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metal-dust.bsky.social
@metal-dust.bsky.social
22, artist, witch, lurker
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as an artist you SHOULD:
use the word commission
post links
use hashtags
talk about your original projects
post often, or not!
use alt text, ideally always but at least often
block shit you don’t wanna see and leave those people alone

you should NOT:
be a bigot

our rules are pretty chill here!
It's kinda heartbreaking to see so many artists being like "can I post about OCs and not just fanart?", "can I talk about other stuff?", "can I post often?" because the other hellsite literally punished you for doing...normal things you do as an artist - as a person, even.
December 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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important
December 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here
December 19, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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*vibrates violently holding a degree in interdisciplinary communication and collaboration*

You do not need genAI to communicate your ideas as a non-artist to an artist! A generated image doesn't actually share the key info that needs to passed on AND it discourages fruitful discussion
December 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Some sticker designs ✨
September 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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MILF and tentacles getting pulled alongside loli and shota reinforces what I and others have said since the summer: If you empower Mastercard to censor a little, you empower them to take everything away. The problem is the capacity for a credit card to censor

Call them
Really weird seeing MILF in that list considering how commonplace and inoffensive that category is
December 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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This is DEFCON 1 priority, y'all. Call your senators, reps, call your friends and tell them to call their senators and reps about this. Call your grandma and tell her to call her senators and reps about this.

What we have here will be *gone* if these bills pass.
Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.

Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet
KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.
reason.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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I’m opening my commissions again! Info below 🌟
December 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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giant bat wings 🦇
October 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Patron whispers...
September 2, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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Remember me, love
When I'm reborn
As the shrike to your sharp
And glorious thorn

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New #jayvik prints and sticker sheets dropping tomorrow! 🔥
November 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Update on where I’ve been:

Please help me if you are able, even a share. Thank you.

ko-fi.com/sparrouu/goa...
October 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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If we really want to deter suicide and self-harm, we should prescribe social media to teenagers, not ban it
The anti-teen-social-media case keeps falling apart even as it peaks politically.
If we really want to deter suicide and self-harm, we should prescribe social media to teenagers, not ban it
The anti-teen-social-media case keeps falling apart even as it peaks politically.
mikemales.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I'm actually fine with it if unemployed people had access to food and undocumented immigrants had access to free, comprehensive healthcare. Society's responsibility to the individual should not be contingent on the individual contribution to society.

JFK was wrong. Ask your country for more.
October 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Adding another cheap food resource via Tumblr

www.toogoodtogo.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass.

It NEEDS mass pushback.
🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.

You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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please dont let him have the martini
October 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance
Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.
Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site
Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.
www.jsonline.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I hate realising i'm one of those people who needs to ~nourish the soul~ or whatever in order to function properly. if i dont see a cathedral or have a good walk or buy a pastry (that isn't from a chain cafe), i start spiraling so hard so fast.
October 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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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...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act.

TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!

Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
August 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch.

I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.
1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

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Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters
Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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I love painting crystals 😋
September 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM