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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 14h

A Green Heron wearing raindrops

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Minotaur Hotel Workshop @minohotel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

More fashionable than ever, P is ready to be a sad sack of shit.

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Pythox @culpeosfox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tirah stared into the Goshawk's eyes, unabashed. Red eyes under stern, white brows - wise and insane at the same time. Thus was the nature of Goshawks. (...) "Brave birdie", the Goshawk buzzed. "I slurped the lot of you raw, right out of the egg."

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A somewhat maximalist, very collage-heavy experiment piece this month, using a lot of my photography and some old Slovenian art

Digital collage and painting on vertical canvas
Theme: Fantasy / Dark fantasy / Experimental
Character: My OC Lubi (he/him, transmasc) and a skeleton
#Artsky #QueerArt #TransArt #DarkFantasy #SwordAndSorcery

This piece is almost entirely composed of photographs I took. It features a central long corridor that disappears into the darkness, every side of it a different texture. The left and right walls are photos of old walls, the ceiling is wood, and the floor is an enlarged photo of a gingerbread cookie I bought in a Polish shop in Ljubljana once, overlaid with an assortment of Turkish delight from Lidl. I've had these two photos for like 3 years and I'm so happy to finally put them to use lmao

In the front, slightly left stands a knight, who was traced with a lasso tool over a relief sculpture from Celje. He's wearing a dark armour with very colourful accents on skirt and flag, and his head is a fire. On his knee guards, one can spot a unicorn and a stag beetle in trans flag colours.

In the upper right corner, a dragon's head is sticking out of a wall, the fire it breathes joining in with the knight's fire hair. For this head I used a photo from an ornament on one of the 'healing springs' near my hometown. It's coloured in somewhat garish colours that reoccur across the picture, magenta, aqua, green and blue, and notably three of its fangs depict the white, pink and blue or the trans flag.

Lastly, underneath the head stands a skeleton, cut from the famous Danse Macabre fresco from the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje. The skeleton is orange with green shadows, and splashes of magenta on some parts of its body.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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DrFelici @drfelici.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh they went for a second round

Two thalassodromeus carrying a big fish in their beaks. One is struggling, one is proud.

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Alkuuda @notarealowl.hoot.gay · 27/09/2026

Friend of mine just made me aware google updated their images of Gaza and.... fuck. Seeing all the dots saying "dentist, school, market, resort" layered on the rubble... The old photos contrasted with the gravel that is left. Yet our politicians will keep pretending this is a "complex issue."

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Camarote da República @camarotedacpi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨🎰 PRESIDENTE LULA ASSINA O FIM DAS BETS NO BRASIL BETS DEIXARÃO DE OPERAR A PARTIR DE 06 DE OUTUBRO. PUBLICIDADES E PATROCÍNIOS DEVEM SER RETIRADOS ATÉ AS 23h59 DE 05 DE OUTUBRO.

Foto de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Presidente do Brasil, sentado a uma mesa a assinar um documento com uma caneta. Veste terno cinzento, camisa branca e gravata escura estampada. À sua frente está o documento apoiado sobre uma base encarnada, um copo de vidro com água e uma caneta num suporte. Ao fundo, vê-se um painel decorado com círculos em tons de azul e verde. No canto inferior direito, aparece um intérprete de língua de sinais a gesticular dentro de um pequeno retângulo.

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Lizzi 🐦🌸 @spiritcrowart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"May the light illuminate your path." 🎵 #art #pixelart #botw #rito #kass

Pixel art of Kass, a rito based on a blue macaw, holding an accordion

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SpeccyChicken @speccychicken.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

nefarious peafowl for 5headeddragons

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Wafa @wafalobsta.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Poe from Ruby Gloom has brothers by the way. Named Edgar and Allan of course. They are gigantic

An illustration of Poe and his brothers, Edgar and Allan, standing in a line. They are from Ruby gloom by the way.

From left to right:
Poe stands, smugly facing his brothers. He is short
Edgar blankly stares at Poe. He is tall.
Allan blankly stares at Poe. He is also tall.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

they never saw a thing!

silly digital doodle in black ink on white of a whole bunch of hanging sausages, and a wren hiding vertically in between them mlepping their tongue

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 26/09/2026

brother ignatz where the hell did you get those sausages from

this bittern's got way too many snausages

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eli shroom's altered ego @shroompunk.com · 25/09/2026

doodlin a new dude, here's hector, he's a maned wolf. gotta have those mile long legs. #FurryArt

Colored sketch of a maned wolf man with long, gangly legs, broad shoulders, and a bit of weight around his middle. He's holding a bigass sword in one hand and wearing casual clothes.

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eli shroom's altered ego @shroompunk.com · 25/09/2026

not a massive fan of how many programs just have the entire top bar of the window now covered in buttons, how am i supposed to grab the top bar and move the window without clicking your stupid random links that definitely didn't need to be ON the top bar, it shouldn't be a damn puzzle

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 25/09/2026

noot noot Lecontellus byturoides

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 25/09/2026

little guy needs glasses...

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ElectroCeratops @ehrenenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"OWL RLY" Acrylic and paint marker on birch panel. My piece for the Hoot art show, part of the Ottawa International Animation Festival this year. It's up right now for another 2 days at Beyond the Pale Brewing in the Byward Market. Painting is also for sale! #art #owl #retrogaming

An acrylic painting of a snowy owl character playing an original game boy. Bright retro colours and an abstract background. Perhaps a resemblance to an ancient meme.

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Don't be evil, kindness is good, make your memorial last through love of you. (Instruction of Merikare) (ALL)

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Northwest Larry @northwestlarry.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The Great Blue Heron is the gate keeper at the local fish hatchery with its Pterodactyl-level screeching!

