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Ope Ache

@karltheobscure.bsky.social
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Yup. Doodles. Sometimes words don’t work.

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Ope Ache @karltheobscure.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A couple of prints that are similarly structured—just a few years apart. @slipperyjack.bsky.social.
Two prints:
Cut the Capers by Richard Wells 
The Rat Catcher by Jan Van Vliet
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
How is everyone not screaming about this
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Ope Ache @karltheobscure.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The put down equivalent to 24 hours of Le Mans. (Edited 7:43 PM via @skeetsapp.com)
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
when republicans start their inevitable whining about people making a big deal over the paint peeling algae infested reflecting pool remind them who made it a big deal in the first place lol
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Just once, I would like one of these congresspeople to say “If you’re not willing to acknowledge reality about this, then I have no reason to trust you about anything else. I will vote no. I yield the rest of my time.”
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026
I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The money was always there for the good things.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This produces losses that Bezos uses to offset his income and lower his federal income tax bill. In other words, you and I are subsidizing this.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing
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Ope Ache @karltheobscure.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I could be wrong, but I feel like the reason stories like this don’t gain more traction is because at this point most people just assume market manipulation is part of the way things are done at the highest echelons.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
As little as I already thought of the man I'm in awe of what he's accomplished in 15 short months. Historic run. Basically threw away all his fire extinguishers and told every firefighter in town to eat shit, and then set his house on fire. We need a separate Mount Rushmore for morons
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Dear Christian, If you’re demanding that the Ten Commandments be put up in public schools, but you’re not holding this president or his administration accountable to a single one of them, please don’t act like you actually take them seriously.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right
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Ope Ache @karltheobscure.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Today’s the day. #NoKings
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 27/03/2026
Why does the fawning media always call these stains on our democracy “a first” like Trump broke the four-minute mile as opposed to the Constitution
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Ope Ache @karltheobscure.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social As I watched your discussion I was reminded of a book that was handed down to me. Youth Under Dictators by Oril Brown
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DL JD’88 @devonl88.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
An important informative listen. #Freedom @hcrichardson.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social
open.substack.com
Thinking Live with Heather Cox Richardson
My conversation with Heather Cox Richardson
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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
How do you fix a situation where a corrupt president can have his allies make bogus lawsuits against our own government, and then direct his corrupted "Justice Department" to settle and shell out taxpayer money to his corrupt friends? We need to start thinking about writing laws around this *now*.
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Indivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Will you be joining us for www.nokingstwincities.org on March 28 at the MN State Capitol? (Bernie Sanders, Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers, and Jane Fonda, among many others, will)!
nokingstwincities.org
No Kings Twin Cities
Join us on Saturday, March 28 for the No Kings national flagship event in the Twin Cities.
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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help me spread the word? I have four more Jeremy Creatures available at my Big Cartel shop. Any sales are very much appreciated. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Trump thinks the dangerous part here is the stretch when Iran *didn't* have the means to make a bomb and thinks we should all applaud him for changing that and making all this possible again
Iranian Enriched Uranium chart
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Confiscate 99.8% of Andreesen’s net worth for the public good, wait 20 minutes, and then tell him his memory of ever having more than $4 million is false.
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Ope Ache @karltheobscure.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Two photos. Couple weeks apart. Both Minnesota. #photography #art #zen #minnesota
Sunlight on a palm frond. Como Conservatory.Sunlight on windswept drift of snow. Taken near my home.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Roberts Courts legacy is to make it harder for ordinary people to engage in the most basic form of participation (voting), for that participation to matter (letting gerrymandering stand), while removing any constraints from billionaire influence on politics
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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
✨18k Print giveaway!✨ Winner can pick any one s/m size art print in my shop 💖 Rules: • Follow • Like • Repost Ends Thurs March 12 MIDNIGHT EST Open to US & Canada Winner will be contacted through DMs I’ll use a random number generator to select the winner ko-fi.com/babeandoak/shop
18k print giveaway graphic - square photo of a selection of my fine art prints all spread out at various angles. On top is a large white rectangle with a black transparency border and the text PRINT GIVEAWAY. Below is the logo for BABE&OAK and the URL Babeandoak.carrd.co
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/03/2026
They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda
Some of the frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete
Hegseth's stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for
the Air Force chief of staff's home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as
the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2
million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail.
(Lobster tail is apparently a favorite of Hegseth's Pentagon-the
department spent more than $7.4 million total on the luxury item in
March, May, June, and October.)

In other pricey food purchases, the government decided to drop $15.1
million for ribeye steak (again, just in September), $124,000 for ice cream
machines, and $139,224 on 272 orders of doughnuts.

Weeks later, millions of Americans would lose their SNAP benefits amid
the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. More still stand to lose
eligibility to the food assistance program thanks to a Republican crusade
that added stricter work requirements to the program, piling on
paperwork and documentation mandates.

