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American Bird Conservancy @abcbirds.bsky.social · 2h

Change the angle, change the color! 🔵🟢⚫ The Blue-capped Hummingbird's shimmering plumage comes from the microscopic structure of its feathers. Layers of light-absorbing cells reflect specific wavelengths of light, known as “structural color." More: abcbirds.info/4Avupf7

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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 3h

A lot of ‘90s stuff needs to stay way the hell back in the ‘90s, but imo the ‘90s were correct that clear colored plastic is Fun and Cool.

transparently shelled video game systems of a diversity of colors

imac ad with five differently colored shells

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ONSTA ☕️ VTUBER💫✨ @onsta.bsky.social · 3h

Artists, show us how you draw black women!! With increasing amounts of whimsy~ ✌️🏾✨ #art

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 7h

Not the least reason: because mute words won’t pick up grape, so people who need respite won’t actually get it.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 19h

Very happy for all you sports people, but as a non sports person, there is too much damn sports on this app

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Want a fluffy story with my nb durgin (au ra) being spoiled for once instead of dragged all over creation to be either a weapon or a sacrifice.

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Of course there's a meeting today when I feel like shit and would rather do anything else.

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

*puts a brand new shiny puzzle out on the library floor; comes back at the end of the week and it's done* ...Y'all, we're not made of puzzle money, we gotta make 'em last a bit. >_<

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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 29/09/2026

i hate productivity advice that's like "take frequent breaks!" it implies a level of self-control that i simply do not possess

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LbabinzUS @lbabinzus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

LEGO Icons Dragon Ball: Shenron & Goku revealed buff.ly/XSiVDf9 #ad $179.99, Oct 4

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Woke up 2 hours before alarm and can't get back to sleep. 💀

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026

And you know if they had actually succeeded in making products that broadly improved the lives of anyone outside software engineering they might have gotten away with it! Instead it's been "now your potato peeler costs $15 more because it has AI, use it or we'll shoot this puppy"

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026

I think the thing I resent most about what the tech overlords have done to the internet is that I planted a fucking garden. you literally made the internet so stressful I went outside and touched grass. i will never forgive you

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Aves • Artist & Finch Parent @avian-aves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hello there, little Beep!!

Front view of a male zebra finch on a perch, looking at the camera.

A male zebra finch on a perch, leaning in close to look at the camera. He is slightly blurry due to his proximity to the lens.

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Weekday afternoons in the early 90s had a 1 hour block of Sailor Moon and Ronin Warriors (Yoroiden Samurai Troopers). Which did things to my stupid little 8 year old head when all the villains (both damn shows) were prettier than the heroes. >_>

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Someone pulled a super interesting science book off the shelf and I took it to register use. Now it's here on my desk taunting me to read it. *sweating and shaking*

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you missed this sale, and are OK with ebooks? This is ONE DOLLAR on Sweet Shop. Right now. Quite the discount from $15. sweetshop.app/publishers/i...

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Iron Circus Comics

Hi there, everybody! We're Iron Circus Comics! We were born in 2007, and we're the premiere publisher of award-winning, critically-acclaimed graphic novels in...

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

One of our ILL partners tucked a tiny thank you note into their return. ☺️

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Entered a writing contest. Nothing big, no stakes. Gotta try, anyway.

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

I think I got maybe 4 hours of sleep last night. 🫩

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026

Nothing is less fun than the kind of "not getting anything done but being 167% committed to not resting either" that comes with adhd

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Fo' (4) grocery items in my cart. One hun'ed (100) bombaclaat dolla. *throws a banana peel in the path of the nearest tech bro*

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Author Simulator

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Being stubborn and refilling a 20 year old drawing pen with equally old ink I found in my box of art school supplies instead of just buying a new one.

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

ALT: Caska is a large, beige and brown, senche-raht Khajiit (big cat) with lynx ear tufts, leopard spots, and is wearing gold and red armor on her head, neck, tail base, and front wrists. She is looking at the camera.

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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 26/09/2026

Collections of studios owned and run by Black People. I'm sure there are some I missed, so please let me know (please double-check that they are owned by black people), and I will add them. Don't just follow them; check out their games. This list is about equity and ownership. go.bsky.app/4wfgP11

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

ALT: Two white eagles are looking down at their tiny puffball of a baby, highlighted by a purple star. 2羽の白いワシが、紫色の星で縁取られた小さな綿毛のような赤ちゃんを見下ろしている.

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

When he's kinda adorable in a 'what the hell is wrong with you' way, but then you have to shout, "Dude no the fuck, who's ears are those?!" (Playing Homicipher again)

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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 25/09/2026

i am not at liberty to discuss as a part of the settlement 🥰

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Game Devs of Color Expo @gdocexpo.com · 25/09/2026

The #GDoCExpo Steam Sale is LIVE until Oct 2 & you'll find us featured on Steam's front page 🙌🏾 Hundreds of games with discounts, demos, & broadcasts, from #gamedev of color & supporters across the community. Share this post so your circle doesn't miss this! store.steampowered.com/sale/gdocexp...

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With Our Partners:
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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

Me: Okay, I've got all my peer-reviewed research here and I can share the pdfs if you li- Doc: Ay. No. Shh. Don't overcomplicate it. Here. Sent the prescription. Call the pharmacy in a week. Fuck the insurance companies. Me: *wearing her 'I could use some fuckin good news shirt'* ....Ok. 😶

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

Having a don't want to leave bed day. Can't figure if it's depression or something else. Very tempted to do my doctor's call (in a few mins) in a pillow nest with the cam off.

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E'rahez @ FFXIV Write 2026 📝 @dawnforged.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No one tells you how much of writer’s block isn’t actually writer’s block, it’s just being fucking exhausted from being poor.

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Ash G. @kilomonster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The best bird expression.

A drawing of a parrot that looks like they are smiling. The text says "When they do this <3"

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 24/09/2026

Get ready to join us from Oct. 10-11 for our Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, presented by Latines & Hispanics in Speedrunning! Submissions are open until Sept. 27, 11:59PM ET! Submit a run via: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe…

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

AGAIN: Malicious incompetents. Shut it all down, seize everything, put them away where they can't influence anyone/thing.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The first CONTROL and Alan Wake 2 are some of the best games I've ever played. Super excited about this one.

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

The doc who did my procedure today wasn't my pcp so I couldn't do my presentation, but the receptionist found a televisit spot tomorrow, so that's more time to prepare.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 23/09/2026

ME, VISIBLY ANGUISHED AND FALLING APART: It is what it is :)

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Shame we can't use this as an admission that they are malicious incompetents who have no intention of stopping themselves and immediately shut it *all* down permanently, seize everything all of them own, and imprison them all for life.

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

Need to pack up all this research into something convincing enough doctor might listen. Theoretically, I know how to do that. More anxiety that I'm wasting time and energy living in a system designed to kill people like me.

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

It's storming out, and I'm kinda stuck between all of my bones are screaming and I don't want to move, and I kinda want to go to the new Thai place but, again, flash flooding. Got in and my bag was literally holding puddles of water in the creases.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This made me laugh so hard, given how much time J and I have spent on this precise subject. They’re just Bob.

A tumblr text post by shithowdy from June 19.

american blackbirds are icterids but european blackbirds are thrushes but american robins are thrushes but european robins are flycatchers and they are named robin because (checks notes) brits in the 1400s called them "robert" on account of they are just some familiar guy who shows up in your yard. hold on post canceled is that really why they are called that? what the fuck. they did this with jackdaws and magpies too? i can't even be annoyed. how human. "who's that? that's bob." fuck dude it sure is.

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Violet Arrows @violetarrows.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

Found this while reading FF14 drama on the forums. We've literally been begging YoshiP for years to do something about the incredibly dangerous eye strain that can't be turned off, only for the combat and duty designers to go 'nah, fuck you and your occipital lobe in particular'. 💀

straintrail.carrd.co

STRAINTRAIL

straintrail hub

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LbabinzUS @lbabinzus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

CONTROL Resonant (Steam) is $49.19 on GMG XP (or use code SEP15) buff.ly/RIWvrhC #ad Preload available now

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