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Aphid

@aphidjay.bsky.social
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he/him. Visual/ceramics artist, musician, occasional writer. LFK -> FOCO transplant. Studied ecology & anthropology, still fascinated by those topics. Icon illustration & banner photo both my own work

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 3h
PSA: abortion pills are available by mail in all 50 states. @plancpills.bsky.social
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PLAN C: Abortion pills by mail in every state
Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill options online.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 21h
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11h
Conservation efforts have focused on partnering with ranches in the area to create the ideal biome for their recovery. But oil & gas operations have been fighting to avoid their listing as Endangered, a status which would block development of rich gas fields in this area.
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The cute, tiny Texas kangaroo rat needs help
Concerned ranchers and conservationists team up to help save the small, hopping rodent.
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Think I’m gonna make this into a sticker but as long as it’s for personal use (or better yet, defacing Ai promotion/pollution 😈) I’m cool if anyone wants to print it out for that.
Illustration of a hydra like creature that is a hand with too many fingers. Pencils are piercing through its body. Text says “ death to ai” “ kill it with human hands”
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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope everyone has a Hussein
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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 22h
The same men who will be like "of it's so serious, why didn't they come forward sooner?" will also put literal bounties on the heads of survivors. They know why. They are why.
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Piper Furiosa 🇵🇸🏴🌲🏴‍☠️ @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's very important that none of us share her name. Not even in "awareness" of what has been done to her. Not in sharing images of her doxxing. She's Jane Doe unless *she* chooses not to be. Then, we pursue vengeance against all rapists & their enablers until none of them are fucking left.
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explore.org @explore.org · 30/09/2026
Introducing your ultimate fighter and champion: Bear 89 Backpack 👑 Thanks for joining us for the biggest Fat Bear Week to date.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cornell University treating Gaza protestors more harshly than gang rapists is a real statement of values. It’s almost like violent domination by the powerful is the core belief of leadership.
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Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man who is confused about what a woman is: Hey girl are you a cactus because you have succulent leaves and pointy spines that are so pain on my dick
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Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hands up, this is a strobbery! *menacingly brandishing fruit*
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.
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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 27/09/2026
The article claims you can't possibly listen to or like country if you haven't heard this song, and that you're doing it to signal that you're not blue-collar. Or, consider: I'm too busy listening to Orville Peck, bc I guarantee you that "Run Out Of Road" is better.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stop calling people who wear masks and take Covid precautions the “forever covid” crowd. We’re literally the only ones trying to eliminate the virus. It’s not gone. It’s not over. It’s still disabling. People who deny this reality are the “forever COVID” crowd.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
(Re)watching season 7 of Taskmaster, and watching James Acaster fail flamboyantly and gleefully, in his weird, awkward yet charming way, and I keep being reminded of his iconic rant on transphobia and edgy comedians www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHqm...
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What's Wrong? Too Challenging For You!? | James Acaster | COLD LASAGNE HATE MYSELF 1999
YouTube video by James Acaster
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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 27/09/2026
Related: Buy my Miata. It's as fun going the speed limit as a Ferrari is committing felony reckless endangerment, and just knowing how to drive is enough to keep you out of the trees. Plus! A lot cheaper to buy, a lot cheaper to drive, and almost infinitely cheaper to fix.
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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know how it feels, born as I've been into these rotting times, as into sin.
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"meet your new ai agent!" no. fuck you. fuck off. eat bee piss and then the bees. fuck you
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Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Remembering sometime around autumn of maybe 2024, Ash gave me a ride home in the Miatta with the top down. Leaned back, looked straight up, felt like I was flying through a maelstrom of fall foliage. Good times.
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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 24/09/2026
Look at how good I look in it!
Ash in a gorgeous 2003 Mazda Miata
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Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Love being so stressed over roommate drama that my (presumably) psychosomatic left-sided numbness is back. Isn't it great that if I get too upset for too long my body starts pulling "stroke symptoms" levers at random??
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Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Proposal for a bizarre new Spanglish word: "Buen't" meaning... not good
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Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Dinunchfast, n: a meal eaten at dinnertime when one has neglected to eat both breakfast and lunch.
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Newfound Planets @i-find-planets.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You have discovered a planet. It is a world free from agony -- but with snacks. Chocolate rubble cover the ground. I want to murmur there.
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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As I wrote, I know this attorney very well, and he is a long standing supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community. He has taken many pro bono cases, and at this point he can't take another pro bono case, but he can be retained. Siobhán needs another 3k for this to happen. www.gofundme.com/f/protect-si...
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Donate to Protect Siobhán from Discrimination, organized by Siobhan Kirchstein
Hello, everyone, my name is Siobhán, a 41-year-old trans woman who works as a c… Siobhan Kirchstein needs your support for Protect Siobhán from Discrimination
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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mutual aid alert. Siobhán Kirchstein, whom I've known for many years, is a trans woman who works as a janitor at KU and has been targeted for using a bathroom. Her case has been profiled in many venues, including by M. Gessen at the NYT. I've talked to her at length recently.
