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The Ornery Shepherd

@theorneryshepherd.bsky.social
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Sheep farmer. I used to research & teach the stuff that bunches Fascist-panties (AKA anthropology & global studies). Purveyor of fine heritage wools and f-bombs. theorneryshepherd.etsy.com

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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
#sheepsky
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
#sheepsky
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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 11/10/2025
Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!
The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
New bracelets are up in the shop! TheOrneryShepherd on Etsy #resist #knitting #knittersagainstfascism
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
They're just SO pretty. (New sprinkle colorways in our Bulky weight 🧶) Find em at theorneryshepherd on etsy! #gulfcoastnativewool #skysheep #farmfresh #buylocal
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
If the old man wants caramel corn, the old man gets caramel corn. He's about 100 in people-years, and he's been a trash panda the entire time, so why get weird about it now? 🤷🏼 #notanalmondmom
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I once requested that a giant anteater take the left fork in the trail, and it politely did so (I was eating my lunch on the ground in the middle of the right fork). When in doubt, I always try to be courteous with wildlife. 😊 #peoplehoweverareawholeotherstory #farmsky
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I'll take "Not What I Needed Before my 2nd Cup of Coffee this Morning" for $1000, Alex. Good thing I still have those awesome Amazonian-rainy-season-mud skills. 😏
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Some shots from my last day at the Gwinnett Fair! 🐑 I'm loving our new GA Sheep sign 🐑 The "Petting Zoo" was a hit once more this year, as was my Diversity in Ag shirt 🐑 Pixie wheel was such a champ & always a crowd favorite 🧶 #countyfair #gasheep #pettingzoo #agisntjustforoldwhiteguys
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Had a great time helping out with the fleece judging at the Gwinnett County Fair yesterday. There were some real beauties!! #gasheep #gawool #gwinnettfair #skysheep #gulfcoastnativewool
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Dem Lives Matter bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Figured that some of y'all might need a dose of Emotional Support Lewis after this sh!tshow of a week. And, yes -- he eats his daily noms out of a Publix bakery frosting bucket. We're fancy like that. #emotionalsupport #momentofzen #farmlife
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Apparently, that local hay slaps. 😏 #skysheep #gulfcoastnativesheep
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Rosalie REALLY enjoys her job (protecting the 🐑🐑🐑 & her boyfriend 🐐 Lewis & her BFF 🐶 Bella). #workingdog #skydog #dogsky
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/07/2025
It's not political to think people shouldn't be starved to death.
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
A(tticus)SMR ♥️ #skysheep #gulfcoastnativesheep
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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 18/07/2025
WGBH building in Boston today
View of the WGBH building in Boston with an electronic marquee reading “Local. Trusted. Defunded.”
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The view from my window. 🦌#hellofren
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I mean, it has been a while since I read the Bible, but I don't remember the part where Jesus says, "F*ck you. I got mine.". 🤷🏼
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/06/2025
Brilliant. 10/10. No notes.
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Lady Bird always enjoys a cool, refreshing treat when she knows it's gonna be a HOT one. #heatwave #skysheep #sheepsky #gulfcoastnativesheep #backyardgarden 🧶
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Here's the thing re: our system of gov't. The president isn't above other branches. He doesn't "own" the gov't or the nation. Our constitutional system of checks & balances is to insure 1 person can't drag the nation to ruin We the People get to weigh in thru Congress. Except now. When we don't.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/06/2025
He has to pay $2.3M.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
You guys…..when Corey says it’s bad
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Oh, ffs. We've had those in GA for ages. Y'all'll survive. 🙄
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
For the record: The Confederates fought a war against the United States to defend the institution of slavery. Period.
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I'm not crying. You're crying. 🥹
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
🚨 Don’t let the USPS fall into privatizers’ hands. The Board of Governors is picking the next Postmaster General — tell them: NO privatizers! 📬 Take 30 seconds to act: #USMailNotForSale actionnetwork.org/letters/post...
