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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Oh, my gosh, you guys. I just found out that Cheech and Chong sometimes indulged in POT CIGARETTES.

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a black and white photo of a man wearing a tuxedo and bow tie .

ALT: a black and white photo of a man wearing a tuxedo and bow tie .

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Getting my 3rd Brain MRI Monday, excited for my insurance to pay for yet another temporary Micolash cosplay

robed and chained person in a chair wearing a mensis cage

person laying on a bed in an mri machin wearing a head cage

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Steven Pumpkin Spice 🦇🎃 @silent0siris.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

A better world isn’t just possible, it literally exists! You can go there! Public transit infrastructure is vastly faster and more convenient than cars for 95% of use cases!

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smallactsgreatlove.bsky.social @smallactsgreatlove.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Today's act of love: self-reflection. Today, if you encounter someone different (culturally, racially, socio-economically) pay attention to your inner dialogue - are you scared, happy, confused, curious? Why? If the day ends and you haven't met someone different, why is that? What prevented it?

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smallactsgreatlove.bsky.social @smallactsgreatlove.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Today's act: Reach out to a friend or family member who you have lost touch with. No agenda, just let them know you are thinking about them, curious about how they are doing, and value the relationship. #SmallActsGreatLove #DailyResistance #HumanConnection #CareIsResistance #SolidarityInAction

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Please enjoy this colored pencil drawing of Homestar Runner I made like 22 years ago responsibly thank you and have a nice day

Homestar Runner in colored pencil in front of a blue star and a green circle, signed by @SieNoel and dated April '03

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

man, if this post wasn't making sense 5 months ago, do y'all see what I'm talking about yet?

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smallactsgreatlove.bsky.social @smallactsgreatlove.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The goal of this account is to give ideas each day for ways to "move the needle" and make small steps towards a more caring and empathetic culture and resist dehumanizing forces. “Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Bucket crimes, crimes committed with my bucket friend, crimes my bucket friend told me to do, crimes committed whilst inside the infinite hole labeled K, skip button crimes, eternally recursive crimes (so many recursive crimes), crimes of choice, or perhaps crimes I had no choice but to commit...

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Vermin... are the root of man's impurity. Those who wish to see vermin can, and those who choose to are provided with boundless purpose. Pay to mind to the fact that vermin resemble a human spinal cord, don't think too hard about that salute or that helmet having only one eye... Confederates.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Most people have heard the quote “history is written by the winners”. I want everyone to understand that this is not some kind of metaphor. It is quite literal. Fascists always work to literally erase the artifacts that tell the history that they don’t want told.

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I do not know what I am doing, and tbh I should not be trusted with sharp objects. I'm wearing flip flops. I do not belong here... but here I am. Hey, is there a wood relief carving side of bluesky? If so, do y'all wanna tell me how to do this thing or what to avoid?

a block of walnut wood with the silhouette of a rearing horse partially freed from it, some woodcarving tools, grips holding the block steady, etc, and lots of chunks of gouged out wood

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

painting a tiny face with acrylics while trying to show someone enraptured in joy and freedom is hard, I need to give her hair but gotta step away to feed the dog. Wherever this is when I go to bed tonight is where it will remain forever, wish me luck

A woman with a look of joy on her face, raised to the morning sun, sits atop a chestnut horse with umber mane and tail, as well as umber on its legs and nose. They ride beyond mesas and rock arches, thru desert scrub and a sunbeam shining from where the light climbs over the distant mountains on the horizon, bathing the world below and clouds above in orange, yellow, pink, and purple

no hair has been painted on the woman's head yet

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The first Soulsborne game I ever attempted was Dark Souls 2 SOTFS, I created my character and wandered the opening area for 2 hours trying to figure out where to go, I never saw the door in the back of the hut. I never got beyond the hut. I killed the big enemy, but couldn't find the door. 2. hours.

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I think I'm starting to get a better grasp on value / color theory or whatever as this painting comes along

bright glowing oranges, purples, and light teal blue make clouds in twilight light

shades of gray, no color, composing the same clouds in twilight light

bright orange, pink, yellow and deep violet and magenta make up the silhouettes of mountains, mesas, and arches as well as brightly lit rock faces and clouds in the sunrise

shades of gray make up the silhouettes of mountains, mesas, and arches as well as brightly lit rock faces and clouds in the sunrise

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

It's fun to sit and mark the end of each chunk of time I sit down to work on this painting by sharing the results. The sun has gone down and I don't have the greatest options for lighting in this house, so I tried to capture it with what I have. Real life's some combo of these:

Work in progress acrylic painting of a horse and rider in the vibrant sunrise or sunset hues of a western scene. The sun sits at the horizon illuminating the sky in orange, pink, and purple, as reddish pink rays of light kiss the land, with one bright beam shining thru canyon walls and arches to illuminate a patch of desert scrub and sand as a the (very rough sketch of a ) horse and rider pass through the light in the foreground

all 3 photographs depict the same painting in slightly different room lighting conditions

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Sorry for posting so many updates by sharing the results of each session I have working on this desert sunset painting, I learn by getting to see how others' work develops across their process so I want to share mine for others who do the same 🫶

unfinished painting of a horse and rider in the desert, a red Mesa is illuminated by the twilight sun and rock arches are silhouettes in the distance, as the sunrays shine brightly between distant mountain peaks, lighting up the scattered clouds in orange, pink, and violet

the painting's foreground is only a loosely realized sketch, with more detail in the sky and background. all 4 images are the same painting with variation of how the painting was lit when the photo was taken

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Albert Bierstadt worked back to front so I guess I will too. This is my first time painting rocks. This is my first time trying most of these things. Or, alternatively, it's just another attempt at capturing light and forms, which I've done many times. Still so much more to do.

an unfinished 5x7 inch acrylic painting of a sun rising over a distant mountain, filling a desert scene with reds, pinks, and yellows against deep violet shadows with rays of light illuminating a red rock face, eventually falling on a horse and rider in the foreground. the foreground is very, very unfinished, but the background and sky are more developed.

