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Swandog / Xenia Eliassen
@swandog.bsky.social
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Old (53) cryptid-thing ΘΔ, furry/fantasy artist & crafter, birbmom, nonbinary ⚧️ (she/they), demi/ace, disabled/chronically ill ♿️ (MS, PsA, etc.), neurodivergent ♾️ (AuDHD) & US import in Norway. Socialist/antifascist! ✊️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🍉 🚫️NO AI🚫
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Swandog / Xenia Eliassen @swandog.bsky.social · Oct 22
Welcome, new followers! 👋❤️ I guess I should do a new intro! 😅 I'm Xenia, a nonbinary, ND, disabled, chronically ill artist in Norway (originally from US). I love to draw all fantasy and furry critters, but especially winged ones! 🪽 I'm also an old-school traditional artist learning digital media. 😊
Colored pencil drawing of a mandarin duck and a wood duck posing together in a Japanese garden with a bamboo grove and an oriental wooden bridge. Ink drawing on parchment of a lioness taur asleep on a gnarled tree bough. Ink drawing, digitally colored, of a sleeping fantasy doe with a feathered tail, surrounded by an ivy border that spells out the name "Lockett", and a parchment ribbon banner wrapped around her forelegs. Ink drawing, pencil shaded, of a badger cradling and bottle-feeding an arctic fox cub. The badger is sitting in the grass with his back against a gnarled willow tree, next to a pond filled with water lilies.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 7h
Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, quit right now.
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 9h
A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD
He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.
www.houstonchronicle.com
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 6h
this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14h
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6h
The consensus is kids dont have garages anymore outside the purview of HOAs and that killed the garage band.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 6h
Is there a national shortage of kids from shitty towns who learned to play guitar, or what's the situation?
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 7h
I cannot begin to explain how much this fucking sucks. Good god. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xf0R...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 6h
If red state schools accept this we are going to get a two-tiered system of higher ed. One set of states will be based in empirical reality and the other will be subject to the whims of a conspiratorial movement that is increasingly detached from facts.
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 7h
After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.
Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT
The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...
www.bloomberg.com
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h
Let's be clear: If North Carolina Republicans gerrymander their already illegal map further, they will be sued and they will lose.

I never bluff and I usually win.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h
🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 6h
More of this! The answer to every such demand ought to be, "Make me, motherfucker."
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 9h
Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown. trib.al/tw3Hd3X
Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem’s Shutdown Propaganda
Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown.
trib.al
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Wolven @itswolven.bsky.social · 6h
Lo-fi 🦇
#furry #furryart
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 7h
I’m gonna go to a No Kings rally on Saturday and I hope all of you will too! There are more of us than there are fascists and it’s time to remind them.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11h
The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.
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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 6h
Please share this as widely as possible. ICE kidnapped a 7th grader in Everett, Massachusetts and sent him to Virginia. Help bring him home now!
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Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 7h
here is the family's gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/mim-ajuda-...
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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6h
Goodbye, mama. Thank you for everything.
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 6h
Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.
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TAKAO★WATANABE🎨10/29～11/3 solo exhibition @watanabetakao.bsky.social · 7h
Autumn is finally beginning to arrive in Japan. I'm already looking forward to seeing the forests turn red.

#Illustration
#LineArt
#CommentPls
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 7h
I’m telling you, they’re velociraptors.
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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 7h
Roadrunner on a post. I have no idea what he was looking at . 🪶
Roadrunner on a post.
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Railroadlion @railroadlion.bsky.social · 7h
Broken 💔 #digitalpainting #drawing
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Aubo 🏳️‍⚧️ Shop update 10/18! 🎃 @aubryjoi.bsky.social · 6h
Spooky season bookmarks 📚🧡🍂

[ #cuteart #merch #booksky ]
A photo of 3 diecut bookmarks lying amongst some open & closed books, tea lights, fall leaves, & pumpkins. They are: black long cat wearing a Halloween sweater; a white ghost long cat; a black skeleton long cat.
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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 6h
May her memory be a blessing and may she consistently rest in power
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Matthew S. Bajko @politicalnotes.bsky.social · 6h
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13. She was 78....
www.ebar.com/story/159150...
Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.
www.ebar.com
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h
Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.
Alt text: Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 6h
Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.
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Vera @veraglaeka.bsky.social · 2d
I'm deer
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Omar Rayyan @omarrayyanart.bsky.social · 12h
"Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn"
Another illustration I did for the upcoming Magic the Gathering set, Lorwyn Eclipsed.
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JMFenner @jmfenner.bsky.social · 12h
Inktober Day 13 - Drink

Reminiscing about being in Japan & sipping tea! Can't wait to go back ♥
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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 11h
Needletail sketchbook pages. I made the decision to draw up afterwards as I just wanted to watch the bird. I also struggled to climb the castle paths😞 #UKbirding #birds #birding #birdart #sciart #art
Sketches of a White throated Needletail, a species of large swift. They are in graphite and watercolour. The swift is large bodied with scythe shaped wings and a small stubby square tail. The body is brown with a pale throat, large white horseshoe shape under the tail area. The upper parts have a white patch on the back. The wings are black with areas of blue green iridescence. The bird even looks fast! Sketches of a White throated Needletail, a species of large swift. They are in graphite and watercolour. The swift is large bodied with scythe shaped wings and a small stubby square tail. The body is brown with a pale throat, large white horseshoe shape under the tail area. The upper parts have a white patch on the back. The wings are black with areas of blue green iridescence. The bird even looks fast! Sketches of a White throated Needletail, a species of large swift. They are in graphite and watercolour. The swift is large bodied with scythe shaped wings and a small stubby square tail. The body is brown with a pale throat, large white horseshoe shape under the tail area. The upper parts have a white patch on the back. The wings are black with areas of blue green iridescence. The bird even looks fast! Sketches of a White throated Needletail, a species of large swift. They are in graphite and watercolour. The swift is large bodied with scythe shaped wings and a small stubby square tail. The body is brown with a pale throat, large white horseshoe shape under the tail area. The upper parts have a white patch on the back. The wings are black with areas of blue green iridescence. The bird even looks fast!
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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 11h
Drama on the Isle of Lewis
Loch Suaineabhal
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anatomoth.bsky.social
Suzanne 🪡 in Brno: Oct 17-19🪡 @anatomoth.bsky.social · 11h
"Where are your thoughts?" original acrylic painting now available on my shop. Give it a lovely home!

ko-fi.com/s/2fb68c3300

more originals are on the way, currently working on uploading them!
scanned version of an acrylic painting
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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 11h
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
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laura @lauraillustrates.bsky.social · 10h
a small break
illustration of a white sheep eating tea and cookies. the sheep has roses and ribbons by her ears. the cookies are reminiscent of danish butter cookies and the kettle is yellow and patterned with roses. the sheep holds a pink coffee mug and one of the cookies.
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