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•*+ Captain Amyk +*• MCM London [G-7] Artist Alley! @captainamyk.bsky.social · 7h

Morning #PortfolioDay !! I'm Amelia and I like vibrant shapes and colors ⚡💖 Here are my latest pieces of the things tha obsess me: Curro from Expo'92, Chappell Roan, Bo Burnham's Inside (yes, in 2025) and Nosferatussy

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Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you, @imleor.bsky.social!!!

chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

From The Chicago Reader:
Two longtime supporters of Chicago's indie scene, Leigh Kelsey and Emily Hilleren, have organized a two-day musical celebration called the Windy Pop Weekender. Cole's Bar hosts the debut festival, which features a dozen acts playing dream pop, power pop, indie rock, shoegaze, and twee pop. Saturday's music begins at 6 PM with Chicago lo-fi fanatics Monogamy and closes five hours later with flowery Michigan trio Idle Ray (led by indie lifer Fred Thomas). Sunday begins with a craft fair at noon, and the show starts at 3 PM
with local guitar wizard Emily Jane Powers.
Ratboys front woman Julia Steiner headlines with a solo set at 6:15 PM, followed by a dance party with CHIRP DJs till 10 PM. Tickets cost $35.35 for a single day or $63.65 for the whole weekend.

WINDY POP WEEKENDER
A CHICAGO INDIE / TWEE POPFEST & OTHER REVELRY
SAT 10/18
IDLE RAY
THE GARMENT DISTRICT
TAMBOURINA
THE FEEDERS
MODERN CULTS
GENTLE BRONTOSAURUS
MONOGAMY
@ COLE'S BAR (21*)
2338 N MILWAUKEE AVE-
SUN 10/19
JULIA STEINER
(of Ratboys)
HUMDRUM
HOLY PINTO
NECTAR
EMILY JANE POWERS
FULL DETAILS ON REVELRY:
WINDYPOPWEEKENDER.COM
$60 WEEKEND PASS & TOTE | $32 SINGLE DAY

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Michelle @dooberlane.bsky.social · 16h

Hi #portfolioday!

I’m an illustrator and designer looking for cool new projects to sink my teeth into. I specialize in highly textural, moody, and atmospheric illustrations and comics. Hit me up if you think we’d work well together!

🎨: michellezhuang-art.com
📨: [email protected]

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Melody 🎃✨ @meloteaart.bsky.social · 14h

Hello again #portfolioday !!

If you love spooky stuff, I'm your gal

Melody 🎃✨ @meloteaart.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hello #portfolioday!

I'm Melody a story driven artist who draws spooky yet cozy artwork! 🎃

I would love to work on your project or commission if it fits these vibes!

🎃Card: melotea.carrd.co
🎃Email: [email protected]

Collage of digital artwork. Top left: two characters summoning ghosts in a greenhouse with autumn colors. Top Right: Two characters looking up at a ink serpent monster in an alley way. Bottom left: Two characters sit in a graveyard at night, one of them is looking up towards the light. Bottom Right: Two characters are walking through a market at sunset with a little creature spying on them.

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 1d

it's #portfolioday!

I'm Dan, I'm a concept artist/illustrator that often posts dailies, but I also do environments, character concepts, and commissions.

& I'm available for work, email or DM me if you're interested!

✉️ [email protected]

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 18h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

Rate Dogs & • Follow
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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island @spiralisland.bsky.social · 20h

Your blog post was why i watched it 🫡

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Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island @spiralisland.bsky.social · 22h

Gap with @51st.news growing ever narrower

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay - I am Kim Hu
Freelance Illustrator & Concept Artist

Looking for cool new projects to work on in 2026 💫

Portfolio: kim-hu.com
✉️ [email protected]

Cover of Killtopia Comic Anthology, featuring a despairing man in a tech helmet.

