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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · Oct 11

Hi, I'm Neal! I am a fantasy sculptor of dragons, animals, and characters. You can find my work in my online shop where I maintain my own line of resin figures. I am also available for custom work.

🐉 Portfolio : cara.app/verdantsculpts/portfolio
🛒 Shop/Commissions : VerdantSculpts.com

A sculpture of a blue fluffy dragon rearing on his hind legs and pawing at the air.

Three tree dragon sculptures planted in pots. From front to back they are colored like the seasons summer (green), spring (pink), and autumn (orange).

A light blue dragon curls around a baby dragon colored like the trans pride flag. In the background is the trans pride flag.

A sculpture of the white wolf Amaterasu from the game Okami. She is leaping down onto a lily pad, kicking up swirls of cherry blossoms behind her.

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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 11h

BREAKING: Burger King workers are on strike in Oakland due to pregnancy discrimination.

The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵

#UnionsForAll

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Dayna @whimsycalling.bsky.social · 11h

Will this post help me hit 1k followers? I just need two more please 😁
These will all be available for preorder this Friday on my website Whimsycalling.com

#cats #spookycat #cutehalloween #halloween2025 #sculpture #catcore

3 Figurines. From the left, a black hissing cat, a Candycorn cat hybrid, and a pumpkin with a cat face. Surrounded by fall leaves, Candycorn and twinkly lights in the background

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 8h

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13h

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.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

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 14h

One week left to get your orders in!

Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 7d

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Happy Autumn! I have opened preorders for a few autumn figures. These will be limited through October 15th. I also have glow in the dark Patch Cats that I will be adding in a few days.

🛒 VerdantSculpts.com

A montage of 4 autumn/halloween themed figures. There is a skeletal dragon, a mimikyu with a pumpkin, an orange tabby cat with pumpkins, and a crow sitting atop a dragon skull.

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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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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 10h

Ugh this sucks. Sending healing energies for a safe navigation.

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 12h

Came on here to see libs going on about not dying on the hill of trans rights. I mean at least you are finally being up front about it so people can see what many of us have seen for a while. But also, fuck you.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 13h

you don't get to count on votes from people you are letting get exterminated. if you let a fox kill the chickens, should you still expect eggs in the morning?

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 12h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 15h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · Oct 31

IT'S TIME!!! 🐺

Werewolf Bar Mitzvah - FULL SONG

YouTube video by Tj dembski

www.youtube.com

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 14h

Incredible!

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𓅸 novelteeth 𓅷 @novelteeth.bsky.social · 15h

Sweet Tooth ▪️ ink, 2015

Traditional ink drawing of a bulky, dark-furred monster with a candycorn face, teeth, and claws.

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 14h

One week left to get your orders in!

Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 7d

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Sett "Apples" Balise @brambledragon.bsky.social · 1d

The Nautilus shells on this ceramic mug mirror the spiral handle and ocean blue glaze #ceramics #pottery #art

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Sett "Apples" Balise @brambledragon.bsky.social · 15h

Geometric dragon travel mug keeps the rain out of your coffee. It's been a long drought, hopefully it doesn't last much longer. #ceramics #pottery #art

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 17h

Every repost is new life, every repost rebuild our life, every repost appreciated from bottom of my heart

Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 22d

Here is Jamal from Gaza whose family lost everything and he is trying with all his might to rebuild their lives and help them with the crazy costs in Gaza and travel outside Gaza when the crossings open. I hope you support us. Your little support, even if it is $5

chuffed.org/project/1389...

Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!

Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...

chuffed.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 15h

THIS IS IN ONE HOUR. They tend to go pretty quick so set an alarm.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

I am doing a round of We Want You To Have This TOMORROW MORNING at 9AM mountain time. If you are trans in the US and want a gift from my shop but cannot afford it, or if you have a trans loved one you would like a gift for, I will have 20 available. Details in thread. nora.jewelry/pages/we-wan...

We Want You To Have This: Jewelry Gifts For Trans People

Requests for gifts are now closed! They will open again at 9AM Mountain Time (Denver) Wednesday, October 8th. The following round will be on Saturday, October 25th at 9AM. Just looking for the forms?...

nora.jewelry

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Ben Hart, Gender Archivist @pavlovforgoths.com · 1d

Telegram reveals that the communications platform has fulfilled 900 U.S. government requests, sharing [information about] 2,253 users with law enforcement.

Previously, Telegram ... had only fulfilled 14 requests affecting 108 users until September 30, 2024.

Telegram hands over data on thousands of users to US law enforcement

Telegram reveals that the communications platform has fulfilled 900 U.S. government requests, sharing the phone number or IP address information of 2,253 users with law enforcement.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 1d

It used to be 50 here but they changed it because of all the young cases. Scary!

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 1d

He is not out ally. He is not your friend.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 1d

Witchy crows 🐦‍⬛

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Worms & Bones @homemadehorrors.bsky.social · 2d

Wish I'd had better light for this pic, this custom gryphon turned out really neat! He's based on a male house sparrow.
#art #artdoll #gryphon #furryart #handmade

A large gryphon art doll stands with wings folded over its back, alert. Its colouration is based on a male house sparrow, with a black throat and white/grey accents in an otherwise rusty-red body.

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