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Selamander/Grizz

@selamander.bsky.social

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Transmasc NB guy who loves to sew plushies, cook, and scope out theme parks!! He/him they/them, 32, occasionally NSFW ♥️ @jackaloping.bsky.social ♥️ https://selsewscreatures.etsy.com https://linktr.ee/selamander?utm_source=linktree_admin_share

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Selamander/Grizz @selamander.bsky.social · Jun 12

It’s my birthday this month!! A fun present to me would be some extra boosts and sales from my new pinned!

I’m Sel, a transmasc in Florida who likes making plushies! #plush #plushies #transmasc #Pride2025

selsewscreatures.etsy.com

ko-fi.com/selamander90...

A blue and white dragon plush with a large pink mouth

A brown and red plush dragon with a skeleton head

A yellow lioness doll with a rainbow dress and trans colored bead earrings

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 1h

Y’all there’s SO MANY struggling artists right now. Please please help if you are in the position to do so. Do some early holiday shopping. Treat yourself to something special. Donate just to keep seeing people create. And don’t forget sharing always helps so much. We are just trying to survive.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h

Hundreds of Haitians came to Greeley, Colorado, looking for a place to stay and a good job at JBS, the largest meat producer in the world. Instead, they found squalid housing and an unsafe workplace. Now, they’re being deported.

Immigrants on the line

Haitian immigrants moved to Colorado on the promise of a good job and a place to stay—only to be mistreated. Now, they could be deported.

www.motherjones.com

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Toofs! (Comms closed!) @sabertoofs.bsky.social · 1d

Boosts will help so much right now. I'm sick with either conjunctivitis or another case of iritis (for the third time...).

I have been too sick and exhausted to do much at all and hope it's okay to gently remind.

Toofs! (Comms closed!) @sabertoofs.bsky.social · 12d

I'm hoping that this is one of the last times I'll have to do this, but I've set a Kofi goal to help fund my recovery and ease some stress on my end.

I can't quite return the favor with donations this time, but everyone always will have my eternal gratitude.

ko-fi.com/sabertoofs/g...

Buy Darius a Coffee

Become a supporter of Darius today!

ko-fi.com

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 1h

If you can't come out right now, please don't hate yourself.
One day, the meaning of labels will disappear.

Please love yourself as you are.
The one who can cherish yourself the most is yourself.
Because that is your strength and beauty.
Chiitan loves you

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 22h

Payday? There’s still some time left to preorder a Halloween figure. These close next Wednesday.

Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 10d

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Happy Autumn! I have opened preorders for a few autumn figures. These will be limited through October 15th. I also have glow in the dark Patch Cats that I will be adding in a few days.

🛒 VerdantSculpts.com

A montage of 4 autumn/halloween themed figures. There is a skeletal dragon, a mimikyu with a pumpkin, an orange tabby cat with pumpkins, and a crow sitting atop a dragon skull.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1h

they’re going to start saying tylenol makes you grow extra fingers

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

Trump launched the TrumpRX website today.

It has a photo of Trump and an AI-generated family with too many fingers and mangled toes.

TrumpRx Is a Narcissistic, AI-Generated Nightmare

AI art really has become the aesthetic of grifters and fascists.

gizmodo.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

i think it is fair to request a statement from @jay.bsky.team on TRANS PEOPLE and where we fit in on @bsky.app.

i think as a transgender journalist, it's acceptable and makes sense for me to ask this

and so, the question, am i not a person as a trans girl and do i not deserve to feel safe here?

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

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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Selamander/Grizz @selamander.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve got a bunch of spooky guys that have been waiting for homes for ages and I’m in need of some additional funding, so 10% off for the rest of the month on all my #halloween guys!! Come snag some treats for spooky season!! #plush #plushies #transartist

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A pumpkin snail plushie on top of a candy corn blanket

A pair of neon green plush bats with eyeball candy fabric

A gaggle of various eyeless dolls with spooky fabric print pajamas

A Halloween based cockatrice with a candy corn blanket over it

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Selamander/Grizz @selamander.bsky.social · 2d

Comm done for @thedorkyturtle.bsky.social !! I’m really happy with how this second sneo came out and loved adding all the newer lil details and working with some scraps! Thanks again!! #deltarune #spamtonneo

Pattern credit to @makeshiftwingsplush.com ! With some edits by yours truly!

A multicolored dragon plushie with a long pointed white nose and black accents

A multicolored dragon plushie with a long pointed white nose and black accents, it also has magenta colors and a yellow triangle on its chest

A multicolored dragon plushie with a long pointed white nose and black accents, with a close up detail on the pink and yellow eyes

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Selamander/Grizz @selamander.bsky.social · 4d

Coming straight from YOUR house!!

I wanted to make another deltarune based dragon and this time figured I’d make two of the fellas!! They’ll be coming to the shop later today! #deltarune #tenna #plush #plushie

Pattern modified from @makeshiftwingsplush.com floppy dragon pattern!

A pair of red tv head dragon plushies with blue eggs and yellow ties

A red plush dragon with a yellow star on its wing

A red plush dragon with a TV head and yellow back claws, it has a plug in tail

A yellow and black dragon with a silver tv head plushie

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DAI 👹 (Driver’s wife) 🦂🔨 @demondai.bsky.social · 6h

Hi y'all, I gotta favor to ask!
I'd like to hopefully treat my dad to something nice for his upcoming 73rd birthday... he's had a rough year and I wanna brighten it somehow 🥺 It would mean the absolute world to me if anyone can pitch in and help out if possible!! ❤

ko-fi.com/demondai/goa...

Support Dai 👹

ko-fi.com

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Selamander/Grizz @selamander.bsky.social · 23h

I could use some help making ends meet as a transmasc fella with an NB partner in Florida! ;v; thank you for offering a light in his place

Selamander/Grizz @selamander.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry to keep using the old promo post but have not had the spoons to make a new one. Also don’t get paid till 6 PM tomorrow and would love to be able to get groceries before upcoming bills take most of my paycheck ✌️ #mutualaid #transartist #plushies #ko-fi

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Fascists like Trump are capitalizing on all of this. In both directions, unfortunately.

Plausibly calling real videos fake is as much a danger as people believing fake videos are real.

Trump in Sept: “If something happens really bad, just blame AI.”

Trump Blames AI for Weird Video of Stuff Being Tossed Out White House Window

gizmodo.com

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KampferWolf @kampferwolf.bsky.social · 23h

I am in such dire need of help.

I had my next call with social security today, and I'm hoping it leads somewhere.

Please help me if you can, i need it badly.

Ko-fi: www.ko-fi.com/kampferwolf
PayPal: www.paypal.me/KampferWolf
Cashapp: www.cash.app/$KampferWolf

#signalboost #disabled #mutualaid

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Close up of Pinkie Pie looking at a newspaper comic saying “Hmpf. I thought these were supposed to be funny?”

The comic is called Ponybert by Trot Adams. It opens with a building and we see a word balloon that says “Well?” The second panel is of Ponybert, the Dilbert stand-in saying “No one is smart but me.”

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🎃Eski🎃 @eskiworks.bsky.social · 10h

I am quite frankly desperate to make ends meet this month. We are $900 short on rent alone despite everything, and could really use any help we can get. I'm taking autumn YCH commissions and accepting any other help I can get to make sure the check clear in just a few days here.
ko-fi.com/eskiworks

Buy Eskiworks a Coffee

Become a supporter of Eskiworks today!

ko-fi.com

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 9h

This man is an unstoppable for of animation good. Sad we can't have an American campus here, it's going to exacerbate our inevitable industry talent drain.

variety.com/2025/film/gl...

Ted Sarandos and Guillermo del Toro Unveil Stop-Motion Studio Plans and Weigh In on AI: ‘The Idea that AI will Out-Imagine Things and Humans Is Pretty Unlikely’

Guillermo del Toro and Netflix boss Ted Sarandos have unveiled plans for a stop-motion studio which will be built at France's Gobelins school.

variety.com

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Oni @onidraws.bsky.social · 23h

I'm sad to see a lot of artists I know saying it's super hard to get sales. And it really is. So I wanna promote them here again.

Go check them out and buy or tip them if you can. This is the non-US shops list but I'll post other lists as well.

Oni @onidraws.bsky.social · 29d

I made a pack for non-US artists shops!
Let me know if you want to be added (with a shop link) or removed!

go.bsky.app/KgkXQns

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 8h

Please do as shaun says, but not before reporting the account for spreading disinfo.

genAI is so good nowadays that we're all gonna get got eventually, but being told/shown over and over that you're disseminating a lie, and just ignoring people who point it out, is a serious red flag.

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Sith_art aka A’ine! 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 17h

Its almost like anti-porn laws are never actually about porn. 🤔

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 1d

Sobek 🐊

#paleoart #berensart2025

a black and white drawing of a spinosaurus perching on a stone plinth shrine. He wears atef crown and the markings on his sailed spine resemble ankh.

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🎃Yagamimi🎃 @luigiyagami.bsky.social · 7h

36% with 4 days left

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Selamander/Grizz @selamander.bsky.social · 11h

My mom’s husband can’t be shown anything outside of Fox News because his first thought is “no that’s not real it’s AI actually” when it’s something that clashes with his viewpoint. NEVERMIND the fact that Trump literally posts AI propaganda videos on his own damn feed but whatever!!!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

i’ve been trying to think of the real actual applications of generative ai in it’s current state and the two things i have so far is it makes everyone more dumb and also every more paranoid

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