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URGENT ACTION - send a message on the USPS
The USPS Board of Governors announced its intention to appoint David Steiner, reportedly the White House’s preferred candidate, as the next Postmaster General. The appointment of a FedEx board member ...
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Clearly, Walter has feelings for Clemmie that are not the same feelings that Clemmie has for Walter (which tonight can best be described as "What in the great googly moogly are you doing?"). #dogsky #catsky #dogsandcatslivingtogether
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Tell me that you used to live in Ecuador, without telling me that you used to live in Ecuador. #alljugoallthetime #tomatedearbol
A glass of iced tomate de arbol juice, with several of the fruits. Photographed from above, on a mottled brown granite countertop.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 09/06/2025
Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
What goes up, apparently comes down on a gate... again. 🤬 Hurricane Helene took out a 12 footer, so this is our 2nd crushed gate within a year. An expensive habit for Mother Nature.
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Thank you to all of the fine folks who came out to the SEFAA Fiber Flea Market yesterday!! I sold lots of stuff, got to see tons of old friends & make oodles of new ones. There are SO many talented fiber artists in our area. I ♥️ it. 😁🧶🧵🪡
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Another rainy day. Another hay buffet. #gulfcoastsheep #imabivalentabouttheweatherrightnow
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Shout out to all of my sisters out there, putting in a hard day's work with their phone in their bra -- because while phones get bigger every year, women's pockets (even those in "work" pants) continue to be a fucking joke. #sweaty #farming
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
All Job Corps centers will be fully paused by June 30, 2025. The impact of the pause has already been felt across the country, with tens of thousands of students being sent home from their programs. www.localmemphis.com/article/life...
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Thousands of Job Corps students sent home amid sudden nationwide pause; Memphis families call for support
Parents and students of the Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks Job Corps Center are furious about the closure that's leaving some individuals with no place to go.
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
That moment you realize that you've been using the 4-wheeler all afternoon and apparently accidentally kidnapped somebody's kids. 😳(!) (We **immediately** went back to where it had been parked. Mama has been tending them diligently ever since. ♥️)
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I'll have lots of fiber-y goodness. 😁 If you're in the ATL area next Sat, c'mon by!!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 31/05/2025
RFK Jr. says the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy pregnant women. Yet doctors have found that stillbirths can result from COVID directly infiltrating the placenta — even for people whose COVID symptoms were mild or nonexistent. @deldeib.bsky.social‬'s story from 2022:
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“God, No, Not Another Case.” COVID-Related Stillbirths Didn’t Have to Happen.
A lack of testing data and government guidance led many to avoid the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy, unwittingly increasing their chances of a stillbirth.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
“Decades of political science research show that societies that are open & pluralistic, w/ high levels of both individual & political rights, are more prosperous, more peaceful & more effective than autocracies that are closed and stagnant.” Winners of poli sci top prize speak out.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 27/05/2025
It's dinner time here in Atl, and we're grateful we do NOT need to worry about a thick gray patch of dead tissue slowly growing in our throats and strangling us. That's diphtheria. Can’t breathe. Can’t swallow. Definitely can't eat 🐔wings. We don’t see diphtheria in the U.S. Thanks, vaccines 💉
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Sometimes I have to remind myself that my "not exciting" wips are actually very cool. This is a Barley DK hat, made from my handspun, from a roving dye-test I did, from wool grown by my Gulf Coast Native sheep. It's so soft, I keep rubbing it on my cheek like a woobie. #showmeyourknits
A half done knit hat, in shades of blue, along with its source-ball of handspun yarn. All sitting on a dark faux wood desk.
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
None of us on the farm are huge fans of fireworks. #cortisol
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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Miss Tallulah's been down t' the Beauty School to get her hairs done. She thinks it makes her look younger (she's been flirtin' with the bag boys down at the Piggly Wiggly, again 🙄). #sheep #farming #progressivefarmer
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Congrats, everyone.
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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Don't let the bastards grind you down. New vintage knitting needle bracelets are up in the shop! 🧶 theorneryshepherd.etsy.com/listing/4308...
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