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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · 14h

Of course women don't like the Cybertruck.

Women only want one thing, and it's a D&RGW K-36.

Vintage 1960s photograph of a steam locomotive - D&RGW K-36 number 483 - moving along a railroad track. The train is set against a rugged backdrop of rocky hills and sparse vegetation. The locomotive is black with a large, round silver front bearing the number "483." A glowing headlight is situated above the front of the train. Behind the locomotive a line of freight cars extends into the distance. To the right of the train, there is a tall, cylindrical wooden water tower with a weathered appearance. The landscape is mostly arid with shrubs and grass scattered across the ground.

Photograph by Franklin Adams, accessed via flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/fthedaddyof3/48146891672

wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · 10d

It's always wild to see these right wing ghouls aren't much older than their late 30s or early 40s at most. Living a life full of hate really destroys your appearance. I'd feel sorry for them of they weren't such monstrous people.

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 10d

Every smartphone in the world contains a CPU descended from one designed by a trans woman in the 1980s. The Matrix is one of the most influential movie franchises of all time. Electronic music was pioneered and popularized by a trans woman. I could go on

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 10d

i think my favourite part about being a trans woman is how much of an impact we have on culture. a friend reminded me today about a popular meme format she created. another friend today casually told me about how she was the most notorious roblox hacker when she was a child.

just a day in the life!

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · Aug 27

gonna tell my grandkids this is Deltarune

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · Aug 26

your illustrations always give me the vibe of a children's book I read when I was really little and barely remember, and no one else seems to know exists, but it still made an indelible impression on me 💜

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · Aug 17

I think you look cool

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · Aug 10

I feel like the better solution to this is to just design our roads in a way that high speed traffic is segregated from pedestrians, and then to use road design to limit the speed of cars on mixed-mode streets.

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · Jul 26

not to say that banning explicit works is ideal either, just that these rules are so absurdly broad they could be used to ban pretty much anything

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · Jul 26

thinking of non-explicit works that would be banned under these guidelines and it is a very long list

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · Jul 21

yoooo this is fire!

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Jimmy Makepeace @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social · Jul 21

think that's the sketch mostly done, maybe a bit more noodling on it and then onto a very involved overpainting!

a barbarian stands on a dias backlit by a magenta glow and surrounded by skeletons who are looking to get him.

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · Jun 30

I want to take every single one of those Democrats who refuse to take a stance on an issue because "it doesn't poll well" and subject them to a montage of Republicans consistently backing horrifying positions even if the majority of the country disagrees with them, Clockwork Orange-style

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · Jun 26

Michael I'm so tired.

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · Jun 10

this art makes me nostalgic and cozy the same way having a campfire on a cold winter night does

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · Jun 9

I have multi-page spreadsheets of craftable recipes for both games so I can quickly lookup what I need to make eggy bread or pizza or whatever :p

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · Jun 9

why are cozy games like this?

I'm not complaining, it hones my research skills :p

#StardewValley #BookOfHours #CozyGames

The 'Epic Handshake Meme', showing two muscular arms shaking hands. The left arm is labelled 'Stardew Valley', the right arm 'Book of Hours', and the handshake is labelled 'only playable with 53 tabs of the game wiki open'.

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · May 26

They were happy to just sit in the grass by the trail, letting me snap this picture, only leaving when I said "hey you should probably move, someone might step on you"

Photograph of a black rat snake on a forest floor with green foliage and dried leaves.

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · May 26

saw a snake today 🐍

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Entnoot @entnoot.bsky.social · May 22

Éowyn, disguised as Dernhelm, among the Riders of Rohan ⚔️

Based on Eugéne Grasset’s “Jeanne chevauchant au milieu des hommes d’armes” (1894)

#lordoftherings #lotr #eowyn #lotrfanart #illustration #fantasyart #tolkien

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · May 22

"Hey, what you got there?"
me: <hides the entire language I created for my OCs' world>
me: "A traumatized bisexual"

Angel of Altabestudio ❤️ @altabestudio.com · May 22

#<3oc: what kind of oc creator are you?

#oc #ocsky #ocart #ocquestion #art #writingprompt #ocprompt

A graphic showcase of different creators.
The parent- one who raises their oc, few but poured your heart into
The Factory: the ones who spit out oc designs like no tomorrow
The Worldbuilder: focus on world more than oc
The Blender: take from their fav media and blend
The Designer: Makes pretty art of ocs designs but not much into lore
The Loremaster: has a 400 pages doc on oc lores

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · May 19

Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

four completely different characters but very on-brand for me :p

Tina Belcher from the animated TV series 'Bob's Burgers'

Violet Parr from the 'Incredibles' films

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · May 18

The thing that gets me about the warfare of WWI is that unlike the many, many, MANY atrocities that the 20th century produced, is that we just all kind of agreed that this is Just How War Is Fought Now and it's okay to send literal boys into it. Sometimes they even volunteered for it.

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wool merchantess🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @woolmerchantess.bsky.social · May 16

<sees the bandage on the thigh>

is she, y'know, a friend of Bridget?

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · May 11

This is the GiveSendGo fundraiser link I've seen for Rodney Hinton Jr., it has been spoken on by several online influencers including Faith Hayward who said she spoke directly to Rodney's wife. I'm not in a position to verify it myself. www.givesendgo.com/Rodneyhinton...

Help us get support for Rodney Hinton's Family

My name is Anna Booker-Hinton, devoted wife to Rodney Hinton, mother of Isaiah and Isla Hinton, and stepmother to Ryan Hinton (deceased). On May 2nd, 2025, o...

www.givesendgo.com

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · May 11

I haven't seen the same outpouring of support for Rodney Hinton, Jr. that we saw for Luigi Mangione. GoFundMe took down the fundraiser for Hinton, who is accused of killing an officer shortly after he watched bodycam footage of police killing his 18-year-old son.

Rodney Hinton, Jr., a Black man wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, mean mugs a crowd of police as he is led past them in court

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