The cover to Blister City
In the background in orange and pink tones sits a massive city, behind which orange mountains rise into a dusty orange sky
In the foreground 3 punks perch on the edge of a building, surrounded by litter and soda cans. The punk on the left wears a blue jacket that says die young on the back.

The text Blister City can be seen in the sky above the city.

Illustration of Clippy the Paperclip in a Mad Max style truck, blasting through the wasteland; Done for Autonocast.com

Photo of a shirt, showing a girl with a nailbat on top of a smashed robot, holding up its severed head. The text says: Destroy AI; Done for Aftermath
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#kimgakaku

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

I am about to go for the longest walk. Heartbreaking. balleralert.com/profiles/blo...

D’Angelo Dead At 51 After Battle With Pancreatic Cancer

Neo-soul legend D’Angelo has died after a private battle with pancreatic cancer. Read Baller Alert’s exclusive report celebrating his life, music, and impact.

balleralert.com

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Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island @spiralisland.bsky.social · 1d

Can we get contra flow bike lanes yet? Or do ya still want bikes on the sidewalk?

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Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island @spiralisland.bsky.social · 1d

English hasn't even had standard spellings/phonetics all that long

Davis Davies Daveiss Daviess shall i go on

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

At some point, the US government came up with standard romanizations for different Chinese characters.

Which, uh, neglected the fact that the characters were pronounced differently based on the dialect you spoke.

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Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island @spiralisland.bsky.social · 1d

Strong Halloween season recommendation. Variety's take is 100% correct

RiC.H.U.D. F @rfranklin15.bsky.social · Aug 7

This image is fuckin catnip to me.

A picture of Dan Stevens in Cuckoo with the caption "Very bonkers and deliriously entertaining" from Variety.

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 1d

things bullets say

Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 1d

Almost every time I go thru JFK something weird happens.

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Dr Artyom Trakhanov - THERE COMES FOR YOU A DAY is out now! @vor-bokor.bsky.social · 1d

Covers, covers, covers! Covers me, covers now, covers pay me to do😈

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Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island @spiralisland.bsky.social · 1d

Madison should ban chemical weapons before we're under siege, not after
@dinaninaxo.bsky.social @satyaformadison.bsky.social

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Federal agents deployed tear gas after Albany Park residents protested to their attempts to detain a resident of the Northwest Side neighborhood, @vimiller.bsky.social reports for the @chicago.suntimes.com

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island @spiralisland.bsky.social · 2d

To _.each() their own

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Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island @spiralisland.bsky.social · 2d

Not to promote criminal activity, but fyi it is the perfect time to ride Syene Rd. No 45 mph traffic

Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island @spiralisland.bsky.social · 2d

A couple more

Ube cheesecake brownie, from That Batch Bakery

The south east corner of Broadway & 51. The path has a stop sign before an unmarked crossing to a traffic Island. Behind the stop sign (and the bush) and way off the pavement, there's a "push for green light" button, which activates the currently blank board on the right. Once you reach the traffic island, there is another "push for green light" button, but there is no marked crosswalk in either direction from there

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Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island @spiralisland.bsky.social · 2d

Pix from today's ride

View over Dawley conservancy, with prairie in the foreground and a large pond beyond. In the water, there are several white dots representing egrets

A pair of geese and a pair of sandhill cranes are reluctantly sharing a little mud island, in a pond just off of Post Road

View of grassy path, bushes, and stream, under a partly cloudy sky

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Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island @spiralisland.bsky.social · 2d

I don't have a cat outfit for every book I read, but...

Sable, a black cat, crouches on a patio, wearing an orange and fuchsia harness. In the foreground, my hand is holding a copy of Reef Mind by Hazel Zorn. The cover shows a riotous abstract coral against a black background, with orange and fuchsia featured prominently

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Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island @spiralisland.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe if they walked more, they wouldn't park illegally everywhere

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Avó chinesa muito católica @acexaman.bsky.social · 3d

Meowfeggio 528hz Healing Frequencies ✨️🌌

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, hello

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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