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@ashrowan.design
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he/they 💜🌱 Artist-poet, Unitarian Universalist pantheist, neighbor to Fred Rogers (and you!) ashrowan.design #art • #poems • 🚫a.i. Icon alt text: stylized monochrome drawing of Ash—white bespectacled guy in a collared, layered shirt.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 3h
Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 1h
little post about being a genetic mutant (but the superpower is just a predisposition for cancer 🥲) if you think extra cancer risk might run in your family, see if genetic testing + counseling might be right for you! @facingourrisk.bsky.social bit.ly/force-NHCW #NationalHereditaryCancerWeek #BRCA1
Cartoon drawing of Ash in black-and-white, climbing up with determination between two spiraling strands in teal and pink (previvor colors)—they evoke ribbons, or a DNA helix.

Text reads: September 30th is Previvor Day (someone who has an elevated risk of developing cancer, but has not been diagnosed with cancer).The same cartoon drawing of Ash.

Text reads: "You have an inherited high risk for several kinds of cancers" isn't something you want to hear.
But at the same time, having that knowledge empowers you to take charge.The same cartoon drawing of Ash.

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Being a previvor is a weird in-between.
You don't have cancer; out you do still have appointments, lab work, scans, surgeries, and the spectrum of feelings that come with the territory.
It's grief, and fearing your future... and, it's also the bravery in facing it anyway, defying the odds on purpose.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 19h
Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 22h
uggghhh I hate drinking water, I want to be able to just leech it from the soil
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 29/09/2026
new penguin :o people.com/new-penguin-...
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Scientists Identify New Penguin Species for the First Time in More Than 100 Years
A new species of penguin has been discovered for the first time in 100 years, according to a study. Researchers found evidence that the gentoo penguin actually consists of four different species, and ...
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 29/09/2026
FUCK YEAH LET'S GOOOOO! SUPPORT HUMAN ARTISTS!!! Hirehumanartists.com
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Find an Artist Who Doesn't Use Generative AI | Hire Human Artists
Looking for an artist for your next project? Our human artist directory is full of over 400 artists who have pledged not to use gen AI.
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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 28/09/2026
I want to go to there :((
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 28/09/2026
my thumb joint that hasn’t bothered me in at least a year started hurting again today. I assume because of the rain.
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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just seen it's Wikipedia's 25th birthday. The greatest website online, and possibly the internet's greatest fruit
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 27/09/2026
I can’t believe I forgot this song existed until now youtu.be/G-Vg2YS-sFE
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The National- Exile Vilify
YouTube video by Teeler
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026
talent is a lie
a cartoon picture of a frog throwing a crooked looking clay vase with the words “talent is a lie, just do it anyway”
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i take an iced coffee to the job interview. as we shake hands, i nervously spill a little coffee on the interviewer's shirt. they excuse themselves to clean up. i insert a flash drive into an open usb port. i'm in the system. security escorts the terminated interviewer out. i sit down at my desk.
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zero @zeromatter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
local metroid too a̶n̶g̶r̶y̶ hungry to die #metroid ravenous
a stylized art piece featuring Samus Aran from the Metroid series in her new design from the upcoming Metroid: Ravenous
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Quel @qlcq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
metroid has good shapes
a black and white drawing of Samus Aran from Metroid Ravenous, with simplified shapes
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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
uh oh I’m entering the “marsh next to the waste treatment facility” part of my birding journey
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 26/09/2026
happened again and she’s really gotta stop doing this, or else I’m gonna have to find my own therapist and confront how stressed I actually am 🌝 (jk I don’t have time to go to another therapist. that’s silly)
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John Hollingsworth @fiatjusticia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Updated CDC guidelines just came out. 👀 EVERYONE 18+can get the COVID booster and your insurance has to pay for it. More info about kids in the video below, which is excellent. #covid #covidcautious #yallmaskingDC
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 25/09/2026
it would be nice if the spot where I haven’t had an appendix for a year now would stop having pain in it
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Lord Diana 🇺🇦 @lordsovorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Attention, October is in a week! Burnt-out artist, you have one week to mentally prepare for not participating in any october art challenges this year as well!
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Shade of Stars @shade-of-stars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Digital painting. An old human skeleton lying on the ground, some parts of it are buried or broken, it resembles a fossil. The ground under it is a stone with a lot of ammonites in it, they are different in size and color, some are iridescent.
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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To all the late transitioners: You didn't just change your own lives. You expanded the horizon of possibilities for everyone witnessing your journey. Thank you for being the role models we so desperately need and are so lucky to have.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made
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Erin Macdonald @drerinmac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Blessed equinox to all who celebrate. I love making space for the coming darkness and thanking the light we had, knowing it will return. Life is getting harder, and the world getting bleaker, but we continue to orbit the sun on this blessed earth and I’m grateful for knowing you. 🍁🍂
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 23/09/2026
Glad I stuck to the plan. 🪶
The sun sets behind a jetty as two gulls fly in front of it and a couple of gulls and cormorants hang out on the rocks The sun sets behind a jetty as gulls and cormorants hang out on the rocks The sun sets behind a jetty as a gulls fly in front of it 
The sun sets behind a jetty as gulls and cormorants hang out on the rocks
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 22/09/2026
whoa, here she comes, watch out, boy—she’ll chew you up! #art #metroid
Digital artwork of Samus Aran from Metroid Ravenous in an action stance, sporting her sleek blue-and-white power suit but wearing no helmet. The view is foreshortened with her clawed left hand toward us, neon pink and ablaze with glowing energy trailing behind it. It illuminates the side of her face.
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Capricorn Iscariot @deaconblues1979.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Boys, it is now the Dark Half of the Year when the Holly King of Winter rises to power over the Oak King of Summer, and we wear pants.
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 22/09/2026
whoa, here she comes, watch out, boy—she’ll chew you up! #art #metroid
Digital artwork of Samus Aran from Metroid Ravenous in an action stance, sporting her sleek blue-and-white power suit but wearing no helmet. The view is foreshortened with her clawed left hand toward us, neon pink and ablaze with glowing energy trailing behind it. It illuminates the side of her face.
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qntm @qntm.org · 22/09/2026
Imagine first gaining consciousness inside a sealed dark ovoid and being "well I guess I need to hack my way out of here if I want to exist"
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
YO WHAT Star Trek Voyager’s Tom Paris is running as a Democrat for a County Council Seat in Utah’s Wasatch County www.parkrecord.com/2026/09/11/w...
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Wasatch County Council candidate Robert McNeill values transparency, accountability - Park Record
Heber City resident and hopeful political newcomer Robert Duncan McNeill is stepping in as the Democratic candidate for Wasatch County Council at-large Seat A.
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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 21/09/2026
orzo doesn't get enough respect
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 24/10/2025
so true, ryan gosling www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpNd...
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Dead Man's Bones
YouTube video by Dead Man's Bones - Topic
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 20/09/2026
sometimes I think, wow, I can’t believe they let me leave art college without having a better grasp on drawing the figure and then I have to pull out the figure drawing books they assigned us to read in art college, that I definitely did not read. oop
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 20/09/2026
my favorite star group :)
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 20/09/2026
me: man idk, I just don’t really cry that much anymore Pax by Sara Pennypacker: are you sure about that?
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don’t usually meddle on the writing side of Jeopardy!, but tonight I called in a favor for our Bluesky viewers.
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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Twin Peaks is about a town where everyone is autistic that has to import an elite unit of outside autists to solve the murder of their collective hyperfixation.
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 18/09/2026
Hello US friends, it’s time for me to remind you that you can order the flu nasal spray vaccine right to your door :] flumist.com
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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
it’s time to give Ms Rachel a gundam
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 17/09/2026
alright I’ll hear her out
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 17/09/2026
I can’t tell if my physical transition is actually stalling out, OR if puberty just takes a long time and it’s hard to notice incremental change while you’re living in it
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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 16/09/2026
he won
"I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!"
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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The natural world that so astonished Annie Dillard & Wendell Berry is right outside your front door, right now, hungry to be encountered. Encounter it. Be an instrument of awe.
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026
Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Annie Dillard has died at 81. buff.ly/RNQwniF
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Remembering the great Annie Dillard.
Annie Dillard, the masterful stylist and brilliant thinker, has died at 81. Her death was confirmed by her literary executor, Maggie Nelson. Dillard, who wrote in many forms and experiments, was an…
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the only threats "AI" poses to society are when people put it in charge of things that require thought, or crash the economy over it, or destroy the environment to power it. but it's people doing all of those things. AI poses zero threat by itself as it cannot do anything due to not existing
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 15/09/2026
beta blocker squad rise up (very slowly so you don’t pass out)!
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Olivia Wylie @otterkit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey. You. I know times are tough. But you keep loving little things. You keep dancing to that one song. You keep smiling into your favorite mug and kissing your pet on the head. We're fighting for a good world. Until we get it, we keep going. And we appreciate every reminder of what's good.
A cute otter with the words 'we must remain silly'
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