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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@comicsinthega.bsky.social Someone asked me if this is a real frame from a Superman comic and I thought that you might know.

A frame from a comic book. Clark Kent has just walked through a door wearing a tuxedo. He asks "Ready to go, Lois?"

Lois Lane is sitting on a workout bench. She's wearing a sexy red dress with insanely padded shoulders and red high-heeled shoes. She's also curling a heavy-looking dumbbell. She replies, "Whenever you like, Kent."

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

There's a lot of really useful information here, presented in a way that you can give to your non-technical family.

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This collection is beautiful and this photo is a Renaissance painting. apnews.com/photo-galler...

A young woman sits in front of a mirror while an older woman does her hair. Although the setting is obviously a modern makeup station, the arrangement and the woman's beautiful smile evokes a portrait by a Dutch Master.

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

This is an outstanding essay. It didn't take the path that I was expecting. It's particularly important to read this in the context of the billionaire space bros who are already demonstrating that they can't be trusted on social issues.

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Anne @inkythoughts.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

moments joyeux, moments d'éternité cadeau de mariage pour @gorkamworka.bsky.social & @solene314.bsky.social 🖤 #MyArt #illustration

Un dessin digital des fleurs de lis blancs et de coqueliots rouges sortent d'un rectangle bleu.

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Some of my friends have created pieces for this book. Regardless of your personal leaning, the artwork is amazing. Check it out. *no nudity or explicit sex, just people and romance*

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This is a magnificent thread. It applies everywhere and everywhen, not just in the US right now.

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Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Battle Princess Painting study

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 15/01/2026

ICE agents love to wave around paper that looks official. Most of it is a scam — administrative forms signed by ICE supervisors, not real judicial warrants signed by judges. Let's go through what that scam paper looks like versus a real judicial warrant.

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How to Legally Protect People in Your Home from ICE | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

‘Dueling Banjos’ A silly thing I painted 11 years ago and apparently haven’t posted here before

A watercolor painting meant to evoke the look of a Japanese woodblock print. A samurai wearing a blue and gray kimono and hakama is leaping in the air holding a banjo by the neck like a sword over his head. He’s about to bring it smashing down on a second samurai on the ground in kimono and hakama patterned in yellow, orange and red who holds a banjo in a low position at his waist. The background is a small hill with a tree on it with water and mountains in the distance.

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Just my semi-occasional reminder that Anne is not just an illustrator. She also does book and magazine layout, business identities, and all of the other bits and bobs that a professional or small business needs. She's smart and great to work with. You won't regret it.

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Anne @inkythoughts.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

@ my self-pub authors out there, is there an actual need for professionally designed/laid out book interiors i.e. for paperback publishing? like, is that an item you'd be willing to spend some money on?

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

May your season be well greeted, regardless of what you believe or how you celebrate. Happiness is not a zero-sum game; another person's joy shouldn't reduce your own. Take care of yourself and each other. youtu.be/x1rw1fx170s

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White Wine In The Sun (2021) by Tim Minchin: BACK

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I'll say it again, if you're not hiring Inky to do your illustrations, it's your own fault when people mock your publications. She's talented and professional.

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Donato @donatoarts.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Attack on Weathertop. Frodo attempts, and fails, to resist the Ring as the Nazgul close in. I love finding atypical moments like this to illustrate! Will of the Ring 14" x 11" Watercolor Pencil and Chalk on Toned Paper

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

Title: The street tom waits grew up on.
Image: a shabby, broken down old timey American street.
Caption:
Buildings (left to right): vern's all-nite pizza 'n' tattoo, accordion players' graveyard, abandoned clown-shoe factory, divorced salesmen's polka club, tomb of the unknown cabbie, bootleg ice-cream warehouse, saint frank's hobo orphanage, illegal umbrella incinerator.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 01/12/2025

Let's get #ArtAdventCalendar rolling! It's December 1 somewhere right now. Saskatchewan Supercell 32x40in 81x102cm Oil on Canvas 2019 #Art #Painting

Abstract landscape painting: Blue green mothership storm with heavy rain at bottom with a green field in foreground.

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Figure 1 from a paper published in Nature (linked in post). The figure purports to be an infographic depiction of the "Overall working of the framework" for 'explainably' diagnosing autism spectrum disorder. The infographic is plainly nonsense, containing many spelling errors, nonsense words, meaningless images and graphs. Clearly created using generative AI and (crucially) NEVER CHECKED AT ANY STEP OF THE WRITING OR PUBLICATION PROCESS.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Decided to do yesterday's meditation sketch in colored pencil. "Argethea the Wonderer" (now in Technicolor)

A skeleton, draped in layers of yellow cloth, sits pondering.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 14/11/2025

Making camouflage nets for the War Department, Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, Calif. Dorothea Lange, 1942 In 1942, Lange was commissioned to photograph the U.S. Government’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans. Her negatives were impounded by the Army; she did not see them until 1964.

a photo of some women making large camoflage nets

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Anne @inkythoughts.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Hey US-ians (and anyone else who wants to brave high shipping costs)! #INPRNT has a major sale going on so if you want some quality art prints of mine, now is the time to grab some! www.inprnt.com/gallery/inky... #prints #PrintSale

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

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Dylan Teague @dylanteague.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Some more sketches from FACTS

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BSFWriters @bsfwriters.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

We say: AI is theft Diversity promotes innovation If you won't fix this planet, you don't deserve a new one There is no such thing as a "self-made man" Extremes of wealth encourage madness Reject terror Defy censors Remember, you are here:

A map of the Milky Way, showing structures such as the Gould Belt and the Centaurus Arm.

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

As a San Diego Wave FC supporter, I extend my admiration to the Valkyries for their position. We may cheer for different teams, but we share the same values.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 26/10/2025

The fuss over who appears in TV adverts misses the point...

Adverts aren't meant to be a mirror of society, but to reflect the advertiser's openness to society as a whole.

A photo of 10 people, including one in a wheelchair, doesn't say 10% of the UK are in wheelchairs, but it does signify that people in wheelchairs are welcome at the venue.

Likewise adverts showing men as nursery teachers, women as builders, Asian people down the pub etc -- it's saying "you're welcome here, join us". And yes, that means including black people in adverts shown in parts of the UK where they are a minority.

Too often we hear that people grew up avoiding something because they never saw people like them doing it -- and adverts that show the diversity of society fix that visibility problem by saying "yes, you can do this if you want".

Isn't that a good thing?

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The thing is, if you genuinely believed that preteen girls are old enough to be mothers while males in their thirties are too young to comprehend fascism, then you logically wouldn't trust men to be responsible for anything more consequential than a balloon animal, let alone a government

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally. Print it. Put it in a frame. Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy.

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

My alma mater has decided to abandon its principles and go over to the fascists. A pox upon these people.

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I think that when future historians look back upon this era, their analysis will be "too many circuses, too little bread".

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Or you can hire Inky to create some art for you. I promise that you won't regret it.

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Jerry Pournelle was a guest at a gaming convention in Austin sometime around '79 or '80. We had a huge table set up with a massive Sniper wargame. He sat around the table and BSed with us for a couple of hours.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.

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Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Hello Michael! I'm Debjit and I'm a freelance artist. Congratulations for this level up and thank you so much for this artshare. 🙏🫶

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

It's Alex Morgan's jersey retirement tonight at the San Diego Wave FC game.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

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Richard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

A new fountain pen arrived today - an Ackerman that uses regular nibs and any ink. I have a G-pen nib and just some standard india ink loaded up and had to try it out. I recalled this sketch I did last year, so I decided to ink that.

Someone in a spacesuit walking a xenomorph on a leash

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Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 02/08/2025

It's utterly disgusting to see a beautiful golf course ruined by an unsightly wind turbine.

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I feel that I owe some French cruisers an apology.

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The stupidity of forcing out tens of thousands of person-years of experience from the finest space organization in the world is doubled by the history of the US hiring thousands of lesser Soviet scientists to keep them from building rockets for third parties in order to put food on the table.

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Damn. This hit hard. My mom is 84.

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

On my 2025 bingo card, I did not have "the dictionary trolls the fascists with shitposts".

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Hephaestus @thinkingsideways.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

What perfect albums came out when you were 16?

The cover of Pink Floyd's album "The Wall".

The cover of the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album "Damn the Torpedoes".

The cover of The Who's album "The Kids Are Alright".

The cover of Supertramp's album "Breakfast in America".

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