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fibbunny @fibbunny.bsky.social · Jul 18

Art for my graphic novel that I am totally working on and making progress. I swear. #art #artist

Two figures falling through a purple and yellow sunset. One is blond and wearing a blue shirt, reaching for the other. The other is reaching back, they have dark hair with white streaks, and an orange shirt. The dark haired person has disintegrating/melting blue wings, many blue feathers are around them.

A bedroom, with dark walls, and furnishing that are pink, green, and white. A sunset can be seen through the windows. There is a bed in the foreground, and a desk and bookshelf in the background. The bookshelf has a variety of individually drawn books, as well as knick knacks, including a skull, candles, and a straw doll.

fibbunny @fibbunny.bsky.social · Jul 10

Mira! She’s my favorite! Click to see the full image, because in my humble opinion, it’s pretty bomb. #kpopdemonhunters #art

Mira from Kpop Demon Hunters. She has her halberd over her shoulders pointed towards the viewer. Her leg and the halberd are in the foreground, with intense perspective, with the rest of her in the background. Behind her is a pink rectangle. She is wearing the white outfit from the finale of the movie.

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fibbunny @fibbunny.bsky.social · Mar 31

Happy trans day of visibility!

A smiling person behind a close up of some sprouting plants

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fibbunny @fibbunny.bsky.social · Mar 25

SD Activism Events @sd-activism-events.bsky.social · Mar 21

Take part in a national mobilization. From Activist San Diego

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · Feb 6

Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing?

DON'T DO IT.

If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.

Document, document, document.

Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Feb 6

Being against "diversity, equity, and inclusion" is like being against gravity, or the heliocentric model of the solar system, or the existence of cantaloupes. Lots of different kinds of people exist, and they aren't going away.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · Feb 6

Students in #Houston are walking out on strike.

"Most of the Houston ISD school's approximately 2,700 students walked out at the start of their second period to protest the Trump administration's immigration crackdown." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

HISD high school stages mass walkout in protest of immigration crackdown

Most of HISD's Sam Houston high school students participated in a mass walkout Thursday morning to protest ICE and a nationwide crackdown on immigration.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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fibbunny @fibbunny.bsky.social · Feb 6

Some really interesting information and analysis #trump #donaldtrump

Tumblr user rapidartwork replies to tumblr user a-lamp-in-the-dark: to uncharitably armchair psychoanalysize him, it's really clear that Trump was deeply socially isolated and neglected his entire life. All of his biographies and interviews with family members point out that his parents were physically and mentally abusive and emotionally neglectful, his father's abuse well documented. But we also know Trump has never had any friends at any point in his life and was basically locked in empty mansions or boarding schools with absolutely no interaction with others. And he's weird hang ups around women clearly stem from how his father forced him to abuse women from a really early age. Kids who went to school with Trump talked about how his dad would have cars shuttle girls to the boarding school for trump to
"prove himself" with, often with his dad in the room.
Trump is clearly the product of abuse, with no actual wants or interests beyond getting praise and attention.
I fully believe he has a high degree of brain damage from the untreated trauma that just kinda leaves him numb.
Friends and family have talked about how Trump has no favorite color, no favorite music, no favorite foods. We all joked about how he eats nothing but unseasoned steak, fried chicken and ice cream everyday, but people have actually pointed out the he refuses to eat ANYTHING else. Flavors must be bland, textures must be consistent.
Staffers talked about how Trump just sits in a room alone most days and just watches ads or TV, not even tv shows, just the news, and ads. Or how he literally needs his name to be written in press briefings or he’ll lose interest and stop reading- image cuts text off

Text continues: or he'll lose interest and stop reading. (Or how his family mentioned that Trump genuinely does not know how to read very well, having no patience for books, and also on a disturbing note, the only book he ever showed any interest in was Mein Kahmp, since his dad regular read passages from it Trump as a child. Yeah, I thought they was fake, but there are photos with the book in Trump's room. Having had to observe and learn so much about this man over the years is a huge burden. He's pitful but also not worthy of pity. Being neglected doesn't excuse being a weird pedophilic fascist (I still can't believe that Trump was literally found guilty in civil court for raping a 15 year old and that basically NEVER came up during the entire campaign.)
Trump is such a boon to Republicans because he is a shiny distraction that dominates the news cycle, and allows them to do whatever they want through him. He's a fully empty puppet that the worst of humanity jumped at the chance to shove their hands up his ass.
Trump has been trying to get his father's approval and attention his whole life. Even the awful racist and sexist shit he's said isn't any deeply held belief on his part, he just says whatever will get people maddest, like a child playing COD shouting slurs that he doesn't even know the meaning of. Trump has flip flopped on every single topic multiple times because he genuinely does not care and has no investment in the real world. He is evil but worse than that he is just indifferent and shallow- text cuts off

Text continues: He is evil but worse than that he is just indifferent and shallow, too old to unlearn what his upbringing conditioned him to believe. That no one else matters, and that he will always get what he wants if he just does what he's told.
I really think Trump has no plans for the future because he is just sorta waiting for death with the same indifference he's felt toward life all these years.

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The Onion @theonion.com · Feb 6

Mitch McConnell Vows To Continue Falling Down Stairs In Face Of Fascist Takeover
theonion.com/mitch-mcconn...

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · Feb 6

Cynthia Nixon has stood up in support of trans people with a touching and powerful speech that's already going viral.

www.out.com/media/cy...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Watch Cynthia Nixon's passionate & personal speech defending trans kids

"I am here today as the mother of a proud trans man," the actress said.

www.out.com

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fibbunny @fibbunny.bsky.social · Jan 28

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jan 28

Trump is halting support for popular programs that millions of Americans — especially children, students, and seniors — rely on.

All while gearing up to give his billionaire buddies and giant corporations another giant tax cut.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Jan 28

Trump's illegal freeze on billions of dollars allocated by law could:

-Hurt people in federally subsidized housing
-Block maternal and child health grants
-Halt emergency public health efforts
-Limit lead reduction efforts
-Hurt students on scholarship
-Harm hospitals

And much more.

fibbunny @fibbunny.bsky.social · Jan 27

Still backposting, here’s a blue lady #art #drawing

A woman with a round face, she has blue skin and white freckles, her lips and cheeks are purple tinted. She is crying dark blue tears, with long white hair flowing around her

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The Onion @theonion.com · Jan 27

Pentagon Warns China Developing Love, The Greatest Weapon Of All
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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · Jan 22

The combined wealth of the world's billionaires grew by $2 trillion in 2024 — nearly three times faster than it did in 2023.

That's $5.7 billion PER DAY.

Once again: It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of extreme wealth concentration to continue.

'A New Aristocracy': Billionaire Wealth Surged by $2 Trillion Last Year | Common Dreams

An Oxfam report published Monday shows that the combined wealth of the world's billionaires surged three times faster in 2024 than the previous year.

www.commondreams.org

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Jan 22

Trump’s flagrantly unconstitutional executive order to end birthright citizenship is unlikely to survive lawsuits (even with the MAGA-fication of our courts).

But for now, we must limit the damage for babies born in this country.

Then, we will maximize the political damage for Trump and the GOP. 🧵

(over an image of Trump) THE 14TH AMENDMENT IS UNDER ATTACK.
Trump's executive order puts newborns at risk and undermines fundamental American values.
TAKE ACTION NOW → INDIVISI.ORG/BIRTHRIGHT

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The Onion @theonion.com · Jan 22

Nutritionists Recommend Following Occasional Trail Of Sweets Into Dark Forest To Help Manage Cravings
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fibbunny @fibbunny.bsky.social · Jan 22

A piece for the Funguary (fungi February) challenge by Feefal from a few years ago. Super excited to do the challenge again this year! #art #drawing #funguary

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fibbunny @fibbunny.bsky.social · Jan 20

Bioluminescent mushroom girl #art #drawing

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jan 18

So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other.

Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾

screenshot of a Tumblr post from user ecofear yelling "what is HAPPENING" in response to a screenshot of a quotetweet from user @Ovichknox reading "this is so scary to me. i recommended a book to a friend recently and she came back to me a day later saying it was really good and i asked if she finished it already and she said "yeah i got chatgpt to summarise each chapter into 3 paragraphs to it was easy to read"
which is replying to a tweet from @alz_zyd reading "Personally, I read a bunch of classics in high register in college. I guess it was fun. I recently ChatGPT'd Aristotle into readable English, finished it around 5x as fast as a translation, and felt l got the main gist of things. idk does the pain incurred…"

Followed by a a reblog from tumblr use moonglade-poetess reading "Hey guys, with so much love, and as someone with an actual English degree:

Please just use Sparknotes if you're going to do this. I get it. I do. But chatgpt or other genAl shit doesn't actually know what's important for you to know, and in some cases it might fully make shit up. Use sparknotes. Failing that, talk to someone who did read it. I'm begging.

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · Jan 17

if you want artists to make weirder art, you have to create stable living conditions that allow them to. homogeneity isn't a matter of artists lacking culture-- there are many soulful artists out there-- it's a matter of unregulated corporate dominance combined with artists who cant afford to create