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Just Kate

@handmaiduns.bsky.social

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I’m Kate, a self taught multidisciplinary artist working with paint & sound AUDHD. 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 💙 music, art, nature, ancient history, science and space Inspired by the beauty of the cosmos Music⬇️ https://youtube.com/@distresstolerance?si=rzeB2HLnzLpOMYuV

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Just Kate @handmaiduns.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you to my friends for the encouraging words this past week 💙

My latest painting was inspired by the coast, water, movement, anemone, seaweed, connections and the cosmos

Acrylic on board ✨

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Distress Tolerance @distresstolerance.bsky.social · 2h

‘J J J J JUST LET ME OUT!’

A work in progress

Original music and imagery by us lot :)

Warning. Flashing images

#musicsky #originalmusic #art #musicisart

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Great A. B. @gr8ab.bsky.social · 4h

Layers upon layers. #fungifriends #upperpeninsula

Layers of flat, tan fungi on a tall tree. Few trees in the background.

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Distress Tolerance @distresstolerance.bsky.social · 3h

Evening #Fungifriends

If anyone can identify the fungus in image three (the clump of three black shroomers) in these I would be ever so great-full

#MusicIsMedicineAndSoIsNature

I think I’ll be mostly ogling over the #shroomscrolling posts for a bit

~ K

Just Kate @handmaiduns.bsky.social · 6h

Evening #fungifriends

A pleasant morning and a dog turd evening but here are some very nice mushrooms

A Fly Agaric I believe. A deep reddy orange coloured shroom with white spots, nestled in some grass

Unsure what it is but it’s PRETTY. A decent sized, pale creamy coloured shroom with its cup turned up showing its glorious gills

Some cool black coloured fungi sitting in the moss

I don’t think I’ve seen these before. Two shrooms that look kind of rough to the touch but it’s an illusion I think. The speckles are dewdrops

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Just Kate @handmaiduns.bsky.social · 2h

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Marie/LittleBirdOfParadise @canarylittle.bsky.social · 7h

Handmade art dolls made mostly from textiles.
Each character is unique and designed to look wonderfully weird and perfectly imperfect 🌿
Ship tariff free to the USA 🎉

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#art #handmade #bsnm #artshop #originalart #skyArt

4 handmade textile dolls.
A pink hair character on a wooden slice, a little blonde hair girl holding a hen, a weird character with a strand of curly green hair and long floppy ears and finally a mini mushroom girl in a pink dress.

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gizmo @gizmotron.bsky.social · 7h

The only way people will get off on statistics, I guess...

Axios @axios.com · 7h

Sam Altman says OpenAI will allow erotica for adult users

In a post on X, Altman also said ChatGPT will engage more personally.

www.axios.com

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Just Kate @handmaiduns.bsky.social · 6h

🤦‍♀️ I can only imagine the horrors that’ll be created with something like this

a woman in a car with the words get me outta here below her

Alt: a woman in a car with the words get me outta here below her. I’m sure a lot of us feel this feeling

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Just Kate @handmaiduns.bsky.social · 6h

Evening #fungifriends

A pleasant morning and a dog turd evening but here are some very nice mushrooms

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Just Kate @handmaiduns.bsky.social · 12h

I’m lichen what I saw 🤭

A close up of some Trumpet Cup lichen nestled in with some moss

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Distress Tolerance @distresstolerance.bsky.social · 2d

#nowspinning #vinylsky #vinyl Faith No More - Album Of The Year

What a record!

Faith No More - Album Of The Year on vinyl

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Marie/LittleBirdOfParadise @canarylittle.bsky.social · 13h

Finally finished my Yellow Eye Forest Spirit 💛
She is different from my usual work but I am pretty happy with her.

#handmade #WitchSky #art #originalart #spiritdoll

A textile doll on a wooden stick.
She is made of wrapped white muslin cloth. Her face is drawn, she has a single yellow eye

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RaggaMog (Morri-Arty) @raggamog.bsky.social · 17h

I took this photo at the Mersey Estuary in the winter. The tide had not long gone out, and the light was beginning to go. I was drawn to the light reflected on the patterns of the sand

#TidesOutTuesday #Photography #Coast #Scape

A photo that I took of the Mersey Estuary, UK, in the winter. The tide had gone out and the light was reflected off the sand.

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Manuel Fallmann-Kerrutt @mindistortion.tv · 16h

Hi #PortfolioDay!

I'm Manuel and I make mostly spooky art using charcoal and digital means!

🎨 mindistortion.tv
🛒 inprnt.com/gallery/mindistortiontv/

Charcoal drawing of an anglerfish in darkness, its esca illuminating dark eyes and sharp teeth.

Eerie digital painting of a person sitting hunched on a wall. The image is mostly monochrome, except for slight haze in the background and a warm halo in the subject's hand.

Gritty charcoal drawing of a weary skeleton wearing a thorny crown. The drawing has a variety of textures ranging from soft to rough, with the crown and teeth drawn in heavy, gestural marks.

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.co.uk · 1d

SO disappointed to see the Derwent Pencil Museum in Keswick has got loads of Ai video slop to show the public how miners mined graphite etc. WHY they didn't just get an artist to draw these scenes with their ART PENCILS will forever be a mystery. #createdontscrape #noai #derwentpencils #art

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Just Kate @handmaiduns.bsky.social · 1d

Yack. 🤮

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StarCatcher 🇨🇦 @starcatcherjohn.bsky.social · 2d

🧵(2/2) As always, here is are a starless version and a zoomed-in view of the comet to enjoy the sheer beauty of the object.

#Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Comet #Astronomy

Starless version of C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), a non-periodic comet discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey in images obtained on 3 January 2025. It has an inbound orbital period of about 1,350 years and will pass perihelion on 8 November 2025 when it will be 0.53 AU (79 million km; 49 million mi) from the Sun. This perihelion passage will reduce the orbital period to about 1,150 years. It makes its closest approach to Earth on 21 October 2025 and may be visible to the naked eye 42 degrees from the Sun after sunset. As of 12 October 2025, the comet is about apparent magnitude 5.6,[6] and is visible in binoculars about 15 degrees (approximately one and a half fists) below the cup of the Big Dipper. It is currently about 2 degrees southwest of the star Psi Ursae Majoris.

A zoomed in view of Starless version of C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), a non-periodic comet discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey in images obtained on 3 January 2025. It has an inbound orbital period of about 1,350 years and will pass perihelion on 8 November 2025 when it will be 0.53 AU (79 million km; 49 million mi) from the Sun. This perihelion passage will reduce the orbital period to about 1,150 years. It makes its closest approach to Earth on 21 October 2025 and may be visible to the naked eye 42 degrees from the Sun after sunset. As of 12 October 2025, the comet is about apparent magnitude 5.6,[6] and is visible in binoculars about 15 degrees (approximately one and a half fists) below the cup of the Big Dipper. It is currently about 2 degrees southwest of the star Psi Ursae Majoris.

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StarCatcher 🇨🇦 @starcatcherjohn.bsky.social · 2d

🧵(1/2) Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon is a non-periodic comet discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey on 3 January 2025.

Shot taken on 2025-10-11 from my backyard.

🔭 William Optics Pleiades 111
📷 ZWO ASI 2600
Total exposure: 31 x 30s (15m30s)

#Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Comet #Astronomy

C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is a non-periodic comet discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey in images obtained on 3 January 2025. It has an inbound orbital period of about 1,350 years and will pass perihelion on 8 November 2025 when it will be 0.53 AU (79 million km; 49 million mi) from the Sun. This perihelion passage will reduce the orbital period to about 1,150 years. It makes its closest approach to Earth on 21 October 2025 and may be visible to the naked eye 42 degrees from the Sun after sunset. As of 12 October 2025, the comet is about apparent magnitude 5.6,[6] and is visible in binoculars about 15 degrees (approximately one and a half fists) below the cup of the Big Dipper. It is currently about 2 degrees southwest of the star Psi Ursae Majoris.

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Bru.ib⭐ @bruib.bsky.social · 2d

Pew-Pew!
#Art

a monochrome hand makes a finger-gun gesture. A red beam emits from the pointed fingertip, rupturing some giant, dark shape in the distance, exploding it with force.

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thelovelyeggs.bsky.social @thelovelyeggs.bsky.social · 2d

“The Lovely Eggs make me happy” - Iggy Pop

Great way to end a great weekend. 📻

Bin Juice out Friday. UK tour starts the week after. See you out there. X

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Just Kate @handmaiduns.bsky.social · 2d

Woahhhhhhhh. Enjoy it! 🤘

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Wintermute🍄 @wintermuteman.bsky.social · 2d

Should have bought a £40 quid projector years agony

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Hravn @hravn.bsky.social · 3d

Today’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Glow.
Here’s the sun shining on the back of a long leaf/frond. #Coloraday #GreenSat
#EastCoastKin

Horizontal lines of dark green crossing over a lighter green glowing background

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 4d

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. A staunch advocate of free-market economics, privatization of state industries, foreign investment, and closer alignment with the U.S. 1/3

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FonsCordi Art @fonscordi.bsky.social · 3d

It costs $0.00 to support a human artist

"Be the Queen the world deserves"
Head of a xenomorph queen on a red background

"Cryptid Eldrich horror Batman"
A Batman figure is crouched on top of a crane in the middle of the city at night. His face has no eye just a round mouth full of teeth. Intead of cape he has 6 demon wings.

"The Happy King"
A man with a crown and a halo forced to smile by two hands while a creature is emerging from his chest

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Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 3d

The only photo I have of a bird with something in its mouth. #BirdOfTheDay

Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · May 15

A cactus wren enjoying some scrambled eggs on Mother's Day. Feels a little cannibalism-adjacent, but whatever makes it happy.

#WackyWednesdayArt

A black and white bird sitting on the arm of an outdoor chair with scrambled eggs in its beak. A red rose is lying on the table in front of it.

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