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Simon MacEwan
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Hopeless dilettante
Picker-up of unconsidered trifles
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theblastedheath.bsky.social
I need to do something with this little dragon, I'm not sure what yet
An ink and water colour drawing of a dragon that looks a bit like an axolotl.
November 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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The ideal viewing conditions for my work
A photograph of a framed painting on a wall in a darkened room. four vertical strips of light fall across the wall and over the picture. The painting itself shows a square plate of fruit and the fruits are rendered in cubic form
November 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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I would expect nothing less from the people who brought us clippy
debjitduttaart.bsky.social Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 5d
What a great headline
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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gorangligovic.bsky.social
Reposting my take on Beorn n' Bilbo
Beorn (tall, wild-looking, carrying an axe) and Bilbo (tiny, adorable), from The Hobbit.
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
theblastedheath.bsky.social
Sometimes you have to stop in the dark snowy woods
A night mode photo of leafless winter trees covered in snow, reflected in a dark body of still water.
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
theblastedheath.bsky.social
I decorated a cup
A stoneware cup with a chocolate brown angular octopus with an incised outline against a mint green background Inside of a stoneware cup with a decoration of a shoal of little brown fish circling the cup wall
June 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Cloud River Crossing
A watercolour painting of a red steel arched bridge over a cloud-filled Forest Gorge. a small Combi van like narrow gauge rail car is crossing the Bridge between the heavily forested areas on either side of the gorge
May 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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catbus.phd
Japanese poster for 'Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge' (1924)
dir: Fritz Lang 📽️
art nouveau illustration of Kriemhild looking crazed holding a big ass sword, surrounded by Japanese text
July 19, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Reposted by Simon MacEwan
kevinbaker.bsky.social
Or more Marxistly, AI critique reifies a political-economic movement as a technological force. This mystification helps naturalize the disruption of existing labor arrangements while directing critique away from the movement seeking to remake social relations through AI.
January 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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February 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
theblastedheath.bsky.social
Cool
checanty.bsky.social Jana Heidersdorf @checanty.bsky.social · Feb 14
A ghostly dream job come true--my illustration for Red Leaves 🍂 by S. E. Porter for @reactorsff.bsky.social
Thank you to AD @cfoltzer.bsky.social for trusting me with this 🖤
February 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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karenho.bsky.social
Blaming media outlets for this moment is valid. I also know so many journalists of color who tried to bring things up, point things out, report with integrity, and change how communities of color are reported; only to be repeatedly discouraged, dismissed and reprimanded by white editors and managers
February 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I had a very fun day helping friends make Pustovanje masks
A red painted horned mask with a slightly goat-like appearance made from cardboard and fringed with mountain sheep faux fur
February 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Reposted by Simon MacEwan
alexsteed.bsky.social
Again: May they never know another peaceful moment in public.
imdumfounded.bsky.social ConstantlyDumbfounded @imdumfounded.bsky.social · Feb 3
Do you really want a bunch of teenage techbro's deciding whether you live or die? Nobody voted for this.
February 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
theblastedheath.bsky.social
The local train to the mysterious clifftop Research Institute
A watercolour painting of a coastal cliff landscape with a railway viaduct along which are small yellow train carriage runs to a tiny station which sits below a large Art Deco style building perched on the cliff top
February 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Fun lil cocktail party fact from Richard Reeves'
"Of Boys And Men"
• As the muscular demands of work decline, men are becoming physically weaker; one study of grip strength, a good marker of overall strength, shows a sharp decline among men. Meanwhile, and perhaps more surprisingly, women are getting physically stronger. In 1985, the average man in his early 30s could squeeze your hand with about 30 pounds more force than a similarly aged woman. Today, their grip strength is about the same.
February 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Forest Station
A painting of a tiny station in a forest with huge Sequoia-esque trees. Sunlight illuminates the tree trunks and casts long shadows across the mossy forest floor. A watercolour painting of a tiny station in a forest with huge Sequoia-esque trees. Sunlight illuminates the tree trunks and casts long shadows across the mossy forest floor. A detail photo with a pencil showing the small scale of the picture
January 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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The Cloud Factory
watercolour painting of a square building, drawn in an isometric view, with yellow ochre coloured walls, The bottom level is surrounded by a grey stone arched colonnade and the two levels above it have large Square windows, the top of the building dissolves into a mass of Golden Cloud tinged with pink and purple. Through the windows and through the arches of the colonnade we can see that the building is filled with dense greenery.
January 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
theblastedheath.bsky.social
I have pneumonia and it's making me sad
January 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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January 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Frame #3473 from 60sE26 the blue goo
January 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Chocolate orange wrapper, real orange
A watercolour painting of an orange inside the foil wrapper of a Terry's Chocolate orange, resting on a blue-rimmed plate
January 14, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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They should change their name to Penguin Random Horse, I think that would fix everything in publishing #publishing #prh #kidlit
A drawing of a penguin and a random horse
January 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM