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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Elbows deep in a new Zodiac-inspired costume for Dragon Con. I’m a Leo, so I’m convinced that I can do it. 😂…😩

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Best meme from Moscow, compliments of Chef Volodomir 🧂

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Reminder: The United States Secretary of the Army is, most notably, a businessman with only 4 years in service with a rank of 1st Lieutenant. This is who is in charge in this crisis. #iranwar

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Reminder: The United States Secretary of the Navy is, most notably, a wealthy erotic art collector with no military service or experience. This is who is in charge in this crisis. #iranwar

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Reminder: The United States Secretary of Defense (War) is most notably a former Fox News TV host. This is who is in charge in this crisis. #iranwar

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

For posterity: The Heritage Foundation goal has always been martial law and no more free / normal elections. Deploying and abandoning overseas (which will happen) State Guards and active Military will leave DHS as the largest armed domestic enforcement in U.S. I’d love to be wrong.

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

50,000 Dollars 👀 - How do these idiots still walk upright?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/02/2026

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My Dragon Con roommates can ALWAYS be counted on to shout/sing/dance with zero prompts. Best weekends ever! 😄❤️🙌 #dragoncon #costume #cosplay

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Now is good time to observe who is ‘Reacting’ with 😆 to heart-breaking posts. Today’s winner, taking one for the body of Christ, Jasper First Baptist Church Library #Alabama They got books, and a Bible they don’t read. #ChristianHate #Baptist #Bigots

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Nine years ago, millions marched. With warnings, with worry, with the prescience of ‘what could be’. Today, we see the level of cruelty, the true scale of madness this man and his lieutenants have brought forth in America. Pay attention. Stand up. We don’t have nine more years.

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

When you’re trying to be all Warhammer 40k serious, but you run into your favorite friends. #warhammer #warhammer40k #cosplay #dragoncon #costume #humor

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Fully here for 81-year-old VA Leader @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot telling timid career democrats Kaine/Warner to take a seat. Good God Almighty, how refreshing! 😂❤️🙌 #cuckchair #cowards

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The Madame Mantis costume is almost right. Photos from Dragon Con indicate she’d look better with the gold filigree carapace (insect anatomy) carried down through her legs. I’ve got a few months to thrift something that’ll work 😄👍 #cosplay #mantis #dragoncon #insect #costume #stainedglass

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Inquisitor Oriza is a harder wear as I age, but damn what fun cosplay to inhabit. #warhammer40k #dragoncon #cosplay #inquisitor (Photo by Thomas Spanos, 2025)

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

And just like that … My Etsy shopping budget for 2025 has tripled. #etsywitches #takemymoney

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/04/2025

The projection is off the charts here

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/04/2025

The message is: crowd large. Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift. Events like this puncture that delusion.

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You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.

People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—and what they fear he will do next.

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

For my friends who knew this would happen under Project 2025 and did all they could to stop it - I’m so sorry for the suffering ahead. For those who voted for the GOP and these predictable promised outcomes - Take your medicine. Sleep in the bed you made. And Fuck your upcoming GoFundMe.

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Transforming our century-old pump organ into a usable desk gives us another 100 years with this beauty ❤️. Irreparable as an instrument but important as family heirloom, making her an active part of our lives again with this update feels great! #pumporgan #antique #diy #renovation #transformation

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

We are all pennies. Marked with Liberty and E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One), a Penny is the individual American currency that all larger sums are built from. You can’t have a dollar without 100 pennies. Pennies, altogether, are powerful. We are all pennies. #epluribusunum #penny

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Built over 30 days from a shower curtain, thrifted clothes and decor with sharp scissors, zip ties and fabric glue ‘Baba Divina’ wandered @wildwestcon.bsky.social in 2020. Photo by @melissawambolt.bsky.social #tarot #fortuneteller #costume #diy #cosplay #magic #headpiece #mask #tarotcard #skirt

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Recommended follow @nakedpastor.bsky.social Every bit of his Art hits home. ❤️

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

As a tech-clumsy old lady with an iPhone, I prob make things harder than they have to be, when trying to protect my privacy from Apple, Google and their ilk. So anyway, I just went app-by-app in Settings to reduce access from Siri’s nosey ass. Learn elsewhere.

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

1) Devastate the US population economically. 2) Demoralize the US population and sow division. 3) Test population’s resolve to protect freedom with attacks on minorities. 4) Invite external assault (911-esque) to allow for US martial law. This is the plan. #project2026 #oligarchy #gaza

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Santa got the surreal horror treatment in this thrift store masterpiece. (Even background Santa is concerned 👀). #thrift #art #christmas #horror #santa

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Resistance was futile when John F. Goddamn Strangeway badgered me into throwing together Ackmena from the 1978 Star Wars Christmas Special. I did it for Bea Arthur. #starwars #Christmas #ackmena #cosplay #pestered #beaarthur #closetcosplay @strangeway.bsky.social @brettkingsteam.bsky.social

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Salvaged a t-shirt graphic I liked and used Aleene’s Fabric Fusion to glue it onto a thrifted cap. It’s a little scrubby on the bill, but I can still wear it 😊👍 #thrifted #cap #diy #salvaged #tshirt #tequila #aleenes

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Yesterday, on my late mother’s bday, I found this photo in the organ project, tucked away in a compartment. This was her organ. She learned to play on it, and spent the following decades playing each next modern interaction of organ at various churches. This is the photo I’ll keep with organ desk😊❤️

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Captured by @dimhorizonstudio.bsky.social under Sloss Furnace in scorching Alabama July temps. This is what heat exhaustion in a latex costume looks like. Exquisite art 😊🙌. Alas, the costume is no more. #alien #hrgiger #aliens #cosplay #latex #costume #xenomorph

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

‘Madame Mantis’ was an extra beta project in 2019. Test photo by Subversively, had amazing shadows on the ground. She’s been seriously reworked. I just need to take her out again. #cosplay #mantis #stainedglass #diy #costume @dragoncon

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Finally committed to reconfiguring our 1910 Weaver pump organ into a desk, transforming a family relic into functional furniture for daily use. Will share a link soon with the journey. Here’s a bouquet of reed stops that will remind us of her old life as she moves into her new one. #organ #desk

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

This stupid DOORMAT in an Alabama thrift store. #idiots

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Thrifted this big, old doll and discovered that “Follow Me!” Eyes were a thing for a time. 😮 Her name is now Ebaybee. She’s my office mgr, sits on my desk with motivational ‘get to work’ quotes. CON: I can’t escape her gaze PRO: Judgy staring apparently ups my productivity. #vintagedoll #bossbaby

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Tried my hand at visible mending a son’s favorite pants. Telling myself it’s supposed to be messy 😂. Also, bees.🐝 #visiblemending #sewing #beginner #bees

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Lu in his “missing his favorite person” heated blanket. #spoiled #saddog

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

What middle-aged woman wouldn’t welcome being wrangled into an ancient grail knight #cosplay from #indianajones #thelastcrusade - KittyBear @strangeway collected everything I wore to help me “Choose wisely”. Most @dragoncon fun ever. I only had to be old and irritated 😂 Thousand year old cake 👍

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Brett King @brettkingsteam.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Re: UHC investigation, from the police chief: ‘“An incident like this happens, we don’t spare any expense,” Chief Maddrey said.’ In case anyone needed to see it stated out loud that with police investigations, just like insurance-based healthcare, outcomes are proportionate to incomes

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

In 2018, I made a costume so bad that I only wore it for an hour. No photos (probably), no notes. For some reason, I thought fake icicles would make cool teeth (ah, a pun). They did not. But, I DID wear something @dragoncon 2018 (other folks stuff) that was astoundingly stupid fun. #kittybear

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a man is wearing a shirt that says yeah i know it was stupid on it

ALT: a man is wearing a shirt that says yeah i know it was stupid on it

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Finally got around to futzing with the #Russian #kokoshnik silhouette in 2017 for ‘Seraphina’. Never got the skirting colors quite right (thrifted fabrics just do what they want 😩) but love her from the waist up. #cosplay #costume #diy #originaldesign #stainedglass #headpiece #mask #fauxfur

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A little #transawareness joy ❤️ Discovering the @vicenews.bsky.social videographer had skate chops, grabbing top speed reel of trans kids skateboarding at sunset. Great day, awesome journalism 😊🙌🛹! #transrightsarehumanrights #transawarenessweek #skatersnothaters

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

MCGOVERN: “Republicans want to blame trans people - trans people aren’t the one raising their grocery prices. Big corporations are… immigrants aren’t the ones denying health insurance claims — it’s the billion-dollar insurance companies.”

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Leaned harder into #Warhammer40k with Inquisitor Oriza (2016). Thrifted sporting goods & fabrics, coloring books, vintage decor - she’s heavy as hell. And STILL an absolute fave to wear. Clanks when she walks 😄. #warhammer #cosplay #inquisitor #costume #sisterofbattle #wh40k #stainedglass #cherubim

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Paige Gardner @costumeartist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Taking inspiration from the late Alexander McQueen’s mastery of texture, Merry McQueen (2015) was a crusty compilation of Xmas decor & ornaments plus thrift oddities. Lots of movement = grinding headache to wear 😩 #cosplay #couture #AlexanderMcQueen #costume #glampunk #glitz #headpiece #mask

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16/11/2024

The far right after we leave Twitter.

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