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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 8h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 11h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 5h

PART 2 of "The Devil's Herd", my pulp-style story of a fighter, his dog, and the monstrous killer hog that wants both of them dead, is now out at CLIFFHANGER! magazine.

cliffhangermagazine.com/2025/10/10/t...

THE DEVIL’S HERD: Part 2

LAST TIME… Prairie fires sweep the midwest, driving all manner of beast before the blaze. Most fierce among these crazed creatures in THE DEVIL, a feral hog of monstrous proportions and demon…

cliffhangermagazine.com

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 10h

No model for the actual face and hair?

Huh. It would probably be tacky to mention which 1980s female fantasy/SF author I thought this painting might have been inspired by.

(Also thought same writer might have inspired one of the later SWORD AND SORCERESS covers by other hands.)

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 11h

Reading CLOWN TOWN right now.

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 11h

If the cease-fire is still in place by *next* year, we can maybe talk about a Nobel.

Personally, I expect it to fall apart by Halloween, Thanksgiving at the very latest.

Because ETTD: Everything Trump Touches Dies.

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 12h

He's a bulldog. He's just looking for bulls.

"Bulls live in burrows, don't they? They're real close together in the dictionary."

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 1d

Croatian Tales of Long Ago — a seminal collection of short stories by the acclaimed children's author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić. The illustrations in this 1922 edition are by Croatian artist Vladimir Kirin: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/croatian-tales-of-long-ago-1922

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 1d

From the Larchives: Another seasonal pin up: The Bride of Frankenstein

cartoon: Bride of Frankenstein pin up - the Bride reclines on an electric chair

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 1d

Two lifelong bibliophiles here. When we moved into to our current home, the books were over a hundred boxes.

That was 1985. Don't even want to think how many boxes might be needed now.

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 1d

Heh. We've got several small pieces of mink fur bought for costuming trim. I have to keep them in the far back of a closed drawer, because the cats go ABSOLUTELY APESHIT about them. Worse than catnip.

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 1d

Big corkboard and lots of red string?

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Graham Annable @grickle.bsky.social · 1d

Forever pests. #grickledoodle #horror #dogs #vampire #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

A cartoon illustration of a vampire in his living room surrounded by his pesky West Highland terriers. Caption reads "He and the Westies had tormented the village for centuries now."

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 1d

Love the blasé little cat.

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 1d

If he really wants to defend Qatar's security, give him a rifle and some sunscreen and have him stand at a spot on Qatar's border.

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 1d

describe your bluesky account with a single image

The Piranhamoose from David Malki's WONDERMARK comic. A moose with the head of a piranha.

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 1d

It should be easy to find the leaders of Antifa. Just see who's listed on the incorporation paperwork.

When is Antifa going to have an IPO?

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 1d

Right now I've got enough basil growing to use for pesto, but at other times I've stretched out the available basil with carrot greens and/or purslane leaves. Not quite traditional pesto flavor, but interesting/acceptable alternatives.

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 2d

For the hopelessly addicted, Smart & Final has the 55oz containers of PB M&Ms at a reasonable price.

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 2d

Not gonna lie, this would be a great opening scene for a science fiction story set in a spaceport.

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 2d

Bad call, Ubisoft, bad call. Just like punching Nazis, there's never a bad time to fight the Klan.

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 2d

Ubisoft executives apparently became anxious about releasing a Reconstruction-era Assassin's Creed game with a Black protagonist into America's current climate.
www.avclub.com/assassins-cr...

Ubisoft reportedly killed an Assassin's Creed game about fighting the Klan for being too "political"

www.avclub.com

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 2d

It's a lot.

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-short...

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 2d

#AScareADay

Another vintage book illustration from a "Spooky Booky" series on my old "GOBI -Great Old Book Illustrations" Twitter account.

A skeleton riding a pegasus, holding an upraised sickle in one hand.

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 2d

Happy World Octopus Day! To celebrate, here’s the first piece in my series of Octopolis tarot cards: The Fool!
#octopolis #worldoctopusday #octopus #tarot

$A digital illustration within a tarot card frame titled ‘The Fool’. The images is of a mimic octopus bursting through the surface of the ocean into a sunlit day. The octopus is covered in many colored stripes. It holds one arm up through which light refracts. In another arm it holds a bundle of kelp. Beneath the water is a yellow cuttlefish looking very happy.$

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 2d

THE NONBORN KING (1983)
Mixed Media on Watercolor Board - 28” x 18”

Once or twice a year, for a change of pace, I work in watercolors as I did in this painting. Sometime later I decided that I should have used acrylics instead. 1/4

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 2d

From Parth Kothekar's M.C. Escher-inspired series of papercuts

www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/10/part...

a hand holding a trippy white paper cut to distort perspective

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