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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A #Roman figurine of a dog with a raised paw, looking upwards to an unseen viewer. Dogs were popular in the Roman world as both working animals & pets, as well as being associated with healing #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Sam 📷 [Resources for Artists] @sambestock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Aw man, I wish there was an easy and convenient way to find more non-AI resources." I GOTCHU BOO 💪❤️ bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse. These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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lu @coffinvows.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

guardian angel

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#WyrdWednesday In ancient Mexica belief, death began a journey. To reach Mictlán, realm of the dead, the soul faced a long passage through the underworld. At its first river, a xoloitzcuintli dog could help the dead cross the waters. Even beyond death, the dog remained a companion. #Mexicanlore

Statue of a dog holding a cob of maize (corn) in its mouth, from Colima, Mexico, c. 100 BCE to 300 CE.

National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This ancient Roman marble is a delicate representation of four sleeping puppies. It was found in Pompeii's Casa del Fauno (House of the Faun), and dates back to the first century CE. Today in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Napoli. [📷 Davide Ferro] Original post

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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyone who has ever had a dog knows this look. It's the one they give you when they can tell something is wrong, and they have decided they are not leaving your side... This beautiful painting is called Fidelity, and it was made by British artist Briton Rivière in 1869.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Really good chicken helmet. Best chicken helmet I’ve ever seen maybe.

A knight’s helmet with, inexplicably, a chicken face coming out the front

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 12/09/2026

🏺 soothing my anxiety by staring at this Pre-Dynastic Egyptian game piece in the shape of the dog, on view at the Walters Art Museum 📜 good boy art.thewalters.org/object/71.622/

This piece is an ivory dog which was probably intended as a gaming piece. It is prone, looking straight ahead and it's tail is curled over its right haunch. It has pendant ears and is depicted wearing a collar around its neck

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GENC @genc.newgrounds.com · 13/09/2026

Godzilla

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Happy 89th birthday to the legendary Don Bluth.

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If you have never looked into cave paintings start with the wiki for some amazing examples and deep dive from there. Seeing marks made by people from that long ago does something to your brain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_pa...

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Cave painting - Wikipedia

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Nick Derington @nickderington.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Well, the years start comin' and they don't stop comin'" -Alfred Pennyworth 11x17 Ink and Watercolor on Arches

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wonderful ancient artistry! About 40,000 years ago, this small, graceful horse figurine was carved from mammoth ivory! Imagine the #IceAge artist at work, sitting by the warmth of a fire, creating what is the world’s oldest known figure of a horse! 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm glad we can finally outsource the creation of low quality art to robots in order to free ourselves up to continue developing a technology that has a 10% chance of killing us all in the next decade.

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Mapl3SpoopyWaffl3 @mapl3waffl3.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The existential dread of being an artist in a world built for convenience and cost-effectiveness. Thomas Flight - The Real Villain of The Backrooms youtu.be/1cdw9WcTdyU?...

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The Real Villain of The Backrooms

YouTube video by Thomas Flight

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One reason right-wing slime and incel detritus are pushing for a repeal of the 19th Amendment is because they feel like they are losing control of their lives. In the capitalist system poor men dont have control of their lives, time or bodies but as a conciliation they have always controlled women.

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Mapl3SpoopyWaffl3 @mapl3waffl3.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When people ask me why my online nickname is Mapl3Waffl3 ...

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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This Zapotec (from Oaxaca) effigy vessel, c. 500 CE, features a figure in an elaborate bird-butterfly headdress holding a staff and copal bag. Used in ritual offerings, the bird-like helmets shows the "descending bird" motif, signifying a bridge between the earthly realm and the heavens.

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Procreate confirms it has NO plans to add generative AI features to its apps. The company continues to stand firmly against integrating generative AI into its creative tools.

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

compilation of favorite video game locations pieces I've made over the years - all 5x7" ink on claybord I think i started during first lockdown in 2020 with the Secret of Mana piece (non-exhaustive cause carousels are limited to 10)

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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 02/09/2026

I spent a total of 648 hours in photoshop working on this. That doesnt even include the absurd amount of research and reference gathering I had to do. I put together a pretty dense collection of the process for all this if you're interested too. A LOT of lessons learned

tyranitar hunter and venusaur hunter process

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Mapl3SpoopyWaffl3 @mapl3waffl3.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Check on your friends with justice sensitivity... It's rough out there 😮‍💨

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.

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Jane Horton 🇺🇸 🇦🇩 🇺🇾 🏳️‍🌈 @janebhorton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Five clay dogs buried under a palace doorway at Nineveh around 645 BC. Each one has its name written on its side in cuneiform. Expeller of evil. Catcher of the enemy. Biter of his foe. Loud is his bark. Don't think, bite. That last one is an instruction, written on the dog, addressed to the dog.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

By Tito Merello Vilar

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🍃 e d e n @edentimm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The @cag938.bsky.social education committee is hosting another art supply swap this September 6th, at Gaston Park. Check out this link(same as the QR code) for more details! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A poster for an art supply swap on September 6th from 1-4pm at Gaston park, located at 3470 Crowley drive, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

The poster features 4 caggies, the Canadian animation guild mascot, joyfully falling with a pile of art supplies.

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Mapl3SpoopyWaffl3 @mapl3waffl3.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

May we all live the kind of life that gets us remembered the way Dolly Parton will be remembered. A true legend. ❤️✨

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Ye Olde Punk @nehoc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Art is really the only thing that's been making life tolerable on earth.

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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Jacques Lipchitz (born otd in 1891) 🎂 : Harlequin with Clarinet, 1919 Limestone sculpture 29.75 x 11 x 10.25 in 75.6 x 27.9 x 26 cm The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Further description in the alt text 👇 (Tap for full view)