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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 20h

ICE arrests a guy in a giraffe costume for singing

America 2025 baybeee

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 22h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Chinese scientists have created a oyster-inspired medical adhesive called Bone-02 that can bond shattered bones in just 3 minutes. Inspired by how oysters cling to rocks underwater, the glue forms a strong, biodegradable bond that replaces screws and plates. buff.ly/znJ2jxD
#ShareGoodNewsToo

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

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Acidshadow @acidshadow.bsky.social · 19h

Inktober 2025 - Day 15 - Ragged CREATURE BONUS

'LETS GO EAT WORMS'
My halloween duo 'trick and Treat' (you can see more of them here: www.tumblr.com/i-am-worm/se... ). This time in a sort of 'patchwork sack of worms' variant.
#inktober #creature #monster #inktober2025t #eye #worm #patchwork #ragged

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Acidshadow @acidshadow.bsky.social · 19h

Inktober 2025 - Day 15 - Ragged

A trick or treater is joining you! Their scarecrow costume looks good, and they have some convincing zombie-shuffling going on! Rather quiet, though...maybe keeping in character.

#inktober #raggedy #pierrot #pumpkin #zombie #trickortreat #inktober2025 #halloween

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Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · 1d

Appreciate bats all year with BCI merch. Enjoy decor, stickers, and apparel that gives back! 👉 batcon.org/shop

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Video Games Out of Context 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @indiegamesooc.bsky.social · 1d

Okami

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 1d

Things you love to see! The fight to end the Badger cull continues with new momentum!

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Ukrainian refugees condemn failure of authorities to take action against Reform over campaign lies

Martin Shipton Ukrainian refugees who were offered shelter when Putin’s Russia invaded their homeland have expressed dismay that no action is being taken against Reform UK for spreading lies about the...

nation.cymru

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d

‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail

Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two...

www.theguardian.com

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see the "Chicago rat hole" (rodent-body imprint) of January 2024 Internet fame was studied more, but just to add my $0.02: Many folks missed the tracks leading away from the body imprint, meaning the squirrel (not rat) fell & splatted in wet concrete, but then walked it off. 🧪🐿️🐾

Photo showing the outline of small rodent body as a negative (concave) impression in sidewalk concrete, with left two limbs clearly defined but missing the upper right limb (arm) and only part of the right rear limb (leg); a thin tail is implied by a pointed imprint behind the main body imprint. The photo is labeled with "Direction of rodent movement" and a red arrow pointing to the upper right of the photo, and a red circle is around a set of rodent tracks in the upper right near the body imprint, labeled as "Rodent tracks."

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hunter 🪚🥩 @fleshatronach.bsky.social · 12d

that beagle

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Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · 1d

When the Day Breaks (1999)

#animationclips #sakuga #animation #2danimation

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 1d

In 1999, the official Nintendo Australia site tested the visitor's ability to display Shockwave/Flash content by displaying a running Mario, crudely edited from a screenshot of Super Mario 64.

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Acidshadow @acidshadow.bsky.social · 1d

Inktober 2025 - Day 14 - Trunk CREATURE BONUS

I drew a 'mastodon' when I thought it was some sort of mythical elephant monster...then I go distracted by:
BONUS ELCOR REDESIGN

WAFFLE HERE:
www.tumblr.com/i-am-worm/79...

#inktober #inktober2025 #creature #monster #alien #masseffect #elcor #trunk

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Acidshadow @acidshadow.bsky.social · 1d

Inktober 2025 - Day 14 - Trunk

The eater of socks (who supposedly sports a magnificent trunk) would be friends with the luggage (also a kind of trunk, see what I did there :B) because I think they both like making people's socks disappear.

#inktober #inktober2025 #trunk #discworld #terrypratchett

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Kaya's Kosmos @kayas-kosmos.bsky.social · 2d

Here are some of my most recent creature designs from Flowerpunk:

A drawing of a type of flying squid known as a dumbo squid. It is orange with pink "wings" and covered in glowing blue markings. It is flying through a blue sky.

Several images of a greentrail's head. Its face is vaguely dragon-like with chameleon-like eyes, molerat-like teeth and a hard, bony skull inspired by a tortoise shell. It has a mess of white hair and a trailing beard split into three strands. Its skin is mostly a pale green with a pinkish underbelly and greys and pinks for the scales around the eyes. Its tongue is similar to a snake's.

A drawing of a creature known as a hobbler troll. They are short, stocky creatures that strongly resemble a cross between a pug, some rotting wood covered in moss and a frog. They have some grass growing off their body and an extremely matted hairy belly.

A creature known as a loodwouse. They are bipedal with a stocky build, stumpy hippo-like feet, a long neck and a wide head with long ears. Their skin is grey and parts of them are covered in chitin plates. They also have a set of antennae.

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Snacko Racko @snackoracko.bsky.social · 2d

Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!

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

Artists Meeting Artists

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Julete∅n | Commissions open @juleteon.art · 2d

Flaming Winged Sovereign #OFFgame #OFF

Digital artwork of Japhet, a large white bird with a dark hollow eye and a white glow at it's center.

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BixByte @bixbyte.bsky.social · 3d

PLEASE DON'T SUPPORT THIS "INDIE PROJECT"

IT'S GENERATIVE AI SLOP

Very disappointed that no one is calling it out in the comments. But it's possible they could be deleting negative ones.

I was fooled by the preview image thinking "OMG GIRL BALTO" but nope, AI slop. #furry #furryart #animation

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Furry Found Footage @furryfootage.bsky.social · 2d

as edgy as it gets

Rat Bastard mini pilot (2000c) created by Cliff Galbraith

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 2d

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment

“Keep out of the way of officers, ‘cos they ain’t healthy. That’s what you learn in the army. The enemy dun’t really want to fight you, ‘cos the enemy is mostly blokes like you who want to go home with all their bits still on. But officers’ll get you killed.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

The late (or at least severely delayed) Bergholt Stuttley Johnson was generally recognized as the worst inventor in the world, yet in a very specialized sense. Merely bad inventors made things that failed to operate. He wasn’t among these small fry. Any fool could make something that did absolutely nothing when you pressed the button. He scorned such fumble-fingered amateurs. Everything he built worked. It just didn’t do what it said on the box. If you wanted a small ground-to-air missile, you asked Johnson to design an ornamental fountain.

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Acidshadow @acidshadow.bsky.social · 2d

Inktober 2025 - Day 13 - Drink CREATURE BONUS
Started out as a giraffe but ended up more of a camel. Made me think that maybe a teapot of Turkish coffee would be more appropriate, and that creature idea may come up later this month.
#inktober #creature #inktober2025 #teapot #camel #glass #tea #drink

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Acidshadow @acidshadow.bsky.social · 2d

Inktober 2025 - Day 13 - Drink BONUS

My character Mudd is a happy little boozer and in contrast with my captain haddock picture; she's enjoying his fave 'loch Lomond whisky'.

Little batty me wants some.

gib.

#inktober #inktober2025 #drink #mudd #bat #whisky #lochlomondwhisky #booze

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