in dab painting. Only a grey color has been used at this point, with the basic outline of the ship's remains.
December 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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ricksteves.bsky.social
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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flemtheparrot.bsky.social
Morning.
December 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Portland woman testifies that police lied about ICE activity in Oregon when 12 to 15 agents surrounded her vehicle, and she called 911 for help on December 10th. "I have a question for the police. If you refuse to do your job, are you prepared for us to do it for you?"
December 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
os-inman.bsky.social
My elderly dog had butt surgery today and this is her take home bag. We are so very lucky to have good people caring for our animals. #HappyHolidays
thumb and fingers holding a crumpled white paper bag that someone has written in cursive, "Happy Holidays" on, decorated with a drawn string of lights, a Christmas tree, and a pawprint
December 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
os-inman.bsky.social
These are pics i took of the spit this summer. Neatest thing because it's one of the few places you can go to just walk on out into, nay, past, the middle of the river, without being on a bridge or barge or what have you. When rivers meet rivers they make sweet love #oregon #ColumbiaRiver #HoodRiver
Picture of the spit in Hood River, a long ever shifting sediment deposit that extends out into the river, almost choking it off near the Washington shore. It's a good place to meet dogs. People like to take their dogs out here. In the picture, the bottom half is of the sand and dirt, marked with footprints and weathering marks and just above that is a band of blue that is the river to the east, crossed by the bridge, and the slope of Washington to the left blue blue sky above. picture of the spit in hood river oregon, bottom half is of the sand, pocked with footprints and pawprints, About half way up the bar narrows so the water of the river can be see swerving into it on either side, blue with the reflection of the sky. Two people are in the distance, and the bar beyond them widens again where it meets the Oregon shore line. A fringe of trees and the foot of Mt. hood are on the horizon, and blue sky above A picture of the spit in hood river, it occupies the bottom half of this picture, making a tan colored sand arc from the lower mid left to the center right, blue river in a wedge above it, crossed by a bridge, and uplift on either side, with blue sky above it all. one more picture of the spit in hood river, this one a landscape orientation showing the sandy bar starting center left and narrowing as it goes across to the right, the river swooping in that space above the lower right sand, the gorge can bee seen mid right in the distance between the eroded uplift on either side of the river, while trees line the city of hood river on the left. The sky is pale blue with wispy clouds.
December 18, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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mistybrown.bsky.social
Meanwhile in Infectious Diseases Clinic…
December 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
os-inman.bsky.social
Last week, when the wet storm hit, I was in Milwaukie, so I ran around that morning taking pictures, mostly of the water levels, but also graffiti and other art. This storm was interesting because it never felt like a storm, it was just a consistent, insistent rain for days. #oregon #stream
outlet for Kellogg Lake taken from the sewage treatment/waterfront park bridge between the lake and the Willamette. Water volume is drastically bigger than usual, so what is normally a stream looks like a significant waterfall. The cement chambers of the passage under McLoughlin Blvd have an eerie lit from within quality in this pre dawn moment, its walls covered in graffiti. The city is lit up behind this scene, the sky light steel blue. Creepy little waterfall that runs along old Milwaukie elementary and flows under the street to fill Ledding Pond. The waterfall itself, just about a five foot drop and contained in banks that keep it about 2.5 feet wide, is not exceptional, just a flow of white water, but the pond at its base is so full it is almost level to the grass verge around it. Cannot emphasize how creepy this little water feature is. It's like a sinkhole, a small hole filled up with water with the appearance of an endless drop. Ivy grows over the shoulders of the rocks that border the falls, and trees line the stream that flows toward the falls. The sky a grey in the background. Picture almost entirely of Kellogg lake's brown flood water, though a bit of the flooded banks are visible in the upper left corner of the photo where a land structure has the appearance of a dock with the new higher water levels. Rain pocks the surface of the water, and in the front center of this picture is a gathering of water weeds floating just below the surface in the shape of a question mark. Art in the little strip of grass next to Kellogg Lake and behind the old post office. It's a sculpture, a tall post with a metal snowflake or atomy type of arrangement with shiny metal balls.
December 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
os-inman.bsky.social
I didn't think I'd taken very many pictures but turns out I took a ton, too many to chose from. These are of the trees at the Deschutes just before sunset, right at the end of my run as I stood naked in the nearly empty parking lot, changing into dry clothes #trailrunning #oregon #river
landscape photo of dark conifers jutting up into the pale blue sky, wisped with white clouds. Behind them a bank of more trees glows golden with the last of the sunlight. photo of the Deschutes river, the band of which runs from nearly the bottom of the frame to just past the center. Across the top of the picture is the bank and a couple rows of trees on the hilly surrounds. The trees nearest the river are dark green but those above them are almost gold with the late sun lighting. view from below of towering conifers in a forest, the open blue sky like an oculus in the center/left center upper portion of the picture. landscape photo of a wide pool like portion of the Deschutes, calm and reflective, dark green and blue but showing the trees and sky as well, surrounded by ever green trees and the rocky brown shore, a fringe of blue sky above
December 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
os-inman.bsky.social
Barely been home the past few weeks, going from 1 place to another & finding spots to run in each place. Got invited to Sun River for a couple days & put in 15 from Benham Falls East Trailhead to Lava Lands & back. Everything was beautiful, the trees, the rocks, the sky, everything #oregon #running
landscape photo of the sky enrobed in a red pink purple cloud sunset. Bottom left are the dark silhouettes of evergreen trees making an angled descent toward the center of the photo. landscape photo of Mt. Bachelor, the ridge line runs across the very bottom of the photo, dark but for the bitten off cone of the mountain, white with snow and rising from the center of this dark band. A few trees poke up in the foreground to the very far left and one between the center and right, and while most of this picture is the sky, and it's varying shades of sunset blue, yellow and pink, the top is a thick ribbon of dark pinky purple cloud cover. landscape photo of conifers taken from below and within their footprint, so the surround and angle in to the center, where there is an empty space that opens up to show the colors of the sky at sunset, though more trees line the bottom center of the photo in miniature form at a greater distance. The sky in the center starts a pale yellow and moves to coral then pink the wisps into blue clouds and open sky
December 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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pinkzombierose.bsky.social
Comic two men on the roof of a castle I SEE MUSIC OPEN THE GATE! IT'S COUNTRY MUSIC CLOSE THE GATE! ITS JOHNNY CASH OPEN THE GATE A LITTLE!
December 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Street art NYC
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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indivisible.org
Social media is full of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped results — while Spotify is full of ICE recruitment ads.

