Reposted by arnicaxrossClayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇 2640412116
Reposted by arnicaxrossQuinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 3hSo, the reason I made this post: I have a model in mind that I want to put forth to the the visual artists and other creators in my feed. I want to know: - is it feasible and fair as a visual artist? as a creator looking for stock? - Is there a better model/structure already out there I can use? 1265
Reposted by arnicaxrossQuinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 3h...and I know that I'm not alone! But that means it is difficult for an indie working with small or non-existent budgets to feasibly do that work and provide those visuals. (Here is the point where ppl are going to refer to a few isolated things. That's great, but there is still significant gap) 2312
Reposted by arnicaxrossQuinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 3hWhat I'd like to do with Thoughtcrime is to make afro-fantasy/future/grimdark/whatever stock art more available to ppl. It becomes a sel-reinforcing cycle: every time I want to do something in TTRPGs, it is easy to find plentiful sources until I want black faces, then... it gets difficult. 57724
arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 3hI invented a perfectly balanced, cannot be improved upon sorting system for everything I've ever written. Everyone is either Trade, A Trollop, or a Guttersnipe. Also works as a pretty good replacement for Ladies and Gentlemen so long as everyone has a sense of humor and there's at least 1 other gay 100
Reposted by arnicaxrossIron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Please help friend and collaborator of Iron Circus E.B. Hutchins attend their grandmother's funeral. ♥ Donate at the Paypal link below! 02216
Reposted by arnicaxrossKasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...gadgetreview.comOne of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data CenterA rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land. 7632852009
arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 17hMe, mayhaps too high: Everything living animal on Earth contains the exact same amount of rage and exhibits it proportional to its size. Which is why short girls and bees are always mad send tweet 100
arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 20hI'm not sure that man in the last Susan Collins ad I saw was an actual human being. I think they have run out of Mainers willing to lie about wanting her to keep this job and they had to AI a fakey man 010
Reposted by arnicaxrossDr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026“Deception” is the right term. This is leveraging the affective sense of a presence for the sake of convincing people of a falsehood. It’s not hard to create something and imbue it with a semblance of agency and have our affective sensibilities do the work for us. 27617
Reposted by arnicaxrossODB @obitron.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026Name a pencil then break it and your feelings will be hurt. That doesnt make it sentient, it makes you sensitive to personhood. They're playing on people's deep, unmet need for human connection. Strike up a conversation with a stranger. 1399
arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 22hNot to reanimate a zombie topic from last week but THIS is the kind of modern country my algorithms offer me and it's delightful tidal.com/track/441156...tidal.comDelta Rae - Chasing TwistersListen to Chasing Twisters on TIDAL in exceptional sound quality, or on your choice of service 210
Reposted by arnicaxrossMichael Iantorno☔️✊ @michaeliantorno.com · 07/10/2026"Currently, if an employee makes anything creative in their free time, with their own resources, Hasbro can claim ownership. What we do in our free time should not be dictated by the company, and what we make in our free time should belong to us.“rascal.newsThe workers at Wizards of the Coast are teaming upWorkers at Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering demand ownership of personal work made off the clock. 10580173
Reposted by arnicaxross🍁Bayou Baddie.✨ @bangabee.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026Men, if your friend texted “free pussy upstairs” in the GC, how would you respond? 1131
Reposted by arnicaxrossᴍɪᴋᴀʏᴇʟ ᴍʏᴇʀs @chaclo.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026almost, if not every, woman you know has been tried and possibly sexually assaulted at some point in their life. it has to be more than asking "what you on?". there has to be swift consequence to a MF texting your phone that there's "free p*ssy upstairs". 46523
Reposted by arnicaxrossBarbie Devyndarbė @katchin05.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026It’s funny to me that men are so often ready to fight about parking spaces, hair cuts, video games, etc but can find such deep wells of civility when it comes to squaring up on the rapist behavior in their circles. Why do so many of you have such an otherwise unseen ability to talk it out then? 05322
Reposted by arnicaxrossRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Bally Bagayoko who is the mayor of French city Saint-Denis shouts at police to "Stop!" and protects the student protesters 421114459
Reposted by arnicaxrossJesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 07/10/2026looks like one of those 17th century princelings who got weird diseases because his family tree looks like a stick 714013
Reposted by arnicaxrossAMMS @ammsart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I finally got to draw Aika and Zira!✦ #idwtbamg 0727155
Reposted by arnicaxrossFrankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/10/2026I wrote this story bc I was frustrated at the lack of discussion about the Mohegan Tribe in mainstream coverage of the Sun’s sale. I had to pitch it around for nearly a month before my editor at The Guardian finally said yes. Native stories deserve to be told & Native voices deserve to be heard. 3228110
