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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 14h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 8d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Rain_Spout @rainspout.bsky.social · 1d

Back to MTAP related things: kinda torn between gust and from what i've heard about mint on who Tigan should go with

I think I'd maybe I'd like mint better ( had only just started dating gust and... eh, maybe he gets better?) but gust is more fun to draw?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 2d

genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity

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Jya @jyaart.bsky.social · 3d

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James GHOULizio @theswweet.blackskycomra.de · 3d

It sure would be great if literally any of the BlueSky staff would be approaching a fraction of this level of professionalism. Shout out to Rudy and everyone on the BlackSky team.

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 3d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Evelyn @chipnick.com · 7d

For those interested in paying for a platform that will actively protects its users, here's where you can pay us (Northsky)

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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 7d

you can migrate to blacksky

non-black users have the choice of "myatproto.social" or "cryptoanarchy.network" handles

sources and additional information under this video thread hereby blacksky.community/profile/shar...

Writing our Destiny aka Andrew @planecrazy.bsky.social · 7d

I just don’t know where else to go? Won’t do Meta, and won’t do X. Guess I could try Mastodon again, don’t want to if I can help it.

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Rain_Spout @rainspout.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe green maybe blue

More mtap oc Tigan in her work clothes.

Various poses of a woman in coveralls. Green verison