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Torea
@toreajade.bsky.social
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Visual artist based in the Pacific Northwest; expect fleeting thoughts and ephemeral visions. Let Er Rip, the first show I curated, is on view at 811 SE Stark in Portland through June 2025. For more? toreafrey.com
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toreajade.bsky.social
Pleasantly surprised some work of mine was selected for National Collage Society’s annual juried exhibit! ✂️ #collage #collageart #analogcollage
October 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
toreajade.bsky.social
As another near-lifelong Oregonian, this thread feels helpful context. We’ve been keepin’ it surreal—and feisty—long as I remember.
ceaubin.com C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · Oct 13
What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.
October 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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clintsmithiii.bsky.social
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
www.theatlantic.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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ladyjenpool.bsky.social
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
toreajade.bsky.social
I may feel like absolute garbage but found a new GF chocolate donut recipe the fam has dubbed “bangin”—subbed in hazelnut butter for almond butter and 😋 recipe: bakeitpaleo.com/chocolate-zu...
#baking #glutenfree #chocolatedonut
A baked chocolate donut on a small plate sits on an end table surrounded by cups and bottles of tea and water
August 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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allisonanne.com
two weeks left to submit what's bringing you joy and delight in these tough times! send @toreajade.bsky.social and i a list or short paragraph, snapshots, artwork, etc. by august 15th bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing

#zines #zinesky #artsky #opencall
allisonanne.com allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · Jul 28
hi! @toreajade.bsky.social and i want to know what keeps you going in the hard times! what started as a check-in between friends has blossomed into an open call for a zine about taking care 🌻 send us a list, a paragraph or two, artwork, photos, pet pix, etc by august 15th: bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing
Yellow, white and black text on a pink background with a an abstract collage by Torea Jade OPEN CALL: WHAT KEEPS US GOING A collaborative since about getting by and taking care when the world is on fire Yellow, white and black text on a green background with a colorful abstract collage by allison anne WHAT KEEPS US GOING Submit by August 15th What to submit: Lists, short paragraphs or other written descriptions about what you do to find joy in hard times (150 words or less) Photos, artwork or other imagery relevant to the theme No submission fee! Open to anyone, anywhere in the world! If your contribution is selected, you'll receive a copy of the zine. bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing
July 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
toreajade.bsky.social
Find Bam Bam! Last seen in NW PDX. Terrified of hands, but sucker for a peanut — here’s hoping the parrot & its person are soon reunited.
#lostparrot #findbambam #portland #pdx
Sign for a lost parrot, with a green head and white around his little bird eyes, named Bam Bam, with information about how to contact owner if found, and what to do. Bam Bam lst seen at 23rd and Overton in northwest Portland, and owner can be reached at 626-550-5782.
July 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
toreajade.bsky.social
What’s keeping me going this summer? Berries, lots of berries. Oregon summers are bursting with roadside & alleyway fruit; I’ve been foraging and making treats to share with friends … a little something sweet can make a surprisingly big difference in one’s day 💜
Bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing #zines
Window ledge with shaft of sunlight coming through it. On the ledge are potted succulents, a small carved wooden figurine of a Dutch woman, three dried rose petals, and a miniature teacup filled eith foraged blackberries
July 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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allisonanne.com
hi! @toreajade.bsky.social and i want to know what keeps you going in the hard times! what started as a check-in between friends has blossomed into an open call for a zine about taking care 🌻 send us a list, a paragraph or two, artwork, photos, pet pix, etc by august 15th: bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing
Yellow, white and black text on a pink background with a an abstract collage by Torea Jade OPEN CALL: WHAT KEEPS US GOING A collaborative since about getting by and taking care when the world is on fire Yellow, white and black text on a green background with a colorful abstract collage by allison anne WHAT KEEPS US GOING Submit by August 15th What to submit: Lists, short paragraphs or other written descriptions about what you do to find joy in hard times (150 words or less) Photos, artwork or other imagery relevant to the theme No submission fee! Open to anyone, anywhere in the world! If your contribution is selected, you'll receive a copy of the zine. bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing
July 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
toreajade.bsky.social
🙄 Tell me you’ve never spent time with anyone chronically ill — anyone with ME/CFS, anyone with hEDS and its little friends, anyone immunocompromised, &c. — without telling me you’ve never spent time with anyone chronically ill.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 24
Mehmet Oz: "We've made it easy to be sick in America and this president and this secretary of health, Bobby Kennedy, they're not gonna tolerate it anymore."
July 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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sorrowscopes.bsky.social
Scorpio: Don't start a garden. Don't dig in your yard. Do not unearth the sins of the past.
July 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
toreajade.bsky.social
She rollin’ with glee. Why? Pretty sure it’s the plentiful 🐰 poo 😂
#dog #dogsofbluesky #goldendoodle
July 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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allisonanne.com
this is something i’ve wanted to do for a few years and i am SO excited to be working on it at last. edited by @jpb.bsky.social and i, submit by August 31st, expected publication October 2025!
nonmachinable.com NONMACHINABLE @nonmachinable.com · Jul 14
Announcing an open call from @nonmachinable.com and @twincitiescollage.bsky.social: Queer + Trans Collagists

Any artist identifying as LGBTQIA2S+ working with collage are encouraged to submit their artwork, hybrid genre work and/or writing.

✂️ Submit by August 31st: bit.ly/QueerTransCollage
pink and yellow graphic with text that reads QUEER AND TRANS COLLAGISTS - AN OPEN CALL FROM TWIN CITIES COLLAGE COLLECTIVE AND NONMACHINABLE
July 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
toreajade.bsky.social
Nothing like a morn walk; picked a few berries, scoped out some petals 🌸🌺🌻
#bloomscrolling #flowers #flaneur
Meadow view, with tall grass, teasel, and shrubs/trees against a blue sky Purple flower with reddish center against green leaves Coneflowers in red, orange, pink in a neighbors front yard in Clackamas County Oregon
July 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
toreajade.bsky.social
Oh, the quiet devastation of modernity: today, an autogenerated email reminded me my mom turns 70 soon, except that’s in another timeline where she didn’t die three years back from young onset Alzheimers …. 😢
#grief #griefislove
July 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Fucketyfucketyfuckfuckfuck'
by Annie Taylor from PEG - the Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, known for their stitching and swearing #womensart #Fridayfeeling
Embroider of two small blue birds perched among pink flowers with embroidered text in gold thread stating the title
July 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
toreajade.bsky.social
song of the summer? youtu.be/dsZ75RioLVw
I AM BLEEDING INTERNALLY
YouTube video by The Dream Eaters
youtu.be
July 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
toreajade.bsky.social
Fantasy wardrobe, Rahul Mishra F/W 2025 edition. I’m getting Klimt vibes, would die to dramatically descend a staircase in one of these gems
#fashion #rahulmishra #art
Runway model in a Rahul Mishra F/W 2025 dress. The dress is sleeveless, black, with an asymmetrical ruffled skirt festooned with glitter and colorful flowers. A large semi-transparent face shield is decorated similarly. Runway model in a Rahul Mishra F/W 2025 dress. She wears a full length gold bodysuit with black mesh sleeves; the bodysuit has circles of purple and other rich details. The left shoulder of the bodysuit extends up beside the model’s head, with a detail that appears to be a fabric head looking away from the model. Runway model in a Rahul Mishra F/W 2025 dress. She wears a sparkly black bodysuit covered by a voluminous billowing black cape, which feateures a band of black sparkles, glittering circles, and a painted head or two. Runway model in a Rahul Mishra F/W 2025 dress. She wears a full length gold bodysuit with no sleeves; the bodysuit has circles of purple and other rich details. Extending from the bodysuit are thin wires that hold colorful circles of gold, red and black, haloing the model’s body so she look like a mobile of sorts.
July 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
toreajade.bsky.social
Insomnia reading, Matt Hai/Comfort Book edition: “Happiness occurs when you forget who you’re expected to be. And what you’re expected to do. Happiness is an accident of self-acceptance. It’s the warm breeze you feel when you open the door to who you are.”
#BookSky
Short chapter from Matt Haig’s “The Comfort Book,” titled Happiness. The quoted chapter reads “Happiness occurs when you forget who you’re expected to be. And what you’re expected to do. Happiness is an accident of self-acceptance. It’s the warm breeze you feel when you open the door to who you are.”
July 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Keith Leonard
July 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
toreajade.bsky.social
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bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 1
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
July 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
toreajade.bsky.social
Finished this new, larger scale mixed media piece, Language to Flow Like a River. 24”x36” on canvas, a drifting lazy river of language lost and found against a sea of deepest black
#mixedmedia #collageart #blueskycollage #visualart
Mixed media collage in landscape orientation. This anstract piece is on canvas, with a deep black background. Cutting through the centerline is a river of crumpled and sculpeted dictionary pages, a visualization of my current challenges with speech and communication. Black-and-white/grayscale images of flowers and empty rooms are used to blend the transition between background and foreground
July 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
toreajade.bsky.social
PDX, don’t miss A Celebration of Palestinean Embroidery, at @swanarosepdx.bsky.social. This intimate, thoughtfully curated exhibit weaves together masterful stitching, storytelling, and family beautifully. More info: www.tatreezandtea.com/celebration
#portland #pdx #tatreez #embroidery
Woman’s hand holds two cards promoting A Celebration of Palestinean Embroidery, an art show at Swana Rose in Portland, Oregon Embroidery piece The Birds, stitched by master artisan Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim. This embroidery panel is stitched mostly in red and is rich with detail and story. Two birds can be easily discerned but a closer look unveils additional details, such as the artist’s name and the word Palestine Embroidery piece Al Naqab, stitched by master artisan Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim in 2022. The panel illustrates a Bedouin woman stirched in style, incorporating metal and beads as well as thread
June 29, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location.

ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her.

This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.
June 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
toreajade.bsky.social
Leaving our fav park, we passed an older couple w/ 2 small pups. One of which was a wee little teacup puffball … that was a delightful shade of purple. “We just got back from vacation,” the couple explained. “The kids shaved him and dyed him without teling us!” Surprise, I guess?! 🤷🏻‍♀️😂 #dogs #petsky
June 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM