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Riley

@rileycore.bsky.social

Hiii I'm Riley from north Germany and I draw and create cute glitter stickers (fanart and original art) 💖 ko-fi.com/rileycore/shop

overview of the new glitter stickers I added to my shop: Kermit, Bulbasaur, Charizard-Ditto, Togepi, Lavalamp, Eddie Munson, a blue whale, Joey x Chandler.

November 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM

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smallbizcat

@smallbizcat.bsky.social

Hello! I've mostly got cute froggo merch in my Germany based shop in form of stationary but also socks and other cool usable items 🐸✨️ There's also some cats, sharks and a little fanart 🏳️‍⚧️
Run by my queer and disabled self 😎

www.smallbizcat.de

Photograph of a square risograph print of a frog chilling in a field of blue flowers. The frog is sitting down with his arms holding his legs, he looks very calm with his eyes closed and a smile on his face. The print is rested on a small standee that is standing in a field of grass.

Photograph of a hand holding a white sticker in front of a blueish curtain. The sticker shows a cute shark holding a small trans flag with the text above "trans icon!". The sticker has a star glittery holo finish.

November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM

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Alyssa Harad

@alyssaharad.bsky.social

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.

November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM

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DocYen

@docyen.tech

whittled a litte blåhaj becaue trans rights are human rights ❤️

A photograph of a woodcarving of a shark being held in a gloved hand. In the background there are carving knives and woodchips on a cutting mat.

A photograph of the same carving being held up, but painted in deep blue and white, akin to the IKEA plushie Blåhaj. The carving has a little shimmer to it due to the markers used to paint the figure. In the background there is still the same cutting mat with the same wood chips.

January 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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Lucy

@cyluho.bsky.social

Helloo & thank you! I'm Lucy, based in Northern Germany, I mostly do linoprint plus some extra special penguins 🐧

www.cyluhoprints.etsy.com

Photograph of a wall of framed prints of various sizes. The centrepiece is a natural science style poster with all Penguin species. The others are mostly linoprints like a couple of different Christmas motives and some more graphic black and white prints of deceased animals.

November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM

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Lily / Paraply

@paraplyshop.com

I haven't seen a post like this going around yet, so I'll make it myself! EU-based artists, tell us what you sell and drop a link to your shop in the replies ❤️

Everyone else: please spread the thread and check out the artists if you want to support human made art this holiday season 🌟

#shopsmall

November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM

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exozetart

@exozetart.bsky.social

Hi! I’m Kaddi and I sell cute animal and fantasy inspired art 🧡 in my shop you find sticker sheets (my biggest passion), stickers, wooden pins, postcards and more! 🌱

exozetart.etsy.com

exozetart.etsy.com

November 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM

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wurbel

@wurbel.bsky.social

*streichelt tierbilder mit dem mauszeiger*

November 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM

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smallbizcat

@smallbizcat.bsky.social

STEMPEL★RALLYE
In der Artist Area @spielemesse_hamburg

YAY, wir sind auf der Spielemesse Hamburg und feiern das mit einer kleinen Stempel Rallye!

🏁 Spielziel: Sammle alle 4 Stempel, um das gratis* Stickerset zu gewinnen!

1/4

Grafik, der die Aktion verbildlicht. Titel: Stempel, ein gelber Stern, Rallye
Darunter der Text: Auf der Spiele Messe Hamburg, 28. November - 30. November
Der Hintergrund ist grün-blau mit einer abwechselnd rosa-roten Ziellinie, wie bei einem Brettspiel geschlängelt von oben links bis unten rechts. Oben links sind zwei einfache hellgelbe Würfel, die eine 3 und eine 5 zeigen. Auf der Ziellinie sind 4 Spielfiguren zu sehen, wenn man ihr folgt sieht man eine hellblaue Figur mit neutralem Gesicht, dann eine dunkelblaue Figur, die lächelt, eine beige Figure, die zufrieden ausschaut und eine gelbe Figur, die ebenfalls lächelt.
Unten rechts ist ein großer gelber Stern mit dem Text: Sammle alle Stempel & erhalte ein Stickerset gratis* als Belohnung!
Und dann unten links: *solange der Vorrat reicht
Zwischen den Grafikelementen füllen kleine Sterne und Glitzer die Lücken.

November 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM

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Jessica Elena

@byjessicaelena.bsky.social

borbs!!

#art #illustration

A digital drawing of a collection of little ducks, a goose and other birds on a page together with flowers, a mushroom and apples all against a dark green background. The items are scattered around but also some on top of each other.

November 25, 2025 at 5:53 AM

smallbizcat

@smallbizcat.bsky.social

Ah! Jumpscared by the new bluesky app icon
I don't like my every day things changing like that 😂

November 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM

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kabo.sora

@kabosora.bsky.social

Am Freitag geht es los mit der Spielemesse in Hamburg und wir haben eine Stempelrally für eich vorbereitet.
Schaut auch bei den anderen Artists vorbei ~

smallbizcat @smallbizcat.bsky.social · 1d

STEMPEL★RALLYE
In der Artist Area @spielemesse_hamburg

YAY, wir sind auf der Spielemesse Hamburg und feiern das mit einer kleinen Stempel Rallye!

🏁 Spielziel: Sammle alle 4 Stempel, um das gratis* Stickerset zu gewinnen!

1/4

November 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM

smallbizcat

@smallbizcat.bsky.social

STEMPEL★RALLYE
In der Artist Area @spielemesse_hamburg

YAY, wir sind auf der Spielemesse Hamburg und feiern das mit einer kleinen Stempel Rallye!

🏁 Spielziel: Sammle alle 4 Stempel, um das gratis* Stickerset zu gewinnen!

1/4

November 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM

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Amalas

@amalasrosa.bsky.social

Wherever I’m With You (Putnam 2027), a co-created graphic novel by Suzanne Samin and me, follows two former best friends from the Bronx: Aran, a Syrian American teen, grappling with his mother’s death,
and Tao, a college basketball star, who have to face life and old feelings once Tao moves back.

Digital art of Aran and Tao as younger teens, sitting at the curb in front of a local basketball court. It’s a warm early summer evening, behind them the sky slowly turns orange and purple and at the basketball court two guys are playing, a subway on high track trails is passing and there’s some nyc buildings and skyline

Aran and Tao after the timeskip, now 19/20 years old, older and taller, sitting at an electricity box in front of a basketball court. It’s a warm summer day and the colors are warm with lots of yellow and orange and red

Aran and Tao as young adults late at night at a bodega where Aran has his late night shift. Aran sits behind the counter while Tao sits on the counter and they are solving a crossword puzzle together. They are surrounded by bodega items and clutter. The view is a top view looking down in both, like from a security camera.

Aran and Tao as young adults at a laundromat late at night. Aran puts some clothes into a dryer, while Tao behind him leans at one of the folding tables and chats with Aran. Both are smiling and are in a casual and good mood. The colors are a bit cooler with some neon lights.

November 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM

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myangart 🍄

@myangart.bsky.social

may I interest you in a tiny cat

Four ceramic pendants in the shape of cats. Two are black and two are white. The black cats have round eyes and a red bow around the neck, while the white cats have closed eyes and a pink bow. A wire loop is attached at the top of the pendants to allow for a chain.

November 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM

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Adam Christopher

@adamchristopher.me

Anyway time to post this again.

AI is a tool of fascism.

Batman breaking a rifle in half from a 1986 comic. The rifle has a label "AI (even if you're making fun of it)" and Batman is saying "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."

November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM

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Lily / Paraply

@paraplyshop.com

The shop is now open for everyone! Get new and restocked items as well as 15% OFF on almost everything with the code SASALELE26 ❤️
Now shipping to the US again :>

> www.paraplyshop.com <

(shares are super super appreciated 🙏)
#shopsmall #smallbusiness

two wooden decorations, a star-shaped one of a goat surrounded by stars and sparkles and a leaf-shaped one of a fox wearing a scarf surrounded by snow

three rolls of stamp-shaped washi tape of black cats with space elements, details are in gold-foil

theee folded greeting cards: one of Skit the cat wearing an oversized christmas tree costume and the words "merry crisis", one of Riley the dog holding a big bouquet with a speech bubble saying "Congratulations!" and one of a goat sitting with a hot beverage on a snowy hill, wearing a scarf with the words "Happy Holidays"

my hand holding a sticker saying "Menschenrechte statt rechte Menschen" (human rights instead of right(-wing) humans) with the first part in rainbow coloured letters and the last in brown, next to an illustration of a heart shaped flower

November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM

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Katie Mack

@astrokatie.com

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 5d

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM

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Ashley Cooper

@ashleycooper.bsky.social

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I would have you remember that there are trans people alive who need your action now, not your reflective words later.

Remembering us is not enough.

November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM

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kitsuneart 🦊

@kitsuneart.bsky.social

A world without trans people has never existed and never will🏳️‍⚧️🐯

A Tiger head surrounded by flames coming out of their closed mouth. Their stripes are pink and light blue and their fur is white. These are the colours of the trans flag. The tiger’s eyes are sparkling.
The choice of a tiger is based on a pun. Tora is the Japanese word for tiger. When you read the world trans in Japanese katakana it starts with “tora” to-ra-n-su [ トランス ]
Under the tiger’s head text read: “a world without trans people has never existed and never will.”

April 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿 @ available for work!

@nooskadraws.bsky.social

ye olde trans rights. now and forever. 🏳️‍⚧️✨

#TDOR #TransDayofRemembrance

A digital illustration of a medieval banner. It says in medieval inspired script "ye olde trans rights". It is decorated with plants and blue, pink, and white flowers.

November 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM

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Sapling 🌱 Print shop open!

@sacredsapling.bsky.social

I wanted to make a post for Trans Day of Remembrance about violence against trans people, specifically being subjected to human trafficking and torture.

But honestly, I’m too tired. I’ve advocated for years on this, and been met with silence.

Support trans survivors & honor the victims 🏳️‍⚧️

November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM