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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · Apr 8

Want to support the creation of a radical leftist cartoon? Check out thecrystalcityfalls.carrd.co

Elevator pitch for normies: Two elves are drawn into a deadly conspiracy that could unravel the ancient secret behind their very immortality.

Elevator pitch for leftists: it is anarchist propaganda.🤷

Splash image in format of characters/character heads mashed together in a big composition. Protagonist Liirem is on the left, a tall elf with long hair wearing blue halos about his head and neck. To his right are the flamecasters Mia (holding a fireball) and Rhem (holding a flaming spear) with their friend Rieni doing a backflip over their heads, and their leader Araan looking over their shoulder on the far right. Behind Liirem stand a number of indistinct figures representing Omera and Mikel (bloodcasters like Liirem), the orc Serak, and the elder Vesiin. Larger above them is Draagrin--two elves (Dravem and Gria) who operate as a single "harmonic" entity, and three waterfolk: Ssvyra raising a fist, Viys holding a book, and Rhysaar, who has a long fishy mermaid tail.

Lineup of introductory designs. Left to right: Omera (not introduced until the second episode), Araan, Rieni, Rhem, Mia, and finally Liirem, who is at least a head taller than everyone else.

Digitally-revised storyboard panel. Liirem stands behind Rhem and Mia as they watch Draagrin take the stage to speak. Araan glances at them from the foreground. All around them, the crowd of elves chants "Draagrin", holds signs, and waves flags.

Liirem stands in the open door of a train looking breathless and panicked. "I think that was blood magic!" he shouts into the train.

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 1h

Liirem makes his living writing corporate spells as a contract ritualist. He wants nothing to do with his natural bloodcasting, but he still ends up as the primary suspect after an immortal councilor is assassinated with apparent blood magic.

#DVPit #DVArt #CF #Illustrator #ND #TV

Liirem, a tall elf with long, flat hair and glowing blue bands around his head and neck, looks past the camera with some alarm. He stands in a crowd of screaming elves with flags and protest signs. He stands with his sister Mia (with dyed red hair, a magitech wand, and a shirt featuring a cartoon lion) and her friend Rhem (wearing a red band halo-like around his head, with a staff on his back), who are both yelling along with the crowd.

Councilor Vontaas pulls a metal dart from their hand, pulling a line of blue blood after it, threadlike, through the air. Behind them, a uniformed guard reaches out, too late to stop it. Silhouettes of the other councilors lie indistinctly beyond a lit doorway in the background.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3h

"Mr. President, did you know who they fought against in Weimar Republic? The very party we are modeling GOP after today. It's an outrage."

ıllıllı FREE ŁINK ıllıllı @rvbdrm.com · 3h

Yep. He’s a Nazi.

Mr. President, thank you so much for having us here today and holding this roundtable. Antifa is real. Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany. And it's now been just under one month since we saw a far leftist murder Charlie Kirk. And we saw thousands upon thousands of people, other far leftists and people in positions of authority, people like nurses and pilots and doctors and HR departments celebrating the death and the murder of Charlie Kirk. The sickness that's out there is absolutely real. And Mr. President, thank you for mentioning it.

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RJ Aguiar @damnitrj.bsky.social · 5h

Me whenever I finish bullying someone for sharing AI slop on my timeline…

Meme of a farmer sitting on his land saying “it ain’t much, but it’s honest work”

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 12h

i appreciate @meredithshiner.com’s wisdom, as well as her refusal to let the coons-valentine’s day story fade from public memory

It is certainly self-evident that Democrats do not care to "do democracy," but what I would argue is that speeches about democracy do not carry the weight of collective action in support of democracy. In 2024, President Joe Biden told us repeatedly that "democracy was on the line," and yet three years earlier, Senate Democrats prematurely ended the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump because top Biden ally.
Chris Coons of Delaware wanted to go home for Valentine's Day. Congressional Democrats, despite their supposed 2024 warnings that democracy was on the brink, almost all attended Donald Trump's inauguration in 2025 as if it were normal and acceptable, and Biden himself welcomed the Trumps back into the White House with open arms.

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 5h

I guarantee it's possible to not shop on Amazon. I've been doing it for years! Boycotting shit is easy as hell when you're broke!

Truthout @truthout.org · 7h

During its July 2025 Prime Day event, Amazon shipped an estimated 450 million items. What it fails to report about its Prime Day operations, however, are the guaranteed spikes in carbon emissions that will linger in the atmosphere for centuries.

If You’re Thinking of Snagging an Amazon Prime Day Deal, Stop and Read This First

Amazon’s emissions are rapidly rising, and its Prime Day deliveries play a significant role in stoking climate change.

truthout.org

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 6h

one thing I learned during 2020 is that "less than lethal" munitions are explicitly designed to be shot into the ground so they lose velocity and bounce up into people and the reason I didn't know that before is literally NO ONE has ever deployed them that way.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6h

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 6h

If you care about public health, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about medical research, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about climate change, labor conditions, the well-being of children in war zones—you have to become a revolutionary.

crimethinc.com/becomeananar...

There is no more middle ground.

If you care about public health, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about medical research, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about climate change, labor conditions, the well-being of children in warzones, there is nothing else for it—you have to become a revolutionary.

There is no going back to the way things were, to the future that we once anticipated. The old world is in flames around us.

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 7h

LOL

LMAO, even!

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 9h

The world has been ruled by immortal elf elders for millennia when a councilor is assassinated with apparent blood magic. The election to replace them could push the Seven Cities into fascism, unless an ancient mortal conspiracy can first unravel immortality.

#DVPit #DVArt #CF #Illustrator #ND #TV

Storyboard intended for 2D animation.

A protest/riot crowd bursts into a government building. They search the entryway, smash windows, burn banners.

Amid the confusion and mess, an elf holding a fireball points to a door.

ELF: "They're in the central chamber!"

The door to the central chamber bursts into flames.

Storyboard intended for 2D animation.

The flaming door slams forcefully off its hinges, then dissolves into magical glitter. The crowd shoves through into a large central meeting room with a second floor balcony.

CROWD: (chanting) "Throw them deep into the sea! My magic belongs to me!"

As the crowd fills the room, the councilors and guards watch from the balcony.

COUNCILOR: "How did they get past the guards?"

(The guards let the crowd in after a charismatic speaker incited them.)

Storyboard intended for 2D animation.

Reluctantly, the councilors are ushered from the room by spear-wielding guards in armor and mirrored masks.

The chanting continues: "Throw them deep into the sea! My magic belongs to me!"

One of the councilors pulls away from the group to return to the edge of the balcony. This is VONTAAS and they are making a very poor choice.

VONTAAS: "Please..."

Storyboard intended for 2D animation.

Councilor Vontaas speaks to an angry crowd from a balcony, holding their hand out as one might try to calm an angry dog.

VONTAAS: "Please, we must have order."

The crowd jeers.
"How dare you speak to us of order!"
"Repeal the Light ban now!"
"Free magic!"

Looking down on the crowd, Vontaas tries some platitudes.

VONTAAS: "Our Banding decisions are made after consulting many experts in wild magic and the Ritualware Industries."

The crowd drowns out the speech with boos.

VONTAAS: "This is merely an expansion--"

CROWD: "Cowards!"

VONTAAS: "--of established cross-city legal standards--"

CROWD: "Traitors!"

VONTAAS: "--regarding legislation and inhibition--"

CROWD: "Throw them to the sea!"

VONTAAS: "--of natural-born casters."

Booing and jeering continue as a guard approaches Vontaas and gently encourages them to flee.

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 11h

If your hashtag searching is not working for #DVpit we created a feed for the hashtag. Please always try to search the hashtag first, but this feed includes all posts under the hashtag as well. We will update during the day as we learn more from bsky bsky.app/profile/did:...

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 12h

#DVpit 2025 has officially begun!
Today, Oct 8, 2025 from 8AM-8PM ET marginalized creators seeking out representation can pitch their completed manuscripts & portfolios to participating Agents & Editors!
Don't forget to use #DVpit in your posts!
Pls read rules before participating: dvpit.carrd.co

#DVPit Rules
-#DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors
-Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025
between 8AM ET - 8PM ET
-Only post once per hour (6 max pitches per project)
-Must have a polished, query ready manuscript or art portfolio.
-Pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use the #DVArt hashtag)
-A like from an agent = a query request
-A repost from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent
-A like from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions
-Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or
quote-reposting their pitches
-Visit dvpit.carrd.co for more detailed guidelines.

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 21h

There's no proof, as far as I can tell, that any of these creeps are even actually with the government.

It sure looks like a bunch of random pudgy white men who probably threw a fit over masking during COVID, going out in their finest balaclavas and tshirts to kidnap brown people.

pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 21h

Throwback to the day I had to wait more than an hour to even begin to go home from work

Screenshot of Google maps showing bus arrival times.

2:31 bus is delayed by 62 minutes.
3:01 bus is delayed by 45 minutes.
3:32 bus is on time and will arrive before the previous two buses.
4:01 bus is also on time.
4:31 bus is delayed by 22 minutes.

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alias is away @aliasv01.bsky.social · 1d

The Bluesky Head of Trust & Safety admitting that all posted images are processed through an AI autolabeller that presumably employees have no access to or control over? (And probably steals every image to be used in an AI “art” generator, who knows?)

Seriously, this is outrageously irresponsible.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 1d

I liked when James Baxter used to do occasional guest spots on animated TV shows. I assume studios had a bat signal for him, except instead of a static bat it was a horse running in perspective towards the camera while the camera rotated around it

Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · 1d

Animation by James Baxter* | Steven Universe (2013 - 2019)

#penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 3d

#daily 33: dual topics – spirits | skeletal knight

Skeletal knight before a wall of spirits

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 1d

"great" seems setup for failure lmao. A "great AI generated game" huh. We'll just add that phrase into the oxymoron lexicon beside "jumbo shrimp" and "government intelligence"

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 1d

Hold on I'm looking into my crystal ball to make a truly left-field prediction: it will never come out, but if it does, it will be UE5 game developed in the normal way by underpaid contractors except all the static art assets and cutscenes will be genAI

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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Ki @ SHOP IS OPEN ✨ @gawki.bsky.social · 2d

James C Mulligan is going after vids and people who call him out for selling AI images. He’s using copyright as an excuse to get them removed, which is so baffling considering he’s a serial tracer. He has claimed official Bambi background art as his own, but there’s so much more.

A long 🧵

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 2d

Grew up in a rapture-obsessed family and at least for some of them, it's the rapture.

If they're paying attention to their holy book, they aren't supposed to incite the rapture/predict its date. They also know they look crazy. They say it's other things in public for The Heathens but it's Rapture.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 2d

Any "peace" deal in Gaza involving Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu is worthless. Two genocidal murderers who practice dishonesty as a profession.

Remember, Israel killed people almost every day of the last "ceasefire," then unilaterally violated it as soon as they had achieved their objectives.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · Mar 18

The Israeli military is bombing Gaza again, breaching the ceasefire. Hundreds of people are already reported killed.

This is not because they could not use diplomacy to achieve the goals that made them agree to the ceasefire.

It is because having achieved them, they can now resume the genocide.

Israel launches major Gaza assault, shattering ceasefire

Hamas says Israeli offensive marks end to ceasefire that took effect on January 19.

www.aljazeera.com

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 2d

Late tonight, a federal judge issued a sweeping new order prohibiting the president from deploying any National Guard forces—from any state or DC—to Oregon.

The president cannot keep playing whack-a-mole with different states’ Guard units to get around court orders and the rule of law.

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 3d

Real artists were even able to somehow make Watto Starwars sexy; AI doesn't have shit on real artists.

🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 3d

"The AI can make sexy Tony the tiger! Not sure you could-"

Who do you think I am? :>

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 3d

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 3d

“don’t be bigoted towards AI.”

your AI data centers are poisoning Black communities as we speak, please get some fucking perspective. jesus christ

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