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Swamp Cryptid

@opalhexen.bsky.social
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(They/them) Antifascist artist and gardener, 1312; upstate NY. Collar City DSA I make art for the weird and wild, and small batch upcycled clothing. I believe a better world is still possible, I mourn for my lost comrades.

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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
ICE is all up in my neighborhood (kidnapping my neighbors) ICE is all up in my neighborhood (Pipes burst across the street and flooded and froze overnight)
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
New York, Neeew Yooork
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
(everything is scary and bad) ALSO my bb and i got tickets to NY Sirens PWHL PRIDE NIGHT and we’re gonna be a row behind the benches and in high fiving distance to the locker room walk out.
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I made this badass bitch based off my friend and his favorite pearls and things #queerart #raccoon #artistsofbluesky
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
That is what was relayed
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I cannot watch state of the unions without Hasan filtering and cracking jokes anymore am I broken or is it this fascist nation
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Release the Gale Brophy Rolodex files
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Ok I LOVE upstate NY bc what do you mean there’s a queer beer league hockey team called The Bombers and my GF signed us up for info night after watching The Cottage
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Got so stoned I forgot the word Bodega and referred to it as the “food dispensary”
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Love through upstate NY winters where neighbors have to snow blow eachother out bc the city just decides hey we don’t have to plow THAT street
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
After throwing a massive tantrum about any of the baristas taking off for the holidays, the cafe owner ducked off to another state for 2 weeks. I’m gonna crash out
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
My kids been watching the original Pokémon and singing the song but sings “gotta catch a ball, gotta catch a ball” and it’s so cute
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I’ve been working on a big crow and fish focused restock for my last Holiday market this year! I’m looking forward to having some downtime from them after this. It wears me OUT. Chag Sameach to everyone lighting up tonight. Oy to The World.
A desk covered with block prints on orange and blue toned handmade paper. There’s an A frame cabin Baba Yaga, a crow with “Crow City, Troy NY”, a crow with “King of The Trash” and a red salmon breaking down a dam. My child and I lighting the menorah in our messy apartment.
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The dog stole my entire loaf of farmers market sourdough and took two bites before abandoning it and I am SO SAD I couldn’t enjoy it
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A Big Gay Market📍Upstate New York @abiggaymarket.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
We are returning to Troy as our first regional pop-up market of the New Year at one of our FAVORITE venues - Mount Ida Preservation Hall! 🌈 ✅ APPLY TODAY 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We cannot wait to gather in queer and gender expansive joy at Mount Ida again in March 2026! 🫂
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Boomer came in to the coffee shop telling me protesters in the 60s had more balls than today. I asked if he ever saw his friends get shot in the head with a 40mm or go up against a tank or Boston dynamic dog.
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
In case you’re looking for it, you can find it tomorrow at the Punk Rock Flea Market at Empire Live in Albany
A little red book titled “The Gay Agenda”
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The way some people were talking about the gay hockey show I was expecting hardcore gay porn and I am severely disappointed
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
It’s always “play holiday music in the cafe” until I turn on radical Yiddish klezmer bops and suddenly I’m the problem
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Some recent block prints. Available this weekend at my booth at the Troy Farmers Market Saturday and the Upstate Punk Rock Flea market on Sunday. Available next week at Nerdy By Nature
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Shout out to Train Guy in the coffee shop, I love a shouting Train Guy
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The Toddler had their first school snow day today and we got like 8” of powder throughout the day. We also Watched Frozen for the first time Drank endless hot chocolate Got pizza Took a 2.5hr nap in The Big Bed
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
We’ve reached weird freaky little guy o’clock
A block print of a freaky flamingo with a snakey neck. It’s yelling and its tongue is sticking out. This is a test print, purple on white paper. A final print of the freaky flamingo, bright pink ink on black cotton rag paper.
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Blood Moon Adirondack Baba Yaga
A block print of a red moon and a black A frame cabin baba Yaga on blue handmade paper
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Sometimes you find your weird gen x coffee shop regular’s YouTube channel with thousands of videos about nothing in particular and feel like an absolute sicko voyeur
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Love this small town coffee shop where the local gay grandpa comes in complaining about a ticket and everyone pitches in to help and remind him he can’t have caffeine after 3 so hot chocolates ONLY
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Tying the Chappell roan tour bandanas to the headboard for ✨activities✨ I think she’d be proud
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I’ve had two of my best indoor market weekends in a row at the Troy farmers market this month and I’m just very grateful for this little community loving my art
A block print of a crow framed by the words “crow city, Troy NY”
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
“Baba I made you a turkey!” I love preschool crafts sm
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Coolest gift I’ve received this year is a hand collected and roasted batch of beans from a Zapatista farm in Chiapas. Given to me in a qt container with a handwritten label. Absolutely brilliant
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
It’s been snowing all night and morning but the defunded weather report is saying it’s 38 and sunny
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The issue with working at an oddities shop is I have become very attached to a taxidermy skunk named Samson and he just got adopted and I am going to MISS HIM How could someone buy my favorite little stinker
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The zoomer next to me just described Coheed and Cambria as “that old school rock band” and I am going to KMS. Claudio went to my middle and high school, he was a year ahead of me, I saw their first show at The Backdoor and snuck out to see them at FYE at the palisades center mall
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Returned my change and got enough for a weeks worth of groceries
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I lowkey love working the coffee shop in the snow. I love making lavender mochas and reading in the window bc nobody’s coming in. This slaps
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 09/11/2025
‘End of SNAP Benefits Could Be Good for Business,’ Says Owner of Torch & Pitchfork Emporium: tinyurl.com/48mw8sr6
Proud business owner holding pitchfork in front of pioneer town-style building with a sign reading "Torch & Pitchfork Emporium" and assortment of pitchforks and torches outside.
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Just found out my rapist died of cancer this week Lemme get a rot in hell loser in the chat
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/11/2025
Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-a…
Claim: Mamdani is a communist.

False: Any real communist will happily spend six hours explaining why this isn’t true.
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A Big Gay Market📍Upstate New York @abiggaymarket.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
It’s time to announce our next A Big Gay Market! 🌈 We cant wait to spread holiday cheer gathering in gender expansive and queer JOY! 📅Sunday, December 7th 📍Washington Park Lake House in Albany ⏰10AM - 4PM 😷We have our KN 95 Mask Mandated Hour indoors from 10AM - 11AM with free KN95s available!
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I made a video talking about our local food pantries being overwhelmed yesterday and it’s very true. My regular FP alone is doing more than 5x the amount of pick ups in a day and there’s more and more people signing up. They ran out of bread while I was on line yesterday. Give MONEY to your FP
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Tbf their audio/visual tour was hosted on Nintendo DS until earlier this year
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The password to the Louvre’s video surveillance system was “Louvre,” according to a museum employee
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Password to Louvre’s video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee
According to an employee with knowledge of the system, the password to the Louvre's video surveillance system was simply "Louvre" at the time of the robbery last month.
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Swamp Cryptid @opalhexen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Ok now that it’s over I can say Sliwa is batshit sure but he cares about the city so much, and cats, make him Cat Mayor of NYC
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
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