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Julie Raven @julieravenart.bsky.social · Nov 24

Hi! I’m Julie. I’m an artist who hasn’t made art in a hot minute. I started my masters this past Aug in mass communication. I live in Texas with a small community of loved ones in a university town. I have worked as IT help desk tech since 2008 & really enjoy it. I’m a pet parent with a cat & dog

It’s me! I face the camera for a selfie; I have long red hair and I’m wearing a gray beanie while smiling gently at the camera. I’m wearing cat-eye glasses with colorful frames; I have a septum piercing, and a cozy orange cardigan over a gray shirt with bat designs. Behind me is a tree with vibrant golden autumn leaves, and the background features a clear blue sky with hints of a parking lot and other trees

1. A pencil sketch of a woman with flowing hair, a unicorn horn on her forehead, and a celestial halo of stars surrounding her head. She gazes upward with a serene expression, her hand placed near her chest, and the soft shading gives the drawing a dreamy quality.
2. Painted Sketchbook Cover: A hand-painted image of a crescent moon surrounded by golden stars set against a purple and pink gradient night sky. Fluffy, stylized clouds outlined in gold float below, adding a whimsical and ethereal feel. It is as though you were looking through a window at the celestial scene

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Julie Raven @julieravenart.bsky.social · 2d

This is exactly what I was thinking

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Piemations @piemations.com · 4d

my pumkin
he is everything

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Julie Raven @julieravenart.bsky.social · 2d

nani the fuck is going on

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Frank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 26d

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 25d

Labour’s response to over 100,000 fascists in the streets of London is to appease them

Labour’s response to peaceful protesters demanding an end to genocide is to arrest over 1,000 people and now they are increasing police power.

Starmer is continuing the Tory project.

Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 25d

When Labour came to power last year it followed 14 years of Tory rule in which international monitors had issued stark warnings about the UK's "authoritarian turn" through crackdowns on political protest and migrants' rights. Starmer is continuing that project.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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NPR @npr.org · 25d

BBC Music Introducing named Olivia Dean artist of the year in 2023 following the release of her debut album. Now, Dean is back with her second studio album, The Art of Loving.

Olivia Dean's 'The Art of Loving' offers fans soulful lessons in love and vulnerability

BBC Music Introducing named Olivia Dean artist of the year in 2023 following the release of her debut album. Now, Dean is back with her second studio album, The Art of Loving.

n.pr

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Julete∅n @juleteon.art · Aug 6

TEARING OUT THE CORRUPTION

Digital Illustration of a golden eagle with glowing green eyes tearing apart at a glitching corruption resembling a prey's flesh.

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Julie Raven @julieravenart.bsky.social · 25d

I have been screaming for a long time, calling reps, attending protests, sharing information, having conversations in the real world, & panic attacks recently lol Idk how else to react anymore

I know this is about Americans as a whole but it IS disheartening to see as someone who has been trying

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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 25d

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 26d

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Julie Raven @julieravenart.bsky.social · 27d

Tbh it cracks me up how many ppl waste their time bitching about Taylor swift when they could just… not listen. Or care. And just do something else.

Julie Raven @julieravenart.bsky.social · 28d

I don’t recognize the country I live in anymore when I see the news

It’s very dissonant from my lived reality and I know it’s a huge amount of privilege that keeps me safe

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daniel s. @self.agency · Sep 30

same people who said we were alarmists and cranks to warn about genocide in gaza

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · Sep 30

Just thinking today of all the colleagues who called us alarmists and cranks when we pointed out that Trump was talking and acting like a fascist in 2016

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · Sep 29

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · Sep 29

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

Mo: Do you remember the first time you met someone who said they loved your work on Mega Man 2?

Tateishi: You’re the first, in 2013. No one else has.

Mo: Wow. I’m surprised. I don’t even have a follow-up question… how could no one come up and say something.

Tateishi: …

Mo: Now that you know how big Mega Man 2 is outside of Japan, do you look fondly back at the soundtrack?

Tateishi: Yeah, my thoughts have changed since I met you and became more aware of how people felt. But even when I was at Konami, I didn’t even bother telling anyone I did Mega Man 2. So the fact you came all the way to Japan to tell me these things makes me very happy I worked on the game all those years ago.

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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · Sep 30

I don't think there has been a generation before which has been so thoroughly failed by the adults around them at every stage. It's amazing that they still have such moral clarity and initiative. God bless them.

Mayor of Halloween Town @joshuajfriedman.com · Sep 30

More inspiring photos of Des Moines students staging a walkout to protest their superintendent's detention by ICE!

(photos by Lily Smith of the Register)

Teenagers walk out of a school and down steps while holding signs with messages like "Keep ICE out" and "Abolish ICE." One student holds a megaphone.

Teenagers stand outside and listen to someone speaking. They are holding signs with messages like "Do I look like a criminal?" and "ICE is not nice" and "Protect migrants, protect due process."

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · Sep 30

It’s especially creepy that the Tilly Norwood creature is a synthetic young girl with 0 agency.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · Sep 30

I can’t help but think that “AI” actress that has been “invented” is basically a way to silence actors and actresses on their political stances as many of them have been more and more vocal lately

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Emma Whitford @emmawhitford.bsky.social · Sep 30

Texas Tech isn't the only university system handing down chilling, verbal-only directives banning discussions about transgender identity. If this is happening at your institution, I want to know about it--reach me on Signal at emmawhitford.96

www.insidehighered.com/node/192421/...

Texas Ban on Transgender Course Content Sows Chaos

Verbal-only policies prohibiting academic discussions of trans identity appear to be extending beyond the Texas Tech system and now include anti-trans curricular reviews.

www.insidehighered.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 18

Story:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

New York and Other States Form Health Bloc as Answer to Trump’s Policies

www.nytimes.com

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · Sep 15

Bugs 🐝 🐞 🪲

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Julie Raven @julieravenart.bsky.social · Sep 14

Hypocritical steaming pile of shit situation

Julie Raven @julieravenart.bsky.social · Sep 14

ME ON THE OTHER HAND, NOT BEHOLDEN TO LITIGATION OR NDA: WHAT A LOAD OF FUCKING BULLSHIT

Julie Raven @julieravenart.bsky.social · Sep 14

I can’t really give more detail. But that’s what’s available publicly. I’ll let others interpret this as they will.

Julie Raven @julieravenart.bsky.social · Sep 14

Image attached here, with the caption:

Let’s not forgot the three children murdered today as well.

As for Kirk, "I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow

Image of text that says:

C——— K—- was a racist, xenophobic, transphobic, islamophobic, sexist, white nationalist mouthpiece who made millions of dollars inciting hatred in this country.
Whether it was his genocide denial, his transphobic tirades, his pushing for mass deportations, or his normalizing Trumpism for years, the man stood for nothing but hate.
I extend absolutely no empathy for people like that.
In this situation, my empathy is reserved for his children.
May they grow up to live in a country that is the total opposite of everything their father envisioned.
May (highlighted in red) all of our children grow up to live in a country that values their lives enough to take gun violence seriously and reject any person who would try to justify senseless gun-related deaths - especially the deaths of children.

Julie Raven @julieravenart.bsky.social · Sep 14

Long story short, bro violated his work’s social media contract somehow in regards to a comment about CK.