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Kieran 🦘🇨🇦 @hellbendermuseum.bsky.social · 19h

Proud to present my lifesize T. rex head, affectionately named Hannibal. I created this myself from start to finish- digital sculpture, resin 3D printing, painting, etc. Huge thanks to my friend @rj-palmer.com for instrumental crits and redlines during the sculpting process.

Life-size t rex head model from front 3/4 view. I am also in frame

Life size t-rex model, from front and staring directly down the barrel of the camera

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Jellybox Studio @jellybox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

UMBERT ACTUALLY! EP 8!!! Why are Queer cartoon characters censored?! #UmbertActually #UnionYaoi #MistermanGuyfella #Jellybox #IndieAnimation

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Get out and vote! He literally had people raise their hands and pledge to cheat two weeks ago in Dallas.

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:

She calls out, “Where are you going?” And I say, “I am going out to get an envelope.” And she says, “Well, you’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.”

I go next to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue. The woman behind the counter says, “Thirty-nine cents for a stamp.” I say, “I only brought thirty-seven. When did that change?” She looked at me a long time. “Thirty-seven isn’t enough.” “Well that oughta be enough for one envelope,” I said. The line was getting longer.

The lady moved her hand into her coat. I knew this routine. I backflipped behind the man behind me in line, wrapping my elbow around his throat as I landed. By the time the stamp seller had unloaded her clip, I had full cover. The gentleman’s body dropped to the floor, six holes smoking. The package he was carrying fell to the floor with a heavy clunk. Whatever was in there, it would do.

I rolled my foot over the cardboard and did a “flick up” as they call it in soccer. I bounced the package once or twice on the back of my foot as the mail lady reloaded, then I launched it high and spun 360 to deliver my patented “Rising Phoenix kick”. The package caught fire as it shattered through the protective plexiglass window and struck the woman’s head with all the force and hatred I had learned to channel in my grueling tutelage under five fallen Wudang masters in my youth. The lady’s body exploded off of her bones, leaving just a blackened skeleton spinning in her office chair. “So it goes,” I said, but no one laughed. I guess they weren’t big readers.

And I go home. And I have had one hell of a good time.

We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Ash @bsartsss.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A few pieces from march with Medusa and blindwife chrysus

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

are you fucking serious newsom and bonta should be raked over the fucking coals for settling

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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weinberg @weinbergs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this is fontastic.

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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Karli! @karlicartoons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THE SEGWICK COUNTY ZOO PRINTED OUT MY DRAWING OF THE BABY TAWNY FROGMOUTH AND GAVE IT TO THE KEEPERS AND SHOWED IT TO THE FROGMOUTH ITSELF!!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!! 💕💕💕💕

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こまちみゆた @comatimiyuta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

晩夏のグラデーション

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Count Trashula @trashmobminis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

NEW WILDWOOD TRAILER JUST DROPPED!!! I was in the department that built the wild-wood itself. Come see all our hard work! youtu.be/bJQGtSeLPII?...

youtu.be

Wildwood – Final Trailer | Get Tickets Now

YouTube video by LAIKA Studios

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Kris Dobbins @krisdobbinsart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Y'all better be going out to support a PG-13 animated movie like you've been ASKING FOR

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Disney renaissance movies used to look different. They were planned to be printed on 35 mm film -- that's how they were first released. Modern editions skip that last step in the process. It was a highly developed, overlooked craft, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/disneys-fi...

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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I bet da Vinci told Mona Lisa to smile more and that's why he's dead now.

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

there's something very contemporary about this 1908 painting of Judas by Sascha Schneider (or just a testament to the Symbolists' lasting influence to this day)

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The return to physical media is a radical act. A book in your hand or a record on the turntable belong to a world beyond subscriptions, licenses, and corporate permission, and they can be lent, inherited, annotated, repaired, and loved. They remain when the platform fails and the servers die.

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What's an example of perfect casting?

Amy the gorilla drinking a martini on an airplane in the movie CONGO.

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

it's my birthday! you could share my art if you like, and maybe leave me a comment with something really beautiful you've seen this week?

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Scott Wills paints a background for the first run of Samurai Jack (2001–2004), created by Genndy Tartakovsky, Cartoon Network Studios

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 03/09/2026

We aren’t buying a board game, we’re buying the hope that one day we’ll have the free time and friend group to play it.

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Imagining how much this brightened the days of people who witnessed it and smiling

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 05/09/2026

90s kids...remember this feeling?

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...

A poster featuring the T-Rex at the cognitive natural sciences, which says save the Academy natural sciences, museum rally in front of the academy 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway, Tuesday, September 8 10 AM. The T-Rex is saying tell Drexel keep the museum open. There’s an RSVP QR code and then the logos of Philly Science Action Skype scientist In Philly on the bottom.

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Kati Knitt @katiknitt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

watch The Owl House instead (the Dana Terrace way)

"Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.

— Dana Terrace (@DanaTerrace) November 14, 2025"

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

With alt text.

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO

Dr. John Sharpe of London, who in 1957 a decade before physicians in England could legally perform an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a twenty-two-year-old American on her way to India.

Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, “You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life.”

Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death:

I’ve done the best I could with my life.

This book is for you.

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Tess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am excited to announce that I am collaborating with the NDGS to investigate Dakota the dino mummy for color patterning and cellular preservation! but we need your help to continue this research🫵. Check the link in replies 🦕🔬

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fuck yeah

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I have a feeling that it might be for the best that the 1912 King In Yellow movie has been utterly lost to time. Pretty sure the copy I just saw is the only one. Was the only one. Burned in the projector Wait a second there’s a masked bloke at the door

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Albasoup @albasoup.itch.io · 29/08/2026

Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection

A backrooms-ass room with a twilight sky and trees seemingly imposed over it in a dream-like fashion (it's the reflection of the window)

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We’re allowed to ask for birthday reposts, right? Happy birthday to me, help out an artist trying to get their career in a better place and maybe get some more book covers before they turn 40, I got one year left!

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Joey Clift @joeytainment.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I drove all the way to Newport Beach to unbox my new comedy book about Native American history on John Wayne’s actual grave!

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Still thinking about the Luddites I came across this. How fascinating it is to watch what might be the germ of a neo-Luddite movement around surveillance technology. And a guy writing a nudge-wink, fuck-the-man, banger of a country song makes me feel American in a way that for once isn’t pejorative.

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 20/08/2026

Okay I want to do a thread. Note: This is not about whether or not the screenplay is cringe to read. Laugh at that shit. I think writing a script for a huge production is very different than writing a script for a comic THAT SAID i want to talk a little about why it's ok if your comics do this

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It is strange that art and humor are so subjective but if anyone on this website didn’t like Calvin & Hobbes I’d be a little surprised and also not at all interested in hearing why they don’t like it (because they would be evil)

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Dane Erland @mechanekton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Can't believe it's taken me a whole year to get another batch of lego #lancerrpg mechs built. Here's Big Sal, Manticore, Black Witch, Goblin, and Hecatoncheires.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Criterion's K-POP DEMON HUNTERS release is targeting a generation just discovering the wonders of collecting physical media at a time when physical media companies need it most, while also introducing their catalogue to young movie lovers. This is a genius move. Get the kids into Criterion!

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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

📌 I'm Eleonor, a freelance illustrator from Portugal - you can see my work in books (in covers and interiors), card games, and other assorted projects :) Everything I paint is 100% human-made, as are the occasional bad jokes ✌️ 🌟 eleonorpiteira.squarespace.com

Cover illustration for the Special Limited Edition of 'The Odyssey' by Homer painted by Eleonor Piteira for Wraithmarked Creative, showing a strong Odysseus with grey streaks in his hair and short dark beard, wearing golden armour and holding a spear and a shield, while standing in the sun before a mural made of mosaics featuring Athena and ships in the sea. There are branches of olive trees on the foreground.

Cover illustration by Eleonor Piteira for Astarion, a Baldur's Gate 3 novel, by T. Kingfisher, featuring a white haired man in rich black and red clothes, raising a golden goblet on his hand that overflowing with blood and dripping down. On his other hand he is holding a dagger. The background is red with dark circular markings seemingly dripping down.

Haliya, Guided by Light, illustrated by Eleonor Piteira for the Magic: The Gathering set 'Edge of Eternities'. A young black woman dressed in light armour with an orange cape and holding a sci-fi-looking axe, stands triumphantly on top of a pile of dead enemies in dark bulky armours. Behind her there's a flat orange planet against a light purple background with stars, while the silhouette of a ship flies by.

Time's End, an illustration by Eleonor Piteira of a statue of a woman reaching up with light emanating from her hand. On the background there are ruins of a building with plants growing amidst the remnants of a broken stained glass window framing a sky filled with stars.

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

From: The Hobbit (1977), dir. Arthur Rankin & Jules Bass, Rankin/Bass This film was created mostly by Topcraft, the Japanese studio that later produced Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

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Andboo Haunton 😷🎃 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I’ve never seen this Harryhausen quote about why stop motion animation is its own aesthetic form & trying to make it feel like smooth live-action is a category error. ❤️

As Harryhausen summed it up in 1981:

To me, the ultimate aim in making our films has never been the smoothing out of stop-motion animation. To try to duplicate live action in every way seems to me like asking a painter to paint a landscape so it will appear like a photograph. Our pictures are more of a surrealistic experience rather than an excursion into technical perfection. I’m certain technical perfection has its place and its advantages, but could you really make a sequence such as the skeleton swordfight in Jason and the Argonauts … with a computer?

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RSpanner @rspanner.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Thanks for the reminder, Gazlowe (Audio is from a clip by Northernlion)

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