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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2h

Republicans are melting down over millions of Americans peacefully protesting against Trump on Saturday.

Cancún Cruz is scared because the GOP’s authoritarian agenda is becoming even more unpopular as our defiance grows even stronger.

Join your local event: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Acyn on Twitter: “Cruz: Follow the money. Cut off the money. You look at this No Kings rally—there's considerable evidence that George Soros and his network is behind funding these rallies which may well turn into riots.

I've introduced legislation that would allow DOJ to use RICO to prosecute the money that is funding these No Kings Protests”

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 2h

16 October 1943 | Raid of the Ghetto of Rome. 365 German security & police forces sealed off the area of the ghetto. 1,024 Jewish men, women, and children were arrested. Two days later they were deported to #Auschwitz.

Only 16 of them survived the war.

The image is a black-and-white historical photograph showing a city street scene. People are gathered in small groups. In the foreground, a military truck or cargo vehicle is parked. The background features multi-story buildings, some with damaged or darkened windows, indicating possible war damage.

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 2h

maybe a hot take i dunno but i find that many negative reviews on games i like boil down to "this game that was intended as a slow, progressive experience to be enjoyed over several weeks was not enjoyable when i played 80 hours in a week so i could be amongst the first to post a review"

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HolBolDoArt🏳️‍🌈 @holboldoart.bsky.social · 3d

Uh oh watch out Holly's on another rampage of "how did they place those damn circles" and screaming.

They're easy to make sense of in arrangements of even numbers of lights, but I still haven't figured it out for odd numbers.

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Ansonia @ansonia.bsky.social · 15h

I swear to god every time you post things like this it's like they were made for me because this is exactly how my brain functions lol. I get stuck on a single leaf or something and I'm like "well I guess I can never finish"

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 20h

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie's opening title is so good

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Jonathan Griffith @getinthegustaff.bsky.social · 19h

Fun fact: The animator who worked on this sequence, Hiroyuki Okiura, is often accused of rotoscoping. Not even remotely the case, as I understand.

Please watch Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heaven's Door. It's one of the most beautiful things ever made by people. Also... It's a Halloween movie!

Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 20h

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie's opening title is so good

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 16h

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 16h

BREAKING: Missouri state officials sue a pro-voting coalition, which is organizing a veto referendum to block Republican state lawmakers' new congressional gerrymander. The map notably split apart Black communities in Kansas City to buy the GOP one district.

Missouri Republicans Sue to Block ‘People’s Veto’ of GOP Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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sylvia @sylvibullet.bsky.social · 16h

welcome to bluesky former twitter users, just want to let you kn

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, by the way, I wrote in @thenation.com about how Trump is condeming millions of Americans to hunger this Thanksigiving with his accelarated timeline of adding work requirements for SNAP benefits.
I also discussed how work requirements provably don't work, for the neoliberals in your life.

Trump Has Just Condemned More Americans to Hunger

The administration’s decision to fast-track a bunch of changes to food stamps—including new work requirements—is as stupid as it is cruel.

www.thenation.com

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 16h

for the record it's mostly about being stoned hahaha

Davis Bickford @davis.social · 1d

This panel in @keezyyoung.bsky.social’s book is NOT about ADHD—but for me, this is very much how my ADHD experience went in my school days. 😂

I THINK
PEOPLE JUST
ASSUME IT BECAUSE OF MY PERSONALITY?
AND, UH...FACE?
AND GRADES.
AND BECAUSE
SOMETIMES I SPACE
OUT WHEN PEOPLE ARE
TALKING TO ME.
AND, LIKE, FALL ASLEEP IN CLASS A LOT...

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Elena Skitalets @elenaskitalets.bsky.social · Sep 13

Samhain.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

It's the worst thing watching resegregation happen in real time to please a bunch of white supremacist nazis in power.

www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 16h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Sarah Smith - Nature Artwork @doedryadart.bsky.social · 16h

I don't think I'll get tired of painting mushrooms and forest detritus.

This little guy is still available 🍂
lostthicket.etsy.com/listing/1797...

Painting of a purple toned mushroom and leaflitter, contrasting with the sienna toned backdrop.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay ! I’m Chloé, 2D artist & always open to talk about comic gigs 💜✨

Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · Jul 23

🌸 presentation post 🌸

I'm Chloé, 2D/concept artist in the video games industry & comic artist ✨

I draw lots of women - most of them sapphic -, I love lineart & vibrant colors, & I'll sometimes be annoying about playing Go

Drawing of a mermaid resting, lying on the ground of a quiet cove, surrounded by plants and flowers, part of her tail and hair in water, while she gently watches three ducklings swimming among the lotus flowers

Drawing of me as a witch floating in the night sky, wielding necromancer magic, holding a skull, wearing a witch hat, spiderweb pattern tights, a jean jacket, fishnet top, big goth shoes

one-page comic, black and white and grayscale
panel 1 : close up of a woman's hand, wearing rings, on an old spellbook page
panel 2 : same woman's hands conjuring some black fire
panel 3 (big) : woman sitting on the floor where a pentagram is drawn, with skulls and candles, while a tiny demon with horns seems to jump out of the spellbook right on her legs, visibly very happy
the woman's wearing converse-like shoes, jeans, a tope revealing her shoulders (and a big tatto on the left one), she has a choker necklace and hair loosely tied into a messy bun
text : Look. There's never a perfect time to cast your first spell. Especially as a self-taught witch. Reckless ? Sure. But the truth is... I needed a friend."

drawing of a woman entering some kind of cyber glowing bat, in a room full of old looking computers and wires and cables
there's a huge aquarium in the background with fishes and deepsea-like algae, etc.
the woman is linked to a machine by cables in her left thigh and neck, her eyes glow green and her skin too in some places

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Addy Berry, PhD @addyberry.bsky.social · 1d

So I guess sex work is only ok if just tech oligarchs are profiting off it and not marginalized women or minorities who depend on it to survive?

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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mawili 🌐 MCM London L-24 @poisonp1nk.art · 2d

hey #PortfolioDay ⚔️

im mawili, a freelance illustrator and concept artist from spain. i love bold colors and doing fanart/OC art 🗣️

i have gamedev experience, and i would like to join the industry again!

🌐: poisonp1nk.art
🎨: poisonp1nk.artstation.com

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 2d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 4d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 9d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Sylessae @sylessae.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about an exercise I use with my students that incorporates this iteration, turns it into a step by step, and only takes about 30-45 minutes.

Check out @trueref.bsky.social's article to try it!

bsky.app/profile/true...

TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · Jul 14

Our first article is up on TrueRef! 🤍

Learning to Draw With References: Tips for New Artists
By @sylessae.bsky.social

Includes a free reference, worksheet and process video!

Read: trueref.io/blogs/news/l...

a black and white digital art portrait of a woman by artist Sylessae.

Pose references of a woman in various sitting poses.

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