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Lëspreüh @lespreuh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

TV schedule

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Trudi Castle @trudicastle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An oldie, but relevant ;D Always enjoy the colour change, feels bittersweet as I love the fall but will miss the summer ❤️

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marcmagus @marcmagus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This seems incredibly precarious but somehow Bhreacain is fine here.

A sleeping cat on two stacked tuffets. The top one is at a rakish angle, and the cat is significantly to the downslope side, with his butt hanging off the edge. Mysteriously he has not slid off.

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Megan @ziireynak.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Clementine uses her leaves to photosynthesise after she buries herself underground 🌿🌞 To keep player wait-time short, I wanted her to surface quickly after being interacted with. I also made sure it blends into her looping idle animation #b3d #Blender #Creature #indiegame #oc #art #noGenAI

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 19/09/2026

現実の生き物とは思えない。海の懐の深さよ

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Most of my favorite comics have a secondary joke / silly pun / out of universe response to the characters in their right click / long tap accessible alt text. Less pressure to conform to a standard posting format than a full bloggy caption with each upload, until you have more to say.

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BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Repost of an old one that was a lot of fun to do.

Illustration of an old country lane. colours are overlapping blues and oranges. Stone walls and white window frames. cobbled paving and wonky chimneys.

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Reminded by FB of the handmade birthday card I drew in 2017 with a view of Ely cathedral from the upper floor of Toppings bookshop. #HandmadeCard #pencil #watercolour #drawing #ArtShare

A partly coloured drawing of bookshelves flanking a window, a circular table and two stools. On the table is a small vase of flowers and a pile of books. The tower of a cathedral can be seen through the window which is left uncoloured.

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Rune Hrafnagaldur @lunegrimm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A lot of you probably already heard about the issues EU sellers are currently facing regarding new EU-packaging laws. The EU-is still collecting comments about, and urge all of my fellow EU-folks to take the 5-10 minutes to submit one! ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

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European Commission - Have your say

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Granted there were other things making work and life more tiring than normal these two weeks and also I already knew this (it's been 14 months since I had a stream schedule after all) but the hard deadlines to meet made it clear it hasn't just been a lack of prioritized motivation.

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Got to make invitations for a family celebration and 1) yay new skills and knowledge in inkscape, krita, and USPS postcard regulations but 2) this was my free time for two weeks and it's not that impressive looking. I'm kinda bummed about the evident inability to do new things after work in a day.

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Apologies in advance if I dig my response to this out of drafts in the far-flung future--I started to go off on a tangent about the determined collection of full birthdate and put it on pause. But I really like your fave colors!

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faradaysketches.bsky.social @faradaysketches.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Leaks in Bücherland Bookshop! Karlsruhe. June 2026 I thought these were a witty conceptual art installation but the owner told me it was just a leaky roof. I could use the chairs from the secondhand furniture section. #karlsruhe #urbansketch

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Mus @sgtmus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A close an Edinburgh Panoramic photos. Edinburgh Scotland #Referenceimages #Environmentreferences

An image of planning up the building, drain pipes, windows

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

My phone camera has its own problems, but does actually show the contrasts and differing hues better, if not faithfully. 2/

The same painting as in the above post, photographed with a penny and one of the traditional Chinese brushes used to paint it. The penny is roughly comparable in size to the wren's head.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

your moment of calm

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Nearly the end of the month and I've been meaning to share some of my silly comics on this page. So here's how I celebrated #Kaijune in 2020--contemplating what a humongous jumping spider really means when they're such itty bitty guys.

A darkened office with a crate and computer backlit by a large misty yellow glowing window. A military officer addresses a scientist.
Officer: Progress?
Scientist: Sir. We've successfully increased the subject's body mass by over five thousand percent.
Officer: That's promising.

The military man taps on the glass.
Officer: How sure are we that this glass will hold it?
Scientist: Errrrr...
The scientist is crouched to open the pet-carrying crate that was sitting on the filing cabinet in the same room. There is a large arthropod leg visible in the shadows of the carrier.

A fuzzy dark brown jumping spider with shiny green eyes and iridescent blue chelicerae (what I fondly call fang cozies) sits, filling the top of a tan cat tree in a green room, a feather toy hanging below it while a brown tabby paw with cream mitten coloring reaches up to bat at one of the spider's legs hanging over the edge. A voice from off screen is talking.
Scientist: ...well how was I to know he's an arachnophobe? Yeah, no, the new liaison is ready to go through with funding. But the scream haunts me.