As long as Spotify is willing to take money from ICE, they don’t need (and don’t deserve) free advertising on our social feeds.
Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to: 1) infringe our rights 2) terrorize our communities 3) disappear legal residents 4) smash into cars & private homes 5) tackle & detain lawmakers indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
December 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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swirlosquirrel.bsky.social
#GraffitiRoundup: A few 3D works by Insane 51, a Greek muralist based in Athens.
Cat and hoomans with 3D xrays of their skeletal bits painted as a layer.
December 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social
Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest.
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird

Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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jztidecat.bsky.social
Pete Hegseth is a testament to the power of white supremacy. People have spent years in prison for far less and yet he’s free and just chugging along at his job he’s not qualified for. Sheesh
December 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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jesseltaylor.bsky.social
can our journalism scientists create a form of news that Mike Johnson can read?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?

MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
os-inman.bsky.social
For years I assumed my bird was a corvid of some kind, like a magpie. I am friends with some magpies. But this past year of shitty shit, I realized it is instead the seagull that fits me. We get them out here even in the desert, which is odd, but I figured it was the dump that drew them 1/
December 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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November 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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astrokatie.com
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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vimeddiee.bsky.social
October colour pencil art! 🍂

#artses
Colour pencil drawing of a pumpkin pie with a ghost whipped cream blob, a toffee apple resembling a skull and a cup of cider with an eyeball in it.
November 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM