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Spurfy

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I'm like your mom if your mom was seriously into Star Wars. Expert cross-stitcher, avid knitter, volunteer librarian, semi-professional musician. Trying to save democracy for my kids.

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Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 7h

We had four counter protesters in Silverton. One decided it would be smart to bring his gun. The police didn't agree. One kid just stood there with an American flag the whole time. Took me an hour to realize he wasn't with the rest of us. Very effective...

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 7h

Not gonna lie, Ottawa has shaken me a couple of times. The housing problem is getting out of control there and I have felt unsafe. And I'm not a normally paranoid person.

But I wouldn't call it a war zone. 🤷‍♀️

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 9h

I may or may not believe in magic, but I believe in the Force! 😉 Trust your feelings!

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 15h

Our signs:

Two signs, protesting for no Kings.

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 15h

Like my signs?

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 15h

Our local police ticketed two upstanding citizens for excessive engine noise when they decided to rev at us. They also moved the tiny counter protest (two people) further up the hill.

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 15h

Our signs.

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 15h

We protest.

Two signs, one saying "No Kings, No Führers" and one with a picture of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock that says "They Don't Care".

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 1d

Except that Mormons don't really have canon. There seems to be no official doctrine. Just the current work of the correlation committee, or the words of a general authority until it is decided that he was just speaking as a man.

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 1d

That's hysterical. Not surprising, but hysterical.

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 3d

a man wearing a white t-shirt that says vote for paula

ALT: a man wearing a white t-shirt that says vote for paula

media.tenor.com

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 3d

He was just proclaiming his proclivities.

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 3d

I stopped listening to NPR because I cannot handle hearing the fascist moron's voice. Maybe someday I'll listen again.

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 3d

I'm an hour south. My kid's in Portland.

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 4d

My kids made me scream...

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 4d

Boomers do think that it's real. They also think that it's harmless. But then, they are wrong about so many things.

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 4d

Can't do flannel pajamas because we have flannel sheets and the resulting flannelception would electrocute us.

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 4d

This is spot-on. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

TO BE A PATRIOT in Donald Trump's America is like sitting through a loved one's trial for some gruesome crime. Day after day your shame deepens as the horrifying testimony piles up, until you wonder how
you can still care about this person. Shouldn't you just accept that your beloved is beyond redemption? And yet you keep showing up, exchanging smiles and waves, hoping for some mitigating evidence to emerge—trying to believe in your country's essential decency.

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 4d

Ouch.

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 4d

And that's a symptom of the reason we're in the mess we're in. Of course they were on the verge of the worst war in history...

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 5d

And that is why I'm diabetic.

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 5d

a young boy wearing a yellow shirt is smiling for the camera .

ALT: a young boy wearing a yellow shirt is smiling for the camera .

media.tenor.com

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 5d

I live in the Portland area so I'm taking mine in handspun, hand-dyed yarn from local alpacas.

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 5d

I'm Sorry You Can't Afford To Be Alive
And Other Stories Of America

Picture is of Grover the Doctor waving at you from a hospital. There’s an “aborted dreams” signature and maybe they’re who made this idk

It wasn’t me, I’m only posting it myself because no one else had alt text lol

Spurfy @spurfy.bsky.social · 6d

I'd kind of like to try the drugs he's taking though...