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Michael Dashow
@mdashow.bsky.social
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Illustrator, character designer, kidLit artist & gameDev art director.
Rep'd by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social‬ @ CMA
Also developing indie puzzle game Puzzle Spy International at @agentepsilon.bsky.social

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Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · Jul 9
Hi, #PortfolioDay !
I'm Mike and I like creating fun, colorful character-driven art. I make lots of art for video and tabletop games and would love to create some MG book covers. I am also seeking representation.
Cheers!

#kidLitArt #characterDesign #characterIllustration #gameArt #illustration
A girl is trying to walk two fluffy samoyeds but has gotten entirely tangled up in the leashes of the two dogs who are happily running circles around her. The title reads "Zoey Crocker, Pet Walker" by Maureen Keene. Two kids explore a hallway in a dark mansion. They look worried, and the boy holds a flashlight. The hallway is lined with paintings in ornate frames, all of the eyes of the paintings watching the kids. We can see the shadow of some sort of horned monster coming up the stairs. The title reads "The Mystery of Mystic Manor" by Jo Barnett. Sherrif Saguaro, an old-timey western sheriff who also happens to be a walking cactus. He's wearing a dusty leather coat and boots with spurs and a red bandana, and while he wears no hat, his cactus head is the shape of a 10-gallon hat. He's dashing through a dusty old western frontier town about to throw a lasso. In the background is his trusty horse, who also happens to be a cactus. A panicked apprentice witch (she's human, with pink hair, glasses, and light academia clothing) makes a mess of her cauldron while being calmy advised by an older, wiser witch (who is a bear.) Aside from the exploding cauldron, the browns of the scene make it warm and cozy. The cover reads "DeepWoods Academy for the Magically Inept" by Jo Barnett, book 1: Trouble Brewing
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oxinabox.bsky.social
AI is mediocre white men at scale.
Which is never a resource we have truely been bottlenecked on.
February 13, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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marynmck.bsky.social
Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped
katemckean.bsky.social Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 1d
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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makevisualnovels.itch.io
Hey, it's been a while! I just submitted my entry into this year's MVNA Jam. There's 423 transitions for use in RenPy to make your visual novel!

makevisualnovels.itch.io/mvn-renpy-tr...
Check it here^ #renpy #vndev #visualnovel
Make Visual Novels RenPy Transition Kit by Stella @ MakeVisualNovels
Need help transitioning? Look no further!
makevisualnovels.itch.io
February 11, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
If you saw the creepy Ring Super Bowl commercial then you know they're manufacturing consent for a surveillance state (that serves ICE) by emotionally blackmailing us with our dogs' safety.

This flyer can be printed out and posted all over, or shared online. Get your $ back, fuck ICE.
Title: Ring cameras feed data to ICE to help round up immigrants Subtitle: ✨ Get a full refund direct from Amazon ✨ Body: In the past few months Amazon Ring enabled AI and facial detection by default for all users. Worse, they altered existing features such that your footage can end up in the hands of Flock Safety, the company responsible for 80,000 license plate readers across the country. ICE has been documented using Flock to know exactly where to go to find susceptible community members. Don’t help ICE round up your neighbors. What can I do? You can get a full refund directly from Amazon. Request a refund telling them their agreement with Flock is a breach of trust and invalidates the reason you invested into their security products in the first place. Amazon refunds because what they are doing is blatantly against the Terms and Conditions under which you originally purchased. ➡️ Reolink or Defender PhoenixM2 are great comparable camera alternatives. ➕ Request refunds for Amazon Blink Cameras as well on basis of lost trust.
February 11, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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mdashow.bsky.social
I made some of the art for this game! See the really sketchily-drawn figures on the cards? Those are all mine! 😅😬
(All the good character art is by @desireemoffatt.bsky.social , with lovely backgrounds by @fangedbunnydraws.bsky.social )

#gameArt #indieGame #indieGames #gameDev
ledgerbound.bsky.social Ledgerbound @ledgerbound.bsky.social · 5d
(Pt. 1) She may not be able to change the fate of the battlefield, but can Rayna rewrite the outcome of Prince Thalen and Knight Cedric's love story?
February 10, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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czedwards.bsky.social
With alt-text:
Screen capture of model language to use with a Ring camera return: Customer Service Chat Like-New Ring Floodlight Cam Agent: Upon checking here the return window for this item has expired already we no longer accept the return. But no worries, let me go ahead and check my other option here for you. Customer: Yall did change the terms of service. I bought what I thought was a secure device. It is not. I refuse to let Amazon sell my footage so ICE can kidnap brown people in my community. Agent: I understand your concern. In this case, let me go ahead and give you an exemption to help you create a return label so you can return it and get your money back. May I know if you want a printable label or a Qr code? End this chat Send a message
February 10, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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weratedogs.com
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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gwenckatz.bsky.social
For the new folks: I am a disaster survivor and my only income is making shirts and art.

www.etsy.com/shop/thenigh...
Me wearing a shirt with a gold phoenix Me wearing a shirt with a green and orange poppy
February 10, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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shadefish.bsky.social
I mean this as hard as I can: cancel your fucking nitro. it is LITERALLY the only thing that they fucking listen to.
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
mdashow.bsky.social
I made some of the art for this game! See the really sketchily-drawn figures on the cards? Those are all mine! 😅😬
(All the good character art is by @desireemoffatt.bsky.social , with lovely backgrounds by @fangedbunnydraws.bsky.social )

#gameArt #indieGame #indieGames #gameDev
ledgerbound.bsky.social Ledgerbound @ledgerbound.bsky.social · 5d
(Pt. 1) She may not be able to change the fate of the battlefield, but can Rayna rewrite the outcome of Prince Thalen and Knight Cedric's love story?
February 10, 2026 at 1:40 AM
mdashow.bsky.social
Post a banger not in English

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHp3...
February 10, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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thinkygames.com
There's only a couple days left of the Thinky Awards Steam event where a bunch of the nominees are on sale!
The 3rd Annual Thinky Awards
A celebration of the very best thinky games released over the past year! Discover the winners and the runners-up in each category.
store.steampowered.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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bimbo.city
anyways, don't get off discord yet; not because this isn't heinous but because we're currently in the post-horror scramble to find alternatives. give things a second to settle down so you can find out which ones suck and which ones don't. instead, cancel your nitro, yell at discord, and plan.
February 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
Hating the Game
The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.
www.the-reframe.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
The fact that we normalized kiddie rape to the point where America is splitting hairs over the details is maddening. Going to the island is bad but just knowing and hanging out with Epstein is fine? And the survivors have to release an ad so we don't forget about kiddie rape. Where do we live
jimacosta.bsky.social Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 4d
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
February 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:37 AM
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myloveless.bsky.social
Reminder do NOT keeps funds in PayPal like it's a bank. It's not. It doesn't matter if you're a SFW or NSFW Artist.

If you sneeze wrong they will freeze your account and you will not get to access that money at all. Make sure you're transferring it out as often as you can.
February 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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bwillettcomics.bsky.social
*taps the sign that I won't repost links to substack*
parismarx.com Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 5d
“Within two hours of subscribing to NatSocToday for the purposes of this investigation, the Substack algorithm directed the Guardian’s account to 21 other profiles featuring similar content.”

substack continues to be a cesspool that should be abandoned just like x
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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thegig.bsky.social
Planning on attending GDC this year?

Check out our GIG GDC Guide that features tips, advice, discounts, and recommendations for navigating San Francisco, GDC, and the USA in general!

thegig.guide/gdc
February 6, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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joshuaraclaw.com
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)
February 6, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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diveamydive.bsky.social
I just saw this instagram post from the incredibly talented and breathtakingly hilarious Kate Welch, who was laid off around a year ago, and I wanted to share it here. It’s an important message, and you deserve to read it:
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A title image reads “So Youve Just Been Laid Off a post-corporate message from @katewelchhhh” “One year ago, I was laid off from my corporate gaming job. For the first time in my 15-year career, I was unemployed without a next secure, salaried job on the horizon. I am either exceptionally lucky or talented, but it doesn't matter which it is - both no longer seem applicable.”
February 4, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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chrisdeleon.bsky.social
bezos bought washington post for the same reason musk bought twitter, not to run as a business but to misuse control to elevate information that favors them and ban/bury anything being talked about that doesn't. like a restaurant chain buying a food critic magazine, or an auto repair co. buying yelp
marcelias.bsky.social Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8d
The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand.

Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
February 5, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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agentepsilon.bsky.social
I (Mike) will be co-hosting this event, along with @cwpat.me, @caymacres.bsky.social and folks from PlayMath.org. It's one of my favorite events at GDC every year so if you're in town for it, hope you'll swing by!

#gdc #gdc2026 #thinkyGames #thinkyDevs #puzzleGames #puzzleDevs
February 5, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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mdashow.bsky.social
Hi #KidLitArtPostcard day! I love drawing kids, animals, and fun situations. I'm especially looking for middle grade cover/interior work.

I'm repped by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social

See more work at mdashow-kidlitart.carrd.co

#kidLitArt #cat #gilr #madscientist #science #childrensillustration
A girl dressed in casual clothes with a lab coat over them holds a beaker full of a bubbling liquid and an eye-dropper that she's just used on her cat. The cat looks aghast as one of its paws has enlarged to an enormous size. Behind them is a lab table with lots of chemicals, and a giant nail polish container. The information on the card reads "Michael Dashow, illustrator, mdashow-kidlitart.carrd.co, represented by Vicky Weber at CMA"
February 5, 2026 at 5:46 AM
mdashow.bsky.social
This postcard illo has some real "Lowly Worm in his apple car" energy and I'm all here for it! 😄
stejdesigns.bsky.social Steve James @stejdesigns.bsky.social · 8d
Hi #kidlitartpostcard I'm Steve James (SteJDesigns)
Represented by Advocate Art.
stejdesigns.wixsite.com/mysite
www.advocate-art.com/steve-james
#kidlitartist #kidlitart #illustration #freelanceillustrator #penguin #cute #crocodile #unicorn #bee #narwhal #race #racecars #rainbow 🏎️🏁🐧🐊🦄🐝🌈
February 5, 2026 at 3:34 PM