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Tokaii @tokaii24.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Happy Birthday Nanami!!

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 18h

I will have to give it a watch when I'm emotionally prepared lol, thanks for the link

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RobotLyra, Single and Silly @robotlyra.bsky.social · 20h

What do you even DO? Have you ever gotten up one day and decided to make cookies from scratch? Have you ever heard a bird and tried to identify it by the sound? Have you ever felt a change in the wind by the temperature and smell and realized the weather was changing? What are you DOING?

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RobotLyra, Single and Silly @robotlyra.bsky.social · 20h

They say AI is supposed to free up more time for leisure activities, but I don't understand when people also use it for the leisure activities. What do you even do with your life when it becomes a string of tasks that you have to whittle down to their perceived maximum level of efficiency?

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 20h

I hadn't even heard of that before!

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 21h

These birds were so social that when one was shot the rest would come to their flock mate. Then the hunters would kill all of them. They lived in the same forest type, old bottom land forest and cypress swamp, that the Ivory Billed Woodpecker did. Both are gone, along with almost all of the forest.

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 22h

I suppose the emotion is anticipatory grief. Did you know there were parrots indigenous to North America? We wiped them out for feathers. I could have grown up with parrots flying around.

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 22h

This sort of thing is happening all over for multiple species, and probably most we aren't even aware of. I can't describe how this breaks my heart. These chestnuts survived an introduced blight that nearly wiped them out and are the best hope of bringing them back.

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

lol the aster of 2026 for sure. (I think these are growing in the yard and I love them, they're so pretty)

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They're so cheerful! They make snow so fun! I love them!!

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I remember when I was taking art history in school being so conflicted about him but not able to articulate why. I was being told he was important but I was put off and thought the comic illustrations were way better.

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had to read his line twice to make sure he did indeed say what I thought he said. I was gobsmacked by the audacity lol

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I read these both in one sitting and I am hooked!!

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026

Butterbutt. An older comic.

A four-panel comic titled "yellow-rumped warbler poem". In panel 1, a yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch in a late autumn scene, and says "Fall is here." In panel 2, the warbler watches a brown leaf fall to the ground, and says "Winter's near." In panel 3, the warbler faces the viewer as brown leaves fall, and says "Need some cheer?" In panel 4, the warbler is showing its luminous yellow rump, and cheerfully says "See my rear."

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's spooky season which means I can finally bring this piece back 🎃🐈‍⬛

A pumpkin patch featuring multicoloured pumpkins, some with carved faces, and black and white cats, frogs, crows and foliage

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today is the day to commiserate with Charles Darwin, on the 161st anniversary of his confessing to Charles Lyell that he felt "...very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everyone & everything." Here's more of the back story on Darwin writing about this not-so-good day. www.npr.org/sections/kru...

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Charles Darwin And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Geniuses have it easy, right? They wake up and out pops the brilliance. Well, not really. And not if that genius is Charles Darwin, who's got lots to do and absolutely no desire to do it. Those days (...

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know it's not productive but sometimes the bleakness of everything just gets to me.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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D.D.B.Torres @ddbtorres.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

an elven lyrist from Mirkwood -{ #art | #illustration | #fantasy }-

An elf with long flowing yellow hair, wearing loose orange garment, playing an enchanted elven lyre and surrounded by decorative plants, leaf motiffs and a mystical haze. She's from the Mirkwood, a location from J.R.R. Tolkien's book "The Hobbit".

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sarah webb! @sarahwebb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

happy first day of fall! 🪶

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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

cat making delicious vegetable soup

painting of a cat wearing a chef's hat and a necklace with spikes stirring a pot of creamy soup with carrots and broccoli

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am @jrpgdog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

10 years later

ink and watercolor painting of an older Anthy & Utena drinking tea on a porch overlooking a garden

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(the drawing is really cute)

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm showing up at my appointment with very likely a leaf in my hair and a few stray seeds stuck to my sweater I missed after collecting gray dogwood berries in my backyard

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

another round of being annoyed at 'what is art' conversations. often it goes like: it's art if i think it's good. and it's good if it has sufficient high-class signification

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DEAD TEENAGERS out now in paperback @judedoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's Monday morning, and I am reluctantly entering into the discussion about what The Democrats should do about The Trans, most of which translates to "believe in something, for once in your life, for fuck's sake." No paywall on this guy: jude-doyle.ghost.io/transformer-...

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Transformer: Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)

A few thoughts on the queer post-apocalypse.

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do you ever just think about Treebeard?

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Pokémon Gems @pokemongems.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pikachu shares his apple with meowth 🥺

Screenshot of the pokemon anime showing pikachu breaking an apple in half for him and meowth to share

Screenshot of the pokemon anime showing pikachu and meowth sitting down in a grassy field enjoying an apple

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Somehow Rona having a crush on The Brave Little Toaster makes so much sense.

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's aster and goldenrod season, my favorites!

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An ai analytics coach even. What would it know about what I'm trying to do creatively?

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I haven't livestreamed in a while, but the changes over at twitch are really killing any desire to do so more. I don't want an analytics coach, if I were to stream I wanna do it strictly for fun. They're just sucking all of the joy out of it.

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You won't catch him making that same mistake again!

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My favorite detail is the careful numbering.

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I out loud yelled no when I read that btw, scary!

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

no! (I picked up mulch and cat medicine today)

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

yeah it wouldn't be very comfy lol, fun idea though

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Cal @calmakesart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's an interesting thing to wrestle with and always good to examine your reactions when it comes to nostalgic things. It's also fine to be sort of ambivalent about something too, which might be where I eventually land.

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