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Diandra Mae

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🇵🇷-Texan Illustrator 🖌️✂️🎨 | lover of 📚 | She/Her | ✨this✨close to wandering off into the woods forever 🏕️ Team#ADHD, so no method to my madness. diandramae.com

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Diandra Mae @diandramae.com · 13d

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day!

I’m an author-illustrator who loves little spookies! You can see more of my work at diandramae.com.

I am actively seeking representation.
#kidlitart #kidlit #halloween #illustration

A trio of spooky pals walk with their treat buckets while kicking leaves on their way.

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Diandra Mae @diandramae.com · 4h

My ears get torn up from mask ear loops, so I use a velcro-strap fastener, which saves my ears and ensures I have a tight seal.

We just flew to and from Florida last weekend, and were the only people on both flights that masked. 😬

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Diandra Mae @diandramae.com · 4h

I got excited thinking it was an Office-style series focused on the birds’ messaging adventures, but I think they just make deliveries for a weed dispensary.

Diandra Mae @diandramae.com · 5h

@rosemarymosco.com Have you seen this video about a carrier pigeon fleet in NYC yet? I first saw the video on TikTok, but they’re on IG, too.

www.instagram.com/reel/DPmgOL6...?

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Diandra Mae @diandramae.com · 6h

The claw means I’m not going anywhere. 😅

A black cat paw has a claw or two extended to grip the fabric of the blanket covering the lap the cat is curled up in.

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Diandra Mae @diandramae.com · 6h

I was supposed to go into the studio an hour ago, but it’s a “chilly” 71 degrees this morning and…🐈‍⬛

A domestic short haired black cat is curled up and sleeping in the quilt-covered lap of her human.

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 9h

Today, if you need permission, and not that you need permission, my brethren in Creative Christ, say that you are proud of the thing you did, the thing you are doing, and your nascent plans for things to come.

Sometimes you gotta release that joy.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 1d

It's TUESDAY PEOPLE

Learn about the African Translation Project today!!

Donate and share!
TAKE A LOOK at the art shop
Share, please, share

If we don't get eyes on this, the books don't happen

ko-fi.com/africantrans...

Support African Translation Project

African Translation Project, Goal 4: Fully Fund Two Translations, by 31 October, still needed: $3345, 67%, If this goal is met: Translations will be fully funded for Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza,...

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Diandra Mae @diandramae.com · 20h

I saw a video of a teacher sharing a side effect of their district/state banning phones was students created Google slides, and invited friends so they could chat at school. Then they were individually decorating their slides, and listing their top friends. They recreated MySpace! 🤣

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 1d

Popping into #portfolioday on behalf of art directors to say thank you for sharing your work. It makes our job easier. We appreciate you.
💙❤️

Also, FWIW, I made a starter pack of hiring art-, creative-, design-directors who actively use Bluesky.
go.bsky.app/Hxoz9KX

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 21h

I’ve not personally had a chance to get out from the city light pollution to try for comet sightings, but you should!

I’ve heard it’s visible with binoculars/cameras now, may be naked-eye visible in dark skies this evening or within days (peak: 21 October)

www.space.com/stargazing/h...

How to find Comet Lemmon in the night sky as it brightens this October

Here's how to find Comet Lemmon in October's night sky.

www.space.com

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · Jul 8

Today is #PortfolioDay! It's easy for many artists to get lost in the sea so many others. This feed shows only #PortfolioDay posts with *fewer* than 30 likes, and in a random order, to help people get another chance at being seen. :)

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Diandra Mae @diandramae.com · 1d

I could eat that whole bag in one sitting! 😋

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Grace Lin @authorgracelin.bsky.social · 1d

My friends we are 83% to our fundraising goal! Can you help us get to the finish line? If we get there, our $5K turns into $15k (thanks to corporate matching) and we won’t have to ask you for money again for a long time!
Please support AAV @highlightsfound.bsky.social !

gofund.me/8a4a60441

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2d

Please share the news about these students working to get transparency on why books were removed from a statewide reading bowl (including a book ON book banning!!)

bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...

And then sign their petition here: www.change.org/p/ensure-tra...

A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans

Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.

bookriot.com

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Vivian Faith Prescott @alaskapoet.bsky.social · 2d

🌊 If you want to help Alaska’s small villages devastated by the flooding then this is the best legit site using a QR code. Here’s another legit donation link too from Alaska Community Foundation: Click to donate here:
alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

#AlaskaSky #AlaskaFlood

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Diandra Mae @diandramae.com · 1d

Oh yeah they are. I’ve seen a mated pair hunt lizards and snakes in the backyard!

Diandra Mae @diandramae.com · 1d

The mass market paperbacks that we used to be able to find in the grocery store spinner racks were the BEST. 😭

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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 2d

Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Read our cover story from 2024 about the Karankawa, the people who inhabited the coastal plains and barrier islands of Texas: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/karankawa-people-today/

The Karankawa Want You to Know They’re Not Extinct

Emerging from a long history of oppression, slanderous folklore, and rumors of their demise, the Gulf Coast people are finding a place for themselves in the twenty-first century.

www.texasmonthly.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 2d

I shared this video through @redpopnews.bsky.social about the Indigenous Peoples' Day celebration at the Getty because it was beautiful to share our cultures and to be appreciated for who we are as Native people beyond the Hollywood tropes and Stereotypes and not as relics of the past.

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Boo-ly, Li'l Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · Jun 28

you have a right to be angry

Drawing of Little My, a small girl in a red dress, sliding down a hill. She is drawn by Tove Jansson from the Moomin series. The text reads: "WHEN you're angry, then you're angry," thought Little My, peeling her potato with her teeth. "Sometimes you have to be angry. Every little creature has the right to get angry."

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 3d

Is life often terrible? Yes.
Are there still always people out there going “Let’s make a cool ass thing for other people to see?” Also yes.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 3d

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3d

Art is going to be so bad when only privileged wealthy people can afford to make it.

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 4d

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 4d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Patricia Brown @patbrownbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Look what came in the mail today! If Your Babysitter is a Bruja by Ana Siquera and illustrated by Irena Freitas is a fun read aloud that is perfect for Halloween! 🥰🧙‍♀️@asiqueira.bsky.social @irenafreitas.com

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