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Adam Watson

@themightyadam.bsky.social
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Storyboard Artist Also Seattle dad, maker, animator, entomology nerd.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026
talent is a lie
a cartoon picture of a frog throwing a crooked looking clay vase with the words “talent is a lie, just do it anyway”
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m so tired of US politics, I propose we abolish existing states and make new ones based on the ancient Cicada brood territories.
Map “Active Periodical Cicada Broods of the United States” showing various colored splotches across the eastern central United States.
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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Batman Day isn't fun for everybody. Please check on your superstitious and cowardly loved ones today.
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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 18/09/2026
Guide to the Ratbag Democrats. Transphobes are morally inferior and weak, and best avoided.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
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Adam Watson @themightyadam.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Maaaannn I gotta pick this up.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/08/2026
With all these recalls, the only left that’s safe to eat is the rich
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11/08/2026
Trump and his cronies are counting on confusion. We're going to beat them in November with preparation, solidarity, and refusal.
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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
What's that, Ed Emberley Frog? You have something you want to say?
A drawing of a frog based on a step-by-step guide by Ed EmberleyThe frog saying "FUCK A.I.!"
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Adam Watson @themightyadam.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is awesome.
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NPR @npr.org · 28/07/2026
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media (via St. Louis Public Radio).
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Graham Annable @grickle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
TODAY! My latest graphic novel for early readers is out in the world! "My Imaginary Duck" is available in all your favorite places to purchase books! Is Mavis's duck REAL? Or imagined? Find out what happens in this quirky little adventure! #grickledoodle #duck #graphicnovel #earlyreaders #kidlit
An illustration of red haired girl sitting with a duck on a porch. A clipped image from the new book by Graham Annable titled "My Imaginary Duck."An image of the cover of Graham Annable's latest graphic novel for early readers titled "My Imaginary Duck."
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🚨 URGENT! 🚨 Republicans tucked a rider into the defense bill (NDAA) that lets the Pentagon seize CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS — to help out an oil company! It already passed the House. The Senate hasn't taken it up yet — which means there's still time to stop it - see first comment!
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
These Moths Smell Flowers Through Their Wings, Study Finds gizmodo.com/these-moths-...
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These Moths Smell Flowers Through Their Wings, Study Finds
Until now, scientists have mostly focused on the wings' mechanical function. Turns out there was a lot more going on then they realized.
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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Trnka is just mandatory viewing if you love stop motion. There are things across this and Old Czech Legends that I had never seen before, things I didn’t know you could DO with the art form, and he was doing them all nearly a century ago.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 09/07/2026
Animators are figuring out whether to fight or accept the new technology that’s coming for their jobs, @shirklesxp.bsky.social reports:
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A Test Case for AI Creep in Hollywood
Traditional jobs, like animation, are changing rapidly, and not necessarily for the better.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
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Victoria Maderna @victoriamaderna.com · 20/03/2026
Spring Parade. Gouache on paper. Featuring some of the local wildlife + wild and planted flowers from the garden 🍃🪻🌼 Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmad...
A line of anthropomorphic woodland creatures carrying spring flowers. Painting in gouache by Victoria Maderna.
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Eromancer @eromancer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
We have a little over 24 hours to save the internet. The vote for a package of internet-freedom destroying bills is being rushed to the US House floor on Monday the 29th. Spread this beyond Bluesky, ASAP. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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The KIDS Act Would Require Age Checks To Get Online
Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about p...
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Linden Davis @linden-davis.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
this is his gofundme btw. would encourage everyone else who can to chuck this fella a couple quid www.gofundme.com/f/get-artist...
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Donate to Get Artist Des Revol Help with His Legal Case!, organized by Jonathan Rochkind
Our friend Des Revol has been wrongly arrested and convicted over a b… Jonathan Rochkind needs your support for Get Artist Des Revol Help with His Legal Case!
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Spencer Wan @spencerwan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Only two days left! Don’t miss it!
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
someone teach this guy how to snap his fingers!
An image of a pretty genetic white guy who is presumably the director of the movie Backrooms. Caption: ‘Backrooms’ director says he would make generative AI “disappear forever” if he could snap his fingers”
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Finally, footage from that new whale graveyard. The fact that fossils and fresh carcasses mix together in this spot is bonkers. But of course it makes sense, because the scavengers that live down there also need a steady supply over millions of years. They can't just suddenly adapt to the deep.
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Whale graveyard discovered 7km under the sea
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Jumping spider mimics.
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Laser @lasersinger.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I want hard work to pay off. I want good morals and ethics to pay off. I want treating people kindly and equitably to pay off. Nothing else... at the end of the day matters to me...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/05/2026
CLOSE DELANEY HALL. CLOSE THEM ALL.
Trump has more people imprisoned in US concentration camps than the Nazis did at any time during the first six years of Hitler's rule.
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jude paw picture diary 🔜 TFCON ORLANDO @judepaw.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
it's destroying communities. not in the abstract "it's bad for the environment" sense, in the literally observable immediate sense. usage of it is tantamount to violence against your own neighbors, and it should be treated as the antisocial behavior that it actually is
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jude paw picture diary 🔜 TFCON ORLANDO @judepaw.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
actually i kinda *do* think using genAI should be such a social faux pas that the user is marked as a pariah and no longer feels welcome in the community. "AI is bad" is no longer an abstract (it never was), my city has been under a boil water advisory for a week because of AI data centers
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Isaac COMMISSIONS OPEN!!! @retromonkeyart.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Pick it up
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mimi 🩵💛 @knightlyaffair.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
this fucking sucks ( from the creator of the cupcake character, lorynbrantz instagram - www.instagram.com/p/DY2v_qXIoQt )
Lorynbrantz on instagram shares a post about their cupcake character being stolen for these new amazon ai shows. Reads as follows

