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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 36m

If you're in the PDX area, please share!

Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 1h

If you're in the Portland area, stop by a Kaiser to show solidarity with the Oregon Federation for Nurses and Health Professionals! We've got hot dogs, real dogs, unicorns, Guy Fieri, music, and so much more! I'm posted up at the Hillsboro location atm.

Protester in an inflatable unicorn costume holding a sign that says "I'm as inflated as Greg's $12.7 million dollar salary!"

Striker riding an inflatable T-Rex carrying a sign demanding a fair contract. The sign has a graphic comparing inflation to stagnant wages.

A Labrador retriever dressed as Guy Fieri.

Three strikers. Their signs say "Nobody can Thrive under these conditions!", "we're not striking for fun, we're striking for funds!" and "I love OFNHP"

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Portland Streetcar History @pdx-streetcars.bsky.social · 5h

WPA workers take up streetcar track at the corner of SE Hawthorne and 50th in October 1936, a month after service on the Hawthorne and Mt. Scott lines had been abandoned. Not all of it was just paved over! All the buildings on this corner are still there today.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 15h

It's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳

Here's Cadbury Castle #Somerset, one of the most famous of British hillforts thanks to its impressive form, glorious views and extensive folklore associations

Today its grass covered ramparts are patrolled by inquisitive bovine quadrupeds

📷 July 2021

Cows chewing their way across the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with tree covered hills in the distance

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 9h

🚨 😾 VICTORIAN EMERGENCY CAT TRICYCLE 😾 🚨

Pop a card in the London post in 1896, & a chauffeur driven tricycle would collect your pet for care & cure, providing a smooth springed ride to the Hampstead infirmary

More Cycling World Illustrated gems digitised at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...

Part of a page from 'The Cycling World Illustrated', 26 August 1896. It includes photos of a tricycle for collecting cats (complete with uniformed driver) and the Cats' Infirmary, Hampstead (a pen of cats of varying sizes in someone's house, one of the cats is being cuddled by what appears to be the tricycle driver). The accompanying text reads: "A philanthropic lady in the North of London has established an infirmary for cats. On receipt of a postcard she will send for the ailing animal, the tricycle which collects them being provided with a box resting on springs to avoid all jarring and jolting. The cats are carefully tended at the infirmary, where their quarters and most comfortable, and when cured are returned to their owners, no charge being made."

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bertrand_k @bertrand-k.bsky.social · 1d

Interlude

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 2d

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 2d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

I thought this was lovely.

"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion."

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"Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York."

A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 2d

"Columbus Day:" No one wants it. No one wants to celebrate it. Perfectly decent Monday in October saddled with the name of a rapist.

"Titus Pullo Day:" 100% participation. Wine flows freely. Someone says "THIRTEEN!" and everyone responds. Boring old October Monday turned great fun.

A picture of Ray Stevenson as Titus Pullo from ROME

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Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 13d

This year marks 10 years of Harrow County! One of the best things I ever worked on and I'm super proud of what @cullenbunn.bsky.social and I were able to accomplish with this series along with the help of @danielchabon.bsky.social and dozens of other artists contributing along the way!

The creeping hand of the skinless boy reaches from a drawer is blowing eyes within.

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matthew @pahuski.com · 2d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

Look, I'm all for suspension of disbelief when reading fanfic and all, but I draw the line at a Gotham phone number being area code 201. It is in South Jersey! It's area code 609, dammit!

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 2d

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 2d

The Sorceress by Jan van de Velde II (1626).

A young sorceress mid-conjure with a motley crew of demonic “familiars”, one of which is sporting two pipes from his bum, both streaming with powders in elegant arcs: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-sorceress-jan-van-de-velde

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Multnomah County, OR @multco.bsky.social · 2d

📣 SHARE: The voter registration deadline for the Nov. 4 Special Election is tomorrow, Tues., Oct. 14, 2025. If you’ve moved or need to register to vote, now is a great time!

🔗 You can register online at: oregonvotes.gov/register
✅ Or check or update your registration at: oregonvotes.gov/myvote

A voter dropping off their ballot. The text says, "The voter registration deadline for the Nov. 4 Special Election is Tues, Oct. 14, 2025"

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Adam Warren @adamwarren.bsky.social · 2d

Today's webcomic page continues serialization of 2018's miniseries EMPOWERED AND SISTAH SPOOKY'S HIGH SCHOOL HELL with script by me, art & lettering by Guest Artist @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social and colors by @jennmanleylee.bsky.social: www.empoweredcomic.com/comic/high-s...

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Jenn Manley Lee @jennmanleylee.bsky.social · 3d

This also crossed my mind.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 3d

Comparing the "Why did Tron Ares not do well? What outside forces were responsible?" thinkpieces to the "Sinners isn't *really* making money" thinkpieces we got earlier this year.

kermit the frog holds a glass of lipton tea

ALT: kermit the frog holds a glass of lipton tea

media.tenor.com

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 3d

Day 285: Only tangentially-related to the Halloween month (because costume) but I had to pay my respects to all the real ones in my beloved Portland

*Note: This is NOT one of those "tHiS iS thE RiGht WaY to PrOtEsT!1!!" posts -- I literally just fucking hate ICE and love this air-humping frog a lot

Single panel comic drawn in India ink with a sable brush, also with some inkwash shading.
The panel is veritcally-shaped with a ribbon banner on the top and bottom that splits the caption, "Some heroes know how to meet fascists with the absurdity they deserve" and in the panel we see the blow-up frog costume-clad protester from Portland air-humping while standing in front of a group of heavily-armed, gas mask-wearing ICE agents (bitches) with little "swish" FX captions.
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-12-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 3d

Dental Phantom, c.1898. Or, what it feels like to live in 2025.

The dental phantom was first created by the Glaswegian dentist Eduard Oswald Fergus a few years earlier as a tool for students to practice their craft before working on human subjects.

A metal head with a mouth wide open as if it is screaming. Inside are a full set of dentures.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Jenn Manley Lee @jennmanleylee.bsky.social · 4d

I always get teary eyed at peak Portland events, wants me to give the whole city a hug.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 4d

Congratulations to the happy couple

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 4d

Some of the great illustrations from The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884), including tales of the mythical Glooskap, whose name literally means Liar, because it is said that when he left earth he promised to return but has never done so: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

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Jenn Manley Lee @jennmanleylee.bsky.social · 4d

I'm okay with these folks not having kids.

Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 6d

Basically, these replacement antinatalists believe that it's "fundamentally unethical" to have kids because the future is digital, and hence there's no point to bringing new biological people into the world. It's a fascinating new twist on traditional

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-strang...

The Strange Rise of Antinatalism in Silicon Valley

Most of us are aware that pronatalism is popular within Silicon Valley. But there's a new kind of antinatalism that's catching on, too! In this article, I give it a name: replacement antinatalism.

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com

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Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 5d

This made me so happy

Screenshot of Claire's last skeet with one from the Frog and Toad bot underneath of Frog saying "don't be silly"

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