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Shelby Strix

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https://linktr.ee/shelbystrix Professional Tattoo Artist since 2016 🏳️‍🌈✊🏿♀️♿️🌎💖 Co-Owner of Ethereal Fawn Tattoos and Art Gallery in Allentown, PA Active Alliance of Professional Tattooists member certified in CPR, First-Aid, and BBP

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Shelby Strix @shelbystrix.bsky.social · Jan 25

Hi! My name is Shelby, I'm a PA-based queer fem tattooist! I'm an anxious potato that hates pain, so I try to make the tattoo process as calming and pain-free as possible! Interested in booking with me? Check out my Linktree above to fill out my studio's booking form!
🏳️‍🌈✊🏿♀️♿️🌎💖

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Mar 18

This man is deeply unwell.

A tweet from Elon Musk (@elonmusk) that reads:
**"My companies make great products that people love and I’ve never physically hurt anyone.

So why the hate and violence against me?

Because I am a deadly threat to the woke mind parasite and the humans it controls."**

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · Mar 16

😳

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Mar 13

I think we’re already there.

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Shelby Strix @shelbystrix.bsky.social · Mar 12

I'm so sorry you're going through this :( Sending all of my love

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Mar 11

US added to the global human rights watchlist due to declining civil liberties.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Mar 11

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that DOGE is subject to government transparency laws, allowing the public to access government records—a legal defeat for the White House, which had designated DOGE as an office exempt from open records laws.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · Mar 10

Adding #typesetter #printingpress #miniatures, #art, #ArtYear, #ArtShow, #humanmade #handmade, #crafts 🧶 #artforsale
(I always run out of characters so quickly) 😅

Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · Mar 10

Soup.
For my Family.
I avoid lettering, but these needed text
Years back I bought a full set of antique type- Garamond.
It was time
I sifted through a LOT of lead to find upper & lower-case
& assembled dedicated words with clay handles
#Pendants & #Earrings
#letterpress #Soup #SoupForMyFamily #memes

A light skinned hand holds two polymer clay pendants hanging from a yellow or gold cord. The pendants resemble soup cans, these are blue on top and white on the bottom, with a metallic gold colored star at the center like a seal. There are strips of c text appliquéd onto the cans which read SOUP - for * my - FAMILY. The cans are around an inch tall.

A light skinned hand holds a polymer clay pendant with a red jump ring hanging from a black cord. The pendant resembles a soup cans, it is ombre red on top and very pale pastel rainbow on the bottom, with a metallic gold colored dot at the center like a seal. There are strips of text appliquéd onto the cans which read soup - for * my - family. The can is just under an inch tall.

A 9-Square photo collage grid. In each square, a light skinned hand holds one or two polymer clay soup can charms. Some are pendants and some are earrings. All but two images have text which read "soup - for * my - family"
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Top Left it is a pair of earrings with a rainbow accent bead. These are ombre red on top and very pale pastel rainbow on the bottom, with a metallic gold colored dot at the center like a seal. The text is inlaid and inked in black.
Top Center is two pendants hanging from a gold or yellow cord. One is in nonbinary flag colors, this one has a rhinestone as its center seal and the other is on Bisexual flag colors and white.
There are strips of text appliquéd onto the cans which read SOUP - for * my - FAMILY
Top Right - a pair of earrings with no text, ombre red and pastel rainbow with a red faceted accent bead
Middle Left - two pendants hanging from a gold or yellow cord. These are blue and white with metallic gold stars in the middle. Text is appliqué
Middle Center - is the only solo pendant. If it's ombre red and pastel with applique text- all lower case "soup - for * my - family"
Middle right- Two pendants. Ombre red and pastel. Appliqué text.
Bottom Left - a pair of earrings with no text, ombre red and pastel rainbow with a faceted amber glass accent bead
Bottom Center - Two pendants These are blue and white with Rainbow bands around the middle. Text is appliqué
Bottom Right- is a pair of earrings with a Yellow swirled glass accent bead . These are ombre red on top and very pale pastel rainbow on the bottom, with a metallic gold colored dot at the center like a seal. The text is inlaid and inked in black.

