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@jkmakes.bsky.social

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Executive Officer In Charge of Radishes non-competitive poster and earnest motherfucker gender casual COVID-hermit tired #MakeAThing Even if you're "bad" at it. #AbolitionStories #ArtILove https://linktr.ee/jkmakes

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · Mar 21

Here's an easy way to share how my project works:

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 2m

! I have not encountered Lady Lovely Locks in a long long time! All I know of her was she as on my childhood curtains, but she was fascinating to little-me nonetheless. Fun to run into her today.

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Frania @teleportwarning.bsky.social · 4d

Day 7: sword (for #poorlydrawnoctober) and fire (for all fandoms promptober) combined for the idea for this one— cool fire sword lady, Rellana.

A digital illustration of Rellana from Elden Ring, holding her flaming sword overhead and her magic sword in front of her

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 5m

So much variety of cat! So few brain cells among them, I am sure ✨😆

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Moray @morayarcade.bsky.social · 1d

Left handed #PoorlyDrawnOctober

10. Cats!
- Cat mobsters. You'll be sleepin wit da fishes. You'll taste delishes

Pencil drawing of two cats with old timey American gangster getup. One is holding a gun and a cigarette

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Westie @westie.bsky.social · 13h

#PoorlyDrawnOctober day 11: someone lying down

... listen how could I not?

Pencil sketch of THE Burt Reynolds poster, featuring the man himself reclining, nude, on a bearskin run

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 11m

Favorite art-prompts challenge I've done, I think-- y'all wanna play too? Never too late (in life, in the month, doesn't matter)

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Fer (PoorlyDrawnOctober Time!) @ferferrous.bsky.social · 12d

#PoorlyDrawnOctober
I've been having a rough time with perfectionism, and I'm taking the whole month of October to re-establish my relationship to art! Come join me!

JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 13m

#PoorlyDrawnOctober Day 12: Space-filling scribbles

A digital drawing of scribbles in dusky shades of purple, red, and blue. The corners are each done in a different solid color, with a blue swirl dominating the center, with small scribbles emanating from the top, bottom, and sides.

JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 25m

#PoorlyDrawnOctober Day 11: Someone lying down

My Pathfinder PC from Rise of the Runelords, Pechel Ledhart. They had a long run of bad bad luck, and a foul mouth that my son's paladin delighted in chiding them for.

Amateur digital painted doodle of a fantasy dwarven ranger lying face down on a stone floor, as if they've just tripped and fallen. They're muttering, "you drowning fishbender. Godsdamned cowbanger."

JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 27m

I was very happy with that too! This is my sister's PC and I struggle with making her as beautiful as the character is canonically, but a teacup? I can do a teacup. 😆

JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 29m

(It was the exclamation mark in the prompt that insisted something be extra about this one LOL)

JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 29m

Thanks! Hard not to love teeny tiny kitties :D

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 2h

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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geneva @gdbee.bsky.social · 1d

🌈 ramen noodles

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Oni @onidraws.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sad to see a lot of artists I know saying it's super hard to get sales. And it really is. So I wanna promote them here again.

Go check them out and buy or tip them if you can. This is the non-US shops list but I'll post other lists as well.

Oni @onidraws.bsky.social · Sep 11

I made a pack for non-US artists shops!
Let me know if you want to be added (with a shop link) or removed!

go.bsky.app/KgkXQns

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 13h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

And you can, as the author of this piece says, stop framing art as a matter of returns on interest. Sometimes things are just a universal good.

Art is one of those. Even shitty art. Even art that never makes someone famous, art that gets made in those cramped college apartments.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 2h

Can we trick them somehow into thinking it’s started, so they go into their bunkers and leave us alone

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

Which they are doing their best to accelerate.

Numerous Billionaires Preparing for End of Society

Billionaires are (still) doomsday prepping. AI — the tech many of them are building — has them more paranoid than ever.

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nea @neakaze.bsky.social · 1d

Made a super duper teeny tiny mini zine out of a post-it note. If you fold it so that the sticky side is inside it perfectly glues the pages together 🤯 It's great!!

#zine #minizine #drawing #inkdrawing

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maru @koyamori.bsky.social · 2h

submerge
#art

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

Despite my own personal lack of faith, I am not sympathetic to people harassing other folks for believing in the supernatural/godly. I’m especially not sympathetic to ignorant atheists who are so Christiancentric that they assume all religions work the way evangelical Christianity does.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 3h

Gorgeous artwork of a vista I've imagined in my head a million times.

Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 8h

A Night on Saturn - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/PTsBAL

$You can't get much astronomy done on Saturn. The rings shine all night and there's nowhere to put a telescope down. Something different from me. Wouldn't it be something to see the real thing? The rings were rendered in Blender just for a rough start and then I painted the atmosphere, clouds, etc. I thought maybe there would be some atmospheric reddening and a little refraction going on at the horizon. I've always enjoyed painting clouds. About eight hours of work total.$

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 2h

NUNS
Sister, in my studies I have inventede a Niewe Letter
Indeede sister
It is to Followe the Letters U and W. I call ite The Triple-U
Uuu
Exactlie

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 14h

ICE Whistles packed and ready to go.

If you want to make your own kits, the Pisen Arts & Community House has PDFs you can download and links to whistles (though often sold out, so get creative) linktr.ee/pilsenartsco...

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 13h

SQUUUUUAARE ONE!

YES PLZ

Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 17h

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14h

Joy is actually a shared experience if you let it be. It’s infectious and that makes it motivating. Even if it’s not happening directly to you, it’s a sign of possibility and hope.

And also, just, like, it’s nice when people are happy! That’s a state we should wish on everyone!

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