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Valerie Fairlight
@valree.bsky.social
Artist in the streets, napper in the sheets. Stained glass mostly.
She/her. PNW ➡️ NL.
Stained glass feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tpsvcxzhlzp3ysiaouxk6i7e/feed/aaail6a7fhgui
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Hi new friends!
✨ My art is glass: valeriefairlight.com
✨ Glass insta: www.instagram.com/valree/
✨ I'm also a Portland realtor: portlandval.com
✨ Stained glass feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Very surprised at the response from Portland’s mayor. Words were not minced for once.
February 1, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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When they decided to teach the kids (such as my 11yo) a lesson I don't think they understood the lesson was fuck ICE
Congrats to ICE for dropping a metric ton of tear gas on a bunch of nurses, teamsters and children just now
February 1, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Finally added some glass to the house just in time to move out.
February 1, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Working today but the soundtrack is 100% Prince and Replacements.
January 24, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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the thing that’s really crazy-making to me is that ‘illegal immigration’ is a civil offense in the US, not a criminal one, so there’s not really a reason for a roving band of death squads to get billions & billions of dollars except that American legislators love & crave death
January 24, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I did not know Simon Bisley was his own damn model for Lobo.
January 24, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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When your actions mobilize the multi-faith clergy squads wearing their most colorful vestments-- you're not on the right side of history.
January 23, 2026 at 9:49 PM
I can’t anymore.
We have an executive branch that's on a crime spree against the American public. The other branches of government can use their constitutional powers to put a stop to this. If they decline to do that the only other remedy is in the declaration of independence
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
January 22, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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People are being tortured and murdered in the street. the idea that in addition to this, we have to call our reps and tell them we dont like it seems insane.
January 21, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'
The idea that there are no protests in the US and no one is standing up to Trump is proving incredibly hard to kill over here in Germany. It’s become dogma, utterly detached from empirical reality.

I wonder if the people who keep talking like that understand they’re perpetuating regime propaganda.
January 21, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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Tom Baker is 92 today
January 20, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Aw hell. Aside from the weird babyfication, this was me.
At nine, I disappeared into home schooling. No one came looking
Mom insisted I needed a ‘free-form education’ outside public school. After four years of loneliness, I gave up hope that someone would get me out
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Thank you @citycastportland.bsky.social and thank YOU, ghost of Phil Hartman.
January 17, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Working as a barista in the financial district. This got a lot of airplay that spring.
On this day in 1990, The Sundays released their brilliant debut album “Reading, Writing and Arithmetic” featuring "Here's Where the Story Ends" "Can't Be Sure" and "You're Not the Only One I Know"
January 16, 2026 at 5:24 AM
We are actually doing it and leaving America to move to the Netherlands.

To state the obvious, America has become unsafe, even for privileged middle class white ladies like myself (and I wrote this before Rene Nicole Good was murdered in the city of George Floyd).
January 8, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Look who’s back for a lil repair? I DO NICE WORK!
#stainedglass
January 5, 2026 at 11:27 PM
I realized I never posted the finished product here. Installed where it lives at the @hollywoodtheatre.org
#davidlynch #stainedglass
January 4, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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"Happy New Year, LOSERS!"
January 1, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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All it takes is one bad gig.
December 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Would you buy a house with this window over the front door?
#stainedglass
December 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Cool Portland people are cool!
The short @kellysue.bsky.social documentary I co-directed is now available on YouTube!

A deeply personal story about one of our favorite creators, I hope you enjoy it!

Also featuring @mckelvie.bsky.social @kierongillen.bsky.social @dylanmeconis.bsky.social @sammaggs.bsky.social and more!
Kelly Sue DeConnick: Visible Woman (2019)
YouTube video by Ink On Paper Studios
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I was prepared for the fascism, but I wasn't prepared for so many of my friends, family, and neighbors to think I'm crazy and overreacting about said fascism.

The only people who seem to truly recognize the danger we're in are my husband, two best friends, and my incredibly Appalachian granddaddy.
December 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The dream of the 90s. In my pants.
December 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Teaching is fun because it’s just a chance to talk shop on really obscure subjects.
#stainedglass #painting
November 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This video has everything: Young Peter Capaldi, Memphis design, new wave hair. youtu.be/54lR3Zs2B7A?...
1984: "The Glasgow Style" with Peter Capaldi | Spectrum | Fashion | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM