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Jenny Bendel

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Protecting spirits in the mighty Pacific Northwest. “Protect your spirit because you are in the place where spirits get eaten.” John Trudell

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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In a world of Ed Sheerans and Robert Krafts, be a Macklemore.
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My dog just got a Cushings diagnosis. If you’ve gone through this with your fur kiddo, I’d appreciate hearing about your experience and any tips for helping her have her best life with it. 💙
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Find work that gets us out of our own heads, centered in community resiliency, human and animal dignity and environmental care. Food banks, urban food gardens, safe houses, libraries, community medical, child care, shelters, education and outreach, etc etc.
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly, rest in power you beautiful soul. 💙🦋🎸
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My dog just got a Cushings diagnosis. If you’ve gone through this with your fur kiddo, I’d appreciate hearing about your experience and any tips for helping her have her best life with it. 💙
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Home cleaning, pet-sitting and other tasks, with care and flair. If you’re in the south Puget Sound area and are in need of services or assistance, I wholeheartedly endorse my friend Chikori’s new business.
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Home cleaning, pet-sitting and other tasks, with care and flair. If you’re in the south Puget Sound area and are in need of services or assistance, I wholeheartedly endorse my friend Chikori’s new business.
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opalescence-clean.bsky.social @opalescence-clean.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Hello friends! My name is Chikori, and I am offering cleaning, pet-sitting, and other miscellaneous services to my Olympia & beyond community. I am still early-on into building this business out, so if you or anyone you know may benefit from assistance, please send this around and/or reach out!
Opalescence cleaning
"Queer, disabled, and here to help"
Serving Thurston County & beyond, dm/email me with questions or to schedule
-What i do: general house/business cleaning & tidying, deep cleaning, neuro-affurming organization support, and pet-sitting
-how i do: sustainable & eco-friendly practices, empathy-driven care, and disabled-informed scheduling
-why i do: providing for my family, tackling tasks difficult for many neurodivergent & disabled, and reaching & building community
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
With starting a new job, supporting a dearest friend who just started chemo and working on strengthening a community network, I’ve been in a Bluesky timeout. I missed you guys though.
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Team Brother Chris. stereogum.com/2500993/blac...
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Black Crowes Draw Boos And Walkouts In Tampa Over America Remarks
On Sunday night, veteran Atlanta blues-rockers the Black Crowes played Tampa’s MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre as part of their Southern Hospitality tour. (The previous night, Kid Rock played the...
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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 16/05/2026
Seattle inaugurated four new public toilets made by the company, Throne Labs, Friday in Pioneer Square and next to Lumen Field.
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Seattle, your 'Throne' awaits. New public restrooms unveiled before World Cup
Seattle inaugurated four new public toilets made by the company, Throne Labs, Friday in Pioneer Square and next to Lumen Field.
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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
NEW: Donald Trump has released his national policy on AI, banning states from regulating AI development on their own land. It also protects AI companies from any liability when someone uses their tool to cause harm or break the law.
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Trump’s AI National Policy Framework: An Attack on States’ Rights? - UNICORN RIOT
At least 11 states and many cities across the U.S. have temporarily banned or placed restrictions on the development of AI data centers.
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Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
i’ve said it before, but way too many people forget how much of the good Gen X art, music, etc talks about how everyone we grew up with are a bunch of fucking assholes
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Sunrise Movement @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
BREAKING: 300+ New Yorkers have taken over the offices of Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer demanding no more weapons for Israel. Tell Congress: Fund people, not bombs.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/04/2026
EVERYONE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THIS: Conflict of interest doesn’t even begin to cover it. Chad Bianco really seized over 650,000 ballots based on conspiracy theories that don’t even hold up to basic scrutiny. No credible fraud. No real discrepancy. 🧵
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Delete your Amazon account. If you don’t, you’re part of the problem.
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The irony seems to be lost on my new potential employer, who made me watch 5 hours of “pre-employment onboarding training videos,” which included an hour+ on human trafficking and exploited labor.
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
You could smell creep on Swallwell from miles away. Good riddance.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 10/04/2026
Belarus’s parliament has adopted a new law banning “propaganda” of same-sex relationships, of “gender reassignment,” and even of “childlessness.” The new law creates a climate of fear and perpetuates the escalating state crackdown on LGBT rights.
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Belarus Imports Russia’s 'Propaganda' Playbook
Belarus’s parliament adopted a new law on April 2 banning “propaganda” of same-sex relationships, of “gender reassignment,” and even of “childlessness.”
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/07/2025
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
disconnect.blog
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
push notifications give me heartburn anyway, but now you have a really good reason to turn that shit off. for all your apps!!!
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Regular reminder to “protect your spirit, because we are in the place where spirits get eaten. “(John Trudell)
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/04/2026
do we honestly have no way of ending a presidency for posting “a whole civilization will die tonight”
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 04/04/2026
what if running the global economy on the liquefacted corpses of ancient beings somehow cursed us?
