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they/them Assimilated Wt on paper Indigenous | #nonbinary | www/40+ | digi&analog #artist 🚫AI | Waawiyaatanong Detroit LANDBACK / AIM 1sts, awards, can't care I cannot afford to feed my rescue cat plz support us Linkr.bio/BERTCH I block back 🤷

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Lex Bertch @bertch313.bsky.social · 25d

Another double album jacket/cd cover for music I never made

Glitch art abstract in monochrome black white and grey

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 17m

Members of Steel Pulse, The Clash and Sex Pistols demonstrating outside National Front Leader Martin Webster’s house in 1977

Photo by Caroline Coon

#punk #punks #punkrock #PunksAgainstRacism #steelepulse #TheClash #sexpistols #NaziPunksFuckOff #punkrockhistory

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Nichole @tnwhiskeywoman.bsky.social · 13m

If I may add one to this helpful list: “low man/bottom of the totem pole.” That position is actually a *high* honor bc it is the foundation holding everyone else. It is not a low ranking figure at all

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 11h

Here’s some words/phrases I no longer say due to racist origin that personally gave me the ick so I just stopped using them. I found often times I brought it up ppl just didn’t know so I’m sharing. Do what you want with this info. Okay, ready here we go 🧵

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 15h

It may no longer be Indigenous Peoples' Day but this is when and where your support truly matters. We have several Native communities devastated by flooding, families have literally lost everything.

Link to community fundraiser for people impacted by this storm: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

A a teal flyer for the Western Alaska Disaster Relief with a QR code to donate. Text reads:

WESTERN ALASKA DISASTER RELIEF

Alaska's Western coastal communities are experiencing devastating impacts from Typhoon Halong, with families displaced and villages facing severe flooding and loss.

ONLINE FUNDRAISER:
Join us in supporting relief efforts. Scan the QR code to donate
online. All funds raised will go directly to
assisting communities.
QUYANA CAKNEQ - QUYANAQPAK - QAGAASAKUNG - TAIKUU
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MAHSÌ CHO - GUNALCHÈESH - HÀW’AA - THANK YOU

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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 10h

The Border Patrol helicopters are back at it in Chicago - just saw one near me in Wicker Park flying toward Humboldt Park

Low-flying choppers patrolling our neighborhoods are now so common they hardly get mentioned. Each sighting used to get a flurry of videos - now there's hardly a single post

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Zoë’s Studio @zoesstudio.bsky.social · 15h

Day 14 of #inktober - the prompt is trunk.
I’ve done a mini study of tree bark textures.

#inktober2025 #inktober2025trunk #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #inkdrawing #art #treebark #dailysketch #dailydrawing

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 16h

Hi #PortfolioDay

I’m Élle • Freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer

Specializing in detail heavy B&W work & passionate about occult history, horror & symbolism

Open for work in publishing, book covers, TTRPGs, private & commercial commissions

✉️ [email protected]
🎨 babeandoak.carrd.co

Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anne’s lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival.

Victorian Ward - Black and white illustration of a Victorian wall with a scarab ward framed. The border of the whole piece is a torn paper. Inside is Victorian black and white striped wallpaper with damask type filigree in the black and smaller stripes and speckles in the white with small vertical black stripes on either side. In the damask pattern are slightly abstract symbols of infinity, an hourglass and other resurrection symbols. In the middle is an ornate rectangular frame framing a large scarab beetle with its wings out. On its wings are celestial symbols like Jupiter, stars and the moon. Around the scarab are peony flowers and branches of a tree branching towards the top left with a vine white line swooping in an out and around the frame in the same direction. The scarabs body is engraved like metal with filigree. Behind the scarab in the frame is grain shading grey over black.

Dark Vibrations - Inktober 2022 black and white ink illustration. Plain rolling hills lead to the door of a building with a large central spire and a small covered porch. To the left side of the building is a three facet bay windows and the other windows have ornate stained glass. On top of the central spire is a lighting conductor in the shape of a 5 point star. In the highest window of the spire is stain glass in the shape of an eye. Converging at the start is a large vortex spiraling and expanding through the whole sky. The vortex is pulling party’s of the building up towards it and cracking parts of the wood and foundation. The vortex is casting light and highlights on the building and the tress behind it. Converging towards the building is a circle of 12 white bird silhouettes.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 13h

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??"
In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!".
In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!".
In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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Lex Bertch @bertch313.bsky.social · 1d

Daily digital abstract

#y2k style
#cybergoth
#industrial

Abstract in blue black and green featuring big black grungey shapes and hexagons

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INPRNT @inprnt.com · 2d

"Frogs in Autumn" by Chetom

Print available at www.inprnt.com/gallery/chet...

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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 2d

theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i... - no change since the early settler colonial days, where they targeted pregnant women b/c of their condition

The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention

The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.

theintercept.com

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Lex Bertch @bertch313.bsky.social · 2d

a close up of a frog with big eyes

ALT: a close up of a frog with big eyes

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Lex Bertch @bertch313.bsky.social · 2d

If I was rich and didn't gaf about mutual aid

I would buy like 10 of these and stick them in a vacuum sealed box for 2 decades

Forg costume Halloween

Glitched inflatable frog

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

ICE IS DISAPPEARING PEOPLE TO WORK CAMPS

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Lex Bertch @bertch313.bsky.social · 3d

Daily digital bs

Abstract in blue green yellow and orange

Stripes and frames inside splatters

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Terrill Tailfeathers @terrilltf.bsky.social · 3d

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Luke 🐾 @nevesceramics.bsky.social · 5d

Really pleased with how these underglaze transfers are going!

Photo of several work in progress clay tiles with transferred underglaze images of animals on them including a coyote, deer, fox

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Lex Bertch @bertch313.bsky.social · 3d

You have to tell them you want to speak with them

Only breaking news gets someone sent out "on assignment"

Everything else is self-submit

Not understanding how MSM works at all is one of our silliest hurdles honestly

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 4d

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social · 3d

A little seagull study. Love these pesky birds.

#art #birds

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