Amelia K. Bates
@ameliakb.bsky.social
full time illustrator & craft goblin ✨ i draw a lot of stuff that saps my creative energy for personal art 🐌 fuck AI :)
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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I strongly feel that fundraisers should rely more on pettiness.
February 14, 2026 at 8:46 PM
I strongly feel that fundraisers should rely more on pettiness.
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Happy Valentines day! 🩷🎀✨️
Aside from the people in my life, my biggest love has always been the creatures on our planet
Aside from the people in my life, my biggest love has always been the creatures on our planet
February 14, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Happy Valentines day! 🩷🎀✨️
Aside from the people in my life, my biggest love has always been the creatures on our planet
Aside from the people in my life, my biggest love has always been the creatures on our planet
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happy valentines day send this to your lover or someone you hate
February 14, 2026 at 2:08 PM
happy valentines day send this to your lover or someone you hate
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Authoritarians cannot understand regular people because they themselves are cowards
Fear motivates them, so they assume it motivates everyone. They can't imagine risking their lives for a stranger, for free
It's why they've beat a public retreat in Minneapolis, and it's how we'll ultimately win
Fear motivates them, so they assume it motivates everyone. They can't imagine risking their lives for a stranger, for free
It's why they've beat a public retreat in Minneapolis, and it's how we'll ultimately win
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Woke Antifa's Secret Weapon
www.firewalledmedia.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Authoritarians cannot understand regular people because they themselves are cowards
Fear motivates them, so they assume it motivates everyone. They can't imagine risking their lives for a stranger, for free
It's why they've beat a public retreat in Minneapolis, and it's how we'll ultimately win
Fear motivates them, so they assume it motivates everyone. They can't imagine risking their lives for a stranger, for free
It's why they've beat a public retreat in Minneapolis, and it's how we'll ultimately win
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being an artist is just decades of going "ugh I wish I knew how to draw" over and over again until you die
February 13, 2026 at 8:19 PM
being an artist is just decades of going "ugh I wish I knew how to draw" over and over again until you die
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Please it's only February.
February 10, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Please it's only February.
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OK one last shirt design, this one I just made because I personally wanted a shirt that said all this but couldn't find it anywhere. www.bonfire.com/ai-is-theft
February 10, 2026 at 8:11 PM
OK one last shirt design, this one I just made because I personally wanted a shirt that said all this but couldn't find it anywhere. www.bonfire.com/ai-is-theft
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"Maybe all we do is frustrate," Star said. "Give someone one more day with their daughter or their dad.
"But if you lost your dad, or you lost your daughter, you would give anything to have one more day with them. And that’s what we can do.”
My latest for Slate
"But if you lost your dad, or you lost your daughter, you would give anything to have one more day with them. And that’s what we can do.”
My latest for Slate
Activists Are Fighting ICE Even Though It Could Get Them Killed. Here’s Why.
ICE is still trying to subjugate Minneapolis. It's still failing.
slate.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:18 PM
"Maybe all we do is frustrate," Star said. "Give someone one more day with their daughter or their dad.
"But if you lost your dad, or you lost your daughter, you would give anything to have one more day with them. And that’s what we can do.”
My latest for Slate
"But if you lost your dad, or you lost your daughter, you would give anything to have one more day with them. And that’s what we can do.”
My latest for Slate
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So apparently even for the Olympic Games ceremony, they don’t have enough money to hire real people (no they genuinely think it was cool)
The fact this level of AI work was actually used for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games Milano-Cortina 2026 is mind blowing.
February 10, 2026 at 1:52 AM
So apparently even for the Olympic Games ceremony, they don’t have enough money to hire real people (no they genuinely think it was cool)
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Learning to draw really just takes lots of time and practice. But when you say that a bunch of people are like "if that was true, then I could do it!" And then you're like "yes" and then they're like "see? that's why you're lying!!" and then they continue to not practice because they don't like to
February 6, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Learning to draw really just takes lots of time and practice. But when you say that a bunch of people are like "if that was true, then I could do it!" And then you're like "yes" and then they're like "see? that's why you're lying!!" and then they continue to not practice because they don't like to
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I am going to become a hysterical religious peasant at this point. when you make an AI portrait of your family you are summoning an unspeakable evil. you are doing the devils work
February 10, 2026 at 12:19 AM
I am going to become a hysterical religious peasant at this point. when you make an AI portrait of your family you are summoning an unspeakable evil. you are doing the devils work
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Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet.
But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...
But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...
ICE hasn't stopped brutalizing people or shredding the Constitution, it's just that corporate media turned the camera as the call for action got too loud and the Democrats stepped in and made sure the issue got changed.
If you sit for a second, you'll recognize that's what happened with BLM, too.
If you sit for a second, you'll recognize that's what happened with BLM, too.
February 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet.
But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...
But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...
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you know, laying off staff in the middle of a war zone while enduring a ukraine winter without power makes laying off ppl during the holidays look downright humanitarian.
billionaires shouldn’t exist.
billionaires shouldn’t exist.
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
February 4, 2026 at 7:16 PM
you know, laying off staff in the middle of a war zone while enduring a ukraine winter without power makes laying off ppl during the holidays look downright humanitarian.
billionaires shouldn’t exist.
billionaires shouldn’t exist.
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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I explain my customer service issue to the stupid ai chatbot I don't want to use but am forced to. It cannot solve my problem, obviously, so it transfers me to an actual human. The human has me explain every detail of my issue all over again in order to solve it. So what the fuck is the point of ai
February 1, 2026 at 10:06 PM
I explain my customer service issue to the stupid ai chatbot I don't want to use but am forced to. It cannot solve my problem, obviously, so it transfers me to an actual human. The human has me explain every detail of my issue all over again in order to solve it. So what the fuck is the point of ai
If you see this, post your orange art 🧡
January 30, 2026 at 6:34 PM
If you see this, post your orange art 🧡
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Is 2026 is the year one or more of your transmasc friends get top surgery? Are you planning on surprising them with gifts snacks and forehead kisses? Let’s add a beautiful greeting card to the mix. Which was also made by a transmasc person btw.
#art #topsurgery #illustration #humanart
#art #topsurgery #illustration #humanart
January 5, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Is 2026 is the year one or more of your transmasc friends get top surgery? Are you planning on surprising them with gifts snacks and forehead kisses? Let’s add a beautiful greeting card to the mix. Which was also made by a transmasc person btw.
#art #topsurgery #illustration #humanart
#art #topsurgery #illustration #humanart
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Worth repeating that the people of Minnesota are braver than the US marines and it's not close
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Worth repeating that the people of Minnesota are braver than the US marines and it's not close
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.