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Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀

@taladayarts.bsky.social

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Scifi/fantasy epic writer Alysa Taladay (pen), creator of The Ryozae Alliance. Shapeshifting space dinos in '90s era US South, + identity & mental health issues. Half-Hawaiian, AuDHD. She/her ... complicated. 🌈+ https://ko-fi.com/alysataladay/

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Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · Dec 13

I am a sci-fi/fantasy writer who wrote most of The Ryozae Alliance, a 9-book epic, by hand. I'm now working to bring it to life. 90s-era characters and settings, alien dinosaurs, alien worlds, war, and undercurrents of magic await. Follow along and support the Alliance! linktr.ee/taladayarts

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 14h

Today is a great day to support Native art! New items are available on my website for the upcoming Native American Heritage Month (November) 🤍💛❤️🖤

#Mvskoke #Native #Indigenous #Beadwork #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 14h

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY (aka fuck Columbus day 😝)
For me making my beadwork, and for yall buying/wearing beadwork is a great way to say fuck Columbus, fuck colonizer assholes, fuck fascism. Im gonna stay celebrating my culture, the culture that they tried to wipe out from this land → cvkvlv.com

My hand holding a pair of long black beaded dangle earrings with red, orange, and yellow accents and silver bugle beads

My hand holding a pair of black beaded loop earrings with red, orange, and yellow accents and silver bugle beads

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Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · 14h

I shall not social uncaffeinated.
I shall not social uncaffeinated.
I shall not social uncaffeinated.
[does it anyway] 💀☕️🫖🍵

Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · 2d

This is a nightmare....

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · 2d

That autism shirt at the bottom is killing me in multiple ways. 💀

Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · 2d

Wasn't supporting independent artists the entire point? This just feels ... lazy and detached, I guess.

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 3d

Young furries, do not buy this repulsive slop

Support actual furry artists if you want silly furry merch, they're out there and they're happy to oblige, and you won't be feeding a machine looking to capitalize on your subculture

Corporate shitposting needed to be smothered in the crib, istg

Spazzy 📎 @spazzy.bsky.social · 3d

Between this and the Spirit Halloween masks, it's amusing but also the nightmare of furry going mainstream. 💀

Gross furry shirts at Spencer's. s: @R0rek (X)

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 2d

This workshop will initiate with people from Mexico, Latin America and Europe to strengthen the ties of stop motion and collaboration and, in exchange, education will be provided for free for one Mexican / Latinamerican student for the first ten years also.

Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 2d

Guillermo del Toro, Netflix, and Gobelins have teamed to open a stop-motion studio in Paris. The endeavor shares a kindred spirit with Mexico's El Taller del Chucho, also co-founded by del Toro, and will honor stop-motion legend Mark Gustafson.
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Guillermo Del Toro, Netflix, Gobelins Team On Stop-Motion Studio

The new Paris studio shares a stop-motion spirit with Mexico's El Taller del Chucho, also co-founded by del Toro, and honors Mark Gustafson’s legacy.

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 3d

The huge Deinocheirus in its habitat. Illustration I did for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan

In this illustration you can see a scene set in Late Cretaceous Asia where an adult Deinocheirus is scaring away a pair of young Tarbosaurus

#paleoart #dinosaur #art

Illustration depicting three Deinocheirus in a Late Cretaceous swamp. The one of the front is chasing a way a pair of juvenile Tarbosaurus in the foreground

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 3d

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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Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · 3d

So cool!

Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · 3d

IMO The only thing saving MAGA from being devoured by their own right now is that it's all happening to someone else.

Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · 3d

Also, this man has never set foot on Southern private property.

FEMA encountered angry men with shotguns in the hills of NC after Helene. A fire chief was shot in a guy's driveway in AL while looking for help. My husband was threatened for being too close to someone's land.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · 3d

How can they farm our personal data and observe our every habit from dishwashers? 🫠

Steven Toth @toths.info · 3d

AI Huckster: “but how would I be able to spy on you if the machine is unloading the dishes?”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 3d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · 3d

Definitely the money. 🤣

Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · 4d

All I'm saying is if you drop something into pluff mud, the stuff is thick and slimy, and known to eat the shoes off your feet if it doesn't mire you completely. 😂 I like to think it's under a marsh somewhere, trolling us all while Teach's ghost gets a laugh at the expense of erstwhile hunters.

Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · 4d

Annoyed that I'm finally going to bed in a reasonable manner, at a reasonable hour, and my brain chooses NOW to ask questions about pirate treasure. Specifically Blackbeard's, because I was a coastal girl for 18 years and it's part of the regional lore. 🤣🏴‍☠️🚢

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Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · 4d

His desperation is unreal. 😂 He will have his nightly spot on schedule, no matter the obstacle.

american pitbull terrier using part of an open sketchbook as a pillow

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Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · 4d

My thought, too!

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 5d

#Paleoctober2025 day 8 paleoart sketch of the noasaurid dinosaur Masiakasaurus.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #Dinosaur #Masiakasaurus

Painterly speedpaint of the dinosaur with a reddish brown coloration baring its strange teeth in front of a Madagascar beach.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 5d

Dance party protests might be one of the best moves right now.

These make fascists look ridiculous, counter the "Portland is dangerous" narrative, and showcase joy and community at a time when those things are in short supply. Keep it up.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 6d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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🌕 WereFoxy Gekkerson 🖤🩶🤍💜 @foxygekkerson.bsky.social · 6d

California residents, call your state reps and demand they override Newsom’s veto!

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 6d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · 6d

I was blockaded into a kitchen and bitten by a " 'mini' " pig, who was apparently mad that I wasn't her owner, or something. She went on my 💩 list next to a very mean and clever rooster, and I never saw pigs the same way ever again.

Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · 6d

Hope you feel better! 🫂 Been rough as hell myself, lately. That's why my interaction with Bksy has dropped to almost nothing. 😅😅

Alysa Taladay, SF/F Writer 🦖✨️🚀 @taladayarts.bsky.social · 6d

I made the mistake of ordering this just for myself one time, thinking there was no limit to how many fried livers I could eat. I was wrong. 🤣