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Tater Kat

@taterkat.bsky.social

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I'm just 3 raccoons hiding an anxious opossum in a hoodie I carve block prints as Anxious Raccoon Press and create the webcomic Magnetic North. she/they patreon.com/magneticnorth magneticnorthcomic.com

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Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · Mar 26

more things are confirmed, so here are this year's markets so far
(sorry for the repost, apparently i thought it was 2005 when I made this thing)

event schedule for Anxious Raccoon Press in 2025. There's a very proud cartoon raccoon in a tacky blazer and purple tie. I'll be at Captain Slinky Presents: Oddmall Sprung! (march 29-30, Monroe WA), Snohomish Pride (June 7, Snohomish WA), and Geek Fest West (July 18-20, Everett WA)

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The Gorgonist @thegorgonist.bsky.social · 2h

Moon Mice! This moon is made of cheese and these celestial mice (or rats!) have come to nibble it away!

thegorgonist.etsy.com/listing/4387...

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Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · 13h

the new button dies are here, so now I have something to do with my misprints. I'll have these beauties at Oddmall on Nov 8th @oddmallpnw.bsky.social #printsky

a collection of badges/pin back buttons. They're in 2 sizes, and are a collection of raccoons, spaceships, and cryptids. they're block prints that have been cut up and made into something new

close up of one of the buttons held in front of a messy desk. the pin is of a panicked looking raccoon

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Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · 4h

I've got mine in the box from one of those Christmas artist suitcases. I jerry rigged it with a piece of pegboard and foamcore slats. You could get the same effect with wood sorting trays

photo of my sticker display. it's in an old wooden suitcase that I've Jerry rigged with foamcore and pegboard. the top is a pegboard displaying prints and hanging items. the bottom is gridded and displays my stickers

Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · 4h

oh but those edges are pretty

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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 6h

In 2012, An Indian woman named Savita Halappanavar, died in Ireland from a miscarriage. The fetus never left the body, allowing sepsis to set in.

When she asked for an abortion, the midwife told her 'Ireland is a Catholic country.'

To which Savita replied, 'I am neither Irish, nor Catholic.'

Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 13h

Spoiler alert- it was a Catholic hospital. I’ve been reading stories about people being denied miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy care at Catholic hospitals for well over a decade now, and people have definitely died because of these policies, but maternal mortality data is imperfect.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14h

“Please someone listen to me, I don’t want to die”

These are the words of a woman named Harmonie who had an ectopic pregnancy

Her obgyn refused to help, citing a
1% chance the fetus could survive

She lives in a blue state & still couldn’t access the life saving care she needed

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Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · 13h

the new button dies are here, so now I have something to do with my misprints. I'll have these beauties at Oddmall on Nov 8th @oddmallpnw.bsky.social #printsky

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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 21h

I have seen, like, five different food recalls for lead poisoning today.*

*Hey hey hey, remember who gutted FDA. DOGE. It was DOGE. And the GOP. Everyone was like 'this will be very bad.' And now it is bad.

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Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · 22h

sometimes lunch is a handful of salami and a leftover cinnamon roll and I dare you to tell me I'm not allowed that

Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · 1d

If you've also got the My Chem brain rot and want one, it's the stamps tier on my patreon. join before midnight on the 31st and you can join me

patreon.com/magneticnorth

Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · 1d

I should probably start carving this month's Patreon block, huh?

(yes it's the clerk and the clown from the Long Live the Black Parade tour, yes I have the brain rot, no you can't judge me)

#printsky #mcr #lltbp

photo of line art on a piece of battleship gray linoleum, with a carving tool to one side. the line art is of the clerk and the clown from MCR's most recent tour. The figures are each standing on one foot with their backs to each other, arms to their sides, as they mirror each other. The Clerk holds a clipboard and frowns, eyes hidden by his glasses. The Clown is gleeful, holding a dagger, his eyes cloaked in black make up

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Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · 1d

right?! it sounds so frickin good

Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · 1d

reposting this one so I remember to track it down

Rosiee "Captain" Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 1d

ITS A BAT DAMN TIME! 🦇⚰️🩸

Dead & Breakfast is out today! Vampires Arthur and Sal just want to live a quiet retirement running a B&B, but when the mayor is found dead in their garden, they must solve the crime to prove their innocence!

Get your copy: www.rosieethor.com/dead-and-bre...

Rosiee (white, nonbinary, short curly brown hair, octagonal glasses) wearing a sun hat and overalls with sunflowers on them and holding a copy of Dead & Breakfast.

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Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · 1d

it's killing me a bit, because when I ordered my first machine 5 years ago (almost to the day) I made a point of making sure it was interchangeable for die sizes and now I'm going to have two different presses but like...fine.

Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · 1d

welp, it was cheaper to get a new button machine with two die sizes I don't have, so I guess I'll be rolling in one-of-a-kind misprint buttons come my November markets.

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 2d

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY (aka fuck Columbus day 😝)
For me making my beadwork, and for yall buying/wearing beadwork is a great way to say fuck Columbus, fuck colonizer assholes, fuck fascism. Im gonna stay celebrating my culture, the culture that they tried to wipe out from this land → cvkvlv.com

My hand holding a pair of long black beaded dangle earrings with red, orange, and yellow accents and silver bugle beads

My hand holding a pair of black beaded loop earrings with red, orange, and yellow accents and silver bugle beads

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Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · 2d

not me quietly freaking out about the fact that it is cheaper to buy a whole second button machine with a different die size than it is to just buy the die size and buttons parts for it.

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Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · 2d

made bread! (yes I forgot to score it, its fiiiiiiiiiiine)

photo of a circular loaf of rustic bread on a cooling rack set on top of a wedding cutting board

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 2d

Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 2d

No honey, we criticize you for free because you lie.

From MAHA Action, "Dr. Eric Berg just REVEALED the real reason behind the sudden wave of anti-RFK Jr. and MAHA content online.

Big Pharma is literally paying influencers $1,000 per post to attack the MAHA movement.

(Video from MAHA ACTION Weekly Media Hub)"

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august | DTIYS PINNED @augustsolaris.com · 2d

btw if you can’t find it in the in app version i found it in the web version where i went to refine your recommendations and just scrolled till i saw genai interests and turned everything off

duo. @condorsmask.bsky.social · 3d

for the folks who use pinterest.
settings > home feed tuner > turn all of these off. you're welcome

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

THIS. If a politician is willing to abandon today's Inconvenient Vulnerable Group in the name of political expedience? They'll abandon them all. And fascists will not be appeased by any of it, anyway. They just switch targets. That's how this works.

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 3d

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · 3d

also I've got to start show prep for oddmall like damn and I really need to be able to bury myself in lino scraps and ink or I'm not going to have anything new in 4 weeks

Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · 3d

I'm so grateful to be home and with my husband and the kiddo again, but at the same time, I'm counting down until Tuesday when they're both at work/school and I can finally sit and just *exist* without an agenda or other people for the first time in 2 weeks

Tater Kat @taterkat.bsky.social · 3d

home after 2 12 hour drives and 4 days helping my folks around the house, which means I get to reward myself for being a good daughter with sushi and sake and oh no this sake tastes like babies and bad decisions (which is to say, it tastes delicious and I'm in trouble)

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Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird @oddmallpnw.bsky.social · 3d

SANTA AND KRAMPUS! Together again for the first time! DON'T MISS IT! Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird CREEPSMAS Art, Craft & Gift Show November 8-9 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA! Visit Oddmall.co/Creepsmas for all the details!

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