Laura
@barklaart.bsky.social
Aussie artist, she/her. Talks too much about drawing, gardening, foraging, knitting, vegan baking, poetry, sci fi, gaming, nature in general etc
tumblr: elbarkla, reddit: lauras_art_account
tumblr: elbarkla, reddit: lauras_art_account
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there are people going out in the freezing cold and literally putting their lives on the line in defense of their communities and the multicultural secular society they believe in. not interested in what some online wannabe dnc consultant type wants to tell me what is and isn't possible now
January 29, 2026 at 12:20 AM
there are people going out in the freezing cold and literally putting their lives on the line in defense of their communities and the multicultural secular society they believe in. not interested in what some online wannabe dnc consultant type wants to tell me what is and isn't possible now
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Solidarity from our siblings abroad 😻 Means a lot in this moment. Together we can defeat the global fascist movement!
Shout to @barklaart.bsky.social for creating this and posting it to one of the best subreddits: r/catbongos. www.reddit.com/r/catbongos/... #ICEOut #AbolishDHS
Shout to @barklaart.bsky.social for creating this and posting it to one of the best subreddits: r/catbongos. www.reddit.com/r/catbongos/... #ICEOut #AbolishDHS
January 27, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Solidarity from our siblings abroad 😻 Means a lot in this moment. Together we can defeat the global fascist movement!
Shout to @barklaart.bsky.social for creating this and posting it to one of the best subreddits: r/catbongos. www.reddit.com/r/catbongos/... #ICEOut #AbolishDHS
Shout to @barklaart.bsky.social for creating this and posting it to one of the best subreddits: r/catbongos. www.reddit.com/r/catbongos/... #ICEOut #AbolishDHS
![an anti-ICE, antifascist poster in a pop art style. In the centre is a sketchy cartoon cat.
The cat wears a hoodie, beanie, jeans, boots, an anti-ICE whistle, and a set of bongos strapped to their body. They march in protest, slapping their drums and raising a fist. Behind them is an abstract background of other protesters.
The text at the top says CRUSH ICE. The text beneath says LOVE CATS! FIGHT FASH! [fascists/fascism]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tlcgx2egx5lvkgzvr54ddvsn/bafkreicqq3mbgatbgujgqfy7idvnqgc4h4r5vuzgtzifnlps22fvpvcrjy@jpeg)
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One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
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one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is
January 3, 2026 at 4:24 PM
one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is
exactly the reason I don't discuss my veganism online 💚😅 I've got a cohesive philosophical viewpoint, but many questions about it are VERY DEFENSIVE - in bad faith, if not actively hostile - and you can't have a civil discussion with something like that
your mileage may vary but my experience on here improved pretty noticeably when I stopped offering explanations to people whose questions sought conflict rather than answers
January 7, 2026 at 6:15 AM
exactly the reason I don't discuss my veganism online 💚😅 I've got a cohesive philosophical viewpoint, but many questions about it are VERY DEFENSIVE - in bad faith, if not actively hostile - and you can't have a civil discussion with something like that
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I solved the 'it's still the Year of the Snake, but everyone thinks it's Year of the Horse' problem.
It's now the month of the Snorse.
#sygnin
It's now the month of the Snorse.
#sygnin
January 6, 2026 at 3:10 PM
I solved the 'it's still the Year of the Snake, but everyone thinks it's Year of the Horse' problem.
It's now the month of the Snorse.
#sygnin
It's now the month of the Snorse.
#sygnin
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Like, my point isn't "copyright doesn't do enough to protect artists"; it's "copyright is literally designed to hurt artists". I absolutely do think a better world would be a world where everything is just public domain. That thread even mentions alternative propositions so artists get paid!
January 7, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Like, my point isn't "copyright doesn't do enough to protect artists"; it's "copyright is literally designed to hurt artists". I absolutely do think a better world would be a world where everything is just public domain. That thread even mentions alternative propositions so artists get paid!
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In a strange position where I think there are massive, massive social harms to the proliferation of AI (misinfo, deepfakes, predatory 'companions', surveillance, labour rights) but also feel the mainstream arguments against it range from unconvincing (water) to actively harmful (copyright; "soul")
January 6, 2026 at 7:52 PM
In a strange position where I think there are massive, massive social harms to the proliferation of AI (misinfo, deepfakes, predatory 'companions', surveillance, labour rights) but also feel the mainstream arguments against it range from unconvincing (water) to actively harmful (copyright; "soul")
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good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein
December 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein
Art vs Artist 2025!!
🌞🐍😻🦌🕷🐛👯♀️🐈🌲🍾🐸🐭
I drew a lot less, but I wrote a lot more! And started my first ever garden. So here's to a lifestyle diverse as my art style, algorithm be damned 😉
🌞🐍😻🦌🕷🐛👯♀️🐈🌲🍾🐸🐭
I drew a lot less, but I wrote a lot more! And started my first ever garden. So here's to a lifestyle diverse as my art style, algorithm be damned 😉
December 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Art vs Artist 2025!!
🌞🐍😻🦌🕷🐛👯♀️🐈🌲🍾🐸🐭
I drew a lot less, but I wrote a lot more! And started my first ever garden. So here's to a lifestyle diverse as my art style, algorithm be damned 😉
🌞🐍😻🦌🕷🐛👯♀️🐈🌲🍾🐸🐭
I drew a lot less, but I wrote a lot more! And started my first ever garden. So here's to a lifestyle diverse as my art style, algorithm be damned 😉
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"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
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A reminder that the key to writing is getting the very best out of your brain, but in order to get the best out of it you have to take care of your mental health. Stress, concern, and depression will take a toll on your work. So always make sure to take care of YOU and you'll get your best work.
December 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
A reminder that the key to writing is getting the very best out of your brain, but in order to get the best out of it you have to take care of your mental health. Stress, concern, and depression will take a toll on your work. So always make sure to take care of YOU and you'll get your best work.
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rightwingers privately disagree with a good bit of what they espouse because it’s not about being moral it’s about getting unlimited money and personal power
I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism
December 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
rightwingers privately disagree with a good bit of what they espouse because it’s not about being moral it’s about getting unlimited money and personal power
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one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills
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You've got to figure the type of person who'd go to Stonehenge on the Solstice is also the type of person to completely lose their shit when encountering a random black cat there
December 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
You've got to figure the type of person who'd go to Stonehenge on the Solstice is also the type of person to completely lose their shit when encountering a random black cat there
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The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own
America is a culture of child abuse. Ask any survivor - we find one another, we form networks and communities.
The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.
The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.
Government of pedophiles. They're all tainted with this for the rest of their lives.
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own
Universal Basic Income now! There's no reason not to do it - it's the most transformative, utopian policy we could implement TODAY, and has minimal costs and drawbacks! And everyone benefits. Even if you don't give a shit about the poor, just imagine how many Silksongs you could have 🕸🐞
they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead
December 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Universal Basic Income now! There's no reason not to do it - it's the most transformative, utopian policy we could implement TODAY, and has minimal costs and drawbacks! And everyone benefits. Even if you don't give a shit about the poor, just imagine how many Silksongs you could have 🕸🐞
that red on the ground is stunning💗
Maxim Polivanyi (Ukrainian)
Evening, December, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 60 cm
Private collection
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Evening, December, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 60 cm
Private collection
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
that red on the ground is stunning💗
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And this is another reason. False positives of "AI" art is constant in TTRPGs because Midjourney and others admit to heavily training on fantasy art from D&D and M:TG. This is especially true of "AI detector" sites, which are themselves "AI" and can't tell the difference.
False accusations of AI usage can and does happen with some regularity, and it is incredibly disappointing to see. There's one game in particular which got accused of using AI generated voice acting, when I knew for a fact it absolutely did not because I know some of the voice actors involved.
December 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
And this is another reason. False positives of "AI" art is constant in TTRPGs because Midjourney and others admit to heavily training on fantasy art from D&D and M:TG. This is especially true of "AI detector" sites, which are themselves "AI" and can't tell the difference.
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my child, who has a better understanding of color layering and shading than most adults, got tired of coloring and instead of encouraging them or just letting them know its ok to put a project down I chose to teach them to outsource creativity to the demon rectangle
December 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
my child, who has a better understanding of color layering and shading than most adults, got tired of coloring and instead of encouraging them or just letting them know its ok to put a project down I chose to teach them to outsource creativity to the demon rectangle
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Congrats to Australia, this is really cool!
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
December 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Congrats to Australia, this is really cool!
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
vegan product names are just like that. sausage label that stopped me dead in Woolies:
December 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
vegan product names are just like that. sausage label that stopped me dead in Woolies:
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republicans believe children should be forced to carry pregnancies to term and should be allowed to be pushed into coercive marriages by their parents because they see children as fundamentally sexually exploitable and i am tired of pretending their transphobia has some other angle
December 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
republicans believe children should be forced to carry pregnancies to term and should be allowed to be pushed into coercive marriages by their parents because they see children as fundamentally sexually exploitable and i am tired of pretending their transphobia has some other angle
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons