Renling
@exploderen.bsky.social
I do art and say things | trapped in red state hell | be kind not nice
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Renling
@exploderen.bsky.social
· Oct 17
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We've barely been scraping by since Trump took office, but the shutdown took a desperately needed job with it and we're now scrambling to make next month's rent. It's a long shot but I have to at least try.
I'd love to repay bigger donations with art/body doubling/etc!
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I'd love to repay bigger donations with art/body doubling/etc!
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there's people who think I'm stupid and there's people who think I'm smart, and the difference between them is whether or not they think asking questions is a good idea
The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
there's people who think I'm stupid and there's people who think I'm smart, and the difference between them is whether or not they think asking questions is a good idea
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turns out, the exaggerated overconfidence and self-importance is load bearing
I would like to have it back, please
I would like to have it back, please
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
turns out, the exaggerated overconfidence and self-importance is load bearing
I would like to have it back, please
I would like to have it back, please
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trans/gnc/queer artists, I want to see the things you make! send me your online shops! potters/ceramicists especially perhaps but also stuff that's cute and/or funny, please! reposts welcomed ...
November 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
trans/gnc/queer artists, I want to see the things you make! send me your online shops! potters/ceramicists especially perhaps but also stuff that's cute and/or funny, please! reposts welcomed ...
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If Patton Oswalt (a famous comedian) was permanently banned for joking about killing pedophiles why is a government entity that's committing war crimes and the mass murder of Venezuelans allowed to post death threats?
November 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If Patton Oswalt (a famous comedian) was permanently banned for joking about killing pedophiles why is a government entity that's committing war crimes and the mass murder of Venezuelans allowed to post death threats?
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Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
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someone can only demand you be so small for them for so long before you just can't anymore. your brain no longer works that way. it's not real feelings they're expressing, it's justification to keep you small so they can feel big, or like they're in control. and so what? control your own life.
November 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM
someone can only demand you be so small for them for so long before you just can't anymore. your brain no longer works that way. it's not real feelings they're expressing, it's justification to keep you small so they can feel big, or like they're in control. and so what? control your own life.
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THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
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look. call your senator. but don't forget that requiring you to do this every single time, even when it's something obviously and unambiguously evil being passed, is part of a system designed to wear us down and close off our ability to imagine a better world
May 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
look. call your senator. but don't forget that requiring you to do this every single time, even when it's something obviously and unambiguously evil being passed, is part of a system designed to wear us down and close off our ability to imagine a better world
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This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
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dying on a hill is embarrassing. hillcorpse behavior
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
dying on a hill is embarrassing. hillcorpse behavior
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
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this morning, hermes came to me and he said, "mom, Blood On The Lens Part 2 is going to sell a million copies. it will be your ticket to modest fame and long-term financial stability"
and, you wouldn't want to make this boy a liar
would you
and, you wouldn't want to make this boy a liar
would you
anyway, enough about album sales, let's all take a moment to appreciate what it's all for. the real reason I do all of this:
hermes
hermes
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
this morning, hermes came to me and he said, "mom, Blood On The Lens Part 2 is going to sell a million copies. it will be your ticket to modest fame and long-term financial stability"
and, you wouldn't want to make this boy a liar
would you
and, you wouldn't want to make this boy a liar
would you
who doesn't love an underdog. a violent, lesbian underdog.
I think, if we try really hard. Blood on The Lens Part 2 can sell better than the new mountain goats album. I think we have a chance. if we really work together. to defeat them
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
who doesn't love an underdog. a violent, lesbian underdog.
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I think, if we try really hard. Blood on The Lens Part 2 can sell better than the new mountain goats album. I think we have a chance. if we really work together. to defeat them
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I think, if we try really hard. Blood on The Lens Part 2 can sell better than the new mountain goats album. I think we have a chance. if we really work together. to defeat them
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year.
The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices.
But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low.
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The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices.
But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low.
🧵/
Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
www.propublica.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year.
The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices.
But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low.
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The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices.
But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low.
🧵/
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Friends don't let friends follow Alt National Park Service. This is so weird and inappropriate!!!
AltNPS's post is full of the same lurid details and breathless dramatization as their previous attempt at ICE raid erotica from a few weeks ago.
Things that AltNPS could not possibly have witnessed, and which aren't reported anywhere else.
Things that AltNPS could not possibly have witnessed, and which aren't reported anywhere else.
November 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Friends don't let friends follow Alt National Park Service. This is so weird and inappropriate!!!
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
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solidarity with girlworkers in their fight against the girlbosses
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
solidarity with girlworkers in their fight against the girlbosses
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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hey if you are an artist who depends on SNAP,
✅ share some art
✅ share links to where people can buy from/donate to you
✅ share the thread
✅ share someone else's post too
✅ label NSFW/horror/etc. properly
⛔ no AI
#artistsonbsky #supportartists #artshare
✅ share some art
✅ share links to where people can buy from/donate to you
✅ share the thread
✅ share someone else's post too
✅ label NSFW/horror/etc. properly
⛔ no AI
#artistsonbsky #supportartists #artshare
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
hey if you are an artist who depends on SNAP,
✅ share some art
✅ share links to where people can buy from/donate to you
✅ share the thread
✅ share someone else's post too
✅ label NSFW/horror/etc. properly
⛔ no AI
#artistsonbsky #supportartists #artshare
✅ share some art
✅ share links to where people can buy from/donate to you
✅ share the thread
✅ share someone else's post too
✅ label NSFW/horror/etc. properly
⛔ no AI
#artistsonbsky #supportartists #artshare
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You there. I want you to say, aloud, at some point today "I'm really glad I'm good at..." And then you're gonna say something you think you do pretty well.
If you don't think you do anything pretty well, I want you to say "one little thing that makes me unique is..."
And if you can't do either?
If you don't think you do anything pretty well, I want you to say "one little thing that makes me unique is..."
And if you can't do either?
November 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
You there. I want you to say, aloud, at some point today "I'm really glad I'm good at..." And then you're gonna say something you think you do pretty well.
If you don't think you do anything pretty well, I want you to say "one little thing that makes me unique is..."
And if you can't do either?
If you don't think you do anything pretty well, I want you to say "one little thing that makes me unique is..."
And if you can't do either?