One of the largest bulk expenditures was just for furniture, for which the
Pentagon decided to shell out $225 million. That included $12,000 for
fruit basket stands, and checks totaling more than $60,000 for Herman
Miller recliners. All in all, the agency spent more on furniture in 2025
than it had in over a decade.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Ask yourself where all that money went? (Spoiler: to those who need it least) — Trump continues to make the rich richer. Heads they win, tails we lose. Yet we always have money for war and bombs. They don’t care really about the debt and never did. fortune.com/2026/03/06/t...
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
For those who may not remember, funding an adversary in a proxy war in Afghanistan was a big part of how the US bankrupted the Soviet Union.
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Ope Ache @karltheobscure.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A self portrait relief print I made for a print exchange. Hoping the mail still works so it actually gets there. #printmaking #art #selfportrait
Linocut relief print set of ten. A two color self portrait bust (7 cm x 7 cm).
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 04/03/2026
Always enough money for another war in the Middle East but never enough money to help people here at home.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
theyre just all so fucking stupid and we were told we had to be respectful and treat their stupid fucking opinions seriously even though we knew its all bull shit and now here we are
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Ope Ache @karltheobscure.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Anytime I see Matthew Whitaker all I can think about is the baby in Miyazaki’s Sprited Away.
Baby from the movie Sprited Away who bears a stringing resemblance to Matthew Whitaker
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
When Musk and Hegseth argue that a racially diverse nation is inherently weak, they're not returning us to some long-established American tradition from which we've recently strayed. They are, instead, parroting the exact same propaganda that Nazi Germany promoted against America during World War II.
For just one example, read this analysis the Nazis made of the American population in 1942, where they confidently concluded that America's diversity would be its undoing: "During a war, only a people can fight for its future, not a mere population that is racially, religiously, linguistically, ideologically, and governmentally disunified. Given all that has been said, the USA has no unified people, only a population."
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Anne Mathurin @anne-mathurin.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Show your self portrait ! Il se trouve que pendant mes études à Paris 8 j'ai eu l'immense plaisir d'avoir comme professeur M. Pascal Bonafoux. Ce n'est donc peut-être pas très surprenant que je commette autant d'autoportraits...
Dessin pointilliste en noir et blanc très lumineux représentant l'artiste cadrée sur le buste et bas du visage, où on peut voir les premiers signes de l'age. Les cheveux sont à peine esquissés.Dessin pointilliste en noir et blanc représentant un autoportrait de l'artiste de face, les cheveux lâchés et portant des lunettes et un masque en tissu sur lequel est écrit "meat is murder"Dessin pointilliste représentant l'artiste les joues rouges, les yeux levés au ciel et la main sur la tempe dans une position traduisant la gêne ou l'embarras.Dessin pointilliste noir sur fond jaune représentant un autoportrait symboliste. Le visage de face au regard très frontal, est coupé en deux et sur la partie droite la tête est présentées "en coupe", avec différents éléments plus ou moins farfelus à l'intérieur, comme dans des compartiments ( un engrenage, une cafetière, une pince à linge, un mégot de cigarette, le logo de la marque de feutres Micron Pigma, un foetus à la place de l'oeil, une aile de papillon sous la clavicule...)
Ce portrait est lui-même encadré dans la partie gauche par un paysage de montagne avec des détritus au premier plan, et dans la partie droite un amoncellement d'objets divers mêlés à des motifs végétaux imaginaires : parmi les feilles et les fleurs on peut voir une limace, une noix, des écouteurs d'iphone, une vulve, des pièces de puzzle...
Ce dessin est le 3e d'une série sur le thème de la mutation, et représente l'évolution par la psychanalyse.
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Ope Ache @karltheobscure.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Show your self portrait
Black and white linocut print. A self portrait.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
everything is terrible so here’s the swedish chef doing rapper’s delight
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Trump is spending over a billion dollars to tear down, build and/or remodel the WH, a ballroom, a triumphal arch, the Kennedy Center, and several DC golf courses, while spending most of his non-golfing time on interior decorating. MAGA: This is what I voted for! He loves us!
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Ope Ache @karltheobscure.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🤔
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a cartoon character giving a thumbs up with the words wow look at him look at him try below him
ALT: a cartoon character giving a thumbs up with the words wow look at him look at him try below him
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 04/02/2026
Hey @nytimes.com, not every grifter needs a glow up profile.
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God @thegodshow.com · 03/02/2026
Putting it in perspective:
Donald Trump’s name appears over 38,000 times in the Epstein files, while “God” is mentioned only 4,000 times in the whole Bible.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is the CDC map for homicide rates by state for the most recent year on their website. Gov. Landry, who leads one of the states in the nation with the highest murder rate, is on television chiding Minnesota, one of the states with the lowest murder rates.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/homicide.html
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Ope Ache @karltheobscure.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
CBS News
Sketch of a clearly drunk man, holding a six pack of beer in one hand and hoisting a can about to drink in the other. The man’s gut is clearly visible and his head is the CBS eye logo.
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Ope Ache @karltheobscure.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
In case anyone is wondering what it’s like in Minneapolis tonight. I was just watching the local news (Kare 11) and it was basically wall to wall coverage of the shooting. Commercial comes on. Kids saying “This is the BEST day ever” over and over. Not now Disneyland.
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BoringMNGirl @boringmngirl.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.
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