I am horrified and disgusted by BuzzFeed taking my character, The Good Advice Cupcake, and giving it to an Al platform. My time at BuzzFeed was marked by continually being taken advantage of and lied to. They repeatedly assured me in good faith that they would never do anything with Cuppy without my input, yet offered me no legal options, insisting that I would never need them. The news that this character, who is based on my own personality and whom I created as a microphone to spread love and positivity, has been taken and turned into a soulless Al puppet feels like having my intestines pulled out of my body.

Somebody leaked the news to me early on that there were talks happening, and I pleaded with the CEO Jonah Peretti directly not to do it. Instead, he tried to talk me into signing an NDA. Obviously, I did not.

This is an assault on artists everywhere.

I encourage you to boycott BuzzFeed and any Al-produced or adjacent animation.
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Adam Watson @themightyadam.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I know last minute school projects are a (true) cliché. And we've scrambled through our share of them. After dinner tonight our daughter said "oh yeah we're having an onion party in orchestra. I'm supposed to make an onion entree." This might be the best one yet. Anyway our house stinks.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We grow enough crops to feed over 14 billion people. But less than half of that food is headed to our plates. And another 30-40 is wasted and lost after that. This is the biggest problem in the food system, and we rarely discuss it.
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Adam Watson @themightyadam.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Wow! So Google is absolutely unusable now?
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
FROM THE VAULT: "Worlds Apart" (from 2022)
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Adam Watson @themightyadam.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Last year I was hired to storyboard these three spots featuring Derrick Lin's miniature art. I just learned that the agency brought home Seattle Addie awards for it! www.instagram.com/p/DYC7DkNGcIT/
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Derrick Lin on Instagram: "The Little Big Stories campaign that featured my art work last fall recently won 3 Seattle Addy silver awards! It was such an honor and fun experience seeing my creation be...
282 likes, 40 comments - marsder on May 7, 2026: "The Little Big Stories campaign that featured my art work last fall recently won 3 Seattle Addy silver awards! It was such an honor and fun experienc...
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Adam Watson @themightyadam.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Happy birthday to this giant cookie I saw at Safeway in 2023.
It's a cake-sized cookie decorated with frosting maracas for Cinco de Mayo, but they spelled it "Conco"
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Adam Watson @themightyadam.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I found this 5-year-old video on my phone. I composed this on my daughter's school-provided iPad during lockdown.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
There is no “responsible” use of AI in schools. The tech is anti-learning. Hope that clears things up!
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
“Are you the branch manager?” “Yes I am, how can I help you?” “I would like two branches, please.” “How would you like that?” “Two big sticks, four little sticks.”
A golden retriever has both paws up at a bank teller’s window.
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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Looking through a folder of Alex Raymond clippings I received as a gift from a teacher a long time ago, and damn it must’ve been mind blowing to be 10 years old in 1935 and open up a Sunday newspaper and see a whole page of this.
Flash and daleHawkmen
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
It's migration season! Monarch butterflies travel over 4,000 km to winter in Mexico's stunning oyamel forests. Witness the beauty of nature's incredible journey.
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Adam Watson @themightyadam.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I hope when the astronauts come back out on the other side they have an Audrey II on board.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 03/04/2026
It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.
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Adam Watson @themightyadam.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
haha
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Late last year I began speaking to children and their parents detained at Dilley to hear about their experiences in their own words. Parents told me some kids were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide. 2/ Read my first investigation: www.propublica.org/article/life...
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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Jerklord "Gizzard" Cromwell @gizzard.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Milo and Maddie hate fascists! #NoKings
Milo pup with a sign that says, "FART ON FASCISM" and Maddie with a sign that says, "FUCK TRUMP."
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