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JenTheTracy

@jenthetracy.bsky.social

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Traditional painter. Illustrator for The No Sleep Podcast. Lunar Faire vendor. Figure Friday host. She/her. https://linktr.ee/jenthetracy

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JenTheTracy @jenthetracy.bsky.social · Aug 29

My September event schedule just in case you wanted to come support the arts or something.

watercolor moon with corn, underneath are the words:
September 2025 Events:
September 5 - The Wild World of David Lynch - Mahoning Drive-in Theater, PASeptember 7 - Lunar Faire - Vasa Park, NJSeptember 21 - Lunar Faire - Cape May, NJSeptember 24 - Figure Wednesday - Clementon, NJ
September 27 - Porchfest - Collingswood, NJSeptember 29 - Figure Monday at Peak - Audubon, NJ

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JenTheTracy @jenthetracy.bsky.social · 52m

My twelve year old put “some Marvel comics” on his Christmas list. He wants to get into super heroes.

Which do you recommend? #comics

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 7h

very afraid of the woke antifa mob invading washington dc

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JenTheTracy @jenthetracy.bsky.social · 7h

My kid thinks it’s cool I like soulsbourne games until he tries to watch me play one. Look, you do not have to be good at a game to enjoy it.

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JenTheTracy @jenthetracy.bsky.social · 1d

I am anti fascist.

I’ve Had It Podcast @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

We should all be anti-fascist. #antifa

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young people and who sought their removal from youth shelves will be paid $700,000 after settling a lawsuit.

Wyoming library director fired amid book dispute reaches $700,000 settlement

"It's been a rough road, but I will never regret standing up for the First Amendment," Terri Lesley said.

nbcnews.to

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JenTheTracy @jenthetracy.bsky.social · 1d

My family would have paid to prevent more teen pregnancies, well paid for anything but birth control or sex education.

I am sorry to hear about your struggles. I hope you have people who accept you for who you.

JenTheTracy @jenthetracy.bsky.social · 1d

Wait. Parents send their teens to conversion therapy for NOT being horny enough? wtf

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Guillaume Babey (undead) @williambabey.bsky.social · 1d

The paradox of art, or any creative proposition really, is that you NEED distance to get fully immersed. Ultra 4K HD has been known to put off people because of how it erases grain, depth, and blur. In the same manner, most people on social media reject first because there is no distance.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 1d

Oh maaaaaan 😂

Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 2d

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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Grave Baby 🪦🎃 @heydavidbailey.bsky.social · 2d

#FuckAi

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xantar.bsky.social @xantar.bsky.social · 1d

Still waiting on someone to finally explain what the ethical way to use the technology is.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

Jason Blum says Hollywood should 'embrace AI' and viewers 'don't care if what they’re looking at is AI"

"it’s here to stay. It’s very important to use it ethically and legally, and for studios and guilds to protect the copyright of the artists"

(via Variety)

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

Drawtober Day 8: Neighborhood
#drawtober #Halloweenie

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 1d

4 panel comic

P1: a cartoon me, sat at a table --with a blank sheet of paper and a pencil on its surface-- grimacing in pain as he clutches his right wrist. Thinking to himself, he says "AUGH! My drawing hand hurts! Don't think I'll be able to draw a comic toda--"

P2: APPEAR! Suddenly, a larger and far more crudely drawn version of my cartoon self appears on the right. He has a big doofy grin onhis face. Original cartoon me, in shock, says "GASP! W-who --WHAT-- are you?"

P3: Via an equally crudely drawn (and written) speech bubble and text, crude cartoon me says "I'm you when you stop giving a shite about drawing well"

P4: Suddenly, original cartoon me gets transformed into a crudely drawn form. The other crude self finishes on "in my imperfection I am perfect in every way"

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 1d

work work

Tumblr post:

video games are all about meeting a little elf
outside the city gates that says 'ah... the pernicious
weed!' when you give him a healing herb and then
finding yourself fifteen years later saying "ah... the
pernicious weed!" to yourself in the shower

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 1d

Hand drawing and vhs crunching my own fake Yakuza anime screenshots in a world where people are constantly asking image generators to make shit like that for them

Photograph of a farmer in a plaid shirt, denim overalls, and a green basebll hat, standing in a field, subtitled “It ain’t much, but it’s honest work”

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 1d

i had this random idea the other day and today i made it!

carefax. a form you can fill out to help your friends, partners, lovers, and community show up for you, and you for them.

i’m working on a fillable template, but i wanted to see if people liked the concept and thought i should add anything

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d

Oh shit, ANTIFA is suiting up

From the sound of music. Seven children stand in a line inside a grand house, wearing identical light blue sailor-style uniforms with dark collars, neckties, and knee socks. They are arranged from tallest to shortest, standing at attention on a patterned rug with a staircase and ornate wall paneling behind them.

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JenTheTracy @jenthetracy.bsky.social · 1d

It was the "average tax return of intuit users" lol

I fixed my car with it.

JenTheTracy @jenthetracy.bsky.social · 2d

Phantasm

JenTheTracy @jenthetracy.bsky.social · 2d

Turbo tax sent me $4,000 for a tweet I sent them during the super bowl. It was of a watercolor painting of a meerkat in old timey clothes.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 2d

The trans agenda (as I’ve observed)

-equal rights

-equal opportunity

-equal access to healthcare

-pizza

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stroObs : indy @strooooble.bsky.social · 2d

We're celebrating these glorious behinds today with the Stream Ink prompt 'Butt' by the amazing @brandybingham.bsky.social !

They're very good friends, aren't they? 😜

#art #painting #frogs #watercolour #limitedcolourchallenge #streamink

Photo of a watercolour painting placed against a dark wooden desk. The artwork is of three frogs stacked on top of each other, two of them are green and the middle one is more brown toned. Two of them are sticking out their tongues. The artwork is placed on the desk alongside the three tubes of watercolour paint and the two brushes used to create it.

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 2d

Cos I’m an optimist, I’ve added these three startling rabbit type things as original artworks to my new ‘rodents’ gallery (previously squirrels). The squirrels are still there. Plz share if poss

www.chloecumming.com/rodents

Startling red vermillion top half of a possibly expired long jackrabbit type thing, expressive oil pastel drawing

Very interesting multi textured alive drawing of a hopping long rabbit jumping over a skull, rabbit has a red eye, lots of red and green

A big headed brown long hare like rabbit, interesting long limb, expressive marks, black lines, green and blue

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

Toad put the thin button in his pocket. He was very angry. He jumped up and down and screamed, “The whole world is covered in buttons, and not one of them is mine!”

An anguished Toad jumps up and down, beating his brow in desperate fury while Frog looks on, dismayed.

From "A Lost Button"
In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

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JenTheTracy @jenthetracy.bsky.social · 2d

the lighting is sus yeah