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I spun my First Three Rolags Ever™ into this not-quite-a-gradient stormy sunset skein! It's about 55 yards, chain-plied, and varies between 40 and 20 wpi outside extra textured bits. It's still unwashed and unknown colorfastness and I'm not sure what kind of project will get this semi-loud splash.

A dark red wood spindle wrapped in plied yarn, primarily pink with pops of teal and green.

A dark red wood spindle next to a small skein of chain-plied yarn with sections of denim blue, teal, and cotton candy pink as well as bits of grass green.

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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M

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Budgie🦤 @spoonybird.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Birds of Aotearoa

A digital drawing of twelve different stylized birds endemic to New Zealand. The following birds are depicted: The North Island brown kiwi, kākāpō, kākā, kea, kākāriki (red-crowned parakeet), takahē, tūī, titipounamu (rifleman), tutukiwi (Snares snipe), kakī (black stilt), kawau pāteketeke (New Zealand king shag) and tarāpunga (red-billed gull).

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Check out this sword stuck in a stone!!

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Hi everybody, I organized the #Artemis2 photos for you. Index pages containing all ~10,000 images in chronological order with time stamps and focal lengths, color coded by which of three cameras was used to shoot them. countlessworlds.com/data/artemis/

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Emily's data pages: Artemis

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

That math is super duper wrong! Used to starting with feet instead of inches--this is a 42ft 4-ply skein.

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The little single-hand-carder batt was the most familiar form factor (and my least favorite mix), so I spun it up in a familiar way to test out the new spindle and practice drafting with silk bits mixed in--they're just a little trickier than when my recycled yarn isn't fully carded. ~170yds 4-ply

A reddish wooden Russian style supported spindle with a metal tip, wrapped in a teal singles with many splashes of other vibrant colors and white.

A reddish wooden spindle laid on a closed notebook next to a small skein of thin plied yarn, teal with many pieces of contrasting color including a tangle of lime green silk threads. The yarn skein is an open loop to show more of the varied areas.

A reddish wooden spindle laid on a brown notebook next to a tiny, colorful skein of plied yarn, twisted and folded back on itself to be about one third the length of the spindle.

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Also not pictured are the delicious and beautiful cakes from the social crafting time, thoughtful snack from the batt class, and my lys employee friend Noelle cradling the store's newest bunny (implausibly gained midday at the festival) in front of a massive box fan to its cooling delight. #hhff

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

And here's proof that *I* was there, in the form of face and haul. My first purchased support spindle from Cardinal Woodwork, an art batt class from The Foldout Cat, and a beverage from Travelin' Tom's Coffee. Everything else was a volunteer or participation goodie, plus a tote not pictured. #hhff

A smiling woman with brown braided hair and a green floral short sleeved button up shirt, standing in front of a light green knit fabric covered rectangular arch with the sign Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival and many silk flowers and yarn-crafted butterflies attached.

Collected on a wood table, several bundles of colorful wool in the background, the foreground filled with two approximately tapestry needle length 3D-printed screw-end containers and the 3D-printed parts for a Turkish style drop spindle, a lasercut woodburned volunteer badge, two-inch gauge swatch measuring tool, and twist stopper? (a disk with tapered curved slot from the edge toward its middle), a hot beverage cup from Travelin' Tom's Coffee Truck, a reddish wood Russian-style supported spindle, a set of three pastel sheep stitch markers, a card with a tube of Life Savers candy that says "Thank-You for being a real Life Saver", and a dog brush.

Several bundles of colorful fiber on a wooden table; the front left is a tiny optically mixed puff of olive green, using blue green, yellow orange, and small bits of red; the rest of the fiber collectively looks mostly teal with some splashes of pink, yellow, green, and blue. Behind the puff is a small, loose batt, lightly rolled; across the front are three rolags with more emphasis on the teal and pink than the greens or golds, the first and third look much more firmly formed than the one between them. Behind those rolags are three with a matching gradient from the inside of their curls in golds to the outsides in blues, all approximately the same sturdiness of form. The front right corner is a cloud of nearly all blended teals cleaned off carding tools, and finally the back right is filled with one single large gradient batt from pinks and golds through greens to blues.

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The most important #hhff photos first--the critters! As I said, I only took photos of the lambs yesterday; today, I heard their fellow icelandic sheep that I'd thought was an adult was only ten weeks old? If it is a teen, its constant search for snacks makes all the more sense.

