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Amelia K. Bates @ameliakb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I also drew Berry 12 (!!) years ago during my first year at Grist. It's pretty gratifying to see how much my skills have improved since then. grist.org/food/faith-a...

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Faith and fears in Wendell Berry’s Kentucky

What it’s like to drink bourbon with one of America’s most respected writers -- and to meet the farming community that surrounds him.

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Amelia K. Bates @ameliakb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of my coworkers wrote about the late Wendell Berry and I jumped on the chance to do a portrait of him. I don't often get to do portraits at work, so being able to draw this (and with traditional media!) was a pleasure.

Colored pencil portrait of Wendell Berry with clouds and stars above him, and falling leaves and a wood duck in flight on either side

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Echoes • 16” x 30” • gouache & watercolor on paper Based on my 2024 residency in the wilderness of Minong (Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior)

greyscale painting of a sandhill crane among burned trees with fireweed silhouettes as silhouettes in the foreground

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Amelia K. Bates @ameliakb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Absolutely bald eagles, though I personally use the term "shit birds"

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Reports From Unknown Places @clever-reports.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We report: last week, we stood outside at night for hours on end during the peak of the Perseids. Tonight, the sky is even clearer, and we would do it again - had the temperature not dropped by half since. Even our jacket feels a little flimsy after a few minutes of staring up.

Digital painting of the Milky Way framed by some brightly lit branches. The leaves on the branches are green, pale yellow and brown in certains spots. The sky is full of stars.

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 21/08/2026

I feel sad I can’t make other people understand what I find endearing about unpolished things and human fumbling. I feel like people gave up so much it can’t even be properly accounted for, and for what?

A yellow dog is resting their head on a table peeking over at many rough drawings. There are lots of little dogs, some doing magic, some with health bars, one with a sword. There's a big sun, clouds, and grass to denote the environment.

Text reads: "I like every placeholder drawing even if you hate it."

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 21/08/2026

Doggust day 20: Some things lost to AI. 📝 #doggust2026

A yellow dog is amazed looking at a poster on a pillar that says "graphic design". Below is a close up of the poster. There's a yellow dog on it at an old computer an the text above says either "graphic design is my passion" or "graphic design my is passion." It's unclear, due to the graphic design. There are several pull tabs below that just say "help."

Text reads: "I like every weird handmade poster."

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Lucy @lucyxiv.boontavista.com · 21/08/2026

exploding a data center is not enough. I need to hear ChatGPT die while saying it’s afraid like in 2001

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Now that Pomona is settling, the financial crunch of her illnesses has hit my bank account. We are down nearly $2500 after all the vet visits, which is a little mind boggling So I'm hosting a "We Love Pom" 25% off everything sale at my shop: samanthamash.etsy.com Please share if you can🧡

Photo of a gray kitten with medium length hair laying on prints and stickers of art with her tongue out a little

Photo of a gray kitten with medium length hair playing with prints and stickers of art

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Did this piece recently for Mother Jones for their article "Should We Kill One Kind of Owl To Save Another?" You can read it here if you wan to learn more about this issue that is impacting wildlife in the Pacific Northwest www.motherjones.com/environment/...

An illustration of a Northern Spotted Owl and a Barred owl clashing in a dark moonlit wooded space over a long red string that they each pull on as it wraps around their bodies and the enviornment

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mothcub @mothcub.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Shan't be doing anything.

A girl stands, peacefully smiling. Text reads: "I don't want to do anything ever again in my life thank you I won't be doing anything".

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 20/07/2026

MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY

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Matt Emmons @secondatbest.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Oh to be an opossum getting a hug from a ghost

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Amelia K. Bates @ameliakb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I am now tempted to drive an hour to my closest TJ's and get one (I also don't drink, but FISH BOTTLE)

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/07/2026

Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Hot take: lecturing people about their a/c use and commercial airplane flights is a psyop to make us feel climate doom instead of climate rage

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Amelia K. Bates @ameliakb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I've followed Samantha's work for years & I'm so happy that she was available to work with me on this project. She was a delight to work with, so patient with the many edits that happen with these kinds of projects, & the art is just stunning. I hope we can work together again in the future!

