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💫🐺wuff ☉∇🔮🌙 @wuffbites.bsky.social · 29d

traditional painting, acrylic on canvas

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 26d

Available today for only 99 cents: The Nightmare Box and Other Stories by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social!

Snag a copy if you want stories about unnerving hitchhikers, sex pest-hunting vampires, malevolent foster parents, and more.

www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...

The Nightmare Box and Other Stories ebook | Cursed Morsels Press

A young queer man finds love at a magical clothing shop—and the courage to stand up to the homophobic cops. A witch who makes custom nightmares wonders why all her victims are connected to the Black P...

www.cursedmorselspress.com

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Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social · 26d

REBUILD is an exceptional organization doing priceless work for vulnerable people.
Please, buy this lovely print to help raise funds for REBUILD.

Willing To Build Print Fundraiser

FUNDRAISER for REBUILD - a program of Darkness RISING that connects justice-involved and formerly incarcerated individuals of color with culturally competent therapists who understand this unique expe...

ollycostelloshop.com

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gizmo🦤 comms OPEN! @ohnogizm0.bsky.social · Nov 27

silly yagi family posting cause i’m soft today 🩷
#bnhaoc #dadmight #toshinoriyagi #allmight

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26d

Senate Dems released a report today about DODGE & its attempt destroy Social Security and this is precisely what they should do. However though I have seen some coverage of this, I doubt the public will really take this in given everything else happening.

www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/dems/p...

Peters Report Finds that DOGE Continues to Operate Unchecked, Likely Violating Federal Privacy and Security Laws, and Putting the Safety of Americans’ Personal Information in Danger - Committee on Hom...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a report revealing that the Trump Administration’s Department o...

www.hsgac.senate.gov

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kite / decarbry 🔞💙 | scarftober on Patreon! @nomuzawa.bsky.social · Oct 17

[Yabureme/nomu!Aizawa au] whumptober day 6 - blow to the head
#bnha #aizawa

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Tabletop Bookshelf🔜Gamehole @tabletopbookshelf.com · 29d

Get Perils & Princesses from @outridercreative.bsky.social and companion adventures Sweet Revenge and The Secret of the Night Market together for a special price in the exclusive Perils & Princess Bundle
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Perils & Princesses Bundle

The Complete P&P Set Get Perils & Princesses and companion adventures Sweet Revenge and The Secret of the Night Market together for a special price! Includes physical copies and access to digi...

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 29d

Soaking up the storm: Sponge cities and the future of flood-resilient Southeast Asia
The climate crisis is causing increased extreme weather events in Southeast Asia. Could “sponge cities,” a city planning method engineered by Chinese architect, Yu Kongjian, help them weather the storm?

Soaking up the storm: Sponge cities and the future of flood-resilient Southeast Asia

The climate crisis is causing increased extreme weather events in Southeast Asia. Could “sponge cities,” a city planning method engineered by Chinese architect, Yu Kongjian, help them weather the stor...

globalvoices.org

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · Sep 16

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

Mediaite @mediaite.com · Sep 16

Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Department of Justice is considering bringing charges after a now-fired Office Depot employee refused to print flyers advertising a vigil for Charlie Kirk. The post Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’ first appeared on Mediaite.

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foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) @foxyoreos.bsky.social · Sep 15

Conservatives are now suing individual games, not just distributors.

At every single step of this fight, critters have been looking for technical solutions out of it. First it was "well, just use a VPN." Next up, "just publish to your own website."

This is a political problem.

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Sep 15

Florida's Attorney General has filed lawsuits against platforms featuring adult games, claiming they fail to verify age of visitors.

It's a sign that AG, who is simultaneously attacking LGBTQ literature as pornography, intends to interpret the age-verification broadly.

Florida sues porn video game websites over lack of age checks

Florida's attorney general filed a lawsuit against websites distributing "pornographic video game content."

www.tallahassee.com

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · Sep 15

The Washington Post now has no Black Opinion columnists - none - at a time when white nationalism is ascendant in our nation. I am grateful to Karen for the truth and fearlessness her work has always shown. Keep shining that light, my friend.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Sep 15

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · Sep 12

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.

This is Kirk's legacy.

You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · Sep 15

The people who get mad about this kind of honesty are largely not people who will be persuaded by the evidence that the person was horrible. Half the hate mail I've gotten has informed me that I have no evidence Kirk was a bigot, and I laid out evidence *in the column they're complaining about.*

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · Sep 14

I've never thought there was a bad time to be honest about the fact that a horrible person is/was horrible. But after this week's whitewashing of Kirk by the media and political commentariat, it feels not just permissible but essential to fight both sentimentality and dishonesty at top volume.

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Mx Morgan @mxmorgan.com · Sep 4

End of Summer 40% off sale on prints in my Inprnt shop!

www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmo...

screenshot from my inprnt shop. black wolf breathing flames colored with the transgender pride flag colors with text below that reads "i will not apologize for my nature"

screenshot from my inprnt shop. a black wolf howling and dancing with a sword held between her front legs. a moon rests in her chest and stars are scattered through the length of her body. there are red vines decorating and loosely wrapped around her body, with some blown back by her howl. queen of swords tarot card.

screenshot from my inprnt shop. Two stags bounding downhill. One stag is leaping over another stag. The lower stag is a deer's skeleton in a silhouette of a deer. Both deer are bound loosely by a red thread. Drawn in pen, ink, and gouache for a group art show.

screenshot from my inprnt shop. a pallid dog with its back facing the viewer, its head obscured by a dark cloud. two eyes with night sight poke through the black mass. the dog appears like a ghost, green and a pallid against a non descript sickly green background.

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Mx Morgan @mxmorgan.com · Sep 2

If yall didn't know, I help make watercolors at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social and was given permission to make the limited Halloween set - plus a bonus midnight blue watercolor! They're now available in store and online as singles and a set: store.pushpullseattle.com/s/search?q=B...

Product photo of a small tin with 4 watercolors stored in bottle caps. The label features a goat head and swatches of each color. The colors are a dark gold yellow, dark red, blue-grey, and dark olive green. The text reads "Push/Pull Supplies Black Mass Watercolor Set" color names in order, above the swatches from left to right: Paimon, Bathory, Lycanthrope, Plague

A second photo of the previous watercolors in the tin with a detailed swatch of each color. In order of swatches: Paimon (antique gold yellow) Lycanthrope (blue grey) Bathory (dark red with graphite mica) Plague (dark olive green with gold mica).

Photo of several open tins of watercolors on display.

Photo of a watercolor paint swatch and bottle cap pan. The color is a deep midnight blue with blue, violet, and pearlescent sparkles, like stars in a twilit sky.

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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · Sep 13

Friends! We begin the calls for this bill MONDAY when offices open.

The bill, introduced by Rep. Brian Mast, is HR 5300. There is no due process! If Marco Rubio decides your passport is gone, it is GONE.

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · Sep 13

"Mast's legislation [..] could be used to deny American citizens the right to travel based solely on their speech."

"[T]hought policing at the hands of" Marco Rubio.
#USA #Policing

New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already sought to punish immigrants for speech. New legislation might let him revoke passports from U.S. citizens.

theintercept.com

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Syro Saharqai @yellowsyro.bsky.social · Aug 11

You’re beautiful…
#wenclair

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Murciélago: An Ulquiorra Cifer Zine @ulquiorrazine.bsky.social · Aug 31

💚✨PRE ORDERS ARE OPEN NOW!✨💚
1st September- 31st October 2025

💚🦇Pre-orders for Murciélago: An Ulquiorra Cifer zine is open. 🦇💚

Check out our big cartel now!

💚https://ulquiorrazine.bigcartel.com/

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · Sep 13

And btw the cool comic shops will carry the #1 of Red Hood even though they were told to stop selling them.
Support them too if you can!

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RainyRentyn 🌧️ ✨ Magical Girl @rainyrentyn.bsky.social · Sep 12

Don't have money to support your favorite creator but still wanna help out somehow? 💸

- Tell someone about them & why you like them
- Share some of their content
- Send them an encouraging comment on one of their posts or in their streams
- Draw fanart, or create something with them as inspiration

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 13

I think the disconnect we’re seeing online is between pundits who are imagining a Charlie Kirk in their heads and professors who have lived for a decade with the (often literal) targets he and his anti-free speech organization placed on their backs.

It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · Sep 13

Weird how when a Trump supporter, white supremacist, and reportedly, a former member of Turning Point USA shot up Florida State University (FSU) several months ago and killed two people - there wasn't the same national conversation about "political violence." www.mediaite.com/news/mass-sh...

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🍷 Angel Dust's Relapse Era 🚬💸 @vanillabrwnsugr.bsky.social · Sep 11

Great article about why kink art is so important

It hadn't occurred to me that this might be more than a strange personal thought experiment until I saw a depiction of self-flagellation in the movie "A Nun's Story" and decided to try whipping myself with a belt. My reaction was sexual, rather than spiritual.
With no knowledge of how to frame any deviation from the sexual norm other than
to label it as a sin, I assumed this discovery meant I was evil and that l should probably kill myself. Fortunately for me, the Jehovah's Witnesses also had a lot to say about the sin of suicide, so l remained alive, guilt-wracked, attempting denial of who and what I was, and thoroughly unhappy.

I still didn't consider the possibility that there might be people in the real world who liked this kind of thing, and that they might not have anything wrong with them at all. Until the following year, when I stumbled into an art gallery and found myself confronted by wall upon wall covered in BDSM artwork.
It was electrifying. I saw sculptures depicting submissive women, with no suggestion that they might be mentally unwell. I saw photographs of dominant men and women, with no implication that they might be murderers or rapists. For the first time in my life, I saw my sexuality represented without being pathologized.
The relief of it still resounds in my mind, 21 years later.

I realized that by producing this work, I could let people like the person l'd once
been know that their kinks were OK, too.
They could see my photographs, and they'd know they weren't alone.
I wished I could send some of them back in time to my 18-year-old self, to show her that there was nothing wrong with her after all.

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beck @ read BtG ☀️ @frogletcomics.bsky.social · Sep 7

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JoyousJoyfulJoyness @joyousjoyness.com · Sep 13

Detox Doodles!

This is a habit of drawing something every time I feel the urge to scroll unnecessarily. It helps stop the bad habit and start a new good habit of sketching daily!

This page is all about armadillos, little dinosaurs!

#art #armadillo #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt

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