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, fuck your rockets, feed the hungry.
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
A few months later I would join the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline and my little camp, High Star, went up just across the Cannonball River from Sacred Stone. It became a frontline kitchen that served hot meals to dozens daily, a camp living room and a field hospital. Mni Wiconi forever. ✊
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 02/04/2026
No, fuck you. You don’t get to suddenly decide that copyright matters when folks suddenly have access to the source code of your spicy autocomplete due to your own incompetence.
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Did I really just hear on NPR that most AI is predicting a child born today won’t live to see high school, something something AI nuclear genocide?
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I’d like a Dept of Homeland Security centered on security of shelter, food, clean air, clean water and a universal basic income.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
and that's why when we took down our robert e lee statue here in charlottesville, we melted that bitch.
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Charlottesville’s Lee statue meets its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace
The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017, was melted down in secret and will become a new piece of public art.
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Only posting the good stuff tonight. 40k Metallica fans worldwide donated blood. 🩸 “Their support comes amid a broader increase in Gen Z blood donors year-over-year, highlighting this generation’s willingness to step up through simple acts of service.” (American Red Cross press release)
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
None of the four recoded versions of my hotel room key are working on my door, so I’m basically trapped inside until Lobby Call and I have a few days’ worth of news to catch up on. Where to start.
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OSINTdefender [UNOFFICIAL] @sentdefender-mirr.selfhosted.social · 24/03/2026
Following reports of an explosion, a massive fire can be seen at the Valero oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas.
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
All venues should have deaf dogs that welcome you when you load-in for soundcheck.
Photo of (I think) blue healer dog, Layla, with her tongue sticking out, standing in an art deco theater, next to a white and gold column, on a patterned carpet and red linoleum floor.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/03/2026
“Robot dog guarding the data center” is the cherry on top of your dystopian sundae.
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Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers | Fortune
AI companies are turning to quadruped robots, better known as “robot dogs” for security solutions to protect their vast data centers.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
And she’ll get better healthcare, paid for by the people of the United States, than the people of the United States have.
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Trump says chief of staff Susie Wiles has early stage breast cancer but will keep working through treatment
The Republican president says Wiles plans to begin treatment immediately but makes no suggestion she's pulling back on her work as one of his closest advisers.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16/03/2026
The outcome of the first Prairieland trial does not mean that resistance is impossible. But it does mean we have to —teach all potential defendants not to cooperate with police —teach all potential jurors about jury nullification —and take these steps to build redundancy and resilience:
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Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression
Donald Trump has declared that he is designating “Antifa” a “terrorist organization.” What does that mean? How can we prepare to weather the storm?
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billboard @billboard.com · 12/03/2026
‘These People Are So Stupid’: Live Nation Ticketing Directors Bragged About Charging High Fees in Slack Messages
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‘These People Are So Stupid’: Live Nation Ticketing Directors Bragged About Charging High Fees in Slack Messages
Two Live Nation employees' Slack messages boasting about charging high fees were unsealed in the ongoing monopoly lawsuit against the company.
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Hi, member of touring road crews here. 👋 Boycott Live Nation venues and support your local indie clubs and theaters. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Oh, honestly. They got positively giddy at “grab them by the pussy” and the loss of body autonomy. They didn’t vote for a “pretense of protection,” they voted for bad things to happen to anyone but them. But welcome to it sisters, I guess, you have some work to do.
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
When Iran’s Supreme Leader is more coherent than the entire United States regime.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The sun rode a massive galactic migration wave to the Milky Way’s suburbs
scientificamerican.com
The sun and thousands of its twins migrated across the Milky Way just in time
The sun rode a massive galactic migration wave to the Milky Way’s suburbs
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Washington State Democrats @wadems.org · 11/03/2026
Great News! Washington adopts more accountability in law enforcement.
seattletimes.com
Bill that would strengthen standards for WA sheriffs headed to governor
Senate Bill 5974 does many things, but most of the debate has centered around it granting the ability to remove a sheriff from power if they are decertified by the Criminal Justice Training Commission...
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Three hours at the airport for a 33-minute flight. We could have high-speed rail, but instead, oh never mind. See you soon, Portland.
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
“Leaders,” lol. Never going back to Target.
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 11/03/2026
‘This cannot be sustainable’: The U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five months, the CBO says ehfuckingscuseme???!!!
fortune.com
The U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five months, finds the CBO: 'Our fiscal problems will not solve themselves' | Fortune
"We need policymakers to come together, agree to reduce deficits ... and put our national debt on a downward sustainable path as a share of the economy."
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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
“The Israeli military’s unlawful use of white phosphorus over residential areas is extremely alarming and will have dire consequences for civilians,” said Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Human Rights Watch says they've verified that Israel has used white phosphorus on civilian populations in Lebanon.
hrw.org
Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Using White Phosphorus
The Israeli military unlawfully used artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions over homes on March 3, 2026, in the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor.
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