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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 11h

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Ben Buckley 🇨🇦 @bentheadequate.bsky.social · 7h

If they ever make a spreadable cheese based on clarified butter, they should call it "Ghee Whiz".

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 7h

#Paleoctober2025 day 13 and 14 paleoart sketches with the early stick grasshopper Eoproscopia and the strange shaped coelacanth Allenypterus.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #Eoproscopia #Allenypterus

The Early Cretaceous stick grasshopper perched on a giant horsetail. It has well developed wings.

The lobe-finned fish swimming in the Late Carboniferous tropical shallows.

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Sophie Poulin @sophie-poulin.bsky.social · 20h

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 18h

Trump’s policies are devastating health care in rural communities.

And now, Republicans have shut down the government instead of fixing the health care crisis they’ve created.

A headline from ABC News reads: "'It can be a loss of life': First responders detail the deadly cost of rural hospital closures -
Rural hospitals are vanishing, and Medicaid cuts could accelerate the collapse."

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 15h

Sickening. Revolting. Vile. This makes you want to throw up.

This is the kind of garbage that the worst kind of people say when they think nobody is watching.

And where are Republican leaders from Trump on down condemning these comments swiftly and unequivocally!?

I’m waiting to hear it.

A headline from POLITICO reads: "‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat"

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 15h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 19h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Andrea Pantaloni @apantaloni.bsky.social · 1d

I love this podcast so much. It's just... a lot of spooky fun!

Ain’t Slayed Nobody @aintslayed.bsky.social · 1d

Houdini's Last Halloween has begun! Join Keeper Doc with fabulous players @ginadevivo.bsky.social @thingsgetdicey.bsky.social @rossbryant.bsky.social and @cuppycup.bsky.social for a 1920's Call of Cthulhu game set in Detroit.

Follow Ain't Slayed Nobody on your favorite podcast app!

Poster of a woman carving apples with Halloween theming (jack-o-lantern, bats). The top says "Detroit Chapter BSPR Costume Party" with "Halloween Greetings" in the main area. The bottom text reads "October 31 at 7pm. 1731 Seminole. No uninvited guests or spirits."

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DIESVITAE @diesvitae.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #PortfolioDay

I'm DIESVITAE or Auror, non-binary illustrator and concept artist from Italy!
I specialize in fantasy art for editorial, ttrpg and videogames.

Currently I work for privates only but I hope to get hired one day!

💌 diesvitaeart[at]gmail.com
🌐 diesvitae.com
🌳 linktr.ee/diesvitae

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Ascha'Vovina @vovina.bsky.social · 20h

An ogre! No, wait! A satirical news organization!

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arnaerr 🦈๋࣭⭑｡ @arnaerr.bsky.social · 1d

Host of the Nightmare
#Bloodborne

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Ain’t Slayed Nobody @aintslayed.bsky.social · 1d

Houdini's Last Halloween has begun! Join Keeper Doc with fabulous players @ginadevivo.bsky.social @thingsgetdicey.bsky.social @rossbryant.bsky.social and @cuppycup.bsky.social for a 1920's Call of Cthulhu game set in Detroit.

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 1d

Game website: jurassicparkcard.com

Worldwide shipping: nobigdeal2022.cafe24.com/shop3/category/jurassic-park-tcg/66

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 1d

Lambeosaurus dinosaur card I illustrated for the Jurassic Park Trading Card Game booster deck "Silent Giant"

#JurassicPark #Dinosaur #Lambeosaurus #JPTCG #JurassicParkTradingCardGame

Trading card design with my illustration featured of the blue color scheme from the Jurassic Park movie concept art Lambeosaurus bellowing in a misty forest with text in Korean.

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Phantomarine @phantomarine.bsky.social · 2d

thank you for the happy birthdays

don't read my comic

my comic called phantomarine

don't read it at www.phantomarine.com

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YamiNOOOO 😱🔪🩸 @yamino.bsky.social · 1d

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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 2d

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 6d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know that if you have to pick your winter squash before it's ripe, you can treat it like summer squash? I just sautéed one of my hopelessly under ripe black futsu squash. Basically like a mild flavored zucchini with a much better texture. Tasty.

My squash that I grew on the left and 2 ripe ones on the right that I bought from a farm yesterday.

Quickly sautéed under ripe black futsu squash slices on a plate with the raw ones behind it.

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 5d

This is a great time to remind everyone that you should in fact, still be calling MasterCard, Visa, Stripe, and other payment processors to annoy the shit out of them.

Because I'll tell you right now, that shitheel? Not gonna have to worry about them accepting payment.

*Artists will.*

Phone Numbers
• Stripe (California): +1 888 926 2289 (Say you're based in California before continuing.)
• Stripe (Headquarters): +1 (888) 963-8955
• Stripe (US): +1 (877) 887-7815
• Stripe (France): +33 805-11-19-67
Mastercard (Headquarters): +1 914-249-2000 • Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-627-8372
Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-307-7309
• Mastercard (Int.): +1 (636)-722-7111
• Mastercard (AUS): +61 1800 120 113
• Mastercard (UK): 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers for Mastercard Visa (Headquarters): +1 (650)-432-3200
• Visa (US+ Can): +1 (800)-847-2911
• Visa (AUS): +61 1800 125 440 All region numbers for Visa
• PayPal (US): +1 (888)-221-1161
• PayPal (UK): +44 (0203)-901-7000
PayPal Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

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Dragonith @dragonith.bsky.social · 2d

Got this spinosaurus model the other day. Been eying it for a while lol. Love the colors/pattern.

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KP @hagofbolding.bsky.social · 3d

I believe it’s a Northwestern Salamander!

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Ascha'Vovina @vovina.bsky.social · 3d

Ooh! Now that’s a beautiful salamander! i wonder what species it is?

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KP @hagofbolding.bsky.social · 3d

I met this glorious sticky boy in forest park this morning

A large northwestern salamander on a bed of moss and leaves - it has a chubby build and dark purply gray skin

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Scott Dorward @sdorward.bsky.social · 3d

Dangerous Animals is a slick, bloody, and tense thriller that could have been something really special if it had gone just a bit darker

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#ohmc #horror

Dangerous Animals (2025) - OHMC 2025 Day 11 - Blasphemous Tomes

Scott Dorward goes for a risky swim with some Dangerous Animals as part of his 2025 October Horror Movie Challenge

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