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Torea

@toreajade.bsky.social
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Visual artist based in the Pacific Northwest; expect fleeting thoughts and ephemeral visions. More at toreafrey.com.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/09/2026
Commas, dashes, semicolons, and spaces have shaped how we read for centuries. What happens when machines start crafting the sentences? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Curious Power of Punctuation
Commas, dashes, semicolons, and spaces have shaped how we read for centuries. What happens when machines start crafting the sentences?
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Ellen M @ellenmartist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An oldie but a goodie - my Walking as Artistic Practice booklist... two-pages! bookshop.org/lists/walkin... #WalkingAsArtisticPractice
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Walking as Artistic Practice
These are books I've referenced as I develop a course called "Walking as Artistic Practice."  Books I wasn't able to include here, but I would also recommend: Ways to Wander by Clare Qualmann (Editor)...
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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
even now, she's still teaching us
screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
i will never take a more perfect selfie 😂 #dog
Selfie of a white woman, outside, wearing oversized rose-tinted eyeglasses, sitting, her body mostly obscured by a midsize goldendoodle with curly gray fur that has its tongue out in a goofy livk.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. 

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Fascinating look at “load bearing vocab” in Claude — words like “plainly” and “quietly” that are overrepresented in what’s spat out: louisabraham.github.io/load-bearing/
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The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I had to say thank you.
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In Praise of Dolly Parton, 1946-2026, Our Goddess of Kindness
We will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but phil...
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I’ll be channeling this energy, thx! 🐍🐍🐍
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
nursing another stupid injury; almost fell down stairs, caught myself with heel & can’t put weight on it. Chilling, resting, & hoping some bone didn’t chip off 😬 also got some sad news—wish the world a kinder, gentler, easier place. Hug your people for me, and oh yeah, f&*k dementia! 🩵
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
fuck dementia, that’s it, fuck dementia
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Not sleeping much because brain focusing on 90s nostalgia (WHY brain WHY). Saw photo of the Home Improvement boys and it got me wondering if there was ever truth to the rumor about JTT living in the small Sierra Nevada town where my grandparents lived. 🤔
Then and now photo of Patricia Richardson, Zachary Ty Brian, and Jonathan Taylor Thomas from 1990s US sitcom Home Improvement
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Started day by forgetting screw lid back on minced garlic & spilling it all over 🤦‍♀️ not to brag but this week I’ve mucked lids up 3 or 4 times, most impressively with a huge flask of coffee that cascaded onto our counter & soaked a pile of mail, sigh
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Edward the Movie Buff 🎞🎬🎥📽 @midgetmoxie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Some Like It Hot (1959) Director: Billy Wilder
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Aerin Moriarty(they/them) @aerinmoriarty.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We love to see it
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Baseball pitcher and batter make out at 'Heated Rivalry' night in Portland
What started as a potential confrontation at a Portland Pickles game turned into a very sexy viral moment.
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Books are magic, even when they’re silly on their face…just read a goofy stoner/chronic illness comedy (Pot Shot), a sappy romance abt healing power of sprinkles, and now onto a time-traveling Jane Austen themed hit. 🎉🎉🎉 Something’s gotta take the place of the Love Island-filled hole in my life 😜
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/07/2026
Please avoid all salads, including word.
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
To make work for upcoming show, rented an art studio in downtown PDX; for all the fear mongering, real social ills, &c, I still think we’ve got the most beautiful, interesting city around 🩵 Art everywhere, sweet food, parks, more diversity than when I was growing up? Count me in.
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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Opposition can be communicated in different forms, sometimes it's a sweet melody, with a strong message. Please, listen... #ImpeachIndictRemove
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Exhausted, but the power of tea & studio time compels me
Shiny stainless steel teapot with wood handle accent set on table holding art supplies
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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 25/06/2026
"Paper is birth and death. Paper is expression. Paper is constant. Paper is death and rebirth." a must-read from @thestacks.ca
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 16/06/2026
part of building and caring for creative community, in my opinion, is helping folks find one another — a big part of this is crediting others / tagging them and honoring their collaborative contributions as often as possible. it’s a politic of inclusion, bums me out real bad when no effort is made
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I’m so glad my dog is at LEAST this amount of delighted every time she sees me—feeling’s mutual
A dog’s face looks at a person sitting on a chair petting her; dog is a “silver shadow” golden doodle with lots of shaggy, grayish-white hair, covering her eyes
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Hope @hopeamico.com · 02/04/2026
I’m reading a poem out load every day in April for National Poetry month. Here is today’s. #poetry #poem #april #spring
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The Present is Constant Elegy
Hope reads a poem by Peter Gizzi
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Free Cats Daily😻 @freecatsdaily.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A happy boy enjoying the sunshine #Cat #Caturday
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Hope @hopeamico.com · 08/03/2026
all 28 collage-stories from last month’s februallage. and why you should join the “I Can’t Draw” drawing workshop #collage #februallge #prompt #art #makeart #cutandpaste
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The secret to drawing is drawing
Art practice, prompts and thinking you can’t draw
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Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
You need 2 hours about quilts? We gotcha, pal. Scrap quilts. Sewing bees. Fine art. Secret codes. Political activism. Controversies. Plus: advice on caring + repairing, with 3 of your new favorite #Culcitologists – Olivia Joseph, Luke Haynes & Joe Cunningham: www.alieward.com/ologies/culc...
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Culcitology (QUILTS) with Luke Haynes, Olivia Joseph, and Joe Cunningham — alie ward
