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aliumfungus art @aliumfungus.bsky.social · 2h

Hello #portfolioday
I am a Canadian artist who makes vivid images bursting with color! I'm available for commission, sequential art/comics, book covers, etc!

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 11h

As we all know I'm a fan of rural placemaking but I sure am tired of books romanticizing the rural existence and suggesting all we need to fix the planet is to just go back to small communities where we grow our own food like my dudes, this is not achievable at scale.

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 12h

Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?

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Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · 11h

Oh wow! Did someone cover Johnny Cash’s “Hurt”?
That could be awesome…

/joke!

a man playing a guitar with the words " i hurt myself today " next to him

Alt: Johnny Cash playing a guitar with the words " i hurt myself today " next to him

media.tenor.com

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Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · 17h

Why does the word Bangladesh not have a capital letter in the title?

Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · 17h

Still Life with Cat
Title: “Accident Waiting to Happen”
#catsofbluesky
#cat

Tinks lying on a chest of drawers in a bay window—she is lying sprawled out and next to her is a tray covered in various items (dried ornamental pumpkins, some toy apples, stones and a skull candle) which is clearly about 1/3 hanging over the edge and on the point of falling…
Also on the dresser are various things: scissors (for running with) a red lily plant, a crocodile skull, some corn, some antlers, a potted plant and a flask of water

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look-turtles.bsky.social @look-turtles.bsky.social · Jun 11

I bet Gurathin would hate robotic eye contact as much as Murderbot hates regular eye contact. #Murderbot didn’t actually have to use its robot eye stocks but did it anyway to creep out #Gurathin.

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Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · 1d

An outfit a day
13th October 2025

I think this dress is kinda Halloweeny?

Rosewind in an Elsie style black dress with the tattoo designs—lovely stylized hands and hearts and scrolls and swallows…

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Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · 1d

I do so love the Murderbot TV show and Skarsgård and Dastmalchian absolutely nailed the utterly brilliant dynamic these two have going on…
#murderbot #gurathin #meme

The “hard wire” scene in the Murderbot TV show, superimposed is a text box:
"enthusiastic consent" "dubcon" "noncon" ???con where we're both so neurotic and strange about vulnerability and emotional and physical expression that it'd take a crack team of philosophers to figure out whether anything about what we did together was consensual or even semiotically definable as sex

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 1d

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 1d

From Rules for Radicals

RULE 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy."|

From Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · 1d

Mimikyu!

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Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · 1d

Phew! I am following y’all!

#vaccineswork

Rosewind in her gold dress and mask with a faux vaccines work tattoo

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Let. It. Go. Twitter 2009-2012 is never coming back.

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Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · 1d

Being a vaccine advocate on Twitter after Musk took over became an exercise in masochism, and it wasn’t even GOOD masochism*…

It was just dumb and repetitive and you felt dirtied by it

it’s a lot nicer here

*I would never kink-shame

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · 1d

I saw this screenshot on another platform and it made me laugh so raucously I came and found it and followed this account—because, yeah: it appeals to me

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 3d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 3d

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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Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · 1d

An outfit a day
Sunday October 12th 2025

We went to the storage unit!
And the dump

I’m in a hoodie

My Murderbot hoodie, “If I had my armed drones, this would be easier…”