iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I’ve been working on a little cartoon series on this exact topic. It turns out even with daily irrefutable evidence, we can still have mass & institutional denial of reality. And oppression of truth. From our most trusted sources. Thank you @davemilbo.bsky.social for this great article. 🧵1/4

Two panel cartoon. The first has a sad person holding a sign saying genocide is bad.

The second panel has two angry people with media written on their clothing, holding signs. The first says: anti-genocide?! Equal sign. you’re fired!
The Second says: the G word is banned. It doesn’t vibe with our narrative.

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Anyone else stop at Gundagai on the drive between Sydney/Melbourne? 🙋🏻‍♀️ A cute old town with architecture that’s fun to capture! #Gundagai #Procreate #ArchitectureArt #Uplift

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Anyone else stop at Gundagai on the drive between Sydney/Melbourne? 🙋🏻‍♀️ A cute old town with architecture that’s fun to capture! #Gundagai #Procreate #ArchitectureArt #Uplift

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Rachel Hollis @rachelhollisart.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Here's a little Kookaburra I was commissioned to draw, never get tired of them! #drawing #bird #birdart #wildlife #pencilart

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I’m an artist wanting to raise awareness of the current drought in Vic & SA. I have 2 qns: 1. Are there any charities supporting these farms/communities I can direct people to? 2. Are any farmers willing to send me some photos I can use as references for my artwork? I’d love to show real places

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Like a pig in mud or a dog with bubbles to catch.

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Today is #MEAwarenessDay. Here’s a tiny glimpse into life with this debilitating disease. #MECFS #MissingMillions #MECFSis #MEAwarenessMonth

Photo in black & white of a woman sitting in bed with doona over her bent knees. She has long hair, and is looking at the camera with a serious expression on her face. Most of the room is dark, with her face & part of the wall to her left lit up by leaf speckled light filtering into her room through the window behind the camera. Beside the bed is a shadowed bedside table with lamp and drink bottle on top. A door is partially visible.
Caption: M.E. is being bedbound or housebound for the 25%.
Some have not seen the sun in decades.

Blurred double vision image of woman standing in front of a large gum tree. The angle is looking slightly upward with just the shoulders and head visible as well as the top of the tree behind the sky is blue and cloudy.
Caption: M.E. is underfunded. Under researched.
Under diagnosed. Under treated.
Under supported. Misunderstood.
Neglected. Dismissed. Harmed.

Digital drawing of a hand holding a phone, with a simple drawing of the earth on the screen. The background is black.
Caption: M.E. is experiencing the world through a screen.
For many, their only portal to community, connection, knowledge & advocacy.

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Me: has a strong desire to embroider cool designs on some of my clothing. Also me: has finger pain that makes needlework a terrible idea. 🫠 #pwME #ChronicIllness #Embroidery #Disability

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

When you’re clearly longing for spring, even though it’s still autumn 😅 #BloomScrolling #Illustration #Art #Procreate #OnlyBeautifulThings #pwME

ID: digital artwork of pink flowers and green leaves on a navy background with lighter green stripes. The shapes are simple, with speckled texture over the work.

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

We need your help to make it a success! We invite all people with ME, Long COVID, and other disabilities to join us! We are sending an SOS to -Save our support systems. Save our science. Save our society. A huge thank you to Jess of @hospmom.bsky.social for this amazing artwork! #Disability

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Accessible social media content for #pwME, #LongCovid #ChronicIllness #disability I’m putting together some polls for my Insta stories asking about accessibility needs for those who have them. Eg. prefer voiceover or written caption; music with lyrics, without lyrics or silence?

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Meet Bertie. The Aussie Blue-Banded Bee. (And no doubt, the most technical bee drawing you’ll see all day) #InverteFest #Bee #Illustration #WildlifeOz

digital drawing in a simple pastel style. In the centre is a yellow, pale blue and black bee wearing a green hat and orange apron. It's holding and smelling a bunch of tulips which are orange, yellow and pale pink. While standing in a long grassy field of tulips with blue sky behind. There's a wonky white border around the drawing.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Happy birthday to Zofia Keilan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) a Polish #paleobiologist famous for a series of Polish-Mongolian expeditions she lead from 1963-1971 to the Gobi desert! 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci There she discovered dinosaurs including the Deinocheirus, plus she & team found the “Fighting Dinosaurs” fossil

My linocut portrait of Zofia Keilan-Jaworowska shows her as in slacks and sleeveless button down with collar turned in a 3/4 view with her right arm extended and left arm bent and resting on the small of her back. She has short hair and appears brightly lit from the left side. In front of her are the Fighting Dinosaurs fossils: a protoceratops and velociraptor entwined. Above her hand is a Cretaceous rodent Catopsbaatar and behind her is a Deinocheirus dinosaur. She is in the field in Mongolia with mountains in the distance. The print is made in a gradient of sandy golden green through dark green-brown through a dark rust from the bottom to the top.

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Pillow Writers @pillowwriters.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Sunday 27th April Pillow Scripters for play writers and players. Monday 28th April The Annex for long form writers. Tuesday 29th April Pillow Writers En Español. Los encuentros son completamente en Español. All 11:00 am PST via Zoom. More info and Zoom link here: pillowwriters.wordpress.com

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Pillow Writers

An ME/CFS writing group

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Storytelling training for #MIllionsMissing! Expert storyteller, Kirsten Ferrell, will lead our community in a storytelling training that will enable us to share our stories in a way that leads to change on April 27th at 12pm PT/3pm ET. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/millionsmi... #pwME

Kirsten Ferrell (white woman with long straight hair) lightly smiling at the camera. Text overlaid on photo: "SOS storytelling to motivate action"

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/04/2025

When I use Google now I just automatically scroll past the AI summaries like they’re banner ads

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Yesterday I saw an artist who uses teeny miniature figurines & photographs them in/on vegetables etc. And at that scale the ‘landscape’ looks huge. This provoked a heap of ideas of how I could use this concept to both depict #pwME, and be a visual escape especially for bed and house bound people.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

My new workshop:small museums for mental health, is now live. I'll teach you how creating small museums alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health & we'll make small museums together 24 May,zoom, recording available afterwards Open to anyone,anywhere workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

Collection of spring nature finds in antique typesetter's tray

Collection of finds from Old Hunstanton beach made in 2019

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Berlitz II. @vonmandelbrot.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Question for blind & low vision people. I’m currently looking into turning my art into clothing merch. And I’m wondering if you like embroidered items? I’m thinking simple line art type style, so the shapes & lines are clear. Thoughts? #AccessibleArt #Disability #Blind #LowVision #TactileArt

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

When you step into a time capsule in a little country town. These little gems are in Gundagai. A classic stop over town when driving between Melbourne & Sydney. ID: Timelapse of digital ink & watercolour drawing of a row of 3 colourful old style single story houses, each with an awning. #Art

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

Happy birthday to geologist & oceanographic cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.⁠ 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬⚒️ #histsci ⁠ After studying #geology & math, Maurice 'Doc' Ewing 🧵

My linocut portrait of Marie Tharp (woman in grey shirt with oversized glasses and red hair in up-do) in front of her physiographic of the Atlantic (in grey on teal) with mid-ocean ridge, resting her cheek on her left hand with elbow on table covered with depth sounder data.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 19/04/2025

Friendly reminder to scientists/science communicators - the images you share (and thus grow followers, trust, credibility upon) are 100-fold better when you use alt-text because they are more accessible to broader audiences. Want to go one step further? Attribute the source! It's the BlueSky way.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The first posy in a thimble I made, to lift my mood during the pandemic. The flowers are all real. When humans look at plants (even on a screen as here) we recover from stress 60% more quickly & the relaxation response is triggered in our brains. Zoom in if you're strung out🌿

A very small (real) flower arrangement in a thimble including forget me nots , lily of the valley, buttercup, geum, chive flower bud, snowberry, green alkanet…

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 18/04/2025

Just a reminder that, if your regular feed is feeling all doom and gloom right now, you should scroll the #SciArt feed for a little bit to enjoy beautiful art: bsky.app/profile/did:... If your feed is not doom and gloom right now then, uhhh.. you may want to examine that

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Anyone else use too many spoons collecting & photographing autumn leaves today? No? Just me? Let me be a warning to you all 🥴 I'm hoping to incorporate these leaves into my digital artwork. So watch this space! (The veining 😍) #BotanicalArt #Autumn #SciArt #pwME #NaturePhotography #TinyJoys

Photograph close up photo of an autumn leaf. The top is deep red and red, gradually turning to yellow. The platten of the veins on the leaf are visible.

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Critically Endangered Swift Parrot is one of just three migratory parrots on earth. Removal of their habitat has left possibly 500 in the wild. birdlife.org.au/bird-profile... Ref 📷: Kenton Reeder #AColorADaypril #SciArt #Art #OnlyBeautifulThings #AustralianParrot #Art #Procreate #WildOz #Bird

A digital oil drawing printed on textured paper of a swift parrot sitting on a thin gum tree branch, with an out of focus gum tree behind. The swift parrot is mainly bright yellow and green, with little bits of red, orange and pink.

