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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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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 1h

If you can, I highly recommend finding a ditch or creek that flows through an urban area and walking through the reefs of trash that accumulate. Examine them. Explore the temporal topographies of buoyancy and current as you contemplate the long tail of the trajectory of decay.

Ben is a spooky ghost or perhaps a ghoul @thegorgepodcast.bsky.social · 3h

It’s so important to play bad video games sometimes. Read bad books. Watch bad movies. You need the perspective. You become a better person by experiencing trash

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 3h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 3h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 2h

Last story: "poisonous honey" and multiple orgasms

Last book: singed flesh, jasmine, woodsmoke, and brand new baby

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 4h

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 2h

Okay, so one of those #portfolioday pictures was lacking a visible Newfoundland dog.

I apologize. Here we are:

Watercolor illustration of Newfoundland dog lifting its head out of the water and coming eye to eye with a pink sea serpent.

Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 6h

The day almost got away from me! Thanks for the reminder! (and the list)

Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 6h

#portfolioday

I paint and draw big black dogs okay.

Gabriel Liston
lastwater.net

Rough ink drawing of a big black drooling dog head ear to ear with a smiling human skull. Text reads lastwater.net

Ink and watercolor picture of a little bunkhouse in some aspen trees. An older couple sit on a cluttered porch. The man passes a pen to the woman.

Ink and watercolor drawing of two young boys walking along a trail. There is an aframe in the trees behind them. A black cat joins the boy in front. The boy in back looks at a black Newfoundland dog and says Stay, Marnie, stay!

A small oil painting of a black Newfoundland dog stepping gingerly down onto a narrow, snow covered bridge. A little creek runs below it. Warm light hits the top of the snow-covered firs.

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vincent, a future poltergeist @papa.yaga.gay · 9h

*rubbing temples clockwise*

They’re going to float the idea of an AI Trump as a way to side-step the 22nd amendment and I’m going to launch myself into the sun.

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 8h

A (free) patreon post where I rant about the great unsolved mystery of oil painting (that someone else has probably already solved but I am too impatient to research), and includes some detail shots of No Gooder Happiness.

The hardest part of oil painting | Gabriel Liston

Get more from Gabriel Liston on Patreon

www.patreon.com

Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 8h

Fuck no

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Jessa Sininger @jessasininger.bsky.social · 1d

“I have one note”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 1d

Well, last week...

Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 8d

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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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

Did a joke AMA last week, but now it’s time for a real one. I’m Steve Lieber and I’ve been drawing comic books professionally since 1992. I’m on this flight for the next 5 hours. Ask Me Anything.

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 1d

Portland Design Month is hosting a thing this afternoon at my local coffeeshop. I will go over because I could make neither heads nor tails of the jargon-heavy description, and I am very, very curious.

I only hope it's not a cult. My folks spent my teens torn between two cults, and I just can't.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 1d

It's OK to have a plot that's been done before so long as your characters are genuinely engaging and you carry the reader along and have fun. (This also goes for film.)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 1d

Oh yes, most of the year, there's a big pot of water on sitting on the stove for just that reason. The previous stove was rust stained from us tossing snowballs on it to watch the sizzle (under the pretense of filling the pot with snow to be melted).

Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 2d

Here is the original sketch. Yeah, yeah, so I skipped the wire fire screen and the hole above the piano.

A sketchbook ink brush drawing of a wood stove in the middle of two rooms. It sits on a chipped red tile hearth. A hatchet lays on the the tiles. At back, light glows in from a north window and an east window, though most of the scene is lit from the south. A breeze blows through the east window curtain. A small child stands at right, her back to us, holding a pen. A slightly older girl sits on the stairs above her.

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 2d

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 2d

What'd my childhood kitchen/music room/library/living room look like?

This, more or less (though much messier during my childhood).

No Gooder Happiness Than This, oil on panel, 19 x 26 inches.

A recently revised painting based on a 2006 ink sketch (when the girls were still small)

An oil painting on panel of a wood stove in the middle of two rooms. It sits on a chipped red tile hearth. A hatchet lays on the the tile, another sticks in the chopping block at left. At back, warm light glows in from a north window and an east window, though most of the scene is lit from the south. A breeze blows through the east window curtain. A small child stands at right, her back to us, holding a pen. A slightly older girl sits on the stairs above her.

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 3d

okay I actually had a dream about this once. In my dream, it came to me, the actual secret behind it all:
"light green-blue is teal"
I woke up and was like, holy fucking shit. I figured out the truth. I understood. it was like an epiphany

Mercurywoodrose (Antifa Science Officer, Division 23 Airborne) @mercurywoodrose.bsky.social · 3d

What does LGBT stand for? (Wrong answers only.)

LeGos Below Toes

Merc with a 🫦 full of blood🩸 @mercuryal.bsky.social · 3d

What does LGBT stand for? (Wrong answers only.)

Leeta, Garak, Bashir, Trans worm

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David Sterman @davidsterman.bsky.social · 3d

There’s still a roiling of local/regional stories on this and yet so little pick up in major US press of a case that even if AFRICOM was right about the target raises serious questions.

www.hiiraan.com/news4/2025/O...

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Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net · 3d

Hinton? Oooh! That's one of the most beautiful stretches of rail travel in the US.

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