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Taryn Okesson

@tarynokesson.bsky.social

Upper Peninsula of Michigan - Visual Artist - Paintings - Mother of Cats - Wanderer - Homebody - Mouthy - Opinionated - Social Anxiety - Second Story Studio, Marquette, MI - www.TarynOkesson.com

created February 19, 2024

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Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

They did throw something out the window. Things go out windows for few reasons. Anger, guilt, laziness.

2/9/2025, 5:39:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A cockroach has more empathy

1/9/2025, 8:30:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We wait

1/9/2025, 6:05:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They were cherry picked for the job…

1/9/2025, 6:03:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Second Story Studio, downtown Marquette

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30/8/2025, 7:08:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No truer a read in America right now.

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30/8/2025, 3:09:56 PM | 10 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

Too far? Whatever it takes. When literally nothing has mattered and there is no bottom, all bets are off. Go for it. Though, I’d prefer, using old school cartoonists over feeding ai.

22/8/2025, 3:31:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

Bullshit

13/8/2025, 7:11:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also I have art in #Greenbay at the Art Garage if anyone is near there.

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9/8/2025, 5:08:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Checking in, hoping for the good news… any day it could come

8/8/2025, 11:36:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Weird how the people who would “know” things are dropping dead. It’s almost as weird as all those people who fall out of Russian windows.

25/7/2025, 4:38:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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An assessment

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19/7/2025, 6:34:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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- Supreme Court ruled fascism ok

25/6/2025, 4:59:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬-𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐬 (@tales-typos.bsky.social) reposted

I don’t usually watch MSNBC but this segment caught my attention. Palantir is an extremely shady company and they’re making gazillions of dollars off the US federal government in contracts. If you don’t know about Palantir, get to know them. They’re up to no good 👇👇👇👇👇

25/6/2025, 1:54:48 AM | 443 242 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

We have to go through a lot of enlisted soldiers first. It would take some time before a draft is needed

23/6/2025, 6:53:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s past time #congress #senate This cunt cannot possibly lead us through this clusterfuck he’s started. #IMPEACH47

22/6/2025, 2:20:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

I noticed some foreshadowing…

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22/6/2025, 2:17:49 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fuck ice.

22/6/2025, 2:16:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What a lying cunt.

22/6/2025, 2:14:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel like this is a great opportunity to share this photograph I took in wild. #FuckTrump #FuckMAGA #FuckingLiars

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22/6/2025, 12:28:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Rest in peace pole

15/6/2025, 9:55:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#EatTheRich

15/6/2025, 1:48:52 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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80 years old and 2x anti-fascist flag

15/6/2025, 1:48:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@jennobenno.bsky.social

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14/6/2025, 11:08:48 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All I have to say about the Ice protests is: power to the people. Oh, and be safe.

8/6/2025, 5:00:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jenn Hill (@jmhill926.bsky.social) reposted

Tomorrow we make signs, next week we stand together to say No Kings! More at Www.lsrindivisible.org.

Poster for June 14 No Kings Day rally in Marquette, MI from 10:30-noon on the sidewalks on US-41 near Wilson Street
7/6/2025, 1:39:11 AM | 46 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

Explain to them it’s the same way they feel about Luigi Mangione.

18/5/2025, 1:16:49 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

Some animals are more equal than other animals?

16/5/2025, 8:59:37 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There is only one way to react to this and that is to laugh heartily. Preferably in his face, but that’s all the reaction Trump deserves.

16/5/2025, 8:59:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

What about the mental acuity of the current president. The one who accepts 400 million dollar Trojan horses and word salads his way through every conversation and speech.

16/5/2025, 2:10:11 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There’s no way the thing isn’t a national security nightmare in jet shape.

14/5/2025, 3:56:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m no stable genius, but isn’t the whole point of air force 1 that no one knows which plane is actually the one the president is on? Wouldn’t using a big shiny gifted jet, um, compromise everything? Idk, a thought. #Idiocracy

14/5/2025, 12:07:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We can always hope that pond does its job?

13/5/2025, 11:36:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

A little cholera, typhoid and diphtheria never killed anyone… wait it did!

13/5/2025, 9:12:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The wet-brain administration… only the best people can bullshit with the best of them at any dive bar in America.

9/5/2025, 1:52:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

I thought you did the church thing

8/5/2025, 10:52:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A Midwest pope is almost enticing enough to make me consider religion for half a second.

8/5/2025, 10:14:49 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Breezy Keele (@breezy217.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

There’s a new jesus in town🤣

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7/5/2025, 12:24:08 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

It feels good to look at

6/5/2025, 1:02:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck you Trump!

6/5/2025, 12:21:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Third email today to #jackbergman

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6/5/2025, 12:10:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Alcatraz is so far from my worries. Eyes on #CECOT #DontLookAway

5/5/2025, 6:30:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is there anything this #tyrant doesn’t try to control? #nokings

5/5/2025, 1:45:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

The only thing I could think of was the specific use of DEI to attack against Harris during the campaign, but that doesn’t translate to the many groups of people pissed at target.

5/5/2025, 12:12:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

Everyone is angry and frustrated right now. I’m not even upset by the thread or the way I’m being treated. It doesn’t matter. I was trying to make a case for why we’re in this together without sounding like I was tokenizing people. But the plot was lost.

4/5/2025, 8:27:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

@jennobenno.bsky.social I guess I’m making an entire collection

4/5/2025, 12:13:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social)

It’s offensive because he doesn’t know a damn thing about Christianity.

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Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social)

How powerful do you think the church still is? That feels like big D energy to me. Don’t know if I’d f- around with the church.

3/5/2025, 9:39:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

There are places on the border that Mexican ranchers encourage their cattle to cross and graze on US soil. Idk how they get them back. But it’s a thing in big bend np.

3/5/2025, 9:37:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

Beautiful. I’m self aware, are you?

3/5/2025, 6:41:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Opportunity for understanding missed.

3/5/2025, 6:20:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

I most certainly did not.

3/5/2025, 6:18:06 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

*only

3/5/2025, 5:30:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

I asked because I imagine you love your family. I love mine. And I’m fiercely protective of them. We’re multiracial, I think that’s the best way to describe us. So yes, I’m super vanilla white. But I also have reasons to give a shit. And I’m not the one.

3/5/2025, 5:29:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

No, damn. That was awkward. I can nearly guarantee my ancestors weren’t raping in the south. I had one who fought for the north and I can’t vouch for him. The rest were probably raping in Europe because they were poor Swedes and English. Definitely not land owning gentry.

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Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

Neither am I.

3/5/2025, 5:11:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t know. Harris should’ve won. Instead we all lost.

3/5/2025, 5:10:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you have white family?

3/5/2025, 5:01:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

What exactly is it supposed to do, attacking people who show support? Over the years that tactic has pushed many of them into the very arms of MAGA.

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Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

This is all the same human fallacy in a different outfit that I hear from the MAGA right. And others. Just because you aren’t seeing people take actions or support causes in public spaces doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.

3/5/2025, 3:09:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social)

Reading a ton of bitter comments from people about the protests. It reads as “not good enough effort from white people” “too little, too late by white people” “white people only care when it affects them.” Take a breath.

3/5/2025, 3:09:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t understand why it has to be either or. Both groups are getting shit on. Women are getting shit on. Liberals are being shit on. But this article makes it clear it’s the LGBTQ community too. nypost.com/2025/01/28/b...

3/5/2025, 2:44:18 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s a weird thing to say. Wasn’t the LGBTQ community boycotting them first? Besides DEI, Target was also a monetary contributor to Trump. Everyone of us has a reason to boycott this company.

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Treason is the word I want applied liberally to #Musk.

2/5/2025, 2:42:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jenn Hill (@jmhill926.bsky.social) reposted

#MayDay rally Marquette, MI @mi-swim.bsky.social chilly rain and 300 showed !

Two Women holding May Day signs saying Listen to the people not the dollars, the other is crashing plane labeled USA. Behind them man with AAUP sign and man with sign saying save democracy Three people standing on sidewalk in rain. Man wearing Carpenters & Millwrights safety helmet & holding US flag. Women holds sign for USW 8647 saying Speak out loud 4 story brick historic former Marquette City Hall backdrop. Line of May Day protestors continuous all the way across the image, holding signs for democracy in the rain. 4 women in rain wearing hats and coats with hoods up and striped umbrella. One woman holding sign saying “3rd generation Pro-Labor Female. And I’m not talking about giving birth!”
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Embezzlement

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#MayDay #MarquetteMI #NoKings

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#MayDay #MarquetteMI #NoKings

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#MayDay #MarquetteMI #NoKings

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#MayDay #MarquetteMI #NoKings

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#MayDay #MarquetteMI #NoKings

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#MayDay #MarquetteMI #NoKings

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#MayDay #MarquetteMI #NoKings

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#MayDay #MarquetteMI #NoKings

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#MayDay #MarquetteMI #NoKings

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#MayDay #MarquetteMI #NoKings

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#MayDay #MarquetteMI #NoKings

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Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

*Stephen Miller*** we all watched that White House meeting where he outright lied about the Supreme Court ruling.

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This guy is quickly digging into my heart

30/4/2025, 5:49:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve already changed my shopping habits #target #BoycottFascistSympathizers

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I don’t think she ever did want anything more. Nothing she’s doing is good for her, but it’s good for us. And right now I want people standing up for Michigan. Our representatives like Jack Bergman won’t do it.

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It’s time for Lindsey Graham to go to the old folks home now. #TodaysWTF #NoKings #DamnitNoPopesEither

30/4/2025, 2:40:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We went from an America that would barely elect a catholic because they didn’t want church involvement to this insanity?

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Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe it had to do with those pesky paper ballots.

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@jennobenno.bsky.social

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My idea of a good movie is it’s visually stunning while telling a great story. This does that. And more. There’s a whole world inside this one movie. And no stupid Hollywood tropes. Plus that incredible dance sequence. More. I want to see more from this director.

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It was original and fresh. And no tired tropes.

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#TaxMusk

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When you pay with cash there is no paper trail

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I guess he went to Pakistan to promote democratic ideals.

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Because it has to be about him. Now the pope’s funeral is about Trump.

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Profile picture ⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ (@fiadh.bsky.social) reposted

don’t give them their freedom, because they’re not going to give you yours

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Profile picture Taryn Okesson (@tarynokesson.bsky.social) reply parent

And lies, lies people want to believe

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Funny you should say that

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Protests are happening everywhere.

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