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Ren-emy of the state

@ratgalactic.bsky.social

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I'm Ren, hi he/him, 34. Florida man living in NC Just some guy making comics and trying to survive. I do all kinds of stupid and gay shit with @modestyjorts.bsky.social 18+ only🔞 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸✊ Art: #RensArt OCs: #OnTheRocks

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Ren-emy of the state @ratgalactic.bsky.social · 12d

Ok, I hesitated to do this but I've been asked to put a goal up on my kofi for car repair costs. My insurance company has been less than helpful and the guy who hit me is denying fault so it's looking like I'm shit out of luck. ko-fi.com/i/IY8Y61M7HA0

Car repair + dashcam goal - Click to view on Ko-fi

Follow Ren on Ko-fi

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Ren-emy of the state @ratgalactic.bsky.social · 5h

a turtle with its eyes closed and the words `` it is time '' written on it .

ALT: a turtle with its eyes closed and the words `` it is time '' written on it .

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Ren-emy of the state @ratgalactic.bsky.social · 6h

Same (even though I've attended some with coworkers lmao)

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 23h

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained.

Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

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HearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.social · 1d

Mask

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Ren-emy of the state @ratgalactic.bsky.social · 7h

Don't sign up for no kings but maybe go to your local one. idk I'm not your dad. But definitely don't sign up.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

The more people turn out this weekend, the more obvious the lie here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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Canis Ovis @canisovis.bsky.social · 20h

Car got totaled on the way back from visiting family. Every step forward is 20 steps back. Tired. Getting a rental car to get back home. Lost work shifts. Don’t know what to do anymore to catch up. Hate to ask for help now, but anything helps. Thank you.

ko-fi.com/canisovis
www.paypal.me/canisovis

Front view of a 2013 Honda Fit with extensive front-end damage.

Image of the same 2013 Honda Fit being pulled up onto a tow truck bed.

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 1d

Sonic saying, "Support your local, human, erotica creators. You need chatgpt to suck your e-dick for you? You absolutely fucking LOSER"

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Panic Restaurant @panicrestaurant.bsky.social · 1d

pete !! @peterokii • Mar 28
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oh poor baby do do do you need the robot to make you pictures?
yeah?
you need the bo-bot to write you essay too? yeah ??? you can't do it?? do so you're a
moron?? so do do you need chat gpt to fuck your wife ??

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 23h

THAT'S RIGHT

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 23h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 23h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Snacko Racko @snackoracko.bsky.social · 2d

Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!

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RhandiCandyman @rhandidandy.bsky.social · 2d

This man looks like he commits tax fraud

A grey-toned ink sketch of a large-headed, chunky rat (?) with his arms crossed. He looks off screen with confusion and concern.

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Maple 🥞✨️ @mapleburr.bsky.social · 1d

Only 2 slots left! Here are some more examples 👀✨️

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Laur Bagley @laur-rants.bsky.social · 2d

It's finished!! "My Avian Neighborhood": in total almost 100 hours of work in the span of 27 days to complete. So very proud of this one, it's going to be hanging in its first show over the next few months. Thank you to everyone who cheered me on, the species are in the alt text of the image! ✨

Acrylic painting by Laur_rants, 2025, depicting 42 bird species recorded within 5 miles of the artist's home located in the west side of Columbus.

All 42 species, from clockwise starting in the top left: Turkey Vulture, Great Egret, Red-Tailed Hawk, Black Vulture, Northern Rough-Winged Swallow, Great Blue Heron, Bald Eagle, Black Capped Chickadee, Ruby-throated hummingbird, Song Sparrow, Osprey (with small mouth bass) Chimney Swift, Cliff Swallow, Barn Swallow, Red-shouldered Hawk, Mallard, Red-winged Blackbird, American Woodcock, European Starling, Ring-billed Gull, Double-crested Cormorant, Killdeer, Brown Thrasher, Northern Flicker, Northern Mockingbird, Downy Woodpecker, House Finch, Brown-headed Cowbird, Grey Catbird, Carolina Chickadee, Mourning Dove, Cooper's Hawk, Northern House Wren, House Sparrow, American Robin, Carolina Wren, America Crow, Blue Jay, Canada Goose, American Goldfinch, and Northern Cardinal.

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screaming queer cryptid 👁️🔥🎨 @nintala-scribble.bsky.social · 2d

currently have 19 bucks and need to pay rent so ayyyyy check out my art n digital shops, pledge to my ko-fi ect ect!! ❣️👁️✨

‪🏳️‍⚧️Scribble Art Cryptid @scribbled-death.bsky.social · Jun 19

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My kofi has clip studio brushes!!

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#supportartists #disabled #pride #weirdart #bskyartists #artsky #art

Buy Scribbled Death a Coffee

Support my artistic abstract clownery through ko-fi!

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Ren-emy of the state @ratgalactic.bsky.social · 2d

I still remember my landline from the 90's

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

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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DIO @danielirizarri.bsky.social · 6d

I think what's impressive about TRON is that, visually, it's still so much more interesting than any of it's sequels. It's crazy that they tried update this digital world by making it as 'realistically rendered' as possible. It's a complete misunderstanding of the original's charm.

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 2d

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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peregrine @funguspotion.bsky.social · 2d

thread for im looking at plushies and going ahehehaheeheheehoohooha

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Sennamatic @sennamatic.bsky.social · 2d

Hey if you guys can spare literally three minutes can you click to send a letter demanding they don't build a data center by my house? It would mean so much to me 💕
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

Stop the Hydro Park Data Center

We need to be loud about out opposition to the data center! There is so much not to like: the impact to the water, air, and land, the health effects to surrounding communities, the tax money, the war ...

actionnetwork.org

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Ren-emy of the state @ratgalactic.bsky.social · 2d

Big eepy

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Vampire Banana 🧛🏻🏳️‍⚧️🍌 @modestyjorts.bsky.social · 2d

Columbus Day sucks ass because the idea was to take a historically important Italian figure to honor the legacy of Italians after a horrific lynching of Italian Americans happened. And they chose the genocidal monster. Fuck, there's way better Italians and Italian Americans to choose from

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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