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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hi #portfolioday 🎨 I'm also fluent in small items. 💎⚔️🌱📚 #ttrpg

an assemblage of two dozen of magic sword illustrations, with designs going from elegant to ridiculous, as a nice chess knight sword, a magic scroll sword, a lava sword, a ghost sword, an insect sword or the very justice sword broken from the arms of a justice statue.

several items as stock art: books, chests, idols, maps

colourful illustration of 32 minerals competing in the 2026 mineral cup. they from deep red, greem, to blue, white and grey, as we have here rocks, crystals and metallic minerals. azurite, cuprite, quartz, talc, halite, vesuvianite, graphite, pyromorphite, julianite, andalusite are just some of the minerals that compose the list.

illustrations of several plants: jequitiba, araucaria, pomegranate, mate. only their leaves, fruits and flowers.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 20h

I’m looking to speak with high school aged trans athletes or their parents in both red and blue states for a series of stories on how the landscape for trans people wanting to play sports looks after this summers SCOTUS decision. Email: sydneyerinwrites @ gmail dot com Signal: SydneyBauer.30

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Happy #PortfolioDay 🎨 I'm a Brazilian freelancer working on hand-drawn fantasy maps for novels and RPGs. I have a Patreon with maps + stock art for indie RPGs 💼 www.artstation.com/salvaterraerra 🗺️ www.patreon.com/tomeofsalvat... +🔗 fernandosalvaterra.carrd.co #cartography #ttrpg

fantasy map illustration depicting a landscape full of ragged mountains up and down, crossed by crooked roads, some on giant stone structures. There is a valley with hills and woods to the south, a desert with wretched lands just east of it, wetlands to the west and east with flooded cities and temples, snowy plains to the northeast with a giant skeleton and tree and an impossibly tall mountain in the northwest whose peak is obscured by dark clouds.

map or landscape illustration in a tarot card proportion, depicting a fragmented land with big stone slabs open up to a ravine below. It has a long stone stairway going down, a strange crystal palace, some trees and desert-like terrain, a giant anthill, a river cascading to the ravine and a pool on a floating islet, containing a giant, desperate eel that doesn't fit well in the pool.

map in a tarot card proportion depicting the bottom of a ravine with a big set of stone stairs ending on an islet on a lake, fed by a stream that comes from the waterfall at the top of the map. the islet has a standing stone circle around a well. there are stone pillars, a forest of regular trees, and forests of giant mushrooms. there are caves at the cliffs at the top of the map and an inn inside one of the shroom forests.

a planar map in the shape of a compass rose. The direction arrows are the four classical elemental planes with the material plane in the centre and several layers of other planes of existence around it.

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Rick Schmelz @rickschmelz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Laurel and Hardy Meet Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 29/09/2026

For the people using ChatGPT as a doctor

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

GoFundMe was a lot more effective when it was called taxes.

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Rick Schmelz @rickschmelz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is horrific. Fuck this regime.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026

Two things worth considering dude by side, with AI in research:

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Rick Schmelz @rickschmelz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Songs hit different when you’re dealing with grief/loss* and reflecting on your own life. New (to me) meanings come through in the words, the music carries new emotions. Listened to ‘Dust In The Wind’ with new ears today. It wrecked me for a while. *No new losses, first anniversaries hitting.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't even use the word "nigga" because I was taught that it was an unladylike term reserved only for black men to use, so I damn sure do not see any respect in anyone NOT black using it.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Okay, I am going to make your week a lot better with a recommendation today. I don't care if you are a Marvel fan, a Muppet fan, or both, or neither. This morning I bought MUPPETS TAKE THE MARVEL UNIVERSE #1 on digital because I couldn't wait for a physical copy. People. BUY THIS BOOK.

Muppets Take The Marvel Universe #1 cover

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

LOOK AT THIS FUCKING SHIT. The easiest way to tell that trans women are women is that the right is so desperate to control what they do with their bodies. WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN COMMON.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 20/09/2026

I was thinking the other day that the cishet white guy version of that poem would be "first, they came for me and there was no one else around to say anything it was weird I wonder where they all went"

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Sterling Dodge (aka Justin Eger) @fugitivecourier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sharing a bit more of a personal post today. @jess914.bsky.social and I will be participating in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk here in Pittsburgh on Oct. 18. You're welcome to join her team. Story in thread, but dropping this here now: secure.acsevents.org/site/STR?fr_...

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I joined Making Strides Against Breast Cancer to fight breast cancer. Support me with a donation and you'll be helping the American Cancer Society fund breakthrough breast cancer research, free rides ...

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 20/09/2026

I was invited to review this week by a journal that had helpfully embedded an LLM bot *inside* its reviewer interface. Being a tester of things LLM, I asked the bot to do what the journal suggested I ask it to do, which was to summarize the paper’s key claims for me. It could not. Not even slightly.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12/09/2026

Hey, friends! I put my big ol' face in another video to tell you about the awesome new THUNDERCATS book we've got coming from @dynamitecomicshq.bsky.social! Please do check it out & preorder with your local comic shop by 9/14! WHO IS THE FERAL KING? (and why am i talking comics in prospect park?)

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Pizza Las Vegas @muyrando.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Can other parts of a skeleton get up to duggery or is it just the skull?

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Fulkery Monkery @fulkery.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today someone told me “if hard work brought success, mules would own the farm.” I hate it, but yeah.

