Mitchell Gore
@lestatdelc.bsky.social
Graphic artist and designer • Portland • Oregon • United States
I've no desire to actually smoke tobacco (as I am not looking to increase my health risk). But in recent months I've been tempted to purchase a carved eagle claw Meerschaum #pipe.
On the whole pipe smoking doesn't involve inhaling the smoke & I do occasionally burn sandalwood incense in my office.
On the whole pipe smoking doesn't involve inhaling the smoke & I do occasionally burn sandalwood incense in my office.
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I've no desire to actually smoke tobacco (as I am not looking to increase my health risk). But in recent months I've been tempted to purchase a carved eagle claw Meerschaum #pipe.
On the whole pipe smoking doesn't involve inhaling the smoke & I do occasionally burn sandalwood incense in my office.
On the whole pipe smoking doesn't involve inhaling the smoke & I do occasionally burn sandalwood incense in my office.
![“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [...] The eyeless crature at the other table swallowed it fanatically. passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams. Syme, too-in some more double complex way, involving doublethink-Syme, swallow it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?”
― Orwell George, 1984](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ab64q4gcnanl3l7zxp7s4cca/bafkreihmgkkwfoguj3z25klb4s6zjaltvr3543kvcflgkadu5wn3cplbdi@jpeg)
Not a fan of the new $20 bill…
October 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Not a fan of the new $20 bill…
only beef is up?
Meanwhile, back in reality:
Meanwhile, back in reality:
October 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
only beef is up?
Meanwhile, back in reality:
Meanwhile, back in reality:
As a Portlander, all I can say is Trump and his fucked-in-the-head goons are insane and are literally making shit up out of whole cloth.
October 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
As a Portlander, all I can say is Trump and his fucked-in-the-head goons are insane and are literally making shit up out of whole cloth.
I stand with the toad.
October 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I stand with the toad.
There's always a tweet…
October 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
There's always a tweet…
The idiot media heathers and MAGA dipshits…
October 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The idiot media heathers and MAGA dipshits…
"Don't Read on Me Bro"
October 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"Don't Read on Me Bro"
How we roll in Portland.
October 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
How we roll in Portland.
I have long avoided war zones by going to Heavenly Donuts on Lombard (which is also much, much closer to my house). But this does get to the core of why war is hell.
October 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I have long avoided war zones by going to Heavenly Donuts on Lombard (which is also much, much closer to my house). But this does get to the core of why war is hell.
Don't take medical advice from heroin addicts with worm-eaten brains.
September 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Don't take medical advice from heroin addicts with worm-eaten brains.