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Naomi

@enting.bsky.social
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Science and yarn geek; posts likely to include gardening, cat pics, and cooking. Photos mine unless otherwise noted.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/09/2026
A small quality-of-life thing I recently discovered is that if there is some artwork you really like or some photos that make you happy you can get them printed as a custom calendar (there are several print sites that do this) and every month a lovely new bit of joy is there for you on your wall.
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Shivani T’gai Seth @shivaniswriting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Random midweek sale, because I'm tired of being afraid of promoting these pieces with the world the way it is. I'm here, I'm queer and I refuse to live in fear. www.adornedbyshivani.com/product/fk-i... #bsnm
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F**K I*E Pendant
Yes I know that's a lot of bleeping but I'm doing my best. However, you won't have to bleep yourselves when you wear these in public. Rock your 2026 solidarity swag and strut your stuff. Image descrip...
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 29/09/2026
A win on fair use: court rejects fair use defense of AI training
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hmmmm. Setting aside the Oprah part, this windows vs mirrors thing is a corruption of Dr Rudine Sims Bishop's foundational work on kidlit about windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors. scenicregional.org/wp-content/u...
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 29/09/2026
Well, this article is a series of twists and turns at every paragraph, I was not prepared for "moose eating our broccoli" conflicts.
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Moose Tracks
In Maine’s northernmost county, broccoli farming helps drive the local economy. That’s why it’s so important to keep moose—and their hunters—out of the growing fields.
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Naomi @enting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today’s garden update: the tomatillos are producing extremely well, plus a nasturtium and a red coneflower.
Medium-large bowl mostly full of freshly picked tomatillos of varying sizes. Bright red coneflower fully open but not much taller than the grass and its leaves. Vivid orange nasturtium flower surrounded by its leaves and miscellaneous other greenery.
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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Looking for life sciences 🧪 faculty/staff/trainers who want science communication to be more valued w/in academia We built an NSF-funded coaching program to help you w/ #SciComm in job & award apps, promotion materials, curriculum proposals, etc. We want to help you get more respect, credit, & pay
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Other states besides Texas with voter registration deadlines over the next 7 days: Arkansas, Arizona, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Indiana , Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, South Carolina.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've talked to a few journal editors who are concerned about similar problems re: anonymous reviewers. If a peer reviewer wants a little help & feeds your unpublished submission into an AI system, they've just shared your proprietary work & broken confidentiality. A nightmare to think about
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Reselsnark @reselsnark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This thread by @theradr.bsky.social is more leaning on how easy it was to transition to ghost, and about that platform’s positive qualities and values than necessarily negative about substack, but might be useful to demonstrate there are genuine alternatives. bsky.app/profile/ther...
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/09/2026
Internet, I'm raising money in honor of Scarleteen's seven million visitors in 2026 and I'm at $1,000, $500 short of my goal—and the fundraiser is only $800 away from its goal. Help me take it over the top? Link to fundraiser in my reply!
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Scott @smadin.net · 27/09/2026
(this is, of course, also why "it's fine to use 'AI' to generate text/images/etc. as long as a human checks the output" is not a workable position. the human "checking the output" is highly likely to be unconsciously biased toward uncritically accepting the computer's output!)
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Naomi @enting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today’s garden update, from shortly before it started raining steadily: one more daylily flower, on one of my very favorite varieties — I thought they were already done for the season until I saw this one on my way home from a bird walk!
Close-ish photo of a daylily flower from pretty close to directly in front of it, showing off the dark red petals, pale stripes down the middles of the petals (more strongly on some), yellow throat, and bright yellow pollen.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
take a moment this weekend to read this distressing portrait of the decadeslong attack on immigrants in a Maryland county, 50 miles from DC especially if you’re in the DMV, to know what’s happening at your doorstep boltsmag.org/frederick-co...
