iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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artelsia @artelsia.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate 3 #illustration

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Matt Cohen @mattcohen.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Making "AI caricatures" is trending again, so I though I'd share the trick I used to make my profile pic. I just followed these two simple steps: 1. I identified an artist whose style I wanted to replicate. 2. I *PAID THE ARTIST* to actually draw a portrait. (1/X)

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kate @katertot.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

good lord, I love how the most unhinged thing I've ever posted On Here gets the most likes. anyway, I am pure of heart and only make beautiful things like this monarch butterfly cardigan (just finished it this week!)

A crocheted black and orange cardigan sweater that resembles a monarch butterfly. The arms are very big and baggy so they look like wings

Mirror selfie of me proudly wearing my butterfly cardigan

Me holding out my arm to show the wing shape of the cardigan

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Hello Friday. 🖼️ Lily Seika Jones

Otter paddling with pole on a piece of wood with tortoise who has a teapot on his back, across a river filled with lily pads and the otter has a lily flower on his head, misty background, illustration.

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Hampus Viklander @spookystirfry.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Congratz Myr! 14K is a big ass number! I'm Hampus and I do art for videogames during the day, and way cooler fantasy and pathfinder art for my homegames during the night!

Digital painting of a dwarven pirate standing in a storm upon a breaking raft, levitating a black blade in front of him

Digital painting of a halfling black woman. She wears the equipment of an adventurer with a butterfly brooch on her furfed collar and is carrying a starknife in her hand. She stands infront of an upright rock that a group of butteflies have landed on.

Digital painting of a red tiefling woman. She has a muscular build, a wild mane of hair and is facing straight forward while holding a bastard sword in each hand with tips pointing to the ground.

Digital painting of a dhampir woman. She sits on a large pile of skulls with pinkish flames licking up around them. Two large slabs of stone with fillergy stands in the background. The woman herself is clad in large purple and burgundy coloured gown with gold details. She holds a large staff in her left hand and a purple snake is coiled around her right hand.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

The commission prize for K'Andra, who won the @blackinastro.bsky.social art contest! I had so much fun painting this transformation of a solar eclipse 🤩

Bowl featuring a solar eclipse with clouds on each side. The left is lighter and brighter while the right is darker and bluer. A streak of light shines on the left of the eclipse.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

some one offers u a bag if potato chips and there are no potato chips in the bag what kind of sicko does that

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Maxine Vee @maxinevee.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Rainy Bubble Tea ☔️🦡🧋 #art

A digital illustration of a badger behind a bubble tea stand. He’s hold a bubble tea to give to a customer. There are four customers in front of him: a squirrel holding an umbrella, two bunnies in raincoats and one mouse holding a blue umbrella. We can see a fox enjoying a sip of bubble tea on the left side while her hedgehog friend is also enjoying the bubble tea. The illustration is set under a cozy rainy day.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

*imagine dragons voice* RADIOACTIVE SHRIMP AT WALMART

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 20/08/2025

“Dark Blue” is finished. Coloured pencil on cotton paper. With thanks to the juvenile great blue heron who tolerated me and my camera last spring :) #Birds #SciArt #WildlifeArt

Coloured pencil drawing of a large grey and blue bird with a long blue and yellow beak. The background is black.

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orbette @orbette.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

What an absolute fucking baller, 100% legend

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

"No one knows" You can read the warrant. There were long-standing efforts by the national archives to get Trump to give back specific documents he took. He refused. So they went to a judge and got a warrant.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Timeline Cleanse

Nyx, my black and white retriever looking mutt, popping out above plants with a huge smile.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 20/07/2025

A bunch of new prints and a couple of originals just dropped on my website. Check them out! #art #painting #sciart earthskyart.ca/product-cate...

Painting of a nebula with swirling clouds of orange and red on a blue black background with many stars & small galaxies

Abstract landscape Painting of a swirling storm cloud over a field with a road on the right

Painting of a nebula with swirling clouds of orange and blue that looks like a butterfly with hundreds of stars.

Painting of a swirling storm cell over yellow green fields with a small pond in the center and a slight rainbow coming down from the clouds

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Mike Hendley 🎨 ✍️ 🇨🇦 @mikehendley.com · 20/07/2025

Snowy owls visit here in winter and they feel like living spells, silent and huge. Quick sketch with Pentel mechanical pencils and blending for soft shadows. Males can hoot loud enough to be heard seven miles away, a ghost voice on the tundra. #sciart #birds

A pencil sketch of a snowy owl in flight, wings outstretched low over the ground, heading toward a small mouse. Soft shading captures the delicate feathers and motion.

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La Monstressa @monstressa.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

GLOW UP (dino edition): made this 4' tall fluorescent baby brachiosaurus last year for Burien, WA's annual Arts-A-Glow festival. Paint job insp by alebrijes. Wasn't satisfied so I resculpted the head, redid the paint job, and gave her some fake ferns to munch. #paleoart #sciart #dinosaur #sculpture

A smiling dark-haired woman lit with blacklight wearing a painter's jumpsuit holds a large brightly colored and patterned sculpture of a long-necked dinosaur

In a colorful bohemian living room stands a large sculpture of a long-necked dinosaur, its body painted in colorful patterned sections, its head an unfinished partially carved block of foam

Closeup of an unfinished foam sculpture of a long-necked dinosaur's head against a backdrop of a colorful bohemian-styled living room

Downward-facing view of a large semi-realistic baby brachiosaurus sculpture with friendly eyes and a mouthful of faux ferns, standing in a kitchen

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Despite all the handwringing about “intellectual diversity” the reality is that higher ed exposes young people to a vastly different array of people and experiences than almost anything else you can do.

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Coffee painting post.☕️ #dragon #art

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Megi 🦋 @mmegistus.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Revenge attack for my friend because this toxic pair lives rent-free in my mind ~ artfight.net/~Avalon_P #art #artfight #teamfossils #artfight2025

A coloured illustration of Luceran and Aadharys standing with their backs to each other. Luceran is on the left, and, looking ahead, his side has a more golden glow to it, with a golden halo near his head. Aadharys is on the right, but his gaze is towards Luceran. His side is darker with a red glow to it, and he has a simple red circle behind his head.

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Nicole Anne. @nicolewalker.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I stayed up and worked on a small sketch and colour study last night. Anna’s Hummingbird enjoying a rest at a backyard feeder. #artshare #illustration #gouache #birdart #colourstudy #colorstudy

Small sketch and colour study on a 4x4.5 inch water colour cold press arches paper of a male Anna’s Hummingbird taking a rest between eating at the Hummingbird feeder.

Close up of a Small sketch and colour study on a 4x4.5 inch water colour cold press arches paper of a male Anna’s Hummingbird taking a rest between eating at the Hummingbird feeder.

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“Yaller Swamp Witch” @jojojolie.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Not only is it exhausting to be a caregiver many people are still required to work full time jobs. The only way you can get paid as a caregiver is if the person you’re caring for is eligible for Medicaid. That’s it.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Don't just tell the staff, although that's important. Write a note to the branch manager, system director, and maybe even the collections dept. Post about it on their Facebook page. Talk about it at library board meetings.

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Cristiana 'Cru' Leone @cristianaleone.com · 06/07/2025

'The Forest Spirit and the Parasite' My entry for #cspcontest44 App: Photoshop . #art #digitalpainting #fantasy #nature

THE FOREST SPIRIT AND THE PARASITE - Digital painting showing the frightened face of the forest spirit, half-submerged by various kinds of plants and flowers. His hands, like roots, wind their way inside a pond, over which, however, faces the menacing silhouette in a human being pointing a finger at him. From his feet, red veins branch out dangerously, as if it were poison seeping into the ground.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Sandy Hook parent says tragedies are inherently political: “You may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies absolutely do.”

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I didn’t have a crystal ball…I just read Project 2025. Q

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

They buried a lede here which was that as a library branch manager she was living paycheck-to-paycheck

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I wrote this about Gaza, but it applies everywhere, to all children.

If you cannot recognize the humanity of a child, you have lost your own. If you cannot respect the fundamental innocence of a child, then you are the guilty one.

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

For the "Crushed" series: "Red (over) Green", oil on canvas, 12 x12", 2025- $800(Cdn) #art

A painting of 2 crushed & folded drink cans, one above the other. The top can is a red energy drink, the word "ENERGY" angled down on its right side in white. The bottom can is a Canada Dry ginger ale. The cans are deeply wrinkled & mutilated.

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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Our feature artist/tutorial for today is this very useful note on KNEE BONES by the talented @taco1704! So helpful for reminding us to think of the BONES within anatomy, and how they create distinctive LANDMARKS. #anime #manga #comicart #conceptart #gamedev #drawing

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Miyew | VGen comms open @miyo02.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Scherazard Harvey in the FFXIV Dancer outfit #art #fanart #Trails #TrailsxFF14

Fanart of Schera Harvey from Trails wearing the dancer outfit from Final Fantasy 14. Her right arm is above her head while she is stretching her left arm downwards. Her left leg is raised while she is tiptoeing on rippling waters. There are water droplets surrounding her.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

Ratat∞uille

A four-panel comic featuring a parody of the movie "Ratatouille," zooming in progressively with each panel:

1. First panel: A chef with a rat on his head under his chef hat. The rat is holding another smaller rat.
2. Second panel: Zoomed in to show the rat on the chef's head, with a cockroach controlling the rat using strings.
3. Third panel: Further zoomed in to show the cockroach, with an amoeba under its chef hat.
4. Fourth panel: Close-up of the amoeba saying "PUT SOME BASIL IN THAT S**T."

The comic is signed @deliberatelyburied.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 06/07/2025

i hope in 1000 years someone finds my skull in a bog or something and reconstructs my face and makes me look really hot

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

A follow up to the top bed situation and how they currently fit! I'll have to post some comparisons in a year or two when they're fully grown. I wonder if they'll still try to fit together. (I swear I have more art to share soon but how can I not share this they're just far too cute)

A young gray cat and a young light orange and white cat cuddle in the small bed at the top of a cat tree. The gray cat has his eyes closed, the light one is looking at us with cute derpy eyes.

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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Just a little perspective. #TheAlliedForces

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/07/2025

a point I make over and over re: climate change is that there’s no point at which it’s time to throw up your hands and give up, because each tenth of a degree you can prevent is worth it 2C is better than 2.1C is better than 2.2C and so on and so forth

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

GoFundMe has set up a page for the Texan flood victims. Each campaign has been verified by the company's Trust & Safety experts, which means you know your money is going directly to families. Please consider donating if you can. Their stories are heartbreaking. www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-...

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Help those affected by flooding across the US. Donate to verified fundraisers to offer flood relief to individuals & their families.

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 06/07/2025

then lettuce rejoice where we at

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

“Self-Portrait in a Black Hat” by Hilda Geralda van Stockum (Dutch Irish) - Oil on board / 1988 - National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin) #WomenInArt #art #WomanArtist #WomensArt #PortraitofaWoman #SelfPortrait #HildaGeraldavanStockum #artwork #NationalGalleryofIreland #WomenArtists #FemaleArtist

Hilda Gerarda van Stockum made this self-portrait when she was 80 years old. She was a Dutch-born painter, writer, and illustrator. Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, she grew up between there and Ireland. Her mother was half Irish and in her teenage years, Hilda came to Ireland to study art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, now the National College of Art and Design.

After Dublin, Hilda returned to the Netherlands to study at the Rijk’s Academy of Fine Art in Amsterdam. She came back yo Dublin and met her husband, Ervin Ross “Spike” Marlin. Marlin was an American student at Trinity College and the roommate of Hilda’s brother. They spent some time in Dublin during which Hilda taught art to pupils of Pearse Street National School. The couple later moved to Washington D.C. where Marlin joined the secret service and was posted in Ireland and London during World War II. They also began their family of six kids during this time and traveled the world due to Marlin’s assignments, but Van Stockum remained artistically active and began to write and illustrate children’s books which achieved international acclaim.

This painting is made from oil paints. The technique van Stockum used is called pointillism. The artist applied small, distinct dots of paint in patterns to form an image. It is likely that she propped a mirror up beside her easel so that she could see her own reflection and her surroundings.

In this portrait Hilda van Stockum shows herself as an artist. She is at a later stage in her life and she is still working and creating art. She sits in a garden setting, with trees and a grassy area, creating a sense of serenity and natural surroundings. Her hands are holding a palette with various colored paints. She is wearing a light purple, textured button-up top with a light-orange beaded necklace. A dark-colored hat is on her head. Her facial features convey wrinkles and the appearance of age, but maintains an overall sense of dignity and contemplation.

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