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Amy Rae Hill

@amyraehill.bsky.social

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Ceramic painter bringing dramatic galactic moments to your dinner table. PNW. (she/her) Restock: TBD linktr.ee/amyraehill

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · Nov 22

Someone said my art is a break from politics and for the record: my art is political

In a world where billionaires at the top aerospace companies see space as exclusive ground for white men to conquer and colonize, I offer a quiet contemplative alternative for anyone and *everyone*

Angled cup featuring weathered spacecraft design and small round window in center showing astronaut looking out at branches wrapping around craft.

Teapot featuring the Eagle Nebula and two floating astronauts holding hands looking at the scene.

Detail of a yarn bowl showing an astronaut repairing a spacecraft above them and attached to a tether that leads to the yarn feed.

Serving bowl featuring two astronauts helping each off the ground in the distance near a crashed spaceship, while debris is scattered around the middle and foreground on the cracking surface of a barren moon. Two exoplanets above.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you!

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 1h

Yay!

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Yes they are glazed on the inside, functional to hold hot tea but not for the stovetop!

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 2h

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 9: Nebula

#sciart #spaceart #artchallenge

Orange gradient background with the words “day 9: nebula” in large black text at the center

Graphic showing the Spacetober challenge prompt list for 2025. The background is an orange gradient with a black box on top, with the number of each day and the corresponding prompt for each in white text on top. 1: Launch, 2: Planet(s), 3: Space Weather, 4: Moon, 5: Voyager, 6: Constellation, 7: Space Agency, and 8: Propulsion are crossed out. 9: Nebula, 10: Artemis II, 11: Asteroid, 12: Eclipse, 13: Near or Deep Space Network, 14: Spacecraft, 15: Black Hole, 16: Parachute, 17: Historic Person(s), 18: Mars/Mars Mission, 19: Crew Capsule, 20: Telescope, 21: Star, 22: Lunar Landing, 23: Space Station, 24: Jet/Plane, 25: Historic Mission(s), 26: Earth, 27: Habitat, 28: Astronaut/Cosmonaut, 29: Orbit, 30: Galaxy, 31: Future

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 2h

A couple of images of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). One on left taken using my 50mm lens, on right at 130mm focal length. Both Cropped. 9 October 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Green comet at centre. Many other star dots.

Green comet withy faint tail at centre. Some star dots.

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Aysa Heffernan @aysah.bsky.social · 8d

Weedy Seadragon, 2025. So happy to be shortlisted for the Royal Miniature 2025 show in November with this little guy. Fingers crossed I get through the final round!

#miniatures #sealife #seadragon #tinyart #ukartist #sculpture

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 3h

Authors - need a cover artist? This pack has you covered (lol) and is a great starting point for getting human made arts for your writing!

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 3h

Nebula

One of my favorite things to paint has always been a Nebula Teapot 🌌

#SpacetoberChallenge
#SciArt

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 13h

Marsrover Perseverance Sol 904 - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2p1MdE9

After the sampling operations of conglomerates at Fall River Pass were completed, the Perseverance Rover started moving West through very Rocky terrain towards a new Science objective, called the Margin Carbonate Unit.
This area is 400m west of the rover an not yet visible from the current location. Scientists hope to learn more about the past environment on Mars from the rocks there and whether it facilitated life.
This panorama was assembled from Navcam images taken on the afternoon on Sol 904. I also added sky images from sol 889. These images were taken at a different time of day, but at the same sun elevation, so they could be combined.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 18h

I think if you see something cool you should share it faster than seeing something bad. Not saying never do the latter, but more of the former please.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 13h

A sneak peek at some art from my upcoming comic about BRAINS 🧠

abstract illustration of consciousness - neurons floating in space, with interconnecting and branching tendrils and sparks

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 20h

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 21h

Right, as if this is your first day using the internet and you don't already work with a doctor 🫠

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 7d

Planets
#SpacetoberChallenge
#SciArt

Angled cup featuring Earth viewed from Saturn as the "Pale Blue Dot"

Yarn bowl featuring a floating tethered astronaut being electrocuted by their phone against an Earth-like planet in the background.

Mug featuring JWST infrared capture of Jupiter

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 1d

Internet diagnosing is one of my least favorite things, bc it favors certainty from limited knowledge rather than being comfy with saying "idk" and being open to more data to truly understand a person.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Similarly, if a neurotypical person recognizes a characteristic of themselves in a neurodivergent person doesn't mean that they are neurodivergent!

People contain multitudes and that's ok! we don't need to internet diagnose each other!

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1d

Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Aimee Steinberger @aimeekitty.bsky.social · 1d

I just really want to see what you love and your real feelings and your personal stories, and any work where those break through the corporate machine, I cry tears of joy. I’m so tired.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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MoonMoon Ceramics @moonmoonceramics.bsky.social · 5d

🌘A large ceramic celestial serving dish, made with stoneware, with hand-carved celestial texturing.
#ceramics #art #pottery

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MoonMoon Ceramics, artist is Karleigh Thompson.

This is a large ceramic moon serving dish.

The outside of this stunning serving dish has been hand sculpted to look like the surface of a moon. Textured with craters and rock surface.

Made of white stoneware, stained black outside, and the inside is glazed in matte black.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

I am doing a round of We Want You To Have This TOMORROW MORNING at 9AM mountain time. If you are trans in the US and want a gift from my shop but cannot afford it, or if you have a trans loved one you would like a gift for, I will have 20 available. Details in thread. nora.jewelry/pages/we-wan...

We Want You To Have This: Jewelry Gifts For Trans People

Requests for gifts are now closed! They will open again at 9AM Mountain Time (Denver) Wednesday, October 8th. The following round will be on Saturday, October 25th at 9AM. Just looking for the forms?...

nora.jewelry

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ıllıllı FREE ŁINK ıllıllı @rvbdrm.com · 3d

Łink’s the reason I learned what alt text is and why it matters.

He helped shape Bluesky’s early culture of accessibility.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 2d

That's cool, big congrats to her!