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Sean McKnight

@ynot1989.bsky.social

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(He/Him) Cartographer, Writer, Futurist, multiverse traveler. BLM / ACAB 🇺🇦 Patreon: http://patreon.com/SeanMcKnight dA: ynot1989.deviantart.com Substacks: https://seanmcknight.substack.com/ and https://artifactsfromotherworlds.substack.com/

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · Jan 15

I'm Sean McKnight, I make #maps, #flags, and stories of worlds that never were or are yet to be.

And I'm taking #commissions

#cartography #worldbuilding #alternatehistory #scifi

Gallery: deviantart.com/ynot1989
Patreon: patreon.com/SeanMcKnight

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Aaron Radney Commissions Closed (For Now) @aaronradney.bsky.social · 12h

I decided to go ahead and get back into Critical Role and one of the things I'd forgotten was how annoying I the fanbase can sometimes be.

I think there's legit reasons to complain about lack of diversity at the table but I can also see POC just not wanting to be there cause of the fanbase!

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 12h

The Bear from Burrows End was fucked up though.

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Becoming?

Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 12h

Analysis: ICE is Becoming America’s Most Hated Agency
migrantinsider.com/p/analysis-i...

Analysis: ICE is Becoming America’s Most Hated Agency

From Pew to Quinnipiac, Americans now say the masked raiding has gone too far. Meanwhile, Trump seems unaware of his steep decline in immigration favorability.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

New Yorkers know Attorney General James for who she is: a champion for justice who fights relentlessly for the people. Donald Trump knows her only as an obstacle to his corruption.

My full statement:

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14h

i’ll never get over this

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 12h

Not surprising. Republicans are still mad that Sodomy laws were repealed.

American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 13h

WATCH: Winsome Earle-Sears says her opposition to marriage equality or her support for LGTBQ+ Americans being fired for being gay is "not discrimination." #VAGov

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 12h

The first US space station was Skylab: a repurposed Saturn IV-B tank, an Apollo command module and a telescope already integrated on the ground, all launched in a special shroud.

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CyberellaDraws - Commissions Open @cyberelladraws.bsky.social · 12h

Cloudward, Ho!

Episode 17 parody picture: Over the Garden Wall style!
I might draw the rest.

#cloudwardho #dimension20 #dimension20fanart #d20

Dimension 20: Cloudward, Ho! parody picture, based off of Over the Garden Wall style. Done in the style of a model sheet line up. In the lineup is:
Wealwell, winking with hands on his cane.
Maxwell, tugging at a glove on his close fist hand.
Montgomery looking a bit goofy off in the distance.
Van smiling as she holds Bert against her with her tentacle arm.
Daisuke and Comfrey with arms around one another.
Marya looking haunted with a wounded hand petting Kočka the Rat on her shoulder.
Olethra looking happily at Wisconsin P. Toad singing in her hands.

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 12h

Bad: Sliced Deeply into my finger at the start of my day

Good: Learned my left arm muscles are bigger for a reason, as apparently I lift everything with my left side -- my grandpa was left handed but I was scolded for using the left, so I'm sorta bad at both!! It's fun. Working out right more!! 💕

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 16h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Element115Art @element115.bsky.social · 13h

The Virgo over Venus. This is my concept for a crewed Venus exploration vessel in the 2100s, based on the astrological glyph for the planet. The whole structure is spun, and the tether increases the overall radius for the inhabited sections while saving weight.

Looking down the ship towards the Venusian clouds.

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Isaac Hannaford @isaachannaford.com · 13h

Personal work WIP #conceptart #aircraftart #vehicledesign #scifiart #scifi

vtol jet with 4 rotating engines, a pair in front and one in back. gold canopy and blue grey body

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Stiffler @findchaos.bsky.social · 13h

Something about this outtake of Legba and Luna being relaxed goofballs alongside the river makes me happy every time I see it.

Two dogs (a mini-berniedoodle [Luna] and a shepherd-malamute [Legba]), panting happily while looking at the camera. They are both resting in the shade on a grassy lawn that looks over the Scioto River with buildings and trees across the bank.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 13h

Aventurina map fragment. 🗺️

www.patreon.com/posts/hexmap...

#ttrpg #hexcrawl #cartography

map fragment of some cliffs with a strange obelisk on it with a half moon and a floating hexagonal piece above it.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 13h

This is Red Guards shit, I don't know why people keep getting mad at that comparison

Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 13h

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 13h

As it turned out, not all that necessary for an aspiring fascist dictator.

Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 13h

Here's the thing: I generally like iconography, and think this country has plenty of things and people we should be celebrating... It's just that none of them are things this old Nazi would want to build a monument for.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 13h

Hitler had plans for one of those in Berlin, too. Unlike Trump, he could draw it for himself.

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 13h

Irrelevant fun fact: the Constitution once had an emoluments clause, to prevent the president from using his position to enrich himself in a way that would be corrupting to the public interest of the office. Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm to avoid the appearance of impropriety.

Anyway...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 15h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 14h

hell to the YEAH

Death by Lightning | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

www.youtube.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3d

we as liberals don't actually need to cede the idea of military effectiveness to the right. we should point out that these meathead morons are going to lose us a fucking war.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 20h

If you live in California, please call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at (916) 445-2841 and urge him to sign SB 79. Here's my post about why the bill is so important: publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

Newsom's Fateful Choice

Why the governor needs to sign SB 79

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🦍 It's Elections Time. Check Feed Pls @winterwarpath.bsky.social · 16h

johnny had one of the most iconic voices in american music history. he was so full of heart that he covered one of trent reznor's pieces and trent praised him so highly that he said that song belonged to johnny now.

we loved him. we miss him, but not as much as he missed june. rest well, johnny.

Johnny Cash - Hurt

YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 17h

i agree that this is an insane take

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 18h

wtaf are you talking about

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