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bram | cody 🌱 @bramblebug.bsky.social · 10h

there are only a few hours left in this project, and though I’m not participating, I have to say, PAROXYSM was a place I got to explore making horror comics (my first comics EVER) amidst other marginalized voices making weird good shit. if you want to support some small press horror, this is it! 🔥

MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · 14d

🎃🎃PAROXYSM VOL 5: HAUNTED is now live on Kickstarter!🎃🎃Check out our featured contributors, our rewards, special add-ons, and more on our page! Live from Oct 1—17 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mys...

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PomPoison @pompoison.bsky.social · 20h

No intention of appealing to Western cliche, but it happened in World War Two, when the nazis systematically dismantled and transported the art of Europe behind enemy lines, behind the nazi veil. What ai tech bros do to human art, expressions and the concept of consent is no different.

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20h

People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.

We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position 👇

(Published Dec. 2024)

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life

Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

www.propublica.org

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Meagan @artbymeagantrott.bsky.social · 1d

3 DAYS LEFT!!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mys...

#horror #HorrorArt #HorrorComics #HorrorAnthology

PAROXYSM VOL 5: HAUNTED

The fifth installment of our horror anthology featuring comics, art and writing by independent and marginalized creatives.

www.kickstarter.com

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous Peoples day, I am indigenous Isneg/Apayao through my mother, who is in need of help. please help me take care of my mama at trying to manage a progressive disease and helping extend her life through mutual aid and the miracle of modern medicine, please 🙇‍♂️

🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you! Hey everyone, am an indigenous trans artist in the global south, in perpetual housing insecurity; also permanently disabled with nerve damage that impacts my movement. Id absolutely love if you guys could like my work, or buy a print or send me a tip 🌼 (comments)

School of fish drawn in a spiral in hues of teal and sea glass green

A transmasc sideview portrait in hues of faded green. Golden clouds and stars and fish float over him

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🌾 bull 🌾 @xylographica.bsky.social · Jun 23

She brings the fire
Custom zippo lighter featuring kananesgi ama, the water spider, who brought fire to the people in the #cherokee first fire story
Really happy with how this came out, it was so fun to design!

A photo of a brushed chrome zippo lighter with a printed black cherokee water spider design. The spider is facing downward with the fire, represented by a circle with a cross, on her back.

The same water spider lighter, open and lit.

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Frankentate’s monster @bootlegdemon.bsky.social · 2d

I’m Tate, I’m Choctaw and Pomo I do illustrations and beadwork!! I do art for games too!! bootlegdemonart.carrd.co

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Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social · 2d

The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return

Marker, colored pencil, and ink pen.
11 x 14in

Illustration of a green deer hugging a hare, with the hare is hugging a mouse. All three animals hugging form the silhouette outline of the deer.

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bram | cody 🌱 @bramblebug.bsky.social · 1d

I had my home phone and close friends/partners’ numbers memorized so I could call (or later, text) them from any phone. I still have my current partner’s cell and home phone memorized. it was a really useful skill, and honestly does make me feel safer now in case of an emergency where I’m phoneless.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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bram | cody 🌱 @bramblebug.bsky.social · 4d

also if you use StoryGraph, come follow me! I wanna peep what you’re reading 👀

app.thestorygraph.com/profile/bram...

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bram | cody 🌱 @bramblebug.bsky.social · 4d

I got my books today and already I am feeling so connected to the handful of local authors I found. this one is a cookbook. Noah’s approach to food honors both their experience cooking and the recipe ancestry, and their commentary is rich with a community worldview that I resonate with so deeply.

a photo of a book cover. it reads “Making the Table: Vegetarian Recipes to Nourish Community” by Noah Rubin-Blose. The watercolor illustration depicts several hands of various skin tones placing food on a table, such as bread, leafy greens, and a bowl of veggies.

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · 14d

🎃🎃PAROXYSM VOL 5: HAUNTED is now live on Kickstarter!🎃🎃Check out our featured contributors, our rewards, special add-ons, and more on our page! Live from Oct 1—17 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mys...

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Coey! @coeykuhn.bsky.social · 4d

Unnamed Beast. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) A humble offering is required, what will you give? 💦💋👌

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Lottie Lapine 🐇 @swollenbabyfat.bsky.social · 5d

Harvest Harpy 🌻

For this months sticker & print club! ⭐️ ko-fi.com/swollenbabyfat

a harpy holding sunflowers, surrounded by an ornate harvest frame

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 5d

You get to read the book, *other* people get to read the book, and every interaction like this that you have with your local library sends a message that it is valued and supported by the community.

Apart from everything else, now is a great time to support civic institutions!

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 29d

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.

But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!

It's easy! Check your library's website.

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Calamity @divinecalamity.bsky.social · 5d

People who don't do art do not seem to understand that the making is the point of it. like leave aside that almost all AI programs have been made through immoral means and that its use is destroying the environment at an even faster rate than most normal industry, I still wouldn't use it for art.

bram | cody 🌱 @bramblebug.bsky.social · 5d

I think this aptly expresses how deeply misunderstood art is by GenAI people. the act of creation is intertwined with our whole being. art is not math: you can’t put it in a calculator and have it solved for you. I would also rather leave the planet than allow a soulless machine to create for me.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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bram | cody 🌱 @bramblebug.bsky.social · 5d

there are very specific fields and uses that could benefit from AI (example: learning orca pod dialects that our human ears literally can’t differentiate), but anything that involves building something from nothing is off limits.

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bram | cody 🌱 @bramblebug.bsky.social · 5d

I had a recent conversation with someone who asked me if I would play a video game he “made” using AI tools to code most of it for him. I said hell no I would not touch it. “even if *I* made it??” no. I have zero tolerance for it. learn to code.

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bram | cody 🌱 @bramblebug.bsky.social · 5d

I think this aptly expresses how deeply misunderstood art is by GenAI people. the act of creation is intertwined with our whole being. art is not math: you can’t put it in a calculator and have it solved for you. I would also rather leave the planet than allow a soulless machine to create for me.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Cricket @strangegutz.bsky.social · 6d

WOLFGIRL
Halloween 2025 art doll

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bram | cody 🌱 @bramblebug.bsky.social · 9d

idk about you, but I freaking LOVE a reflector 🧡🧡🧡

a photo of Cody’s fingers holding a broken bike reflector he found on the side walk. the reflector is orange and rectangular with reflective hexagonal structures inside it.

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bram | cody 🌱 @bramblebug.bsky.social · 8d

#durhamnc folks!! I happened upon the Books with Friends pickup location for Friends of Durham Library while I was at the DMV, and it’s SO COOL!! the pickup is for online orders and they carry a bunch of books for very cheap. your orders support the library! 📚 take a peep!

www.shopfodlnc.org

www.shopfodlnc.org

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