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Ray Bernoff

@rmhbernoff.bsky.social
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Pleased to report that I continue to be a big fat disabled trans man. I make stuff. Worcester, MA raybernoff.com

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Come see this piece at Wickford Art Association in Wickford, RI from May 29-Jun 28, with an opening on May 29 from 5-7 pm!
A 12" square painting with many small items glued to it mosaic-style. A strip at the top of the painting is white, with all white and transparent items; the rest is blue, with areas that have a green background and show the original color of the items. The painting includes pens and pencils, resin scraps with a hexagonal tiled pattern, and a candy wrapper chain.Wickford Art Association
36 Beach Street * NK * RI
Outside the Lines
Avant Garde & Abstract
Juror, Michael Rose

Opening Reception
May 29 from 5-7 pm
On exhibit May 29-June 28, 2026
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Coming soon at ArtsWorcester -- selected by some wicked smart high school students!
Change, a juried exhibition produced and juried by the Future Arts Workers. On View May 20-June 21. Public reception: Wednesday, May 20, 6-8 pm. ArtsWorcester, 44 Portland Street, Worcester MA. A mixed media assemblage on a square piece of plywood. The piece is mostly yellow, with a grid of multicolored foam circles. One circle is decorated to look like a happy face.
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This is a sign...to see my work at a new show at Hunchback Gallery! Opening May 7, 6-9 pm, on view until June 13.
Split screen. Screen 1: A bright orange potato chip and apple, and a fork. Screen 2: a close-up of a red and blue painting with beads glued to it saying "are you positive", "but", and "how can we know".My art is part of This is a Sign Exhibition opening May 7 on view through June 13 - Hunchback Gallery - 75 Webster St, Worcester hunchbackgallery.com
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
These two pieces will be going up at Aplomb Gallery in Dover, NH! Opening May 1 at 5:30 pm.
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Thanks for sharing! 🫘
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I put together this page for Punkcake Independent Publishing's latest release, Punkcake Zines Volume 9! Get the full zine here: www.punkcake.org/store/p/punk... And please let me know if you make my beans!
Recipe card with block printed beans and can.
2-3 Tbsp rendered bacon fat, olive oil, or butter
1 onion, finely diced or pureed (or 1/2 tsp onion powder)
1 clove garlic, minced (or 1/2 tsp garlic powder)
1 Tbsp tomato paste (optional)
1 tsp vegetable, beef, or chicken bouillon paste, such as Better Than Bouillon (optional)
1 Tbsp smoked paprika
2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp dried basil
1/2 tsp oregano, preferably Mexican
Generous pinch ancho or cayenne chili powder
Pepper to taste
Salt to taste
1-2 Tbsp maple syrup or brown sugar (optional)
Two 15-ounce cans pinto, kidney, or black beans
1/4 cup bourbon whiskey, brandy, or beer
1 tsp lime juice

