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Victoria Maderna @victoriamaderna.com · 8d

Thread of available #septempera originals! Email [email protected] to claim.

These tiny paintings are 65x95mm, 75 euros each.
Shipping included. Customs/taxes/etc are the buyer's responsibility.
IMPORTANT: I'll ONLY ship these four to the US right now due to tariffs, might offer more later.

Four tiny paintings: A- fish with hat. B- Dog napping. C- Wood mouse on an apple. D- Lizard on a mossy stone.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 21h

"Tears of the Mountain", the 3rd 2025 graduation short from french Gobelins school, is online.
Directed by Luke Ashworth, Yehor Bondarenko, Alp Kurdoğlu, Romane Talva and Ange Yajima.
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9J...

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soOolient 🎃 @solient.bsky.social · 6h

You like The Midnight?

They're the last band I saw live!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 8h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 7h

but if they shoot missiles at the large uninhabited island, they don't get to terrify cities full of their enemies with the open threat of "we could aim these AT you, instead of NEAR you, next time"

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

What's crazy about this is that the US military owns a large, uninhabited island directly off the coast from Camp Pendleton specifically for the purpose of targetting in naval live fire exercises en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Cle...

www.latimes.com/california/s...

I-5 may be shut down due to concerns over live-fire military event at Camp Pendleton

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is weighing whether to close parts of Interstate 5 beginning Friday amid concerns over what it says is a White House-directed plan to use live ordnance during a military ann...

www.latimes.com

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soOolient 🎃 @solient.bsky.social · 6h

Tonight on the solient show: She just got comfortable! And she has to pee! 😱

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soOolient 🎃 @solient.bsky.social · 6h

I love me some electronic music.

My criteria for that list:

1. I have tracks from multiple albums
2. on my phone
3. that I listen to nearly every time I leave the house

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soOolient 🎃 @solient.bsky.social · 6h

"Let it ferment" is a semi-viable editing strategy. With enough distance, flaws can become obvious. This is why I usually put work in "cooldown" and give it one last read before posting it.

The quirk here is I'm dealing with material that's been in cooldown since the spring.

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soOolient 🎃 @solient.bsky.social · 6h

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

1. GODFLESH
2. Ministry
3. Nine Inch Nails
4. Boy Harsher
5. Front 242
6. Die Krupps
7. Imperial Black Unit
8. Front Line Assembly

Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social · 7h

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

1. The Seattle Garages
2. Tsuruta Kinshi
3. Iwasa Kakujō
4. Slim Gaillard
5. Nippon Gagaku Kai
6. Summer Cannibals
7. Aram Khachaturian
8. Gustav Mahler

Blue 9 (they/them) @odinscrow.bsky.social · 2d

1. Nine Inch Nails
2. Bikini Kill
3. TV On The Radio
4. The Cure
5. Skinny Puppy
6. Kneecap
7. Faith No More
8. Tom Waits

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Arcasian @arcasian.bsky.social · 7h

Time for tea 🫰

Artwork of a brown bear peaking out of the top of a white ceramic teapot with blue leaves and dot patterns on it. The bear in the teapot is set up on a blue gingham background.

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soOolient 🎃 @solient.bsky.social · 6h

My urban fantasy nears a "figure out a workable pipeline and flipping ship something" point. I wish I could read faster, as I am the Future Me that Past Me left the editing to.

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B'alith Tia | 7.3 spoilers @inmyleylines.bsky.social · 7h

Ah, multi-hit stack markers. Or as I like to call them, "Ley Lines is off cooldown and I'm about to make that everyone else's problem."

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 14h

There is not a single reason to outsource your creativity to a computer.

Not one.

To do so removes the very point of being creative in the first place.

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soOolient 🎃 @solient.bsky.social · 7h

TIL birds can be toxic.

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · May 29

Touching this bird can result in numbness & tingling in extremities. Eating it can result in paralysis or death ☠️.

Let's talk about neurotoxic birds 🐦.

(📷: Ben G Freeman, benjamingfreeman.com)

A bird with black head and wings but red-orange body is slightly annoyed to be touched by a human hand, beak semi-open in protest, as if about to complain. In the background is a lush forest scene.

Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) YUS Conservation area on the Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
CREDIT: Ben Freeman.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hooded_Pitohui_3.jpg

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · May 29

Touching this bird can result in numbness & tingling in extremities. Eating it can result in paralysis or death ☠️.

Let's talk about neurotoxic birds 🐦.

(📷: Ben G Freeman, benjamingfreeman.com)

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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 8h

It's worth reiterating that independent creators are getting debanked for the same content

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 12h

Sam Altman suggests ChatGPT is cannibalizing your fanfic and erotica to make its own clanker porn, rolling out this December.

ChatGPT just got filthy after new update lets it talk dirty to you

'You won't get it unless you ask for it.'

metro.co.uk

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bug that was livin in da pumpkin you just cut open @wjmuzzi.bsky.social · 8h

polluting a mid-size city using the racism robot to produce a short video of tits that look like a boardwalk tshirt and move like a zelda cd-i cutscene

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 2d

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💫Kiora~ @kioraofmyst.bsky.social · 15h

Taking applications for people to do hag stuff with.

Comic cred: cassandracalin.tumblr.com

Comic by https://cassandracalin.tumblr.com

Comic features a person who receives a text asking to hag out but was a typo to hang out. Person replies no let’s actually hag out and the final panel shows two people dressed like witches (hags)mixing things into a cauldron.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 9h

"it's not that you're wrong, it's just that if you keep thinking about things like this you'll never get to where you're right"

Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · 10h

I've lost track of the number of times I've said to students something isomorphic to "it's not that you're wrong, it's just that if you keep thinking about things like this you'll never get to where you're right"

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 9h

I remain only vaguely aware of who Will Stancil is, but if I had to guess I'd say he is a small nation whose main export is exasperated discourse no one even understands why we're having

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23h

Only a bitch would work for ICE.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 10h

‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like

Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'

a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'

so the funding disappeared??

and people are dying??

Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 13h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

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