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spavel.bsky.social
For 4000 years man has craved one thing above all others: a mug that's also a little guy.
Ancient ceramic cup with ears and a nose. Modern white mug with a face.
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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wildrumpus.bsky.social
sorry I gotta bump these again, I only have a few days left to raise funds to cover my rent this month.
wildrumpus.bsky.social Grayson @wildrumpus.bsky.social · 4d
Hey everyone, I am opening a handful of commission slots to cover my rent this month. really struggling with mental health issues and unexpected expenses this month. Get a cute custom model from me for 100$ USD! DM me if you are interested!

(please share!)

#b3d #Blender3d #gamedev
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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sarahz.bsky.social
(to be clear: if you're tight on money yourself, please do not! I'm not in crisis, just in That Part of freelance life. this is a 'will make the next few weeks less crunchy' not a 'please save me')
November 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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sarahz.bsky.social
Periodic reminder that I do have a ko-fi! Every little bit helps keep the lights on and the video essays flowing. I'm in heavy production mode on two vids and a bit short this month. If you'd like to give me some support, link's here. If not, no worries either ❤️ ko-fi.com/S6S21NAIIC
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November 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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volksbeard.bsky.social
Spectacular!
Happy holidays to ALL and #fuckice
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h
Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Hey, what are you gonna get for the office secret Santa?
For your mother in law who loves her bird feeder?
For your niece who loves whales?
For your dad who literally has no hobbies and you’re like “shit wtf do I get this guy”?

Get a love notes from nature calendar!
squidfacts.net
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
and now the Gaelic goddess Cailleach or Beira, Queen of Winter and the French Canadian chasse-galerie!

#linocut #printmaking #winter #folklore #Yule #cards

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My Lino block print on 8” x 10” Japanese paper shows a blue-black frame with Celtic knot in each corner with the words “The Cailleach” at the top and “Beira Queen of Winter” at the bottom in lettering inspired by Gothic Celtic letters. Inside the frame is my illustration of the Old Hag, the Cailleach marching across the rocky, hilly landscape in a winter storm in two shades of blue. She wears a cloak and great plaid and has her staff in her right hand and her hammer in the left. She has blue skin and copper coloured teeth and grimaces in the wind indicated by swirling lines. There is snow falling and the land behind her is inspired by the Hag’s Head geologic feature named for her. My Lino block print shows a night sky with moon and clouds and flying canoe full of paddling voyageurs over rolling countryside with fields and trees covered in snow and a church steeple in the foreground. The moon is covered with grey craters and shadows. The sky with scattered clouds is in a range of golden-green near the moon to minty bluish-green away from the moon. The foreground, canoe and its occupants are in black. The numbered 11”x14” print is titled “La Chasse-galerie” and signed Ele Willoughby 2024.
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
Befana, the Italian Christmas witch who visits on Epiphany;
My 8” x 8” linocut print with 4.5” x 6” printed area in dark blue ink shows La Befana, a crone or which standing on an tiled Italian rooftop by a chimney, carrying a large hamper of toys on her back. She’s wearing a dress with patched apron and patchwork shawl and pointed witch hat. She has scraggly hair, wrinkled face and large eyes that look directly at the viewer. The night sky behind includes stars and crescent moon.
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
Kallikantzaros (or kallikantzaroi plural) is a sort of subterranean goblin or troll who can come above ground during the 12 days of Christmas, or yuletide fortnight, while the sun ceases its forward movement, to cause chaos from the S Europe & Anatolia;

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My linocut print of the Christmas goblin of Greek folklore, a Kallikantzaros, is printed on a 8” x 8” sheet of ivory washi paper in burgundy ink, embellished with red bow and red and green holly coloured with Posca pens. The print shows the goblin crouched in a fireplace with rounded top. There’s a pig jaw suspended with a red bow and holly above the fireplace and a log in the fireplace. The Kallikantzaros’ attention is drawn by a colander on the ground. The goblin is furry with goat like hooves, long monkey like arms and donkey ears. Below is the word Kallikantzaros in Greek.
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
Jack Frost himself, drawing his fern-like frost patterns on a windowpane in winter;

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My linocut print of Jack Frost in tints and shades of cobalt blue. He’s shown as a tiny man in blue with a long cape decorated in white and dark blue snow flakes. He has white hair, moustache and beard all radiating out in wavy spikes from his head as he looks over his shoulder at the viewer. He’s in front of a four-pane window, painting frost patterns. There are icicles hanging down.
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
Mari Lwyd, the Welsh horse-skull hobby horse wassailing tradition;

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My linocut is green and reads “Season’s Greetings” above and “Mari Lwyd” below and shows the hobby horse with horse skull, bedecked in flowers and ribbons. There are fields behind.
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
Perchta in her two forms, young and beautiful or a frightening hag who visits during the 12 days of Christmas to reward folks with coins or slice their bellies open if they were bad;

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My linocut card of Perchta in pale blue on white agains a background of birch trees. She is illustrated like a playing card with two versions: right side up young and beautiful, with crown, fur coat and holding a flame in her hand and upside down a terrifying crone in a hood with a knife. Text at the top reads “Happy Holidays” and at the bottom “Perchta.”
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
Joulupukki the Finnish Christmas figure whose name translates as Yule or Christmas Goat who harkens back to the nuuttipukki who were evil spirits who would go from house to house demanding gifts and leftovers from the Yule feast;

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My linocut print of goat-headed man with a candle in a lantern on a shepherd’s crook in a large coat with bells carrying many packages tied with string. It’s printed in dark blue ink. Above it reads “Yuletide Wishes” and below “Joulupukki”.
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
who eats naughty children too lazy who don’t get new clothes at Christmas;

the Krampus, Santa’s scary sidekick who takes the naughty;

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My linocut shows furry Krampus with horns, hooves and tail, with birch rods and a naughty kid in a basket. It’s printed in red on white and reads “Grüss von Krampus”
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
As the days get colder & the nights get longer here in the northern hemisphere, folktales are full of the eerie, the creepy, the supernatural & the slightly sinister Yuletide characters. I have an ongoing collection of linocut prints (and holiday cards!) full of festive characters like the Yule Cat
My linocut Yule Cat, a giant cat on a tiny snow covered cabin in a pine forest is printed in dark blue with “Yule Cat” above & “Jólakötturinn” below.
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
sam1982379.bsky.social
Accidently referred to a pork pie as a "porked" pie and my mum said she doesn't want any of it.
November 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
I love this idea. My dad died when I was three and I had to figure out simple things like how to tie a tie and even shave on my own. Please retweet this because I know there are a lot of kids out there who could use some help with day to day life.
When he was 14 years old, Rob Kenney's father abandoned him. After becoming an adult, he launched a YouTube channel called "Dad, How Do I do it?" that teaches kids how to do things a dad would normally teach them.
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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hagenilda.bsky.social
This is wild.

Terfs will accuse those who are trans inclusive of being paedos and child molesters and rapists with no evidence whatsoever.

An actual credible accusation of sexual violence? Nah.
alandriscoll.com Alan Driscoll @alandriscoll.com · 1d
Seems like Rob Jessel and Jo Bartosch are the accused parties. People really going out of their way to dismiss her as crazy, but she strikes me as infinitely more credible than those seeking to discredit her.
November 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
sam1982379.bsky.social
This would 100% be a better movie.
November 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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mackayim.bsky.social
Frikkin amazing stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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mommunism.bsky.social
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Kholoud. Kholoud worked in education before this. She lost her brother and sister in the 2014 Gaza war and another brother and brother in law during this one. She is helping many of their children (I’ll list them in the replies) and her mother
November 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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marchpaneglass.bsky.social
We found some cool mushrooms on our ramble this morning.

#mushroom #fungi #wood #nature #November #eastcoastkin #forestfriday
Red and purple shelf mushrooms growing out of a tree stump with grey bark dotted with green moss.
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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mspclashman.bsky.social
Hi Everybody and welcome to
#NotAloneTalk
🏍️ In case you’re new this is a chat hour to help us feel less lonely while isolated, everyone is welcome

Hi everyone. How's everyone today. Im pretty good today
a cartoon character is standing in a doorway with a surprised look on his face
ALT: a cartoon character is standing in a doorway with a surprised look on his face
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November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
Medieval English laws categorized eels by size. The most common types were:

Pimpernell / Pimper eels: very small
Shaft / Dole eels: medium
Stub eels: larger
Red: ??

No one knows for sure what red eels were. But they were bad, & customs officers threw them out if they found any.
🗃️🧪
Meme. Book cover from "The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel." The title of the book is scrawled across the top, with "The Adventures of" in small yellow letters, and "The Scarlet Pimpernel" in large red letters, in a font with aggressive serifs. The title is set against a dark red sky. Below the title, on the left, is a setting sun behind an ominous guillotine, it's blade ascending to its moment of doom. On the right side is a castle tower, tinted blood red by the sun (and possibly the spray from the guillotine). Between the castle and the guillotine is startled looking man. You can only see his head and shoulders. He's wearing a powdered wig, & a white lace at his neck, & a stiff-looking blue coat. His eyebrows are arched up like railway bridges, & his small mouth is tight. His chin is weak, and it suggests something about his character. His eyes are condescending, but also aghast. He looks like you just threw a lizard at him. Meme text reads: "Part pimper. Part red. All eel."
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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nileoart.rip
I just learned that the Japanese word for "knowledge" (知識) and the word for "trivia/snippet of knowledge" (豆知識) is only distinguished by the addition of the kanji for "beans" (豆) in front of knowledge.

trivia is just a lil bean of knowledge. That's so cute.
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM