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✫ ᴅʀᴜᴠᴇʀᴀ @druvera.bsky.social · 9d

UMAMUSUME PRETTY DERBY
Mejiro McQueen (Colored Sketch)
##mejiromcqueen #umamusume #umamusumeprettyderby #sketch #fanart

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Elene 🖤🤍💜 @elenekisaragi.bsky.social · 3h

RENT LOWERING REMINDER THAT THEY HOLD HANDS AND SOMETIMES EVEN HOLD OTHER PEOPLE'S HANDS

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Astrid (yeehaw) 🤠🌈 ✨ @ansitru.bsky.social · 2h

I'm just saying, we could settle this with swords, instead of 30+ emails. 🤺

#artWIP

A WIP embroidery piece, with a sword and mace chzrm, spikes and letter beads.

The beads read "this email could have been a duel | fight me"

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Felix d’Eon @felixdeon.bsky.social · 9h

✨ The Witch’s Proposal ✨🕯️💜
Yesterday was International Lesbian Day, and what better way to celebrate than with this illustration of two witches bound by love and magic.
Available as a print in my Etsy shop 🛒

www.etsy.com/mx/listing/8...

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Knowledge Commons @kcommons.bsky.social · 12h

This week’s #ResearchSpotlight chills to the bone with body horror and gothic desire. How does asexuality haunt The Death of Jane Lawrence? Dare to find out: works.hcommons.org/records/7h90... 💉🖤

Pale orange flyer with red lettering that reads "The Horror of Sex: Gothic Asexuality and Medical Body Horror in The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling by Vickie Brestwer"

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 10h

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 9h

I have English family and when I try to explain America they always look--understandably--wildly confused. Like I am exaggerating for effect. I would look the same way. Living here is a constant exercise in bending your concept of reality. Or attempting to resist that bend.

Juliette Rihl @julietterihl.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t usually cover breaking news, but this story is truly wild.

A pastor in central PA brought an AR-15 to church and pointed it at people during his sermon. Gun safety experts and internet commentators are, predictably, not happy!

(Paywall free link below)

www.pennlive.com/news/2025/10...

Dauphin County pastor under fire for pointing assault-style rifle during sermon

In a move experts called a serious safety violation, he pointed the unloaded weapon at churchgoers, while asking for a 'violent action of faith.'

www.pennlive.com

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 8h

Okay witches and warlocks, psychics and demon summoners, it's time

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 9h

Alex Jones has asked the Supreme Court to immediately put his almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment on hold, citing the imminent threat of InfoWars being handed over to The Onion.

If there isn't a stay, "InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed," the filing says.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 6h

Also? If you can’t work, temporarily or permanently? It’s not your fault and you don’t deserve to starve.

Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 12h

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Talking Scared Podcast @talkscaredpod.bsky.social · 5h

A self-indulgent moment on Talking Scared. @natcassidy.bsky.social and @rachelharrison.bsky.social come onboard to grill ME about my debut GOOD BOY.

We talk about the inspirations, the struggles, the characters, and what I’ve learned in 5 years of talking to authors.

All podcast platforms

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rory with the wolkid brainrot @mooncatte.gay · 1d

my other hot take is that y'shtola should not be the xiv rep in ff crossovers (sorry shtola lovers)

the correct answer is alphinaud

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17h

Always glad to see masks back in healthcare… but I wish we would stop being reactionary and be proactive instead.

We know masks work.

That’s why they bring them back in response to outbreaks.

Keep masks in healthcare year round and you will save lives!

Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 22h

USA: Mask rules are returning to Bay Area health care settings from Nov 1 as COVID, flu, and RSV cases rise.

Counties including Contra Costa, Santa Clara, Sonoma, Napa, San Mateo, and Santa Cruz will require masks for workers, and in some cases patients and visitors, through spring.

Mask mandates return in parts of the Bay Area as virus season nears

By Aidin Vaziri,
Staff Writer
Oct 7, 2025

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ice.cream.assassin @icassassin.bsky.social · 1d

Felt compelled

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 19h

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO GOOD BOY BY @talkscaredpod.bsky.social

Order from our bookshop or your favourite retailer.

After a boy vanishes on the outskirts of a small town, a woman spies a mysterious man digging a grave in the exact spot of the disappearance.

www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/good...

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 1d

My Ghost Pokemon designs so far! More on the way...

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 10h

Singing “this is crazy?! Everybody is so famous?!” When I walk into the house of the dead (ereshkigal) wearing the clothes and perfumes I wore in life and am swarmed and consumed by the shades therein

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Beeeee (Comms closed!) @slugelf-lizard.bsky.social · 1d

look at this really cool Arenvald he is so cool. I love him muchly thank you @heathenish.bsky.social for the comm wagh🥹

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mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 18h

it was said by someone like half a year ago that learning how to deliver passable if not good work under both immense pressure and short notice is actually an important part of the college experience and an incredibly useful skill and the person who said that was right

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Hermetic Library @hermetic.com · 4d

Wake up, babe! Corollary to the Butlerian Jihad just dropped!

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 4d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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wisteria 🌿 @wisteriaphyte.bsky.social · 2d

Putting Haurchefant and Venat penning side by side for the motivation I need today 🥹💗

Blank and white illustration of Haurchefant from Final Fantasy 14. He is penning a letter and is resting his left arm on his head.

Blank and white illustration of Venat from Final Fantasy 14. She is penning into a book with many pages.

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 2d

I will never vote for Gavin Newsome. You either support trans people or you don't get my vote. It's really that simple.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23h

If we had responded to Covid by normalizing masking, providing respirators in healthcare & adopting clean air standards…we could have beaten the virus.

We would also be seeing less measles, colds & flu.

We would all be healthier.

I believe history will see it as one of our greatest failures.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Ghibli movies are very frequently about making your own solace in challenging, if not horrific circumstances.

Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever someone uses Ghibli or Miyazaki as a synonym for "quaint, charming, unthreatening" I'm always like "bro did we watch the same movies?"

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 2d

A quest to eliminate $5 million has tripled, thanks to the generosity and passion of THE TOXIC AVENGER fans across the country.

Together, you didn’t just meet that goal, you crushed it, helping wipe out over $15 million dollars in medical debt for 10,000+ people!

‘The Toxic Avenger’ & Undue Medical Debt Cleared $15 Million in Real-Life Medical Debt Together!

Before Macon Blair’s The Toxic Avenger released in theaters back in August, the Cineverse marketing team came up with a wonderful idea. They took the remainder of their marketing budget for the film a...

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s cat is not using that decoration the way it was intended #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky #Halloween

Two black cats play inside a flattened Halloween house toy. One cat is inside the collapse house. The only visible portion of this cat is a paw extending from inside the flattened cardboard. The other cat investigates what used to be a door into the toy, now flat. The cardboard house is decorated in purple and black with cheery pumpkins and eerie bats.

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