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While most artists are just starting their art challenge with some kind of tober, I've already finished my Septembit 2026 Landscapes. I was happy to get back to it after a while #PixelArt #Septembit #Septembit2026

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Mira Mechtley @biphenyl.bsky.social · 10h

Here's a weird one for the graphics programmers, this frosted plastic mannequin head looks straight up white in the reflection. Primary light source is a window off frame to the right.

A photograph of a plastic mannequin head on top of a lamp. The head is made of translucent frosted plastic, but its reflection in a mirror to the left of the frame looks matte white.

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 17h

Sabrina & Salem 💖

full art version of my cover for Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1 published by Oni Press
Sabrina is depicted sitting on grass, plants behind her, around her are scattered classical teenager stuff, but also a magic book
she's petting Salem who looks delighted

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 16h

DataOne, the Microsoft-linked datacenter in New Jersey, ran unpermitted generators for nearly a year that emitted huge amounts amounts of lung-damaging nitrogen oxide air pollution. New analysis shows DataOne is in the state’s top five NOx polluters of 2025. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits

Records show Vineland facility in New Jersey emitted health-harming pollution before regulators stepped in

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Jen Santos 💫 @jphamlott.bsky.social · 23h

Artists! Post your sketch vs final! 💙 Yay a chance to bring back past work! #pathfinder

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026

Incredible reporting by @tinavasquez.bsky.social here. A story about how the people who put food on American tables are denied water or even the ability to carry it with them or meaningfully ask for it to be provided, lest they lose their jobs working in oppressive heat.

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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields

Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina

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mcc @dryad.technology · 02/10/2026

A microcosm - America tells you a lie. - The Republicans suddenly come forward with an even worse, more dangerous, but embarrassing & goofy, new lie - The Democrats hold a proud, patriotic press conference saying that they are going to give you the old, dignified lie back - But it's still a lie.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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🌱Sita Art🌱 Comms open @sitaart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Forget-me-not Leshy to welcome in October

An illustration of a forget-me-not leshy which resembles a fox with tiny blue flowers by their ears. Their body is dark and smoky, and they wear a bright white, wooden mask with a short snout and horns. A tail of many leaves furls from their back.

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Marguerite Sauvage @margueritesauvage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sabrina The Teenage Witch #3 cover illustration - with another occasion for Salem the cat to shine! Out Dec 23rd - story by the great @corinnabechko and beautiful art by @ensayografico 🐈‍⬛🪄📚

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too

The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s spooky season y’all! No better time to catch up in Cassie Workman is Witchy AF! Episode 3 out now!!! Trans magic!!! @anarchistsunited.bsky.social @etchfilm.bsky.social

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The Strange History of Demons in Hollywood | #WITCHYAF

YouTube video by Etch

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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment, the deadly ban on federal funding of abortion that has shaped the lives of over a million low-income women. For @motherjones.com, this excerpt of my book explains why the death of Roe started w/ Hyde: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The infuriating history of the law that doomed abortion rights

The men behind the Hyde Amendment saw it as their ticket to paradise.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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SGW @strangedruid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

morning #sketch . guess i woke up feeling post-apocalyptically-metal. it's a mood.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bad news for Exxon, and a win for the power of public pressure calling out the blatant corruption of the Roberts Court: Justice Alito is stepping down from further participating in Suncor v. Boulder, a week before oral arguments. We've been calling for his recusal from this case for YEARS: 🧵

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Mira Mechtley @biphenyl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I played around with godot a little over the weekend after noting Starfinder Afterlight was made in it. I got as far as "working with the serialized object data within the inspector seems harder than it should be" (after swallowing that i had to make any serialized data class extend Resource).

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 29/09/2026

HAPPY FLYTRAP TUESDAYY!! this week, @andreagrimes.com writes about hideous Christian fashion and how it blends into normie fashion to normalize fascism: www.theflytrapmedia.com/maga-makeove...

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The 'MAGA Makeover' is Over, and Its Replacement is (Even More) Terrifying

Fascists are using fashion to normalize radical perspectives and groups into normie society.

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Mira Mechtley @biphenyl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I saw Forgotten Island last night with my kid (11) and mom (68) and everyone loved it. Top-tier animation, great story, really cool fantasy built around philippine myth, and the funny parts were "I hope we don't get kicked out of this theater for how loud we're cackling" funny.

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Mira Mechtley @biphenyl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You ever notice how when AI is supposedly a threat that could end the world the proposed solution is more AI not less?

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Mira Mechtley @biphenyl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Really, really great article about social signifiers, and how they are often weaponized to let fascists both hide in plain sight and lay claim to wantonly oblivious normies.

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ESO @eso.org · 29/09/2026

Four laser beams project out from the VLT's UT4. Some 90 km up in the atmosphere, they excite atoms of sodium, creating artificial stars for the telescope’s adaptive optics systems. But why four lasers and not just one? Find out: www.eso.org/public/images/potw1618a 🔭 #flashback

The interior of one of the VLT Unit Telescopes. A person stands beneath the telescope structure for scale. Four bright orange laser beams extend from the telescope through the open dome into the night sky. Image by ESO/F. Kamphues

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mcc @dryad.technology · 29/09/2026

There's like at least three big-dollar dotcoms that are structured like this, sometimes with literally one person holding the super-stock, and everyone just continues treating them like normal companies and buying and selling the stock like any other. It's so weird. Stock is NFTs

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 25/09/2026

"Why do you need cis people to be the ones to stand up for you?"

screenshot from Control Resonant. Dylan Faden stands in a fight ready stance, weapon in hand, in an open area with no apparent features. text above him reads "Cannot Transition During Combat"

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mcc @dryad.technology · 25/09/2026

The 2006 midterms were lifechanging for me because what I saw happening was that the Republicans got demoralized and failed to turn out, and the Democrats won bigger than ever in my lifetime. I concluded: Elections are not won by convincing people. Elections are won by getting your side to turn out.

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Over at @aftermath.site today, I'm talking Trails, side quests community service, policing, and finding inspiration in art. I don't necessarily think art or games can change the world but they show us better possibilities. They help us imagine. So! Anyone want to start a Bracer's Guild?

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Screw It, I'm Starting A Bracer Guild

The Trails in the Sky series has always understood that the big heroics aren’t the only thing that make a hero.

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 24/09/2026

graffiti i'm drafting now so I'm ready to spray paint it on the walls of a decaying luxury bunker as I step over a gucci clad skeleton and loot the last can of fruit cocktail left on planet earth

“The cornerstone belief of the last techno-oligarchs was that they would be good guys as soon as they finished pillaging. Gambling addicts rolling the dice on societal destruction, they kept at it believing that just one more roll would solve everything and redeem them in the eyes of the world.”

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 24/09/2026

it's ME writing about WOLVERINE!!!!! for @mothership.blog which you should already be subscribed to anyway, but if you're not yet, this is a good time to join us. this game is so fucking strange and i am obsessed with it even though it's not fun to play. allow me to explain why............

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The Wolverine game may not be good but thank goodness it's weird

It's not fun to play and yet I had a great time

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

But is this really such a great change? After all, the transformation of the Republican party from a Christian culture that prioritized sexual prohibition to a pornified culture that celebrates sexual force has been a stylistic change, not a policy change: Republican politicians are still voting to make casual, premarital, non-procreative sex as dangerous, expensive, and risky as they can possibly make it – at least for women. If the left’s celebration of porn as a free speech issue always somewhat undermined their supposed commitment to women’s equality, the right’s onetime finger-wagging at pornography’s glorification of women’s sexual humiliation always clashed with the reality that the Christian right shared the same message and goal. Sexual prohibition and sexual force, after all, are just two different styles of what is ultimately a single project: the use of sex to subordinate women. At least now we can stop pretending that they’re not the same thing.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Grace Reed @deergrace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For @shapelessink.bsky.social, a block print version of his most viral piece 💜

A print of a transfem sheep woman, Amelia, pointing a gun at the viewer. In a speech bubble she says “GET WRITING, BITCH. INFINITE WORLDS CRY OUT TO BE BORN, AND YOU ARE TO BE A GOD.”

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Seattle DSA @seattledsa.org · 24/09/2026

Support Trans Workers 📢 there is a UAW rally on Wednesday 9/30 at 1PM at Odegaard Library 📚 ✊ post docs & research staff are proposing explicit protections for trans workers in their contract negotiations with University of Washington, which the administration has rejected twice, but you can help ⬇️

A flyer for the event. There is a QR code to scan to RSVP. A raised fist in the colors of the trans pride flag is next to text reading:
Demand Trans Dignity
Wednesday, September 30th at 1PM at Odegaard Library
UW has repeatedly refused to bargain over protections for its trans workers. It’s up to us to fight back.
UAW 4121

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Tofu @tofupixel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

emerges awesomely and cutely

a pixel art battle sprite of a black cat emerging from the liquidy screen of a CRT monitor

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

second child

fanart of Asuka Langley from Neon Genesis Evangelion, with her huge Eva 02 mecha behind her, both seen from a low, close to the ground angle, at sunset, with the light behind both of them and the cloudy sky
she's wearing white sneakers, big white socks, a skirt and a bomber jacket

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 23/09/2026

GOOD MORNING!! We need to sell 76 annual memberships to The Flytrap to reach our goal during this subscription drive. As a reminder, we are selling yearly subscriptions for 40% off right now. $39 for a year of good, principled feminist content. www.theflytrapmedia.com/double-the-fun

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Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm

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Mira Mechtley @biphenyl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I re-watched Annihilation for the first time since 2018 last night. Delighted in retrospect at how narratively appropriate it is I went to GDC 2018 a boy, watched this movie one afternoon to reset my rattled brains, and came back to real life a girl.

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GENC @genc.newgrounds.com · 21/09/2026

Godzilla Minus One

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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 21/09/2026

We’re so excited to share our BRAND NEW trailer for Young Suns and announce that we’re launching on Steam on November 3rd! 🚀 ✨ Wishlist now! hi.youngsuns.com/Steam

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

garden kiss

drawing of two women kissing in a garden filled with warm light, plants behind them
one is wearing a long yellow skirt and a white blouse, the other is wearing jean shorts, a red crop top

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Mira Mechtley @biphenyl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I keep saying I want to see more hopepunk in media (the queerer the better), so putting my money where my mouth is and backing this.

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