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KT Coope @kilotango.bsky.social · 16d

Yeah I’ve been having to play music to stop it doing my head in, my brain is suuuuper wired to hear music so this hella distracting cause a bit of me is trying to parse relentless noodling XD

KT Coope @kilotango.bsky.social · 17d

Like at points it is quiet and chill but randomly through my day, [sudden frantic incomprehensible discordant violin soundtrack]

I think I actually preferred the shouty rugby boys.

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KT Coope @kilotango.bsky.social · 17d

There are 2 violinist students next door, they are pretty diligent in their practice, our walls are not thick and I work from home. Sometimes they are both practicing at once. I feel like the protagonist of a scribbly greyscale indie horror where some monster is hunting me through a boarding school.

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.social · 21d

A gold star to whoever is doing Channel 4's social media today:

Screenshot of two Threads posts from Channel 4:

channel4
CHANNEL 4, SO BAD IT COULDN'T BE NAMED CHANNEL 1, ARE SHOWING
OVER 100 UNTRUTHS THAT THEY SAY (FALSELY) HAVE BEEN TOLD BY YOUR
FAVORITE PRESIDENT (NOBEL PEACE PRIZE DESERVING DONALD J TRUMP)
AT 10PM TONIGHT. WILL THEY SHOW 100 TIMES DONALD J TRUMP WAS
HANDSOME AND RIGHT? NO. FAKE NEWS.

channel4
TONIGHT ON THE FAILING CHANNEL 4 (EVEN WORSE THAN ITV) THEY ARE
SHOWING MORE THAN 100 ‘UNTRUTHS' TOLD BY YOUR FAVORITE
PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP. THIS IS FAKE NEWS BY THE MSM AND AN
ATTACK ON YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT (DONALD J TRUMP)! DO NOT
WATCH AT 10PM!!!

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KT Coope @kilotango.bsky.social · 21d

Check out the ones made by GoDraw on that front too, these are knockoffs of those and the originals look to have a higher build quality and the wells already have resin (I think) inlays on them, they look really nice.

KT Coope @kilotango.bsky.social · 22d

Oh damn looking at your watercolour work, extra extra thanks!

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KT Coope @kilotango.bsky.social · 22d

Your cleaner colour stuff is nice too but man your chunky bw inks were from stuff like Bear were always SO GOOD

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KT Coope @kilotango.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks! This was a replacement they sent me for one that warped and so I sealed the wells on this one with nail polish and treated myself to some tiny tubes of better quality paint than the ones that came with it. Never used professional quality watercolour before and I’m loving how well it layers!

A tiny 8 well palette with 8 5ml tubes of winsor and newton paint around it like sun rays. Clockwise they are winsor lemon, winsor blue green hue, permanent rose, winsor violet, burnt sienna, winsor red, winsor blue red hue and Indian yellow deep.

KT Coope @kilotango.bsky.social · 22d

Got a tiny palette recently and treated myself to some nice paints to put in it to give myself a low stakes place to do some art for myself. Test doodle to break in the book from last night and remind myself I don’t have to do complicated serious things here, and my bento from my lunch break today

A hand holding a tiny sketch book with a little palette clipped to the top. The image is a purple brush pen doodle of Katy and her cat, shaded in yellows, reds and browns

A hand holding a tiny sketch book with a little palette clipped to the top. The painting is of a round bento box with tomatoes, tamagoyaki, karage, lettuce, purple rice, dried apricots, shredded mushrooms and gomae spinach and edamame. It has a textured blue background and says “lunch” with the date in one corner.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 29d

hi, cis folks!

if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.

the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.

we need you to call senators: reps.fyi

more info & script downthread.🧵

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Sep 8

NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid

SEC. 243. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 13988, entitled ‘‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’’, published by the Executive Office of the President on January 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7023).

SEC. 244. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral,or medical intervention performed for the purposes of in16 tentionally changing the body of an individual (including
by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its natural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer correspond to the individual’s biological sex.

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Joe Sparrow @torpordust.bsky.social · 29d

a comic about fishing (1/7)

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 29d

This is at the same time the government is pretty much turning a blind eye to racists painting on walls up and down the country.

Art books will talk about how grotesque this is hundreds of years from now.

Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 29d

Banksy made a politically significant art, solely thanks to Starmer being so rattled by it that he had it removed for his zionists mates lmao

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fight_for_a_future British state thugs have scrubbed off a Banksy artwork criticising state censorship after
surrounding the piece with fences failed to stop the public from taking photos of it.
The artwork critiqued the use of the law to punish peaceful protesters, in particular Palestine Action, which is now a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, meaning supporting the group can lead to up to 14 years in prison.

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KT Coope @kilotango.bsky.social · Sep 4

Leeds and Leeds adjacent folk! My fellow beloved Arbrevyn dorks and I have a gig on Monday evening at the Grove! Come listen! There will be harmonies and nonsense and good times and we’d love to share them with you 🌻 wegottickets.com/event/668786/

Arbrevyn

We are pleased to welcome for the first time Arbrevyn, an exciting vocal harmony trio based in the north of England, singing songs and dance tunes from Cornwall and all over. They are Cathy Bennett (B...

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · Sep 4

The fact that they have not lifted half a buttock to assist Palestine but soared like fucking eagles to rescue this barnacled creep is all the evidence we need that the government is ruderless.

Aidan Comerford @aidancomerford.bsky.social · Sep 3

Graham Linehan has argued for years that "trans activists" are the establishment that he is fighting against, yet, when he incites violence against trans people, the whole UK establishment - the prime minister, health secretary, Met police chief and the entire Uk Press - mobilise to defend him.

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · Sep 3

The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.

Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · Sep 2

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · Sep 3

This. I LOVE you for it if you name your budget and deadline right away and I am 1000% more inclined to collaborate with you and figure out a way to make it work within these metrics.

WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you actually have a reasonable budget to hire an artist for your project, TELL THEM IN YOUR INITIAL EMAIL TO THEM. Right off the bat. Here is the project, this is what I can pay, this is the deadline. We get so many time wasters it’s remarkably refreshing when a potential client is upfront

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🌎HANENBOW🌦️ CHIBI COMMS OPEN @webparteez.bsky.social · Aug 27

and i can't stress it enough 🌈
#art #furry

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KT Coope @kilotango.bsky.social · Sep 2

Cute enough I forgot I was meant to put an egg in here too XD

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KT Coope @kilotango.bsky.social · Sep 2

Last night had a lot of chopping (my knife skills are ok but still mid enough that match sticking things still takes a while) but now I have a bunch more dishes for the fridge and freezer. I know I don’t HAVE to make OJ carrots into flowers but they are so cute when I do so can’t help myself.

A round wooden bento box with 3 sections. One is full of bright red raspberries. One has shreds of orange and pale green carrot and broccoli stem miso kinpira. The last large section has dark purple rice with orange carrot flowers, chasui chicken and broccoli florets

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KT Coope @kilotango.bsky.social · Sep 2

A lot of my friends and loved ones are in Morris sides and they are all good folks. I find display routine dancing a bit too stressful but the call is getting stronger. That said, I’d freaking LOVE to build a Morris Beast some time…

Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Aug 18

For @thequietus.com today, I wrote an essay about why we should stop scoffing about morris dancing, and instead view it as something radical, transgressive, and powerful enough to completely alter one's brain

In Defense of the Progressive Power of Morris Dancing

Cecil Sharp spent the Christmas of 1899 unwell. Recuperating in a cottage on the outskirts of Oxford, the mental fug of the lingering illness must have intensified the strangeness of what he saw throu...

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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Jones! Working on Comms @prinxe.bsky.social · Sep 1

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The Todaybor Day is Labor Day Homestar Runner meme. Because today is Labor Day.

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Laurz Drawz | they/them @illaurastrates.bsky.social · Sep 1

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KT Coope @kilotango.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thanks! Alex’s mum told me they didn’t like wearing shoes and they always wore odd socks, so it felt like a good way to work in the colours of some of the flags they identify with :)

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KT Coope @kilotango.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you!

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