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Vianne Max

@viannemax.bsky.social

Mood:
#survival

Text says, “Honestly, we should text like 1800s adventurers. ‘My trusted friend, I remain alive yet another week. The terrors do not cease.’”

December 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM

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korraiko | waitlist open

@korraiko.bsky.social

HUMAN artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you

The digital illustration shows a woman with dark long hair, gathered in a messy bun, she is wearing a dark blue dress, in her left hand she is holding an axe. Behind the woman is a stone staircase, which she is climbing. In the upper right corner are large windows, behind the woman's head is a large portrait of a couple, in the upper left corner are stairs leading up

September 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM

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Abigail Larson

@abigaillarson.com

'Old Woman beside a Fire' by Joséphine Bowes (1825–1874)

oil painting by Joséphine Bowes (1825–1874) of an old woman sitting next to a fire. To the left is a green curtain and the right a black cat with yellow eyes and an arched back, looking at the viewer. The old woman appears to be reading tarot cards.

September 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM

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Cristiana 'Cru' Leone

@cristianaleone.com

HUMAN artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you!
#art

EOWYN - digital painting depicting Eowyn lying on the ground, looking dead. Long blond hair frames her pale but seemingly serene face. She holds the hilt of her sword, the broken tip of which is in the now-empty crown of the sorcerer of Angmar. The head of the Nazgul's monstrous mount lies at her side, above the broken shield.

September 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM

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John Rogers

@johnrogers.bsky.social

Your occasional reminder that the positive effects of UBI have been tested and validated hundreds of times more often than the murderous Musk robotaxis or LLM’s we’re rushing to put into our schools and streets.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · Sep 3

For the past three years, the city has been giving cash to some struggling renters, no strings attached.

The first-in-the-nation experiment has been even more successful than researchers studying its impact expected.

Philly’s first-in-the-nation experiment giving cash to struggling renters is working, researchers say

Families that got cash rental assistance were less likely to be evicted, experience homelessness, and report having serious problems with their homes, according to a study of the PHLHousing+ program.

www.inquirer.com

September 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM

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PSX Bunlith @ MAGFEST!!! BLM ACAB 🇵🇸

@b0tster.yeag.gay

'just patch up ur own socks' 'just alter the html code urself' 'just mod it in urself' 'just learn to draw it yourself' 'just learn how to cobble shoes in ur free time' 'just /make ur own clothes/ after work' im sick and tired of using my precious labor to compensate for capitalism's failures

August 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM

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more mr. nice guy

@juniorhoncho.bsky.social

ONLINE LEFTIST: what if we tried to find a candidate that's good
ONLINE LIBERAL: congratulations your attitude just killed us all. we're dead. hope you're happy. we could've just had trans people be dead but nooooo you and your purity tests put a gun to our heads and squeezed. enjoy the camps homo 🖕

August 23, 2025 at 4:23 AM

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TBSkyen

@tbskyen.com

This. "Vote blue no matter who" is such transparently a ratchet-tactic. It is not deployed thoughtfully as a strategy to build power. It is deployed to cajole people to accept a further and further rightward drift in the name of "pragmatism," and AGAINST any attempt at leftward movement.

Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · Aug 24

Note how blue no matter who is near exclusively used to support bigoted right leaning candidates while that energy disappears when a more socialist leaning candidate like Mamdani does well.

August 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM

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cakejumper 🍰🦊

@cakejumper.bsky.social

If Shakespeare was so goated why didn't he lock tf in and write Peaksummer Night's Dream smh

August 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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Insta Science

@instascience.bsky.social

Smart! A Raven doing Raven things.

August 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM

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cakejumper 🍰🦊

@cakejumper.bsky.social

Me: "why does my voice/throat feel weird today?"

Also me:

August 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM

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Shen Comix

@shenanigansen.bsky.social

01: A girl labeled 'Artists' is holding a drawing tablet and pen under her arm. She is wearing round glasses and a blue sweatshirt. She has messy dark-brown hair and a brown skin-tone. She says "We don't really wanna MAKE A.I. art."

02: A guy labeled 'Art Enjoyers' holds his hand out while speaking. She is wearing a purple and yellow hawaiian shirt with a floral pattern over a white t-shirt, and has red hair and a light skin-tone. He says "We don't really wanna SEE A.I. art."

03: Behind them both, there is a cute girl in a business suit with a pink tie. She is blushing a bit and has pink eyeshadow, and looks upset. Her messy shoulder-length hair is parted in the middle, and held by two hairclips: one that looks like a red arrow pointing down, and one that looks like a green arrow pointing up. She says "Um ... I-Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?" She is labeled 'Shareholders'.

04: She puffs up her cheeks and pouts, a tear is on the verge of falling from one of her eyes. 'Artist Enjoyers' Guy is now in front of her yelling "AH!! SHAREHOLDERS-CHAN!!" while 'Artists' Girl is in front of her yelling "WE'RE SORRY WE HURT YOU!!!!"

August 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM

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merritt

@merrittk.com

"i just use AI for-" say no more, i already think less of you

August 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM

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cakejumper 🍰🦊

@cakejumper.bsky.social

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July 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM

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SeeroftheNight

@seerofthenight.bsky.social

Hey, remember how the US game industry crash of '83 happened in large part because Atari expected to sell more copies of E.T. than there were literal Atari 2600 machines in existence at that point?

Oh, no reason. Just thought of it out of the blue.