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“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts
Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
locked out of discord servers? Friends locked out? if youre a US citizen, you should yell at your representatives re: AV laws
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
pls note the bats have been carefully depicted HANGING FROM THEIR LITTLE BRANCHES on this radial phylogeny (bats drawn by Fiona Reid, whose portfolio is here --> fionareid.ca)
section of the central bat phylogeny figure from this new bat phylogeny paper; the representative bat from each family is hanging from the taxon label by its little toesies
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Lisa Mullin @lisamullin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Exactly. The best predictor of an organised anti trans movement happening is if gay marriage is legalised. Here in Australia one anti gay marriage org immediately changed to an anti trans one.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My latest for @therevelator.org is all about the important shark and ray areas project, a global-scale collaboration that has identified over 1,000 places significant for migration, reproduction, and more. 🧪🌎🦑🦈 To Save Sharks and Rays, Protect These Places therevelator.org/save-sharks-...
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To Save Sharks and Rays, Protect These Places • The Revelator
The Important Shark and Ray Areas project has identified thousands of critical habitats for some of the world’s most threatened fishes. Now saving these sites is up to us.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nobody will remember: -Your job -How busy you were -How many hours you worked. People will remember: -Fun shark facts you taught them. Here’s my favorite: Greenland sharks, which can live to be over 400 years old, eat (probably scavenging) polar bears and reindeer.
Photo of a Greenland shark by Doug Perrine
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This kicks so much ass. Also, it makes my life as a parent so much easier.
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today's Chicagohenge. This morning's start on the day of the Autumnal Equinox in Chicago.
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John Brooks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Two brains in a trench coat
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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
QRP your bird art 🪶🐡
A drawing of a nightjar, an oilbird, a potoo, a frogmouth, an owlet-nightjar, and a treeswift perched on a series of branches, along with a swift and hummingbird flying above them. The way the branches and birds are arranged happens to form a diagram reflecting the evolutionary relationships among these birds.Diagram showing the evolutionary relationships among 18 species of heron found in Taiwan. A spoonbill and a sacred ibis are illustrated in a box in the lower right as examples of non-heron birds that may be mistaken for herons. Text labels are provided in both Chinese and English.A range of waterbirds from eastern North America sitting on the surface of the water, represented by a blue background. The birds are labeled not by their actual names, but by goofy nicknames (e.g., common loon = "wailing torpedo").A mosaic of cartoonized birds.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No one is disposable, including the canary ❤️🦜✊
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have a heavy fundraising lift. I am trying to raise $40,000 for REBUILD to help keep it going: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil... There's so much to say about the people who are being supported through this program. I co-founded it and am an advisor. I believe in this work.
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Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause
REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.
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The Vagabond Tabby @thevagabondtabby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
it's FALL (okay, it'll be fall sometime Wednesday) we're having a SALE ABOUT IT (I can finally sleep under a BLANKET 13% off EVERYTHING IN THE STORE (because I'm tired of looking at it) TheVagabondTa... Come buy, come buy!
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The Vagabond Tabby – stuff for your skin. crap free. guaranteed.
crap free? safe, natural, & crap free, guaranteed • soap, tea, bath salts, lip balms & more • because soap matters learn more here liminal fripperies? a
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Eri Victoria | "The Fangirl Diaries" Author @scarlet-rhapsody.com · 21/09/2026
Hey all...I hate to beg, but I don't have enough right now to pay for Nico's $300 vet bill. I don't get paid until tomorrow. As any pet owner knows, vet bills are expensive. Any help, any boost is very much appreciated! Do it for him! www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...
Nico and a capybara pillow
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Naomi @enting.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Birds! QRP your bird art 💚
Woodcut print depicting a song sparrow on a crabapple branch. Closeup of a linocut print depicting a ruby-crowned kinglet clinging to a near-vertical branch.
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is what I mean when I say the ChatBot Doomer Cult has poisoned the well. The description is for a specific Machine Learning tool; to analyse traffic patterns; something competent programmers can set machines up to do a LOT better than people can. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Inside airlines’ panic as FAA pushed new AI tool
The aviation agency is now going with a more modest rollout to help manage flight scheduling.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
you could say this verbatim about silicon valley. and honestly, if you are a democratic politician reading this, you should!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bald is beautiful! And normal for blue jays (and cardinals) this time of year. Bluey is rocking the 'catastrophic molt' look, dropping all her head feathers at once. This happens in late summer, coinciding with the availability of fatty seeds and food abundance, allowing them to be replaced fast.
