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Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 4h

This specifically because she sees life and death more than most anyone. Mississippi has the highest infant mortality rate, double the national average, and a maternal mortality rate double that. Think about it. It's inexcusable.

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Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 4h

I have very little practice painting people but I quite like how this came out. Number 15 of maybe 21 in a series thinking about blue collar workers, 11x17ish acrylic on recycled panel.

Maternity Nurse in Mississippi.

A painting where a Black woman in purple scrubs and blue mask holds a little Black baby in yellow and golden blankets. The background is loosely painted warm browns and light purple lines suggesting maternity ward equipment.

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Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 8h

Some might. But none of them care enough because it's a steady check and absolute power.

Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 8h

Just like censoring the internet, croney capitalism, torture and such: It's okay when WE do it.

Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 8h

Whatever works

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Adrian Randall @anidealhusbando.bsky.social · 8h

don’t mess with Chicago priests named Father Dowling

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 14h

The foreman here is very strict.

A construction scaffolding on the exterior of a building. A cat peeks out from one of the platforms.

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Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 17h

2nd restaurant trip success. Very well behaved for a Goblin. Mostly just curious what everything is and who everyone is, especially DOT workers in bright uniforms.

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Honest Erotica @honesterotica.bsky.social · 19h

Vienna-born American Franz Felix only illustrated two erotic works – Pierre Louÿs’ Songs of Bilitis in 1928 and E. Powys Mathers’ anthology Eastern Love in 1930, but his stylish plates are a model of composition and the gently suggestive. See them now at honesterotica.com/illustrator/....

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Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 20h

Coffee and internet before sunrise, waiting for the Goblin to wake up so we can go get pancakes from the neighborhood dive. Assuming work doesn't haul me away from family.

96 hours of on call duty to go.
62 days until master license test.

Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 1d

Day 2 of this maintenance.
Between nightmares of violent combat and sprinting to the studio in the cold to get milk from the fridge, I am now awake. Thanks, I hate it. At least there's coffee.

120 hours of on call duty to go.
63 days until Master license test.

Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 2d

Doing a 2 person maintenance by myself at a place the property manager doesn't like me. Good times.
144 hours of on call duty to go. 64 days until the Master License test.

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Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 20h

I hope today, too.

Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 1d

I hope someone loves you on purpose today. Says Skeletor yelling from the top of a castle he probably stole from someone.

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Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 20h

Today's Democrats smell like the Republicans from the 80s-90s. I would bet a case of beer that the fascist apparatus of surveillance and oppression will be kept entirely in place when parties swap power, but we'll have rainbow flags on the tanks in the parade next time.

Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 20h

Just grab em from Bondi's office and walk out. They're right there on her desk!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 20h

My workshop is always open.

Thomas N. Perkins IV @tnperkins4.bsky.social · 1d

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Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 20h

I wish wheels were more universal. I love cast over spokes.

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to China: obey my command or I will destroy the United States

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow. If you squint. Staring at the sun.

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Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 1d

I tried and did when I worked at a SCIF but I hate the way it feels. Best I can hope for is some hair ties on my wrists.

Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 1d

I believe it hundo percent. Our only hope is to poison data sets.

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Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.mov · 1d

Put this in your minds now: these corrupt motherfuckers will argue in favor of Trump and the AI corporations that back him. Many AI companies like Palantir already define themselves by their pocketbook and because many of the judges here take bribes, they too will serve their billionaire masters.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

US Supreme Court asked to hear dispute over copyrights for AI creations reut.rs/478nrij

US Supreme Court asked to hear dispute over copyrights for AI creations

A computer scientist on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that a work of art generated by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law.

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Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 1d

Much love to my fellow workers at this plant in Tennessee. We all deserve safe workplaces, no matter what we do.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

19 missing, deaths confirmed as explosion rocks manufacturing plant in Tennessee

The Hickman County Sheriff's Office said an explosion occurred at Accurate Energetic Systems in the Bucksnort area on Friday, Oct. 10.

www.usatoday.com

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Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 1d

Not giving up the 2nd Amendment.

Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 1d

Onion bagel, toasted, lox and cream cheese. I don't need much. I'm just happy to be there. See you in 2 weeks!

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.