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The tiny witch homunculus once again transported one of my socks to a Monet painting-inspired pocket dimension during the night. This time, she enchanted my sock so that it smells slightly like boiled parsnips.

Here's a lovely photo of my fabric art creation, the tiny witch homunculus. She's a little green humanoid with large twinkly red eyes and a tiny frown. She doesn't have any clothes to speak of. She's sitting on a small cookie of sliced wood. She's holding a little stick wrapped with rainbow thread with a green stone on the end. There's a little broom standing upright beside her. On the other side is a green, yellow, and blue striped sock. In the background is a beautiful Monet painting fabric.

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Everything going great here in orange county

Map of an urban area with concentric circles of severe, moderate, and light damage and the tail of a toxic gas release

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Us strategy in Iran

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splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Slightly increase a band Medium Threat

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splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Nature Is Healing: Turkey vultures claim area ruin #birds

Four large birds on what’s left of the roof of a disintegrating house surrounded by thicket; one of the turkey vultures is perched on the chimney, which is leaning at a 45-degree angle.

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splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My alt text says sesame seeds when I meant to say sunflower seeds, sheesh

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splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Wisteria blossoms: also pretty tasty

A large salad with lettuce, carrot, radish, sesame seeds, and wisteria blossoms, with flatbread arranged around one side of the blue bowl

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 09/05/2026

yiddish has a word for hedgehog that's slavic and moderately cute (yozh, יאָזש) but i actually prefer the germanic one we also have which is DER SHTEKHLER ("the pricker") 🦔

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

every day i find an incredible guy (from a painting scroll attributed to qiu ying called "raising the alms bowl: the conversion of hariti, mother of demons) asia.si.edu/explore-art-...

a shrimp wearing a lotus leaf with its arms raised

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 06/05/2026

HERE IT IS! In August 2025, a massive landslide brought a big chunk of mountainside into the Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska, causing the second-largest tsunami ever recorded. My latest for @eos.org is the story of the forensic investigation, and why the culprit is climate change: 🧪

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The Forensics of a Skyscraper-Sized Tsunami - Eos

A landslide in Tracy Arm Fjord in Alaska created the second-largest tsunami on record. A new analysis links this abrupt event to the retreat of a glacier and, ultimately, to climate change.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Don't hide your light from the world. Use it to draw lost travelers deeper into the forest and towards your cozy den made of twigs and wildflowers, where you can devour them at your leisure.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Time for an experiment! You know those cute little roadside stands with honors-system eggs or produce? Look, I know I live in "big scary Philadelphia oooh 👻" but I'm gonna try it. What's the worst that can happen? Thieves create habitat for native bees? Jokes on them! I wanted them to do that!

A shit ton of plants in front of Sarah's house and a little box of plants labeled swamp milkweed, ironweed, and aster, in front of a little sign that's not really legible but has pictures of each mature plant. In the background is sarah's science library with bits of seaweed painted on it and little shrimpies on the seaweed.

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splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Yes, but “one swell foop” is allowable in dad humor situations

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This is madness. I spent years stopping the use of Roundup in the drug war in Colombia.🧵

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 27/04/2026

Hey, check it out! The chocolate flower is blooming! “Oh joy,” you say, “another daisy.” But this one is special! THIS ONE SMELLS LIKE CHOCOLATE

A yellow daisy with a dark center, with yellow strands across the center. As we do not have smell-o-vision, I cannot share the best bit.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The blueberry harvest is just beginning in the Lemoore, CA area. "Ale" barely managed to fill four 24lb buckets in 6 hours which means she's not even making minimum wage. Piece rate depends heavily on the condition of the fruit and there isn't much yet. #WeFeedYou

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

journalists applauding and dining with a fascist, president and cronies cartoonishly bumbling out of the room, secret service allowing this to happen, outlets throwing out debunked headlines. the only people who covered themselves in glory tonight were the kitchen and wait staff

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

CW: Violent imagery The fourth of my planned ten 'What is a Golem' poem drafts for #napowrimo2026 #poetry #napowrimo #writingcommunity

Text:

What is a Golem (IV)

A gush of crimson spills
from the skull I smashed
at your command. I cup my hands,
fill them to the brim, so you can see
a universe swirling in an offering bowl.

But when I hold it up, it’s only so much rust,
soaked into already-red mud.

If you had given me a mouth, I would tell you:
even a walking grave remembers
what you hid in it.

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Becca Miles @rubecso.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Sometimes a poem falls in your lap (or in this case on my notebook). #napowrimo #napowrimo2026 #poetry #writingcommunity

Text (written center-aligned, with the latter half of the lines arranged so the words outline a splodge in the negative space between them)

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Nature Poem

I sat beneath an old, tall tree
(a yew, I believe), and listened
to the chorus of the birds,
their loud, primordial poetry:
the laughing trochees of the great tit,
the wood pigeon’s wheezing spondees,
the lilting dactyls of the blackbird,
the robin’s belligerent free verse
but then
one of the little
feathered bastards
shat on the
page. So I guess
I’ll write about flowers instead.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Different hardware, same software.

