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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 21m

Thanks 😊

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 1h

Black Hole
#SpacetoberChallenge

Yarn bowl featuring Sagittarius A* black hole with a little astronaut floating over the center while attached to a tether that leads to the yarn feed.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 1h

These are fantastic

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 3h

heyyyy my ceramic pin experiment turned out about as well as i could have expected for a test run! #art

a little ceramic disc brooch/pin with a pigeon face painted on it

two little ceramic disc brooch/pins, one with a screaming seagull face painted on it and another with a speech balloon that says AHH!

two little ceramic disc brooch/pins, one with a screaming canada goose face painted on it and another with a speech balloon that says >:)

a handful of the previously mentioned ceramic pins on my desk and a little case full of rubber-backed pin components

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks!!

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 3h

Launching in one week 🚀

Leviathan’s Wake
•original painting & prints in 2 sizes
•limited quantities available

🔔Make sure you’re signed up to my email list to get early access on October 22nd at 2pm PT

stellerarts.com/pages/leviat...

15x30” oil painting on easel of a nebula painting. It’s a long spire in brown with a lavender, pink, and orange background giving the appearance of a leviathan or dragon skeleton.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 21h

Today's #SpacetoberChallenge: Spacecraft.

So here are a few Astronaut Vessels. Each one shows an astronaut traveling in a well-worn craft. I started painting these after a health scare, but they evolved to reflect the marks life makes on our physical and mental state over time.

Angled cup collage featuring a green weathered spacecraft design with a round window and astronaut peering out to see branches wrapping around the craft.

Vase collage featuring a blue weathered spacecraft design with a round window and astronaut looking up. The exterior has impact marks and words etched on a panel "NOT SAFE, GO".

Angled cup collage featuring a spacecraft design painted as if it's made from wood with a round window and two child astronauts playfully sword fighting inside. There are childlike etchings on the wooden exterior.

Angled cup collage featuring a pink weathered spacecraft design with a round window and astronaut resting their head on their arms. The back has a square panel with a smudged smiley face looking aged and worn in the center.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 21h

There’s an idea that when someone dies before retirement age from a health issue, they must’ve neglected their health, so “everyone get checked.” I want to gently push back on the idea of it being all self-neglect & remind 1) some illnesses are incurable 2) bigoted healthcare system is shit 3) cost.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 15h

It’s worth remembering that this was the explicit intention of many civil rights marches—regular Black southerners in their Sunday best, facing off against militarized police. It’s why those images of the children’s march in Birmingham (1963) or Bloody Sunday at Selma (1965) are so iconic.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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MeerWolfRenders🧡🐾 @meerwolfrenders.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #PortfolioDay!! 👋🐱🦊
We're Meerkat and (Maned) Wolf, and we make beaded sculptures big and small of our favorite fantasy characters and animals!

Our ko-fi shop is open and we'll be adding new sculptures soon... ko-fi.com/meerwolfrend...
For all other social links: meerwolfrenders.carrd.co

A sculpture of an eastern phoebe bird with a smaller dragonfly sculpture in front of it (it can be put in its mouth). Made mostly out of brown and white beads for the bird, all held together by wires. The bird's feet are epoxied to a natural wood stick.

A sculpture of SkekTek, the Scientist inspired by The Dark Crystal. Made mostly out of beige and grey beads with hints of many other colors, all held together by wires. Posed facing the viewer holding a staff made mostly out of black beads.

A small sculpture of a toy manchester terrier, inspired by my dog, Tanner. Made mostly out of black and orange beads, all held together by wires.

A sculpture of Oki (in wolf form) inspired by Okami. Made mostly out of purple and pinkish/reddish beads, all held together by wires. Posed in a battle-ready crouching position with his sword Kutone on his back (but you can only see the hilt from this angle).

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks Aimee! I'd love to paint something for you ☺️ haha I understand, sometimes they're better on a shelf!

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Ves @vesdba.me · 16h

I got to see a couple of Amy's pieces at Worldcon earlier this year. The photos do not do them justice.

Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 1d

I'm Amy and I paint celestial pottery with glaze ✨

This started when I wanted to take us on an adventure during the pandemic lockdown. Now, offering pots like these to be part of your daily life feels like another way to keep hope alive.

Newsletter for restocks: amyraehill.com

#PortfolioDay

Bowl featuring a solar eclipse in a cloudy sky with one half in golden daylight and the other a cool blue. Steaks of light cut across the eclipse.

Plate featuring Milky Way over a silhouetted landscape with a cabin, evergreen trees, and one deciduous tree.

Angled cup featuring a shield volcano erupting with lava against a yellow-grey sky on Venus.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 16h

Oh thank you!! Glad you got to see the bowls 😊

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“Surely, she dies first” Jackson @lioninthetrees.bsky.social · 1d

Running Moon Wolf Totem 🐺🌙✨

I have a new piece available with Every Day Original ( @everydayoriginal.bsky.social )!

Purchase here:
everydayoriginal.com/product/runn...

#art #SciArt

A ceramic black underglaze wolf sculpture posed as though it's leaping or running. It has it's head arched back and a crescent moon sculpture on it's back. There are sgraffito markings all along it's body including a crescent moon on the chest and a California Poppy done with a yellow underglaze.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 22h

I have the New Horizons one, too. In the background you can sorta make out one of @amyraehill.bsky.social’s tea pots.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 21h

I see it!!

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 21h

Today's #SpacetoberChallenge: Spacecraft.

So here are a few Astronaut Vessels. Each one shows an astronaut traveling in a well-worn craft. I started painting these after a health scare, but they evolved to reflect the marks life makes on our physical and mental state over time.

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HimmyDraws @himansu.bsky.social · 22h

If you want to see more amazing art from amazing artists on Portfolio Day you should check out this starter pack:

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 1d

Spectrum of Storms 2 is almost finished 😌

8x10” canvas on easel with painting of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. There is a purple rectangle of ultraviolet light on the left and a red rectangle for infrared light on the right. My hand is holding a paint brush and working on the infrared portion.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 1d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 13: Deep Space Network

Posting this one a little late because I got carried away with the details and didn’t finish in time to post yesterday.

Illustration of a giant radio antenna, part of the Derp Space Network (DSN) in orange. Surrounded by a pattern of thick alternating green/black lines, and alternating thick blue/black lines.

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Bison @bisonrimant.fr · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay !

I'm a woodcarver from France. I'm sculpting animals, anthropomorphic ones or weird creatures.

You can find my work on my website, but also ... on DOOM II !

My DOOM II portfolio mod :

www.moddb.com/mods/museumwad

My website :

bisonrimant.fr

Woocarved weird creature with one eye, small tentacles as a motuh, curvy horns, a robre, and a duck on its head.

Anthropomorphic octopus wearing a dress. It has a frog taking shelter on a book on its head. Its holding a basket in its tentacle arms. The base is like dark waters, where, among bulrush, a sword emerge. On the handle, a kingfisher sits.

A sculpture of an anthropomorphic crow with a hooded cape. Its hand is on the pommel of its sword, wich is attached at its side. On the other arm, a squirrel is climbing. Beside its feets, a cat sits.

An anthropomorphic goose weraing plate armor. It' holding a shield and a mace. On the mace, red robin sits.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, means so much 💙

Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 1d

Aw thanks! You might have found that my store is empty at the moment, but please join the mailing list on my site if you'd like to be notified about restocks!
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