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Microblogging is the closest I will ever get to being telepathic. My mind to your mind, my thoughts to your thoughts. Artist 30 They/Them or Ze/Zir #art #StarTrek #cartoons #NoMansSky Support me here: https://ko-fi.com/vm_1994

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Val 🏳️‍🌈 @valociraptor.bsky.social · Dec 7

I have prints of these art works and I will mail them to anyone who makes a 15 dollar donation to my Ko-Fi until they run out. Please include your address and preferred print in your donation! #art #disabledartist ko-fi.com/vm_1994

This one is called "Amanita Galactia." A slender white mushroom person wearing a long black and white pokadotted dress on a green and black nebula background. They have vertical alien eyes, like a gray alien. They have a big mushroom cap hat. Their hands are pointy and black and they look like they're wearing gloves, the black fades to a gradient. It looks like they are creating a tiny galaxy between their hands.

This one is called "Macrocybe Titan." A watercolor painting of a fat tan mushroom person standing in the Florida everglades. This one is based on Macrocybe Titan, the largest mushroom in North America. There are animals native to Florida around it. A raccoon pats its smooth brown mushroom cap head with his hands while a gray fox naps in a tree nearby. There is a panther lurking in the distance. There is an atlas moth on the mushroom person's left arm and they seem happy the moth is there, their eyes have a happy expression. There is a bobcat rubbing against their leg and a mole at their feet. A Florida scrub jay is on their head.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1d

I keep thinking about how so-called AI is literally just time-displaced human intelligence. Bottled human decision-making, by converting human acts of perception and description into data via effective slave labor, that can be replayed for first-world elites who have given up on thinking themselves.

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Val 🏳️‍🌈 @valociraptor.bsky.social · 2h

Why in the fuck would we need to *generate* an autopsy report?? Can't the coroner just *do* the report????? That's the point of investigating a death???????????

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🕸️🕷️spiderdepot🕷️🕸️ @spiderdepot6.bsky.social · 2d

No news from Ahmed, but:

His family needs food - $100 per day, which is very rarely met since the ceasefire announcement.

So far yesterday and today nothing has been raised. They still need help.

gofund.me/124a7c49
paypal.me/AhmadAlsbaihii

Donate to Help Ahmed and Rula's Family Escape G4za, organized by Cardinal Alfonso

Note from fundraiser organizer: This fundraiser is for Rula, Ahmed, and the… Cardinal Alfonso needs your support for Help Ahmed and Rula's Family Escape G4za

gofund.me

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 1d

"It's weird to see Bill Nye the Science Guy behind bullet proof glass at a protest. That's about where we are in life, isn't it?" - @findchaos.bsky.social 7:05PM on a rainy Sunday

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · Aug 31

rolling one up in the tree star

Still from the animated movie land before time showing a dinosaur mouth holding a lead covered in water

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elicia @elicia.bsky.social · 1d

I am begging white parents of white boys to do whatever you can to make sure he understands equity, community, and his responsibility to uplift others.

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 1d

Your daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH.

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup
#ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles

As seen at the Laguna Beach, CA, No Kings protest, October 18th, 2025.

Man holding sign that says: STOP
HIDING THE NAMES OF THE MEN WHO BROKE LITTLE
GIRLS

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Val 🏳️‍🌈 @valociraptor.bsky.social · 5h

Fuck Netanyahu, all my homies hate Netanyahu.

Val 🏳️‍🌈 @valociraptor.bsky.social · 6h

rye chip is queen of the chex mix

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 12h

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 11h

We are so lucky our fascists are some of the dumbest people to ever live

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

via disesdi susanna cox

Flowchart that says, is AI spying on me? It leads to the question, do you use AI? But both yes and no lead to, AI is spying on you.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

www.huffpost.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h

Shubh Deepavali! Wishing everyone a very happy Diwali.

Across our city, families are lighting diyas and celebrating the triumph of light over darkness and hope over despair.

New York shines brighter tonight because of the people who bring their light and traditions home.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

The ACA allowed me to leave an abusive ex. I had a large, complex ovarian cyst (which I knew about bc I pretended to go to work and went to the ER instead - I was forbidden from going and told it was selfish).

He held the promise of the surgery I needed over my head. Until he couldn't anymore.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 1d

My best friend was able to leave her abusive husband because the ACA made it possible for her to still get health insurance

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Val 🏳️‍🌈 @valociraptor.bsky.social · 1d

Marge is a Millennial now? That doesn't seem right.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 1d

A Palestinian girl feeds cats in Gaza after hearing news about a “Ceasefire”. These cats are starving as israel continues its campaign of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and weaponised starvation against Palestinians.

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Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 1d

Eldritch assassin

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 1d

Last year I reimagined the work of 30+ artists to feature Moe Syzslak. Recreating famous painting was a fun challenge! I’m gonna share some of my favourites the rest of this month.

Here’s Claude Moe-net.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 3d

the whole point of mass protest is to demonstrate overwhelming opposition to the political direction, at a scale that can't be cracked down on

dress comfortably and stay away from anyone inciting violence, but don't let clout chasers scare you into losing sight of how the basic concept works

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3d

honestly I'll call this forgivable given the explanation seems to be "grant morrison doesn't have a smartphone and hasn't read anything about AI and automatically assumed it was a daemon he should befriend"