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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 3m
Finished the basic wood grain.
Top of a stack of crates for the back of a wagon.3/4 shot of the finished plywood and woodgrain effect.Reverse 3/4 shot off the plywood and woodgrain effect.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 3h
Not even "ironically," gang.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 3h
Stop acting like this man has any other goals aside from staying out of prison and murdering black babies.
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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 7h
To my knowledge, no one has made a cocktail inspired by my work before, and I thank @eliaseells.bsky.social for creating an intriguing potable based on Psychopomp & Circumstance. Enjoy his lovely review of my novella, and I hope it makes you want to visit "New Charleston" yourself. #booksky
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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · 16h
I loved drawing some old school monochrome dungeon and hex map work for a zine Wicked North Games are pulling together. (wickednorthgames.com) . They asked for something simple, which I overshot slightly and had to be reigned in, ha ha. So much fun. #osr #dnd #ttrpg #dungeonmap #dungeoncrawl
Map of a mine from above and cross section for a dnd game
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Patricia VI Arts // Commissions Open @kiwipon.bsky.social · 18h
Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm a freelance illustrator and concept artist from Spain who loves fantasy and story telling. I'd love to work on more Bookish art, TTRPG art💜 💟Commissions are open💟 Info & portfolio 🌐 patriciaviarts.com ✉️ patriciavi.arts@gmail.com
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 23h
A little modeling work tonight.
One end of a tan piece of plastic painted and drawn on to replicate plywood.The other end of the same piece of plastic also made to look like plywood.Side of the plastic rectangle. This time it’s been painted to look like wooden planks with knots.Once again, that plastic rectangle but the other side, it too painted to look like wooden planks with knots.
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 23h
A star’s mass of STFU in three lowercase letters and a period. Perfection.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
They put Indigenous People's Day & National Farmer's Day on the same day, good thing you can be boooooooth. Here's just some of the farm & food work NC-based tribes are doing! Corn+beans+squash plot, at the Catawba Nation. They recently pulled a corn variety back from almost-extinction 💪💪💪
Photo of a corn, squash, & beans plot run by the Catawba Nation.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
For dessert, Sloth made apple cake
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🏳️‍⚧️ Decomposing Princess Jackie @jackiesupernova.northsky.social · 12/10/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I nominate the man for President of the World.
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David Crowley @davidcrowley4wi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Happy National Coming Out Day! I want to let every LGBTQ+ Wisconsinite know that you are celebrated and supported here in WI. 🌈
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Just showed it to my wife and asked how we male this happen.
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Oh, my.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nic Cage is kinda like the inverse Jared Leto, I'll watch just about anything he's in.
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Nicolas Cage's Stressed Out Reaction
ALT: Nicolas Cage's Stressed Out Reaction
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!
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Bill Krause @admiralbuck.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Enjoyed a fine fall day at the Holden Arboretum.
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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I do wonder about the overlap between the kind of readers who decry “plot armor” and sadists. There are writers who I fell out of love with because I got tired of sucker punches disguised as realism. I can *absolutely* be trained not to emotionally invest in your characters.
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’m reminded, for no particular reason, that we can blame many bad pickup lines on Dante and dolce stil novo. Carry on.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021–2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an “exodus” of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times, 2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners’ firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners’ savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms. Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...
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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 09/10/2026
Back in May, Double Fine employees petitioned for a union. Two weeks later, that petition was withdrawn. What happened? kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-…
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Inside The Failed Fight To Unionize Double Fine
Double Fine employees petitioned for a union in May. It created a rift in the studio that still hasn't healed
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Those look amazing!
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Cat and kitten door knocker, Clun, England
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Unfortunately, vast swaths of the hobby historian and historical scale model worlds are extremely conservative, and racism, homophobia, and misogyny are often the norm. I’ve spent my entire career in these spaces, and it never fails to make me sad when I see it. Hobbies should be for everyone.
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I could address this piece by piece but simply and ultimately: I'm so fucking sick of this shit
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 09/10/2026
ALSO: Subscribe straight up. You don't have to wait for a fundraiser to support the magazines that treat authors and artists well!
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is how you do it.
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IGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026
The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...
For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Like, how busy do you have to be that you’d rather a computer read to your kid than you take the tome to do it? Sorry, but those guy is a trash dad. Fucking read to your kid. Or step aside so the mom can find a real human who will. To the sea with thee!
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.//Swav Silverhand✘ 🖥️ @suavevillain.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
This is bleak. Damn you gotta offload reading to your own kid too.
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Monte Cook Games @montecookgames.com · 07/10/2026
Calling for Indigenous Artists for Between Earth & Sky: the Roleplaying Game! Help us illustrate the Meridian, setting of Native author Rebecca Roanhorse’s bestselling and Hugo Award-winning Black Sun trilogy! Seems like you’d be a good fit? Apply here → www.montecookgames.c...
Cover art for Between Earth & Sky: The Roleplaying Game, featuring a glowing blue-green face with tentacle-like, feathered elements and octopus-like arms against a dark cosmic background. Readable text includes “BETWEEN EARTH & SKY,” “THE ROLEPLAYING GAME,” and “Between Earth and Sky ©2026 Rebecca Roanhorse | montecookgames.com | Artist: John Picacio.”
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The answer is no.
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For me, I don’t care why someone is an amoral shitheel. I don’t want to try to argue them into a better place because these people do not want to change. If they can’t recognize pain for others, I’m simply not interested in them. They can walk into the sea.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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David Crowley @davidcrowley4wi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Like many, I didn’t have the most traditional education path. I returned to get my college degree at UW-Milwaukee while working as County Executive. It was tough, but I’m glad I did it.
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Congratulations!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get.
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David Crowley @davidcrowley4wi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reproductive rights are on the ballot this November.  As governor, I’ll work to enshrine them in our state constitution.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is the way.
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
100 percent. No one wants live next to the guy who has threatened to take your home, threatens your family, ans steals the deliveries off your porch.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the CDC have stopped recommending seven vaccines for children, including vaccines that protect against hepatitis B, RSV, and meningitis. These vaccines have kept millions of children out of the hospital and saved countless lives. I'm suing.
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We continue to rack up spectacular wins. Unstoppable!
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The paradox of tolerance messes with people. It’s okay to tell an idiot with idiot ideas to fuck off. In fact, it should be done more often and without room for debate.
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I usually like Wolfers’ takes. This one is way off. Not everyone’s ideas deserve to be heard, and some words should be shoved back into the pie holes from whence they came. Hard. Facts are facts. They aren’t up for negotiation. “There are four lights!”
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Tim Kidwell @timkidwell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
These guys want so badly to be seen as pragmatic, but it’s just racism and misogyny. It will always be next time for the Black woman candidate but next time will never come because because because ad nauseam.
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