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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 2h

if you are making art for sale, you should at least know why people will want to spend money on it before you start a business.

if you're doing the art for you specifically, maybe you're a hobbyist? you do have to think about the customer, their needs, their desires, if you're going to sell it

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 5h

Apologies for the vile pun, I blame the Bulwer-Lytton contest.

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 5h

Math on an abacus can be abacene, yes, but we must still defend the rights of maths to be abacene or we shall all surely be destroyed.

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 8h

Okay, I'm at the museum today and I want to geek out about one if my very favorite things in the universe: manuscripts from the middle ages.

This is an illuminated Qur'an from the 15-1600s. It's embellished with gold leaf and blue lapis ink.

And most of y'all have NO IDEA how expensive that was.

A spread from a lavishly illuminated Qur'an, appointed with lapis and gold.

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Monstrifex @monstrifex.bsky.social · 7h

11. COATLICUE - #VividShadows 2025

Few now worship Coatlicue, mother of the moon and stars, patron goddess of warriors and women who die in childbirth. But even in her obscurity, she occasionally sees fit to grant her boons to those who are truly deserve them.

An illustration of a fierce nude woman with motherly proportions. Superimposed over her are design elements from the Mexica Coatlicue Statue: A skirt of woven snakes, a necklace of human hands and hearts with a central skull, and dual ornamental serpents facing one another over her face. Her hands are reptilian and clawed, and she holds a macuahuitl.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 7h

I promise: you are not "betraying" or "abandoning" someone by refusing to take on responsibility for their emotional regulation.

You're setting a boundary that is compassionate & realistic-- for both of you.

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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 7h

Wonder Woman: “This lasso compels you to tell the truth. Now speak!”

Cheetah: “I actually kind of like being tied up like this. What time are you done at the museum tonight?”

Wonder Woman: “………. 7pm.”

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 8h

How the media are gaslighting trans people

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Stefan D. @s3rp86.bsky.social · 8h

The fact "government shutdown" is even a thing that can happen is a failure in itself. Plenty of countries don't have working governments for months at a time and normal government running costs still get paid. Pretty sure if there was a working congress this happening could be eliminated.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 7h

hey what happens to they 0% loan after three months when they can’t pay it back

what happens to it then

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 8h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 8h

it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 11h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Errant @errantsquam.heckingsne.cc · 9d

bug wings really fuck with my muscle memory lol 😭

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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emma (toys) @freeuse.toys · 19h

⭐🐧 Choosing a Linux Distro Guide 🧵⭐

Q1. Do you care about anything aside from it just needing to be "good enough" for most tasks?

No - just use kubuntu lol it's usually good enough and easy to use

Yes - what are you, a nerd? go figure it out yourself

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · Aug 3

PBS gave us Mister Rogers and Officer Clemmons in the 1960’s.
PBS showed the world what love & equality looks like, during a time when people were actually dumping acid into pools where Black kids were swimming...

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arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 1d

it just feels like.

But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?
Ursula K. Le Guin

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20h

This is what I mean when I say, when it comes to political positions, most ppl just run on vibes. 100% feelings-before-facts. Japan is screaming towards a population crash at 1,000 MPH, it's not reversible at this point. But you have political parties agitating to return to hermit kingdom status.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 21h

Japan’s far right is on the rise, alarming foreign workers. Nowhere is that anxiety more apparent than in the city of Toyota, where immigrants power the economy while facing political backlash.

Japan Needs Foreign Workers. Its Far Right Is Turning Against Them

In the city of Toyota, immigrants help power the economy while facing political backlash.

bloom.bg

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 12h

This … is truly awesome …

This is such a great piece of art!

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 21h

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 1d

While providing tech support for my FIL:

FIL: What's that screen?

ME: The terminal. You should never use it.

FIL: Never?

ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself?

FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 1d

The master of practical effects and the art animation school of legendary pieces are letting their powers combine?!?!?!?!

Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 1d

This is so much bovine excrement.

Increased violations warrant increased fines, because the fines are the deterrent to doing things poorly.

We discount things that we want people to do more of. So why does Las Vegas want Elon Musk and Boring Company fucking up their environment more?

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

www.propublica.org

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