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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This one is my phone background and I really like it

A small rock cairn on the beach at Olympic National Park. An ombre blue sky above, ocean to the left side of the cairn and a steep coast with pine trees on the right.

Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My mom always says I'm a good photographer. I usually disagree bc I just have a phone - that's easy. But maybe there is something to the way something catches my eye at a particular angle?

A backlit nature scene with the focus on dried Queen Annes Lace flowers framed by fencing wire in the foreground. A background of blue sky with a few wispy clouds.

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Can you send a couple dollars to help my disabled community member who is about to lose their phone while houseless?

Text on blue background with clouds reads, "Help a disabled member of your community stay connected to vital resources.

I have been struggling to keep up with bills while dealing with losing my housing, and I only have one day left to pay my cell phone bill before they turn it off. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Venmo @PortalsOfMossAndVine
Cash App $PortalsOfMossAndVine

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Did you know that federal employee health benefits eliminated gender affirming medical care coverage? I do! (About to go pick up a $330/month prescription right now) You should probably care about this because we're an easy access testing ground for what they're planning for everyone.

Event flyer reads:

"Federal Siblings in Solidarity
Collective Action for Trans Healthcare 👍
Thursday, July 23, 2026
5:30-6:30 PDT
8:30-9:30 EDT
Join expert panelists in a virtual Q&A about the elimination of gender affirming medical care in federal employee health benefits. We'll discuss how:
-medical care is a human right
-an injury to one is an injury to all
-we fight back tight
-BONUS: receive an organizing toolkit for you and your local union!

All federal workers and allies invited!
Come one, come all!"

QR code leads to https://bit.ly/4v56Ohg

Logis from AFGE PRIDE, san Francisco VA Healthcare Eorkers United, and Federal Unionists Network Bay Area

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

That adjustable pricing is really trying to match their customer here 😂

Air fryer on a store shelf with a digital price display that says, "3¢"

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'm like the mom from Queer as Folk for my trans kids but if she was a nervous trans masc guy

The mom from the show Queer as Folk. She's wearing a vest with a ton of Pride pins and a bright tshirt with a rainbow and the words "it happens in the best of families". She's adorable but too much.

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The apple tree is doing such a good job being an apple tree 🥰 The earth needs to survive because I need to see what my mini food forest becomes in 10 years! #GoodThingsWorthFightingFor

A close to on three tiny baby apples on the branch of an apple tree. The tree's leaves are lush bright green and the apples and teeny tiny with their flower ends still attached

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

This is the first time she's ever bloomed and I'm SO excited. #GoodThingsWorthFightingFor

A newly opened poppy flower with unopened pods beside it

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Bless you, cyberbarn! Keeping up the comfort websites of autistic organizers is mutual aid in action ❤️

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Same as it ever was, unfortunately. (Text from the autobiography of Mother Jones, writing about the time before the Haymarket Affair.)

Text reads, "The employers use the cry of anarchism to kill the movement. A person who believed in an eight-hour working day was, they said, an enemy to his country, a traitor, an anarchist. The foundations of government were being gnawed away by anarchist rats. Feeling was bitter. The city was divided into two angry camps. The working people on one side - hungry, cold, jobless, fighting gunmen and police with bare hands. On the other side the employers, knowing neither hungry nor cold, supported by the newspapers, by the police, by all the power of the great state itself."

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My daughter has to do all these godawful business classes for her accounting degree. She had to make a "personal brand portfolio" which is like her personal hell, so we made it fun by packing some easter eggs in there.

Over the shoulder photo of a person with long brown hair holding a calculator, sitting in front of a laptop. The calculator is small, but if zooming in shows the number 80085 (ie. "BOOBS"). An out of focus sticker on the table next to the laptop says, "we built the companies. The 1% took all the money"

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Just fyi, this is the 2025 schedule. But tomorrow, May 1st 2026, you can join nearly 90 unions and community orgs at Shemanski Park and the South Park Blocks! 12pm - community fair & kids rally 1pm - main rally 3:30pm - march (after party actions tba after march)

A flyer for Portland Oregon May Day that reads, "Workers and Migrants Unite! May 1st, South Park Blocks. May Day. 12pm community fair, 1pm rally with ASL and Spanish interpretation, 3:30pm march". Logos of 87 endorsing groups fill the bottom of the page.

