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RiverTriesToMakeStuff
@rivertries.bsky.social
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Visual artist, writer, meanderer. AuDHD. Ⓐ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ He/they/idk. Message if you want to make stuff together. https://riverwright.itch.io
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Sounds about right.
A message from my bank. It says 'We've estimated that you could get a first time buyer's mortgage of £0k. This is based on what we think your income is. To see your actual lending amount, complete a Mortgage in Principle.'
February 5, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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A 1980s black and white photograph of a young woman with her head in her hands and an exasperated expression. A speech bubble says 'This isn't happening. It's a nightmare. I've got to get out of here.'
February 3, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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If you look at Phil's record he's 'wrong' between 60-65% of the time, which makes his predictions 'not bad' if you just interpret them the opposite way around.
February 2, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Second life unboxing
January 30, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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Today's mood:
A screencap from Return of the Obra Dinn. It shows a page from the in-game journal which reads 'VII: The Doom'.
January 11, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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Sexual harassment app being advertised on YouTube. Pretty disgusting.
January 8, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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Quick and dirty bit of political art. #agitprop #art #artsky #ice
An imitation of the 'SS' insignia with the letters 'ICE' substituted. White rune-like text on a black circle. Over the top, in red, the words 'Murdering people in the street is what fascists do.'
January 8, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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I modded the Bluesky logo to make it slightly curvier.
A facetious imitation of a recent controversial post on Bluesky. There are two versions of the Bluesky logo, a blue butterfly symbol. One, labelled 'original', and another, labeled 'modded version', with boobs and a curvy ass added.
January 8, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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I finished an art. #art #artsky #embroidery #craft
A piece of embroidery. A splotch of loosely geometric shapes in tortoiseshell colours. In negative space, the words 'goodbye forever' split across two lines. After the 'goodbye', the embroidery threads have been cut to make a hole, revealing a red embroidered comma underneath.
December 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Mood.
A picture of a grey cat lying on all fours with a peeved expression and some serious airplane ears. This is just what she's like.
December 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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I thought I'd draw a card about how my imminent holiday with my father is going to be. 🙃 #tarot
A tarot card - The Devil - from the Night Sun deck by Fabio Listrani.
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Did some installation art today. It turned out well! Looks great from a distance as you glimpse it through the trees. #art #artsky
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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A 'flasher', back turned, opens their trenchcoat to accost an unimpressed woman in the street. From the front, the flasher is fully clothed but wearing a sign saying 'AI Summary'.
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The Steam Machine reminds me a bit of Deep Thought from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy film. I choose to believe that this is intentional.
A vaguely cube-shaped supercomputer that also looks like a robot with its head in its hands. Deep Thought, from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy film. The new Steam Machine, which is cube shaped with a slit near the bottom edge that makes it slightly resemble Deep Thought.
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Heating engineers came to spec up the house for some work yesterday. We forgot that this sign was in a cupboard they needed to inspect. The engineers were... bemused.

It's not mine, I hasten to add.
A 'lollipop stick' style placard in a cluttered cupboard. The placard says 'sissy femboy' and has a graphic of a dick being jerked off.
May 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Nice heels, Vladi.

Time and time again 'strongmen' can't help but demonstrate just how insecure they are.
A photo of Xi Jinping shaking hands with Vladimir Putin The same photo, zoomed in on Putin's shoes, which show that he's wearing heels of at least an inch.
May 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Don't threaten me with a good time, Jeremy.
A screencap from the Guardian website. It says: 'Jeremy Vine looks back: 'What will I do after Radio 2? I don't know. Die?''
April 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Finished a sculpture today - a rare and momentous occasion. Also did prelim on two others.
April 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Bit of scrimshaw. #art #artsky
A sheep's shoulder blade, on which is inscribed 'How could I resist?' in black sans serif letters.
April 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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#resist #resistance #organise #unionise #mutualaid #selfdefense #selfdefence #civildisobedience #protest #strike #noncompliance #education #community #communitybuilding #protestart #disruption #sabotage #resilience #selfsufficiency #offgrid #efficiency #reuse #anarchism #anarchist
A graphic with the words 'Learn how to resist while you still can' on a blue-to-red gradient background.
April 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Standard AI interaction.
A WhatsApp conversation with Meta AI. I ask it how to disable it. It gives me some instructions. None of them work. I insult it, and it grovels.
April 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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This is the sort of thing that I'd do. Ship emerging, stars/planets/galaxies but distorted by ripples/waves. Classic sci fi adventure typography in that kind of 70s style. Bright, non-macho colour that is a contrast of the blackness of the space-water and gives a sort of colour inversion effect.
A very rough sketch of a book cover. A spaceship emerges at an angle from a water 'sky' leaving ripples behind it. The title is Sky to Sea and the author is Septimus Brown - these are on a bright orange background.
March 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.
The housing of a destroyed CRT television, lying on its back on the ground, with plants growing through it.
March 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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My fifth book of the year was Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. An enjoyable and easy read through some incredibly dark and cynical subject matter. #booksky
The cover of Oryx and Crake, a dystopian sci-fi novel by Margaret Atwood.
March 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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So my days of passing as cis-het are pretty definitively over...
March 16, 2025 at 7:18 AM