A blue jay missing alll of its normal head feathers, looking quite bedraggled.
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Naomi @enting.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today’s backyard harvest: 19 tomatillos (most from the volunteer plants!) and three leaves of baby chard.
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯
Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to financethemselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026
ALMOST EVERY PEER REVIEWED PAPER HAS A SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS RIGHT BELOW ITS TITLE
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I am not saying everybody has the ability to follow this path, but: I was uncertain of my MMR status. I went into the CVS app, scheduled a booster, walked in, got one, walked out, paid nothing.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is my weary song. lol. No one hears it.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/09/2026
If you'd like to help kids have lawyers in immigration proceedings that will decide the course of their entire lives, you can donate to the Young Center here. bsky.app/profile/cour...
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Library Yeti, Ice Cream Connoisseur @libraryyeti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is really good. Are there people whose minds you cannot change? Yes! But there are also people whose minds CAN be changed. (IME, they never gave an issue a lot of thought to begin with, have a very small world, etc.) It is indeed a spectrum.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
social media is the greatest reminder of my fav quote on writing "the excellence of the writer depends on the generosity of the reader"
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just one day left!! If you've thought about it but haven't grabbed your pins yet, time is running out: tinyurl.com/v5sry3m8
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Visionary Vultures 5 Art for a Cause - Rainforest Radiance
The much celebrated series is back in a cascade of colors! A stunning collection of art jewelry celebrating vultures, supporting wild bird rescue, and raising awareness of endangered vulture, raptor, ...
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Who is your favorite? Which bird wins this year's crown? Join our poll and defend your favorite! I am really surprised at our top contenders, find out who they are and cast your vote: tinyurl.com/2kr92wta
A graphic showing photos and Visionary Vultures stylized art pin images of different bird species; hoatzin, hummingbird, osprey and loon (with little cameos from Aplomado falcon, Great hornbill, and Blue & gold macaw) with text 'who's your favorite'?
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Lynn from OK (she/her/old) 💙 @uppityokie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New cat! New cat!
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Mx. Coreo Jones @coreopsismajor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I haven't posted for two months, because things were hard and weird in ways I don't want to get into. We're so close to goal, though, so if you can share this update for the joy of the animal pictures, and get it to some new eyes, that'd be great! www.gofundme.com/f/help-coreo...
Two orange and white cats cuddle on a sofa covered with a blue fabric, and they're sitting on a human's fingers. One cat's little paws are in the human's hand. White and cream tabby cat is snoozing on a ledge, with her back legs stretched out so that she looks VERY LONG and her feet look BIG. Young green heron friend stands on a cottage roof and watches humans, who are probably messing about in boats, since this is obviously at the shore, with a boat and various decks in the background. Orange and white cat in soft focus, curled up on a human lap with one front paw folded in front of her, and the other draped over the human's leg.
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m not great at “promoting things.” I’d rather be out with the birds, covered in feathers, taking care of rehab cases, and sketching designs with a mug of tea. But we made something I’m really proud of, and I wanted to share it with you. We just added 19 new designs: tinyurl.com/v5sry3m8 🪶
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Naomi @enting.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This week has been busy, but I carved out some time (pun intended) to play with some new colors for my book-stack linocut. Still not quite what I’d envisioned but definitely fun.
Linocut print on white paper, depicting a stack of books in a pink/yellow/green/blue gradient with black outlines.
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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Distracting myself from another project with my first foundation paper pieced Death Star and AT-AT. #quilting #foundationpaperpiecing #starwarsquilt
Death Star in shades of white with a middle band and patch of shades of grey. It sits on a background of dark green with stars.AT-AT in shades of white stomping over a background of dark green with stars.
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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The original version of this was posted on my FAisDM (felicitousArtisan is Darth Mongoose) Tumblr many years ago. I drew it at about 11pm right before going to bed, trying to express something I felt about art. When I woke up it kinda blew up.
Flowchart drawn by Kate Holden in orange, aliases lines reads:
HOW TO BE ANARTIST.
Make some art.-> Does it look terrible? 1. YEAH 2. NO (both lives lead to thesame conclusion box) -> You are an artist -> Make more art
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