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✦ maddy ✦ @madeofline.bsky.social · 1d

✨ ʜᴏᴡ ᴛᴏ ʙᴀɴɪꜱʜ (ʜ)ᴇx ʙᴏʏꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴘɪʀɪᴛ ʀᴇᴀʟᴍ ᴀɴᴅ ᴅʀᴇꜱꜱ ꜰᴏʀ ꜱᴜᴄᴄᴇꜱꜱ !! 🔮

(I don't do inktober but I do do whatever this is)

A drawing of a witch in frankly a very impractical cowl + cloak combo levitating a book and looking at it with a very pissed off and over it expression. He is also wearing a cool pointy hat. His two ghost ex boyfriends are hovering around him being clingy and boring but hot I guess!! One is a fish guy with a partially severed head, and one is a faun person? I am creative. The witch is casting a spell to banish their asses back to the spirit realm after summoning them as a spell ingredient.
The illustration features extremely bright colors of mostly purples, oranges, and pinks, with teal accents. His cloak is a starry sky. The magic beams around his hand are very stylized.

For the search term magic:
witch, witch boy, witches, ghost boyfriends, magic, witch art, curses, cough witch yaoi cough, cuties, pierced nipples lmfao

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Smeesh 🌿 Illustrator for hire @asmeesh.bsky.social · Nov 25

It's finally getting cold, and the birds are becoming
r o u n d

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 6h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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✦ maddy ✦ @madeofline.bsky.social · 5h

I remain proud of the figures I drew for this. That hand got redrawn like six times tho shocker
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Bayleaf 🍃 @iceghost.bsky.social · 16h

Hey hey! Issue 1 is out today!

Part of a comic page inks from strange tales issue 1

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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.

buff.ly

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✦ maddy ✦ @madeofline.bsky.social · 1d

I had a lot of fun making this which you can tell because it has fallen to the "the more you care, the less the internet does" curse already lol
Too bad bc i love this cutie

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✦ maddy ✦ @madeofline.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh I'm so sorry friend 🧡

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WOLLYMIGHT @wollymight.bsky.social · 4d

#WOLLYTOBER Day 4 Mutant/Limb

#inktober #artober #Inktober2025 #wollyworld

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Steven Sugar @stevensugar.art · Oct 19

Assorted Horse Studies

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✦ maddy ✦ @madeofline.bsky.social · 1d

✨ ʜᴏᴡ ᴛᴏ ʙᴀɴɪꜱʜ (ʜ)ᴇx ʙᴏʏꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴘɪʀɪᴛ ʀᴇᴀʟᴍ ᴀɴᴅ ᴅʀᴇꜱꜱ ꜰᴏʀ ꜱᴜᴄᴄᴇꜱꜱ !! 🔮

(I don't do inktober but I do do whatever this is)

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 1d

KEEPING TIME returns, as promised!!

#KeepingTime is a bittersweet bummer of a gay band romance that just started its 4th chapter, which means there's already 106 pages for you to dive into. #webcomics

🎸 keepingtimecomic.com

Full page spread of a close-up of a bulletin board. A flyer that reads, "Chapter 4: My Father's Dreams" takes front and center of the spread. Around it, numerous flyers and business cards are pinned to it with colored thumbtacks.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1d

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

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Nematode Pulse XL ✨🐖✨ @michaelbeachy.bsky.social · 2d

Wollytober #6 Demon/Plight

a demon with a jewl runs into a dark cave with spooky stone formations.

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Electrek @electrek.co · 2d

In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally

Solar and wind power aren’t just keeping up with global electricity demand anymore – they’re pulling ahead. According to a new analysis from energy think tank Ember, solar and wind combined outpaced global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025. That shift led to a drop in both coal and gas generation compared to the same period last year. For the first time ever, renewables generated more power than coal globally. more…

electrek.co

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P. Puck @peapuck.bsky.social · 2d

Helmets of Fliffmellington

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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes when you read the list of who liked your post

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

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✦ maddy ✦ @madeofline.bsky.social · 3d

I think one thing that people don't understand about anxiety is it can be very physical. I get jaw pain, chest pain, shortness of breath, vertigo, fatigue, stomach aches. All from anxiety. I have gone to the ER for it. It's so annoying to have this feeling and have strangers tell you to get over it.

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✦ maddy ✦ @madeofline.bsky.social · 3d

That would up the cool factor to me tbh

✦ maddy ✦ @madeofline.bsky.social · 3d

Is Remy short for Jeremy? Have we been worshipping Jeremy the chef rat all ths time

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HIVVER @g0dplay.bsky.social · 3d

Heads up I got one of these this morning, it looks legit until it asks you to sign into your Gmail account. Just a heads up

Joanne Starer @joannestarer.bsky.social · 3d

I just got a fake docusign email from someone at @oni-press.bsky.social It looks mostly real but it goes to a weird site that asks you to sign in, and it's missing stuff that a real docusign email would have. Also, the comma after "review" where a period should be.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 4d

“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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c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · May 20

I have an art book for #tyreecomic ! It's 62 pages at $10! Not only does it have art but I have some brief guides into my page process as well. There is even stuff I havent released publicly in it! It's a great way to support me currently and get a glimpse into my obsession

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Tyree art book cover featuring various drawings and sketches of the main trio

Art book page featuring Chicahua and Cuicatl. Dialog reads: Cuicatl is the name of Chi's deer. He's a complete bastard to everyone but Chi. He is well known among the nobles for being the deer that bit the king on the ass. He loves Chi and only Chi.

Tletl's art page featuring various drawings and a sketch of her. Text reads: Tletl is the enteral lit flame of Kopitl. The ADHD daughter of the Sun. Her hair moves like fire.

Meztli's page from the art book. Text reads: Meztli, the mood goddess, is viktor's mother. xei calls viktor "Little rabbit" because of Meztli's affinity for rabbits. Her vitiligo changes with phases of the moon. She keeps a rabbit charm that maurice had made for her.

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