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I think I finally figured out how the light should work... Quite pleased with myself, honestly. God rays for days. Might be able to knock out the foreground soon!

painting of a horse and rider (foreground, no detail added yet, just a silhouette) in a desert landscape at sunrise - the background layers of mountain silhouettes with sunrise rays breaking through in bands of vivid reds with purple blue shadows sit under a sky mottled with cirrocumulus-like clouds peppered with reds, oranges, yellows, into purple shadows against a deep blue sky

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Was swapping out a load of laundry and realized that the lint trap makes for a kinda perfect custom-light able reference for learning how to understand different lighting conditions on certain cloud textures/types

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I don't think I've ever posted this painting here, it's kinda fun. I'm looking at that pose & hearing the 3 physical therapists who independently asked me "have you ever heard of Ehlers Danlos" within 5 minutes of meeting me (& constantly corrected my weird leg positions in session)

a digital drawing made primarily with bright warm orange, red orange, and yellow orange, against a dark green gray with elements of teal also. an orange lit human figure sits in a corner against an orange lit wall, leaning against a shadowed wall in the dark teal green gray, with a dark teal green gray shadow of the human figure on the orange lit wall, and some hints of reflected orange light on the shadowed wall near the figure.

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I've bitten off more than I can chew, PS did you guys know it's kinda hard to paint on a tiny canvas because if you mix only the amount you think you'll need, IT DRIES SO FAST, oh well this won't be what I was aiming for but there's a lotta pretty colors & I'm learning a lot!

progress shot of an unfinishes painting of a horse and rider in the foreground, mountains at sunset in the background, very unfinished, some hints of clouds with purple shadows

progress shot of an unfinished painting of a horse and rider in the foreground, mountains at sunset in the background, very unfinished, some hints of clouds with colorful pinks, yellows, and oranges illuminating them, and also illuminating the mountains in the distance

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dollip💙 doll VTuber @dollip.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

don’t forget to be weird and a freak

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I let the underpainting dry overnight & spent abt 1-1.5hr creating chaos this afternoon, y'all FYI burnt sienna underpainting does wonders for making an epic twilight glow. Acrylic paint + dry AZ air = whyyy though. Def gonna move to oils someday. Hard to capture color in pics!

an unfinished color blocking painting of an American western desert scene, a Horse and Rider can be seen in an illuminated silhouette in the foreground, with mesas, hoodoos, a rocky arch, and mountains silhouetted in hues of purple against a pale blue sunrise sky with clouds illuminated in fiery oranges and yellows. Compared to the other, this photograph better captures the contrast and value range of the painting, giving it more form

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

never tried underpainting before. never tried making horses, or really done much with landscapes either, or attempted luminism... lotta nevers turning into firsts on this lil canvas board. why do acrylics have to go and dry s'dang quick though 🥲 anyone recognize the setting?

Burnt sienna values only underpainting of an American western desert scene, a Horse and Rider can be seen in silhouette in the foreground, with mesas, hoodoos, a rocky arch, and mountains silhouetted against sky with hints of clouds

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Nomada Studio @nomada.studio · 13/12/2024

From the start, we wanted to create games with stories that inspire, move, and resonate with players. So seeing GRIS and NEVA win the Games for Impact Award is an incredible honor for us. Thank you so much for your support throughout this journey. We feel extremely happy🤍

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I made the bird app endure this, I guess I'll make y'all also, been learning to draw horses so I can try my hand at becoming budget Mark Maggiori (I wanted to make that style painting before learning who he was, cuz it's my southwestern childhood vibe) & made this abomination ofcomparative anatomy

a human down on all fours but with its bones in similar places to the horse bones of the same name, the human is supporting itself upon elongated hands and feet and fingers and toes

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heɪz(ə)l @hzl.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

type shit I used to create to cause physical agony in fifteen year olds

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XianJaneway @xianjaneway.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Even if there were, I'd rather have living autistic children, than a bunch of kids dead from measles, mumps, or rubella.

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Andcris @andcris.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

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God @thegodshow.com · 16/12/2024

Hey corporate media, Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.

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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 14/12/2024

every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season

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XianJaneway @xianjaneway.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Propaganda ends where dialogue begins. Folks who won't respond to questions from people who aren't deferring to them tell on themselves. Same as it ever was. Thank you, Celeste, for your witness.

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Meg | The Feminist Motherhood @nomadicsoul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

As a survivor of MacArthur’s church, I fully support Celeste & call on @julieroys.bsky.social to repent. Just a reminder that: “I don’t agree with this person on everything but they’re doing so much good” is why I stayed at MacArthur’s church an extra 10 yrs. www.celestefinally.com/p/julie-roys...

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Julie Roys: December 2024 Update

A journalist sacrifices her integrity in service of anti-trans narratives

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🌵Sierra Noel is an autistic cactus🌵 @sienoel.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I am so proud of my friend @celestefinally.bsky.social for her ability to navigate such a difficult topic with the kindness and patience of a saint. This is NOT an easy topic to explore, but it is definitely a necessary one. Please give careful consideration to what she has to say here.

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They Call Me Doctor Mae @dr-maeforrest.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Please read this important work that Celeste is doing! Roys is not safe, and not an ally to queer people.

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Please read this vitally important essay by Celeste regarding Roy's lack of journalistic integrity in her writing about, and engagement with, the LGBTQIA+ community.

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