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Mary Layton @maryherself.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I just updated my web site with an artist's statement on GenAI, because, FFS. There has been way too much AI fuckery going on lately. marylayton.net/about

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About — Blue Moon Atelier

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Made By People @madebypeople.secondlife.bio · 10/05/2026

Our May Promo Round is here, and we are proud to promote @maryherself.bsky.social 💖 Ashbourne & Burleigh Couturier present an Edwardian, Art-Nouveau-ish jewellery set, handcrafted using Blender. Unrigged and resizable for most any avatar. 👉 maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/S... #secondlife

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Mary Layton @maryherself.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Today is Trans Day of Visibility, and I want my Trans friends/fam to know I see you, I love you, and you belong! 🏳️‍⚧️🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

Graphic saying "March 31st is Trans Day Of Visibility"

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Mary Layton @maryherself.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

“Don’t vote for Kamala!”, they said. “She’ll get us into an unnecessary war!”, they said. 🙄

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Mary Layton @maryherself.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Artists, quote with something silly!

Splatter art by artist Mary Layton of a creature with another creature riding its back giving the British sod-off salute. Caption reads: "Note to self: Don't leave painting things out where the house Elves and their Oliphlumps can get to them."

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Mary Layton @maryherself.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I've entered my "Rhiannon" artwork into Threadless's Year of The Horse challenge, if anyone is inclined to rate it! Rhiannon by Mary Layton www.threadless.com/designs/rhia...

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Rhiannon by Mary Layton on Threadless

The Welsh Goddess Rhiannon by mythic artist Mary Layton.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

ICE murdered a woman in Minneapolis

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jeremy ꩜ @nothingistrue.net · 11/12/2025

Long shot, but does anyone in Switzerland have an emergency Theremin to loan tomorrow night ( Friday 12 December )? #ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!! We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!! #theremin #switzerland

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.cryptoanarchy.network · 01/10/2025

The world would be such a better place if we had more people like Jane in it. Rest in peace to an absolute legend. This one hurts. She will be missed. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Go...

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Jane Goodall - Wikipedia

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/09/2025

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

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Mary Layton @maryherself.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Well, fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuckity, fuck. RIP democracy. It was a good run, ruined by the greed of a minority, abetted by the hatred, racism, and misogyny of a 3rd, allowed by the complacency of just enough to have made a difference.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.

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Mary Layton @maryherself.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The Trevor Project's hotline is still live. But recent fuckery by the T r u m p admin. means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY! So spread this around. They can be texted. They can be called.

Image showing how to text or call the Trever Project hotline. Text "START" to 678-678, or call 1-866-488-7386.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This is terrifying, so please read this as cope: The Wilshire Federal Building is 15 *miles* from the protests in downtown Los Angeles. It is a half-hour drive. You could fit an entire Manhattan, the long way, between them.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Cops shooting a woman at point-blank range for trying to get to her apartment Very protect. Much serve. Cops are great

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Mary Layton @maryherself.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

On Election Day 2024, I watched "V For Vendetta". At the time, I thought I was watching it as something we were about to make sure never happened. I was wrong. When I woke up the next day, I was stunned to find that we had not averted authoritarianism after all. 1/8

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Footage from the LA protests, where law enforcement intentionally shoot a reporter with a rubber bullet. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjg7MF8X/

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Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Free speech. The right to peaceably assemble. The right to tell Nazis to fuck all the way off. Use them or lose them.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/06/2025

If you want to show solidarity with Los Angeles, the best thing to do is organize protests against ICE tonight/tomorrow in your own cities. Search the web for ICE rapid response networks in your own city / state and sign up. Help your neighbors.

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Mary Layton @maryherself.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

This is very well said, and applies to visual art as well. 👏

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 15/05/2025

Sharing so you can block it

Google's Gemini AI is here. Let's give a real Bluesky welcome. BLOCKITY BLOCK BLOCK all the live long day

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I don’t want to read about a former President’s mental decline because a journalist got a book deal. I want to read a report about the current President’s mental decline by a journalist brave enough to speak out now.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

It took like half an hour for it to even occur to me that someone could have done this on purpose because these cars just do that on their own so often.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If Musk *actually* ran SpaceX. xkcd.com/3018/

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Second Stage

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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Today is the day! QUEEN OF FURY is finally here. 💚 Romance, adventure, magic, & unbridled feminine rage. The follow-up to the critically acclaimed feminist Arthurian retelling, QUEEN OF NONE, opens wide the world of Braetan, and brings together two unlikely characters who change everything.

A promotional graphic that reads "The Queens of Fate Arthurian Fantasy Series Continues" - Hwyfar of Avillion returns home to a kingdom
on the brink of ruin.
Gawain of Orkney embarks on one final assignment before retirement.
But in King Arthur’s Court, this love is treason.
The last thing either of them expect is love.

There is an image of the book cover, which features an armored woman with red hair on a green and gold background.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Is there a Peter Gabriel maxim where if he appears on the soundtrack, it's likely the movie kind of rules? NATURAL BORN KILLERS, SAY ANYTHING, THE CHOCOLATE WAR, STRANGE DAYS, VIRTUOSITY... what am I missing? BIRDY? LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST of course... Well, there should be.

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a man in a suit and tie is looking at the camera in a blurry black and white photo .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is looking at the camera in a blurry black and white photo .

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Mary Layton @maryherself.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

SL people! An acquaintance has recently posted a feature request, and it's a good one! Please have a look and give it an upvote if you agree. Sharing to boost is appreciated, too: feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requ...

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Build Tools - Accessibility (Color) | Feature Requests | Second Life

Your build tools are red, green, blue. Colour blindness and age-related disorders can make viewing these three specific colours difficult.

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Mary Layton @maryherself.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Oh yeah...I'm an artist. I ought to post some of my work. Pardon the watermark - I'm leery of posting art because of AI scraping. Though, these images have already been stolen for training anyway so I suppose it doesn't really matter. Anyway - here's some art. #artist #artshare #supportlivingartists

Watercolour artwork by Mary Layton featuring Ruby Throated Hummingbirds.

Watercolour artwork by Mary Layton depicting the "Justice" card from tarot.

Watercolour artwork by Mary Layton featuring a white napped crane framed by a peach branch with the Chinese symbol for Longevity.

Watercolour artwork by Mary Layton featuring a raven holding a skeleton key by a ribbon perched on a bare branch.

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Mary Layton @maryherself.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Seems like I'm on this list and have been blocked by the o7rise account... Block lists can be very helpful, but be sure to check the trustworthiness of the person making them. Looks like the MAGAs are here and making bad-faith lists with the intention of ensnaring non-MAGAs.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

You didn't miss it. This was reported for the first time in my newsletter this morning. popular.info/p/13-things-...

Secretary of Defense is one of the most complex and consequential positions on earth.

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I am very curious to see if the military brass sees a disconnect coming between their oaths of service and their chain of command. And by curious I mean, this is not a situation anyone should ever want and yet here we are.

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Mary Layton @maryherself.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

To help with this, you can go to Settings and under "Basics" click Accessibility and you can turn on "Require alt text before posting". It's helped me - I've tried to remember to do alt text wherever I can, but I forget occasionally - I love that Bluesky has this setting.

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Mary Layton @maryherself.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Ages ago, I posted a link to a video (because videos couldn't be posted here at the time) of me after 2 weeks learning bass. Since we can post videos here now - this is one from August I think. Anyway - I'm quite pleased with how well I've done in just under a year.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This is really important. Trans people basically founded Bluesky Being on here the last year has allowed me to learn so much about the trans experience, and the trans community is a special, integral part of the Bluesky community We don't do transphobia here, got it?

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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Meta (Facebook & Instagram) is purging links to our comics going back a decade and forbidding folks from sharing even in private chats. This does severely limit our ability to reach our followers, BUT people can join our Patreon FOR FREE to still receive comic updates! www.patreon.com/c/OhJoySexToy

Screencap of Oh Joy Sex Toy's Patreon landing page, with photoshopped arrows directing readers how to join as a free member.

There is an icon of three dots on the right-hand side of the page, tap that and then tap the dropdown menu that says "Join for free"

Patreon's official instructions:
https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/15491075190669-Becoming-a-free-member

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Spotify just reported record-breaking profits. In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)

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Spotify Hits 252M Premium Subscribers, On Track For First Full Year of Profitability

"We’re where we set out to be — if not a little further — and on a steady path toward achieving our long-term goals," said CEO Daniel Ek.

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