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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:

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Olena Shmahalo @natureintheory.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Oooh love a good QOL update!* I'd been wanting this feature Procreate has #clipstudiopaint #csp www.clipstudio.net/en/dl/releas... I generally hate updating. Usually screws things up → hours of work-time lost to fixing. Thus, getting July update in November xD *On that note, our new Mayor too 😄🎉

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What's New in the Clip Studio Paint July 2025 Update (for Annual/Monthly/Update Pass Plans) Ver. 4.1.0 (Released July 29, 2025)

Version 4.1.0 includes the following new features.
Align with the orientation of an object when transforming

You can now adjust the orientation of the bounding box when using the Edit menu > Transform. This allows you to rotate the bounding box to match the object being transformed, for more control over scaling objects.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/10/2025

Whew, this is a tough one! I've been digging into this today and haven't definitively made up my mind, but here are a few resources to consider... 🧵

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/10/2025

Friends in NYC, please do EVERYTHING you can to help get out the vote for Mamdani. Cuomo will throw the door wide open for the ICE Gestapo. Sign up to canvass for Mamdani here: www.zohranfornyc.com/gotv?r=uf_Vq...

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Get Out The Vote for Zohran | Zohran for NYC

We need YOU to get your neighbors out to vote for Zohran! Our movement has to win big on November 4th to have the strength to pass our affordability agenda. Sign up for our final stretch shifts now an...

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Olena Shmahalo @natureintheory.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

It is that time. 🍂 #Goblincore

Sketches of figures in enormous sweaters with the label "giant, semi-impossible wool sweaters I want (+ hats). 1. "moss" - green moss with mushrooms growing on it + fungal witch hat; 2. "pumpkin" - orange pumpkin-shaped; 3. "cosmos" - black with stars.
#Art by Olena Shmahalo

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will: MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR. Measles cases have reached their HIGHEST point since the disease WAS ELIMINATED from the United States in 2000. We are at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.

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◾▫️Ash ▫️◾ @acubed.art · 17/10/2025

My thoughts on the gen ai normalization I've been seeing recently:

I'm seeing this from different people:
"We must experiment with these tools to understand them and our place in the industry in the future."
I hear coming from the Trojan horse.
They weren't built with the idea of keeping artists on these projects, they were built as replacements and to save on the "bottom line". Gen ai and llms are used currently as replacements, and they're just going to get better.
No experimenting needed dudes, they are designed so that a 2 year old can use them, if you know how to photobash youll be able to learn this workflow in 30 minutes if you so desperately needed to.
Refusing to use them is standing in solidarity with the thousands affected and more so stolen from. Using them is crossing an active picket line and breathing life into a future where you no longer create art for media, you assist ai until the corporate machine no longer needs you to assist it. This issue is so much larger than the arts. We were just the canaries in the coal mine.
We have the ability to stand firm on this and create the industry and world we wish to live in, not one we are forced to by people with interests directly harming our existence. I owe too much of my own life to art and what it has brought me in my darkest times than to capitulate.

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Olena Shmahalo @natureintheory.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

OMG THAnk YOU @procreate.com ! Lasso. Fill. Planned!!!!!!!!! 😍 folio.procreate.com/discussions/...

Screenshot from the Procreate forums: Reply by Clarey:
"Thank you for your feedback, everyone! I am updating this feature request as we now have this listed as Planned."

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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🇵🇱🇷🇺🇧🇾🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Since 1 am, our military tracked the movement of Russian drones toward the Polish border. This was not an accident or a mistake, it was deliberate. Russia used both Ukrainian and Belarusian territory to enter Polish airspace.

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🍁danielle🐈‍⬛ @framedinnocence.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

So anyway I got dog a new headband.

A small black dog with a white/grey muzzle wearing an orange flower headband. She is sitting on a grey fuzzy bed next to a cream colored blanket with small pumpkins on it.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Obviously, there's bigger news happening right now, but Senate Republicans just voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every Democrat voted to release them. Susan Collins was the deciding vote to protect Trump and others named in the files.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2025

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/09/2025

You also need to say this shit when people get fired for mentioning their personal gender or get roughed up for looking at ICE the wrong way. Come the fuck on. If you believe this, believe it for everyone.

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 10/09/2025

PSA: The fact that RFK Jr doesn’t believe that healthy children need the COVID19 booster doesn’t change the fact that previously healthy children are continuing to have devastating outcomes from COVID19 infections.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Ukraine's air force has warned Poland that Russian drones have entered its air space and Zamosc is under threat, Reuters reports.

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 10/09/2025

Poland has the luxury of a NATO-protected airspace — Ukraine doesn't. As a result, multiple Ukrainian cities have been struck tonight, including Lviv.

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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

04:09 in Ukraine. More drones are coming. Lviv, please stay in the shelter.