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Dear people from Blue states upset that Canadians are mad at ALL OF US: From a Red state I say: sucks, don't it?

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Dane will return at NYCC H-05 @monkeyminion.com · 29/08/2026

DO NOT APPLY TO OR ATTEND THIS SHOW. I don't care if it's in your backyard. You can bet that every convention runner is watching this and the bad ones are salivating at this idea of $150 application fees, plus jacked up booth rates. If it works for this show, they WILL try it at theirs.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Instead of lowering flags to half mast for Dolly, they should reinstate vaccine mandates. They should invest in public health. They should walk back discriminatory LGBTQ+ policies. They should stop banning books and fund libraries. That’s how you honour her legacy.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Here’s the thing about Y2K, the ozone layer, etc. The most leftist—in the sense of *valuing labor*—thing you can do is reject the brainwashing that tells you that heroism is running into a burning building and not the slow, patient, boring, unglamorous work of *preventing* disaster.

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Rick Schmelz @rickschmelz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Tomorrow will be 1 year since my Big Brother died. Yesterday while talking with a coworker about that specifically, they told me to smile. "I'll smile when I feel like smiling" WAS the polite version, my good bitch. I WANTED to show them the many ways fuck can be used in a sentence, but HR, etc.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 01/08/2026

Rest well. Know that you are loved, appreciated & respected. Even if its just a stranger on the internet you dont even know and have never met. If you needed this, then this measage is for you. If you didn’t need this, same. Be well and be kind to yourself no matter how hard, friend. Take care ❤️👍🏾

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

UNPOPULAR OPINION; Children deserve to eat and I do not care if my taxes go towards buying them food.

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

*heavy sigh* okay, free advice for Dem candidates! If you are tabling at Pride events, you *need* your volunteers to know very basic answers abt your positions on specific policies to support LGBTQ+ constituents. "Of course he supports the queer community" and "well she's here isn't she" aren't it!

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Zaire @zeestermeester.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

If anyone is looking to hire a Peabody and BAFTA winning senior writer, I am looking for work. I’ve got six years experience in games. Everything from indie to AAA. I am not married to staying in games. I am hoping to relocate to the Bay Area. I am keeping my ears to the ground.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

We wanted to understand what’s happening with the Strait of Hormuz. So we talked to five raw milk drinkers at an emergency room in Idaho.

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alternate rending 😱 🪓 @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

oh damn, not joking when I say I thought to myself “what’s that light-hearted feeling?” and realized it was the first Pride month in some time where we won’t have to hear a word from Charlie Kirk

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maryk @sunriseart.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Hey I’m open for work now! I’m Marie, concept artist and illustrator. Looking for a job. You can contact me here or via email romanovam1975@gmail.com It’s important for me now so I’d be grateful for rt

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Matt Dxgges @sequentialmatt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I’m sorry

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Rebecca Frost @rebeccafrostwrites.com · 26/05/2026

Your favorite punkle, Nix, is facing a tough battle with sepsis after surgery. Every little bit helps him keep his home during this challenging time, and even a small donation can make a significant difference. Please click and share. Thank you for your support! gofund.me/978f10fbe

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Hello all. Shannon here on behalf of Nix. Stephanie and I wan… Shannon Valdes needs your support for Help Nix keep his home as he battles life threatening sepsis

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The concept in psychology is "theory of mind". It's your ability to understand the motivations, emotions, and identities of others. AI chatbots and AI accounts on social media undermine your true perceptions of other humans.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/05/2026

I would like everyone to know that "A.i." comics are for losers.

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Hiroshi McBride @hiroshi-mcbride.dev · 20/05/2026

Any ARTISTS out there open for a paid commission? I need an album cover and already have a concept. DM me if interested :) #art

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Rick Schmelz @rickschmelz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I am in danger of becoming the most unobservant, most clueless education worker in regards to certain things about my students. Odd that such a mental deficiency can develop so suddenly and so contextually. Unrelated, I believe that as mandated reporters we should be PROTECTING kids.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it” so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

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Rick Schmelz @rickschmelz.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice and Grogu (Yes, I'm aware this alone will doom me to perdition.)

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Rick Schmelz @rickschmelz.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My Big Brother's birthday is coming up in a little over a week. He died last August. I'm already kind of a mess this morning. There's lots of reasons for that I won't bore you with, and it's no surprise that his BDay is fucking with me pretty hard. I know the pain dulls with time, but - fuck.

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Rick Schmelz TTRPG @rickschmelzttrpg.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I have to admit to some frustration with @originsgamefair.bsky.social /GAMA - I submitted my games on time, and they're not showing up in the schedule. Last I was ABLE to check, they were still pending review, but now I can't even check their status because every visit's being rerouted to QueueIt.

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

nothing will ever convince me ABBA wasn't just a polycule who had a side project take off

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Rick Schmelz TTRPG @rickschmelzttrpg.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Hey folks! If you're in the area around Louisville, KY, check out Thieves Run. It's a gaming space being set up by two friends of mine (full disclosure.) The idea is a membership based 3rd space dedicated to Gamers and their needs. Their website explains it better, so - www.thievesrun.com

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Thieves Run | 24/7 Tabletop RPG Space in Louisville, KY

Coming in the Summer of 2026, learn about Thieves Run: Tabletop Hideout, Louisville's first 24-hour tabletop gaming space!

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