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Gabey Lucas, but on bluesky

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Cascadian comedy gal & @uwdawgpound.bsky.social's mostly-retired new boot goofer. Shows n other stuff updates on my mailing list at www.gabeylucas.com

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Gabey Lucas, but on bluesky @gabeynotgabby.bsky.social · Nov 13

Anyhoo go to shows & be curious about what people are making & doing cuz it's our primary antidote to having a shit time & the current tech-promotional ecosystem is awful & antithetical to thriving cultural scenes

aka come to all my shows & tell your friends 2 read Everett Flabbergasters

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Gabey Lucas, but on bluesky @gabeynotgabby.bsky.social · 6h

I'm lying in bed at 1 AM looking at pictures of Humpy being iconic & laughing uncontrollably, thank you Mariners.

A motivational poster of Humpy "he never gave up"

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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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Gabey Lucas, but on bluesky @gabeynotgabby.bsky.social · 11h

I wonder if theyre taking clients

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Lynsi Burton @lynsib.bsky.social · 11h

#goms

Andres Munoz wearing a dark navy quarter-zip fleece holding a gray tabby kitten and smiling down at it.

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Gabey Lucas, but on bluesky @gabeynotgabby.bsky.social · 11h

This is a very compelling point

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 11h

MARINERS WIN!! MARINERS WIN / Victoire Des Marins! Victoire Des Marins!

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Gabey Lucas, but on bluesky @gabeynotgabby.bsky.social · 12h

On one hand *gestures above* but also just in general, during the regular season baseball is just a nice picnic n beer n sunset over the olympics during the summer while you crush 18 pounds of peanuts. This is a cocaine-adjacent drug that hasnt been invented yet.

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rockedfaces @rockedfaces.bsky.social · 12h

GOOD JOB MATT YOU CANADIAN ANGEL

rockedfaces @rockedfaces.bsky.social · 12h

Naylor struggling against his hometown team, I get it (that said, Matt Brash is not allowed to struggle against his hometown team, sorry Matty)

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The Funniest Dad Ever (/s) @mjmoller.bsky.social · 12h

Jorge Polanco Dumper. My daughter has two middle names.

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Gabey Lucas, but on bluesky @gabeynotgabby.bsky.social · 12h

If they dont then at least my lifelong friend Laura in Minnesota will
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Laura in MN @laurainmn.bsky.social · 12h

I simply have no choice but to name my firstborn son Jorge Polanco.

Gabey Lucas, but on bluesky @gabeynotgabby.bsky.social · 12h

And I-- ope

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Gabey Lucas, but on bluesky @gabeynotgabby.bsky.social · 13h

Sent this to my childhood friend & college buddy (theyre married cuz im an awesome wingman) friday night & looks like Im gonna have to press the issue

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🧟‍♀️ Fraided Rosie 🐈‍⬛ @fadedrosie.myatproto.social · 12h

Hey Seattle, it’s that time of year when our unhoused neighbors need socks. Saw a man downtown this week with wet, blistered feet. It‘s a health hazard, and it’s miserable. Help if you can. 🧦🧦🧦

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Gabey Lucas, but on bluesky @gabeynotgabby.bsky.social · 13h

The Napoleon Dynamite "I want that" lady

Gabey Lucas, but on bluesky @gabeynotgabby.bsky.social · 13h

I stared at that for like 2 minutes thinking it was a lava lamp and then it hit me

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 13h

Humpy and Dumper, a Seattle love story

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Sarah Enni @sarahenni.bsky.social · 13h

✅ Dinger

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Gabey Lucas, but on bluesky @gabeynotgabby.bsky.social · 13h

Alt text: a whatsapp message saying "how do you feel about naming your child jorge" from 11:43 pm friday

Gabey Lucas, but on bluesky @gabeynotgabby.bsky.social · 13h

Sent this to my childhood friend & college buddy (theyre married cuz im an awesome wingman) friday night & looks like Im gonna have to press the issue