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Behold! The future of audio visual technology!

A man holds a massive CD as big as a standard record in one hand and hefts a matching bulky LaserDisc player on his opposite shoulder

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Obsessed with these tulips! I will plant more bulbs this fall, in hopes that we get to have another spring #garden

Ombre orange tulips with droplets of rainwater on the petals

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

You can find events in Portland leading up to May Day at bit.ly/maydaycalendar @pdxprotestinfo.bsky.social

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Hope to see you at the May Day rally and march!

Flyer for an event. A drawing of five people in various workers outfits. The words read "Workers & Migrants Unite! May 1, South Park Blocks, MAY DAY. 1:30pm rally & cultural performances, 3:30pm march"
30 different endorsers logos are at the bottom, including IMA, AFT Oregon, BAYAN, FUN PDX, ILPS, CPA, IMIrJ, IWW, WWP, Freedom to Thrive, PSL, Extinction Rebellion, ILWU, Indivisible, ONA, DSA, and Portland JWJ.

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The juxtaposition of the gigantic hyper capitalist ads and the twin red, white, and blue Jesus billboards with the wall to wall crowds is so dystopian in a way that's kind of embarrassing because it's so predictably where this story was going

Huge crowds completely fill the streets in New York City. Electronic billboards on the buildings overhead show an ad for a phone that says, "Samsung. The world's first privacy display." Two ads showing a picture of Jesus with red white and blue stripes coming out of his heart that says, "Jesus I trust in you." An ad for Coca-Cola. And an ad for M&Ms.

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

My thoughts when ppl immediately became uncritical KH stans and claiming it as "harm reduction"

The "voting is harm reduction" discourse is so 2016 🥱

Unless the number of people you've fed, people you've housed, dearrests you've done, joints or cigarettes you've passed out, gardens you've grown, hours of free childcare you've provided, rides you've offered, video transcriptions you've written, needle exchanges and medical funds and cooperatives and bail funds and evacuation funds you've supported, forests you've physically defended, medications you've shared...

Is greater than the number of restaurants you've eaten in, vacations you've been on, bars you've drank in, stores you've been in without a mask, crowds you've been in without a mask, doctors offices you've been in without a mask, schools your children have been in without a mask.. just in the last four years..

Then idk I'm just really not interested in your opinion on "harm reduction"

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

A zine called Consumer Activism: Tips to Empower Communities

A zine called Consumer Activism: Tips to Empower Local Communities. It has 7 parts of type with tips on how to find things Free, Used, DIY, or from Local Small Businesses instead of buying new from big corporations

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things. 1. Bright green buds on trees 2. Chocolate chip cookies 3. This guy ⬇️

The face of a brown pitbull snuggled against his person's lap. He is looking up at the camera but totally relaxed and melted. He has shiny, brown eyes, a boopable nose, and his lip is snagged on his person's shirt so his little teefs are out.

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Cool, cool. My will to survive was tied to seeing these flowers, so why shouldn't all fifty bulbs be decimated by slugs?

The green stalk of a daffodil plant, with the not-yet-developed flower chewed off the top

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Happy International Women's Day!

A shot from Living Single. Sinclair says, "But did you ever stop to think about what the world would be like without men?"
Khadijah, eating snacks, says, "A bunch of fat, happy women and no crime!"

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

There's a 55+ community nearby and I really hope there's a senior out there doing art activism with handmade stickers

Handwritten sticker on the side of a post office mailbox that says "Trump is full of BALONEY"

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Shout out to the #IACC #LongCOVID #Dysautonomia #MECFS crew who are stuck in this period

A Distracted Boyfriend template meme where the boyfriend is "the vast majority of y'all", the girlfriend he's with is "lessons in collective care from a catastrophic global event", and the girl he's looking back at is "eugenics & fascism"

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

(sorry for lack of complete alt text! 😴😴)

Screenshot of follow up comments to Parker

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

A screenshot I saved in May 2020 🫠

A two panel meme of the Cartoon Network show Ed, Edd, and Eddy. Two cartoon people are laying on their backs in bed. One says to the other, "i can't sleep eddy, I keep thinking - the response to COVID-19 has shown that we could have been orienting our lives around home instead of work this whole time. We could have had rent control and UBI this whole time. But our representatives are more concerned with making sure everything gets means-tested. And I worry that we'll just mindlessly go back to the status quo after we bury the dead. We didn't learn from Iraq and we didn't learn from Sandy Hook, what on earth are we going to take away from this?"

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I was just reading words from Thich Naht Hahn and looked up through the kitchen skylight to see a bald eagle circling above my house. How auspicious! I feel much less alone now.

A photo looking up through a skylight, of a bright blue sky and a distant eagle circling with wings spread

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I saw someone else make this comparison and now I can't unsee it

A shot from the cartoon Ren and Stimpy, where an intense looking horse with big eyes and teeth juts his head out toward a repulsed Ren and Stimpy

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The US is a public bathroom.

A picture looking down at the top of a toilet paper dispenser in a dingy public bathroom. The dispenser is pulling away from the wall, held by a rusty screw. Graffiti on it reads, "Fuck the government. Fuck ICE."

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This sign made me laugh, especially because it was being held by a tiny old white lady that looked like she had taught 2nd grade for 60 years

A cardboard protest sign covered with multi-colored paper circles. Text on the sign reads "FREE BALLS - FOR THOSE IN CONGRESS WHO HAVE LOST THEIRS"

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I'm listening to Burnout by Dr&Dr Nagoski. In a chapter on finding meaning in life, Emily says to pause and asks, "What am I doing when I feel most powerfully what I'm meant to be doing?" I looked up, and there it is. This little patch of forest I'm meant to care for.

A photo from the ground of a conifer forest, looking up at the trees and a cloudy grey sky

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

My annual Yule cake with homemade lemon marmalade 🤤 I only let myself make it for Yule so I look forward to it every year

A photo of a kitchen table scene - a festive plate holding a ring shaped fruit cake topped with white icing, a slice of the cake is on another plate, and an open jar of lemon marmalade

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

It was pretty windy in my town last night 😅

Screenshot from Facebook. Picture of a full sized trampoline in the middle of the street and a caption reading "This is in front of the fire department over by the fairgrounds"

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

If you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation

Photo of pants shaped hot pad sewn from pink flower printed fabric. A white, phallic piece with a pink end sticks out from the fly of the pants. A paper tag reads "Vintage Kitchen Pants (naughty) Decor $6"

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Sorting through my kid's old Legos to mail to my nephew. Some of them are my brother's old Legos from the 90s. I took the liberty of disposing of a few of them

Photo of a hand holding a jumble of small plastic toys. A few of the plastic toys are Lego blocks with the word "Police" on the side.

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I always pictured myself as Robin Hood, but actually I'm one of these old owls, and that's a comforting realization.

Two cartoon owls from Disney's Robin Hood. They have tattered clothes and one leans on a cane. They are laughing

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

People: "How are you doing?" Me, sitting in my car biting directly into half of a grocery store cake at 2pm on a Thursday: "Hangin' in there!"

Half of a two layer funfetti cake with a corner bitten off

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

After two months of physical therapy, I have finally overcome my rolling over in bed injury 💪

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

This was the meme. I hope the author is doing okay.

Meme with two cartoon characters laying in bed. One character is saying to another, "I can't sleep, Eddy. I keep thinking - the response to COVID-19 has shown that we could have been orienting our lives around home instead of work this whole time. We could have had rent control and UBI this whole time. But our representatives are more concerned with making sure everything gets means-tested. And I worry that we'll mindlessly go back to the status quo ante when this is over, after we bury the dead. We didn't learn from Iraq and we didn't learn from Sandy Hook, what on earth are we going to take away from this?"

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Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I just came across this comment I wrote on Facebook on March 24, 2020, in response to an Ed, Edd and Eddy meme about returning to the status quo after COVID-19. I used to love 'I-told-ya-so's

Comment by Nic: This actually makes me really anxious. Don't forget that "the economy" is just a term for the huge set of interconnected production and consumption activities that distribute resources - just money and resources going from person to person - not a living, breathing, feeling thing. If the powers that be are talking about sacrificing human lives for "the economy" by sending workers back to work in a time of crisis, instead of doing something like redistributing the assets of the wealthiest citizens, they're not actually worried about the economy, they're worried about the status quo. The status quo will kill us.

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