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Kay 🌈

@simkaye.bsky.social

Babe u left ur bike unlocked again 😭

A warm seaside setting. On a grassy hill overlooking the sea, four raccoons steal a bicycle. One leans eagerly from the basket, a second stands on the seat and steers with its front paws, a third pedals the wheels, and a fourth baby raccoon cleans to the back of the bicycle for dear life

November 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM

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Ginger Cat Dusty

@gingercatdusty.bsky.social

Message to our friends from our hoomom. If able plz consider donating to a group that provides food for the beloved pets of people struggling right now. Our mum grew up very poor & remembers how hard it was to feed the family & their pet. Share some kindness. Love you all 🩷

November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM

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The mother of the child Muhammad ♡♡

@iiiijans.bsky.social

A child in the prime of his life is being ravaged by cancer! If he were a pet, hearts would tremble and donations would pour in. But he is Mohammed, only 7 years old, and our help is his only hope after God.

Don't let his voice be lost in silence. Contribute now to save his life! urlr.me/3V8H47

🙏🏻

November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM

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Lyra~ 🌙👀😈🦇

@lyraxite.bsky.social

This is the future leftists want

A screenshot of Kirby Air Riders with a dozen Rick hamsters posing together and saying “I’m happy!”

November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM

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Renzo & Knuckles

@renzoknuckles.bsky.social

I am looking for more input on this-- About 10 more responses would be amazing! The results so far are promising, but I want to hear from any #Splatoon players or fans in/near the Central NY/Finger Lakes regions to confirm! Please share!

#compsplatoon #splatoon3
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November 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM

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Joe Watson

@jwillustration.bsky.social

King of the beach 🦊

Painting of my boy for today’s #dailyart , clocking in at 1hr 30min.

#corgi #petportrait

Digital painting of a happy corgi at the beach on a sunny day, a graphical crown and stars around his head.

November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM

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BERNERI ✧

@berneri.horse

Caw caw and some berries
#art ✧ #bird ✧ #painting ✧ #berry

Photo of a rather small circular painting with a stylized black bird who is having fun eating red berries. The bird is standing on a bright yellow background and there is a simple stylized tree or branch with big red berries and dark green leaves behind it. The animal is most likely either raven or black crow with a huge round eye and it has one big berry in its mouth. There are singular berries and a couple of leaves around the background too to fill it up. The bird also has a red bandana with white, yellow and green details in it.

November 6, 2025 at 6:35 AM

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maya kern

@mayakern.com

finished this design. expect to see it on skirts in like 3ish months! tho the background color may change.

#art

bee buts sticking out of pollinator flowers against a warm purple background

October 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM

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Vicvillon💜💚

@vicvillon.bsky.social

i miss my wife. angle shooter challenge
(edited by @splatdroid.bsky.social )
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RETURN OF THE KING OF SPLATOON 3

YouTube video by Vicvillon

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November 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM

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Rain

@rainmirage.bsky.social

ignore the clipping and the sliding textures look at my beautiful son and the shaky cam effect

November 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM

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Lily Sevilla

@lilysevilla.bsky.social

💙 Nova & Otto 💙
Making trouble together since forever.
#splatoon

November 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM

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Art by Emily K

@museum.of.emilyk.art

The election of Zohran Mamdani as NYC mayor has exposed a gulf between the younger and older generations of American Jews. I made this zine to explore a significant part of that divide.

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A smartphone shows a social media post of people waving Palestinian flags. At the center it says "(Anti)Zionism, Social Justice, and Jewish Gen Z by Emily K."

ANTI-ZIONISM AND SUPPORT FOR THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE HAVE GROWN AMONG LEFTIST AND LEFTY JEWS, ESPECIALLY AMONG PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 30. AND YET, JEWISH KIDS WERE AND STILL ARE GIVEN A JEWISH
EDUCATION THAT IS BROADLY "PRO-ISRAEL."

image: Jewish people at a protest carrying signs that say “Free Palestine” and “Boycott Divest Sanction.”

I THINK THERE ARE SEVERAL FACTORS AT PLAY, AND NO, I DON'T THINK TIKTOK IS TO BLAME. MILLENNIALS AND ZOOMERS GREW UP IN A SYNAGOGUE CULTURE THAT HAS, IN MY EXPERIENCE, DONE A SUBPAR JOB TEACHING JEWISH HISTORY. MY OWN JEWISH EDUCATION SKEWED HEAVILY TOWARD ASHKENAZI/EASTERN EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES, MADE STORIES OF OPPRESSION AND THE HOLOCAUST A CENTRAL POINT OF OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE, AND GLOSSED OVER THE COMPLEX HISTORY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.

Image: an online chat between two friends.

Amir_S: Just heard from my Dad. My cousin was killed in the Gaza strikes..
Hannah: Oh my god.. I'm so so sorry
Amir_S: My uncle is stranded in the West Bank because his work permit was revoked. He can't get to the funeral, if they can even have one

THIS KIND OF EDUCATION LEAVES A VOID OF KNOWLEDGE TO BE FILLED, OFTEN BY FREE-FLOWING INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET. AND WHILE I DON'T THINK SOCIAL MEDIA ITSELF IS A CAUSE OF THE SHIFT IN YOUNG JEWISH ATTITUDES, THE FACT THAT WE ARE MUCH MORE ONLINE THAN PREVIOUS GENERATIONS HAS DOUBTLESSLY AFFECTED OUR VIEWS. FOR ONE THING, IT IS EASIER THAN EVER TO TALK DIRECTLY TO PALESTINIANS.

GEN Z HAS NEVER KNOWN AN "UNDERDOG ISRAEL.”

MILLENNIALS AND GEN Z WERE BORN INTO A WORLD WHERE NOT ONLY DOES ISRAEL EXIST, IT'S A MIGHTY NATION WITH ONE OF THE MOST ADVANCED MILITARIES IN THE WORLD. IT HAS THE UNSHAKING BACKING OF THE UNITED STATES FINANCIALLY AND POLITICALLY, AND HAS RECEIVED LITTLE - IF ANY - PUSHBACK FOR THEIR ACTIONS.

BOOMERS REMEMBER THE SIX DAY WAR AND THE YOM KIPPUR WAR, TWO CONFLICTS THAT WERE A REAL THREAT TO ISRAEL'S EXISTENCE. MILLENNIALS REMEMBER THE 2ND INTIFADA, IN WHICH HUNDREDS OF ISRAELIS WERE
MURDERED BY TERRORISTS. MANY OF US REMEMBER PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN'S ASSASSINATION.

BUT GEN Z ONLY KNOWS AN ISRAEL WITH AN ENTRENCHED RIGHT
WING GOVERNMENT MORE INTERESTED IN UPHOLDING AN UNJUST STATUS QUO THAN ACHIEVING TRUE PEACE. GAZA HAS BEEN UNDER BLOCKADE SINCE 2006. THE OCCUPATION OF THE WEST BANK STARTED DECADES BEFORE THAT. THEY'VE ONLY KNOWN AN ISRAEL AT ODDS WITH THEIR BASIC MORALS.

Image: Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Ayalet Shaked with right wing coalition logos surrounding them. Above them is the word "HaLikud."

BACKLASH TO THE STATUS QUO OF JEWISH EDUCATION.

I REMEMBER FEELING EXHAUSTED BY HOW THE HOLOCAUST WAS
MADE A CENTRAL PART OF MY JEWISH EDUCATION. WHEN JEWISH JOY WAS INCLUDED, IT WAS USUALLY FRAMED AROUND SURVIVAL - MOST OFTEN FROM AN ASHKENAZI PERSPECTIVE. WHERE WAS THE JEWISH JOY THAT CAME FROM WITHIN? WHERE WAS THE BRILLIANT, OFTEN HUMOROUS, TALMUDIC EPHEMERA THAT MADE US SO UNIQUE AS PEOPLE OF SCRIPTURE? WHERE WAS THE MYSTICISM SO CAREFULLY GUARDED BY OUR ANCESTORS?

IF ALL WE KNOW IS OPPRESSION, THEN THE SAFEGUARD OF ISRAEL MUST BE DEFENDED AT ALL COSTS. JEWISH YOUTH ARE TAUGHT TO SUPPORT ZIONISM NOT AS A COMPLEX POLITICAL MOVEMENT, BUT AS PART OF THE EXISTENTIAL STRUGGLE AGAINST THE WIDER WORLD'S ANTISEMITISM.

SO WHEN THEY LEARN FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT THE NAKBA, AND THE HARSH REALITIES OF LIVING UNDER OCCUPATION, ZIONISM MORPHS FROM A MOVEMENT FOR THE SELF-DETERMINATION OF AN OPPRESSED PEOPLE TO AN OPPRESSIVE, RIGHT WING IDEOLOGY THAT WAS ALWAYS INVESTED IN ETHNIC DISPLACEMENT.

Images: Nazis torment religious Jews in the shtetl by mocking them and cutting their beards.

November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM

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SugarRushEyes (COMS CLOSED TEMP!!!)

@sugarrusheyes.bsky.social

Work isnt busy #deltarunefanart

November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM

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Kathleen 🌲

@mossgatherer.bsky.social

Leading group field botany sessions for kids over the coming month and digging through my photo archives! Going to use some pictures to illustrate what I'm saying before we embark on our foray.

These sessions will focus on moss/bryophytes and field skills! I'm looking forward to it.