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babs, they/them, i have an emmy my comic Bottom's Up! is out now!! https://store.silversprocket.net/products/bottoms-up-by-barbara-benas www.illomati.com

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🅱🅰🅱💰 @illomati.com · Sep 3

A very long overdue reel drop 🧎💦and the obligatory: I am 🤠Available🤠 for animation work - 15+ yr EXP, Emmy winning 💅 (animation! boards! design???), any shares very much appreciated 🙏🙏

Barbara Benas - 2025 animation reel

2D/cel character + vfx animation [email protected] www.illomati.com breakdowns: (0:00 - 0:05) for fun, direction + animation, 2025 (0:05 - 0:07) Broad City Ep.…

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Silver Sprocket @silversprocket.net · 5d

🥐👻 Sprocket’s Halloween Highlight Day 5: BOTTOM’S UP! by Barbara Benas @illomati.com 🎃

Equal parts recipe blog and comic book, this surrealist tale whisks together sardonic humor, existential dread, and a pinch of gig economy camaraderie. 🧀

Pick up your copy of BOTTOM’S UP! today!!

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 7d

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · Sep 7

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago.

Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email [email protected].

We are a group of journalists across newsrooms in Chicago, collecting video related to use of force, stop & frisk, and traffic stops conducted by federal agents and the National Guard.

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MillionsOfDeadBugs @massivextreme.bsky.social · 10d

Imagine scanning a QR code here

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hrabb @hrabb.it · 13d

New character

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🅱🅰🅱💰 @illomati.com · 13d

this lucky lad just won a trip to Mexico

photo of a green monarch butterfly chrysalis attached to some white plastic siding (different one than last time) - Monarchs typically live only around two weeks, but those that hatch in late fall are able to live for up to 6 months in order to make the migration to Mexico for the winter. apparently their bodies instinctually determine this by temperature and the angle of the sun in the sky

close up of the same monarch chrysalis, its gold pigment "diadem" markings visible

🅱🅰🅱💰 @illomati.com · 14d

seconding this request 👀🤲

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🅱🅰🅱💰 @illomati.com · 17d

photo of my orange cat Vinny in a blue cone. His eyes are closed and he's soaking up some morning rays

Screenshot from The Sopranos of Paulie Walnuts sitting on a folding chair outside of an Italian deli. His eyes are closed and he's holding a sun reflector up to his face to soak up some rays

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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 20d

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

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🅱🅰🅱💰 @illomati.com · Nov 27

Mandos 🕴️

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🅱🅰🅱💰 @illomati.com · Dec 19

my cat at the vet --- your cat at the vet

stock photo of a polite young gentleman in formal wear suavely tipping his hat towards the viewer

stock photo of a polite young gentleman in a denim jacket confidently shaking the hand of a large adult

Watercolor painting by William Blake, The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, 1805-1810 - an image of a muscular, leathern-winged copper-colored demon towering over a distraught looking, radiant golden woman flailing her arms atop a craggy precipice

Watercolor painting by William Blake, 'The Inscription over the Gate', 1824-1827 - of two berobed, muscular figures clasping each other and gesturing upon a great threshold, beyond which lies terrible spiky formations of ice and fire

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🅱🅰🅱💰 @illomati.com · 21d

I Want to Be Inside the TV

screenshot of the quote post that has been translated from japanese to english with google translate that reads:
"---Hideo Kojima/Game Creator
On the flight back home, I didn't read any books, didn't write any manuscripts, and
just watched movies as my heart desired. Of the many movies I watched, the only one that stuck in my mind was "I Want to Be Inside the TV."
Hats off to director Jane Schoenbrun's skill."

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🅱🅰🅱💰 @illomati.com · 22d

Pokemon Concierge

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anabel colazo ->SBCF 2025⭐️‼️ @ufotomorrow.bsky.social · 23d

chaoschaos

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Olivia Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social · 24d

"what is their obsession with trans people even about" cuz trans people are the free-est motherfuckers on earth! they don't want the rest of y'all getting any ideas about having control over your own fucking destiny!!

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 24d

This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 25d

Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 25d

This guy with a "LICK MY BUTTHOLE FEDS" sign has been standing on top of his car this whole time.

Confirmed at least one protester snatched by ICE in the chaos.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 28d

COVID-19 has revealed that much of the US public is willing to accept mass death and abandonment. We were pushed by propaganda to see many around us as disposable. That helped set the tone for current fascist violations. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org.

prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...

Another way out: Building resistance when passivity is the norm

The COVID-19 pandemic should have shown us that we’re supposed to be meeting needs, not falling in line behind fascist incursions

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 10

Getting lots of stories of every kind here, some of them infuriating, some of them heartbreaking, some of them darkly funny. Keep them coming.

Did clients or bosses using AI change, degrade, or kill your job?

Artists, illustrators, animators, actors, designers, please share: [email protected]

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm looking for stories about how AI is killing creative work, and I'd love to hear from you—artists, writers, illustrators, actors, designers, editors, voice actors and narrators—if your job or practice has been hit. This is going to be a big one.

[email protected]

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · Sep 12

We'll know more in the coming days. the totality of human knowledge is ever increasing

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🅱🅰🅱💰 @illomati.com · Sep 13

amazing! ☁️👏🎉

🅱🅰🅱💰 @illomati.com · Sep 12

was able to get a beauty shot of him before he flew away to finish drying off in a tree 👋

photo of a male monarch butterfly perched on a bamboo pole and spreading his wings

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🅱🅰🅱💰 @illomati.com · Sep 12

does @clever-reports.bsky.social know that it’s #CloudAppreciationDay

National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · Sep 12

☁️🧵From towering thunderstorms to delicate wisps of cirrus, clouds tell the story of what’s happening in the atmosphere. This #CloudAppreciationDay, we’re sharing cloud scenes captured by our offices around the country over the years.

Learn more at noaa.gov/jetstream/clouds/nws-cloud-chart

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🅱🅰🅱💰 @illomati.com · Sep 12

oh!! hello!!!

photo of a newly hatched male monarch butterfly next to his chrysalis shell that was attached to some white plastic siding. he looks great and is probably feeling himself, making plans, etc.

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🅱🅰🅱💰 @illomati.com · Sep 12

:^)

photo of a monarch chrysalis attached to some white plastic siding. the chrysalis is completely transparent and the insides of mostly black with a distinct orange wing can be seen. the chrysalis is likely minutes to hours from eclosing

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Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD @derekmballard.bsky.social · Apr 23

screen time

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