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shy bratty husband @jilatos.bsky.social · Aug 22

[comm] 🍦 oc comm
#judles #furry

drawing of an anthro dog girl holding a soft serve ice cream (with a small ghost coming out of it) with one hand and grabbing the brim of her hat with the other. she has white fur with pastel blue purple and beige spots in star and heart patterns with purple/teal hair and green eyes. she wears a baseball cap, purple jacket, grey shirt, and black jeans with many colorful bracelets and piercings

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shy bratty husband @jilatos.bsky.social · Aug 23

[comm] snow date❄️
#judles #furry

drawing of 2 anthro characters (a beluga and a wolf) standing in the snow under an umbrella while it rains, drawn in an animal crossing style. the beluga has little glasses, a small tuft of hair, a snowman sweater, khaki pants, and boots while holding a potato galette. the wolf wears a white shirt and a blue apron and holds the umbrella for them

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Feb 27

Doaa sent me some photos of her lovely embroidery ❤️

Photo of a circular bag with a gold chain and some beautiful geometric embroidery and blue red green and yellow colors

Photo of a black bag with tatreez embroidery on it

Photo of a smaller black bag on a table with gorgeous rainbow colored geometric embroidery on it

Photo of a navy bag with a bunch of grid, geometric embroidery, in rainbow colors on it

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Sockie 🦈✨ @sockie.bsky.social · 1d

Day 11 - Frutiger Aero Shark

Does anyone remember Winamp?

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#Sharktober #Sharktober2025

Digital art. A drawing of an old Windows desktop with the classic image of a blue sky stretched out over rolling green fields. The style of the image is frutiger aero, which combines the aesthetic of early 2000’s technology with water, bubbles and bright colours. There are two sharks swimming across the screen that are shiny and transluscent, almost like gummy sharks.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 1d

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

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Samwise @samwisegamzee.bsky.social · 1d

#OC-tober day 11 - pokemon au

i was inspired after watching one of the old pokemon movies to make vynn and lucian into gym leaders

#dndoc #art

Digital art of my dnd oc Vynn with the pokemon Litwick and Sabeleye.

Digital art of my dnd oc Lucian and the pokemon Scorbunny and Ninetails.

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · May 31

fruity cat pals 🍎🍋🍐🍊🍉

#art #cuteart #caturday

Traditional mixed media drawing of 5 cute cats. Each one has a fruit shaped hat over their head and is holding a fruit of the same type under its paw. The first cat has a red apple, second cat has a lemon, third has a pear, fourth an orange and the last one has a slice of watermelon.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

Sama'a has a chance to move her children back into a real home after long, difficult weeks of living in a tent. Please give what you can to help.

gofund.me/db56c7ce3

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Dana Terrace @danaterrace.bsky.social · 23h

So many incredible professionals chatting and drawing. A little goes a long way. :] @blacknanimated.bsky.social

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capn @neroball.bsky.social · 1d

#sharktober2025 #7 tropical 🙂

drawing of brown nurse shark oc reclining on a beach chair on the beach. he has an open-chested yellow shirt with pink collar/pocket and blue shorts with white trim. his dorsal fin has 2 yellow shark tags that both say 69. she holds half a coconut with a pink straw and has a gray fish in her mouth. behind her are 3 palm trees. in the sand near him are 2 white flip flops and a red crab.

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 3d

crabs

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The Vampires Library @vampireslibrary.bsky.social · 4d

This is the perfect read for this time of year. It’s not just for people who have a hard time with horror movies per se. It’s for people who love horror point blank. Such a smart and cool book.

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 4d

oh hey if you’ve been meaning to pick up Horror For Weenies, Bookshop is having an anti-prime day free shipping sale (also a slight discount on the book!): bookshop.org/a/293/978168...

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

bookshop.org

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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 4d

There's too much to focus on here in Chicago to be on my "Amazon is even worse than you think" soapbox this week, but here's a sample of the ways that they are profiting off of genocide and occupation, both here and abroad. Kill the cop on your doorstep (your Ring camera).

Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · Jul 10

idk that this ever got shared here, but the last few years we've made some little zines in honor of a certain day named for a number indivisible by other numbers. tbh I did not have the bandwidth to update it this year, but these two remain relevant. Check out our website for citations.

"What Amazon is doing to us. a digital zine from Skunk Cabbage Books."

We all know by now that Amazon is bad for small businesses, especially indie bookstores like us. Amazon's model, on the surface, looks like this - Amazon sells books at the lowest possible prices because they're willing to sell them at a loss to get their consumers into higher margin products like Kindles, Alexa devices, Ring cameras, and Prime accounts. We know Amazon doesn't really need to sell books. We want to dig deeper into why they bother and how Amazon hurts not just small businesses, but our entire communities.

On the surface, Amazon's model looks like selling cheap books at a loss to lure people into higher margin tech, like Kindle, Alexa, Audible, Prime, and Ring. But the higher margin items still aren't the product - you are. The consumer Amazon cares about isn't us, it's the companies that will buy all the data Amazon is collecting about you. Our privacy is the most profitable product.

Amazon relies on our government's disinterest in protecting our privacy and surveillance devices like Ring cameras and Alexa devices to farm your data. The data is the part that's really profitable, especially when Amazon sells it to agencies like law enforcement. On the smaller scale, Amazon has sold data from people's Ring cameras to local police without any notification or permission from the camera owners. On the large scale, Amazon's tech and data models power models that allow governments to enact mass surveillance and policing. Tech contracts make up a huge portion of ICE's budget and Amazon is using their tech and your data to help ICE surveil, track, and deport our neighbors. ICE's surveillance system pays Amazon approximately $600,000 a month to power their tech.

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Tiffany Baxter @ MCM Q-11 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 4d

It’s international lesbian day, please consider supporting this international lesbian who is spending today absolutely knackered from chronic illness (+ covid and flu jabs on top) 🎻

Tiffany Baxter @ MCM Q-11 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · Sep 3

🍂Autumn Sale🍂
In order to make room for newer work, i'm having a clearance sale of 25% off all original drawings, greetings cards & select prints in my shop!

No code needed!

tiffbaxtershop.etsy.com

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Paige @pagupaige.bsky.social · 4d

Fruit Shark 05
The shark parfait is sweet but has a lot of bite to it.
#fruitshark #Sharktober #Sharktober2025

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Sid @swampgoth.bsky.social · 5d

Hey yall, my power got shut off bc I havent been able to pay. My disability means I cant work, & I dont get ssi/ssdi. I need 120.57 to reconnect & will owe an additional 50.10 (Total 170.67). If youre able to help even a dollar goes a long way 💚 CA $gothswamp V3nmo swampgoth ko-fi.com/swamp_goth

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 4d

Once again, great things happen to Post Games guests. Apparently this week's guest published a book. Happy I could bring him such incredible opportunities.

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 5d

My latest book, Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment, is out in paperback today! You can get it wherever you get your books. Ideally at your local indie bookstore www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jason...

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capn @neroball.bsky.social · 5d

yeah i got my industrial pretty young/naive which didn't help lol. wait really!! i know the septum is thru skin but i had thought the nostrils are in cartilage... is there like a little spot of just skin in there like with the septum?

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capn @neroball.bsky.social · 5d

this was my issue with my industrial which i had for. a few years? and would still get irritated frequently 🙃 it made me not want any other cartilage piercings lol. i'm glad your nose cartilage piercing is more chill tho??