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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 23h

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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swan born by leda || COMMISSIONS OPEN @swanbornbyleda.bsky.social · 22d

As I finish unpacking, I'm opening up slots for October - paintings now begin at a much lower price. Let's make some cool art of your darlings!

All info ▶▶ swancomms.carrd.co

[ #dragonage | #bg3 | #dnd | #ffxiv | #commissionsopen ]

A commission information sheet, arranged with collages of artwork and pricing. The text of the image reads, "Commissions. All info available at swancomms.carrd.co. Bust Portraits, lines with simple shading and an optional accent color 65 USD per character. Waist-Up Portraits, lines with simple shading and an optional accent color, 115 USD per character. Full-Body Portraits, lines with simple shading and an optional accent color, 150 USD per character. Additional characters +100%. Props, detailed accessories, tattoos, etc. may cost extra. Email swanbornbyleda@gmail.com. Payment via Paypal. Beside a heart icon is listed, "anthros, cyborgs, OCs, fanart, nsfw, monsters, and beasts." Beside a large X mark is "mechs, transformers, hateful content." End text.

A commission information sheet, arranged with collages of painted portraits and pricing. The text of the image reads, "Commissions. All info available at swancomms.carrd.co. Paintings begin at 150 USD. Higher level of detail at additional cost. Additional characters + 100%. Props, Accessories, tattoos, etc cost extra. Visit swancomms.carrd.co for all info." End text.

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☄️Centaurea☄️ @centaureaa.bsky.social · 6h

"how does this work" "this doesn't make sense" "how can you explain" "actually" it works bcs it makes my penis hard. It makes sense because thinking about it is sexually gratifying. I can explain by "I am sexually aroused by this". Actually I'm so wet.

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Juin-Reed🔞 @juinreed.bsky.social · 6h

"yoo-hoo! local deer boy is awaiting his punishment!"

a rough sketch of ellis stuck in a pillory. except he's not acting very stuck at all

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · Feb 20

art about transformation i guess

#berensart2025

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Wintom @wintomsky.bsky.social · 14h

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🎃 Soturisi 🎃 Watercolor comms OPEN! @soturisi.bsky.social · Jul 12

#Artfight attack 10 for @midnightisded.bsky.social ;) 🤘

Watercolor and acryla gouache ~

[ #artfight2025 #artfight25 #teamfossils #watercolor #traditionalart #bskyart ]

A red hair girl playing the guitat in a red dress with white and teal lightingpatterns as background

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⛥H. Kyoht Luterman⛧ @hkluterman.bsky.social · 13h

D is for Dogmen
#werewolf #art #furry #furryart

A black and white drawing of a werewolf in a graveyard, holding a dead body and liking its chops. MMMMMM snack. the text says "D is for Dogmen, on corpses they feast."

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 14h

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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🎃Eski🎃 @eskiworks.bsky.social · 20h

Weird cat noodle man #Art

Pencil drawing of a long cat creature standing on their hind legs

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moki @mokidokie.bsky.social · 1d

i took this test some years back when it came across my tumblr and aced it while my partner at the time couldn't even get half of them right which offered us some interesting insight about how we process things lol anyway i could never remember the name of it so thanks for helping me find it again

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🎃Eski🎃 @eskiworks.bsky.social · 1d

Werewolf I painted in Procreate a good while back!
[ #Art #Werewolves #FurryArt ]

Digital painting of a glossy dark black werewolf snarling.

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moki @mokidokie.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I suppose so!I guess I handle that different lol like, Wellbutrin fucked me up for life but I'm not hesitant to try anything at all in it's category, I just funnel all of my contempt into Wellbutrin and it's manufacturer specifically LOL

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moki @mokidokie.bsky.social · 1d

Likewise, I had to go through 3 different meds for ADHD.
Do ppl think there simply aren't alternatives to what they get prescribed? Or do they not mention the problems a prescribed med is causing them to their Dr? I really don't get the whole one and done mentality about it

moki @mokidokie.bsky.social · 1d

I went through 5 of them before finally landing on one that worked for me and didn't have terrible side effects. And then I didn't need it anymore after a while. Not because the depression went away, but that med helped stabilize me enough for other situations to improve, so it wasn't so severe.

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moki @mokidokie.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely curious, why do SO many people swear off antidepressants altogether after a single bad experience?? There's like a dozen different ADs out there and they all have different methods of treating depression. Like... Try something else if one doesn't work...??

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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✨Tikru✨ @tikrekins.bsky.social · 11d

sketched and coloured a tikru today ⛅💙🧡
i love doing mixed media stuff like this!

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 3d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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𝔰𝔦𝔣 🎃 @meowpa.ws · 9d

❗ Quick reminder that age verification on Bluesky is fully client side!
Meaning you can easily get around it!

More on it here!
gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2...

#bluesky #age #verification #bypass

👇 Repost so people who need it will find this post! 👇

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Kaycie D. 🎸 Webcomic Artist @kcdstudios.bsky.social · 2d

#Posttober25 Day 7

Guest comic for “Keeping Time” by @kodyisover.com (a fantastic gay bummer music romance webcomic you should all be reading immediately kthx) :D

RIP Vine. And Denver.

A five-panel comic in shades of blue.

Panel 1: Two young men in a back alley. Daniel is sitting on a staircase smoking a cigarette, and Denver is further away on a skateboard and waving his arms. Text says “DanielDanielDanielDaniel watch this!”  Panel 2: Medium shot of Denver looking SO COOL and concentrating.

Panel 3: Denver’s shoes and a skateboard flipping around. Big words “KICK FLIP” surround the skateboard and there is “HELL YEAH” written on the bottom of the board.

Panel 4: Daniel wincing as sharp bubbles read “CRASH!” “Ahhhggh” and “Merreoww!”  Panel 5: Daniel grinning and saying “I thought you said you could do a kick flip” and it’s cut off by Denver, off-screen, saying “I CAN!! I did one this MORNING!” A startled tabby cat runs across the frame from offscreen.

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iezeradd is tired @iezeradd.bsky.social · 24d

Starting now, I'll use a wait list for these instead of opening a fixed number of slots at the end of the month. This will allow people who don't see my post in time to still get a slot, and it'll allow me to plan things a bit better and take a week off if I need to

🧵 Details below

iezeradd is tired @iezeradd.bsky.social · Jul 16

⭐Guess what, folks? I'm bringing back eye icons!⭐

👁️$25 USD each
👁️PayPal only
👁️DM or email iezeradd(at)gmail(dot)com to claim
👁️2 slots for July
👁️Any species

Afterwards I'm hoping to take 4 per month until I have enough saved up to replace my appliances
#art #commission

Detailed painted icon of a light brown werewolf's eye

Detailed painted icon of a snarling blonde werewolf's eye

Detailed painted icon of a red dhole's eye

Detailed painted icon of a black and silver wolf's eye

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Daz @beepbeepster.bsky.social · 2d

There was something inspirational growing up in this era, so much hope through science and cooperation

Which is why is feels so awful becoming an adult when anti-intellectualism and pride in lacking empathy have taken root

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

the wave of weaponized nostalgia for 90s-style multiculturalism and political correctness is gonna hit different

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Possessed opossum 🔜 Furpoc @possessedopossum.bsky.social · Aug 12

This made me think about the places in which people draw inspirations for their characters and how indispensable old college yearbooks are for an accurate peek at the past in regard to fashion and culture 👀
Colleges will archive them for public access, and so does Archive.org!

photo of a male student with mustache and curly hair smiling and sitting on a pedestal with his books

Photo of an older man in a wool overcoat, holding a cat close to him and looking at the camera

Photo of a female student wearing glassss, sitting on the bench facing the camera with a leg crossed under the other

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moki @mokidokie.bsky.social · 2d

I think it'll be those exact people who build a new "internet" just for that purpose. And hopefully it'll be such a pain in the ass to access that only fellow weirdos who really want that community will bother to figure it out.

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