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Yo Gabba Penten

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Yo Gabba Penten @whatevertron.blacksky.app · 15d

Let's do a #Blacksky #Artistvart to make Black artists on Bluesky and Blacksky more visible! I'll go first: I'm an editorial illustrator of 11+ years, and on here you can call me Whatevertron! DM for contact details if interested!

A digital illustration of a Black teacher passing a glowing book of education to a white teacher, who is dutifully saluting a darkened panel of judges, while both of them stand in front of watching and inspired school children.

A digital portrait of a Black man holding a prison tablet close, as it is the only source of light, as he longingly looks down at the photos of his loved ones that he can no longer see in person.

A digital illustration of a Black mother protecting her daughter from snakelike white hands with bloodied red fingernails that seek to separate them. They're inside of their wood-paneled home, and while the mother's appearance is tattered, her daughter's care is immaculate.

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Yo Gabba Penten @whatevertron.blacksky.app · 2h

So now I'm both a) REALLY interested to see where he takes water, and b) EQUALLY interested to see if there's a 5th film about the human soul, featuring someone loudly queer

Yo Gabba Penten @whatevertron.blacksky.app · 2h

And the elemental themes! Get Out was based on fire/the human spirit; Us was earth, and the material inequity to be found there; and Nope was air, and about how we relate to the fruits of our artistic labor. Each of these elements is classically gendered in a way that's reflected in each protagonist

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Alex Grey 💀👻🎃 @alexdualgrey.bsky.social · 3h

Veggie Tales if they served cunt

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 4h

Nicole Kidman stuns for Vogue.

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Katboy @katboy.bsky.social · 4h

If OP isn’t trolling, I’d assume this is some weird British shit. Tf you mean a trunk is a boot? Go back to your little island

My name’s not Dray @neauxladre.bsky.social · 6h

Idk who needs to hear this but it’s a basket, not a cart!

Idc idc idc!!

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 7h

Fortunately they already have me muted or blocked so there's little to no discomfort.

cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 9h

interesting watching people who've called you stupid over the past yr start sounding more like you while not acknowledging how wrong they were... 🤔

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ShordeeDoWhop @netta.bsky.social · 8h

I like all the white on white crime going on

Reagan Gomez @reagangomez.bsky.social · 8h

So Comey did all of that backbending to help this maniac win, just to be indicted by him 9 years later. My how the…

a man and a woman are standing next to each other and talking .

Alt: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and talking .

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Yo Gabba Penten @whatevertron.blacksky.app · 7h

This is cope btw

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 8h

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

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Yo Gabba Penten @whatevertron.blacksky.app · 7h

Like yall are not smart people for expecting literally anything other than this!! bsky.app/profile/jess...

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 8h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

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Yo Gabba Penten @whatevertron.blacksky.app · 8h

I wasn't being kind, I was being accurate.

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james bread 🍞 @jimpixelbeard.bsky.social · 10h

Cuz white people don't know how to leave people the fuck alone. That's the only reason. They tell people where they're allowed to be and then follow them there to terrorize them even further, kill them, steal their shit, kick them out, repeat.

Joburt @joburtus-maximus.bsky.social · 13h

Historically speaking this kind of thing hasn't gone well for black people. But if it's what their community wants then I don't think we should fight them on it. I don't want to be around anyone who doesn't want to be around me.

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Yo Gabba Penten @whatevertron.blacksky.app · 8h

With deep and scathing disrespect to Boston: it would also not be normal or welcomed in Boston. This is the entire point.

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Yo Gabba Penten @whatevertron.blacksky.app · 8h

It'll definitely be based around water and will have a female protagonist and I'm so excited to eventually be right bsky.app/profile/iamk...

kereD @iamkered.bsky.social · 9h

Get Out (2017)
𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑, 𝑅𝑜𝑠𝑒, 𝑔𝑜 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑢𝑝𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠, 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑.
#31DaysOfHorror #horror 📽️

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

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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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9h

Getting a flashback to that episode of Scandal where someone said 'There's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women' and then Liv hit her with 'There's a special place in hell for women who spout that tired quote to justify their bad behavior'

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 11h

A useful illustration of the limits of liberal identity politics.

It's astounding to see self-described progressives lose their minds over the successes of a Jewish female entrepreneur and intellect in @bariweiss, and a wildly successful Black man in @VanJones68. I guess equity, diversity, and inclusion don't mean as much as they've told us.

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Yo Gabba Penten @whatevertron.blacksky.app · 8h

😭

A girlie with fluffy natural hair wearing a cute red blouse, smiling, with the caption "When I finally clocked that adults didn't actually think I should be a lawyer it was just a socially acceptable way to call a child a bitch"

Yo Gabba Penten @whatevertron.blacksky.app · 8h

Yes, but we're all entirely too grown at this point for me to give a shit about people's inability to process blunt truths anymore lol. The only people I will treat like babies are literal babies and everyone else needs to grow tf up

La 💗 @lalab-mphpmpcsm.bsky.social · 11h

Fellow neurodivergents. Is being straightforward / direct something that you embody, and folks have a hard time receiving that?

Yo Gabba Penten @whatevertron.blacksky.app · 8h

There's at least one person I could call out by name but ima keep it cute

Yo Gabba Penten @whatevertron.blacksky.app · 8h

I used to read books to the tl around this time of year but I don't have any fiction on me rn

a boxer or somebody from some videogame drinking a bottle of water with the word "damn" next to him

Yo Gabba Penten @whatevertron.blacksky.app · 9h

SURE IS AINT IT

cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 9h

interesting watching people who've called you stupid over the past yr start sounding more like you while not acknowledging how wrong they were... 🤔

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Komi 🎧🍒🤍 @komigomi.bsky.social · 22h

It is the year of the Etsy witches. They have risen and yall better not don’t fuck with them 😟😂

TikTok comment that reads: did taylor swift like stopped paying her etsy witch or something? cause a lot of people are waking up from the brainwash

It has 10k likes and 34 replies

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Yo Gabba Penten @whatevertron.blacksky.app · 23h

🗣️HIMOTHY bsky.app/profile/rude...

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

Using AJ Link as an example, his current situation is that Bluesky, the Barnes & Nobles of atproto have banned him from their stores and essentially blackballed him from the publishing industry.

Fortunately for AJ Link, we've kept all his manuscripts safe and sound right where he left them. 3/11

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Chaos Cherub @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 2d

She saw Big Booty Ebony in Travis search history and got in the booth

SWIIRL @thatonegirlkendra.blacksky.app · 2d

Ok now what the hell did Taylor Swift mean by she's not a bad bitch and this isn't savage????????? 🤨

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The Cocky One @cockymf.bsky.social · 1d

"You do know you just described Jim Crow"

-Ancient Black proverb

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Yo Gabba Penten @whatevertron.blacksky.app · 1d

Like what are we even doing rn lol

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