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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Okay, Trek nerds...post a picture from your first #StarTrek movie! 🖖🎬 Spent my babysitting money to see it a few times in the theater in 1979. 💛💙♥️🖖

Cast photo from Star Trek:The Motion Picture, 1979.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

My #Farpoint shawl is coming along! I've already leveled up since Sat & now I'm on the row with the pips, so it's time to learn bobbles! I'll be wearing this at #STLV next summer in my photo with Gates McFadden 😻😻😻 Loving this pattern & the yarns! #KnitSky #Knitting #StarTrek

Early sections of my Farpoint shawl: the gray point that echoes the Starfleet delta, dark gray rows & science-blue with stars worked in. Above the blue is a black band all ready for rank pips-it will have 3, for Lt. Commander Beverly Crusher. 💙

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I dropped off my ballot yesterday & it's already been accepted for the special election on 11/04! Get out & vote, everyone! #WashCoVotes #ThisIsWhatDemocracyLooksLike

"I Voted" in English & Spanish encloses a circle with an abstract scene of mountains, water, & a yellow sun at the top. Curling around the bottom is #WashCoVotes

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Here's my Halloween project for #ShowMeYourKnits It's going to be a #Sockhead hat when it grows up. One more inch of ribbing & it's on to the miles of stockinette! I fell in love with this #PNWPurls colorway called "Bump in the Night" 💜

Striping sock yarn in a gray, purple, black & lime green repeat in a cake is connected to a Sockhead hat in progress that's really just 2x2 ribbing atm.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The best thing about #StarTrek #TOS #TheAlternativeFactor is that this is Lieutenant Charlene Masters. She runs engineering during this entire episode, and her assistant is an anonymous redshirt. 🖖 💛💙♥️

Janet MacLachlan as Lt. Charlene Masters, on the bridge of the USS Enterprise holding a padd and a stylus

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The Cobra Chicken Con is in town! Zoom in & you can see a group having an early dinner on the grassy slope beyond the water too. #birbs #CobraChickens

A small urban pond is full of Canada geese, otherwise known as Cobra Chickens, and more are lounging on the bank & the green hillside beyond. The day is gloriously cloudy & cool - the perfect Fall day in the PNW!

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Oct 1 in war-ravaged Portland. Waiting for the Stevie Nicks concert & the pub is closed! 😬Send help!

Almost deserted Rose Quarter in Portland OR.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Griffy is celebrating International Cat Day by being particularly photogenic as he hangs in his scratchy house. #CatSky

A cute gray cat with yellow eyes pokes his head out of a cat-head-shaped entrance to a triangle house with scratching pads on the sides.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Griffy's started sleeping in his triangle house lately, when he's not scratching the sides & the floor. 💙 #Caturday

Gray cat curled up & sleeping inside a triangular house with scratching panels on the two visible sides.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

💯 We've tolerated intolerance for too long. This is on us, white folx, and it's also on us to stand up now and insist the contract be re-established (as allowed by the level of privilege enjoyed by each individual). ✊

The paradox of tolerance explained.
The paradox disappears if you look at tolerance not as a moral standard, but as a social contract. If someone doesn't abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Pair of Muscovy ducks & their lone surviving chick. It's a glass half full kinda day so I'm just glad one of the chicks made it with all the bald eagle activity we've had in the park this year. #PNW #birbs

Two adult Muscovy ducks sitting on and near an old knarled tree. A yellow fluffy chick is nestled between the roots in front of the mother duck.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The photo I'm sending to Bluesky for verification.

Lt. Reginald Barclay standing in the holodeck looking awkward.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

What's the first film you think of when you think of the 80s? 🎥 🤔

Captain Kirk & Mr Spock sit shoulder to shoulder on a San Francisco bus in the late 20th century. Behind them is a window with purple graffiti.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.

A black t-shirt with the words Space Hippie in blue surrounded by blue stars, and a gold Star Trek delta as the "A" in the word space

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

If you see this post your favorite woman in #StarTrek cannon. Gates as Beverly Crusher is my hands-down fave. Single parent solidarity ✊

Gates McFadden as Dr Beverly Crusher sitting at the desk in her office.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

If you see this, post your fave character in all of #StarTrek I've always loved Gates's Dr. Crusher. 💙

Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher sitting at her desk in sickbay.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

This has worked for me, esp when I'm overthinking, or feeling stressed or lazy.

How to Instantly Feel Better handout: Overthinking: Write; Tired: Nap; Anxious: Meditate; Sad: Exercise; Stressed: Go for a walk; Angry: Listen to music; Lazy: Reduce screen time; Burn out: Read

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Spring in the PNW! Someday I'll time it right & get a shot of a tree in full bloom with the sun hitting it, making it glow the way I've only seen here. 💜

Two Canada geese standing beside a stream that meanders past light green shoots and trees just starting to set leaves.

A large tree in full bloom with white blossoms.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

And the horseshoe leftists. They're the worst because except for the sabre-rattling they could be allies against the fash. I'm no centrist, but that doesn't stop horseshoes from attacking me, so I'm done having patience with them. Maybe if my 🏳️‍⚧️ kid lives to see another president, we'll talk again.

A line drawing of the horseshoe theory which says the far right & the far left have more in common than either group does with centrists.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Hillsboro, Oregon! About 1,500 people in this purple area on the edge of rural OR! A lot of older folx + a lot of young folx, all marching together. It does my 💙 good to see everyone's pix from across the country! #HandsOff

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#HandsOffHillsboro was amazing today! About 250 people RSVPd & 1,500 showed up!! We chanted & marched & had much better reception than I expected from cars passing by! I'm proud to be an #Indivisible volunteer! Hands Off our Democracy!!

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

This is for everyone who keeps asking why Americans aren't filling the streets of DC to protest the regime. We don't have the time or means. I know, most folx on BlueSky might, but the majority of the US lives paycheck to paychk & can't abandon jobs, spend💲for ✈️ tickets & go 1K-3K miles to protest.

A grid comparing the quality & cost of life in Canada vs in the US. Canadians are by far better off.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Your post doesn't make sense, 🎃 Here's one that does. Maybe read it & think before you de-humanize a whole group of people by making stupid "jokes"

The Paradox of Tolerance. Tolerance is a social contract and anyone who violates it is no longer covered by it. Tolerance for intolerant people leads to fascism.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Since I'm getting blasted for being "too precious" about trans folx being actual people, it's time to bring this back. It's not "playing into maga's hands" to stand up for trans folx, or anyone; it's opposing Nazis. I'll die on this hill, so block me. IDGAF

The Paradox of Tolerance. Tolerance is a moral contract & if you break it, it no longer covers you. Moral people cannot tolerate the intolerant.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

And here I thought he was just a little human shield for daddy.

Martin Sheen as the US President, holding a baby as a human shield to avoid being shot, from the movie Dead Zone.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

One of the doors at my local library looks like it has a salt line outside it! Not the most complete salt line, but it still made me smile & reminded me of #Supernatural I'll take any surprise joy these days. 💙 #SPNFam

An incomplete but obvious line of pavement salt/de-icer outside the library side door.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The Star Trek universe is full of amazing alien life forms and species. Choose 20 #StarTrek alien races or creatures that have sparked your imagination, you find interesting or noteworthy. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just gifs or images #TrekSky 🖖🏽 16/20

Minister Alora from Majalis smiles at Captain Pike from the transporter pad.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

PSA re: Bird Flu Keep your cats inside, folx, they seem to be particularly susceptible. Or, if you can get them to wear a mask, please share pix! 😻 Another Blueskyer was kind enough to show me how to get around the paywalls, so here's the secret. 🤫 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

A snip of the URL bar on a browser on an NYT article. The document icon beside the US Flag in the right corner is highlighted--click that and you're past the paywall.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Ensign Ro, a Bajoran woman, and Commander LaForge, a human man, stand facing each other, palms together.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Here's the roll call on the Motion to Proceed (Motion to Proceed to Executive Session to Consider the Nomination of Russell Vought) sorted by Yays & Nays. Notice all the Nays are Dems + Bernie, & all the Yays are Rs. Ofc Fetterman abstained, but 51-46 so... www.senate.gov/legislative/...

A snip of the vote roll call regarding the 2-3-24 senate Motion to Proceed (Motion to Proceed to Executive Session to Consider the Nomination of Russell Vought) for OMB Director. In the 51-46 vote, all Democrats & Bernie voted No and all Republicans voted Yes; 2 Rs and Fetterman abstained. Motion passed.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

he Star Trek universe is full of amazing alien life forms and species. Choose 20 #StarTrek alien races or creatures that have sparked your imagination, you find interesting or noteworthy. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just gifs or images #TrekSky 🖖🏽 12/20

A beautiful Black Illyrian woman with a small, but proud, smile. She's standing in front of a round official seal and holding a book.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

A Ktarian woman looks haughtily into the camera.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Tribbles in various shades of brown fill a clear cylinder and sit on the table nearby. A tiny white one is peeking out at the top of the pile.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

An alien with four arms is wearing a hot pink dress & standing at an organ making jazz hands.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Hemmer, the Aenar chief engineer of the Enterprise under Captain Pike, looks sideways while wearing a black leather jacket over his uniform.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Tolerance is a social contract. Anyone who breaks it, is no longer covered by it. Period.

The Paradox of Tolerance explained as: tolerance is a social contract. If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Jadzia Dax leans toward her ex wife Lenara Kahn, who is sitting at a console.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Soren is in sick bay about to ask a question.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

See a duck, post a duck. Doesn't have to be the same duck. #birds

Two Muscovy ducks eating dinner at the park.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

An Orion woman sitting on a statue of an animal.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Remember who stacked SCOTUS when you're talking about the TT ban. (Hint: it wasn't Dems.) And it's likely TFG will reinstate it anyway, because he went viral during the election so he likes it. That will have nothing to do with anyone but himself. In a world of horseshoes, be a fishhook.

Horseshoe theory of politics: far right & far left are more similar than moderates on either side.

Fishhook political theory: far right & centrists have more in common than the left.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Coke is throwing some shade on TFG... He's the only one whose inauguration special is DIET. I'm 110% body-positive & yet I'm not above laughing about this. 🤣 search.app/h6VKgEWEKSgs...

Commemorative Coke bottles for all presidents since 2005 (Bush); all are regular Coke except TFG's for 2025, which is Diet Coke.

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Charley Coty 🏳️‍🌈💙 @charleycoty.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

My official BlueSky policy is that anyone who makes me laugh or say "awwww" out loud gets a follow. This pic is a shameless offering in that spirit. #CatSky #CatsofBlueSky

A black cat and a gray cat snuggling on a lap covered in a red blanket.

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