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Reports From Unknown Places @clever-reports.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We report: there is a warm bit of wind tonight, but in comparison to the daytime temperatures, it feels like a crisp one. We find goosebumps on our arms. All of the outside smells have been stripped down to their earthiest components: hot dust, dry grass, salt.

Digital painting of a dusk landscape: long, dark blue clouds stacked on top of one another, distant mountains in the dark, and in the foreground, tall grass lit yellow from outside of the frame.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

What the fuck is it good for? Im asking sincerely. Medical people say its shit for diagnosing, its utter garbage for creative fields, it cannot teach and hallucinates false answers, programmers have to fix its code half the time, businesses find it doesn't help productivity and it causes psychosis.

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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Please Use AI

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

nest builder process - without the hours of dithering about lighting

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Amelia K. Bates @ameliakb.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I'm so sorry Samantha! Stress is no joke and you have had such a bad string of life events lately. I hope you can find ways to relax and give your body and brain the rest it needs (easier said than done, I know) 💛

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The Sun, XIX |shop & comms open @thesunxix.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It’s pride month. Time to hire my trans ass and buy my trans art linktr.ee/thesunxix #art #illustration #pride #shopsmall

Picture of some bookmarks and t shirts with the same printed illustration on them of a woman sitting suspended on threads

Picture of op’s top surgery congratulation card design

Digital illustration of a crowd of people carrying a huge poppy flower together. The people all have different skin tones. The woman in the front left side, sustaining the poppy by one of the petals with one hand is in a dark green Kurdish YPJ uniform and military boots. Behind her is a parent with their child on their shoulders, also sustaining the petals, and further behind two dancers. There is also an old man carrying a newspaper under his arm. Further back on the right side, holding the stem, a woman with a red cloak with her hand on a child’s shoulder. The child is playing guitar and singing. In front of them another woman has her hand on a child’s shoulder, who is walking assisted by crutches. There is also a man playing he trumpet and a woman with a dachshund on her leash, and another wearing a keffyeh. Further back from left to right there is a pregnant woman, some old men, also singing, and a group of black women, one with an Afro, one with a shaved head and one with braids. Lastly, in the center, there is a person wearing a safety hat who is holding onto a string connected to a white, red and green kite with keffyeh patterns.
The whole illustration has this palette of black, red, and different greens, and the texture reminds colored pencils and pastel.

Picture of op’s art prints, original drawings and paintings and stickers scattered together on a desk

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 02/06/2026

In an unexpected move, Mohammed Ben Sulayem's FIA have decided to celebrate Pride Month by removing straight zones for this week's Monaco grand prix. No straight mode allowed this weekend in Monaco. Happy Pride!

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Why is there no straight mode for the Monaco Grand Prix?

Straight mode has been a feature of F1 in 2026 so far, but it will not be present at the Monaco Grand Prix

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The Sun, XIX |shop & comms open @thesunxix.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride, fuck the police, prisons shouldn’t exist, borders are stupid, wars are even stupider, resisting colonial violence with violence is resistance. Queer people are the most revolutionary out of all peoples. #pride #illustration #art #queer

An illustration of a pride protest. Queer people of all skin colors, ethnicities and body types run from left to right. The person in the middle, with olive colored skin and white hair buzzed short, tattoos and big pink boots is carrying the progress flag and wearing a keffyeh. The black woman beside them, wearing purple jeans and a red bralette, with hair in braids, is speaking into a megaphone and yet another white person beside them with top surgery scars is holding a sign with the words “the first pride was a riot” on it. There’s also a drag queen, with a big pink wig and dress, a woman wearing a hijab, a black woman on a wheelchair, a man with cochlear implants with his raised fist in the air, and many more people. Lots of them are holding bricks and high heeled shoes.

