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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 11h

for Portlanders marching this Saturday who want the best tactical gear without feeding Amazon, our local party supply house The Lippman Company has plenty of inflatable costumes

Racks of Inflatable costumes like T-Rex, Sasquatch and Pokemons and such, photo grabbed from the Portland Reddit

outside The Lippman Co. with employees holding up rainbow flag balloons- there's no form more graceful than The Arch, no object more whimsical than The Balloon

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📚 r.e.a. / smols 🦇 @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 11h

Ring the bells that still will ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

- Leonard Cohen "Anthem"

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 4d

I blocked this idiot, but I thought this stupidity deserved to be preserved via screencap.

“Writing for children makes you a sellout who has abandoned the trans community. So does not being as loudly and visibly trans as possible in every waking moment. Being happy means you aren’t really queer.”

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 4d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 4d

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Graphic Policy @graphicpolicy.com · 5d

Chris Campana, Jeph Loeb, Brandon Peterson, Rob Retiano, Rafer Roberts, and Stephanie Williams are coming to Baltimore Comic Con 2025 #baltimorecomiccon #bcc2025

Chris Campana, Jeph Loeb, Brandon Peterson, Rob Retiano, Rafer Roberts, and Stephanie Williams are coming to Baltimore Comic Con 2025

Next week is the Baltimore Comic-Con on October 17-19, 2025 at the Inner Harbor's Baltimore Convention Center.

graphicpolicy.com

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 6d

Ahhhhh. It’s so good!

loaner of an only heart 🏳️‍⚧️ @notaname.bsky.social · 6d

the whole thing is here archive.org/details/xebp...

Great Performances - Much Ado About Nothing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

For the first time in over four decades, Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at Free Shakespeare in the Park. After a highly...

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 6d

YESSSS thank you

loaner of an only heart 🏳️‍⚧️ @notaname.bsky.social · 6d

the whole thing is here archive.org/details/xebp...

Great Performances - Much Ado About Nothing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

For the first time in over four decades, Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at Free Shakespeare in the Park. After a highly...

archive.org

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 6d

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck:

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 6d

Ohhh man, I want more more more! That is perfect.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 6d

Loooove this book! Highly textured folk horror.

Joroi: The Curse @joefriday37.bsky.social · 6d

One of my all time favourite comic book series. Just phenomenal writing and artistry.

Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 14d

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!

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Joroi: The Curse @joefriday37.bsky.social · 6d

One of my all time favourite comic book series. Just phenomenal writing and artistry.

Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 14d

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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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 6d

Oh for sure. And Melpomene.

Richard Howe @richardhowe.bsky.social · 6d

Clio.

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 6d

Tangipahoa, Ponchatoula, Bogalousa, Tchefuncte, Opelousas, New Orleans.

Actually that last one has multiple local pronunciations, I retract it and substitute Tchoupitoulas

Bennicula🐇🧛🏼‍♂️🥕 BKT1138 🎞️📸🎨 @bukket1138.bsky.social · 7d

Quincy, Worcester, Peabody, Leominster, Haverhill, Billerica

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 6d

A little touch of DPTSD (deadline post-traumatic disorder). It does kinda suck waiting for overheated machinery to wind down.

It’s nice to have a little money, though. Hope it lasts long enough for you to hit the sweet spot of “just enough rest.”

Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 7d

I've been so busy for the last couple of months, and now that I have a little down time, and some money in the bank, I still can't stop working, I feel antsy and guilty whenever I try to just not do anything, kinda aggravating

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 7d

Even the AI bullshit has never heard of it. Is Yuma that bad?

Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 7d

that is a weird one

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 7d

The Louisiana/Gulf Coast and Chesapeake Bay parts are right.

Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 7d

that is a weird one

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Grave Boneyard @dconrad.bsky.social · 7d

I'm delighted to hear Dolly Parton is okay but now I'm reimagining this classic post only about Dolly Parton

Please stop praying for my grandpa u are making him too strong. He broke out of the hospital & cops say their tasers don't work on him :(

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 7d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 7d

i appreciate @meredithshiner.com’s wisdom, as well as her refusal to let the coons-valentine’s day story fade from public memory

It is certainly self-evident that Democrats do not care to "do democracy," but what I would argue is that speeches about democracy do not carry the weight of collective action in support of democracy. In 2024, President Joe Biden told us repeatedly that "democracy was on the line," and yet three years earlier, Senate Democrats prematurely ended the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump because top Biden ally.
Chris Coons of Delaware wanted to go home for Valentine's Day. Congressional Democrats, despite their supposed 2024 warnings that democracy was on the brink, almost all attended Donald Trump's inauguration in 2025 as if it were normal and acceptable, and Biden himself welcomed the Trumps back into the White House with open arms.

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, it is interesting….

“Hellexico”??

Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 7d

It's an interesting map.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 8d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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