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Blair Shedd @onegemini.com · 2h

#Astarion commission out to commissioner!

#BG3
#CommissionMe

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Laura Snow @lsnow.bsky.social · 23h

it came with the wired controllers, so I'm sitting on the floor too close to the tv just like when I was a kid! and I am still bad at missile command!

Laura Snow @lsnow.bsky.social · 1d

It finally arrived! I can finally play Adventure with an uncomfortable joystick again!

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 1d

New cover art for THE DEADLANDS

a pleasure to illustrate this issue full of gorgeous stories! Here is 'Golden Maze'.

oil pastel, china graph pencil and digital colour

#art

golden maze
a gold skull on a maze with a pile of coins

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Feeling the need to remind myself of this Ursula K LeGuin quote today:

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 1d

“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes.

“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”

RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25

Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror

“Adam in the garden…”

Book cover: blood red background with black arms raised and hands outstretched from the bottom in front of white klansman hood with screaming mouths for eyes above words in black, RING SHOUT.

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Madeleine Holly-Rosing @mcholly1.bsky.social · 1d

Boston Metaphysical Society is back! Mystery at Pikes Peak is live on Kickstarter. Grab those EARLY BIRD REWARDS before they go away. :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/mho...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Subscribe to The Onion and help us become a bigger newspaper than The Washington Post by next year. It can happen!

membership.theonion.com

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Tea Fox ✶ @hexhollow.bsky.social · 1d

Small collection of old art cards featuring my fox girl.

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Laura Snow @lsnow.bsky.social · 1d

I just backed WITCHING SEASON - A Witch Horror Comic Anthology on @kickstarter.com

WITCHING SEASON - A Witch Horror Comic Anthology

A 150+ page Horror Anthology filled with stories about WITCHES, WARLOCKS, and FAMILIARS from some of the biggest names in comics!

www.kickstarter.com

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Blair Shedd @onegemini.com · 1d

So, I need to find about $1500 semi-fast. So commission me before I resort a gofundme.

I'd really rather give you some my time and effort for the money it took you time and effort to get.

And don't forget about my special rate for #Indiecomics and #creatorowned artworks!

Cover art starting at $350 for publication!

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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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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 2d

Anyway I keep forgetting to yell about this book when it is 🍂seasonal 🍂 but THE APPLE-TREE THRONE (a little vanity project I self-pubbed in 2018) is also available on Kobo and in audio!

A young soldier returned from war is haunted by the ghost of his commanding officer (a posh git)

The Apple-Tree Throne

Buy The Apple-Tree Throne: Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com

www.amazon.com

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Blair Shedd @onegemini.com · 3d

Still taking commissions. Lots of bills, very little work.

Get some art on your walls/collections/self/friends!

#ComicsSky

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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 3d

Who was President that day, Pumpkin?????

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Tyler Vandenberg for Congress @tv4ca.com · 5d

I’ve been against Trump’s #tariffs since the beginning. He has no idea how global trade works or how to secure #FairTrade for American workers. Leaving the economy to his judgment alone is as dangerous as a giving matches and dynamite to a toddler.

#econsky #trade

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Stock Market Today: Dow Drops 600 Points After Trump Threatens 'Massive' China Tariffs — Live Updates

Trump’s tariffs and the government shutdown continue to affect the economy. Follow live updates on the Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq and other markets, including bitcoin and gold.

www.wsj.com

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Blair Shedd @onegemini.com · 4d

Commissioner asked for a happy Eeyore.

Eeyore with a butterfly on his bum. Digital drawing.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 5d

many things are wrong with las vegas, including the fact that I just took a shower and now I feel as if all the moisture has left my body. i'm sorry, desert lovers, I am a child of the damp! I don't know how to live like this!!!!

however I did quite enjoy this sign