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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 31/08/2024

reputation and legitimacy is absolutely what Forbes and similar places sell, but it's also totally grifting corps too, which is funny. like, if you get on a top whatever list with them, they then urge you to pay thousands for merch and the license to DISPLAY the award on your website and comms.

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Just a couple of hours today. Worked on brightening up some of the center oranges. #art #painting

WIP painting of a galaxy with swirls of white blue oranges and red with stars in the center

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Phytosaurs resemble modern crocodilians but at the same time they look so different! #paleoart #sciart #paleontology

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

I didn't manage anything for #Smaugust, sadly. But here's a page of sketches of a green peafowl-inspired dragon from 2021.

Three pencil studies of a dragon inspired by green peafowl. It has feathered wings, a reptilian tail, a graceful neck, and a fowl-like head with a pair of antlers.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

I found this activity in my Amer Govt #polisky materials & thought I'd share. It's designed to get students reflecting on what politics is. I'd handout a paper with these three speeches & assign students in groups to read one of them & answer the questions about it. Then we'd do a class discussion.

Candidate #1 Speech: Politics is hard work. It requires us to meet those we disagree with as equals and to take their concerns and their perspectives seriously. This is something we all owe to each other because we all share something essential in common—we’re all Americans. We may look different, live differently, worship differently (or not at all), love different kinds of people, but we are all united by our shared love of this country. Because we share this country in common, we all have to be willing to give a little bit—to tolerate something that we maybe don’t like very much—in order to build a country that we can all share. It’s a hard truth that politics requires us to make tough choices. When we come together and make a political deal, we all won’t get everything we want and may have to give up something we think is important. But so long as we deal with each other fairly, we’ll have found a way to live together peacefully despite our differences and disagreements.

Candidate #2 Speech: We have seen the face of the enemy and we know who they are. We know all the ways they’re trying to destroy this country and we are not going to let them. True patriots are seeing what’s happening to our country and they’re getting mad. They’re not just going to stand around and let the other side have it all their way—they’re going to fight! We’ve had enough of weak leaders who get elected and go to Washington and just give everything away to the other side. We’ve had enough backroom deals and corrupt compromises. We need strong leaders who will stand up to the other side. We need leaders who stand up for true Americans like us, against the enemies, both foreign and domestic, of everything our country holds dear. We understand that the stakes have never been higher for our country. We know what time it is. Real American patriots won’t stop until we’ve saved the country from all those who would betray what’s best about it. And if that means the gloves need to come

Candidate #3 Speech: We don’t need another politician. We need someone who can solve the problems facing ordinary Americans. If you send me to Washington, I’ll set aside poisonous and destructive partisanship and get to work fixing America’s problems. The problems we face don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican; they don’t care whether you’re white, black, brown, or purple; they affect everybody. I’ll work with anyone interested in making public policies that aren’t liberal or conservative but that work for all Americans. I’ve thought a lot about the policies that would fix America’s problems and I’ve talked to all the experts, both left and right, and come up with some commonsense solutions. I’ll be talking about them in the weeks and months to come and you can look at my plans now on my campaign’s website. The policies I would enact would save the taxpayers money while also doing more for the biggest challenges Americans say they’re facing today. These policies won’t always b

Questions
After reading your speaker’s speech, please consider the following the questions.
1. What are the basic building blocks of politics according to your speaker? As in, who are the characters that politics involves—classes, groups, individuals or what? If groups, what kind of groups? Big, small? What characteristics do they have?

2. What is the aim of politics as your speaker presents it?

3. If you had to sum up what politics is all about in a word or two according to your speaker, what would it be?
After considering these questions, please read the other two passages.
4. Are the approaches to politics these passages discuss compatible with each other? If so, how? If not, why not?

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

You see this a lot, but it makes sense. Our brains don't measure the progress of time in a purely quantitative way. It's more qualitative Meaning: We tend to measure time in events, 'landmarks', i.e. "It's been a while since [significant event]", rather than "It's been 56 days since new year" /1

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

SO MANY great hashtags spawned on Science Twitter! #DoesItFart led to the creation of an animal fart database and then became a book, written by @danirabaiotti.bsky.social and Nick Caruso and illustrated by @blackmudpuppy.bsky.social, it began as a convo about whether or not snakes fart (they do) 🧪

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#DoesItFart: Database Answers Your Burning Questions About Animal Gas

Spurred by an innocent query posed to a biologist on Twitter, scientists are assembling a database of animal life to answer the burning question, "Does it fart?"

