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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · Sep 5

ONCHÚ
#creatureart #heraldry #fantasyart #artistsonbsky #illustration

A drawing of an onchú, a mythological venomous beast from Irish folklore and heraldry. It appears like a green fox with birdlike front legs similar to an Enfield and a long pointed tongue.

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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · Sep 8

The Peryton - a favourite not-actually-historical mythological creature

A painting of a heron like creature with a stags head and legs , colored in blue-grays.

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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · Jul 25

“There’s a loose pony down by the water, wonder what he’d fetch us”
#darkart #kelpie #animalart #artistsonbsky

A portrait of a light brown and grey shaggy pony with empty eyes and a fang, with seaweed in its mane, and some of the mane might BE seaweed.

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 2h

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

This is really useful if you want to understand how trumped up the charges against Tish James are

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Be nice if any single national Democrat promised to hold these fuckwads accountable for malicious prosecution should the wheel ever turn around.

But, whatever. Everybody who opposes Trump will just have to weather this bullshit.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 5h

Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanised humanity, lest all things be held unalterable!

- Brecht

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 2h

My career is listening to people who flee places that get increasingly unsafe. A few months of "wait & see" can make a world of difference for safety & prospects. I've lived under authoritarianism myself.

Leticia James getting indicted, Mark Bray trying to flee & being stopped.

This is not okay.

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 5h

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16d

I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..

Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 16d

THERE. ARE. NO. 'CAUSES'. OF. AUTISM.

(other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).

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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 4h

During a government shutdown, the Trump administration is bailing out Argentina, whose president is fond of saying, “The state isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.”

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 4h

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

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Chris two moss @christoptomus.bsky.social · 3h

Watercolor is like magic.

Natasa Ilincic @natasailincic.bsky.social · 6h

“Yew tree on Lothrie Burn”, watercolour on hot pressed cotton paper.

I always stop to look at this tree on my daily walk, it was about time I painted it! :)

Now available through
everydayoriginal.com/artistprofil...

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Chris two moss @christoptomus.bsky.social · 3h

Timnit is an essential follow if you are trying to understand this new world of tech we find ourselves.

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 4h

This isn't a "why can't we all get along" kumbaya moment. Its a moment to understand all the ways in which the people who created OpenAI, Anthropic etc claiming that their machine god will bring utopia, are the actual "existential risks" to humanity.

Raising billions of dollars to "save humanity."

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GO 🇵🇷🚴‍♂️👨‍💻📱🤖 @gostack.bsky.social · 3h

The AI giants are constantly telling on themselves by saying they will eliminate jobs and become trillion dollar companies.

Who are you saving? Who are you enriching? What is being done to improve the world?

They never answer these questions because they don't think they have to.

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 4h

This isn't a "why can't we all get along" kumbaya moment. Its a moment to understand all the ways in which the people who created OpenAI, Anthropic etc claiming that their machine god will bring utopia, are the actual "existential risks" to humanity.

Raising billions of dollars to "save humanity."

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d

‘From reef to retail’: experts warn global marine aquarium fish trade relies heavily on wild populations www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪🌎🦑🐠

‘From reef to retail’: experts warn global marine aquarium fish trade relies heavily on wild populations

New research finds 90% of marine fish sold by major US retailers are wild-caught, including threatened or endangered species

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 20h

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 22h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

John Fetterman, ladies and gentlemen

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 21h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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✨ Vash Taylor ✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ Open For Work @deuxdel.bsky.social · 1d

daily 08.10.25

A hard brush colour and light study of a young black woman, done in blocky shapes and colours of brown, yellow and black. the lighting is muted and grey toned

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Bullard Center for Environmental & Climate Justice @bullardcenter.bsky.social · 1d

Indigenous Peoples call for just energy transition

As the world races toward decarbonization, Indigenous Peoples warn the transition towards greener energies must not come at the expense of Indigenous rights.

www.ohchr.org

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 23h

This is not a photo of protestors in Portland “ICE fishing”, as clever as that sounds.

I can’t find the photographer so far, but it’s been online since at least 2013, and those are Toronto cycling cops, not American ICE agents.

Note the uniforms, shorts, bikes, and lack of masks.

Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 2d

Ice Fishing in Portland

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 23h

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Chris two moss @christoptomus.bsky.social · 1d

This sucks because a game that lets you murder racist losers would really hit the spot right now.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan

• Leadership canceled it — concerned with US political climate & Yasuke backlash

(via Game File)

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Ginger the garden witch @mkkraemer.bsky.social · 1d

Just take a moment to imagine if Obama or Biden had said “We took the right to bear arms away because… you have a right to bear arms, but what happened is when they walk around with ARs it agitates and irritates crowds.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Chris two moss @christoptomus.bsky.social · 1d

Theft in the Age of Digital Reproduction

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 1d

But when we said "defund the police," we were mocked

Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 19d

When the nazis were coming into power, there was a lag before local law enforcement was fully on board. People were able to get police protection from nazi-aligned paramilitaries. Here, today, police look at rising fascism and say “Finally. We’ve been waiting for this.” www.notus.org/democrats/me...

Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection

“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.

www.notus.org

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