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Planet Over Profit @planetoverprofit.org · Mar 8

BREAKING: HUNDREDS of New Yorkers have swarmed and shut down the Tesla dealer in Manhattan. Six have been arrested after occupying the showroom. Protests are erupting across America to reject Musk's billionaire regime. This is how we beat fascism.

Mass direct action.
#TeslaTakedown

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD @lindzeamays.bsky.social · Mar 9

🌲Sending the warmest thanks to everyone who stopped by my booth today at Stockton University's Lines on the Pines.

🌲I had so much fun nerding out over art, arthropods, and the unique ecosystem of the NJ pine barrens!

More colorful arthropods at:
LindZeamays.com/printshop

🎨🐛🌽🌲🐡🕷️🌱

Grinning LindZeamays holding a bug collection at their illustration booth while vending at Stockton University's Lines on the Pines.

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Shelby Strix @shelbystrix.bsky.social · Mar 10

The feeling when your sperm doner doesn't want anything to do with you for the past 30 years because you didn't fit his expectations as to what a child, "should," be, and he suddenly decides he wants to try and form a relationship. Get bent and pay me for all this money I've spent on therapy instead

a baby is sitting in a car seat and making an angry face .

ALT: a baby is sitting in a car seat and making an angry face .

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Shelby Strix @shelbystrix.bsky.social · Mar 9

I've had bunnies my entire life until October - if you ever have any questions please don't hesitate to reach out! 💖🥰

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Shelby Strix @shelbystrix.bsky.social · Mar 9

Yay!!!
House Rabbit Society is a wonderful resource for all rabbit things. Keep critical care and infant gas drops on you at all times. 🙏🏻 I miss my buns - don't be afraid to get her a fixed friend! Bonded pairs of buns are the same amount of work as one, and they're so much happier! 💖🥰

Shelby Strix @shelbystrix.bsky.social · Mar 9

It's a me!!

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yabookgirl.bsky.social @yabookgirl.bsky.social · Mar 9

Great day with @shelbystrix.bsky.social. Riley and I got amazing new ink!

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Mar 9

Thoughts on boycotts: inflict pain on the corporation. Buying a couple 99 cent ebooks from a self-published author on Amazon is fine. Don’t buy a microwave on it. Purity is never the answer. Restraint though and thoughtfulness is.

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T Grump @espresso-n-donuts.bsky.social · Mar 9

I have an Etsy store too! It’s on the newer side so I don’t have any sales through there yet, and I’m running a sale on my items through there to account for that!

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Pictured here is my first completed embroidery kit project! (HarvestGoodsCo)

#witchsky #candles #crafts

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Omega_Lioness_VY @omegalioness.bsky.social · Mar 9

Finally I made a figure of my OC for myself <3 Love her so much.
#omega #lioness #omegalioness #sculpt #figure #3d #model #art #blender #modelling #cg #print #photopolimer #tlk #OC #character #cartoon #feline #resin

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🎃 Dr. Jessie Christianstein 🎃 @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · Mar 9

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.

(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)

Claudia Scheinbaum, President of Mexico, in the centre of the image in a purple dress on International Women’s Day, 2025. A search around on google fails to turn up an image credit unfortunately, I found it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/s/MGhF9O80FL

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · Mar 9

More of this

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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · Mar 8

Happy #InternationalWomensDay 💗

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Mar 8

Ironic how the applause lines don’t match the budget cuts.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Mar 8

Don’t forget about tomorrow’s Take Down Tesla protests happening across the country! Since we launched the Elon boycott, Tesla’s stock has plummeted from over $400 to $262. Let’s keep the momentum going!

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Shelby Strix @shelbystrix.bsky.social · Mar 8

*normal forehead lolol

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Mar 7

This is what your reposts and signal boosts can do for independent artists.

susie ghahremani @boygirlparty.bsky.social · Dec 17

Last year, an author mentioned my shop on her substack. It changed my income so drastically that this is the spike of orders from that *one* mention last year. Word of mouth for an artist can change everything.

A line graph with one verrrry high point

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Michelle @beannotattoos.bsky.social · Mar 5

I'm so bad at this. I have too many social media accounts to try to keep up with. Here's some smaller tattoos I've done recently.

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