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🌜Sara Kipin🌛 🔜 LBX Table #629 @sarakipin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I think we’re long past the “ai bad because of stealing” argument and fully in the “ai is also actively and tangibly destroying our planet why are you even trying to use it as an art tool at this point” stage

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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Artists, it looks like Adobe might be doing very questionable things at the moment by auto-enrolling you into a more expensive AI-heavy "pro" plan (potentially even charging you for opting out after the fact, which I should hope is illegal). Be vigilant 🧵 see further posts below

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Brandon “Bouncing Beebles" Kirkman @kirkmanbrandon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I feel like this one image alone solidifies why I’ll never understand AI: this little guy was made by a human, centuries ago, but but now their art still exists. They’ve personified their love of making a little guy for people to still experience, this was a part of them they made and lived on

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Do donate, however, directly to member stations, which is where much of the journalism happens anyway.

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Amelia K. Bates @ameliakb.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

probably the silliest and most fun illustration I've done in a while, thanks to @trueref.bsky.social. I'd forgotten how much I love figure drawing and it was so nice to enjoy drawing (for myself) again #TrueRefDT013

illustration of a reclining female figure with the head of a minnow

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Amelia K. Bates @ameliakb.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

latest freelance work: some #sciart for a postdoc to use in presentations. because of a lot of work I've done for Grist, I am now an infectious disease artist

digital illustration with oil pumpjacks, fungal spores, mosquitoes, and ticks in a desert setting

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DBJ @deadblossomjesse.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 02/05/2026

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

A three panel comic done in mostly a blue-purple ink. Frame 1: The artist, a tired person with their hair in a bun and a bag on their shoulder standing in the awning of a bus shelter. There's an ad on it that says "STOP HIRING HUMANS", above a woman whose face has been replace with the word "AI".
Frame 2: The bus comes, it's wrapped in an ad that also says "STOP HIRING HUMANS." The artist has a blank look.
Frame 3: A plane has now arrived above the bus and the human. It's carrying an ad banner that also says "STOP HIRING HUMANS".

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Not that either of the options is good or healthy but frankly I think using ai for inspirarion and reference is even worse than letting it render stuff out. I think the initial kernel is the most personal thing, what you choose to depict and how; fighting your improficiencies to get it out

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

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J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization

This is where "Harry Potter" profits are going.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

boiling the planet and all of us alive to make games look more like those cellphone apps that steal your data while showing you airbrushed catalog models saying "I'm pregnant, and it's the king's!"

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DREW WISE @drewwise.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

🩷 ɪᴛ'ꜱ ꜱᴜᴘᴇʀ ᴇꜰꜰᴇᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ! 🩷

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Amelia K. Bates @ameliakb.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I appreciate you! I've been going through a (personal) art slump for the last 3 or so years and your videos are inspiring me to try sketching every day again 💛 couldn't have come at a better time

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Amelia K. Bates @ameliakb.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I'm so sorry, your work and videos are absolutely beautiful and amazingly produced 💛

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

A massive bloom of rimu berries in New Zealand fueled a mating surge among the critically endangered Kākāpō. spklr.io/6044E87xp 📸: New Zealand Department of Conservation

The team hopes enough chicks will survive this year to bring the world Kākāpō population to 300—a major milestone for a species that was teetering with just 51 individuals in 1995.

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Kim Myatt⁷ @ysvyri.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I need another 2000 views on my videos in the next week to remain monetised after I took time off to grieve for my dad. Here's a link to my most popular video, so you might enjoy it if you give it a watch; youtu.be/n-mCCaaxQH8

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Hartford Yarn Works @hartfordyarnworks.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Just me? Loving this as one of the new styles of subversive Crosstitch kits we just got in…. Feels relatable. Hartfordyarnworks.com #Crosstitch #SubversiveCrosstitch #ShopSmall #FiberArts #SmallBusiness #Subversive #Craft #Crafts #Needlepoint

A picture of a cross stitch kit, which looks in the style of old-fashioned Crosstitch samplers. This one says live, laugh, love all of which have been crossed out and below it instead it says stab, stab, stab!

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Amelia K. Bates @ameliakb.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Show your range ✨ (silly portrait of my dog vs. scientific illo for work vs. embroidery art)

A goofy illustration of a dog with its tongue out, with colorful circles behind it

Highly detailed realistic digital illustration of an Aedes aegypti mosquito

Detailed realistic embroidery art of an orange tabby cat on peach colored fabric

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