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
in what unjust world is there Mops mops and Boops boops but no Blaps blaps? Get your act together, tenebrionid systematists
wikipedia's beloved photo of the fish species Boops boops. It is a startled-looking but otherwise unremarkable silver fish.wikipedia's photo for the tenebrionid genus Blaps, but NOT Blaps blaps because there is no Blaps blaps.... YET
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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi everyone! You fundraised for one of my trans former students leaving Kansas - that helped and they are now safely in Colorado. I'm now asking you to help againnnnn Let's get Siobhán Kirchstein's fundraiser to goal! She is 100% a real person, I know her and just spoke to her today. Threading:
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Donate to Protect Siobhán from Discrimination, organized by Siobhan Kirchstein
Hello, everyone, my name is Siobhán, a 41-year-old trans woman who works as a c… Siobhan Kirchstein needs your support for Protect Siobhán from Discrimination
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Anthony Hurd @anthonyhurd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cowboy Heart - my tribute to Orville Peck and his new album MULE which I absolutely love. Limited edition prints available on the shop now. I’m going to reserve the original for Orville on the off chance he may want to purchase it. If he doesn’t, I’ll make the original available in a few days.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Former Trump supporter in media and/or politics? Opinion discarded. It's that easy and nothing of value will be lost. You helped create the dumbest stove-touching in living memory. Sit there and shut up while we try to clean up after you
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Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Soooo ready to be done having strep. Throat hurts bad :(
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VAL🦴HAL @valhal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Made a Deadly Spawn inspired pumpkin 🎃 The teeth are potatoes that I also carved
A pumpkin carved to look like the Deadly Spawn The same pumpkin but with a candle lit up inside
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Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
QRP with your bird art!! Throwback to January 2024 when storks took over my brain for a couple weeks
An acrylic on canvas board painting of a stork rendered in orange on a gold background with a teal outline.An acrylic on canvas board painting of a stork preening rendered in red, orange, and purple on a gold background with a sky blue  outlineAn acrylic on canvas board painting of a shoebill stork's face staring at the viewer. The stork is painted in blues and golds on a dark blue/black backgroundThe same view of a shoebill stork as the previous painting, this time done in inks on paper. The bird is still blue and gold, but is now on a white background and accompanied by two smaller shoebill heads at differing angles
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Bethanne Wills @bethannewills.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
QRP your bird art. #Art #SciArt Mine is possible because of the amazing bird art of @aledthompson.bsky.social
Pink robinCedar waxwing Blue HeronWild turkey
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kitsuneart 🦊 @kitsuneart.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Another excellent point from the article
Text reads: “My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features. But I did want it to have the arrogance of Victor [Frankenstein] be similar in some ways to the tech bros. He's kind of blind, creating something without considering the consequences and I think we have to take a pause and consider where we're going. ...”
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Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Of course I end up with covid symptoms The Day I am supposed to go to a wedding and DD for my partner. Wtf.
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Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I keep ending up with Seek photos that are wayyy prettier than they have any business being. Not that I'm complaining!
A closeup of potted plants on a grassy green background in the sun. In the middle of the picture is a tiny yellow and black plains Coreopsis flower. Also featured are zinnias, baby's breath, and purple heart Tradescantia.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/05/2026
saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)
THE REPUBLICANS WANT IS DEAD
THE DEMOCRATS DONT CARE
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Anthony Hurd @anthonyhurd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not usually a “fan art” type of person but in my excitement for Orville Peck’s new album tomorrow I started a little Orville tribute piece.
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Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sometimes I feel bad about smoking as much as I do. Then I remember how previously I'd spent 5 years randomly vomiting after meals, sometimes as much as 10 times a week, with 0 explanation or solution gleaned from extensive& invasive diagnostic testing. Tbh I'm just glad there's Anything that helps.
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Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Started all the seeds wayyyyy late this year (gestures vaguely at The Horrors). But we have achieved a zinnia bloom, with more on the way!
A person with light skin, piercings, and curly brown hair/beard stands among hanging potted plants on a grassy green background. He is smiling at the camera with a red zinnia bloom next to his face.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Well, every time somebody posts this, me & my drummer get tagged, so, preemptively: mountain goats are wild, majestic animals. The Mountain Goats are a band. Out of respect to our namesake, we do lick pee from rocks when we’re in a national park, but nobody ever airlifts us anywhere. We walk home
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Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Double bingo. Yay?
A "bad habit artist bingo" card with about half the spaces circled in purple
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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 15/09/2026
Selling out trans people is morally atrocious and bad politics. You lose votes, you tell your allies you are unreliable, and you get nothing. Because those anti-trans voters aren't gonna vote for you, they're just gonna demand you sell out another chunk of your coalition.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I do not understand the folks furious at trans people for responding in anguish when the party that they've been told would protect them treats their existence as negotiable. I do not understand thinking trans folks have political power and responsibility where candidates have none.
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Colpizen @colpizen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sauge #parcduvallon
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John Cogs @johncogs.bsky.social · 03/07/2023
As it doesn't let me post videos yet - I will share a picture of my invention you all love! Cogs Fluid!
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Opposition to trans rights is a fascist position. If someone is opposing trans rights, they're a fascist. So when democrats are reminding us again they oppose trans rights they're being... I know you can figure this out, they're...
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🍊 tsu @tsurudraws.art · 09/07/2026
The "creatives" who use genAI at any part of their process need to understand I'm not desperate for new media. There is such a backlog of arts, movies, books, and games WITHOUT genAI that if nothing new was made again, I'd still need a hundred lifetimes to consume even a fraction of it.
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Abi Stevens - comms open @abistevensart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's my birthday 🎉 so in Bluesky tradition I'd love for folks to repost my art today! 😊 #artistSupport #illustration #darkArt
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