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Star The Toon Leem @lightninglemur.bsky.social · 19h

My sibling has been working so hard to make sure the rent is paid and the dogs she takes care of are as happy as can be! Please, anything you can spare will go a long way. This stroke of bad luck is awful and they could use some funds to figure this out. I'll do my part to help with adopt auctions

⚡️Verra@ hiatus⚡️ @drunkendirewolf.bsky.social · 19h

Hey. Breaking my hiatus for a moment. I got into a car accident today. I’m just here to plug my ko-fi bc honestly. I’m not sure how much this is going to be. Physically, other than the chronic pain I already deal with, I’m okay. Mentally is a different story. ko-fi.com/verra

My car, a silver hatchback, with a huge impact on the rear passenger side.

A close up of the damage to my silver hatchback.

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LABRADORSZN @ FALL 🍁🍂✨ @labradorszn.bsky.social · 19h

Please please please do what you can to help Verra in her situation right now. Anything will help. She’s really been through it recently and this is just the icing on the cake. She’s a dear friend, and deserves any break she can get.

#furry

⚡️Verra@ hiatus⚡️ @drunkendirewolf.bsky.social · 19h

Hey. Breaking my hiatus for a moment. I got into a car accident today. I’m just here to plug my ko-fi bc honestly. I’m not sure how much this is going to be. Physically, other than the chronic pain I already deal with, I’m okay. Mentally is a different story. ko-fi.com/verra

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⚡️Verra@ hiatus⚡️ @drunkendirewolf.bsky.social · 19h

Hey. Breaking my hiatus for a moment. I got into a car accident today. I’m just here to plug my ko-fi bc honestly. I’m not sure how much this is going to be. Physically, other than the chronic pain I already deal with, I’m okay. Mentally is a different story. ko-fi.com/verra

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Star The Toon Leem @lightninglemur.bsky.social · 1d

I can never relate to people loving her either dw

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 2d

This right here. I love my art friends and art community, but I'm also trying to run a business as a freelancer/selling products and I need the reach! Every time we scatter to different platforms it's a little harder to exist as a working artist whose primary visibility is only online.

Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2d

As much as folks might not want to believe it, artists who sell their work cannot survive exclusively on platforms that cater to primarily other artists. The Circulating The Same Five Dollars™️ model can't feed us or pay bills for long. We need places where we can be seen and discovered.

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hayden johnson @haydenjohnsonn.bsky.social · 13d

every AI ad is like

“hey gemini, what would i have for lunch?”

and then the phone is like

“sandwich”

and the guy is like

“wow”

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Kieran (But Spookier) @toadally.bsky.social · 3d

My pretty boy FINALLY got an updated design! He is a royal Vatori (bug alien) courtesan, using dance and pheromones to perform stories and poems for visiting dignitaries. He is an entertainer, therapist, and cultural historian.

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⚡️Verra@ hiatus⚡️ @drunkendirewolf.bsky.social · 3d

I may need to buy a new battery for my car. Either way, I don’t have much funds for car stuff rn so if you wanna help out, please consider my kofi: ko-fi.com/verra

Buy Verra a Coffee

Check out my art and scraps on Ko-Fi! It's where you can see my commission menu or drop a tip if you'd like to support me!

ko-fi.com

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Gina Ippolito @ginaippy.bsky.social · 4d

Hopefully everyone in CA already knows this, but just in case someone doesn’t - there’s a special election happening right now. It’s REALLY important that you vote, and it’s REALLY important that you vote YES on Prop 50.

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Star The Toon Leem @lightninglemur.bsky.social · 4d

Hi! You don't know me, but I was trying to find examples of mosaic glass stained art styles while trying to explain to a friend of mine what they should look like
Your share was recommended to me when I searched up "mosaic art" in latest. Your stuff is absolutely gorgeous!!

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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🔹 Neralis 🔹 @neralis.bsky.social · 8d

💙 Thank you for the share 💙

My name is Neralis, I am a digital freelancer artist based in Austria.
I am focused on stained-glass mosaic styled Illustrations.

Some of my most recent illustrations :'D

Fullbody stained glass illustration.

It shows an artwork of an anthropomorphic Moth, which has gold lines all over his body. His body is glowing and so is the background around him. Illuminating him in a redish brown light.

Stained glass illustration of a teal colored dragon, with white scales on its belly and the inside of its wings is also white.
The background is colored in blue hues with stars and a stone gothic frame.

Flat Colored Stained glass illustration of a sheep wearing a wolf pelt.
Over the sheep hoveres a burning crown and the words.

" Feast on the Kings crown" which is a metaphor for Eat the rich.

Stained-glass illustration of a buckskin / paint horse shire stallion. His long mane grows along his back and there is a sea in the background. Mountains and dark clouds.

A circle of thunderbolds struck around his head, forming an electric halo.

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Cressa Maeve Áine @beeragon.bsky.social · Feb 11

I can finally post videos so...

Hi, I'm Cressa and I do stop motion. You may have seen my preshows at your local movie theatre.

Here's a cute thing I made for the release of Godzilla Minus One:

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Star The Toon Leem @lightninglemur.bsky.social · 5d

The rumors are true: I am older!
If you feel generous this payday and wanna give a little leem something for w/e reason, here's my Cashapp:
cash.app/$DraconicBeats
Don't feel obligated tho cause I have been fucken ABSENT with furry stuff trying to get my life together

Pay me on Cash App

Instantly exchange money for free on Cash App

cash.app

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Star The Toon Leem @lightninglemur.bsky.social · 5d

Aw shucks, thank you Keerie!! I picked out my bday ice cream and everything. I'll make the most of today :D

Star The Toon Leem @lightninglemur.bsky.social · 5d

Huh wha

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Pixel Nezumi 🗝️🐁 Mouse Vtuber🔞 @pixelkaye.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder that Duolingo laid off most of their staff, including their localization teams, so that they could invest heavily into AI. Don't support Duolingo. Disable drops for a few days.

Candy 🧶 Rhythm Witch Vtuber @candythecane.bsky.social · 6d

I'm disabling drops on my channel because fuck this ai first company

a twitch notification about Duolingo drops. this company is shit and i will not support them 💜

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Star The Toon Leem @lightninglemur.bsky.social · 7d

You've had it year round and now it's time for actual trick or treatin

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gozi @lightskintiger.bsky.social · 9d

I promised and y’all delivered, it’s time for the 2K FOLLOWERS GOZI GOODS RAFFLE

all you gotta do is:
1. follow my account
2. like and repost this post

winner will be picked at noon est on monday october 6th, appreciate y’all!

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Star The Toon Leem @lightninglemur.bsky.social · 9d

Give them tea and talk about anime together /jk

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Dylan Roth @dylanroth.bsky.social · 9d

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log.

This tells me two things:

1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day.

(212) 486-4430

Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 9d

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 9d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9d

I ALSO GOT THROUGH TO A HUMAN AT SCHUMER'S 202 NUMBER - 202-224-6542

Make those calls, friends! Tell them to vote NO on any bill that cuts trans health care - tell them that trans healthcare saves lives and defending this is worth a shutdown.

Dylan Roth @dylanroth.bsky.social · 9d

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log.

This tells me two things:

1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day.

(212) 486-4430

Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 9d

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

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Today in Pokémon History by Serebii.net @serebiiotd.bsky.social · 10d

On this day in 2006, 19 years ago, Pokémon Diamond & Pearl were first released.

These games were new games set in the Sinnoh region with a story to stop Team Galactic, and included 107 new Pokémon

www.serebii.net/diamondpearl

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🐥 @happymarmot.bsky.social · Jul 28

idk what to post

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Star The Toon Leem @lightninglemur.bsky.social · 10d

I had seen that same ad too
God I hope it fucken pops