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Steph

@observingangel.bsky.social
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Proud Mom of 2 adult LGTBQ humans & 1 were-cat COVID is never going to be over. Climate change may be the death of all. Biology/Botany/Geology and weirdly enough, Accounting? My youngest thinks I'm a reptilian overlord & we're both artists.

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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Casual Restorer's moment of hubris: Got my hands on a clock from the 50s that needed some internal work and resetting of the hands. No problem. Except for one thing... It's a radium clock. I honestly should've known that by the color of the hands but I was thrilled that it still was ticking...
1950s Big Ben Style 7 by Westclox with a black face, brass ring, black metal back and radium face and handsNumber 10 glowing under blacklight from a blacklight pen.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We just picked up some great burritos--pastor for me, lengua for K--from a food stand called Tacos El Fugoncita off of Hwy 99 in Tigard. Man working the grill was a master of burritos, grilling the cheese between the tortillas & the woman was sweet. Happy tummies!
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Noooo! Ouch, ouch, ouch. I have a real fear of slippery surfaces after having to acquire this ankle last November. Which, ofc, now needs all the metal removed from it because it's causing problems. This stuff stinks. Hope your knee recovers.
An ankle x-ray showing two large screws and a button on one side and a plate with multiple screws on the other.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Watching the marketing response to post-COVID changes is so very fascinating and concerning. It used to be "hangry" but now hunger causes brain fog. That and probiotics in everything probably due to post-COVID digestion troubles.
Still from a Snickers ad: "YOU'RE FOGGY WHEN YOU'RE HUNGRY" with an opened Snickers candy bar beneath the tagline and a photo of a brown haired young woman slapping her head in dismay because she had a brain fog moment.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Holy shit, the article about COVID causing structural changes to the brain is even on Facebook. Weird living in a world where I'm no longer the crazy one.
Science and Nature post on Facebook showing a red going brain on a blue line outline of a human. Title "Brain scans reveal widespread structural and functional changes in patients following COVID-19 infection"
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It is insane to me how people have just moved on from covid and view as a regular cold now. It took me at least two years to feel somewhat normal again after only having been infected once. Despite having had zero new infections, I still struggle with word finding sometimes and I have noticed that my emotions are flatter than they used to be. 

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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
 Another recent study found that COVID-19 is associated with injury to the brain’s dopamine system, even in healthy people who feel recovered from infection (scroll down to bright picture). The impact is worse in those with long covid.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(26)00222-7/fulltext 

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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Some snapshots from this convo.
 Does this help explain that clear cognitive decline we're seeing across society post COVID?

Cause boy people sure seem like their decision making skills have been permanently altered.. 

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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
He continues: "I remember how bad it was a couple years ago when the sun was all orange & you could see it everywhere. Awful." You can see it everywhere today. There is no sky. All heat & smoke. The sunlight? Orange. The sun? Muted. If he noticed the little things then, why not today?
Current AQI for Beaverton, OR: 177 AQI Unhealthy.  Map on the right  is completely red for the entire area.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Update: The creep gave me a black eye along with bruising at my temple and scalp. My eye is still discolored 8 days later.
Image shows a discolored eye with red and purple discolorations and swelling.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Also saw probably at least 10 people wearing masks in the small venue. Smart and awesome crowd.
Picture of a concert T-shirt with a stylized billboard says, "Moon Walker's Wasteland Country Tour" United is crossed out and replaced with a scrawled "Divided States 2026". Underneath the billboard lays a tangled web of suburban streets and highways littered with junk.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Moon Walker in Portland was amazing. Super talented. I also probably damaged my hearing. 😂
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Icon.
Image shows the VLC icon of an orange traffic cone with white stripes.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It's not. Via Nitter. nitter.net/SenSchumer
Snapshot of Chuck Schumer's X profile.  Top post from 3 hours at the time of this posting, 

"For decades, UFO disclosure has been a distant object--unidentified and unexplained.  

That's starting to change.  I'll keep pushing until we land on the truth."

Post is a quote post of a New York Times post that states "Breaking News:  The Pentagon made public what it called "never-before-seen" files on UFOs. The initial images are murky and show what could be anything"
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Joseph Allen
@j_g_allen

The detailed investigation of a prior hantavirus human-human transmission event has evidence of airborne transmission of Andes strain:

Patient 1 --> Patient 4
"did not have any physical contact and simply said “hello” to each other as they crossed paths"

Patient 1 --> Patients 3 & 6
"seated at different tables and spatially separated by 1–2 m

Patient 2 --> Patient 11
"No direct or close contact between the two patients was reported."

Patient 8 --> Patient 28 
"Patient 8 shared a room with Patient 28 and her relative. Patient 28 and Patient 8 did were not in close contact."
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Nearly was in a head on collision today because of a driver who started turning left but randomly decided to turn right midway, driving down the center median before driving straight at me in my lane (where I quickly moved out of the way) only to attempt a failed left turn, reverse, & go left.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Realized a while ago that if the world is going to go mad, go mad with it but only in the best ways. So I'm making wild crowns. Might wear them casually at the grocery store bc fuck it. IDK
A blonde woman is wearing a oversized flower crown with large cream flowers, small mauve flowers, faux berries and nuts with horns on her head
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Well, this is depressing. They are SO CLOSE in grasping it. SO CLOSE.
Reddit thread: 

Redditor #1:  This feels like a fake timeline we're all suffering in

Redditor #2 (op, top 1% commenter): 

Image of an animated child with laying face first on the ground. 

Text:  "Fr man.  Something been off since COVID"
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
It's been a while since the YT algorithm decided to spam the 15 minute song, "Exist" by Avenged Sevenfold one after the other but here we are again...
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
COVID turned my 83 year old dad into a meme lord but this one is actually hilarious. Enjoy.
Photo of a sheet ghost overlayed with a black box with white text that says, "I think it's obvious that ghosts are people so died while trying to fold a fitted sheet. Skull and crossbones emoji.#"
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Not on X anymore but spotted this floating around. Holy shit. Meanwhile, Paula Scanlan is whinging about how "concerning" people wearing masks in 2026 are. Transphobic ghoul there. What began in 2020 that killed a chunk of disabled people? COVID. It's COVID.
A graph depicting the growth of the US Labor Force from 2007 to 2027.  In 2020, there's a slight dip in the percentage of disabled people before the percentage of disabled workers increases very sharply upwards to +50.9% while the non-disabled worker growth remains stable at +8.3%.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🥁🥁🥁 Ta-da!! OMG she kicks ass. Her one regret was being hasty in cutting the squares so that they weren't all even but damn for not knowing what she was drawing, that's pretty damn photorealistic. 😂
A fractured image of a man looking at the viewer with very wide eyes and a long fancy moustache.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Here's Oregon's statewide COVID wastewater data. The line? People testing. It cratered to the ground even as its still being detected in the wastewater. Thinking this is all done and over is lying to oneself. It's still a problem & it's impacting fetuses, elderly, & the vulnerable. FFS mask
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I mean, come on...look at that mug. Deserved.
Former Prince Andrew sitting in a vehicle after being released from jail on charges of misconduct due to activities in the Epstein files.  He is leaned back in his seat.  His face is pallid and yet, somehow blotchy from strain, his eyes have swollen bags but are also somehow sunk.  His eyes are wide and vaguely disconnected as if he had seen a terrible horror.  His lips are so pale as to be nonexistent.  His fingers appear to be rubbing each other to self soothe.  This is the face of a deeply traumatized and terrified man.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Likewise for "littlestjeff@yahoo.com. I see emails that are sent from his main accounts to his littlestjeff yahoo account but that's it. Also in 2007.
Email message from Jeffrey Epstein using his jeeproject@yahoo.com account directing an individual to email everything to littlestjeff@yahoo.com.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Where are the emails from this Epstein gmail account that he created in 2007?
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
So Epstein's type based on this person's statements about their "pretty friend" is pretty, disconnected from their family & needs money. Gotcha. Fits the reports to a tee. jmail.world/thread/vol00...
[Redacted]<[Redacted]>
to jeevacation@gmail.com
Jan 25, 2013 7:29 PM

Yes

On Friday, January 25, 2013, Jeffrey Epstein wrote:
thanks, but now its time for you to work harder......

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:41 AM, [Redacted] < [Redacted] > wrote:
She is not my friend it was second time I saw her . I don't think she work for us .first, her age, too young ,
she is 16 or 17 second, she like [Redacted] moved here and lives w her family doesn't suffer for money I
checked already

On Friday, January 25, 2013, Jeffrey Epstein wrote: IM said you had pretty friend

On Friday, January 25, 2013, [Redacted] wrote:
Wow are you here ? Provocateur ?
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Gets weirder. He had 2 accounts with Match. One under jeeproject and the other one? Sultan175. Sultan.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Epstein to unknown who was hired to do "clean up" for him. "It is not right that every month there is some new reason. I would appreciate you fulfilling your pledge to me." Pledge for WHAT exactly? This is research on brain manipulation using frequencies. Was that on Epstein's dime?
Too long for alt text.  Summary:  Epstein requests a work-to-date month summary for the last month from an unknown individual.  This individual discusses using frequencies to manipulate the brain & mimic experiences.  Unknown had a delay due to a friend dying. 

Epstein responds to the email: "It is not right that every month there is some new reason. I would appreciate you fulfilling your pledge to me."
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Wow.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Not brass. Chrome and brass. The moment I realized what I was dealing with, I took great care to not restore too much. Just enough patina to show its age but not so much that it's unrecognizable. Probably Maison Bagues. God I love what I do for a hobby. I find beauty things that were forgotten.
A chrome and brass table takes on the appearance of beautifully tarnished silver in the morning light.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I found a beauty thing. At first it looked like just another cheap brass table but its balance of design stopped me. The tempered glass? Thick, beautiful and subtly colored. That finish that looked like worn brass? Too light of color.
A "brass" and glass 3 legged table with a faint greenish tint to the glass.  Each leg is held to a metal table ring with an edged clamp. Smooth legs drop into another clamp with a rounded decorative foot.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Snipped from Reddit. Someone accidentally drove into the local 7-11. Grocery run the other night showed a bunch of high risk maneuvers by drivers. Combine that with my experience w the v crazy driver that nearly struck me 3 times have to wonder if this is the flavor of the current wave of COVID?
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
To the "anecdotal evidence" person, I pointed out the two articles discussing the research & provided them with the wastewater surveillance data showing the protracted waves of COVID that likely were outbreaking in schools during that time. We're a good state that does try to stay home when sick.
Oregon SARS-COV-2 community wastewater treatment testing results graph showing at least 8-9 waves of COVID.  As a note, there is an increase of detection of COVID in the wastewater currently beginning so incoming.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Increased risk taking behaviors? Executive function impairment affecting spatial awareness? I really hate living not far from train tracks but at least this one wasn't trapped on the track and didn't result in the crossing arm getting struck by the train.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Never seen green gas in any so-called LTL weaponry. Anybody ever see this before? Spotted on Reddit. #minnesota
Pale green smoky looking gas fills the street near a crowd of people in a snowy suburban neighborhood in Minnesota.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
My fancy new ankle after my trimalleolar breaks.
One long screw in my tibia and a plate with 5 screws in my fibula.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Her name is Lif of Ragnarok. We knew there was a reason why this werecat wannabe needed saving from the shelter. (Forgive our kitchen. We were in the process of renovation that was paused due to surgeries. ) Might need to change her description from werecat to meercat. IDK. Happy Caturday.
A tabby piebald with a grey striped back and head with white underside and legs cat stands on her hind legs on the seat of a black stool. The kitchen behind is partly remodeled and has groceries on the counter.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Just had my 1 year post op. Total success. Everything is fusing very well. He laughed about how I ended up with more metal in my ankle this time. His recommendation: stop needing metal in my body and aim for medals instead. Lol
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Well, we've entered the timeline where even the free animated movie options on YT are depressing. 👀
Snip from YT "Animation" category for free with ads movies.  First movie on the left is "9".  Second movie on the right is "Watership Down", the original 1978 animated version.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Mine. 🙄
Greco-roman style image of an androgynous person with short wavy hair in profile with a linear art style glowing brain floating above their hand, colored in golds and orange tones.  

Caption:

Talking to Yourself Isn't Madness
Science Says It's One Of The 
Strongest Signs of Genius

signed: @MechanicalMind
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Overlay collage on mass shootings in the US by my uncle, Robert Wagoner. It's a gut punch but a needed one. He's a retired architect & artist. Alt text has his caption and comments about it along w the description. We really need to do something about gun violence.
Robert Wagoner: "I wanted to make a statement about the absurdity of no gun control in the US. I have to admit the images in this collage were taken from the web & overlayed. I did not take the individual images myself. The shootings listed on the left & right are only about 2/3 of the shootings that have occurred in recent years. The list names the place, number of deaths & number of injured plus the total maimed in the shooting. This is not a happy collage but it was an effort to graphically show the insanity we live with."

The image depicted has a target symbol in black and red with red circles of bullet holes.  On each side, there is a US flag in distress with semi automatic weapons atop each.  Above the target symbol is a photo of a bloodied handprint.  Beneath the target symbol, is a map of the US with all the locations of the most notable mass shootings marked with a red dot.  To the left of the map is the NRA symbol. To the right of the map is the "Protect My 2nd Amendment" symbol with a handgun.  All of it is overlaid on a blood stained floor.  To the left and right of the central image are the lists and deaths of 2/3rds of the mass shootings in the US w their numbers of dead and maimed.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
1 year Post op CT scan of my spinal fusion is in. No failures. No fracture. Screws firmly in place. Hardware in place. Optimal results! Don't have a pic of the most recent imaging but this is what was wrong & what my fab neurosurgeon did to correct it.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The face of a woman who broke her ankle in 3 places, suffered complications from anesthesia, intestinal complications and a severe allergic reaction to the meds. I'm victorious but also so very done with all that noise. No more complications, tyvm.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
If you're a cat owner, you know exactly what she was doing regardless of the innocent act. Even with broken ankles, cats are gonna cat.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Happy Caturday! Just woke from my nap to my Lif snoozing on the guard kitty job. She's been watching over me with my broken ankle for days.
Sleepy tabby piebald cat in a cone sleeping on her person's lap who has a broken ankle.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
They made a mini gurney for my ankle as they lifted me, screening,onto the actual gurney. The remainder of my walk in the park was strapped on a gurney & hating every bump. Trimalleolar fracture, oblique and vertical. First bone I've ever broken in my life. Radiologist called me an overachiever.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
But then my left foot started sliding on the leaves, down the slope. I tried to ground my step by pushing down firmly only to hear a sound like a gunshot crack. I managed to ease onto my side as I slid down, leg first, the slope to near the water's edge.
A bare tree looms to the left above a slope covered deep with leaves. At the bottom of the slope are shrubs with the water beyond it.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Something red caught my eye and it was an even prettier mushroom. I trudged my way through the leaves on the ground to take a few pictures of it. But then, I saw another even more beautiful mushroom just a little bit further away.
A red mushroom with cream spots and a white stalk
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
As I walked along the path, I spotted a tremendous orange and cream mushroom the size of a salad plate. In awe, I ventured off of the path to take a picture of it.
A bright orange mushroom speckled with cream spots is  half buried in fall leaves on the ground.
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