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Olena Shmahalo @natureintheory.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

OMG THAnk YOU @procreate.com ! Lasso. Fill. Planned!!!!!!!!! 😍 folio.procreate.com/discussions/...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/09/2025

Updated COVID vaccine availability map 9/9 It's most difficult to get a shot in these states, which require prescriptions and have no MinuteClinics: ME, OR, UT, WV These states require prescriptions but do have MinuteClinics: AZ, DC, FL, GA, LA, NC, VA In all other states, no prescription needed

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Olena Shmahalo @natureintheory.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The art: www.olenashmahalo.com/project/cosm... PureRef : www.pureref.com (it's freeeee but please donate if you can, they are amazing to keep this free and do awesome feature updates)

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Cosmic Timeline - Olena Shmahalo

Science Illustration / Infographic • Scientific American • 2025

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Olena Shmahalo @natureintheory.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Just some hungry chickadees I drew for a Nature article D: share.google/images/v3VFN... www.nature.com/articles/d41... #SciArt #graphics #neuroscience #chickadees 🧪 🐦 🧠

Infographic showing a chickadee looking for food in a test environment, and its place cells (neurons) firing in response to detecting the feeders and food. Art and design by Olena Shmahalo for Nature.

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Olena Shmahalo @natureintheory.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

xD this is what I do to overcome this problem. PureRef. It's the best.

To-do list next to cropped WIP illustration of reionization

Art by Olena Shmahalo for Scientific American

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Olena Shmahalo @natureintheory.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

As a former acrylics-enjoyer & hater of oils & watercolor, I think I'll probably like acrylic gouache. But still wonder if I should buy like 1 "real" gouache tube just to see... Ya know, to torture myself a bit 😂

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Olena Shmahalo @natureintheory.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

ヤッホー Japan! I'd love to visit again someday. Even if I can't for now, at least my art can travel there via Newton（ニュートン）magazine! 👋 #3Dart #SciArt #illustration #physics 🧪 🐡 ⚛️ 🔭

Photo of an open magazine in a bookstore. The spread is showing an abstract 3D illustration of a high-energy physics event centered between two cones that stretch out to the sides. The left cone contains a depiction of neutrinos and other particle physics phenomena, while the right shows the evolving universe. The title, in Japanese, says "Interview with Professor Hitoshi Murayama", "The Future of Particle Physics"

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Your reminder that 99.99% of the artists you interact with are sustained by a second job or spouse/family, and followers do not actually translate directly to dollars

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Olena Shmahalo @natureintheory.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I have a pet pigeon. Sort of. Idk why, this pigeon likes the tiniest windowsill I have. & I hear it every time it lands — nay, CRASHES — there, awkwardly & clumsily 😂 So I go over to the window and we look at one another momentarily. I sigh, "Hey man" ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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Ki @ no online shop this fall~ @gawki.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

My current obsessions rn are US history and precolonial Philippines history. Recently learned that some tribes in precolonial Philippines normalized and endeared woman, gender fluidity, and even had 5+ genders before Spanish colonizers enforced the binary “standard” and patriarchy.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 06/09/2025

Classic example of "a fine is permission for the rich." Haven't bothered signing up for the class action because this is just an incredibly cheap rate to pay for the source material they intend to then use to generate endless derivative profit-making works in perpetuity.

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Flash sale! Had some bills sneak up on me so discounting these from earlier postings. A. $150, (Size 4.75x6") B. $40, (Size 3x4") C. $30, (Size 2x4") D. $50, (Size 4x5") Prices include US Shipping. Venmo/PayPal accepted. DM to claim 💜🎃

Image of paintings of assorted sizes with letters.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/09/2025

🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US. Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.

Map of COVID vaccine availability by state

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Olena Shmahalo @natureintheory.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I'm late to the party but 1. the phrase "clanker slop" is very funny 2. 🥹🤭:

Reddit comments:
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Checks out. AI hit when I was 35 and I hate it.

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Now you're destined to be someone's old racist grandpa. You're going to tell your granddaughter that she can't date some clanker because marriage is between two humans, and she's going to call you a robophobe

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Another example of civil society censoring itself, creating a simulacrum of normality when things are not normal

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Our lab at Yale literally studies government suppression of outbreak reporting. Please: don't promote unverifiable reports from anonymous accounts. They're very likely to be false, and it boosts unreliable actors. (If this is happening, I suspect CDC sources know how to text a journalist just fine.)

"Just spoke with my CDC sources.

They said RFK Jr. has ordered officials to hide tuberculosis cases, even as three active TB cases were just reported in Maine. He's also suppressing bird flu reports.

Pandemics don't start with viruses they start with secrecy.

RFK Jr. must resign now!"

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Olena Shmahalo @natureintheory.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

My first header art for Nature! About a topic I've been learning about & working with for a long time. It's a dream come true to work on things like this. 🧪⚛️ #SciArt #illustration #3D #3Dart #C4D #NoAi #Physics #QuantumPhysics www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about reality, Nature survey shows

First major attempt to chart researchers’ views finds interpretations in conflict.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.

Tinsel the calico glares at you with a furrowed brow

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Olena Shmahalo @natureintheory.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Bottled celestial events ✨ www.olenashmahalo.com/project/time... 🧪⚛️🔭 #SciArt #Illustration #ScienceIllustration #NoAI #Physics #AstroPhysics #Astronomy

Stylized illustration of time-domain (transient) astronomical events like gamma ray bursts, TDEs, and supernovae contained in glass bottles. Art by Olena Shmahalo for Symmetry magazine.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

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Rosie Mestel @rosiemestel.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Such beautiful piece of art that we were proud to have accompany a @knowablemag.bsky.social article. Hooray for artists! And hooray for the great taste of our treasure of an art director, Lisa Modica. 🧪

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2025

WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?

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