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

just because we can use AI to make art doesn’t mean we should #Art #Illustration #Artist #OriginalArt #OnlyBeautifulThings

Graphic with the phrase “just because we can use AI to make art doesn’t mean we should”. Green text on a yellow circle. Behind the circle is a pattern of yellow and green pineapples in columns. Alternate columns are upside down. @/maddyobart

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Eric Heupel @ericheupel.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Not following SciArt feed? Why not? Beautiul art that enlightens and illustrates natue and science? Win win!!

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 12/04/2025

Original coastal marsh landscape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Daybreak" 20”x20” oil on canvas (2023) (Sold). Atmospheric painting of a sunrise in an orange-toned sky over a coastal marsh in autumn.

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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 13/04/2025

I was gonna do one of those AI action figures all my GIS nerd friends are doing but I just like drawing badly more. Any fun and stupid thing worth doing is worth doing imperfectly by hand.

Badly drawn action figure pack labelled Map Store Guy with a sextant, globe, laptop and shipping tube.

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Clouds are cool. Nuff said. ID: digital drawing of clouds with some blue sky #AColorADaypril #SkyBlue #Art #Illustration #Procreate #Clouds

Digital watercolour drawing of big fluffy clouds, grey and white, with some blue sky in the top right.

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Emily Goss @barrowmember.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Joining #CripCoop is free - just post your skills and needs using the hashtag, and we can try to find someone in the community who you can connect with for mutual benefit. Find out more about #CripCoop at CripCoop.com. This #playlist explains the ethos in more detail

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CripCoop

Together, we can do anything

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

This project is incredible. Please go look at the works of these severely unwell artists. These are the voices so rarely heard. And so rarely have the platform to share their stories. Phenomenal effort for them to put this together. #ME #MEArt #Disability #Art #Poetry #Photography

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#MillionsMissing Aus @mmissingaus.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

2/ "... The government has not yet funded additional ... ME/CFS research and patient support ... I know how much this matters to many Australians." Funding to help Australians suffering with #mecfs is vastly inadequate. People disabled by ME/CFS & #LongCovid vote too, @markbutlermp.bsky.social .

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#MillionsMissing Aus @mmissingaus.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

1/ What's happened to Rec 8 of the long COVID inquiry report, which called for better biomedical research & practitioner education funding? Last year, #Australian MP @mon4kooyong.bsky.social asked about the govt's inadequate response to the report:

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#MillionsMissing Aus @mmissingaus.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

It's almost as if ##longCovid is a real physical condition that medicine doesn't know how to treat bc they've dismissed/psychologised/gaslit ppl w the VERY similar #mecfs for decades 🤔 This is a US study but the same situation applies here. You have the power to change it @markbutlermp.bsky.social.

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I'm one of the 97% of people with ME unable to access the NDIS. It's mid afternoon, I'm still in bed, haven't had anything to eat or drink yet today. I'm struggling to navigate a concept as simple as breakfast, I have no hope of navigating a bureaucratic systemic designed to demoralise like NDIS.

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

What random places have you ended up sitting/lying down in after your body has crashed? Eg. Sit in shop aisle, lay in ikea pallet. Please let know know in comments! When I’m well enough (lol) I’ll illustrate & share. #Disability #Spoonie #ChronicIllness #pwME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #MECFS

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Guineafowl. An African bird found on many Australian farms. ID: digital drawings of a Grey Guineafowl perched on a wooden fence beam, beak open mid call. #AColorADaypril #Grey #SciArt #OnlyBeautifulThings #Art #Illustration #Procreate #Guineafowl #BirdArt #AddBirder 🪶

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Captain Zerp/Cappy ₍ᐢ•(ܫ)•ᐢ₎ ➡️ Fursquared @captzerp.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

🚨 Bluesky Hacking Issue 🚨 A thread🧵 I was made aware today of a hacking issue going around on here and they tried getting me too, but I was warned. I have reported and blocked all compromised accounts I am aware of at this time. Those account owners have been warning people here and elsewhere.

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Pillow Writers @pillowwriters.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

There are two Weekly Pillow Meetings every Thursday 2:00 GMT 11:00 PST Choose the Time Zone most convenient for you. All ME/CFS LC sufferers welcome. More info and Zoom link here: pillowwriters.wordpress.com

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Pillow Writers

An ME/CFS writing group

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

When you’re mostly housebound, birds coming to you become even more appreciated. These little corellas discovered a feast of berries on this day. #AColorADaypril #White #OnlyBeautifulThings #Uplift #TinyJoys #WildOz #OzBirds #BirdPhotography

Photo of little corellas in a green tree with red berries. 4 birds are perched on top of the branches, the other two are mid flight with the birds about to land on the tree.

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