    Heat fat in a heavy-bottomed pot. If using fresh onion and garlic, sweat them.
    If using tomato paste and/or bouillon paste, cook out.
    Add spices and herbs and warm until fragrant, about a minute.
    Deglaze with alcohol. Pour beans, including bean canning liquid, into the pot. Reduce until bean liquid is thickened to close to desired consistency.
    Stir in lime juice just after removing from heat. The beans will thicken as they cool. You can mash the beans with a fork or potato masher if yo`u prefer a smoother texture.Punkcake zine cover. Black ink on pink. Travis, one of the zine editors, being hit in the face with a cupcake.
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Cut It Out Paper, clipper and razor blades, and acrylic on canvas I cut my own hair and shave with safety razors, the most economical option. I never know whether I'm practicing a noble asceticism or treating myself as though I have no value. I made Cut It Out to explore this ambivalence.
A square, gridlike composition of Wahl clipper blades and mixed brands of double-sided razor blades on a background of clipper instructions and razor blade wrappers. Rustlike orange paint mars the grid.A close-up showing the rust textureA close-up showing the red edges of the canvas
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Community Trash 27 2026 Mixed media art waste (acrylic, paper, beads) on canvas For number 27 I did something I very rarely do: add text. Specifically, spelling out snippets of phrases that repeat in my head when I'm anxious. #relatable?
A mixed media collage on canvas. The main colors are red and blue, exploding out from the center. Beads with letters on them spell "WHAT IF YOU'RE WRONG / BUT / MAYBE / BUT / ARE YOU POSITIVE / BUT / HOW CAN WE KNOWWEKNOWWEKNOWWEKNOW..."
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Kathleen Neeley @kathleenneeley.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
New linocut on kitakata paper
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Just the news I needed today! 🎉
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Aah, thank you! 🧜‍♀️
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Community Trash 26 - made this one for a Secret Santa!
A square abstract art piece, blue at the edges and turning green in the middle. It has many pieces of art waste -- pens, brushes, scraps of material and jewelry -- attached to it.
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I've been rereading old journal entries. November 2009 (had just turned 14): "I wore my starfleet uniform made out of long underwear. my mom was like 'you're gonna be so embarrassed don't go out in that' and my dad was like 'OH COOL A STARFLEET UNIFORM AWESOME'"
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 25/03/2026
this is y2k, to me
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mar 🛸 @remnantglow.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
hitting play on the audiobook of bang bodhisattva by aubrey wood and immediately being met with this epigraph is, i think, the fastest a book has ever made me laugh #trr26
"Fuck the police."
Old Klingon proverb
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SwampLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The year is 2027. McDonald's AI kiosk won't take my card until I decline a $1.99 protection plan on the happy meal toy. In a moment of weakness, I decide to pay for my 10 chicken nuggets over time with Klarna.
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
starting to do research on a subject you know nothing about is like me: "okay. first question: how do lawyers work?" source: "um... well, what kind of lawyer are we talking about" me: *writing down enthusiastically* there are types of lawyers
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orbette @orbette.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I absolutely burst out laughing
Neuter your Ex this Valentines Day We are providing funding for a trap, neuter and release programme for a colony of feral cats in the Barnton area. For a donation of £10, we will name one of the cats after your ex and neuter them! The donation can be made through justgiving. https://www.justgiving.com/rspca-altrincham-cheshire
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Laura Mariani @lauramariani.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Ashley continues to organize for Minnesotans and this is one more way you can help, if you're a frequent flyer. And: it's fucking bleak that we have to crowdfund flights for law-abiding people who have been abducted by ICE, taken to another state, released, and given NO help to get home.
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Worcester Magazine @worcestermagazine.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Worcester has long had a history of amazing secrets hidden inside old warehouses: Hunchback Gallery is the latest in that tradition.
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Bibbe Hansen show at Hunchback Gallery felt like old-school Worcester
Worcester has long had a history of amazing secrets hidden inside old warehouses: Hunchback Gallery is the latest in that tradition.
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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
New rule. Journalists aren't allowed to post puff pieces about impossible work and fitness schedules without asking stuff like "who does your laundry? Who cooks your steak and eggs? How does your dusting get done if you're out on a long run?"
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Five jobs I've had: - copywriter - a startup's sole marketing employee - freelance photographer - illicit barber - mall food court crepe restaurant cashier
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
If you see ICE in Massachusetts, call LUCE: 617-370-5023. They can get the info out to protect our vulnerable neighbors.
lucemass.org
LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
People so frequently say "get therapy" meaning "go become normal in a way I find acceptable" 🙃 Psychiatry writ large is about reifying and enforcing norms, but like...most of the time a therapist is going to coach you to accept yourself, not magically make you un-annoying to randos
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
from spinal stenosis and reluctantly living with my parents again as an adult. For Compulsion, I brought modular origami and disco objects together into one entity. It should be the ultimate comfort object, but it seems a bit too sharp for that. (end)
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
compulsively folding origami paper into Sonobe modules, making 12 to 120 of the same module to assemble into polyhedrons called kusudama. Disco objects emerged from my desire to control and beautify my limited environment at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when I was convalescing (cont'd)
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Disco Objects (Compulsion), 2025 Origami paper, papier-mache, acrylic, and mirror tile Modular origami and ‘disco objects’ (unconventionally shaped objects with reflective finishes) have long been two of my less serious creative hobbies. Every winter since I was a child, I’ve found myself (cont'd)
A stellated icosahedron covered in silver mirror tile
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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 20/01/2026
Regardless of how one feels about dairy I think we can all agree that we are further from God's light than we were in 1996 on this one:
A 1996 Got Milk ad featuring Dennis Rodman wearing a milk moustache, some jewelry, and nothing else. The photo ends just below his belly button piercing.
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I wrote the first draft of a near-future cyberpunk novel in 2024-2025 and it now feels like an utopian alternate universe instead of relatively sober speculative fiction 😬
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I resent it so much. I always look away even though it feels silly
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I need my cyberpunk back-alley surgeon called Stryker to have named herself after Susan
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Drew @dschnoeb.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
big, if true
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Secretions smelled like the penguin exhibit at my local aquarium to me 😬 definitely unusual!
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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 17/01/2026
This is what I looked like in 2016. It was an angry time in my life, I don’t think I acted well all the time, but ultimately I’m proud of how I saw myself through it
Statue of a man fighting babies
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
He's out there...somewhere...
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Hey there Delilah What's it like in Roku City?
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
mrbeast should be a position like president rather than a specific guy, and we should be able to impeach — or otherwise overthrow — the current one and replace him with someone else. it’s time for us to install leftist mutual aid mrbeast. he will heal our broken nation
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Oof, felt
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Also, egg industry consolidation and monopolization
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B. Smalls @bigendiansmalls.com · 15/01/2026
Ok fellow skeeters - this is how we take care of each other. I’ll match the next 1,000$ in donations. Reply below when you donate.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Don't let Zimbardo win
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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Dear artists, it's hard avoiding wondering if what we do is irrelevant or an insult when it's harsh, scary, dangerous & violent out there, but one thing is always true as stone: someone will need what you do, someone won't, & you won't know the difference. Err on the side of hope. Create if u can.
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Eric @esb.lol · 15/01/2026
lol lmao even
Post by Bluesky on X: "NEW FEATURE: This button allows you to opt out of having images you post on X turned into porn"

