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Renling
@exploderen.bsky.social
I do art and say things | trapped in red state hell | be kind not nice
enby/asd/disabled | they/he/it

Rent fund! https://ko-fi.com/exploderen

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We've barely been scraping by since Trump took office, but the shutdown took a desperately needed job with it and we're now scrambling to make next month's rent. It's a long shot but I have to at least try.

I'd love to repay bigger donations with art/body doubling/etc!

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someone can only demand you be so small for them for so long before you just can't anymore. your brain no longer works that way. it's not real feelings they're expressing, it's justification to keep you small so they can feel big, or like they're in control. and so what? control your own life.
November 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY

Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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look. call your senator. but don't forget that requiring you to do this every single time, even when it's something obviously and unambiguously evil being passed, is part of a system designed to wear us down and close off our ability to imagine a better world
May 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓

The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺

Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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dying on a hill is embarrassing. hillcorpse behavior
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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this morning, hermes came to me and he said, "mom, Blood On The Lens Part 2 is going to sell a million copies. it will be your ticket to modest fame and long-term financial stability"

and, you wouldn't want to make this boy a liar

would you
anyway, enough about album sales, let's all take a moment to appreciate what it's all for. the real reason I do all of this:

hermes
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
who doesn't love an underdog. a violent, lesbian underdog.
I think, if we try really hard. Blood on The Lens Part 2 can sell better than the new mountain goats album. I think we have a chance. if we really work together. to defeat them
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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I think, if we try really hard. Blood on The Lens Part 2 can sell better than the new mountain goats album. I think we have a chance. if we really work together. to defeat them
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year.

The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices.

But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low.
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Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
www.propublica.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Friends don't let friends follow Alt National Park Service. This is so weird and inappropriate!!!
AltNPS's post is full of the same lurid details and breathless dramatization as their previous attempt at ICE raid erotica from a few weeks ago.

Things that AltNPS could not possibly have witnessed, and which aren't reported anywhere else.
November 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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solidarity with girlworkers in their fight against the girlbosses
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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HOW TO FEEL ALIVE
November 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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hey if you are an artist who depends on SNAP,

✅ share some art
✅ share links to where people can buy from/donate to you
✅ share the thread
✅ share someone else's post too
✅ label NSFW/horror/etc. properly
⛔ no AI

#artistsonbsky #supportartists #artshare
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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You there. I want you to say, aloud, at some point today "I'm really glad I'm good at..." And then you're gonna say something you think you do pretty well.

If you don't think you do anything pretty well, I want you to say "one little thing that makes me unique is..."

And if you can't do either?
November 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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go into the woods and remember that when you die bugs will eat you and you'll turn into dirt like everything else
November 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Help me escape Taco Bell. Last night a customer threw sauce at me.
The best help I can ask for is more patreons. Right now I’m receiving about $450/mo from Patreon. This supplements the income I get from working at Taco Bell, about $1200/mo. More Patreon = less Taco Bell, more writing, more road trips, more life on my terms

www.patreon.com/sarahwonderw...
Get more from Sarah Moose on Patreon
creating documentation of life during COVID and societal collaps
www.patreon.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Thread 🧵: Food Assistance By State/Territory

The document below lists previously established food assistance programs, searchable by state.

Each state and territory is also listed alphabetically in the thread comments.

Help will come and go, so pls use this thread to update info for your state:
Without SNAP: Finding Assistance in Uncertain Times
Without SNAP: Finding Assistance in Uncertain Times Due to the completely preventable shutdown, the USDA says “the well has run dry” in regards to SNAP benefits. Beginning November 1st, SNAP benefits...
docs.google.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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I don't care how good the content is, if you use GenAI images for illustration I'm not opening, reading, or sharing your work.

Even beside the disrespect to creators - I don't trust the laziness to stop at the images.
November 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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one of my pieces for boys with tits ☀️
October 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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OCT. 31st | 2025
#MutualAid🧵:

Please feel free to post your mutual aid links below & I will repost each one of them! 💕

ALT text your images!

Don't forget to add 💸💕 to your MA posts & 🍉 on Palestinian MA boosts.

Love y'all,
🌃Noah
October 31, 2025 at 12:27 PM