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Schmowder

@schmowder.bsky.social
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Tiny YouTuber @Schmowd3r PI with a JD. Part time embroiderer, bowyer, hobby collector

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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 17h
Restorative justice requires recognition of harm. Jacob Geller becoming a YouTuber less than 2 years after his suspension for rape, knowing that his crime was fresh in dozens of peoples’ minds yet still trying to keep it a secret, tells me that he doesn’t recognize the seriousness of his crime.
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Taylor Lorenz isn’t beating the racism allegations any time soon
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
People on iNat will really be like “look it’s a plant idk”
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I’m on day 8 of the Depp v Heard trial and the fact that I’m only 1/3 of the way through makes me want to weep
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Ophie Dokie 🌻 @ophiedokie.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It's wonderful that the early COG videos containing misinformation have been delisted! I hope that contrary to what she said, she does watch Schmowder's video and see his call to donate the recent back and forth motivated adsense to OurVoice, as the victims have said is the best way to support them.
ourvoicenc.org
Our VOICE | Supporting Survivors of Rape, Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Happy belated car hitiversary to my dog here’s a compilation of her relearning how to walk
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I hunt the most dangerous game 😤
An arrow piercing a Smuckers Uncrustable sandwich
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
For the last few years right wing social media has been saturated with misinfo saying that every mass shooter has been trans. Despite claiming to believe this, they weren’t galvanized til a trans shooter actually happened. Makes me doubt that they believe the conspiracy theories they spread
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Charlie Kirk chose to be an existential threat to innocent people. It’s people like him or people like us. I don’t want to hear about how it’s sad that he didn’t win his own vicious ultimatum.
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
As a trans gun owner, I don’t love all of the advocacy for trans gun ownership following the “ban.” Suicide is our biggest threat. Owning a firearm is THE factor that determines whether a suicidal person survives. For anyone with a recent history ideation, gun ownership is almost never worth it
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Boys Don’t Cry is one of the most hateful movies that I’ve ever seen. I believe that the director was trying to be empathetic, but it’s staggeringly cruel. I’ve had multiple trans men tell me that they delay their transition for years after watching it.
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
It’s weird how companies are harvesting personal data. Yet, whenever I’ve worked with companies catching insurance fraudsters, the data reports are absolutely garbage. They often get addresses wrong. If you don’t have public social media tied to your name, your insurer won’t know what you look like
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
1 star reviews on “worlds largest _____” tourist attractions are my comfort content
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Brittney Griner mentions Grey’s Anatomy no less than 5 times in her autobiography
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I stumbled on this unsettling yet cute reminder that mountain lions are just huge, frightening cats. Finding something they want and climbing somewhere inconvenient with it is so authentically cat
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Lola Jovan @lolajovan.com · 04/08/2025
Renunciation oil on canvas panel 20 x 24 The road to human development is paved with renunciation. Throughout our life we grow by giving up. - JUDITH VIORST Get the art: www.lolajovan.com/store/p771/r... #art #painting #figurative #femaleportrait #oilpainting Story-ALTtext⬇️
A woman in a kimono leans forward, hand at her throat, emotional, unsighted.

The quote continues:

“ We give up some of our deepest attachments to others. We give up certain cherished parts of ourselves.  We must confront, in the dreams we dream, as well as in our intimate relationships, all that we never will have and never will be. Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose… It is only through our losses that we become fully developed human beings”

I've been contemplating loss.

Loss in the wider world (human rights, decency, compassion, freedom), how those losses impact my small world, and also the losses associated with living a life.

Some attachments are willingly forgone - it was nothing to embrace a vegetarian lifestyle many years ago, for example.  A joy, even, which continues today.   Some attachments are severed, rather than given up - when people leave or physical abilities vanish in the blink of an eye (or at the blunt end of an accident).  And some attachments erode slowly over time, until one day you wake up and realize they are gone, whatever (or whoever) they were.

In my best moments of loss-wrangling, I have embraced the empty space, allowing it to be just that - empty - knowing it creates room for opportunity.

And in my worst moments of navigating loss I have held on with clenched fists, breathless and bracing myself, resisting the inevitable.  It never goes well.

When I look back on all of the embraced empty spaces and what they have become, I am dazzled, gobsmacked and bowled over by the joy, the fortune, the pure magic of what came to fill those spaces.  And if I focus on that, the next renunciation is easier, more graceful and more peaceful.

I am unsure how this works with the wider world and those losses, but I am contemplating it, allowing space for something, anything to make those losses feel like openings
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Finally done with Jax’s aromatic cedar frame. I brought her portrait to her vigil and found that people wanted to touch it. So, I carved the frame to be comforting to touch. Plus the grooves help hide my awful joinery skills #art #embroidery
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
2014 tumblr was far too harsh on Shaliene woodley
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Received my first copy of PI magazine and I’m not feeling optimistic
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
A cute dog. I chose the colors after thinking about how strange it is that, at sunrise, the sky transitions from yellow to blue without any green #embroidery #art #gsd
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Portrait of Jax Gratton that I hand embroidered. Not as good as justice, but it’s all I can do #embroidery #art
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
After 120+ hours my portrait of Jax Gratton is finally 80% done. All hand embroidery. Made with love and anger #justiceforjax #trans
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
A few years back I found an abandoned mine with electric blue drainage and I think about it every single day. Blue mine water is my Roman Empire
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I embroidered this shirt a few years ago. Seems more relevant than ever #art #embroidery
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Averaging nearly once a minute
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Justin Baldoni’s feminism is pastel complimentarianism
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Remember the black mirror episode about social media being addictive where the social media CEO was just a sad little guy who was a victim too. Riveting social commentary.
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Cat memorial portrait for a friend #embroidery #cats #art
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Hand embroidered portrait of Derrick Rump, Club Q victim. It’s about 14” tall. I’m working on the other victims. It takes an eternity, but that’s the point. The news cycle moves fast, but their memories linger #embroidery #art #portrait #queer
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Been playing with wood engraving. I glued some maple. Blocks together and I even “forged” my own bruin tool. I’m pretty happy with how it’s coming out! It’s similar to carving lino, but with potentially much more detail #printmaking #lino #blockprinting
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I’ve watched the leaked dance footage from it ends with us about 20 times today. The fact that the song is stuck in my head feels like a curse.
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Looks like American bite mark analysts are training Indian forensic odontologists to “match” bite marks to suspects in criminal cases. I guess false convictions are now an American export @innocenceproject.bsky.social
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I’m sincerely shocked that bolo ties aren’t more popular in the lesbian community. They go with most outfits, they look good with every gender presentation, and they’re a slam dunk for the crystal/astrology fans. Y’all are missing out
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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It was five years ago today that Breonna Taylor was murdered in her bed while sleeping by the Louisville, Kentucky police during a botched no knock warrant raid on the wrong home. Rest in Power, Breonna Breonna Taylor, 2020, by artist Amy Sherald #BlackLivesMatter #BlackHistory
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I’m seeing a lot of other lefties having awful takes about the trans military ban. Yes, the military is bad. However, trans people enlist at 2x the normal rate. Often to escape bigoted families. The US military is the largest employer of trans people in the world. 🧵
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Just a little landscape of Mt. Antero. Embroidery by me, picture by my husband #art #embroidery #colorado
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Look what the fuck I just found in the woods #cat #camping
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I enjoy being married 50x more than any straight person
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Here’s a knife I made for my husband’s grandparents a few months back. It ain’t perfect but they liked it! #knives #blacksmithing #bladesmithing #art
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I painted my husband’s carhartt jacket! All done by hand #art #painting #fashion #camping
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I hand-embroidered the frames for Toni Collette’s “I am your mother” scene a few years back. #animation #art #embroidery #hereditary
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Another cat portrait. I used a steel heat chart as the color palate. Except for the eyes, obviously #art #cat #embroidery
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
A memorial for a friend of a friend #embroidery #dog #art
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I’m making a stained glass lamp from traditionally knapped obsidian #art #stainedglass
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Hand embroidered portrait of Daniel Davis Aston, murdered at Club Q in 2022 #art #embroidery #queer
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
One of my favorite commissions from last year #art #embroidery #cat
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Schmowder @schmowder.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Officially 6 months since my dog was hit by a car. Her lower spine was pulverized and she had a 5% chance of walking again. But here we are
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