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@raveyrai.bsky.social
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I'm Raven (bka Rai on the web). Award-winning cartoonist that illustrates, animates, & all-around just creates! Solange also told me I was talented so I'm inclined to believe her • she/they

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Reincarnated! I'm a Star Gazer (aka David) @ncred.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is dope as fuck!
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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Jay Lender @jaylender.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Faux-old poster with fold marks. Postal Mascot Mr. Zip holds up a letter. Text reads: The Post Office is a SERVICE not a business! (Just like the police and fire departments!) When they say it NEEDS to turn a profit... Tell them to GO FUCK THEMSELVES!
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🌹/rā•vē•rā/🌹 @raveyrai.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Overwhelming in a good way. Moved to tears again.
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Dr. Debora Kamin Mukaz, MS, PhD 🫀🥼 @deborascience.blacksky.app · 16/03/2026
Also your attention, just like your privacy and labor, makes money for a lot of companies. Withhold it/ give wisely and see how quickly things will turn around.
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🌹/rā•vē•rā/🌹 @raveyrai.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Everyday I'm reminded of the literacy rates and how that could be one of many reasons why we're here 💔
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💀khary like atari💀 @kharyrandolph.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Don't fall for the traps and infighting. Black representation matters, whether it's mainstream or independent. #BlackHistoryMonth
Cover to Static Shock #11 (2011). Art by Khary Randolph & Emilio Lopez.  Cover to Nubia: Queen of the Amazons #1 (2022). Art by Khary Randolph & Emilio Lopez. Cover to Excellence #1 (2019). Art by Khary Randolph & Emilio Lopez. Cover to Sirens of the City #1 (2023). Art by Khary Randolph.
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🌹/rā•vē•rā/🌹 @raveyrai.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Y'all got any ambient background yet quality YouTube music channels that AREN'T using Generative AI? I'm running into generated music a lot on there and they're NOT labeling it AI (which is irritating me because it's confirmed in the comments).
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🎃 The AbominaSean 🧟‍♂️ @sean8urson.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
We are in the rare and unique position where indie animation can be unique creative visions unfettered by corporate interference or IP shit Why would you, as the fan, demand that the vision of the creator, who you claim to love, bend to your demands Kill your inner exec
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Anna Stesia @onlychyld.blacksky.app · 17/02/2026
It’s important to understand they were just people. Movements are made up of everyday people.
Photo of Jesse Jackson and Marvin Gaye playing basketball
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🌹/rā•vē•rā/🌹 @raveyrai.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We knew it would happen. Here's to the first iteration of FD's Tyler Perry video 😔🫗
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🌹/rā•vē•rā/🌹 @raveyrai.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Pinterest isn't as useful and fun like it used to be. Got me over here second-guessing everything I save like, "is this real... Or AI? Something about this got my 'uncanny valley' senses tingling."
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Children.
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(GDHitless) PT @pleasantlytwstd.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026
Hey y'all. A South African dev released a blackity black game during BHM and it's currently getting the usual suspects in the reviews. Imma grab this up myself anyway, but can we all be some chums and help push the racists out of the reviews? 🙂
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bogs @bogswallop.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
They're a requirement
Velma holding a stylus pen, crawling on the ground looking for something and saying "My video essays! I can't draw without my video essays!". On the ground are two youtube thumbnails of video essays "Line goes up -the problem with NFTs" by Dan Olson and "ROBLOX_OOF.MP3" by hbomberguy
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🔞 mars @marsoid.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Ride or Die is an LGBTQ/supernatural webcomic about street racers and a demon-possessed muscle car tracking down a missing person! 🔥🔥🔥 * Rideordiecomic.com * tapas.io/series/ride-or-die/info * webtoons.com/en/canvas/ride-or-die/list?title_no=720539&webtoon-platform-redirect=true
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Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 01/02/2026
CALLING ALL BLACK COMIC ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND ALL-AROUND CARTOONISTS! Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!
The text "Read Black Comics" on an inky almost-grey textured background.
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Regine Sawyer @lockettdown.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Hey 👋🏾 I'm a comic book writer/editor/publisher and a 2026 Eisner Judge. I'm also the Coordinator and Founder of the Eisner Award Winning organization @wincnyc.bsky.social
Two young Black Girls sitting at a table filled with food on it. They are under a pear tree with an animal friend in the background. Artwork by Micheline Hess. Cover #6 of WinC Magazine.A cityscape with cutlery above it, fashioned to look like a butterfly. REPRESENT! #3 written by Regine Sawyer, Pencil & Inks by Eric Battle, Colors by Brian Valenza.A large fist made of speakers in the background and a person plugging it in in the foreground. Apocalypse 91: The Revolution Never Sleeps Anthology by Z2 Comics.A young girl with blood on her face being licked by a large cat who has white fur with black spots. Eating Vampires by Regine Sawyer, artwork by Rodney Sanon.
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danny @ NYCC AA B-39 @danny8bit.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Last year, I successfully crowdfunded my new, original, all-ages, adventure comic series -- ENDLESS FANTASIA! It follows the adventures of Jack and Jill, as they travel across a world of reimagined fairytales and fight Wolf demons! Lots of Sonic and Kingdom Hearts vibes! It drops later this year!
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AFNarratives @afnarratives.blacksky.app · 01/02/2026
Don't forget to check out some amazing Black Femme Devs this Black History Month!!! 👩🏿‍💻🖤🎮 go.bsky.app/88aYGTF
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Stevoisiak @stevoisiak.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
Google with AI buttonsGoogle without AI buttons
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 01/02/2026
Liam was taken from Columbia Heights, the town just south of my high school in Fridley and just north of the Arts district in NE Minneapolis. I spent a lot of time with friends there after extracurriculars. News of his abduction completely broke my heart. I’m glad he’s home. #Comics4Liam
Drawing of Liam Ramos, a little Latino boy in his bunny hat with Pikachu on his head
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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 🔜 NFC @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This is old but I am still feeling this way up to this day.
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🌹/rā•vē•rā/🌹 @raveyrai.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Another app? ANOTHER one? And it's said to be a replacement to IG and that clock app (unless I'm getting it confused with yet ANOTHER app)? Makes me think of RedNote and the established community on there telling us (US Americans) we don't need another app, we need a revolution 😭
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Spooky @spooky-goo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
People really underestimate just how fucking cool Tetsuo Hara actually is. He is almost blind and it is about as effective against his drawing as a wet napkin against Kenshiro's iron chest. He funds children's hospitals. He said AI will never win because it can't be prepared to die like a human.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026
Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.
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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon. A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website: www.georgiafort.com/support
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Support Independent Journalism | GF
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.
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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
in addition to all the like clearly documented things that are bad about LLMs-masquerading-as-AGI or whatever, i think the emotional response on some level is about billionaires colonizing like... art and opinions and like our ability to think at all they want your brain to need a subscription
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 26/01/2026
We are raising a nation of dumbasses. It’s on purpose
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/01/2026
This is by far more effective at conveying what the government does than simply standing at a press conference surrounded by emergency personnel.
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🌹/rā•vē•rā/🌹 @raveyrai.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
12 items from the grocery equaling just above $50 is absolutely SINISTER, heeellllooooo????
Tracee Ellis Ross reaction image of her looking like she has hit her limit and—honestly—same, auntie.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 23/01/2026
it’s so cool that the only use case for ai is to distort everyones perception of reality. this needs to be heavily regulated immediately, especially when a government can do this
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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Happy birthday to the one and only, Hayao Miyazaki.
A video documentary where Hayao Miyazaki is saying "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself"
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🌹/rā•vē•rā/🌹 @raveyrai.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
No, I will not ask ChatG*T. I come from a time before even asking Google. Or Quora. Or Reddit. I asked Jeeves 😔🫗
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🌹/rā•vē•rā/🌹 @raveyrai.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Finally saw Sinners and I was NOT expecting to see my birthday as thee date(s) for the film. ...nor was I prepared to cry/have a damn near (if not actual) spiritual experience at the Sammie juke club scene. I gotta see it again on the IMAX screen, idk.
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Pearl Low | 劉寶珠🧋 (they/them) @pearllow.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
⚠️ HEY MAGICAL GIRL FANS⚠️ My Sailor Moon meets Roller Derby coming of age story WHEELS & ROSES, is now in production, BUT WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP TO FINISH!!! PLEASE SHARE THIS POST🛼 DONATE TO OUR FUNDRAISING LINK‼️ donorbox.org/wheels-roses Pls help this Black and Queer magical girl show happen!
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Wheels & Roses | Legends Animated (Powered by Donorbox)
Legends Animated is a proud 501c3 fiscal sponsor of Orange Blossom Studios as they create WHEELS & ROSES,  a Sailor Moon meets Roller Derby YA animated coming-of-age series. The story centers on p...
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🌹/rā•vē•rā/🌹 @raveyrai.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
So, yeah, the "Break" command for dog training really is key 😭
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🌹/rā•vē•rā/🌹 @raveyrai.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Anyway, Pitbulls & Parolees is becoming one of my fav reality TV shows. Late to the party, but still.
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🌹/rā•vē•rā/🌹 @raveyrai.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Car dependency sucks so bad, man. Like... The amount of car wranglin, increasing insurance, and money put into maintaining it hurts my soul (pockets) soooo bad.
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helmi @pearll002.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
🦌🌷
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KN 🥩 @krea2re.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
lou pinup #iwtv
a pinup of louis de pointe du pac in a cheetah print leotard, armwarmers, heels,  and wearing a beret. he is laid on his back on a tiger striped pillow, his legs are up as if propped on a wall. "meow" is written in large cursive down the length of his legs, "PURRRRRRR..." is written along the top of his beret, and sparkles float around him
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Trevor Fraley @illustrevor.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Crew 🌴🥭👑🗝️
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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 13/11/2024
Black BlueSky Thread: This will have starter pack and everything Black people and Black people only : Stay tuned as this will be updated periodically
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🌹/rā•vē•rā/🌹 @raveyrai.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Reposting to incorporate this to my practice 👀
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🌹/rā•vē•rā/🌹 @raveyrai.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Ok so, I haven't learned to whistle till... Like... Adulthood (now). And I still don't know what I'm doing or how I'm getting better. I tend to do it by mistake and, really, thanks to having a dog I'm FORCED to get better 😅
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🌹/rā•vē•rā/🌹 @raveyrai.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Aye, hello new folks lolol. I'm guessing more have migrated 👋🏾
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