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

STOP PRESS. ANOTHER DIRECT ENTRY INTO MY TOP 5 MODERNIST CHURCHES OF EUROPE. Incredible altar piece with Christ's heart as the eternal candle. Paging @rproctor.bsky.social

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

🗃️🧀 Cheese history for the history feed! Cheestory? Anyway, food history is always fun, and this is a particularly lovely read!

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Today on the patreon I wrote about the history of how men don't like it when women speak, and how I don't care. You can check it out from only a quid per month, which would be very cool of you. www.patreon.com/posts/on-wom...

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On women talking and the men who hate that | Dr Eleanor Janega

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what I always sort of wonder is like - if these AI users are so confident in their tech, why bother expressing anger? just use it to write some absolutely banger story and prove people wrong. ...but I guess that'd require the ability to evaluate AI output rather than just accept it wholesale, lol.

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only about £400 left to go in the Kickstarter to hit its final stretch goal, which unlocks more slots to prompt an artist, not AI, for stuff like this!

Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Hard agree with this. I have friends with similar backgrounds and unfortunately similar experiences to Leah in the article. Often services that claim to 'support' or 'empower' autistic kids where I am at BEST infantilize and demean them, and at worst inflict years of unrecognised trauma.

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Hi! If you're new here, this is a request that whenever possible, you put alt text on images you post so that people reliant on screen readers aren't left out. There's even a handy setting you can enable that will stop you posting if you have a pic without alt text.

The Bluesky accessibility settings. The "Require alt text before posting" setting is toggled on.

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I always appreciate a good analysis of something (criticisms of modern architecture) by someone actually in the field (modern day architect) lol

David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

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"(kisskiss)(bangbang)", oil on canvas, 18x24", 2023- $2000(Cdn).

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the one I'm in occasionally has recruitment events and i like attending them because people yell at me to grab freebies (OK, they also do a lot of very unseen and unthanked work for zero credit to protect workers & their families even when it wouldn't be politically expedient)

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

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We have to adapt our behaviour to reality - not to the reality we WISH we had. Perhaps if people were willing to do that we would see less covid. Patients would be safer. Hosptial acquired infections would be down & people wouldn’t be dying & disabled in record numbers. /15

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lol I feel like many people who didn't grow up in America don't have any idea how big the US is, in general... and many people who DID grow up there also don't get how big just LA alone is.

CrossRoadArt- Bear (1/2 Commissions Slots Open) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

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All sorts of accounts for anyone that is generally fascinated by the world and likes to learn about and enjoy it. This pack includes educators, enthusiast, photographers, scientists and resources.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Cats and dogs in illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages: A short thread. I give you: Goofy and Pluto's most recent common ancestor (MRCA). (🧑‍🎨: Cosmographie universelle, 1555)

A cartoon painted dog, with eyes that seem to bug out of the head, and teeth that jut out cubically like a bad Picasso painting. Behind our distorted dog figure is a light green field, and it stands on darker green grass.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

We proudly present: The Art of #InverteFest – a digital art book showcasing the work of 66 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the human artists of bluesky who contributed to our first art book! Download here drive.google.com/file/d/1WYvI...

Book cover showing a nudibranch, a crab, and a sea star. The text says "the art of InverteFest August 2024"

inside spread showing two paintings of fossil invertebrates, the wormlike Kerygmachela kierkegaardi by Rebecca Gelernter and a golden trilobite by Glendon Mellow

inside spread showing a comic about an ant and a grasshopper by Rosemary Mosco and a black and white drawing of a beetle by Rinaldo Hartanto

inside spread showing a pair of 3D-printed beetles by Blue Appaloosa and a pencil drawing of several ants attacking a spider by Martin Gregorič-Quiñones (Age 8)

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 11/12/2023

This and all the other watercolor paintings in Michele's Algorithm series are SO so good and, honestly, extremely affordable original artwork. Have a look at more: www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...

