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@hchamp.bsky.social
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goats, crochet, crafting, and strong opinions.

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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Have you checked to see if you are registered to vote in the upcoming midterm elections? If you’re eligible to vote and not registered, there’s still time. www.vote.org/voter-regist...
Hands holding square Stainglass piece that has the word VOTE in pink glass
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Hey @tomcoates.bsky.social your beautiful vase has become the display for Edgar the rooster’s best tail feathers when he drops them.
A brown ceramic vase with long black feathers
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Elon Musk and Donald Trump want people to be able to take photos of your children and digitally remove their clothes. gizmodo.com/doj-throws-s...
gizmodo.com
DOJ Throws Support Behind xAI's Fight Against Minnesota AI Nudification Ban
The DOJ argues that Minnesota’s law goes further than federal rules and could slow down AI development.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
PLEASE take it from this local weed grower with a LOT of experience with herbal remedies: DO NOT FUCK WITH KRATOM. It is as addictive as opiates and completely unregulated. Just look up people's experiences with Feel Free from Botanic Tonics, the company mentioned in this story. archive.is/QHqsV
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Oregon in the summer now. Unedited photo.
Red sun in a smoky sky
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Just made a fresh batch! Get it while you can. milkbarn.farm/products/loo...
The Milk Barn Farm Loophole tincture.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Milk Barn Farm rows at sunset tonight.
Rows of planted crops - peppers in front tomatoes on the right - with clouds and yellow sky behind
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Hershey says don’t give up.
Hershey the goat is a brown goat with white highlights and blue eyes. He is giving you a smile.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
22 years! @fraying.bsky.social, I love you silly!
A groom and bride stand on top of a hill with San Francisco in the background.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 18/07/2026
This bill WOULD block the November ban from going into effect. I do have a separate bill that would keep hemp on the market with strong consumer protections (more on that in the link below). A one size fits all approach clearly doesn’t work here, and I’m going to keep at it.
wyden.senate.gov
Wyden Reintroduces Bill to Keep Hemp on the Market with Strong Consumer Protections | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
You may have heard various news stories about Cannabis reclassification and proposals to save CBD but it’s important you know that the hemp laws I wrote about here are still law and they still go into effect in November. So if you like CBD, you should tell your reps now. milkbarn.farm/pages/loophole
milkbarn.farm
About The Loophole
Our farm may have to stop selling our hemp products in November, a casualty in a war between booze sellers and delta-9 drink companies that we weren’t even in.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Tell me about the old country, Lola.
Lola the Chihuahua wearing a bandana as a head covering
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
First: Maple and Lola slept together in the same dog bed. I’m sure that this had nothing to do with the fact that the black cat slept in the other bed.
Two tan dogs (one Chihuahua, the other larger Chihuahua mix) sleeping together in a fuzzy dog bed
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The goats are helping me weed the garden beds today.
Two goats two garden beds eating weeds
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
NE 20th near Alberta, Portland, OR - 63 #telephonepolehearts #telephonepoleheart #filetcrochet #iceout
Filet crochet art on a telephone pole that says “FUCK ICE”
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
wired.com
How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
CBD works better when combined with THC! They both come from the same plant and work on the same receptors. Our first intoxicating tincture has just enough THC to help the CBD melt away stress for a happy, calming effect. Yes, it’s legal, but only until November.
milkbarn.farm
The Loophole with THC
CBD works better with THC! They both come from the same plant, after all. Our new tincture has a 1:3 ratio for a happy, calming, stress-melting effect.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
A few dozen people at 212 and Foster in Damascus. Lots of supportive honks from people driving by. My awesome wife in her frog costume.
Say adios to ice Unmask ice
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year from Milk Barn Farm! We made it to 2026, y'all. To celebrate, here's a coupon for 26% off everything, good until Sunday. Use code HNY26 or just go to this link: milkbarn.farm/discount/HNY26
milkbarn.farm
Seed-to-Bottle CBD Products
Seed to bottle, full-spectrum, grown in the Oregon sun with zero pesticides or unnatural inputs.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
When we first moved to Oregon 11 years ago, we would drive into Portland to participate in protests. More recently, we’ve had to only go as far as Clackamas. There were 125 to 150 people last Saturday on 212 for the NO KINGS rally.
A person in a large green and yellow frog onesie, standing in front of a telephone pole. They are holding a black and white sign that reads “protest is patriotic.” someone behind her is holding a large American flag. They are standing at the side of the road.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Well this is terrifying. I do not sell any THC products, but naturally derived CBD products do contain a small amount of THC. It’s unavoidable, which is why existing law sets a cap at .3% THC. Exceedingly low! But changing it to “absolutely none allowed” would put me and many others out of business.
forbes.com
Senate Committee Approves Ban On Intoxicating Hemp To Take Effect In One Year
A Senate Committee has approved the agriculture spending bill, which would ban intoxicating hemp products, but implementation would be delayed for one year.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
It retrospect, putting a cam in the chicken nesting box that is vaguely egg-shaped might have been a mistake. The ladies keep trying to sit on it.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This Is Just To Cloaca I have checked the butts of the chicks in the brooder and some of them had lil poopy butts They're clean now so pink and so starfish
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The sign I made for Saturday’s protest in Clackamas.
Hands holding a cardboard sign. Two penguins are painted in black and white. One penguin holds a sign that says “NO TARIFFS”
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Chicken chicken
A large white sheet of paper hangs from a wire. There are many doodles of chickens drawn across the surface of the paper.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Everything is terrible except my dogs, who are perfect.
Five dogs at the top of my stairs, all looking at the camera - a rare moment of coordination from Team Chaos.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
#LinoCut
A hand holds a small piece of white paper with a linocut of the word “no”
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Happy Lunar New Year! #ATC
A hand holds a red card that has a black artist trading card on it. The artist trading card features. A custom rubber stamp of a snake curling in on itself. The snake is in gold metallic ink. The snake is stitched with gold thread and has red eyes sewn with embroidery floss.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Greetings from Milk Barn Farm. Also, I need to learn how to generate a vtt file.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Who wore it better? Left: Button, buckling Right: Bonnibel, pupper
Two photos side by side of buckling and dog wearing the same bright pink sweater
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I was inspired by Parinaz Bahadori in Jennifer Wilkin Penick’s Thursday Mixed Media session to snip my current mantra into letters and then carve a stamp. ATCs to follow. #HoldFast
A crudely cut rubber stamp with the words “hold fast” has been stamped on the left-hand side of a vibrant pink piece of paper. The stamp and inspiration hand cut letters are on the right hand side.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Making small things with my hands helps calm the fog of existential dread swirling in my brain. The Sphinx and Big Ben from Hammonds Standard Atlas of the World, 1938 + hand carved stamp + gold thread. #atc #atccards
2 2.5 X 3.5" art trading cards with an illustration of the Sphynx and Big Ben framed by the silhouette of a vase.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Meet Milk Barn Farm's newest heartbeat, Lola. She's a distinguished older lady who has had a rough go of things. But @hchamp.bsky.social found her, fell in love, and we decided to make her remaining years as soft and wonderful as we can. She and Bonnie are already playmates.
Lola is a tan Chihuahua with gold eyes and long ears sticking out horizontally. She is sitting on the back of our couch looking regal.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Gonna need you to post pics of cats, birbs, and any other cuddly, non-human animal in this thread, please. I need a timeline purge. Here is a good example of what I mean (a little shot from Milk Barn Farm, thanks to @fraying.bsky.social and @hchamp.bsky.social).
A goat the color of brown butter is licking a bunch of grass off the head of black-and-white goat who is afflicted with the dreaded "salad head" after dipping into the feed container.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I spent a day working on a new set of ATCs for Abby Houston's February swap . #OnlyBeautifulThings #ATC
Twelve Artist Trading Cards ( 2.5 x 3.5") in three rows of four. Each card features a vase with a black background. The vases are all primarily blue and collaged with pink, yellow and/or yellow paper. Each card has a horizontal line of gold stitches.
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 19/01/2025
So as someone who created an event to only post beautiful things during December, I decree that tomorrow is #OnlyBeautifulThings day.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Here’s a thing that TikTok did that was new and glorious and captured that creative lightning. I made a video talking to my goat. She’s hilarious. I posted it to TikTok.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Have I missed the opportunity to share CES memories? 2006? 2007? Demoing Flickr in the Y! Tenthouse. Talking to a dude about photosharing and I realize he's holding a thin plastic shopping bag full of dildos. As one does when the Adult Entertainment Expo is going on next door.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Hey, @fraying.bsky.social, is it too early to ask if you'll be my Valentine?
A 12 foot skeleton stands behind a young pine three and farm fence. The skeleton has a small red tinsel heard on its chest. There is a pink pixel granny square crochet heart on the farm fence.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
🐐✨ #GoatMagic
A tricolor goat sits on a picnic staring at the camera with a cheesed expression. There is blue sky in the background.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I’m hoping to find and follow folk who are interested in: - #crochet and #yarnbombing - #ATCs (artist trading cards) - Mixed media art - Cute dogs and cats - goats These are my favorite things I made in 2024.
A 3 x 3 grid of photos. The top left is a photo of a 5‘ x 5‘ crochet heart. Top middle is a series of small filet crochet hearts in pride colors stapled to a telephone pole. Top right is a filet crochet Tyrannosaurus rex stapled to a telephone pole. Middle left is a filet crochet of the word “vote”. Middle image is fully crochet of the words “I voted” framed on blue, held aloft by two hands. Middle right is a fillet crochet of the words “Harris Walz”. Bottom left is a set of 8 pink artist trading cards. bottom middle is a pink yarnbomb that features the words “Be kind. Don’t be a dick“. Bottom right is a set of 10 artist trading cards of a flowered vase.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Brownshirts are going to be in fashion.
npr.org
Pantone's 2025 color is Mocha Mousse: How the company sold color to the world
Pantone isn't the only color system of its kind. But thanks to an innovative founder and savvy marketing, it's become the industry standard.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
#caturday 🐈‍⬛
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Friendsgiving cancelled as I brought a shitty souvenir of Covid back from Amsterdam. We decided to cook food anyway as the turkey was defrosted. 1) Managed to both undercook and overcook the 12lb bird. It was in fact, not defrosted. Took me 5 hours to figure this out. 1/3
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Appearing soon on a fence in Miami #crochet
Crochet/machine, knitting yarn bomb with the words “BE KIND” in large black letters on a pale pink background. In smaller text underneath ”DON’T BE A DICK”. There is a bright orange border and around that a fluorescent pink scalloped edge, both crocheted in acrylic yarn.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Choose wisely.
Two small blue and white packages that look somewhat similar. One is a Willamina mint. The other is a dishwasher pod.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
1 - boarding pass, luggage tag, and cutlery wrapper. 2.5 x 3.5”. I’m trying to forgive for not serving gin in economy class.
Image is of a 2 1/2 x 3 1/2“ collage made from a black and white boarding pass and luggage tag and a cyan blue wrapper from my cutlery. The base image are 1 inch squares with dots and stripes glued on top.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
1:1 with Hershey to review the progress of his H1 goals. #Nigeriandwarfgoats #goat #goats #milkbarnfarm #wether #goatmagic
A brown and white adult male goat with blue eyes looks sitting facing the photographer on the other side of a picnic table. There is a left hand, holding a mug in the foreground of the picture.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 31/03/2024
What’s up?
Tricolor goat with a glorious blank beard looks towards the photographer as if they will spontaneously combust into peanuts. The goats face is close to the camera and you can see that she’s standing on a wooden bench. That’s anchored by cinderblocks.
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heather champ @hchamp.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
This place needs more goats.
A tricolored goat, with blue eyes sticks his tongue out at the camera.
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