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Sonic 🦄 @sonicrainicorn.bsky.social · 4h

Constellations 🥺

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Sonic 🦄 @sonicrainicorn.bsky.social · 3d

It’s one of her favorite times of year

#art #digitalart

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Sonic 🦄 @sonicrainicorn.bsky.social · 5d

I guess I can post this guy here too

#traditionalart #mixedmedia #characterdesign

Drawings done in pen with a little crow boy in various poses and facial expressions on one half of the page. There is a color version in the middle. On the other side, are crows in various positions with a colored crow in the middle

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 8d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 9d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 14d

Ghost Baby Clifford is here to announce that it is officially spooky season. Let the festivities commence.

a picture from an old Clifford book. Clifford is much smaller than usual, implying he is baby. he is holding a brown paper bag in his mouth and is covered in a sheet with eye holes. it is obvious he is trick or treating. his tail has action lines around it, indicating he is rather excited for both the tricks and the treats

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Sheepie @ladybugsheep.bsky.social · 17d

The Yeetle by Kittenpantz

#rtgame #rtgamefanart

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Sheepie @ladybugsheep.bsky.social · 17d

#rtgame #rtgamefanart

heyo! its been a while since it happened, but the folks over at the RT art discord banded together to make Pokemon cards based on the friends he's made through his many playthroughs!

first up, here's the Cupcake/Cupcake Vmax + Trainer RT by yours truly:

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18d

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 18d

we must abolish ICE

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 20d

I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 22d

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like

"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."

fuck yeah

Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

qnews.com.au

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 22d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · Sep 5

Nothing says, "Hey international companies, bring your manufacturing to the US" like arresting 475 workers at a Hyundai (70% of whom are South Korean).

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Dan Dah @dandahart.bsky.social · Sep 6

Axolotl Gardener | Daily Character n•130

Ref: @adorkastock.com

#art #drawing #characterdesign #oc #watercolors #ink

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Sep 4

I don't know why I keep reaching in my mind for this analogy but American political culture feels to me right now like what Moses found when he returned from Mt Sinai and everyone had said "screw it" and started worshipping the golden calf.

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Sonic 🦄 @sonicrainicorn.bsky.social · Sep 5

A lot of students seem to have lost problem solving skills such as opening the file folder to see if there are files there

I don't know if class discords make me more aware of it or if it happens because of class discords. Social loafing, etc.

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✨ Alppy ✨ @mxalppy.bsky.social · Sep 1

Tsuki has an appointment on the 10th. I want to make sure I have enough for all she’ll need. (I wish vets would tell you the price upfront) This is the last time I’m opening commissions this year unless an emergency happens. ;w;

$25 comms available until then.