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Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith

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2025 WFA Artist finalist Woodcut printmaker at www.xylographilia.com https://xylographilia.etsy.com #woodcut #art Skeleton in a flesh suit. Carnivorous plant enthusiast. Enjoyer of weird fiction and horror. She/her

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Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks for the art share Davis!
Hi, I'm Liv, a woodcut printmaker and finalist for the Artist World Fantasy Award this year. All of my 2D art is sketched, hand-carved in wood, then inked and printed on my etching press. Sometimes I add color with watercolors, or gilding. #art #woodcut #printmaking

Vertical rectangular black ink woodcut print on cream colored paper. A lumpy humanoid figure is playing a flute perched upon a black rock. Bog plants grow around it and a black crescent moon is in the upper right corner. The creature has only 3 thick toes and fingers, no eyes, and the face terminates in tentacles around where the mouth must be.

A vertical rectangular black ink woodcut on cream colored paper. A thick black border is filled with strange flora and fauna. The central scene is a goat-headed and footed figure cradling a monstrous infant. Both have gold halos behind their heads, and black tentacles emerge behind them. Two crustacean-like monsters perch on the cloud flanking them. The print is colored with watercolor, in greens, reds, orange, yellow, and purple.

A vertical black ink woodcut print on off-white paper. This piece is in a style reminiscent of post-colonial Aztec manuscripts. A dog-like humanoid being holds a seated naked human in one hand, gestures with the other, and a florish emerges from its mouth, indicating speach. In the margins are cut up snakes, a scorpion, foot symbols, and two skulls flanking a moon symbol.

A vertical rectangular black ink woodcut print on cream colored paper. The head of a lion shaped like a sun with many rays floats inside a stoppered bottle. Vines cradle the bottom of the round flask, and wings emerge near the neck of the vessel.

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Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · 13h

At this point I trust Sam Altman as far as I can throw him. I’ve never had the opportunity to throw him, but I doubt that is any distance at all.

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KOIN 6 News @koin6.bsky.social · 1d

A clarinet player is apparently being held without bail on no specific charges at the Clark County Jail in Vancouver after her husband said she was arrested Sunday during a protest across the street from the ICE facility in South Portland.

Clarinetist playing ‘Ghostbusters’ arrested at ICE facility

The woman’s husband — who asked KOIN 6 News not to identify either of them for safety reasons — said his wife was tackled by federal agents while she was playing her clarinet arou…

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Kaylee's Boyfriend @megsyv.bsky.social · Jun 16

Artists Meeting Artists

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 13d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

My most unhinged(?) take:

This is not just 70s nostalgia

I think we should go back to glass bottles & jars for packaging ALL pre-prepared food & drink.

Glass is near-infinitely recyclable and the improvement for both human health and the health of the environment would be significant.

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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 25d

working on knitting up some stock to get ready for the holiday season, today I’m restocking mini frog dissections!

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a hinged set of 5 x 7 picture frames, there’s a white fuzzy knitted lab rat on the left side and a green knitted frog on the right, both are displaying their needle felted wool insides

a detail close up on the frog’s body, displaying its innards that are needle felted from different colored wool roving

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 8d

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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Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! At least we're not alone. There was a guy leaving when I arrived, and another lady arrived as I was departing. Hopefully the weather was at least decent for your walk? It was gorgeous here today, though a bit windy.

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 11d

Boosts appreciated 🔁

It's a great time to start shopping for holiday gifts! I make handmade jewelry for a living, so your business this holiday season means far more to me than it will to any large business. Grab my new spooky earrings → cvkvlv.com

MVTO!!

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Two pairs of fringe earrings with ghosts on them, one with a purple and orange background and one with a purple and green background

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · 1d

Love how I'm able to be aware today is a federal holiday, but still run out the door at 4:30 to mail an order before the post office closes at 5pm. (The post office, of course, never opened today.)

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Eye O' Newt @goldienewt.bsky.social · 1d

Reading quietly to yourself is a fairly new thing & at one time was considered selfish. Books were originally meant to be read aloud.

Transtifa @syyyyyyyyy.bsky.social · 1d

Listening to an audiobook is "real" reading, and in many cases it's a better way to parse text. Both because some texts beg to be experienced aloud, and because in many cases audiobook readers can get more out of the text that way. (And I'm not even talking about accessibility!)

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Theren Lazauski @therewren.bsky.social · Oct 27

If you see this, post a monster!

Here's an old watercolor of a feisty little snapdragon.

A watercolor illustration of what appears at first to be a relatively normal snapdragon flower, but closer inspection reveals that it is actually a creature with the flowers forming multiple heads, and some of the leaves and roots becoming limbs and tails.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 2d

Went for a walk, found a coffin in the woods, standard...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 2d

Halloween is near! It's time to post this marvellous articulated Roman skeleton, presumably meant to be a reminder to enjoy life to the fullest, since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.
In Petronius’ Satyricon, the host of a dinner party brings out a small skeleton with moveable...🧵1/2

Bronze figurine of a walking skeleton with elongated limbs and detailed ribcage, shown against a dark gradient background.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement

Joey Mannarino in a dark brown tailored jacket. The low armhole is causing his jacket to lift.

Someone in an inflatable frog costume. The high armhole allows them to raise their arm without disturbing the rest of the garment

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · 2d

This has been ongoing for years so I don’t remember. It’s so easy to fix I usually only complain in my head.

Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · 2d

I will never understand why when I connect my phone to the bluetooth speaker in my studio, it connects at a muted volume. The only way to get the volume to normal levels is to disconnect it, then connect it again. It’s really annoying.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2d

Screwworm, which is a major threat to cattle and is already affecting beef prices, is advancing toward our southern border faster than expected.

No wall will keep it out. And the USDA inspectors who monitor it are currently furloughed.

Cuellar: Furloughed USDA inspectors can’t check for New World screwworm

A South Texas congressman says U.S. Agriculture employees who are responsible for checking for New World Screwworms and ensuring the pest doesn’t cross the border have been furloughed and are not w…

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Eye O' Newt @goldienewt.bsky.social · 2d

The naked bike ride is normally in July. When it's relatively warm & probably not raining. To do one in October is truly an emergency action.

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Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 2d

Halmahera gecko perched on glass. You can see she’s got some thickness.

Gecko looking at camera with the claws clearly visible

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Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · 2d

Those claws are wild!

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ceej @ceej.online · 2d

someone with a billion dollars no longer experiences the world as 99% of humanity would recognize it, and so any “analysis” or critique of society they offer is fatally, irrevocably flawed. dracula complaining about the price of groceries

ceej @ceej.online · 2d

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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