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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

CHICAGO: I’ll be tattooing at Sabbath Tattoo next weekend, JULY 11-14. Would love to set up a session with you. CMHTATTOOER@gmail.com to book!

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

CHICAGO I’m here inside of you. I’m tattooing at the fabulous Sabbath Tattoo in Logan Sq. and have three spots left: 1PM 6/19 1PM & 5PM 6/20 CMHTATTOOER@gmail.com to book thankssssssssssuh

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/06/2025

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

How could it even be remotely possible to look at the fight for every right, every celebrated societal advancement, every historic moment of bravery and strength and not see that the police are invariably on the wrong side? Every single time things have got better, cops fought to make them worse.

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hello! Find me at Top Rank Tattoo in Kingston NY, today and tomorrow! Walk on in, call to schedule or drop me an email at CMHTATTOOER at gmail to set something up. Let’s show em what you’re about.

A tattoo on a forearm of an anthropomorphized light bulb lady

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Healed Hocus Pocus book out in the wild! Thanks so much Kaitlyn! I’ve got the day open today at Top Rank in Kingston, come through for your next talismanic microtrauma.

A pair of legs wearing black leather boots with a tattoo of the magic book from the fil Hocus Pocus, sitting in the sand.

Close up of a healed black and grey tattoo of the magic book from the film Hocus Pocus on a leg.

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Heads will be heads. Catch me at Top Rank Tattoo in Kingston NY today from 1-5 and we’ll show em what you’re about. My design, your design or your favorite childhood nightmare fuel, we do it all. #blackandgreytattoo #scarystoriestotellinthedark #nytattoo

Tattoo on a forearm of a Stephen Gammel illustration from Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark, seen with tattoo flash on the wall behind.

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Spotted in the wild. I’m back from tour/ignoring social media so come get tattooed to cheer me up. #blackandgreytattoo #johnwillie #charlesguyette #fetishheels #nytattoo #chicagotattoo

A person’s legs wearing cowboy boots, one of which is pulled down to show a tattoo on their ankle of a black leather high heeled boot based on a photo from Bizarre Magazine

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Sadly, The Shrouds is not a good movie. But it did give me the gift of one of my new favorite lines of dialog: “Fuck you Maury! You’re a paranoid schizophrenic and you wrecked my cemetery!”

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

On this day in 1933, just 3 months after Hitler had taken power, the Institute of Sexology in Berlin was occupied by Nazi youth. The Institute was a world leader in studying gender and sexuality and its founder, Magnus Hirschfeld, a leading advocate for gay, lesbian and trans rights. 1/2

Nazi youth outside the Institute of Sexology.

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Another member of the dreaded Burning Cinderblock Gang successfully recruited. Come on through Top Rank Tattoo today from 12-8 for your new insignia and finally get some fucking respect around here already. 71 Albany Ave. Kingston NY 845.481.5147

An inside wrist and forearm with a tattoo of a cinderblock on fire

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Had the honor of giving this one to Michael yesterday. Tibetan text, from material to immaterial. Stoked to be back at Top Rank Tattoo today after a week away. Come through for your new tat today from 1-5 and I’ll tell you where I went.

A black and grey tattoo on a person’s chest of a block of Tibetan text dissolving into smoke.

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Would love to tattoo this one. The larger the better, but at least 6” high. Perfect for a bicep, thigh or wherever you’ve got a nice big gap. 350-650 depending on size and placement. Drop me a line at CMHTATTOOER@gmail.com if she’s for you!

Charcoa drawing tattoo flash of a mostly faceless person with a 1930s style up do and two eyes on one side of their face smoking a cigarette and wearing a tie

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I don’t know who needs to hear this but I found out recently that there are lots and lots of archived episodes of Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell from the mid 90s free for the streaming on the internet archive. If casual reaponses to ludicrous statements is your kink archive.org/details/1995...

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1995 11 17 Coast To Coast AM With Art Bell Wayne Green : ART BELL : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

1995 11 17 Coast To Coast AM With Art Bell Wayne Green

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

All of this on a weekday we’re in complete awe of you. You always rise to every call to action. You’re amazing, and words can’t express how much we love and appreciate you all.

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Just for the sake of pointing out something good while seemingly everything is tailor made to fill us with abject terror and grief, I’m here to tell you that the new Demdike Stare album with Kristen Pilon is so good. It’s just so, so good. @boomkat.com back me up on this.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Illustration by Paul Krafft for the reverend William Schuler Harris’ Capital and Labor (1907), a treatise on the exploitation of workers by capitalism and the potential solutions in socialism. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c... #mayday

A nighttime illustration depicts a towering monument made entirely of human skulls, surrounded by a low fence also adorned with skulls. The base of the monument bears the inscription: “In memory of the victims who were crushed under capitalism.” Two elderly figures stand nearby, mourning. In the background, a crescent moon illuminates a somber sky filled with clouds and birds. Below the image is a caption that reads: “Monument of Skulls.—When the battle between Capital and Labor is over, such a gruesome monument will be a suitable memorial. Two old survivors have come to shed a few more tears in memory of the cruel age of competition.”

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

ATTN: NY PEOPLE May Day Mayday protests are everywhere, during the day and after work alike. Get out and show em.

A list of May Day 2025 protests in New York State

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

One of my favorite small panel paintings from the previous Chicago exhibition. This and a handful of others from that show are still available, as it turns out. Would love to re-home them, as I’m holed-up in the studio this month being my own exploited & unpaid intern working for exposure.

A small painting on panel of a dead fly on the cover of an open match book, in front of a white wall, held by a hand in front of a wall

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I’ve got almost no photos of the things I’m working on for my show, but here is an admittedly shoddy one! What do I want you to know? - I’m having a good time making them. - These are the largest paintings I’ve made. - I hope you’ll see them in person. - Fuck fascism. That’s all for now! 🙋🏻‍♀️🖤

A 42” x 36” painting of a person standing on a checkered floor in front of a curtain wearing heels holding a piece of fabric in front of their torso. Their head and shoulders seem to be missing but cast a shadow.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Looking forward to seeing everyone out there for tomorrow’s May Day protest! We know the protests have been coming fast, but that’s because things in the U.S. are getting worse, and protests show the strength of our movement.

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Been ignoring my phone while traveling this past week, but now I’m back. Only 1 1/2 months to finish up a new series of LARGE paintings to be shown at the fabulous Lula Cafe in Chicago. Excited for hardcore studio time and taking breaks to tattoo YOU. Here’s a barf bag drawing, meantime.

A graphite drawing made on a plane of a crashed car on a vomit bag, which reads WASTE in large blue letters which bisect the image of the car.

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Pope’s dead. Come get tattooed. TOP RANK TATTOO KINGSTON NY 845 481 5147 12-8

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

When the small towns start to show up, that’s the real shit right there.

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Hi! Heres a google doc of every planned protest tomorrow. An estimated 5.2 million people hit the streets on April 5 and our numbers grow evedy day. Time for good trouble and to make your voice heard. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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The Protest List

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Only at Top Rank til 4:30 today so you’re gonna have to come get that tat on yr lunch break like a real tuff guy

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Healed and hairy a year (or so?). Always love to do some readymade flash ripped from the bountiful pages of Craphound. Come get yours today at Top Rank in Kingston NY! I’ll be there from 1-5 and my day is wiiiiiiiide open. Let’s go! #blackandredtattoo #craphound #halloweencat #flashtattoo

A healed tattoo on a thigh of a vintage Halloween cat decoration

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Dreaming of the glorious day when someone asks me to tattoo the Glen or Glenda Radiator on them…it could be you, it could be tomorrow. #tattooflash #wannado #glenorglenda #edwood #pullthestring

A charcoal drawing of a radiator which is mysteriously featured in an inexplicable cut shot in the film “Glen or Glenda?”, directed by Edward D. Wood Jr., which is intended for tattooing on a client whose exquisite taste, smoldering charisma and erudite humor makes them a source of delight and lusty fascination for all that have the good fortune to cross their worldly path.

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This month’s installment of my radio show features fields of presence and texture to awaken the sleeping regenerative creature within for a future season of ferocious resistance and the complete eradication of the oppressor in all of its hideous and abhorrent forms. wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/s...

The ancient Hindu goddess Kali, ensconced in trophies reaped from the bodies of her victims, dances triumphantly on the corpses of those who would subdue her.

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Midcentury ceramic panther for Gabe! Loved this request, a good challenge and I’m stoked on the result. Plenty of time to tattoo you this week, get at me and we’ll set it up! #blackandgreytattoo #midcenturyceramic #sickpanther #panthertattoo #chrometattoo

A black and grey tattoo of a high-gloss midcentury modern panther ceramic on the outer shoulder

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Cookie Mueller from last autumn for the great @bigbabyidiot.bsky.social Find me at Top Rank Tattoo in Kingston NY today from 12-8. Today is the day. #blackandgreytattoo #tattooportrait #cookiemueller #johnwaters #femaletrouble

Black and grey tattoo of Cookie Mueller from the John Waters film Female Trouble, smoking a cigarette wearing a beehive hairdo

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 23/03/2025

hi, cis folks! if we *are* going to talk ACA, RFK's HHS proposed a rule to remove *all trans care* from ACA essential health benefit status. ~25mil people are insured by ACA & if 1% are trans, that's 250,000 people who'd lose access to care. that's bad! take 2 minutes to stand with trans people.🧵

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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability

This proposed rule would revise standards relating to past-due premium payments; exclude Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients from the definition of "lawfully present"; the evidentiary st...

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Real question: who’s gonna let me tat the alien mummy

Two angles of a real mummy of an actual alien.

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

XL pinned fly for Rick! From my time in Chicago last week. Back at Top Rank Tattoo in Kingston NY TODAY. Time for you, 1-5. I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t come get tattooed.

The outside of a shoulder with a tattoo of a pinned fly on it

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

T O N I G H T Couldn’t be more stoked for this show or more honored to bring along a box of my dork-ass records to share the bill. Hope you got tix, see you in the slo mo pit.

A poster for a show featuring HTRK, Mark Trecka and Nona Invie, featuring DJ Christopher Michael Hefner at Tubby’s bar in Kingston NY

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Had a fabulous time continuing this Stephen Gammel Scary Stories sleeve for Carly yesterday. We also started in on another section, to be continued later, but this smokey icon is all finished. #blackandgreytattoo #stephengammel #scarystories

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Had the honor of making a counterpart chair with void for my dear friend @julesdebules.bsky.social to keep their other empty chair company. There are empty chairs and then there are antimatter chairs. #blackandgreytattoo #clubsit #chicagotattoo #oleandertattoo #stippletattoo

A close up of a wrist in front of a brick wall with a tattoo of a chair with a circular black cloud over it.

A person in a denim shirt holding their arms in front of them, showing wrists with two tattoos of chairs

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Pinned fly for @itmemat.bsky.social Loved doing this one. After focusing mostly on working on some larger paintings this week, getting to fixate on some tiny details was exactly what my brain was craving. Thanks Mat!

The side of a forearm with a black and grey tattoo of a fly on a pin

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Who wants a tat of the pinball chair? Is it you?

Charcoal drawing of a regular wooden chair with an oversized pinball hovering above the seat.

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Omi for the homie @tmatetattoo.bsky.social Come through Top Rank Tattoo today, wake up looking different tomorrow. I’ve got time for you 12-8.

Black and grey stipple tattoo portrait of The Great Omi on a leg, near several other tattoos

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Healed bread on Whitney, from my last visit to Chicago. Stoked to come back next week! Meantime come see me at Top Rank Tattoo in Kingston NY TODAY (Sunday) 1-5pm for your springtime microtrauma glow-up. #blackamdgreytattoo #stippletattoo #upstatenytattoo #topranktattoo #nytattoo #craphound

The inside of a bicep with a black and grey tattoo of a loaf of bread falling into slices.

Another angle of a bicep with a black and grey tattoo of a loaf of bread falling into slices

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Or these two from a series I did in the first months of the pandemic from an acquaintance’s archive of medical and crime photos. Realizing that the last five years of my life are extremely blurry and dim in my recollection. Apparently I made a lot of stuff while feeling VERY BAD.

Two charcoal drawings in a portfolio, one of a closeup of a close up of a face with one deformed or injured eye, the other a portrait of a person with significant facial scarring.

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Likewise entirely forgot about this weird coaster painting.

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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER @christophermhefner.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Also this one, which is a really early gouache painting I made during, unequivocally, the worst summer of my entire life thus far (🤞🏻)

A gouache painting of a woman levitating over a grouping of beds next to a window in a hospital ward.

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