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DecomposedMaw @decomposedmaw.bsky.social · 9h

cat and leaf boat #pixel #pixelart #animated

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Oriel & Moons 🇧🇷 🏳️‍⚧️⋆ Commissions Open! @celticbotanart.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm Oriel, a nonbinary illustrator from Brazil, currently working with commissions 💛✨

I love drawing characters, fantasy themes and lgbtq+ OCs (mine and other people's), and fanart of favorite characters!

✨ vgen.co/CelticBotan
✨ ko-fi.com/celticbotan

Digital painting commission in colors, fully rendered / mimicking traditional textures. It depicts the commissioner's OC, Aetherhis, thigh-up. She's a white young elf woman wearing a fantasy armor, golden and full of jewelry and coins. Her hair is long and dark brown, and she's looking down at a black crystal floating between her palms, turned up, a soft smile on her lips. Behind her, we can see the arms of a Black Spirit (Black Desert Online supernatural entity) - a pair of hands wearing silvery/iridescent metal gauntlets and a black cloak with golden embroidery. The Spirit has the hands near Aetherhis' face, tenderly. Circling around her head, there's a halo of golden stars, mimicking a gold foil texture

Digital Bust Commission in black and white, mimicking pencil textures. The commissioner's OC, an Aasimar girl. She's black, with long dark locks and glowing white eyes. She has wings siding her face, and stars and constellations in her hair. She's smiling gently at us

Digital full colored, fanart of Ephor Augusta of Septimont, from Wuthering Waves. She's a tall, tan woman with very long, very curly red hair, wearing a Roman gladiator-inspired fantasy armor and a golden sun crown, shining on her forehead. It's nighttime and she's standing thigh-deep in a blue lake, looking at us with a serious expression. Her hair and red shoulder cape is flowing in the wind. The water shines on her from below and around her, hundreds of fireflies glow, framing her in a dream-like manner.

Digital art in colors, mimicking traditional painting and textures (like gouache or oilpainting). Ghost little girl, floating in the air; she has fair skin and shoulder length brown hair, worn in ringlets Shirley Temple Style. She's wearing a white, old-timey dress and ribbon in her hair. She's grumpy, one of her hands against her cheek, as she looks off frame. Near her, it's written GHOST - #(re)DRAWLLOWEEN 2025.

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lola 🦋 comms open @lolavagabonde.bsky.social · 19h

Hello #PortfolioDay 🧚‍♀️✨️
I'm Lola, an illustrator based in France ! I love to draw fantasy pieces with a dark and eerie atmosphere.

lescontesdunecromant.carrd.co
💌 [email protected]

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 11h

DYK... 99% of people swept up by Homeland Security in Chicago have no criminal record.

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

Mandatory age verification to "protect children" is not to protect children. It is to deanonymize every adult speaker and consumer of speech online so the government can retaliate against speakers and speech they don't approve of. For instance: apnews.com/article/trum...

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

apnews.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Jeffries: "If Donald Trump can find $20b to bail out his right-wing dictator friend in Argentina, it's extraordinary to me that Republicans are unwilling to even have a discussion about how we address the healthcare crisis that they've created."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

“Swear her in! Swear her in!”

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

This is what Matt Walsh is defending.

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 11h

“Free speech zone after curfew”

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 14h

Broadview police in conjunction with ISP has arrested a protester for not dispersing from the free speech zone after curfew.

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Mojo (Joachim Leclercq) @joachimojo.bsky.social · 1d

hello! this is the #PortfolioDay ! here are some of my work ! :) I'm mostly work for videogame and Animation !
My portfolio : www.behance.net/mojo999 #art

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 13h

Patel wanted him to investigate the “burn bags” of Russia documents he claims to have seen. A totally normal thing.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 14h

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

ICE GOONS are violently targeting brown people in Chicago.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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alt-dea @alt-dea.altgov.info · 11h

www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbies-...

ICE Barbie’s Goons Allegedly Threatened to Shoot Ambulance Driver

Medics say federal agents blocked a hospital run as an officer screamed, “I will shoot you.”

www.thedailybeast.com

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 18

i'm so excited to tell you about what we're working on. it's the most important thing human beings have ever done or could ever do. it's going to transform our lives in a plausibly deniable period of years. i just need another 100 billion dollars and immunity from prosecution

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 18

How are we not already calling him Scam Altman

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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Kragar @kragar.bsky.social · 11h

August 8, 2022: the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago

November 18, 2022: Jack Smith was appointed by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland to serve as the Special Counsel

How does time work again?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 16h

1) OpenAI is a highly reckless and irresponsible company driven by its CEO’s ambition and ego

2) this company is desperate for revenue after announcing hundreds of billions of dollars of “deals” as if they are revenue, when in fact they are costs

3) I predict this will not go well

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 21h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 16h

openai to finally acknowledge what has been driving the AI boom for years and years but no one really wants to admit: chatbots you can fuck www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

www.404media.co

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Politico @politico.com · 20h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 13h

On the future of the Affordable Care Act, Republican leaders are proving Democrats’ point

Maddowblog

On the future of the Affordable Care Act, Republican leaders are proving Democrats’ point

Democrats are effectively saying, “We need to protect Obamacare from Republicans who oppose the system,” and GOP leaders are effectively replying, “Yep.”

www.msnbc.com

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Michael Pachter @michaelpachter.bsky.social · 13h

For those of you not keeping score at home, soon to be Rep Grijalva is the 218th vote for a discharge petition to release the Epstein files. The house has 435 members, so 218 is a majority

Now, every second Johnson keeps Congress out of session is intended to delay the release

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 14h

ICE's escalating violence and use of excessive force are wreaking havoc and making cities less safe.

Armed, masked federal agents shouldn't be menacing our communities.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

www.npr.org

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