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Plaid Stallions @plaidstallions.bsky.social · 10d

Kicking off Spooky Season with Cheap-O Monster Toys.
#racktoys #kingkong #halloween
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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 3h

Budo from GI Joe Classified. What a FUN figure. And a very handsome face! And he comes with two totally different looks. I just didn’t take pics of the other.

Budo in front with the Jersey Devil lurking

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 6h

Trying Boots. I did think about signing up as a teenager, scarily enough. Partly for the hot men. Partly to pay for college. Yikes.

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 23h

I always had a bit of a crush on the vaguely creepy photographer assistant at the wedding. I feel like he’d be taking pics of me through a window. But I wouldn’t mind. (Yes, watching Rocky! Having an obsessive moment bear with me.) #RHPS #Rockyhorror

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

I am one very satisfied customer especially as it’s been long enough I forgot what I paid! I was a wee bit surprised by no neck articulation but I’m happy they didn’t break up the sculpt. Love the bust to hold one alt head. #UniversalMonsters

A full look at all that’s included like a detailed shore base, harpoon gun, and more. There’s also a manacle and alt hands that are not depicted

Another alternate head with more cartoony yellow eyes

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

The Jersey Devil from the Four Horsemen! Love that they’re getting into cryptids. The unusual proportions are perfect to me here, with the oversized head. A nice addition this October.

JD contemplates a skull. It’s a horned goat head with a lithe body and leathery translucent amber wings

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · Nov 25

QRP with your skull art!

This is "Egyptian Blue". 💙💙💙

A painting of a cat skull surrounded by blue and brown and green leaves

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 9h

If you see this, quote with your favorite Pokémon. (wrong answers only)

Moosel from The Wuzzles A half-moose, half-sea... something.

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

Got the one Basil Gogos-inspired figure that didn’t appear on Universal’s website when I got Frankenstein, The Bride, and Wolfman earlier - Dracula! He’s a little more subtle than the others but still very cool. #universalmonsters #dracula

A Dracula figure whose paint detail is inspired by painter Gogos

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1d

My grand theory is that 6.5 is the ideal rating on IMDb for an interesting movie because it means it alienated idiots. If you’d like proof: Almost every Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie is rated between 6.3-6.9.

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 23h

I’m trying for it 🤞

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 23h

I always had a bit of a crush on the vaguely creepy photographer assistant at the wedding. I feel like he’d be taking pics of me through a window. But I wouldn’t mind. (Yes, watching Rocky! Having an obsessive moment bear with me.) #RHPS #Rockyhorror

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

"The Monkey"*

My kingdom for an edit key!*

*statement does not imply user would actually pay for an edit function.

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

Watched The Money tonight. Very solidly entertaining and I had a god time with it. Some of the humor fell flat for me. Tonally I sometimes have a hard time "tuning in" to Perkins movies, but this won me over by the end.

The movie poster features the monkey looking creepy with a light bar over it highlighting it's face

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

Got the one Basil Gogos-inspired figure that didn’t appear on Universal’s website when I got Frankenstein, The Bride, and Wolfman earlier - Dracula! He’s a little more subtle than the others but still very cool. #universalmonsters #dracula

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

Now that I have the 4K of Rocky… we watched this! 😂 (We just saw RHPS in the theater… may watch the 4K on my own tomorrow.) Paul got it the other day and what a great find! It was a lot of fun, from 2007. It features Anthony Head as Frankenfurter and he does a great job.

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah almost got that! Love that artists stuff!

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

❤️❤️❤️❤️

a woman is dancing on a pole with the number 50 above her

ALT: a woman is dancing on a pole with the number 50 above her

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

Mondo!

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

I am one very satisfied customer especially as it’s been long enough I forgot what I paid! I was a wee bit surprised by no neck articulation but I’m happy they didn’t break up the sculpt. Love the bust to hold one alt head. #UniversalMonsters

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

The Jersey Devil from the Four Horsemen! Love that they’re getting into cryptids. The unusual proportions are perfect to me here, with the oversized head. A nice addition this October.

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah I’ll check this out!

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13th Jedi @13thjedi.bsky.social · 1d

OMGGGGGG EXCUSE ME?!?!

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

Unsurprising that Tron Ares isn't doing that well. I enjoyed it, but I totally get people not going for it based on Leto. Why do executives think he'd even be a draw? Almost anyone could have played the "aloof badass" part, as Greta Lee did most of the heavy dramatic lifting. Sigh

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