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Sean McKnight

@ynot1989.bsky.social

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(He/Him) Cartographer, Writer, Futurist, multiverse traveler. BLM / ACAB 🇺🇦 Patreon: http://patreon.com/SeanMcKnight dA: ynot1989.deviantart.com Substacks: https://seanmcknight.substack.com/ and https://artifactsfromotherworlds.substack.com/

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · Jan 15

I'm Sean McKnight, I make #maps, #flags, and stories of worlds that never were or are yet to be.

And I'm taking #commissions

#cartography #worldbuilding #alternatehistory #scifi

Gallery: deviantart.com/ynot1989
Patreon: patreon.com/SeanMcKnight

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josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 3h

#DVPit #GN #A #LGBT

Going undercover as a race car mechanic, a young mobster makes the mistake of falling in love with his target. Unable to quit his mission or his new romance, he is forced to choose between which truth he wants to live. Either could cost him his life.

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Effy Neprin @effyneprin.bsky.social · 6d

Linktober 🙏

A drawing of Link from The Legend of Zelda

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YamiNOOOO 😱🔪🩸 @yamino.bsky.social · 7m

International lesbian day? What a good day to read my queer webcomic for free: www.sisterclaire.com

Or check out my gay little indie shop: shop.yamino.art

#lesbian #wlw #yuri #sapphic #art

A page from Yamino's comic, "Sister Claire", showing Gabrielle and Claire preparing to enter the fallen Eden.

A gorgeous gold foiled print of Elphaba and Glinda from "Wicked" kissing ,drawn by Yamino.

Utena and Anthy from "Revolutionary Girl Utena" embracing, drawn by Yamino

The cover of Yamino's "Elsa Likes Girls" zine

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

“In Cyberpunk 2077 universe, AI killed the Internet by propagating all over it, faster than humans could hope to stop it. This forced companies and people to abandon it and either use isolated small networks or reconnect in real life”

Me seeing AI in real life doing just that:

[Image of a person looking directly at the camera with a knowing, unimpressed, or weary expression]

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3h

👇🎯

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 1h

The tank's role is to draw aggro

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1h

Thinking of selling this Blender model for people to use in their own projects/illustrations etc. it’s something built to try and learn a bit of Blender, so it’s definitely not optimised for anything.

#Blender

A Blender render of a modular, NASA style, space station in orbit over a planet.

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 2h

happy International Lesbian Day girls 🧡💖💜

Sketch drawing of two women in each others arms, the one on the left holding the other’s head in a somewhat comforting or protective way

cover for the Adventure Time comic, "Bubbline College Special", showing Marceline and Bubblegum having a cute hangout at the college library, Marceline is floating holding a bag filled with books, Bubblegum next to her arm full of books

Ink drawings on a sketchbook page, studies : two women kissing ; two women on a bench, one is resting her head on the other's lap ; drawing of orchids

Sketch drawing, study of a pic, of two women sitting on the ground, kissing One is wearing a dress, the other tiny jean shorts and a loose open shirt

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Feb 3

thank you for your patience, here's he inked map.

(coming this month for my Patreon).

#cartography #sketchbook #art #ttrpg #stockart #fantasyart

sketchbook page photo with an inked drawing of a generic map landmass, like an island crossed by a mountain range, forests, rivers and lakes scattered around.

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 3h

Weirdly enough, I think this works. No one is more insecure than a new ICE agent. They want to be the blonde guy in DHS’s AI Nazi posting so badly. Instead, they’ll be guarding indistinguishable suburban warehouse #16361 while inflated frogs and dinosaurs thrust in their face all day every day.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 2h

Dolly's ok.

Etsy witches, thank you for your service.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 3h

Blighted Land map fragment. The compass rose. 2022 commission for the Lost and the Jammed.

#compassrose #cartography #fantasymap #b&wart #ttrpg

black and white map fragment focusing on its compass rose, comprised of bullets around a spur.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 4h

Reclamation heavy lift aircraft bringing equipment and personnel into the valley of Two-Sky River.

The small cockpit windows are mainly a backup for the augmented reality sensorium helmets worn by pilots; a technology favored by House Kendi.

#illustration #conceptart #scifiart

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Samantha Lucas @sylthuria.bsky.social · 4h

The phone wallpaper version! ✨️🎃 For anyone who'd like a spooky season wallpaper!

Friendly jack-o'-lantern mom waking up her happy child. Phone wallpaper version.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Arachno-Communism @labgnome.bsky.social · 3h

So going back to the US, and focusing there. I've mentioned a MLK presidency (who takes Nixon's spot), but John Glenn and Harvey Milk are also significant. Glenn replaces Reagan, and Milk replaces W Bush for our timeline more or less. 1/20 @althistorian.bsky.social @ynot1989.bsky.social

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Arachno-Communism @labgnome.bsky.social · 2d

Okay some more details, after research, and considering the outcome. Kenedy and Zhukov (Brezhnev in OTL) switch assassination spots. My two candidates are Pyror Masherov or Dinmunkhamed Kunaev/Dinmunkhammed Qonaev as the successor. @althistorian.bsky.social and @ynot1989.bsky.social thoughts? 1/5

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Arachno-Communism @labgnome.bsky.social · 3d

Okay, going off of my possibly too encouraged responses in the replies here, leaning into my own "food pills and unisex jumpsuits"/"classic sci-fi" alternate present concept.
@althistorian.bsky.social @ynot1989.bsky.social to see what y'all think.
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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 15h

It would be really nice if every AI data center's heat management system failed and turned those boards into magma.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 7h

We do not need any more members of the LifeAlert Caucus thank you!

Axios @axios.com · 22h

Scoop: Maine Gov. Janet Mills is poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Scoop: Mills poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Gov. Janey Mills' entry into the race would set off another complicated Democratic primary.

trib.al

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 5h

Same car, same charge rate, but we got one of those lease deals with 2 years of free charging.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

we charge our hyundai ioniq 5 around once every two to three weeks at a muncipal charger and i’d say it runs about $9 for 250 miles of range.

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

www.nytimes.com

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 5h

Much better than "The Nine Nations of North America."

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 7h

Republicans used to sell t-shirts that joked about running over protesters with their cars.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Deputy AG Todd Blanche: "We have organized efforts by domestic terrorists -- and that's what they are -- to do things like box in law enforcement's cars ... they are armed with heavy machinery."

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