A baby sheep with curly dark brown wool, eating grass while a hand reaches out to pet it. The lamb's body is about two hand-lengths long.

Two equally small dark brown lambs eating grass and clover in the shade. The one in the background is investigating whether it likes the crunch of a dried leaf; the answer was no and it instead proceeded to methodically eat all the clover flowers one by one. The one in the foreground was focused on grass itself.

A white with black patches icelandic sheep in a temporary pen, sniffing to see if any feed had bounced into the crook of a tree root. One of the sheep's horns is broken with purple salve treating it.

A dark brown llama (my guess from ear shape) with shaggy bangs style, like an aloof emo band member.

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Bluesky continues to reject my posts with photos on mobile, so no evidence to share yet but the first day of #hhff yesterday was lovely! Social crafting time was a highlight, meeting and chatting with those attendees as well as my covolunteers. I only took photos of baby Icelandic sheep, though.

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Lizzi 🐦🌸 @spiritcrowart.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I threw this together for a friend real quick, but I'm sure others will find it helpful :> Behold, a very unscientific tutorial on how I draw bird wings

Art tutorial of a falcon's wings from both the front and back views

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Aurora @auroraplz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

iterated on the uv's + some neat lighting

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Ey! I hope you have much fun over there, too!

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Last time there, two years ago, I got to try out dyeing and acquired two fleeces and hand carders (blog post: cjgladback.com/post/7525787... ); this time I still haven't finished processing those fleeces but did sign up for a class with a personal goal of a fractal-spinnable batt. #hhff

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Fall on Hard Times & Crush Them

I went to my first fiber festival this past weekend! Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival; if I'm still in this state come June next year, I'll probably be back and would love to meet anybody else there....

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

If you're a fluff or yarn enthusiast around central Indiana--come see me at the fiber festival this weekend @hoosierhillsff.bsky.social ! I don't have a booth or anything (other than for a volunteer shift) but I'll be wandering and definitely at the social crafting time on Friday evening. #hhff

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The low amount of confusion I'm experiencing is probably at least half from similar color palettes between photos--but also making me consider adding an emoji to my username because it seems to be a good visual identity anchor.

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Rei @reipart.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Always love seeing how different textures change the look!

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

See I put my gummy worms yesterday into a resealable container and they still only lasted a couple hours. (I'd feign concern I was suffering from some kind of gelatin deficiency but alas it's better explained by the adhd. At least they survived several months forgotten out of sight before that.)

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

From 3 years ago today. A mossy pathway in Coedydd Maentwrog in North Wales. Pen and watercolour.

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とむひろ @tomhirok.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

普段リポストばっかであまり自分の事を発信しないから今回ちょっと木彫りの作業について逐一投稿してみたんですがどうだったでしょうか。毎度ヘタクソなラフからTLに表示されてしまってうざかったかもしれません。ごめんなさい

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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

On to the next adventure! #kidlitart

watercolor and gouache painting of a cat riding a sheep to market

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Another piece from a few years ago whose generally lukewarm reception was rather unequal to my own fondness for it. 🥲Perhaps because of the subject? Garden snail (_Cornu aspersum_), approximately 105 x 60 mm. Watercolour on vintage J Whatman paper from 1940. #Invertefest

Watercolour painting of a garden snail with an especially attractively streaked shell.

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

On the plus side, I'm only thinking of two episodes that touch on that throughout the whole series, and the first is the worst.

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Related to this and the stationary stamp I recently carved in an intro class, I should gather more friends' physical addresses. Just not tonight, no matter what this cup of coffee I'm still drinking after 9pm may say.

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My job includes sometimes gathering contact info and it's made me very aware of how often people switch numbers so the luck will have to run out.

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CJ Gladback @cjgladback.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Next person I text after 5-10 years of silence better not respond or I'll be so spoiled. (Reached out to a friend from high school after seeing them in a crowd in February, then unthinkingly sent a meme to a work friend before realizing we hadn't texted since 2021. Grateful to both for answering.)

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Charlotte ☕️🍂 @charlottefriday.com · 19/04/2026

Tonight's walk was magical 🍃 The world finally turned from brown to green this week!

A photo of a wire and wooden fence with a field and trees in the background.

A close-up photo of some kind of apiaceae (I never know which one it is, they all look very similar with their tiny white flowers and long green stems).

A close-up photo of a pine branch with old dark green needles and new light green shoots growing at the top.

A photo of a path framed with trees and leading to a field and more trees. A black cat is sitting on the path, looking at something on its right.

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