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@howdymatt.bsky.social
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Art, games, writing.

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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Dawn - watercolor and acryla gouache on paper If you want to give into your capitalistic urges, prints are ✨on sale✨ on INPRNT as part of their black friday thingy
a goddess spreads a veil of morning light across the night sky, bringing the dawn.
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
North Star - Polaris - I found my new favorite brush to use on just about everything ;u;
Illustration of a mysterious woman in side profile. Her body has a galaxy pattern from torso to shoulders. She has glowing multicolored hair that frames the art. There are constellations of Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. Drawn by gdbeeart, Oct 2025
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Canadian friends, your government is seeking commentary on GenAi strategies and policies. Please let them know exactly how you feel about GenAi, it’s impacts, and what next steps should be! Perhaps it’s respecting artists works, environmental considerations and so on! Share your thoughts here 👇
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Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...
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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Repostin' The Autumnal. Manifesting my seasonal mood.
A skeletal figure floats off the ground, wrapped in a cape made of autumn leaves. It wields a scythe adorned with a harvest of gourds.
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Edward Delandre @dedart.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I painted this one last weekend! 22"x30" oil on wood
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Matt @howdymatt.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Making some cards.
A watercolour setup of paints brushes and pens on a table. A hand holds up a card with a painting of a red panda sitting in a branch, tail hanging down amongst some green foliage.
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 09/10/2025
“A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.”
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‘This will not happen again’: Vancouver Park Board apologizes for hosting Harry Potter event
A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/10/2025
A MAGA teenager was spurned by a teen girl so he sent pizza to her home to intimidate her. The police ignored it. Then, he saw she mocked Charlie Kirk so he murdered her and her friend by ramming his truck into them at 70mph while they were riding their bikes. He's now charged with murder.
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BlindCoyote 🔜 IX @blindcoyote.com · 30/09/2025
Kintsugi 🐯✨
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Arthur Baron-Clément @arthur.baron-clement.com · 16/09/2025
jump
Rough digital painting of a girl jumping from rock to rock across a river. In the background a forest is slowly changing to its autumn colors.
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Riley - Watch Wigglewood Tales @wigglewood.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The image that inspired my most popular comic.
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Matt @howdymatt.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I’ve taught this in a queer media session for years. Hetero propaganda is real and so subversive in our culture that we don’t even see it.
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Tabletop Game Designers Association @ttgda.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The leadership of the Tabletop Game Designers Association was disappointed to see the publisher CGE touting Codenames: Back to Hogwarts, a new Harry Potter-themed version of Codenames.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Reviewers including No Pun Included and Shut Up & Sit Down are boycotting Codenames publisher CGE for releasing a new Harry Potter-themed game while ignoring JK Rowling’s anti-trans rhetoric: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
A blue box to the left with four sillhouette-style humans, each notably wearing wizard-like robes from the Harry Potter universe. The box says Codenames and Back to Hogwarts on it, with Harry Potter in golden letters at the bottom. To the right, a cartoon astronaut head in a Harry Potter scarf winks, a variation of the logo of board game publisher Czech Games Edition.
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Matt @howdymatt.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
In a recent update, @codenamesgame.bsky.social has decided to block me on instagram after a terf engaged with my comments on their post. Rather than defend queer players they block us. This has definitely solidified never purchasing from @czechgames.com ever again.
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Earthborne Games @earthbornegames.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Just Use a Staff Full episode: youtu.be/eqP2prdaVGo #earthbornerangers #earthborne #tabletopgaming #cardgame #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #rpg
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Matt @howdymatt.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
@czechgames.com has grossly decided to license Codenames with JKRowling knowing the funds go to support anti-LGBTQ+ legal teams. They even posted this hollow “reasoning”. Sad to say I’ll never buy anything from them till they stop. I recommend others do the same. #boycott #boardgames #bigotry
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LaurenWalshArt @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Human artists!? Use one piece to convince people to follow you !
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
“It was 1982 and not only did I arrive on Broadway but so did AIDS. This was no time to hide.” Groundbreaking gay playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein accepting his award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. #TonyAwards
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
King: hey uh King: where's elon? Barker: why? do you want him here? King: NO King: no i mean King: he's usually here King: it's not like him to not show up Poe: we moved the campfire without telling him King: that usually doesn't stop him
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
once again I must tap my own sign
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honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I can't believe people think that using LLMs to write isn't destroying their critical thinking abilities. I'm like 5% dumber just because of spellcheck.
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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 01/06/2025
Congratulations @emmaarkell.bsky.social !! Read Emma's award-winning story here: xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
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Canadian teachers face harassment in wake of ‘parental rights’ policies | Xtra Magazine
Less support and more targeting is taking a toll on educators’ mental health
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bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
"To understand who is in control, observe who you are not allowed to criticize." -Voltaire
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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 28/05/2025
kermies #art
7 fully coloured drawings kermit the frog making scrunchy faces
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
crab with two handguns
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Matt @howdymatt.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Beautiful day at the pond. I promise there were geese.
A hand holding a tiny watercolour book with a painting of a pond and geese. In the background is the same image, but without the geese. The artist is probably lying about the geese.
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Matt @howdymatt.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
So excited for this! One of my favourite board game designers just released a new video game! So excited for more people to experience their incredible talent.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/04/2025
For my Patreon post this week, I wrote about why TERFs are still complaining about not having friends. www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...
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You have no friends because you're a transphobic asshole | Katelyn Burns
Get more from Katelyn Burns on Patreon
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Elliot Davis | Pre-Save To Feel Your Warmth @moreblueberries.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I made a game and seeing these proofs made me shake so bad I could barely open them
Preproduction copies of The Time We Have in standard and deluxe editions
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John Vibes @johnvibes.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books
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Matt @howdymatt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
“Not the gay beams! I’ll take the safer bet having a man pat my junk instead,” said me, the totally not homosexual man… “Please, please, please, please.”
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
We should have known, when we learned billionaires were building bunkers instead of stopping climate change, that their plan was for the rest of us to die horribly.
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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 01/04/2025
If art is your hobby and you do it as a job, you need to accept that there will be times (sometimes years) where you lose that hobby. I think it's really unfair that monetizing art is so often framed as "you'll never work a day in your life" and not "you might lose something very important to you"
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I recently saw a post about the challenge of writing fiction with evil in it that doesn't reflect our times, and nothing against the author but: If we as artists aren't in some way meeting the moment, how are we any better than the politicians?
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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It’s finally here! Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning takes a look at how board games make persuasive arguments, how they might move us emotionally, and how the ways we talk about the form might hinder its development. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4z...
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Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning
YouTube video by Mary & Amabel Holland
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Barbara Rodriguez @bcrodriguez.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
LGBTQ+ elders share what survival looks like under a hostile political regime and their advice to young people right now. By @oriion.bsky.social for @19thnews.org: 19thnews.org/2025/03/trum...
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From Stonewall to now: LGBTQ+ elders on navigating fear in dark times
LGBTQ+ elders share what survival looks like under a hostile political regime and their advice to young people on taking action, even when they're afraid.
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✦ Refrynn @weirdundead.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The Conquerer [5 of Swords tarot]
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Matt @howdymatt.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Rats.
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Syd Mills @vetyyr.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Damned to love once
Digital painting of two women walking past each other without looking at one another. Behind them is a statue of a girl with closed eyes covered by sweeping veils of fabric. The scene is lit by the glow of a cold red sky seen through a broken window.
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Various producers tried for YEARS to make a film of The Front Runner, a popular novel from the 70s about a gay athlete, but they couldn't find a star willing to play a gay character. Eventually, in frustration, they ran this ad in Variety. It's still never been adapted.
A list of actors who have played queer roles, with text challenging the myth that it's a career-ender
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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
just, painting my current vibes, like one does 🐍
A medusa in gold jewelry with gold rattlesnakes for hair, clutching the stone head of a king and breaking it to pieces while making intense eye contact with the viewer.
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John Chen @johnchen.com.au · 28/02/2025
MILICENT PATRICK. Artist & Creator of the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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Matt @howdymatt.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Made a birthday card for a friend. A little koala. Haven’t used my new mini palette yet with the new colours but I’ll swatch that out in a few days.
A hand holding up a card in front of a set of watercolour paints and tools. The card is of a koala holding onto the top of a brown branch in front of some green foliage. The koala is furry, grey and most importantly: cute.
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Brandon Schatz @soupytoasterson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
My social feed after that hockey game
A panel from Kate Beaton’s Hark a Vagrant, where a man warns the US president that the Canadians have arrived, and they’re all fucked up on hockey.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Canadians on here actually being like "I can't believe how bad things are getting in the US" without acknowledging Alberta just passed some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws and are about to vote Doug Ford back into power. Wakeup because the far right are in inside the building
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Matt @howdymatt.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Can we discuss the level of complexity in the layers of these feathers?
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