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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 19h

And witches are traditionally crones, so I fit the bill twice:

An upper torso portrait of yours truly (an elderly white woman wearing a red plaid flannel shirt & small collection of jewelry) smiling at the camera.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 23h

I'm maximizing my sex appeal today[*]

Yours truly (an elderly white woman) slumped in stereotypical bisexual pose (sideways, with my legs against/over one of the arms) in a overstuffed recliner.

I'm wearing a wool beret, an unbuttoned pale green henley top, and a red & black plaid miniskirt. I am *radiating* low-effort vibes here.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 11/10/2026

Today's look. Dark coloured clothing has the unfortunate side-effect of making me look a lot boxier than I want to look, but, alas, I *like* weating dark clothing. (The beret is newly delivered, and it came vacuum packed so it's still more pointy and angular that I'd like!)

Yours truly (an elderly white woman) sitting in a comfy armchair (that needs to be cleaned, alas, wearing a red beret, black shrug, black underbust corset, and a blue high-low hemmed dress.

Note the PDX airport earrings, as well as the obligatory nora reed designs glass drop necklace.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 11/10/2026

So this is what my winter mornings look like now that fuel oil is more expensive than gold. I wake up because there's a small fuzzy blob (my cat Thor) curled up, comfy, and most importantly SHOVING ME OFF THE PILLOW so she can make herself even more comfortable.

Yours truly (an elderly white woman lying topless in her bed) being shoved off to the side of a pillow by a small longhaired tortoiseshell cat.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 11/10/2026

It was really nice to meet you and @billhookunion.beanyear.com as well, but of course the star of the event was the esteemed Mr. Onion! :-)

Mr. Onion -- an elderly floofy tabby cat -- sits on spindlypete's kitchen counter.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 10/10/2026

It's actually kind of cold today, so break out the leggings and long sleeved tunics so I can go out for a short ride to the drugstore. (And, as always, the @nora.zone glass drop necklaces)

Yours truly (an elderly white woman, wearing a black long-sleeved tunic, black leggings, and a green plaid miniskirt) sits in an armchair.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 08/10/2026

I believe mine spell out VANILLA:

A "kink jar" meme that shows a bunch of mason jars that are filled to the level of your kink.

I am not kinky AT ALL.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 08/10/2026

Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of The Big Yeet, so for Yeetyear's eve I packed up all the boy clothes I could find and took them down to Goodwill. I haven't actually worn them for a long time, but it's good to get them out of the house.

The emergency randonneuse (an orange steel-framed bicycle with a large rando bag and front & rear racks) and my bob yak stand propped on the bogie of a Goodwill semi trailer. The bob yak is loaded with a large cardboard box and a grocery bag.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 07/10/2026

cats & cherries, in skirt form:

Yours truly (an elderly white woman with almost white hair) leaning against my fireplace while wearing a straw summer hat, black shrug, purple corset, and a Crowlines skirt with a cats & cherries pattern. My visible jewelry today are a couple of earrings made from Aya & Mitsuki charms (from the Green Yuri), my ying/yang choker, and a trans-coloured glass drop necklace from Nora Reed Designs.

(and Pride socks. Mustn't forget the Pride socks.)

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 06/10/2026

"Jessica, you should dress like your age." "No."

Yours truly (an elderly white woman with pretty much all white hair) wearing a bunch of jewelry, an brown off-the-shoulder scoop neck top, a black corset, dark green plaid miniskirt, and black and purple striped stockings.

I'm sitting in a brown paisley upholstered chair in front of a bookshelf.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 06/10/2026

Alas, alas, I cannot preorder that book because it's too late for me:

Holding up my hardback copy of Children of Owl (written by Darcie Little Badger, illustrated by Abigail Rajunov)

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 05/10/2026

I've managed to lose enough weight so I can wear my ying/yang choker necklace w/o immediately feeling restricted and needing to tear it off, so that, plus it being monday, means you get to see me modelling it.

Yours truly (an elderly white woman with nearly white hair) sitting in a comfy chair & grinning at the camera. I am wearing a purple dress (partially unbuttoned to show a collection of necklaces, and the top of my corset), transparent-rimmed glasses, a pair of red hoop earrings (the right one is hidden by my hair), and my grandfather's straw hat

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 05/10/2026

"Honey, the landscapers are here!" :-)

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 04/10/2026

I'm up too late; time to post flannel:

Yours truly (an elderly white woman with white(ish) hair) wearing a red flannel shirt that's tied up under my boobs and showing my all-but-nonexistant cleavage.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 04/10/2026

(Probably not) like this?

United Railway Trust (KCS) 2000 -- an ILW eco-644-2 -- in heritage grey KCS paint, but lettered KC instead of KCS

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 03/10/2026

Admit it, you secretly lust after the platonic ideal of a diesel road switcher.

Milwaukee Road #578 -- A rebuilt Alco RSC-2 with a RS-32 style low short hood -- in orange & black.

(Alco builder's photo)

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 03/10/2026

Amazingly, three bingos on this front:

The "Teenage girl dysphoria bingo" meme, with a diagonal, vertical, and horizontal bingo marked.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 03/10/2026

It does fix what ails you!

Your humble narrator -- a brown & red haired white person -- wearing a KEEP OUT OF DIRECT SUNLIGHT t-shirt and jeans.

They're slim and fit, and doing an ok job of cosplaying as a man.

Your humble narrator -- a *very* washed out redheaded white woman -- in a purple cap, stripy Orvis camp shirt, and a purple miniskirt.

I'm sitting on a bench in front of some artworks, and am not cosplaying as a man in this picture.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 02/10/2026

Visiting the art museum on free thursday (and my partner's birthday):

yours truly (an elderly white woman wearing a purple skirt, stripy camp shirt, pink glasses, and a purple cap) sitting on a bench in front of a pair of paintings.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 30/09/2026

I think my attempt to get a better supply of syringes & needles online was a failure. Behold! Three bandaids covering 3 holes where I maybe managed to inject .4ml of a .6ml dose of EV!

Three clustered dot bandages on my right thigh, covering the three holes where I tried to inject EV this afternoon.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 27/09/2026

Another day, another (PG rated) corset. This, too, will be worn with a shirt under it, but if I were 30 years younger nobody would have been able to stop me from being hilariously awkward in public with it.

Yours truly (an elderly white woman with almost white hair) wearing a plaid wool skirt and an over-the-bust corset. There is some tiny cleavage to be found, but alas my boobs are overwhelmed by the diameter of my upper chest.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 26/09/2026

It's friday, I've got a plush dust mite, and so, as I have done for almost the past twenty years, it's time to do Friday Dust Mite Blogging™ And this week, I'm going to annoy bsky as well:

My plush Giant Microbes dust mite sits on a sheet of printer paper that has PAID stamped all over it.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 24/09/2026

I am an old and was pretty much me before I started playing computer games:

The 9games meme (9 boxes in a 3×3 grid) all empty except for a photo of the cover of the box for the original D&D rulesets in the center box.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 24/09/2026

This is a good day for an underbust corset. (not gonna post it as I want to wear it -- sans shirt -- but even in today's "not quite adjusted properly" fit it does a pretty good job of emphasizing my largish, but still small for my frame, tits. A girl wants to flatter herself, after all.)

Yours truly (an elderly white haired woman) wearing a Nora Reed Designs twenty-sided dice necklace a cream/white shirt, an purple under-the-boobs corset, and a purple skirt.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 19/09/2026

It's always a good day for a plush dust mite to break the law:

Dust Mite sits on the paid fare zone side of the paid fare line at the downtown Milwaukie interurban station.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 19/09/2026

Heh. Guess how many tabs are contained in this screenshot? ;-)

The dock on my macbook, with an endless army of firefox windows marching off into the distance.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 16/09/2026

Time to pay the railway content toll for excessive politics posting. This is a builder's drawing of Amtrak eco-440fe #400, which were purchased for operation on Amtrak routes that branch off the NE Corridor into New England:

Amtrak eco-440fe #400 in Phase 5 colours. The eco-440fe is a streamlined dual-power locomotive that produces 4000 HP (+400HP HEP) from a Cummins QSK95 in diesel power, and about 6600 HP when operating under wire.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 15/09/2026

As always, Lincoln said it better:

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

(Abraham Lincoln, in his letters)

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 13/09/2026

Railway content time: One of the eco-644s that the Cape Breton Railway purchased after ground was broken on the long-promised Sydney container port. Most of the container freight to and from this port is handled by URY & CNR pool trains, so these units are primarily used for power balancing.

Cape Breton Railway eco-644 (phase 2, with ILW Vista Cab) in CBR's green and white variant of the LT&L's tricolour paint scheme.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 08/09/2026

All facemasked up after a surgery followup appointment

Yours truly (an elderly white haired white woman) all facemasked up at the doctor’s office after seeing a man about my vagina.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 08/09/2026

Railroad content of the morning. What does an ex-N&W C-628 look like after 50+ years of service? Well, in the case of LT&L #695, it looks more like what happens when a C-628 & M-630 love each other very much:

LT&L C-635 (a remanufactured Alco C-628 with a Cummins QSK78 prime mover & Dofasco zwt trucks) in fresh tricolour paint.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 08/09/2026

e.g. (but with a building instead of a statue)

The Portland Elk at the grand unveiling, with a bicycle carrying a placard welcoming back the "Monstrosity of art" (a quote from a member of the Portland Elks Club when the statue was first installed in 1901)

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 07/09/2026

The "oh wow I'm actually hot!" moment will come much sooner than you think it will. (as an example, here is a photo my son took this spring; maybe not hot, but definitely cute, and it shows the benefit of me not trying to set the timer, get into place, and get a non-grumpy expression on my face):

Yours truly (an elderly white woman with white hair) grinning up at the camera while I hold onto the emergency randonneuse (a handbuilt 650b bicycle with a front bag & panniers -- both loaded with groceries. The bicycle is mainly painted traction orange, but there are lots of raw spots on the paint from when I retrofitted it with disc brakes.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 06/09/2026

Railway content for Sunday the 6th of September. Eastport Dock & Terminal RSD-29 (originally a RS-18, reshod with Dofasco C-C trucks from a scrapped M630, then remanufactured with an AC drivetrain & a Cummins QSK50):

Eastport Dock & Terminal RSD-29 #1020 in bright blue paint. This ex-MLW RS-18 is riding on 3-axle Dofasco trucks and has the vertical air intake filters that identify it as an ILW eco-class remanufactured locomotive.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 06/09/2026

(hypersonic squealing!)

The cover reveal of "The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't A Guy At All" volume 5

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 05/09/2026

Ob-railway with graffiti content (PV&T super-power motor #220, with a copy of the graffiti that had been applied to it before it was remanufactured into class II):

PV&T class II superpower motor (a 3-unit B+B+B+B+B+B+B double-ended streamlined unit) in State of Maine colours (blue/white/red, lettered STATE OF MAINE / PARSONS VALE SHOPS / LOCOMOTIVES) with a faithful replica of the IRON BULL graffiti that was applied to it before it was remanufactured into class II

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 02/09/2026

Too much politics; it's time for railway content! Toronto Suburban Railway #1079, which arrived on the property in 2007 to replace (most of the) elderly and woefully underpowered 1067-class boxcabs (CC&F 1942) that it had been using as switchers in Preston & Mississauga.

Toronto Suburban Railway class O2 steeplecab motor #1079 (Portland Shops 2007), in TSR peach cream colours.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 01/09/2026

The water tank from the burned out remains of Centennial Mills lasted longer than I thought, but when I rode by this afternoon it was in the throes of being nibbled to death by a large mechanical duck.

The water tank from the (burned, then demolished) Centennial Mills complex was being cut apart with a VERY LARGE pair of metal snips (mounted to an excavator, thus "mechanical duck") this afternoon.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 31/08/2026

The cars that were kept for MOW service had a much more glamorous life; they were all rebuilt as open-ended office cars for inspection trains on the TdM & LT&L's Québec electrification. These cars have continuously been updated, and are still operate today.

Terminal de Montréal M972 -- a fancy MOW vehicle (with an open observation platform) for the TdM's track and overhead crews -- in traction orange.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 31/08/2026

Mandatory railway content. The TdM operated a suburban commuter service from Montréal to St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu from approximately 1859 to 1970. Post WW2, these Brill suburban cars operated the line, and 9 survived past discontinuance (4 as TdM MOW vehicles, 5 to trolley museums.) /1

Terminal de Montréal Brill suburban coach 1320P in traction orange with stained glass arched windows.

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Orc @pell.portland.or.us · 31/08/2026

And for a bit of class 1 representation (ex Roberval & Saguenay #41, recovered from the Benoit Girard Métal yard in 2022, then remanufactured after the United Railway Trust merger): #art #nothingsucceedslikeexcess #Icanresisteverythingexcepttemptation #don'tscraprecycle

LT&L #1930 (a remanufactured Alco C-420 of LIRR heritage, most recently R&S #41) in United Railway Trust colours.

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