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Ariana Padron

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Ariana Padron | KidLit Illustrator | Cute & Whimsical Art ✨️ Bringing out our inner child through art ✏️ Looking for representation! 🟢 Commissions open (DM me for info) 👇 Shop & Portfolio 👇 bio.site/ArianaPadronArt

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Ariana Padron @arianapadronart.bsky.social · Jul 3

It's #KidLitArtPostcard day!

Hi, I'm Ariana Padron! I'm an illustrator who loves to draw Whimsical Art. I enjoy using bright colors and textures to breathe life into my illustrations!

Actively looking for representation!

Portfolio ⏬️
www.arianapadron.com

#art #illustration #kidlitart

A cute rooster with pink and yellow round flowers on its green tail feathers. On a light pastel blue background.

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Michelle Eloren @elotewaifu.bsky.social · Aug 1

Hola! I'm participating in a campaign to help raise funds for @chirla-org.bsky.social, an org that helps immigrants in their fight against the 🧊 raids.

If you feel helpless and don't know how to help, donate directly (tinyurl.com/Art4CHIRLA) and, if you'd like, get an art commission from me. 🧡

Artists for Immigrants Charity Art Stream Fundraiser flyer for raising funds for CHIRLA

Artists for Immigrants is a charity campaign fundraiser with the goal to raise money for CHIRLA. In response to the injustices that are currently impacting our beloved Latino community across the country, 20+ participants have banded together to raise funds for CHIRLA through art commissions. Join us live for a 12-hour charity art stream on Saturday, August 9th, from 10am to 10pm!donation link in bio! Please consider donating and sharing our charity campaign! Together we keep our community safe.

Title: Artist for Immigrants Charity Art Stream Fundraiser

Self portrait of a woman. Beside her photo is a list of steps provided to commission her under COMMISSION INFO.

Title: Artist for Immigrants Charity Art Stream Fundraiser

Two drawings, one a sketch and one colored, of a girl in a purple and white dress, white boots, and a long ribbon braid, dancing Mexican folk dance.

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NPR @npr.org · Jul 27

Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities.

Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · Jul 24

From an Engadget article, this worked for me!
How to turn off google's "AI overview" in search results

1. Click the three dots in the upper right corner of your Chrome browser
2. Go to Settings > Search engine > Manage search engines and search
3. Under Site search, click the Add button
4. Enter Name: Google/Web
5. Enter Shortcut: https://www.google.com/
6. Enter URL: {google:baseURL}search?udm=14&q=%s
Click Add

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danamarie hosler/ mightypigeon @mightypigeon.bsky.social · Jul 3

Who’s up for a mystery? I am! Happy #kidlitartpostcard day, ADs & editors! I’d love to solve a riddle with you. Available for PBs & BBs. Repped by @jenrofe.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social Let’s work together! www.DanamarieHosler.com

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Ariana Padron @arianapadronart.bsky.social · Jul 3

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jun 28

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

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Authors for Immigrant Rights (AIR) @authors4immigrants.bsky.social · Jun 23

Official statement on ICE cosigned by 130+ KidLit & YA authors and illustrators. We are calling on publishers to not preemptively censor themselves in the face of this current administration and to protect marginalized creators. 🧵

We, the undersigned authors and illustrators, stand in solidarity with immigrants the nation over and refuse to accept these rampant constitutional abuses by ICE as the new norm. Immigrants are our parents, spouses, and friends. Immigrants are our communities. Many of us are immigrants ourselves. We are all deeply connected to this issue and want our voices heard on the matter.

For the past decade, the publishing world has made laudable strides in the diversity and inclusion of immigrant stories. Publishers and booksellers have helped to foster spaces where readers can develop awareness and empathy for migrant rights and history; spaces where young readers can finally discover their own stories on the library shelf. The current administration is trying to tear this progress away.

To publishers and booksellers: we call on you to continue your work. Stand behind your inclusive stories and marginalized authors, loudly and without hesitation. Help these stories reach the readers who need them most.

To our readers: we ask that you join us in taking up small tasks to support the immigrants in our lives. Call your representatives and ask what they are doing to protect their communities from ICE overreach. Donate to local immigrant aid organizations. Get involved with your local library and school board and speak up for books centering marginalized perspectives.

Let’s unite to write a new, better story for all the people in this country.

Signed,

List of 130+ author and illustrator names.

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Ben Hart, Gender Archivist @pavlovforgoths.com · Jun 21

Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.

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Instead of being in settings its in the google app. Also, google, not chrome. Icon is a G, not the circle thing. Click on your pfp to open a menu

From there, go Settings > Gemini > Digital Assistants > Switch to Google Assistant. This disables Gemini, google's Al assistant, and switches you back to the old one. We aren't done yet.

Go back to Settings. From there, we go Settings > Google Assistant > scroll to find General > Google Assitant on/off > turn it off

They really tried their best to make it a pain, but you can eventually disable it. Holding the power button on your phone still pulls up a menu and asks you to turn it back on, but this is the least intrusive you can make it.

Applies to all non-apple phones afaik. For sure Samsungs and Pixels but idrk about others

Edit: thank you my friend @/teeth-kid for confirming that this also works on Motorola

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Jun 20

Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago.

Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away”

timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...

ICE agents scatter as SD Bishop Pham, other clergy visit immigration court

"Our presence made a difference," one priest said, quoting an immigration lawyer saying their client was given more time to prepare for another hearing.

timesofsandiego.com

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · Jun 16

ICE throws gas at protesters who immediately cone it then use boards to help fan the gas back at ICE.

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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · Jun 12

"I'm Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the Secretary" - Senator Padilla as he is forcibly shoved out of Kristi Noem's press briefing.

Video via FactPost on X h/t @rerutled.bsky.social

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jun 11

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

Universal did not permit, authorize, or license Midjourney to copy or use any of Universal's copyrighted works in connection with any version of its Image Service or to otherwise exploit Universal's works at any time. You acknowledged as much in a September 16, 2022 Forbes interview in which you confirmed that Midjourney never sought any copyright holders' consent to use or exploit their works:
Did you seek consent from living artists or work still under copyright?
No. There isn't really a way to get a hundred million images and know where they're coming from. It would be cool if images had metadata embedded in them about the copyright owner or something. But that's not a thing; there's not a registry. There's no way to find a picture on the Internet, and then automatically trace it to an owner and then have any way of doing anything to authenticate it.
See Rob Salkowitz. Midiourney Founder David Holz

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∙ ᴘᴀᴜʟɪɴᴀ ∙ @iamthepaulina.bsky.social · Jun 11

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · Jun 11

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

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Emberwick (Carson Daniel) @emberwickart.bsky.social · Jun 9

how do we feel about modern propaganda posters?

a graphic poster of a hand holding a hammer breaking an ice swastika, with the words "break the ice" on it

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · May 29

Remember, the TrueRef timed gesture tool is 100% free!
🤍 trueref.art/trueref-gest...

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · May 13

Remember, companies are trying their hardest to find ways to avoid having to pay employees. If you think your job or line of work is exempt I promise it isn't.

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · May 13

Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans.

P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages

www.theguardian.com

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Caspian @caspianievers.bsky.social · May 13

I’ve just written some stuff about the very dull topic of archiving design work. I don’t pretend to know everything but hopefully it helps someone out. Also Ryan asked the question @ambrose.bsky.social
Hopefully there aren’t too many typos…

medium.com/@caspianieve...

Archiving 101 for designers

TLDR: Things break, files vanish, and clients always come back months later asking for that “final” version. A good archive means you (or…

medium.com

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Cowboy Carter Vegas Night 2 🤭 @neau.blacksky.app · May 9

I cried, so now y’all can too. Mr. Riddick graduated at 80 years old! It’s never too late, and this is important as I constantly doubt myself. 💙💙💙 congratulations to you sir!!!

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ACLU @aclu.org · May 9

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.

📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.

Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.

Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.

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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · May 9

The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka.

They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

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Alexis Young @cloudyning.bsky.social · May 1

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day!🌸

I'm Alexis, an illustrator based in Canada. I'm currently available for book cover and picture book projects!

🎨alexisyoungart.com

For kidlit inquiries, contact my agent at [email protected]

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Josée Bisaillon @joseebisaillon.bsky.social · May 1

It's #KidLitArtPostcard Day!

Bonjour ! I'm Josée Bisaillon, and picture book author/illustrator from Montréal

Portfolio - joseebisaillon.com and morgangaynin.com/artists/jose...

Agent - Kelly Pelsue @morgangaynin.bsky.social

#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebookillustration

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