Scrap quilts. Sewing bees. Secret codes. Political activism. Controversies. Three of your new favorite Culcitologists – Olivia Joseph, Luke Haynes, and Joe Cunningham – are stitched together for one m...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.
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The Handbasket
100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas
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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 18/02/2026
this is what we folks here in the twin cities metro & across MN would really like you to understand — 1. they’re still here harming & destabilizing our communities 2. the reverberations will be felt for a very long time 3. even if they all left right now, there’s still a huge crisis to address
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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🌭 stevia nicks @muffinlab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
hold on i gotta take this
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A little mixed media collage for the #februllage2026 day 3 prompt BALLET; thinking on performance, perception, various theaters, a tense balance… #collageart #collage
Collage of stacked paper scraps on white background, with spattered back ink surrounding central composition. A single ballerina’s foot en pointe is juxtaposed with an exploding building, undergirded by yellow and aqua vintage papers and a rectangular scrap of red velvet show curtain anchoring the bottom of the pieceCloser view of Collage of stacked paper scraps on white background, with spattered back ink surrounding central composition. A single ballerina’s foot en pointe is juxtaposed with an exploding building, undergirded by yellow and aqua vintage papers and a rectangular scrap of red velvet show curtain anchoring the bottom of the piece
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
On giving and receiving kindness—really good read, on the miraculous ways our lives are, or can be, intertwined. kk.org/thetechnium/...
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How Will the Miracle Happen Today?
When I was in my twenties I would hitchhike to work every day. I’d walk down three blocks to Route 22 in New Jersey, stick out my thumb and wait for a ride to work. Someone always picked me up. … Cont...
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Hope @hopeamico.com · 08/01/2026
Collaging with friends won't solve all the problems but connection & community is a great antidote for fear & isolation. A list of meet-ups, classes, & opportunities for online and in-person art (and friend) making. #collage #queercollage #fuckice #together #art #makeart #portland #PNW #collageart
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do it with friends!
collage local!
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
New plan, pepper sentences like this into my life in 2026: “With the rain and dew of your sweet words, you have penetrated and moistened the dryness of my mind”” (!!). From Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies, 1405 #booksky #2026resolutions
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
“Thick” vs “thin” desires and transformation—interesting thinking and some ideas on path forward www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...
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Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life
The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger.  We're hungry for more, but we have more than we need.  We're hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies. We're hungry and we don'...
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, ca 1735
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden or alice in chains Poe’s Hello remains on repeat for me 30 years on. The uptempo stuff got radio play, but That Day and Beautiful Girl and Fly Away? Be still my beating heart.
Image of cd cover and album art for artist Poe’s first album Hello
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Pleasantly surprised some work of mine was selected for National Collage Society’s annual juried exhibit! ✂️ #collage #collageart #analogcollage
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
As another near-lifelong Oregonian, this thread feels helpful context. We’ve been keepin’ it surreal—and feisty—long as I remember.
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I may feel like absolute garbage but found a new GF chocolate donut recipe the fam has dubbed “bangin”—subbed in hazelnut butter for almond butter and 😋 recipe: bakeitpaleo.com/chocolate-zu... #baking #glutenfree #chocolatedonut
A baked chocolate donut on a small plate sits on an end table surrounded by cups and bottles of tea and water
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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 31/07/2025
two weeks left to submit what's bringing you joy and delight in these tough times! send @toreajade.bsky.social and i a list or short paragraph, snapshots, artwork, etc. by august 15th bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing #zines #zinesky #artsky #opencall
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Find Bam Bam! Last seen in NW PDX. Terrified of hands, but sucker for a peanut — here’s hoping the parrot & its person are soon reunited. #lostparrot #findbambam #portland #pdx
Sign for a lost parrot, with a green head and white around his little bird eyes, named Bam Bam, with information about how to contact owner if found, and what to do. Bam Bam lst seen at 23rd and Overton in northwest Portland, and owner can be reached at 626-550-5782.
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
What’s keeping me going this summer? Berries, lots of berries. Oregon summers are bursting with roadside & alleyway fruit; I’ve been foraging and making treats to share with friends … a little something sweet can make a surprisingly big difference in one’s day 💜 Bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing #zines
Window ledge with shaft of sunlight coming through it. On the ledge are potted succulents, a small carved wooden figurine of a Dutch woman, three dried rose petals, and a miniature teacup filled eith foraged blackberries
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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 28/07/2025
hi! @toreajade.bsky.social and i want to know what keeps you going in the hard times! what started as a check-in between friends has blossomed into an open call for a zine about taking care 🌻 send us a list, a paragraph or two, artwork, photos, pet pix, etc by august 15th: bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing
Yellow, white and black text on a pink background with a an abstract collage by Torea Jade 

OPEN CALL: WHAT KEEPS US GOING

A collaborative since about getting by and taking care when the world is on fireYellow, white and black text on a green background with a colorful abstract collage by allison anne

WHAT KEEPS US GOING
Submit by August 15th

What to submit: 

Lists, short paragraphs or other written descriptions about what you do to find joy in hard times (150 words or less) 

Photos, artwork or other imagery relevant to the theme 

No submission fee! Open to anyone, anywhere in the world! If your contribution is selected, you'll receive a copy of the zine.

bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing
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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🙄 Tell me you’ve never spent time with anyone chronically ill — anyone with ME/CFS, anyone with hEDS and its little friends, anyone immunocompromised, &c. — without telling me you’ve never spent time with anyone chronically ill.
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