Screenshot of an Etsy store page. It shows six images of paintings from artist Michele Banks' Algorithm series. The paintings are priced at either $59.95 USD or $109 USD. They have bright, abstract watercolours as the base, with phrases about social media and algorithms printed in capitals on them.

The statements are:
TAG LIKE SHARE FOLLOW REPEAT,
THE ALGORITHM HAS NEVER HEARD OF YOU,
THE ALGORITHM KNOWS ALL YOUR SECRETS,
LIKE SHARE FOLLOW WEAKEN SUCCUMB CAPITULATE
THE ALGORITHM NEEDS LOVE TOO
LOVE THE ALGORITHM

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Biology looks beautiful in blue artologica.etsy.com #sciart #BSNM 🧪

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Dr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Say hello to Platypelis saikamavo, a #newspecies of yellow-bellied microhylid #frog 🐸from #Madagascar, described yesterday in Zootaxa—Finally named, over TWENTY years after its discovery! mapress.com/zt/article/v... 🧪

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Nichole @nojellybeans.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

🐍 Was sharing about the extremely cute keeled slug-eating snake (Pareas carinatus) with my mom. She was very impressed that it wipes its mouth after it eats, and thus has better table manners than me, her horrible child. To be fair to me, I don't get mucus all over my face when I eat. :/

Seven photographs showing different stages of a small brown snake with large eyes eating a snail. The pictures are labelled A to G.

A - The snake stares fixedly at a snail on a branch.
B - The snake raises its head up and tilts its neck down, so it is now looking at the snail upside down.
C - The snake's head as it eats the snail. Its entire lower jaw is inserted into the snail's shell. A white arrow points to the jaw, which can be faintly seen through the shell. A red arrow points to mucus coming out from the shell into the snake's upper mouth.
D - After eating the snail and dropping the shell, the snake gapes open mouthed.
E, F, G - All three photos show the snake wiping its head and mouth against a vine, cleaning the mucus off.

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God bless everyone who is posting links to their fanfic on their normal-ass bluesky account, no fandom pseudonym, your real name right there for all to see. I could never, but I salute you.

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

The replies and quote reposts of this are amazing. People sharing things they wrote as kids or thought about writing and of course folks talking about their fic (& uh, I recognize a surprisingly large a mount of these people &/or works). (I've been reading fic since the 1980s & I read a ton of it.)

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for various reasons I wouldn't like to say much about my past life in fandom... ...BUT! I highly rec checking out the quote tweets - so many wonderful stories, with a lot of nostalgia and genuine love in there. read all of them, like all of them, it's such a treat to see.

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 29/08/2024

pretty often I see people being like don't talk to cops ever! ask for a lawyer! and that's solid advice for a US-based audience I 100% agree but growing up somewhere where that could and would be held against you, and you're presumed guilty, and indefinite detention without trial is a thing, uhh...

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I'm funding an annual $2k grant for Palestinian artists working in speculative genres. There's a matching campaign to which you, dear reader, can contribute to fund a second winner. In case you were looking for an opportunity to do something. givebutter.com/IA1PTE

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2025 Watermelon Grant

By Dream Foundry

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

oh this is one of the coolest job opportunities I've seen - getting paid to advocate for LGBTQ+ voices and find funding for their work? remote AND travel as part of the job? pretty close to a dream job, tbh wish I could apply, but I hope whoever lands this role has an awesome time with it!

Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 29/08/2024

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I'm completely enamored with Blue Period art book. The Blue Period manga influenced me so much I ended up taking a drawing class earlier this year and now I plan to take an oil painting class. The art book features art the characters made in the story and the real artists who actually created it.

the cover of the Blue Period Official Art book featuring the main character crying

self portraits of the various characters

art created by the characters in the manga along with the full color original created by the actual artists

my art made during a drawing class earlier this year, taped on a wall, all in charcoal

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Deadly but beautiful siphonophore for #InverteFest

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

very excited for this! 🐲 also: the commission rewards may seem to be out, but if it hits the third stretch goal (only £2kish to go) more will unlock! so definitely worth backing if you're interested in that too.