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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 14h

Just saying. Do it now if you can.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 04/10/2026

no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome

The she-wolf who nurtured Romulus and Remus, depicted in mosaic form as a maniacal black dog with sharp teeth and white eyes.

My dog, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the maniacal mosaic wolf.

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 17h

Yay, play mats are going to be back in stock at OMA soon! www.artofheatherhudson.com/blog/2026/10...

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Magic Play Mats — ART OF HEATHER HUDSON

magic the gathering, playmats

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Rachel Quinlan @ Sekaicon - G1 @rachelquinlan.bsky.social · 20h

I have a new moth up on @everydayoriginal.bsky.social This one is a white-lined sphinx and was created with watercolor and ink. Take a look here: everydayoriginal.com #sciart

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A thread about a great cat, and the post-retirement creative evolution of a great artist, in 20 images...

My late cat The Bear in a box marked Hotel California, realising he can check out but he can never leave.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dinosaurs in watercolor #sciart

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I started out this morning to find a space to safely store 25 Spike Feeder play mats and the project has degenerated into a game of “Wtf is this and why are we saving it?” To be sung to the tune of “There was an old woman who swallowed a fly.”

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Setting Sun, (mid 20thC) by English painter Laura Knight #WomensArt

Painting featuring a golden sun setting behind a tree by a river

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now that phase one of @hcrichardson.bsky.social's wonderful "250 to 250" project has wrapped, I'll share all the videos (one per day) for which I wrote scripts. Some were recorded nearly word for word; others underwent much-needed editing for clarity & brevity. Here’s Tulsa’s Black Wall Street.

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Black Wall Street, Narrated by Kahlil Greene

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

#RowndBear approves your choice.

Brown pencil drawing of an especially rotund bear, sitting with one paw placed on the ground between its hind legs, its head tilted, looking directly at the viewer with a plaintive, winsome expression.

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io

screenshot of my itchio store, showing several texture packs available for purchse

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Beaky Camarasaurus. preprints.arphahub.com/articles.php... @dennish.bsky.social @fabiomanucci.bsky.social

Brown pencil sketch of the head of Camarasaurus, with a keratinous beak-like covering on the front of its snout, as proposed by the latest study.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 29/09/2026

This the most anti-American administration in history. Destroying everything good about us, growing all that is bad.

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lou-ellen @louceph.com · 24/09/2026

Hi! I'm an illustrator and i really need work, i can draw anything your sweet heart desires <3 im so sweet and lovely and merketable! please hire me!

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes, this is indeed a box of 50 Spike Feeder play mats waiting to be signed and sent on to OMA. Boy, sure is a lot of ‘em…

Plastic-wrapped Spike Feeder play mats in a cardboard box, 50 ea.

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The final face sketch of face studies week, filling in the last empty square on the page. #art #artlife

Multiple pencil drawings of faces in a sketchbook, with pencils and erasers.

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Day 8 of face sketches, only one more blank space to go. You may occasionally wonder, how can I find honest childlike expressions of delight and horror combined as inspiration for fairies and elves doing dangerous deeds? To which I say, “muttonbusting.” #art #artlife #muttonbusting

Sketchbook pages of faces drawn in pencil. On the left side of the page are a collection ofmechanical pencils and erasers.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Day 7 of face studies, just two more spaces left at the bottom of the page after today. Reference pic was in strong light/shade. I had to break out a *good* pencil for this one. I think my regular mechanical lead is HB or weaker. *Tombow Mono #4 #art #artlife

Pencil drawings of several faces on the page of a sketchbook. Focus on a man’s face in the down left corner. Many pencils and erasers lit on the paper around the face.

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Day 6 of face studies - undone by chain mail again. Reference photo is from a historical reenactment, and I loved drawing the face but fell apart trying to rush the chain mail. Whoopsie-doodle! But I did draw! #art #artlife

Several pencil drawings of faces on a page, with pencils and erasers below.

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Clear off the dining room table, kids, it’s time to sign play mats! If these are white-stitched borders, i think they’re Spike Feeders. #OMA, #MTG #playmats

Beat up cardboard box labeled UltraPRO on a red rug

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Thierry St-Laurent Dion @tstld.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sketch of a Sparrow Ballpoint pen on paper #art #birds #nature #sciart

Sketch of a Sparrow made with a black ballpoint pen on paper.

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Face study day 5 - such a tough angle for me, so good to practice. One the head starts rotating away from you, the ear pretty much is all you’ve got to explain what it’s doing. #art #artlife #face #sketching

Page with pencil drawings of five heads. Drawing tools lie in down-right corner.

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Note to self: no matter the provocation, do not bite the other vendors…

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Artificial Intelligence and Creative Writing: A Policy of Sorts. I've posted versions before, but I update this each term following conversations with students. Here's my Fall '26 edition. In no way definitive! Learning as I go.

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This is a course for those interested in writing not as means to an end but as an end in itself. Recently... I read a story in New York magazine titled, “Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College,” by James D. Walsh....
I didn’t think AI would be a temptation for creative writing students. “Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College” persuaded me that for many students of all sorts it’s not a temptation but a condition. You sleep in a bed, you wear clothes, you don’t scream at teachers. Just the way it is. Maybe AI is becoming that, too, part of “just the way it is.” Maybe it is that already.
My mind raced through ideas about how to “beat” AI. The article dismantled them. Then I thought, “That’s not my job.” I’m a writer and a teacher. I’m not a cop. If you want to work with me on writing, we can do that. If you want to cheat, you have the ability to do that, too, and the truth is, I probably can’t stop you.... Per Dartmouth’s policy: “Students may not use GenAI tools for submitted coursework unless expressly permitted.” I do not permit it....
I’m interested in working with students for whom writing feels, somehow, good. Even if sometimes it’s painful. Who seek that feeling anyway. A feeling of being, of alertness. Of purpose; of intention. Of practice.
This is a course for those who are interested in using writing to experience some variation of this feeling. Sometimes it comes in a moment of clarity, sometimes in the making of a lyrical juxtaposition. There are so many more emotional, intellectual, and spiritual possibilities that arise from the act of shaping language... There is no paycheck, or even a finished book held in hand for the first time, that has ever brought me as much complicated pleasure as the arrangement of words. Maybe you’re like this, too. Or maybe you want to be. If so, I designed this course with someone like you in mind.

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Third day of warmup face sketches, third face in the sketchbook. #art #artlife #warmupsketches Yeah, the saucy straw hat flowed off the page. It’s a small space and i wasn’t drawing to learn hats today.

Corner of a sketchbook page showing pencil drawings of two women’s faces. Selection of pencils and erasers on page below the drawings.

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Laura Bifano @bifanoland.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Sitting Outside” IV opens TONIGHT @giantrobotstore.bsky.social!! Go check it out if you’re in LA, the lineup is mind-boggling good. Pieces are now live on the web store for non-LA peeps too! Thanks to @kellanjett.bsky.social for putting this all together!!

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Second day of warm-up face sketches. For practice, because I need to draw more. Pretty faces are easy to overwork. The eraser is my friend today. #sketch #face #artlife

Two pencil sketches of faces on a sketch book page, with pencils and several types of eraser below.

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I need to draw more faces… (Prelude to a week of warm-up sketches.) #artlife

Drawing of a child’s face in a sketchbook, with pencil and erasers.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/09/2026

Inside of it is a faith hugger

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Happening this week - and that’s my goofy baby dragon in the photos!

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Northern Gannet for lnsomma on tumblr. Thank you for the #Waymakers donation! Gannets are such incredible birds 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt The Waymakers Challenge raises funds for @theyoungcenter.bsky.social to help immigrant kids in the US! Donate by Sept. 30: youngcenter.donordrive.com/campaigns/Bi...

Illustration of a Northern Gannet plunging deep into cold clear ocean waters like a living javelin. Bubbles and sloshing water obscure the bird's tail at the surface, but its head strikes down deep into dark water as it chases small, silver fish which appear blurry and close to the viewer. The gannet is mostly white, with black primaries, a long sharp silver beak, and a creamy tan head.

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Michele Melcher @michelemelcher.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

“Memento Vivere” (Sold) The Title piece for my April show. Inspired by the tombs at St. Sebastians Cemetery Salzburg, Austria

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Pro tip - if you send too many magic cards out in the same little packet, it will split down the side seams. #magiccards #mtg #magicartist #boxofcardsfromMark

Stack of 37 magic cards in a clear packet closed with adhesive flap, on a green cutting mat. The packet is opening up on one side seam.

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Winter is coming, and soon the holidays will be upon us. And then they will be over for another year! I'm posting the link to our Lovecraftian holiday cards & gift wrap page now, before it's too late. (They are not unspeakable.) www.artofheatherhudson.com/weird-xmas-t...

Five Xmas cards featuring art inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos of HP Lovecraft, created by Heather Hudson and Daniel Gelon; Cthulhu Snowman, Innsmouth Carollers, Lovecraft Santa, Brain Can Santa and Old One Xmas tree.

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Good thread from @doctorow.pluralistic.net on the reality of LLMs vs the fantasy of AI. Thorough explanation of the Hugging Face exploit included.

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Bug Witch @thedancingemu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

New prints in the shop! Tealnewcombart.etsy.com/

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Think I've got the play mat version of Hermit Druid approved! Anyone who plays a premodern Green deck should be able to check them out at #OMA pretty soon! #MagictheGathering #Premodern #playmat PS - Model was my now-spouse, not Jason Momoa. Momoa would have been about 10 yo in '97.

Screencap of a face from the card Hermit Druid (StrongHold), a bearded man with blank green eyes and faded blue tattoos.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 11/09/2026

skinks in robes

to the tune of duran duran's girls on film

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Try to live your life in such a way that Optimus Prime would not be ashamed of you.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

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