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Jonty Wareing

@jonty.bsky.social

Oblig

April 23, 2025 at 11:43 PM

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Rib

@rib.gay

By using FontForge on a PDF from the website for the campaign (web.archive.org/web/20051223...); I can confirm that they are indeed using the illegal clone version of the font, rather than the licensed one!

A screenshot of FontForge opening a PDF brochure from the "Piracy is a Crime" campaign, showing that it is using the font XBAND Rough, an unlicensed clone of the font FF Confidential.

April 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM

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Ockeroid

@ockeroid.bsky.social

I had to do it
bsky.app/profile/ocke...

Ockeroid @ockeroid.bsky.social · Aug 14

Meme format: The myth of "consensual" sex, Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?
Diagram of merchant, gateway, acquirer processor, issuer processor and issuing bank with "I consent" speech bubbles. And card networks and acquiring bank with "I don't" speech bubble

August 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM

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Ana Valens | 🔞

@acvalens.net

The fog of war is lifting

What we are learning is that these two parties are responsible for all of the censorship going on. Banks working with PayPal / Stripe, and card networks like MasterCard

The main instigators of online censorship in the e-commerce chain: acquiring banks and card networks

Merchant
Gateway
Acquirer
P٢٥٢٥٢٢٥٢
Acquiring Bank
Card Networks
ssiior
٥٢٥٢٥٢٢٨٢
VISA
Issuing Bank

August 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM

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🦇 Harper 🔜 FC'26 🦇

@2manystripes.bsky.social

But my legs were toooooooo long

August 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM

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Cats of Yore

@catsofyore.bsky.social

According to the back of the photo, this is “Teddy, a big cat weighs 15 lbs and is 15 years old”. From my collection.

Black and white photo of a white woman standing outside on a lawn in front of a hedge, holding a fluffy tabby cat up by its elbows so that it is standing on its hind legs. She looks like she’s being quite gentle but the cat looks disgusted regardless.

August 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM

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hibbary.bsky.social

@hibbary.bsky.social

A small painting, acrylic on 5" by 7" illustration board.

August 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM

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Lordyan(Commissions Open)

@lordyanyu.bsky.social

do you want to see more OCs!

August 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM

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Per Ahlberg

@perahlberg.bsky.social

A timeline cleanser for those who need one: a small waterfall on the flank of Meall Mor, Glen Coe, Scotland, filmed today. There are still places like this.

August 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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Emma

@emmasartworks.bsky.social

Wildlife sketches from a recent walk along the river Wharfe near Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire. It was great to see so many butterflies, more than I’ve seen for many years.
🐡 #nature #wildlife

Sketches of wildflowers, fungi and insects from Wharfedale, North Yorkshire - pen and watercolour

August 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM

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Polar

@polarbearwilliam.bsky.social

I need more pieces of paleoart like this because the thought of dinosaurs using lightning magic is funny as fuck

August 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM

🌺Michael

@archry.bsky.social

just logged in for the first time in forever and the spec evo feed is gone :((((

August 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM

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doodlelotl

@doodlelotl.bsky.social

Blanket Octopus wishes everyone a happy Pride month! ❤️‍🏳️‍🌈

June 1, 2025 at 10:06 AM

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PBJ Puppy! 🐶 🌈 💕

@pbjpuppy.bsky.social

my mini-tutorial for drawing fat furry bodies from tumblr!!

#arttutorial #artguide #fatpositive #furry

April 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️

@canopyrobin.com

I made these for five reasons:

• Trans Pride 🏳️‍⚧️
• Aesthetic jewellery 🌿🧝‍♀️✨️
• Science communication through #SciArt
• To afford trans-affirming costs
• A niche joke about kerning

I will not elaborate on the order of importance

Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · May 30

Trans fem? I thought it was trans fern 🏳️‍⚧️

After 6months hard work, I'm finally launching my trans fern Pride pins and necklaces! There's even a glow-in-the-dark version and each fern comes with a queer nature fact 🌿

Please share so others can enjoy! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4312...

An enamel fern in the colours of the trans pride flag, hanging from a silver chain by its curled over stem. It's on a backing card that says Trans Fern by Canopy Robin. Glow in the dark. Did you know that most ferns are homosporous? This means they produce onlye one type of spore which germinates to be both male and female during the plant's reproductive phase.

June 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM

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Rii Abrego

@riibrego.bsky.social

bug type #art (wallpapers below!)

A drawing of bug Pokemon crawling among leaves

May 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM

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Iron Spike

@ironspike.bsky.social

Word. They worship authority, they covet authority. Catholicism doesn't appeal to them spiritually, it appeals to the part of them that recognizes it as a centralized power over ~1.5 billion people.

Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · May 9

I’ve said it before but these people don’t want Jesus, they want the God-Emperor of Mankind.

May 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM

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Maltita

@maltita.neopaquita.es.ap.brid.gy

⚠️ INICIATIVA LEGISLATIVA EUROPEA PARA PROHIBIR LAS TERAPIAS DE CONVERSIÓN ⚠️

Quedan 7410 firmas en España para llegar al mínimo para que cuente y tenemos HASTA EL 17 DE MAYO

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000001_en

Firmad, que estas cosas sí que sirven

Initiative detail | European Citizens' Initiative

citizens-initiative.europa.eu

May 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM

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daffodil 🇵🇸

@daff.space

chart drafted by a friend about the difference between indie and AA, and AAA game developers

chart with three columns: Indie, AA, AAA and seven rows: Development budget, marketing, team size, publisher, graphics and technology, target audience, development time. Each cell has a funny but also pretty much true content

May 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM

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✨Kiki - Comms Open!✨

@setenza.art

I genuinely find it funny that the way I improved drawing muscles was because I was so chronically obsessed and down bad for my own OC.

Being insane helps!!!

April 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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Mulm 🤝 Lhannan

@mulm.bsky.social

If you have creative works on: Archive of our own, artfol, character hub, itaku, paintberri or paperdemon you might be interested in this: www.paperdemon.com/app/g/pdarpg... The dataset thief is removing entries on a case by case basis so everyone should spam this person with copyright claims imo :)

IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED: Your art and writing has been scraped and published in an AI dataset

Art RPG News. Apr 18, 2025 12:10pm PST Last updated Apr 20, 2025 9:30 pm PST This situation is changing rapidly so please check back regularly for updates. A few days ago, we announced that PaperDem...

www.paperdemon.com

April 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM