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(They/them) Antifascist artist and gardener, 1312; upstate NY. Collar City DSA I make art for the weird and wild, and small batch upcycled clothing. I believe a better world is still possible, I mourn for my lost comrades.

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Latest posts by opalhexen.bsky.social on Bluesky


Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”

This is why we need to be telling our stories.

09.02.2026 14:00 — 👍 7415    🔁 1306    💬 103    📌 56

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

09.02.2026 01:38 — 👍 20661    🔁 5288    💬 108    📌 180

No Kings includes Draft Kings

08.02.2026 23:49 — 👍 26111    🔁 6106    💬 185    📌 111
Luigi Mangione surrounded by flames grinning with the text Repent or Perish

Luigi Mangione surrounded by flames grinning with the text Repent or Perish

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

04.02.2026 20:59 — 👍 17764    🔁 5365    💬 8    📌 362

ICE is all up in my neighborhood (kidnapping my neighbors)
ICE is all up in my neighborhood
(Pipes burst across the street and flooded and froze overnight)

02.02.2026 19:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New York, Neeew Yooork

25.01.2026 23:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

24.01.2026 19:48 — 👍 27638    🔁 9943    💬 246    📌 211

I love my beautiful partner and our collective obsession with the PWHL to distract us from The Bad

21.01.2026 13:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We’re gonna make the ✨gayest✨ weewoo signs and I cannot fucking WAIT

21.01.2026 13:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(everything is scary and bad) ALSO my bb and i got tickets to NY Sirens PWHL PRIDE NIGHT and we’re gonna be a row behind the benches and in high fiving distance to the locker room walk out.

21.01.2026 13:27 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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I made this badass bitch based off my friend and his favorite pearls and things #queerart #raccoon #artistsofbluesky

17.01.2026 15:16 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That is what was relayed

15.01.2026 04:09 — 👍 3744    🔁 1597    💬 101    📌 253

I cannot watch state of the unions without Hasan filtering and cracking jokes anymore am I broken or is it this fascist nation

03.01.2026 17:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Release the Gale Brophy Rolodex files

03.01.2026 04:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ok I LOVE upstate NY bc what do you mean there’s a queer beer league hockey team called The Bombers and my GF signed us up for info night after watching The Cottage

29.12.2025 13:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Got so stoned I forgot the word Bodega and referred to it as the “food dispensary”

27.12.2025 22:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love through upstate NY winters where neighbors have to snow blow eachother out bc the city just decides hey we don’t have to plow THAT street

27.12.2025 20:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

After throwing a massive tantrum about any of the baristas taking off for the holidays, the cafe owner ducked off to another state for 2 weeks.
I’m gonna crash out

22.12.2025 20:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My kids been watching the original Pokémon and singing the song but sings “gotta catch a ball, gotta catch a ball” and it’s so cute

21.12.2025 23:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A desk covered with block prints on orange and blue toned handmade paper. There’s an A frame cabin Baba Yaga, a crow with “Crow City, Troy NY”, a crow with “King of The Trash” and a red salmon breaking down a dam.

A desk covered with block prints on orange and blue toned handmade paper. There’s an A frame cabin Baba Yaga, a crow with “Crow City, Troy NY”, a crow with “King of The Trash” and a red salmon breaking down a dam.

My child and I lighting the menorah in our messy apartment.

My child and I lighting the menorah in our messy apartment.

I’ve been working on a big crow and fish focused restock for my last Holiday market this year! I’m looking forward to having some downtime from them after this. It wears me OUT.
Chag Sameach to everyone lighting up tonight. Oy to The World.

19.12.2025 17:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The dog stole my entire loaf of farmers market sourdough and took two bites before abandoning it and I am SO SAD I couldn’t enjoy it

14.12.2025 00:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We are returning to Troy as our first regional pop-up market of the New Year at one of our FAVORITE venues - Mount Ida Preservation Hall! 🌈

✅ APPLY TODAY 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We cannot wait to gather in queer and gender expansive joy at Mount Ida again in March 2026! 🫂

12.12.2025 18:06 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Boomer came in to the coffee shop telling me protesters in the 60s had more balls than today. I asked if he ever saw his friends get shot in the head with a 40mm or go up against a tank or Boston dynamic dog.

10.12.2025 16:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Think of how hard the TAGABOW/Bee Sides show would go with that front and center

07.12.2025 02:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That’s a good deal right there

07.12.2025 02:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A little red book titled “The Gay Agenda”

A little red book titled “The Gay Agenda”

In case you’re looking for it, you can find it tomorrow at the Punk Rock Flea Market at Empire Live in Albany

06.12.2025 21:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The way some people were talking about the gay hockey show I was expecting hardcore gay porn and I am severely disappointed

06.12.2025 17:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s always “play holiday music in the cafe” until I turn on radical Yiddish klezmer bops and suddenly I’m the problem

06.12.2025 17:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Some recent block prints. Available this weekend at my booth at the Troy Farmers Market Saturday and the Upstate Punk Rock Flea market on Sunday. Available next week at Nerdy By Nature

05.12.2025 01:39 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Shout out to Train Guy in the coffee shop, I love a shouting Train Guy

03.12.2025 13:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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