Torchgirl
@torchgirl.bsky.social
Metalsmith and artist, Mom to 1 human and 2 cats, communications manager for an independent retirement community. Like most PNW residents, I enjoy nature, good food, and travel.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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I'm not saying you should go into the play store and flag this app as inappropriate, like I just did, but who's to stop you?
We are speedrunning "the worst, most dangerous technologies trickle down from military to feds to local police"
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CBP Quietly Launches Face Scanning App for Local Cops To Do Immigration Enforcement
The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I'm not saying you should go into the play store and flag this app as inappropriate, like I just did, but who's to stop you?
A few things I'm finishing up for a Samhain festival
October 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
A few things I'm finishing up for a Samhain festival
Fred says, happy Caturday!
October 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Fred says, happy Caturday!
Brilliant and lovely
October 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Brilliant and lovely
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The thing about a 'muzzle' like this, it doesn't just prevent sound, it will eventually kill the eagle because it cannot sustain itself. I'm not sure if that point was intended, but its a brilliant cartoon by @billdayart.bsky.social, courtesy CagleCartoons. These muzzles are killing America.
September 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The thing about a 'muzzle' like this, it doesn't just prevent sound, it will eventually kill the eagle because it cannot sustain itself. I'm not sure if that point was intended, but its a brilliant cartoon by @billdayart.bsky.social, courtesy CagleCartoons. These muzzles are killing America.
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September 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It won't be a surprise to me if Kirk's shooter turns out to be a white male. But sure, black and brown people are the problem. Seems like something is backwards here.
September 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It won't be a surprise to me if Kirk's shooter turns out to be a white male. But sure, black and brown people are the problem. Seems like something is backwards here.
Have you ever wondered why so many people in the future wear spandex bodysuits?
August 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Have you ever wondered why so many people in the future wear spandex bodysuits?
I need to know where to order stickers and T-shirts if anyone has any sources for those.
August 21, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I need to know where to order stickers and T-shirts if anyone has any sources for those.
Seeing a lot of amazing resistance art.
Over the weekend, the “sandwich thrower” posters went up all over DC. Instant icon of resistance.
A remix of Banksy’s mural: not a Molotov, not a rock, but something just as disruptive, a hoagie hurled with defiance.
A remix of Banksy’s mural: not a Molotov, not a rock, but something just as disruptive, a hoagie hurled with defiance.
August 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Seeing a lot of amazing resistance art.
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With the news of the Kennedy Center Honors, EVERYONE needs to make art. Make bad art. Make good art. Make art because fascism destroys it and tries to bend it to its will. Make art they can’t contain. Make it public. Make it loud. Make it rebellious. Write, paint, draw, dance, sing, sculpt
MAKE ART
MAKE ART
August 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
With the news of the Kennedy Center Honors, EVERYONE needs to make art. Make bad art. Make good art. Make art because fascism destroys it and tries to bend it to its will. Make art they can’t contain. Make it public. Make it loud. Make it rebellious. Write, paint, draw, dance, sing, sculpt
MAKE ART
MAKE ART
No surprise that they announced an investigation into Obama on his birthday. Also, anyone else think that pressuring African countries to accept deportees is laying the groundwork for deporting people here who are of African descent?
August 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
No surprise that they announced an investigation into Obama on his birthday. Also, anyone else think that pressuring African countries to accept deportees is laying the groundwork for deporting people here who are of African descent?
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July 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Where are the indictments for the people who sent asylum seekers in the US to be tortured and beaten at CECOT?
July 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Where are the indictments for the people who sent asylum seekers in the US to be tortured and beaten at CECOT?
Happy Caturday from Fred, who wants to know if you have any snacks.
July 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Happy Caturday from Fred, who wants to know if you have any snacks.
Sometimes a piece sits around unfinished for a long time, waiting for inspiration to finish it. This one was hanging around my studio for over two years. Between cancer and working on other things, it wasn't completed but kept calling to me. It's nice when you can finally feel like it is done.
July 1, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Sometimes a piece sits around unfinished for a long time, waiting for inspiration to finish it. This one was hanging around my studio for over two years. Between cancer and working on other things, it wasn't completed but kept calling to me. It's nice when you can finally feel like it is done.
I'm going to go pick up the ashes of my beloved cat, Walter, today. We don't know how old he was, but for the six years he was in our lives, we were very lucky. He comforted his previous human through cancer and came to us after that.
June 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I'm going to go pick up the ashes of my beloved cat, Walter, today. We don't know how old he was, but for the six years he was in our lives, we were very lucky. He comforted his previous human through cancer and came to us after that.
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NEW: Abrego Garcia is getting a lot of attention, but many people are asking about the rest of the men being unlawfully held in CECOT. Here's what's going on with them. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/so-what-ab...
So What About Everyone Else at CECOT?
Many have been asking about all the other people unlawfully disappeared to El Salvador, and who is fighting for them.
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April 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
NEW: Abrego Garcia is getting a lot of attention, but many people are asking about the rest of the men being unlawfully held in CECOT. Here's what's going on with them. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/so-what-ab...
If non-citizens are not allowed rights, soon the rights will be taken from citizens as well.
April 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If non-citizens are not allowed rights, soon the rights will be taken from citizens as well.