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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · Apr 8

Want to support the creation of a radical leftist cartoon? Check out thecrystalcityfalls.carrd.co

Elevator pitch for normies: Two elves are drawn into a deadly conspiracy that could unravel the ancient secret behind their very immortality.

Elevator pitch for leftists: it is anarchist propaganda.🤷

Splash image in format of characters/character heads mashed together in a big composition. Protagonist Liirem is on the left, a tall elf with long hair wearing blue halos about his head and neck. To his right are the flamecasters Mia (holding a fireball) and Rhem (holding a flaming spear) with their friend Rieni doing a backflip over their heads, and their leader Araan looking over their shoulder on the far right. Behind Liirem stand a number of indistinct figures representing Omera and Mikel (bloodcasters like Liirem), the orc Serak, and the elder Vesiin. Larger above them is Draagrin--two elves (Dravem and Gria) who operate as a single "harmonic" entity, and three waterfolk: Ssvyra raising a fist, Viys holding a book, and Rhysaar, who has a long fishy mermaid tail.

Lineup of introductory designs. Left to right: Omera (not introduced until the second episode), Araan, Rieni, Rhem, Mia, and finally Liirem, who is at least a head taller than everyone else.

Digitally-revised storyboard panel. Liirem stands behind Rhem and Mia as they watch Draagrin take the stage to speak. Araan glances at them from the foreground. All around them, the crowd of elves chants "Draagrin", holds signs, and waves flags.

Liirem stands in the open door of a train looking breathless and panicked. "I think that was blood magic!" he shouts into the train.

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 7h

Capitol Hill is literally crawling with antifa. if you somehow didn't know that before you bought one of those nice Victorians, I'm happy to take it off your hands so you can quickly escape this leftist hellhole

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19h

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 21h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 12h

I painted this protest sign earlier this summer hoping to spread an important message.

Protest sign reading:

Antifa is not a gang! If you are against (anti) fascism (fa), then welcome comrade, to Antifa.

There's also a little cartoon Hitler guy getting punched out with swastika eyes and a grinning sunshine with sunglasses and a Molotov and a Palestine flag.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 15h

its the FABULOUS BODIES cover reveal, my latest horror journey arriving next summer. buckaroos are calling it DRIVE MEETS BEETLEJUICE (but COLLATERAL in palm springs with an undead queer icon also works). PREORDER NOW BUCKAROOS LETS TROT us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

cover of FABULOUS BODIES by chuck tingle it is greenish blue background with large pink text in the middle there are heart shaped sunglasses with pool reflection and at the bottom it says 'never meet your heroes'

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 1d

Every once in a while you can still find something good on Facebook

A Tom of Finland drawing of a well-endowed leather daddy accompanied by text that says "AI art? Sorry I prefer gay guy art."

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 1d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 1d

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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Ebil @ebil.bsky.social · 1d

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stas silva🩸 @silvarils.bsky.social · 2d

[Portland Frog] hits you for 2,058 damage using [Dance of the Prince]

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 2d

This is the aesthetic of the future

Kyle wolf
@CRXSSF4DE
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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 2d

For no reason, here's some writing by Rosa Luxemburg

Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg Audiobook [English] | Audible Socialism

YouTube video by Audible Socialism

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Crimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.social · 6d

A message from Phil Vischer, the creator of VeggieTales.

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 2d

Liirem makes his living writing corporate spells as a contract ritualist. He wants nothing to do with his natural bloodcasting, but he still ends up as the primary suspect after an immortal councilor is assassinated with apparent blood magic.

#DVPit #DVArt #CF #Illustrator #ND #TV

Liirem, a tall elf with long, flat hair and glowing blue bands around his head and neck, looks past the camera with some alarm. He stands in a crowd of screaming elves with flags and protest signs. He stands with his sister Mia (with dyed red hair, a magitech wand, and a shirt featuring a cartoon lion) and her friend Rhem (wearing a red band halo-like around his head, with a staff on his back), who are both yelling along with the crowd.

Councilor Vontaas pulls a metal dart from their hand, pulling a line of blue blood after it, threadlike, through the air. Behind them, a uniformed guard reaches out, too late to stop it. Silhouettes of the other councilors lie indistinctly beyond a lit doorway in the background.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2d

"Mr. President, did you know who they fought against in Weimar Republic? The very party we are modeling GOP after today. It's an outrage."

Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 2d

Yep. He’s a Nazi.

Mr. President, thank you so much for having us here today and holding this roundtable. Antifa is real. Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany. And it's now been just under one month since we saw a far leftist murder Charlie Kirk. And we saw thousands upon thousands of people, other far leftists and people in positions of authority, people like nurses and pilots and doctors and HR departments celebrating the death and the murder of Charlie Kirk. The sickness that's out there is absolutely real. And Mr. President, thank you for mentioning it.

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RJ Aguiar @damnitrj.bsky.social · 2d

Me whenever I finish bullying someone for sharing AI slop on my timeline…

Meme of a farmer sitting on his land saying “it ain’t much, but it’s honest work”

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2d

i appreciate @meredithshiner.com’s wisdom, as well as her refusal to let the coons-valentine’s day story fade from public memory

It is certainly self-evident that Democrats do not care to "do democracy," but what I would argue is that speeches about democracy do not carry the weight of collective action in support of democracy. In 2024, President Joe Biden told us repeatedly that "democracy was on the line," and yet three years earlier, Senate Democrats prematurely ended the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump because top Biden ally.
Chris Coons of Delaware wanted to go home for Valentine's Day. Congressional Democrats, despite their supposed 2024 warnings that democracy was on the brink, almost all attended Donald Trump's inauguration in 2025 as if it were normal and acceptable, and Biden himself welcomed the Trumps back into the White House with open arms.

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 2d

I guarantee it's possible to not shop on Amazon. I've been doing it for years! Boycotting shit is easy as hell when you're broke!

Truthout @truthout.org · 2d

During its July 2025 Prime Day event, Amazon shipped an estimated 450 million items. What it fails to report about its Prime Day operations, however, are the guaranteed spikes in carbon emissions that will linger in the atmosphere for centuries.

If You’re Thinking of Snagging an Amazon Prime Day Deal, Stop and Read This First

Amazon’s emissions are rapidly rising, and its Prime Day deliveries play a significant role in stoking climate change.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 2d

one thing I learned during 2020 is that "less than lethal" munitions are explicitly designed to be shot into the ground so they lose velocity and bounce up into people and the reason I didn't know that before is literally NO ONE has ever deployed them that way.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 2d

If you care about public health, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about medical research, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about climate change, labor conditions, the well-being of children in war zones—you have to become a revolutionary.

crimethinc.com/becomeananar...

There is no more middle ground.

If you care about public health, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about medical research, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about climate change, labor conditions, the well-being of children in warzones, there is nothing else for it—you have to become a revolutionary.

There is no going back to the way things were, to the future that we once anticipated. The old world is in flames around us.

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 2d

LOL

LMAO, even!

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 2d

The world has been ruled by immortal elf elders for millennia when a councilor is assassinated with apparent blood magic. The election to replace them could push the Seven Cities into fascism, unless an ancient mortal conspiracy can first unravel immortality.

#DVPit #DVArt #CF #Illustrator #ND #TV

Storyboard intended for 2D animation.

A protest/riot crowd bursts into a government building. They search the entryway, smash windows, burn banners.

Amid the confusion and mess, an elf holding a fireball points to a door.

ELF: "They're in the central chamber!"

The door to the central chamber bursts into flames.

Storyboard intended for 2D animation.

The flaming door slams forcefully off its hinges, then dissolves into magical glitter. The crowd shoves through into a large central meeting room with a second floor balcony.

CROWD: (chanting) "Throw them deep into the sea! My magic belongs to me!"

As the crowd fills the room, the councilors and guards watch from the balcony.

COUNCILOR: "How did they get past the guards?"

(The guards let the crowd in after a charismatic speaker incited them.)

Storyboard intended for 2D animation.

Reluctantly, the councilors are ushered from the room by spear-wielding guards in armor and mirrored masks.

The chanting continues: "Throw them deep into the sea! My magic belongs to me!"

One of the councilors pulls away from the group to return to the edge of the balcony. This is VONTAAS and they are making a very poor choice.

VONTAAS: "Please..."

Storyboard intended for 2D animation.

Councilor Vontaas speaks to an angry crowd from a balcony, holding their hand out as one might try to calm an angry dog.

VONTAAS: "Please, we must have order."

The crowd jeers.
"How dare you speak to us of order!"
"Repeal the Light ban now!"
"Free magic!"

Looking down on the crowd, Vontaas tries some platitudes.

VONTAAS: "Our Banding decisions are made after consulting many experts in wild magic and the Ritualware Industries."

The crowd drowns out the speech with boos.

VONTAAS: "This is merely an expansion--"

CROWD: "Cowards!"

VONTAAS: "--of established cross-city legal standards--"

CROWD: "Traitors!"

VONTAAS: "--regarding legislation and inhibition--"

CROWD: "Throw them to the sea!"

VONTAAS: "--of natural-born casters."

Booing and jeering continue as a guard approaches Vontaas and gently encourages them to flee.

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 2d

If your hashtag searching is not working for #DVpit we created a feed for the hashtag. Please always try to search the hashtag first, but this feed includes all posts under the hashtag as well. We will update during the day as we learn more from bsky bsky.app/profile/did:...

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 2d

#DVpit 2025 has officially begun!
Today, Oct 8, 2025 from 8AM-8PM ET marginalized creators seeking out representation can pitch their completed manuscripts & portfolios to participating Agents & Editors!
Don't forget to use #DVpit in your posts!
Pls read rules before participating: dvpit.carrd.co

#DVPit Rules
-#DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors
-Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025
between 8AM ET - 8PM ET
-Only post once per hour (6 max pitches per project)
-Must have a polished, query ready manuscript or art portfolio.
-Pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use the #DVArt hashtag)
-A like from an agent = a query request
-A repost from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent
-A like from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions
-Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or
quote-reposting their pitches
-Visit dvpit.carrd.co for more detailed guidelines.

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 3d

There's no proof, as far as I can tell, that any of these creeps are even actually with the government.

It sure looks like a bunch of random pudgy white men who probably threw a fit over masking during COVID, going out in their finest balaclavas and tshirts to kidnap brown people.

pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 3d

Throwback to the day I had to wait more than an hour to even begin to go home from work

Screenshot of Google maps showing bus arrival times.

2:31 bus is delayed by 62 minutes.
3:01 bus is delayed by 45 minutes.
3:32 bus is on time and will arrive before the previous two buses.
4:01 bus is also on time.
4:31 bus is delayed by 22 minutes.

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