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Beccaneer

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IT&Sec architect, history nerd, horse owner, cat lover Into sci-fi, games, slow travel, securing internet, autonomous houses, eco friendly living, nomadism Ashkenazi Jew Trans rights are human rights Opinions own She/her

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Beccaneer @beccaneer.bsky.social · Apr 1

We can choose to be kind or to be evil to people around us.

But we shouldn’t choose to be kind to those who chose to be evil.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16h

Love to see Chappell Roan using her power for good.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/24/c...

Chappell Roan sets up fund for trans youth, raises almost half a million dollars

Lesbian pop princess Chappell Roan has founded an organisation to fundraise for transgender youth and the wider LGBTQ+ community.

www.thepinknews.com

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 1d

Eight of Cups 🍷

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · Aug 31

The last card for the Vampire's Tarot has been turned in. 78 illustrations completed this year for my fifth and final tarot deck.

My wrist hurts ⚰️

Hopefully I'll soon have news from the publisher about release dates, so stay tuned

the "Death" card from the upcoming Vampire's Tarot from Llewellyn Publishing. Image depicts a female Death kissing a woman kneeling on a tomb in an overgrow cemetery.

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 10d

The witches of Flanders are everywhere. Their tales may be forgotten, their voices unheard, but they are anything but quiet.

Step into the darkness and help us give a voice to Flanders' witches! 🌙 kck.st/492NqKt 🌙 #WyrdWednesday

Image with the title of the book: The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders. Also the text: Back us on Kickstarter. Image shows the bookcover in both Ebook and paperback form. Book cover is a dark black and white cover with a witch staring at a field. There is a dog, crow, frog, butterfly and other animals around her. Moon and trees.

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Beccaneer @beccaneer.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much for replying!

It’s Poland and I’d love to be able to get the physical copy!

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Beccaneer @beccaneer.bsky.social · 1d

Would love to support it but as I am in Europe the only available options for me are digital and it feels very wrong with this type of the book:(

Is there a way to change it?

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Stephanie Brown ✨ Artist on Patreon @offbeatworlds.bsky.social · 1d

Speed painting I did a few years ago on Halloween, who turned into a D&D character later. Her name is Noxinni, and she is a gnome chaos magic sorcerer (re-flavoured wild magic with a little bit of shadow magic).

#digitalart #characterart #halloweenart #halloween

Digital sketch of a young woman with dark violet hair and a tattered black dress, holding a jack-o-lantern spewing purple smoke

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Sophie Poulin @sophie-poulin.bsky.social · 1d

The kind old man filled his cart with nuts, grains, and roots, leaving little bundles at the forest’s edge. Squirrels, hedgehogs, and even shy deer gathered, bowing their heads in thanks. Winter would be gentler this year.

#dnd #ttrpg #gaming #mtg #gamedev

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 1d

Brambly Hedge, Jill Barklem.

Autumn Brambly hedge scene, The central feature is a large, gnarled tree trunk with a small, round doorway at its base, suggesting a home. One mouse, dressed in a blue and white outfit, stands at the entrance of the doorway, which is accessed by a small wooden staircase. Two other mice are seated on the ground nearby. The ground is covered with fallen leaves and ripe apples, some of which are being gathered by another mouse on the right side of the image. The branches of the tree are laden with yellow and orange apples, and the surrounding foliage is also in autumn colors. Mushrooms are visible near the mouse on the right.

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Beccaneer @beccaneer.bsky.social · 1d

Is there any chance to order it? I see that the preorder has ended, but I found your art only today and would so much love the calendar like that for the next year. Will there be any opportunity to order it?

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Elaia 🍂 @elaia.bsky.social · 2d

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

(Context, for those wondering 😄)

bsky.app/profile/spig...

Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 23d

a long, proud, unrelenting history of The Economist adoration of all thing airships. We are like the Sputnik News of the hot-air lobby, I tell you.

(I love these pieces)

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 3d

"I can't sleep in my bed because the amazon web servers went down and so-"

you wake up. it is 1811, in Nottingham England. you know the future, and you know what you must do- the Luddites must win, at all costs.

Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 3d

What could go wrong with a cloud-connected bed?

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto

The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

www.dexerto.com

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Beccaneer @beccaneer.bsky.social · 3d

The whole tread by @lizthegrey.com and @hazelweakly.me is awesome in terms of how little lots of us know what is inside the cloud running as an operation and how much optimisation it allows.

Inspires to dig deeper to understand

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 3d

I disagree because of economies of scale. smaller datacentres do not have the same efficiencies (both economic and environmental)

have you *seen* the PUE of a Google or Amazon datacentre with one tenant and vertically integrated hw vs a Equinix or Digital Realty floor with many different tenants?

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 3d

If I had to guess, I’d guess this is the beginning of the death of public clouds. We’ll still *have* public clouds, but current clouds are synonymous with:

- internationally trusted
- runs public, critical, and consumer infrastructure intermixed
- wholly immune to market and customer influence

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Jerry Williams! @greatersapien.bsky.social · 4d

Here is a high rez version of the art for anyone who wants to print their own! Link in the alt text, too!

A vector PDF can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N8y0mdrkmO6Th6eaPAQ9wwmt7lyfYgv9/view?usp=drive_link
Please don't charge anyone to use it.

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Beccaneer @beccaneer.bsky.social · 5d

Relatable.

Sophie Poulin @sophie-poulin.bsky.social · 5d

#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #dungeonsanddragons #gaming #dndmemes #mtg #bg3 #criticalrole #gamedev

Beccaneer @beccaneer.bsky.social · 5d

a man in a suit and tie is holding a pair of shoes in his hands .

Alt: The main character from the series White Collar (Neal Caffrey) smiles and puts on a hat

media.tenor.com

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 6d

Muslim legislator running for governor says Georgia deserves leaders who reject scapegoating trans people

www.advocate.com/pol...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Muslim legislator running for governor says Georgia deserves leaders who reject scapegoating trans people

“I have not seen the kind of representation that is demanded of this moment,” state Rep. Ruwa Romman told The Advocate.

www.advocate.com

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 7d

Saturday plans:
🖼️ Detail from painting of Saint Lifard, Jean Bourdichon, C15th.

St Lifard ~ detail of him holding a blue and green dragon on a lead. Painting.

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arrowslinger.bsky.social @arrowslinger.bsky.social · 7d

My daughter finished hers at 4 am.
This is her first protest.

Democracy needs your courage Oct 18th NO KINGS protest sign

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 7d

Polish composer and virtuoso pianist #Chopin died #onthisday in 1849 aged just 39. He was buried to the tune of his very own “Funeral March”... one of the 1st recordings of which you can listen to here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c... #OTD

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Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social · 9d

Portrait of a very good boy.

#art #illustration

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Beccaneer @beccaneer.bsky.social · 8d

Scottish classics

Evelyn @chipnick.com · 8d

Scott’s are going to love this

Beccaneer @beccaneer.bsky.social · 8d

סליחה ,טעות שלי

Beccaneer @beccaneer.bsky.social · 8d

@thelouvreof.bsky.social worthy, for sure. Explaining Torah to Shammai!

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