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5000keys.bsky.social
Kathy Allen
@5000keys.bsky.social
Mixed media artist making 5000 “keys” from found and upcycled objects. I make other stuff too. https://www.5000keys.com/
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I hope Donald Trump takes the time he has on his flight back to America to actually read the U.S. Constitution — and then negotiate in good faith to end the government shutdown he left behind.
October 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The amount of money these rich fuckers have been pouring into AI that they didn’t spend on stopping climate change or housing the poor they just held onto it until now … just fuck these motherfuckers.
October 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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The Queen City Improvement Bureau live anniversary show is Wednesday at 7pm at Artesian. If you're debating about going, please go! I have this fear that the only person who shows up is Clr Burton and if that were to happen, several of the jokes we've written will land very differently. #yqrcc
October 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities…
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Send troops to San Francisco and we will sue you.
October 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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I love this image.
October 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.
October 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
After almost two months of chipping away I finally got that cash register apart and cleaned and degreased the pieces. Look for these parts in future keys and Imagination Generators.
October 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Spot on.
October 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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This shit is dystopian. Blackhawk helicopters, zip-tied kids, and racial segregation vans.

ICE is terrorizing communities.
October 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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This was an incredible and hopeful discussion. Give it a listen.
God Bless @theonion.com. My full chat with the company’s CEO, @bencollins.bsky.social is available wherever you podcast, YouTube, or Substack. Links in bio.
October 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens.

They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.
October 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
September 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Do you have any idea how many natural resources AI uses up? How much of a clusterfuck it is for the climate? If yes, then MAYBE DON'T ILLUSTRATE YOUR ARTICLE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE WITH AI ART!!!
September 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Key 2713: made from upcycled road finds and other unwanted objects #5000keys #artproject #yxearts #yxeartist
September 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
September 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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It’s almost like there’s a pattern we should watch for more carefully.
September 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new.

They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational.

It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
August 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
August 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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August 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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New Queen City Improvement Bureau now available on yootoob. We discuss admin's Renewable Regina Update which reveals that Regina is falling behind on its climate targets. Oooooh… who could have seen that coming??? #yqrcc
QCIB Aug 21 2025 - The Ballad Of Mad Tony The Rogue Bus Driver
YouTube video by PD City Hall — Paul Dechene
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August 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Key 2703 made from road finds and other upcycled bits.
August 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM