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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿+🇩🇪+🇺🇸 Artist lady - creator of #Joybringer, a comic I've had since I was a kid!🐦‍🔥 [she/her] https://linktr.ee/morningmaple 🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Ally 🚫 NO AI/NFT, GET OUTTA HERE

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🐸Morningmaple🍁 @morningmaple.bsky.social · Nov 21

[10/9/2023]
Joybringer: A Day (Morning)
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#art #comics

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In the skies above a vast land, a pale pink house made of stone sits upon a grey cloud that rises out from its own chimney in a heart-shaped plume. The house has columns that prop up its berry-coloured roof, which has the symbol of a heart carved into the front of it. There are other clouds in the sky as well, but they are a lighter grey than the one the house sits on - resulting in the house and its cloud to stick out a little.

Far beneath the clouds, the land is green yet wild. There is a shore with silvery blue water, but one cannot tell just how far the land and water reach.

If one were to look very closely, they would see that parts of the land resemble craters. The mountains in the distance also, somehow, have been disturbed. One mountain has a hole right through it.

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ADHD Pathfinding @adhdpathfinding.org.uk · 3d

ADHD and autism often overlap but services treat them as totally separate.

Two referrals. Two assessments. Two costs. Two waiting lists.

It’s inefficient and unfair. A combined pathway would reflect reality, cut duplication, and speed up support.

📅 Part of ADHD Awareness Month. Day 6 of 31

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls 🔜 NYCC! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 9d

Support independent/single studios, not conglomorate monopolies

Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 9d

Not a fan of how every entertainment platform is slowly being acquired/consolidated by conservative billionaires who are all friends and hang out with eachother on the weekends. Feels not good.

IGN @ign.com · 9d

EA goes private in $55 billion deal, Andrew Wilson to remain as CEO. https://bit.ly/3WaGqnc

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Chris Haunted Houston @chrishouston.bsky.social · 19h

Tough time for mental health for people who aren’t horrible monsters so I took some pictures of things in my garden that made me happy yesterday. Pomegranate, passionfruit blossom, banana. 🌱 #gardening

Bunches of small green bananas around a purple flower and green leaves

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🐸Morningmaple🍁 @morningmaple.bsky.social · 17h

How about a pair of bonded cats named Sam and Eric?

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🐸Morningmaple🍁 @morningmaple.bsky.social · 1d

It gets easier if you make it easier - that's the hard part, but knowing you're doing it is priceless.

My emotional regulation is far from great, but at least I acknowledge that now. I definitely know what I want to work on, and that's a start.

🐸Morningmaple🍁 @morningmaple.bsky.social · 1d

Anybody have advice on getting your Ko-fi page all nice when you're an artist that doesn't post that frequently?

🐸Morningmaple🍁 @morningmaple.bsky.social · 1d

I know this feeling too, it's awful. That said, I'm hoping that the stressful things I deal with in the future are technically less stressful in comparison, because getting the ball rolling in the first place is the hardest part.

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 1d

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

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Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not over diagnosed, neurodivergence has been chronically UNDER DIAGNOSED, which is why we’re suddenly seeing an increase in diagnosis particularly amongst women and girls. This approach is a combination of misogyny and a poorly handled pandemic 🙈🤦‍♀️🙄

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 2d

Greta Thunberg annoys the right because she's a reminder that it's possible to stay true to your moral principles even when it's inconvenient, and they fucking hate that

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 2d

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 2d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

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🐸Morningmaple🍁 @morningmaple.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for being a little light.
#おそ松さん10周年
#おそ松さん10周年ありがとう

The Matsuno brothers (from the anime Osomatsu-san) are standing in a deep, dark chocolate brown void, gathered around something emanating beams of warm, golden light. The thing emitting said glow is a green floating matsu (Japanese pine tree) symbol, and it has a golden number "10" on it. The golden glow also includes a little rainbow of bubbles with colours that correspond to each brother (red for Osomatsu, blue for Karamatsu, green for Choromatsu, purple for Ichimatsu, yellow for Jyushimatsu, and pink for Todomatsu). The golden glow shines on all of the brothers. They are all drawn "chibi" style, looking small and cuddly.

The brothers are all smiling in their own distinct ways. Osomatsu is has a slightly playful expression as he holds one hand up to the light, as if it were a fire emitting warmth. Karamatsu holds his hand towards the light as if he were pointing a finger-gun at it before, but now it looks gentler. Choromatsu looks almost a little giddy as he has one of his hands curled up. Ichimatsu's face is mostly obscured, but you can still see his smile. Jyushimatsu appears to be trying to eat the golden light (is he succeeding?). Todomatsu's face is also mostly obscured, but you can still see one of his large, shining irises.

In the top left corner, I wrote "Thank you for being a little light." In the bottom right corner is my signature, and two dates: the date I drew the initial sketch (10/10/2024), and the date I finished this illustration (6/10/2025).

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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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Raptor @raptornx01.bsky.social · 3d

its amazing, tho not surprising how many pro-ai people inevitably end up being racist/fascist. but it goes hand in hand with the fact its impossible to defend Ai without also saying, at some point, that people don't matter, whether its people that had their art stolen, or their jobs, or even died.

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🐸Morningmaple🍁 @morningmaple.bsky.social · 3d

Also, why is everything salted caramel?

🐸Morningmaple🍁 @morningmaple.bsky.social · 3d

Oh jeez, onions are in a lot of things. I'm not allergic, but I don't like red onions, which seem to be in everything where I live.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

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🐸Morningmaple🍁 @morningmaple.bsky.social · 3d

Yep ... apple juice, chickpeas, and kale, for instance ... does lemonade need to have apple juice in it?!

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Carly Smith 📖✍️ @carlysmith.net · Aug 27

The most sobering yet important panel I attended all weekend of Anime NYC was one on censorship, both "hard censorship" and "soft censorship," with discussions of our current political climate along with why US publishers might decide the things that they do.
🧵 incoming

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🐸Morningmaple🍁 @morningmaple.bsky.social · 4d

Hopefully someday you can live without this in your life.

🐸Morningmaple🍁 @morningmaple.bsky.social · 4d

It isn't your fault, he's deciding that everything you do is wrong.

It might sound "extreme," but the only way for it to stop is to get away from the person that treats you that way. He treats any interaction at all as an opportunity to hurt you.

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