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Swandog / Xenia Eliassen

@swandog.bsky.social

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Old (53) cryptid-thing ΘΔ, furry/fantasy artist & crafter, birbmom, nonbinary ⚧️ (she/they), demi/ace, disabled/chronically ill ♿️ (MS, PsA, etc.), neurodivergent ♾️ (AuDHD) & US import in Norway. Socialist/antifascist! ✊️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🍉 🚫️NO AI🚫

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Swandog / Xenia Eliassen @swandog.bsky.social · Oct 22

Welcome, new followers! 👋❤️ I guess I should do a new intro! 😅 I'm Xenia, a nonbinary, ND, disabled, chronically ill artist in Norway (originally from US). I love to draw all fantasy and furry critters, but especially winged ones! 🪽 I'm also an old-school traditional artist learning digital media. 😊

Colored pencil drawing of a mandarin duck and a wood duck posing together in a Japanese garden with a bamboo grove and an oriental wooden bridge.

Ink drawing on parchment of a lioness taur asleep on a gnarled tree bough.

Ink drawing, digitally colored, of a sleeping fantasy doe with a feathered tail, surrounded by an ivy border that spells out the name "Lockett", and a parchment ribbon banner wrapped around her forelegs.

Ink drawing, pencil shaded, of a badger cradling and bottle-feeding an arctic fox cub. The badger is sitting in the grass with his back against a gnarled willow tree, next to a pond filled with water lilies.

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Lackofa @lackofa.bsky.social · 5d

Conures! got as many colour morphs and species as I could think of in there but man there's so many of them

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 11h

I wish everyone could watch a Northern Harrier hunt over a marsh or open field. They fly low, weaving back and forth and sometimes hovering in one spot. Amazing! #birds

Dark brown raptor with face like an owl is coursing over a grassy field next to a lake. Wings are up over the body and its face is turned to look at the camera as it flies.

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 11h

Oh hi!
🎃🎃🎃

Photo of three grey sculptures in progress on a dirty metal sculpting wheel. They appear to be sort of demented jack-o-lanterns.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 11h

Seeing a lot of "No Kings" protests groups using AI images lately

You aren't resisting fascism by using their tools

Be better than that

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ᐋᐧᐳᐢ ᒥᓯᐟ @waposhpyii.bsky.social · 8h

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Lackofa @lackofa.bsky.social · 7d

Cockatiels! Also in my shop

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Gay Breakfast @gaybreakfast.bsky.social · 12h

These pin concepts are nice items for your corvid familiar to “hold onto.”

The poll will run for a few days, and the winning pins will be made for real as part of the Chaotic Queer collection!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Top two images, the crow familiar olush clutch a rainbow flame, and pride daggers. The bottom images are a glow in the dark ghost lantern, a rainbow queer fellowship leaf, and a book fanning open titled “the Gay Agenda”

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Gay Breakfast @gaybreakfast.bsky.social · 12h

🏳️‍🌈✨ ᶜᴴᴼᴼˢᴱ ʸᴼᵁᴿ ᵂᴱᴬᴾᴼᴺ ✨🏳️‍🌈

✨POLL in 🔗👇

The Chaotic Queer Cat runs a medieval stall with a chaotic claymore, a windfall wizard staff, a crows flight bow, and a cat axe. The corvid familiar, starry eyes, ogles the collection as the sign beckons “choose your weapon.”

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7h

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 15h

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 9h

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 11h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9h

Solidarity is the only way

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 12h

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

www.cnn.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 11h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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ACLU @aclu.org · 10h

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Lackofa @lackofa.bsky.social · 9d

This art is a year or two now but I'm still really proud of it. Pigeons!! I sell these lil guys as prints https://www.lackofa.com/shop

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 11h

manul

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, quit right now.

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 15h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 12h

this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12h

The consensus is kids dont have garages anymore outside the purview of HOAs and that killed the garage band.

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 12h

Is there a national shortage of kids from shitty towns who learned to play guitar, or what's the situation?

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13h

I cannot begin to explain how much this fucking sucks. Good god. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xf0R...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12h

If red state schools accept this we are going to get a two-tiered system of higher ed. One set of states will be based in empirical reality and the other will be subject to the whims of a conspiratorial movement that is increasingly detached from facts.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 13h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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