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Rikki Strong

@rmstrong.bsky.social
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Author, crazy chicken and cat lady, mom of preschooler and teenager.

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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Happy Rose City Comic Con! @rosecitycc.bsky.social!
New line tattoo of a balloon dog.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you’re in the area, stop by the Oregon State Fair and say hi!
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We were one of the hundred or so who had that unfortunate hiccup with the 2026 calendar, but are still so excited to help kickstart a fourth pin to go on the wall! Zoey, Zo-speare, and Walpole need a friend. 😂 @matthewkrol.nebula.tv, @extracredits.bsky.social, @whatwilliplay.bsky.social
Various push pins from ExtraCredits fundraisers. In clockwise order: A black cartoon cat with large green eyes riding a red push pin in Shakespeare garb, a black cat with  reading a red book with a fish on the cover, and a pin of Walpole, in EC “bean” style, winning and pointing riding a pushpin.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Berry picking. A rite of passage for every Oregonian, and the best ADHD chore. Getting the dopamine not only from filling the boxes, but nothing is really regimented and you can go up and down the row as you wish.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
46 don’t look so bad. Now, if the world could please stop falling apart, that would be great.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Think if I show up for jury duty with this laptop I might be excused? 😂 Thanks to The Happy Givers for the statement stickers #ActivismThroughStickers
Laptop cover with a variety of stickers saying “Protect kids not guns,” “if your faith makes you hate someone, rethink your faith (in Spanish), “will trade racist for refugees,” “the loss of empathy is the start of barbarism,” and “if you are more fortunate than others, build a longer table, not a taller fence,” among others.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Nine. That’s how many. I could have done more, but I got distracted by yelling at the TV.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Sitting down with the fam for an anti capitalism Christmas movie. 🤣 Take that, Kinga! We’re watching this on Christmas (Eve Eve) Spending Christmas Eve with some of our favorite parasocial buds… @jonahrayrodrigues.bsky.social, @felicia.day, @pattonoswalt.bsky.social, @bv-tv.bsky.social
Screenshot of the title card of MST3K’s episode “The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t”
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Bingo! @whatwilliplay.bsky.social @matthewkrol.nebula.tv @extracredits.bsky.social
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
It is Chicken Makin’ Week. Holidays Bazaar Season starts this weekend, and this year it’s even more important to provide some emotional support to people.
A pile of knitted Emotional Support Chickens. Over the week, they will be finished and stuffed.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Resistance is… itchy. Stay safe out there today, everyone. Keep your wits about you and don’t let anyone goad you into anything.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
New ink. May not be able to attend protests (I have too many people that need me to not go to jail), but this is my resistance. Thanks, Ken at Skin City, Tigard!
Brand new tattoo of a black thorn vine heart with red roses and green leaves. Above, the words say, “If empathy is a sin,” and below says, “I will sin boldly.”
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Looking north and east towards downtown Portland.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Baby’s First Con! 🥰
A 6 1/2 year old in a Kirby shirt standing in front of a Rose City Comic Con backdrop.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
New frien. 🥰
Brown and white owlbear plushie.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
When the bag you came with is, technically, big enough to hold everything, but the 1” strap is digging into your shoulder… what can you do but buy a bigger, more comfortable bag? Nerds have the best merch. #RoseCityComicCon
A dark khaki messenger bag with a leather “bag of holding” embellishment.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
On my way to #RoseCityComicCon. And, same, bus… same.
Video display on mass transit. Error message reads “Could not open resource for reading and writing.”
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Happy Gotcha Day, Jakers. 🥰
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Because we will always support physical media of things we love when we can…
Photo of the BluRay edition of Star Trek Lower Decks complete series
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Oh @nebula.tv… Your closed captioning never fails to make me laugh. And this isn’t even the worst offender, just the one I stopped on when Smalls was going on about how, when he’s older, he’ll make Roblox safe for kids. @matthewkrol.nebula.tv @whatwilliplay.bsky.social
Will and Matt from Games for Breakfast from August 18, 2025.

Caption should read, “Hey, everyone, Matt from Extra Credits here…”

Instead, it reads, “Hey everyone. Matt Mixer credits Here…”
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Look at those beautiful butt-nuggets! 😍 The girls are producing again! (A heads-up to those who are new-this-year chicken parents: They usually stop, or greatly reduce, producing for about three months due to short days and long nights.)
Twenty four tan and brown, freshly cleaned, chicken eggs from Hepzibah, Aloy, and Lady Buffy Peckington II, our backyard chickens.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Sunday afternoons are made for napping.
Brindle dog curled up asleep on the bed.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
@matthewkrol.nebula.tv , the young human wants to know if Zoey gets a pat for every time someone watches her “God’s Fluffy Murder Machine” video. Because she absolutely deserves it. Calvin and Rosemary agree.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Would not have guessed this was Jake’s makeup. His Dobie-Lab grandparent’s genes are definitely dominant to fight their way through all that Terrier. But still. He’s 95% good boi, 5% chaos monkey, and 100% loved.
DNA results showing Jake is 70% American Pitt, 12.5% Doberman, 9% Labrador, and the rest “Supermutt” Sleeping brindle-colored chaos monkey.Jake and Mom (me) on the couch. Jake is asleep and snoring, forcing me to not get up off of the couch.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
In order to not have to think about the entire weight of the federal government coming down on less than 200 US citizens (one of them my very own child), here is a sleepy chicken outside my kitchen window that she has made very dirty. Bluesky, meet Aloy. #ChickensOfBluesky
A dark grey hen sitting on the other side of dirt-streaked window glass with her eyes closed.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Jake does not like the cone of shame. But it keeps him from chewing on his toe, which he sliced on something outside on Saturday. He also missed his normal afternoon nap from while at the vet. Between being the bestest boy with the doctor and nurses and the pain, he’s a very tired puppers.
Sleeping brindle Plott hound mix in an Elizabethan collar snuggled on a pillow on the floor.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Jake says, “What’s a new year?” Hopefully, the neighbor’s midnight mortars won’t keep him from being as chill as he is now.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Middle paragraph is some of the most pro-colonialism stuff I’ve read in a very, very long time. 🤯 Reminds me of Melanie from “High Strung” (1991, same year as this book). “I was watching one of the protests from one of these backwards countries and I realized, ‘What a burden freedom must be.’”
It’s so bad, I don’t want to put it in alt text. It boils down to, “Maybe Europeans gave the brown people their freedom too early so we can continue to exploit them in the future.”
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Here mostly to get a time and place to finish final edits on two books. ADHD urgency is kicking in. Booth rental was free, so it’s a win-win.
Holiday bazaar booth full of independently published books, as well as assorted handmade items including bookmarks, knitted wearables, crocheted stuffies, perler bead magnets, etc.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Jake, from Throw a Dog A Bone Dog Rescue in Texas (now with us in Oregon) is the bestest boy. He’s great at helping mom get ready for the holiday bazaar tomorrow.
A brindle hound sleeping on the couch next to a cord stringer, ribbon, and a reversible drawstring bag.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
“No, Mom. No more knitting tonight.”
Kitty sleeping contentedly on a skein of yarn, her paws on a freshly-started project.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
The world is falling apart, so here is a sleepy kitty to help make your day better.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
And one more for luck
A happy, dark grey tortoiseshell/chartreux mix snoozing on her person.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
This is pretty much what we will see when we look up until March. Maybe April. (And then nothing June, July, and August.) At least historically (at least in the first 35 of my 43 years here). Though things have been changing recently. Unfortunately not when it comes to celestial events, though.
The view out a Starbucks picture window, showing thick, light grey cloud cover.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Caught Smalls making faces in the back seat this morning. He was “making an ugly face.” “That’s not ugly face, it’s adorable face. But I will admit that I am biased.”
5-year-old in a car seat with a closed-mouth smile, messy bangs, and bright brown eyes.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Calvin is no Hera or Persephone, but… we’re keeping him.
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Rikki Strong @rmstrong.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
This cold virus going around has meant that someone hasn’t been able to go to school in over a week. But today, we were finally able to get outside and go for a walk in the wooded park. Getting out in nature is the best medicine. (No, he’s not cold. He’s never cold. 🤦🏻‍♀️)
A smiling 5-year-old in a grey and rainbow lightning shirt, blue pants, and no jacket standing on a moss-covered log
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