A tiger from the Oakland Zoo in 2021 sits in a hay-filled box just the right size for them. The tiger is orange with black tiger stripes, a white tufted face, and is curled slightly in the box, with a dark colored tail tip just peeking out of the box. Behind it is a grey fallen tree and some patchy green grass.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 23/04/2026

For the #RepostYourArt theme of #magic... not sure exactly what's going on here but when you see a witch's hat, you gotta expect something magical is happening

Whimsical digital drawing of a chickadee wearing a pointed black witch's hat and perched among wide green pointed leaves while four tiny white ghosts look on with expressions of wonder. The bird is a small song bird with black on the top of its head and under its beak, white on the sides and back of its head, gray wings, and an off-white belly.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

And hey - since we spent years working on making comics accessible for blind/low vision readers - here are the events we hosted and resources we've gathered that may just come in handy - and let this blackout of images help everyone master alt-text!! spinweaveandcut.com/blind-access...

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Blind Accessible Comics

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splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I’d rather pour resources into training more dogs to sniff out cancer

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Today in social justice toolkit: A dilemma action is a strategic action that forces your opponent into a lose-lose situation. You've given them only bad options. I give some examples & then we talk about how to design them. This one's pretty important. Read and share, please?

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Force the Oppressor to make a Lose/Lose Choice

Social Change Toolkit: Dilemma Actions

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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 20/04/2026

"Peng said the long-term goal in Taipei and New Taipei is for commuters to be able to leave an MRT station and reach their workplace without walking through long stretches of exposed pavement. He said trees should be treated as climate infrastructure, not only as landscaping."

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Taiwan plans urban forest expansion to cool cities | Taiwan News | Apr. 19, 2026 19:22

Environment minister says 10-year plan aims to add shade, reduce heat risk | Apr. 19, 2026 19:22

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splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Mayapple blooming for the first time, seven years after bare-root planting #FlowerReport #NativePlants #BloomScrolling

A white flower with thick stamens that appear to be clutching a pale green egg-shaped berry

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splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Pick up some fish fingers willya en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland...

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Iceland (supermarket) - Wikipedia

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This is something I put quite a bit of work into that got canned the day it was supposed to come out for reasons I'm not getting into here. But I'm allowed to show you the image with identifying branding elements removed, which is what I am doing.

A huge, kaiju-sized green and orange carp is looming over the Watertower and nearly as tall as the Hancock Tower in Chicago, which it is leaning against, and the building is bowing with the weight. Two people are in the foreground running from the massive fish as giant waves lash upward in th background. Even closer in the foreground is a newspaper box with a paper in the front window with the headline INVASIVE CARP CHAOS and a photo of said carp. Everything is done in a stylized manner vaguely reminiscent of a Japanese woodcut print.

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

For those previously unacquainted here’s the sculpture known to me as ‘Harry Caray and the Harrowing of Hell’

A bronze statue of the late Cubs announcer Harry Caray that stands by the entrance to the bleachers at Wrigley Field. Harry is seen wearing a windbreaker and his signature large and thick-rimmed glasses. He’s gesticulating with both arms, one holding a microphone as he leads the crowd singing in the 7th inning stretch. The base of the statue is a sculptural rendition of the stands of Wrigley Field and rising up from it, in what can easily be interpreted as bronze hellfire, are faces of damned and tormented Cubs fans. I know it sounds like I’m being facetious but that is sincerely what it looks like.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/04/2026

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows:

"In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.

When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Update: @nytimes.com Story is out but the pun didn’t make it. Sad! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

Still, some scholars are stuck on the symbolism of the arch. The historian Sarah E.
Bond at the University of Iowa said that Mr.
Trump was departing from the Roman tradition of requesting approval from the Senate to build his monument. That step was important in the ancient world to show deference to the public.
"Trump is using Washington, D.C., as emperors used Rome," Ms. Bond said. "He is using Roman architectural aesthetics to signify that he has triumphed, even if others aren't giving him the kudos he believes he deserves."
Luke Broadwater covers the White House for The Times.
Zachary Small is a Times reporter writing about the art world's relationship to money, politics and technology.

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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

Leonard Gall (left) architect of the new ballroom, stands with Hitler and Albert Speer at the other major construction project in 1936, the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in München

The new ballroom and reception hall attached to the Old Reich Chancellery, with the floor removed to reveal the Vorbunker. Illustration by Christoph Neubauer www.atelier-neubauer.de

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