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you’re bitching to the UN about a Twitch streamer it’s safe to say your PR battle has taken the biggest of L’s

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know “haha funny furries” but that’s a sitting US Senator standing next to a podium labeled “Transgenderism Is A Mental Disease” so I’m not really sure all these cis people should be crackin’ up here

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Rafe @rafe.bird.gay · 24/09/2026

it goes without saying of course, but when people as kids are taught about ww2 in school and ask "how could regular germans let so many people just get taken away?" I hope they, as adults now, understand.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On Saturday @jpinckney.bsky.social saw a man in his Austin neighborhood being kidnapped by ICE. Every day since then he's passed by the car, still sitting there, a horrifying lonely symbol of what is being done. www.welcometohellworld.com/his-car-is-s...

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His car is still sitting there

An ICE kidnapping in Austin

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At a church service in Chicago they had set up cardboard cutouts in the pews to represent the worshippers who would have attended mass if not for fear of being disappeared. Not far away I saw a laborer’s lunch had been left uneaten and spilled over onto the sidewalk outside of a home...

Who will clean any of this up?
At a church service in Chicago they had set up cardboard cutouts in the pews to represent the worshippers who would have attended mass if not for fear of being disappeared. Not far away I saw a laborer’s lunch had been left uneaten and spilled over onto the sidewalk outside of a home he must have just been working on. Laboring on. There’s a dumpster out front and a red white and blue flag themed porta-potty from a company called Patriot Portables. Three ladders still leaning up against the building.

It looks like it would have been a pretty tasty lunch. Even tossed aside like that and wasted now. A smear of orange hot sauce on the cracked styrofoam container. Not yet taken away by the wind. Such a beautiful seeming neighborhood too. I imagine it’s a very nice place to live. They say that Chicago is still surprisingly affordable.

It shows me home listings when I scroll now because I clicked on one or two at some point and so the computer believes that this is an integral datapoint that explains who I am. I just saw one hanging ten off a bluff that has been pummeled by eons of waves and so will not exist for much longer. Neither house nor bluff. Overlooking the water on Cape Cod. You could squeeze a couple of good years out of it still I thought. Until one awful night. I can’t afford it even now despite the implication but it’s a nice little nightmare to have.

I thought of a friend who was recently diagnosed with a terrible albeit not yet terminal disease but maybe that’s a bad analogy. A beach house is worth so much more than a person.

I don’t know how much longer it will sit there. Either the house or the guy’s lunch. Maybe everyone passing by assumes another worker is going to arrive soon to take care of it but it could be he’s already been disappeared himself.

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Moa @moa810.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

9月23日は陽鳥の誕生日。Happy Birthday, Hitori!🎉 #Hatoful

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A Green Heron closeup. This one still has a few downy feathers on the noggin.

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm telling you guys, you gotta put killcodes in the games you make now and hold them hostage. Day 0 patch set to automatically apply and delete everything if you aren't there to manually pause it. Go full Pandora Tomorrow. Your bosses don't know anything about coding, they can't fix it!

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Minotaur Hotel Workshop @minohotel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Can you believe we colored him green, yellow and blue? He's a walking Brazilian flag. He's my strongest, saddest little man.

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Amii Illustrates @amiiillustrates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

More good news + sources! (3/3)

in 2025, food banks prevented 2 million tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere. equivalent to pulling 473,000 vehicles off the road

List of sources for the positive news stories

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Amii Illustrates @amiiillustrates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

More recent good news from around the world 🌱 (2/3)

GOOD NEWS THIS WEEK
a record 30,000 coho salmon returned to central california rivers, double the total of last season

GOOD NEWS THIS WEEK
the population of once near-extinct kakapo hit a 75-year high

GOOD NEWS THIS WEEK
plastic bag pollution on UK beaches dropped by 80% since introduction of bag charge

GOOD NEWS THIS WEEK
white storks returned to england's midlands for the first time in over 600 years

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Amii Illustrates @amiiillustrates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Enjoy some recent positive news from around the world 🌱 (1/3)

GOOD NEWS THIS WEEK
iceland announced plans to consider permanent ban on whale hunting

GOOD NEWS THIS WEEK
global hunger rates have fallen for a third consecutive year

GOOD NEWS THIS WEEK
india's lion population found to have increased 70% over last 10 years

GOOD NEWS THIS WEEK
public transport is now free for all residents of porto, portugal

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Angela Marie Morton @angemmorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Came across an oldie but a goodie in a sketchbook I just used the last page of this afternoon....🖤

A brush pen drawing of a heron standing in shallow water. Art by Angela Marie Morton.

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Let's do a bit of quick research! Give me a noun and let's see what is the oldest example of that thing! Be curious about the world, it's fun!

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Charlie Ludwig @chuck4242.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My first educational video. This is something I’ve been wanting to do now that I’ve improved my video capturing abilities. So I present a Green Heron hunting. #Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #ECK #Video #Videos #Educational

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virtuallyjack @virtuallyjack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I caught somebody dancing today.

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CaptainWonkoTheSane @captainles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ICE now says the Doordash delivery driver was shot because he tried to flee. People need to go to jail. Cops aren’t allowed to shoot people for the simple act of running away.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People alwayes aske "Wher dyd the yeares go?" when the answere ys clearlye ynto the ever-hungrye maw of the tyme wolf.

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Libby Spencer @libbyspencer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Once down to a single pair. Conservationists rescued them from oblivion. The flock is now 350 strong. New Zealand’s karure, or black robin, has been crowned the country’s 2026 Bird of the Year. cnn.it/4rqzZeL

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Jack @jtenroon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is frying me

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Miniature birds 66 - Caspian tern

A grey sea bird with a white head, black cap and orange beak

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