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Christina 👻 @tinamon.bsky.social · Mar 29

Enter our heroine

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 4h

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 7h

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Doki Rosi 🌷🌷🌷 @dokirosi.bsky.social · 9h

A PRESS TOUR DE WICKED VEM PRO BRASIL!!! 💚💕✨ #wicked #fanart

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Tzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social · 10h

“The world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system”

Boom 💥⚡️☀️

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Christina 👻 @tinamon.bsky.social · 10h

Kid: Spider-Man's here!

Dad: Spider-Man's everywhere

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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · Apr 6

Bad enough when this guy was doxxing users of his site for being against his crypto and NFT dreams, but this just takes the cake. What a true shithead. His name is Sahil Lavingia. Remember that name because it keeps popping up in the worst places!

clo:ver @clovercomics.bsky.social · Apr 6

Wait.
Just found out that the CEO of Gumroad now works at DOGE? And that he saved up loads of money 'cause he fired everyone and replaced them with AI?
I'm leaving the platform as soon as I get my money. Jesus christ.

tedium.co/2025/04/06/g...

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Dracula Enthusiast @kmfao.bsky.social · 1d

The millenial experience is how we all have that one home schooled friend who doesn't know anything about pokemon because their mom thought pikachu was a demon

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 4d

"why is nobody talking abou--" EVERYONE is talkin about it BRO. You just never stick around to listen to ANYONE ELSE, you're just here to TALK

aaaaaaaaaaa

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

Halloween in NYC 🐀

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 1d

Keep your corrupt, grubby, abusive hands off Tish James, Donald Trump.

Your cowardice is showing — weak men seek revenge on powerful women who hold them to account.

But NY’rs don’t play. Our AG has been a fierce warrior for our rights, time & again. You better believe we’ll be there for hers.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

The Attorney General of New York was just indicted by our tinpot dictator

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

What the fuck kind of attempt to lead by the hand even is this

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂 @littletunny.bsky.social · 1d

The only kind of climate change I can approve of 😌

Two big red cats circle a terrified hog encased in ice. The cat's tails are flames and melt the ice partially, exposing some pig butt and giving it a singe. "Uh-oh Step-Pig, I'm Stuck...!" ok I made the joke for you so you don't have to. Hot ham smoke emits from the pig and spells "BECOME AN" and melted ice on the bottom spells "ICE-FREE ZONE"

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Christina 👻 @tinamon.bsky.social · 1d

Yakity Sax playing while ink shoots out of my vac-filler fountain pen and I rush to clean every spot it hit before the ink dries

This is why I only get water resistant ink, not waterproof, because if Dawn Ultra Power Cleaner can't get it out of fabric, it's not worth having

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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 3d

This photo from Portland by @reuters.com's Carlos Barria 👌

A demonstrator dressed in an inflatable frog costume stands infront of law enforcement officers during a protest outside of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) headquarters in south Portland, Oregon, U.S., October 3, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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Vormora Nox 🇨🇦 @vormora-nox.bsky.social · Sep 7

The #Pigeon Pages

I realized I hadn't posted much of my non-fandom #art on here, so I guess I'll trickle it in slowly!

These #paintings are in #acrylic (pg 1), #gouache and #watercolor #watercolour (pg 2-4). I've included scans of my fave 2 pgs. #myart #artist #smallartist #birds #traditionalart

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yuko @aidosaur.bsky.social · 2d

hey why is curtis sliwa in infinity nikki

a yellow orb guy wearing a red beret. he looks uncannily like curtis sliwa. idk maybe it's just me.

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Christina 👻 @tinamon.bsky.social · 2d

I am slowly coming to the conclusion that I won't be satisfied as an artist or a human being if I don't get to design a theme park, or at least an interactive museum in my life

Christina 👻 @tinamon.bsky.social · 2d

Concept: A Haunted House experience with no scare actors, just creepy empty escape room-like settings that evoke a sense of urban exploring without the risk of tetanus. Like I want a real life walking simulator but I don't want to embarass myself in front of/hurt an actor when/if I get scared

Christina 👻 @tinamon.bsky.social · 2d

Your clothing rendering is AMAZING! I'm in awe every time

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 2d

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Christina 👻 @tinamon.bsky.social · 2d

Read Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

Christina 👻 @tinamon.bsky.social · 2d

I powered through because I am not a quitter!

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 2d

Daily bunny no.3101 flying by night

A bunny catches a flight by holding both legs of a bat, who is flying across a starry night sky. Another bat follows closely behind them, and they are currently going over a small body of water.

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Christina 👻 @tinamon.bsky.social · 2d

I'm writing something that feels cringey and then concerning to the character witnessing it, but is supposed to feel unnerving throughout the whole thing and I cannot figure how I'm supposed to get into the mindframe for this. I think I'm just gonna go to bed