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Jen Toal aka vettha

@vettha.bsky.social
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Artist. Mermaid. Laser Maven. Teacher. Faerie Godmother. Activities of Daily Living Olympian. I don’t know if I’ll go down in community memory as an ally, but I continue to do the work to the best of my understanding and abilities.

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Taran Fiddler @tfiddlerart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yuzu 🍊
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 22/05/2026
Amazing ad, chef's kiss no notes
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Eri!!!! :03 ΘΔ @mandateofheaven.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I can't stop thinking about this video since I saw it last night
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Iran, please wait in line until your number is called.
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Amanda, Clover Mother 🏳️‍⚧️ @onionbug.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
If brown sweatshirt kid was my child, I'd buy him a PS5.
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Thadra Sheridan @thadrasheridan.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Nothing has changed in Minnesota. This is what it's like to live here. medium.com/@thadrasheri...
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It’s not a Resistance, It’s a Paradigm Shift: Minnesota’s Fight for its Soul
Regina is punk rock to the core. We used to work together at a restaurant in South Minneapolis. She was a prep cook, I was a waitress…
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The joker saying 

YOU WOULDN'T HIT A GUY WITH
META RAY-BAN CREEP GLASSES, WOULD YOU?A kid in a brown sweatshirt reading back to throw a heavy right hand
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Frieren Challenge accepted. #DrawingWithJentle
Screenshot of the artist’s take on Frieren with her head tilted up. Reference shows the original drawing by SpaceDev1 and several other artists’ versions.
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Marginalia the mermaid drawing time lapse: www.patreon.com/posts/142279...
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Marginalia time lapse | Jen Toal
Get more from Jen Toal on Patreon
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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 24/10/2025
I've been thinking about Matt Furie a lot during this period of political frog realignment, so I made this comic dedicated to him.
Color comic with multiple panels. Pepe the Frog, a lanky frog with a stoner expression on his face - but somewhat sad - walks away from a burning pile of 4chan logos and "Kek"s. He sees some commotion and perks up. In the next panel, he's shocked at the sight of dancing frogs, a la the Portland Frog inflatable costume protesters. One frog notices him, and reaches for his hand. The final panel shows the frog leading Pepe by the hand to the other dancing protesting frogs. The frog says "Frogs together strong," and Pepe says "feels good, man."
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Gwen Jody @gwenjodyauthor.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Some attention on the talented artist Jen Toal, who created my wonderful avatar. It was great working with Jen, and I got a unique headshot that preserves some online anonymity. All her art is human-made. Highly recommend Jen for a professional avatar created by a real person. @vettha.bsky.social
Digital art avatar of Gwen Jody author - her hair back in ponytail, wearing glasses
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 21/10/2025
Who are the private donors funding the disgusting demolition of the East Wing of the people's house for Trump's $250M gilded ballroom?
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
guy sobbing - you saved my life. i don't know what I would've done without you.

neck pillow - buddy, i'm literally just a neck pillow.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 08/08/2025
since everyone's doing this and I have an AI art API subscription that I don't really use, here's Google Imagen 4's take on the Presidents of the recent past
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 18/07/2025
Holy shit.
The gamine is a popular archetype of a slim, often boyish, elegant young woman who is described as mischievous or teasing, popularized in film and fashion from the turn of the 20th century through to the 1950s.
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I’m making my first comic. It feels like I’ve been heading here the whole time. I started it in a class on processing climate grief and anxiety with comics and I even already had a poem ready for this.
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
New shirt!
image of a 3/4 sleeve shirt. the body of the shirt is black and the sleeves and shoulder caps are grey. white text on the shirt reads, “Was the fall of Rome this embarrassing?” a blue doodle shape hovers over the shirt and holds the website: vettha.threadless.com
handwritten text floats around the shirt reading variously, “WTF?” “UGH,” “THIS SUCKS,” and “available on many shirt styles”
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
omg LOL... I'm still in the process of adding styles, but omg! if there was ever a shirt to get in orange, right??
Screenshot of a page from Jen Toal's Artist Shop page; vettha.threadless.com
An orange tshirt with black lettering is displayed. It has large black numbers: 8647 
Since 47 is orange, well... but there are also other color options. No one has to go for the full joke, if they don't like wearing orange.
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I got to talk about Mothership HackerMoms AND slip in a quote from one of my all-time favorite authors, Sheri S Tepper. Very exciting. Much squee. <3 (I do think I sound nervous, but whatever.) kpfa.org/episode/wome...
One handlebar from my mobility aid is visible poking in from the bottom of the frame. The scene is a dapple-shaded sidewalk and the KPFA entry and sign on the building. POV you’re me on the radio with your friend. I’ve got a table full of sound equipment in front of me and my iPad open to drawing a bunny-capybara friendship cuddle next to controls for my mic. Vylma V is rocking purple to my left, reading important notices to the people.
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Alexander Hamizdat 🇵🇷 @alexhammy209.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
It's true. And obviously, it would have to be bipartisan.
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Weevil Under the Sun @audmonstr.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It's always okay to say, "Hey, I was wrong, and I've changed my mind. I learned a bunch of stuff and my opinion on this has changed." www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
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Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’
Researchers believe personal stories are more persuasive than facts alone in addressing vaccine skepticism
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90.1 WRUV-FM Burlington @wruvfm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🎶 Amphibians with an attitude Bufos that were in the mood Don't just float there, let's hop to it
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Jeffrey Ⓥ @liftforever67.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.” #Caturday #CatsLover #CatsOfTwitter
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Weevil Under the Sun @audmonstr.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I have had this conversation at work at least twice this week. There are lots of things to have major wobblies about, and Adobe Illustrator (in general) is not one of them.
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Alexander Hamizdat 🇵🇷 @alexhammy209.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
How tf are they going to miss the opportunity to give her the Morning Joy slot.
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Jen (She/her) @jen1701d.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
From What Happens on the Holodeck, Stays on the Holodeck:
A great day to revisit Wil Wheaton's excellent takedown of Elon Musk from 2022; 
I can not fathom the emptiness, the insecurity, the insatiable need for attention and validation, the staggering arrogance, the malevolence and total void of human experience that is Elon Musk.
He's the richest man on the planet. You can't go anywhere or do anything without interacting with something he's part of in some way. There are literal millions of people who uncritically worship him, in spite of overwhelming evidence that he's a douchebag. Some number of them will come after me, as they come after anyone who points at their naked emperor. 
They'll spend entire days going after me and people like me, slavishly serving a man who does not even know they exist. They are his army of fools, uncritically serving his every whim. And it still isn't enough.
He can have any material thing he wants, and he will never be happy or satisfied.
He has no real friends. Every single person around him is either a viper, a parasite, or both.
So what does he do? He bullies and threatens and harasses and trolls and behaves like the weak, scared, insecure child he has always been. That's a tragedy for him, but it's dangerous for us. He doesn't care what he destroys or who he hurts as he chases this existential thing he can not ever have.
You know the saying "hurt people hurt people"? He's a hurt person who is hurting our society, making people I care about less safe. The consequences of this one man's midlife crisis are global, and that terrifies me.Split image: Top is a picture of Wil Wheaton. Bottom is a picture from CPAC.
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
omg adore
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I can’t sit back and sip tea about how we warned them because they are not the only ones being hurt.
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Ok, ok, I've polished this one plenty. I can let her be on things. Really, I can. She's strong. She'll guard your heart. vettha.threadless.com AND they're throwing a site-wide sale. Bonus. <3
20% OFF EVERYTHING
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Designs / Strength / Everyone / T-Shirt

Strength

The image of the shirt shows an illustrated, fancily-dressed person with a feathered hat and butterfly wings flexing her bicep.
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Thadra Sheridan @thadrasheridan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Weird.
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Ashley | Anti-Trump Coloring Book Creator @freshprintsdesign.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Venting because I’ve been banned from ~another~ Facebook coloring group for posting “political” content. Today’s post? “Not Today Fascism” 🌈 Guess it tells you everything you need to know about Meta 😅 Want to help an independent artist? Feel free to share! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 #coloring #art #artsky
Not today fascism coloring page from Coloring Through Chaos the anti Trump coloring book for adults and teens now available on Etsy
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Someone asked for mermaid jokes and I was ready. :D
What do you call a sarcastic mermaid? A SIGH-REN 

Page from a coloring book, a mermaid shrugs beside the words.Mermaid Squad Coloring Book
by Jen Toal

This is the front cover. There are purmaids (cat mermaids) swimming in formation around the words.
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Tonight's the night!
Hosted by Berkeley Poet Laureate Aya de León

Friday, February 14, 2025

30th anniversary

2025

featuring Caro DeRobertis Aida Salazar

Gabriel Cortez

Janine Mogannam

Kaylah Marin Penny Rosenwasser

& more

LOVE FEST

an alternative valentine's celebration

in spoken word & music, celebrating love of self, spirit, family, community & democracy!

I'll be donating all my personal proceeds to the Working Families Party!

also featuring the youth band

Prospect

a collaboration with the Empowering People of Color Open Mic

doors 7pm/show 7:30 Sliding scale $15-25 Youth 18 & under $5

then

La Peña Cultural Center 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkelely

www.lapena.org

now
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Terra Caldwell @itzakiri.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Want to protect good things? Here's a simple action: get a library card and go check something out once a week. You don't need to read it. Just check it out. Bonus if you check it out in a different language. Also, many libraries lend items, like tools or kitchen supplies. Check those out too.
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Alexander Hamizdat 🇵🇷 @alexhammy209.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
That man is serious as a heart attack about "moving" those people. This is going to get really ugly.
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Thadra Sheridan @thadrasheridan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I wrote a little thing. medium.com/@thadrasheri...
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The Founding Fathers and the Supreme Court
Is Originalism All it’s Cracked Up to be?
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Thadra Sheridan @thadrasheridan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is pretty handy.
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Process notes and time lapse available on patreon.com/vettha
screencapture of drawing program shows reference image of a child looking through rings made from their thumbs and first fingers of each hand. Beside this is a work in progress illustration of same. The line work and coloring are bold and messy. The artist’s signature - Jen Toal - and logo are visible in the lower left corner of the page.
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Love is at the core of all. "Insight" -Jen Toal 2025
Layered paper is cut and painted to look like an eye peering back at the viewer. The piece is being held in direct sun to show the colors and metallic highlights to good effect. The back panel, which is also the pupil of the eye, shows the word "love"
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Very good work. Lovely sign.
hands hold up a homemade sign with a beautiful illustration of the original doge meme dog surrounded by a bunch of colorful statements and then sparkly rainbow framing. The words say “fake agency,” “very data breach,” “much illegal,” “such treasury,” “unelected,” “very coup,” and “WOW.”
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
tshirt with an illustrated fork with 3 of 4 tines curled down next to all caps “fork you elon” above the address vettha.threadless.com
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
@RayInsideOut : Here’s a list of techies on the ground helping Musk gaining and using access to the US Treasure payment system. Akash Bobba Edward Coristine Luke Farritor Gautier Cole Killian Gavin Kliger Ethan Shaotran
@BladeoftheS : Elon Musk is terrified of everyone knowing the names of the people who work for him. So do your work.

@RayInsideOut : Here’s a list of techies on the ground helping Musk gaining and using access to the US Treasure payment system. 
Akash Bobba
Edward Coristine
Luke Farritor
Gautier Cole Killian
Gavin Kliger
Ethan Shaotran

@elonmusk: You have committed a crime.
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We're 3/4 through and I'm feeling much more grounded and ready to take on the next parts of this challenge. Thank you @aoc.bsky.social <3 <3 <3 youtu.be/CVgNJf6CsBA
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What’s Happening & How You Can Take Action | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
YouTube video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
oaklandside.org/2025/02/03/h...
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Popular Berkeley breakfast spot makes a surprising comeback after year-long closure
Homemade Cafe is set to reopen this month, pairing its previous community-minded ethos with a renewed focus on its most popular dishes.
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Alexander Hamizdat 🇵🇷 @alexhammy209.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
At least they got rid of Genocide Joe. /s
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ElfQuest - Fantasy with Teeth! @elfquest.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Get ElfQuest, support charity:
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
New tshirts! vettha.threadless.com/designs/fork...
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Jen Toal aka vettha @vettha.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Anyone else remember when Elfmom @elfquest.bsky.social cosplayed Red Sonya in the 80s and she said she had to piece together multiple wigs to get the hair big enough? I think I finally found a companion wig, if not an alternate. bikepretty.com/collections/...
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Hair Helmet
Get ready to turn heads with the Hair Helmet - a USDA-certified bike helmet with a wig-style cover that looks like big hair! Like the Straw Hat Bike Helmet, this helmet combines safety with a bold fas...
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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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