Screenshot showing the Bluesky login screen, cursor hovering over "Create a new account"A reply to the X post "@grok put a bikini on this butterfly". Grok complies. Image below shows the same screenshot from the original post, but with a bikini on the Bluesky logo.Screenshot of the Bluesky X account, showing that we changed our avi to the bikini butterfly. New bio: "Proilfe picture created by Grok without our consent"
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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
writing is so funny because you think wow I hope people read this thing I made but also oh no what if people read it
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The Boston-area also has some pretty robust rapid response networks in place already. People doing this work are actively building capacity for a surge. We are ready.
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Community Trash #25 (Black Rose) Mixed media art waste (acrylic, spray paint, plastic and wood detritus) on canvas This one is so called because I accidentally made it a similar color scheme to the Thin Lizzy album cover of the same name by Jim Fitpatrick.
An abstract painting on canvas. The background is blue and the foreground is deep purple, dimensional swirls and speckles of red-painted art trash.Thin Lizzy's Black Rose album cover, which is an illustration of a black rose with red blood drops on it -- a similar color scheme to the trash painting
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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Not like I was gonna watch this anyway, but at this length you better be giving me two intermissions.
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Zera / Corey Jae 🏳️‍⚧️ @coreyjwhite.com · 07/01/2026
Ordinary Sausage is my emotional support cishet man. "Let's sausage!"
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