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@jkmakes.bsky.social

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Executive Officer In Charge of Radishes non-competitive poster and earnest motherfucker gender casual COVID-hermit tired #MakeAThing Even if you're "bad" at it. #AbolitionStories #ArtILove https://linktr.ee/jkmakes

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · Mar 21

Here's an easy way to share how my project works:

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Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 4h

I will also pretend this is a post about baseball because it amuses me.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4h

JUST RUN THE BALL UP THE MIDDLE GODDAMNIT

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 5h

hated that fourth down playcall. Your OL is winning. Tush push. Sneak. Do the thing.

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BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 8h

The average protester has been doing expert-level escalation management and the average ICE officer is threatening to murder ambulance drivers.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 5h

Seeing a lot of "No Kings" protests groups using AI images lately

You aren't resisting fascism by using their tools

Be better than that

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 5h

Becoming firmly convinced my autocorrect is intentionally growing worse and worse.

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Kythryne Aisling/Wyrding Studios @wyrdingstudios.com · 6h

I thought I was out of electroplated leaves but I found a handful of them while I was looking for something else last week. wyrdingstudios.com/collections/...

A collage of four photos of jewelry made from copper electroplated leaves, swirly gold wire, and brightly colored gemstones. There are three pendants made from oak leaves - one with blue-grey iolite, one with deep pink rubies, and one with vivid green chrome diopside - and a necklace made with an aspen leaf and dark purple amethyst.

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Mother Frog Slut // Steward of Giant Reptiles @toadcialism.bsky.social · 10h

I just added two utterly show-stopping pieces to my shop, check em out!!

My take on Eureka Crystal’s “Opulence Echo”, and another epic Komodogenesis cuff, this time in lizard green 🦎💎

#bsnm #jewelry

Black velvet jewelry bust displaying an incredibly ornate beaded necklace in shades of blue with a massive round blue crystal in the center

Fluffy the Asian water monitor toy modeling a giant cuff made of green howlite tooth beads with more beads in greens, black, gold, and jet AB going down the center

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 17h

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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Pips’ Left Paw @pips-left-paw.bsky.social · 12h

There’s only about 4 yards left of this warp so this two-by-two of neutral neutral linen huck lace won’t go on forever. But here are the latest two. #weaving #handweaving #fibersky

Linen cloth on a loom. The pattern is circle-ish truncated diamonds of huck lace on a plain weave ground. The motifs might look circular when the cloth is wet finished.

A wide view of the approximately circular pattern.

A different pattern in progress on the loom, with a large motif of diagonal rice-grain shapes, with an effect like a chain link fence. In the diamond-shaped negative spaces there are speckles or sprinkles of individual huck spots.

A wide view of the chain-link motif on the loom showing the beater and breast beam.

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 1d

I settled on a pattern so now to put in an hour so so a day and hopefully have these sorted by the end of the month. #halloweencraft #weaving #fiber #fiberarts

Handwoven striped towels on a floor loom in black, green, purple and orange. The weave is zigzag and points in twill. There is a LeClerc shuttle with black yarn sitting on top of the weaving.

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 10h

#PoorlyDrawnOctober Day 13: a whole skeleton.

Not a whole skeleton, but, something different today.

Photograph of a stamped print, in black ink. It says move your bones while you can, with a crudely fashioned little skull.

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 10h

#PoorlyDrawnOctober Day 13: a whole skeleton.

Not a whole skeleton, but, something different today.

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 10h

Too many people think that history just is, that we name events because of some objective reality to the flow of lives and changes.

I often say that where you start and stop a story *is* the story: what you choose to include as meaningfully connected is the history.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14h

NEW POST: In Bloody Crowns, @michaellivingston.com argues that the "Hundred Years War" is really a two hundred years, and was started by the French, fought in what today we call France, and won by people who got to define what France would be.

- from me and @profgabriele.com

Book Review: "Bloody Crown" by Michael Livingston

A New History of the Hundred (or maybe Two Hundred) Years War

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 10h

Last chance to get made-to-order beadwork in time for Halloween!! Find your perfect pair of spooky earrings: cvkvlv.com

#Halloween #Mvskoke #Art #Beadwork

A screenshot of my website showing a grid of beaded fringe earrings for sale

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 11h

“Help!” cried Toad. “My list is blowing away. What will I do without my list?”

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 11h

Portland

Mike @mike.perham.net · 12h

One thing I haven’t seen reported about the ICE building protest: they have 10-20 costumes on a rack that anyone is free to use. Put it on, inflate it and protest!

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10h

Anyway, Trump himself said he was being a little cute and doesn't think he's going to heaven.

And still has followers. Do they not ask where he's leading them?

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10h

Trump is trying to cram for getting into heaven the way a mid student tries to cram for a final after skipping class all semester

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

I thought this was lovely.

"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion."

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"Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York."

A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 12h

Disinformation and propaganda means you speak or write things and then people totally disconnected from you who you don't know at all will act on those things to bring about your intended outcome

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

Freedom papers and financial undermining ….

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 18h

++ people in DC. Still. It’s still happening here I had feds in the alley behind my house 3 days ago. 7 people (that I know of) have been taken from my block alone.

Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks :) <3 I loved this unexpected prompt

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 12h

You're welcome.

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Cat zoom meeting😺

YouTube video by KaeR the KnR

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chetom ✨🐸 @chetom.bsky.social · 13h

the ink master 🐸🍄✨ #frogart

a cute little frog wearing an inkcap mushroom hat and a cape with little stars holding a staff with a jar of ink art by chetom

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 14h

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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