Reposted by arnicaxrossKevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 06/10/2026kinda breathtaking to watch the U.S. media establishment lose its shit about one maybe-plague death in a Russian backwater town with 3,887 confirmed measles cases reported in the United States, SO FAR, in 2026 13541172
Reposted by arnicaxrossNeugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026He looks like he'd go haywire and bleed milk the moment a woman tells him he's wrong on the Nostromo 0353
Reposted by arnicaxrossThomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Netanyahu is a war criminal, but Senator Collins likes him."-Troy Jackson 1528
Reposted by arnicaxrossBolts @boltsmag.org · 07/10/2026While incarcerated people retain the right to vote in Maine, they struggle to participate in the political process on basic levels. Officials don’t allow election forums or in-person voting behind bars, and candidates rarely visit them.boltsmag.orgMaine Prisoners Organize to Protect Their Rare Right to Vote - BoltsMaine is one of the only places in the country where prisoners keep their right to vote. But logistical barriers to voting still contribute to their larger exclusion from the political process. 07713
Reposted by arnicaxrossJordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Susan Collins was asked tonight about the FBI pay-to-play probe of her inner circle. Her answer: "false." False? Her donor is in federal prison. His $150,000 went to a super PAC backing her. The inquiry closed after Trump took office. Try again. 47426
Reposted by arnicaxrossCollins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What's going on here is Susan Collins and her team know they're in a pickle and are looking for a way to turn the page. So starting tomorrow (or whatever) they're going to say: We refuted the story! Old news! But they haven't refuted it. They've just released a photo of her with Kao. #MEpolitics 12510
Reposted by arnicaxrossCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Tired: No one ever wrote a song called Fuck The Fire Department Wired: Cops paid someone millions of dollars to write a song called Fuck The Fire Department 7465109
Reposted by arnicaxrossMaj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026I just saw someone refer to Kid Rock as Jesus of Methlehem. 22576129
Reposted by arnicaxrossTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I’ll fight like hell for your freedom to make your own health care decisions. And you’ll never wonder whose side I’m on. 114728
Reposted by arnicaxrossTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Senator Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire and now she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out. 15747156
Reposted by arnicaxrossHenry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger! 332733906
Reposted by arnicaxrossAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026Troy Jackson on the Iran War: "Sen. Collins voted for it 5 times before she started voting against it. By that time, we're already into it and we're in another forever war that you just heard her say, it's not thought out, we don't know what we're doing, but she made sure that it happened." 10756041474
arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026Lord Almighty, @troyjackson207.bsky.social is eating her alive tonight. Maine still has some fight in it. 020
Reposted by arnicaxrossAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt 1382213884979
Reposted by arnicaxrossPeter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Senator Susan Collins killed the amendment to protect the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) -- perhaps the world's premier research center for work on #weather, #climate, models, and remote sensing. Remember that. 20535267
Reposted by arnicaxrossHenry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Peter Browngardt, the creator of Uncle Grandpa and writer/director of The Day the Earth Blew Up has a new post worth sharing here since he doesn’t have a Bluesky account: 143258676
Reposted by arnicaxrossTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Women across Maine begged Susan Collins not to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court because they knew Roe was at stake. She did it anyway. To this day, she says "I do not regret that vote." Well, we sure do. 131323352
Reposted by arnicaxrossMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026everyone at The Chicks show has t shirts that say Maryanne and Wanda 2028 4794117
Reposted by arnicaxrossAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade 47484371982
Reposted by arnicaxrossTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We're losing our health care here in Maine so Susan Collins can give billionaires like Elon Musk more tax cuts. I support Medicare for All so people across the state have health care. 312324536
Reposted by arnicaxrossPortland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 06/10/2026Live updates: Susan Collins and Troy Jackson debate for the first timepressherald.comLive updates: Susan Collins and Troy Jackson debate for the first timeMaine has never seen a race like this before. 051
Reposted by arnicaxrossDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Unimprovable retort 420348
Reposted by arnicaxrossCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Whenever someone says 'agents make me more productive' I quickly realize that I'm talking to someone who aspires to be middle management, in charge of a bunch of Digital Jenny McCarthys, and I feel like their soul must have left their body years ago and left behind an empty, joyless void. 1474097
Reposted by arnicaxrossBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.nytimes.comInside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations. 152484727
Reposted by arnicaxrossLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I think if you’re not local to DC it’s difficult to comprehend how fucking sad it is to watch all this happening to this beautiful city. I’m barely local, as a transplant to northern Virginia, and I’m very sad 625075