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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sparrowhawk at the school of wizardry on Roke after his accident with the shadow.

A drawing of a young Sparrowhawk with his otak in his hood in front of a mural of a dragon.

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Doodled some pumpkins while leading toddler art class at the library this morning, but nothing I’ve painted really compares to this girl’s accidental bird in flight.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sparrowhawk at the school of wizardry on Roke after his accident with the shadow.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gavin Newsom heard the phrase pervert glasses and instantly knew what to do.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Feels like complaining water is wet, but this looks so deeply unmagical. Animation has the power to go beyond literal depiction, to engage your imagination. This however looks as staid and prosaic as videogame animation.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Toby Jones is right there! Hell, Paul Giamatti can learn Received Pronunciation!

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

From my limited perspective in picture books, there has been a wonderful increase in diversity (in styles and voices) over the past few years. But at the same time I think it’s become harder to maintain a career over the long run.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They’re going to be scraping his name off jacket blurbs for years.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another one I never posted: Hobbits on their way.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another one I never posted: Hobbits on their way.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He’s going to just shoot the whole thing as a stageplay at the Globe theater, with period accurate pronunciation, and a period accurate comely boy as Juliet.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I mean look at this, how is this not Rivendell?

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Realised I never posted this Rivendell drawing I did from my Lord of the Rings phase last year.

a black and white drawing of a grand house built against a cliff with waterfalls, some blue colour was added for added lighting and to suggest evening.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Realised I never posted this Rivendell drawing I did from my Lord of the Rings phase last year.

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juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 21/09/2026

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Adventure Time | A Wonder in Animation that Almost Didn’t Happen

“They said it was a weird little show, it wouldn’t work. It was odd. They had never seen anything like it before.“…

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fascinating to see such old fashioned snobbery still exists. Anyway the real problem here is people confusing the word art with art as the concept of autonomous pieces that don't have to relate to anything but the viewer and the maker. Illustration is by design not meant to do that.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Young Conan: child of the wheel. Gave myself a break for some fun drawing, and had Basil Poledouris’ Conan score on at the gym all week, so this was inevitable.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don’t think I ever posted this piece I did to figure out how to draw Redwoods for The Everything Trail by @megosphere.bsky.social

A drawing of massive redwood trees with beams of light hitting them like in a vast cathedral, a path snaking through the ferns with two kids running.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This Day in Labor History: September 17, 2011. A group of activists started protesting in Zucotti Park in Lower Manhattan. Soon gaining the nation’s attention and spawning similar groups across the country, Occupy Wall Street was the first grassroots protest against inequality in the New Gilded Age!

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

He’s starting to sound as sweaty and desperate as ol’ Gil.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don’t think I ever posted this piece I did to figure out how to draw Redwoods for The Everything Trail by @megosphere.bsky.social

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sometimes you buy an old farmhouse upstate and it needs a lot of work, alright?

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Lady, I didn’t even watch the His Dark Materials show on the same network, and those books were actually good.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did it. I finally found my receipts for my ALA trip for 2025! Think the publisher is going to want to reimburse my incidentals still?

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Susan Sontag's 9/16/01 piece in The New Yorker got her crucified but it's one of the few things from that era that aged well. "'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be."

The disconnect between last Tuesday’s monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is startling, depressing. The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public. Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a “cowardly” attack on “civilization” or “liberty” or “humanity” or “the free world” but an attack on the world’s self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word “cowardly” is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday’s slaughter, they were not cowards.

Our leaders are bent on convincing us that everything is O.K. America is not afraid. Our spirit is unbroken, although this was a day that will live in infamy and America is now at war. But everything is not O.K. And this was not Pearl Harbor. We have a robotic President who assures us that America still stands tall. A wide spectrum of public figures, in and out of office, who are strongly opposed to the policies being pursued abroad by this Administration apparently feel free to say nothing more than that they stand united behind President Bush. A lot of thinking needs to be done, and perhaps is being done in Washington and elsewhere, about the ineptitude of American intelligence and counter-intelligence, about options available to American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, and about what constitutes a smart program of military defense. But the public is not being asked to bear much of the burden of reality. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.

Those in public office have let us know that they consider their task to be a manipulative one: confidence-building and grief management. Politics, the politics of a democracy—which entails disagreement, which promotes candor—has been replaced by psychotherapy. Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen. “Our country is strong,” we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Some Star Trek guys (guys here being any and all genders in the alpha quadrant).

A Tellarite, an Andorian, and one of those little gold guys from TOS

The Vulcan ambassador, the unfortunate in every way Rhaandarite, and a Megarite

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Some Star Trek guys (guys here being any and all genders in the alpha quadrant).

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Republicans literally hate anything that lives on this land: wolves, bison, it can all be shredded with bullets if it’s in the way of them squeezing one more dollar from the earth.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fascinating to see a whole parking lot turn into a community through mutual scorn at a cybertruck.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So this is what happens when you’re Dutch, grew up watching the BBC, and then live in the US for over a decade.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Rowling is a shitbag but also! HP is NOT GOOD. This isn’t one of those mildly nuanced “oh but Polanski is a genius” situations — HP is derivative, mediocre, critically insubstantial, even with a generous poptimism handicap. Its single outstanding quality as a cultural artifact is its ubiquity.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pretty sure Charles Dickens answered that question, and not particularly subtly either.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Being a centrist Democrat is spending five years mocking the impossibility of an idea, marginalizing the people who proposed it, and then adopting it when the next election comes around.

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adam @kumerish.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Let the children sleep

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What a joy it must have been to see the 1981 production of Amadeus with Tim Curry and Ian McKellen

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s really charming seeing kids discover how something funny works. One teen volunteer at the library is suggesting things for our Renaissance Fair by just adding ‘ye ole’ to random things.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

From my own personal experience, having a book included in her Imagination Library is also a massive gift to authors and illustrators.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

NASHVILLE, TN (August 25, 2026) – Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000).

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at www.dollyparton.com.

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Aside from everything, feels like these could also be the embodiments of #genAI : ugly simulacra of a profoundly human practice that took millions of years to evolve, with no real passion or sense of purpose, merely instructions to scuttle on and on and on.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Oh to be a seal, bobbing in the Atlantic, warmed and buoyed by your thick layer of fat.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Was thinking about the correlation between "opens a small business," "hates bike lanes" and "thinks promotional AI art where food looks like bugs looks good" and why they go together and then realized the link is just stupidity

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

you might know Lakmé from its famous "Flower Duet", used to sell everything from diamonds to laundry detergent, here sung by the seraphic Jodie Devos who died tragically in '24. youtu.be/1RRboutSDn8?...

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"Sous le dôme épais" ou Le duo des fleurs, par Jodie Devos et Marion Lebègue

YouTube video by Nicolas Desroziers

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Gore Vidal’s line about Roosevelt ‘give a sissy a gun and he’ll shoot everything in sight’ has never been more true than when it comes to the contemporary Republican male.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Every era gets its own bourgeois kitsch.

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