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Catie R ✰
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Catie • She/Her • Freelance Artist And Illustrator • ✰ Available For Work! ✰ • catierowley.com • [email protected] • c-rowlesdraws on tumblr
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Catie R ✰ @c-rowles.bsky.social · Dec 11
Hello, everyone! I haven't posted about my ✨Patreon✨ on here until now, but it has just one tier and EIGHT years of artwork, sketches, step-by-step progress images, and other stuff! Please consider pledging if you'd like to support me and see exclusive art! patreon.com/c_rowles
Get more from Catie Rowley on Patreon
creating illustrations and comics
patreon.com
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korybing.bsky.social
I will die for you, A 4-Hour Long Video Essay on A Theme Park.
A screenshot from a pet shelter in Kansas City Missouri. An adult female dark tortie-colored cat named "A 4 Hour Long Essay on a Theme Park"
March 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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docseuss.bsky.social
Beginning to suspect my neighbor is a slug man. He's trying to hide it but the slime trails to and from his apartment, coupled with his insistence that he's allergic to my salted peanuts but fine with the unsalted ones and the 47 heads of lettuce I helped him carry into his apartment sure seem weird
November 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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nickhunebrown.bsky.social
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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born2.besilly.online
view of the san gabriels from the chuck. e cheese parking lot
November 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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saocousins.bsky.social
Andalusian chimney and Pigeon
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing
A little doodle in poor light. I love the small details people decorate ordinary buildings
#montejaque #watercolour
@drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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nao70shark.bsky.social
練習
November 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social
we can milk it a second time too!
reappearing in 60 cities in December
linktr.ee/hundredsofbe...
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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ascalaphid.com
EVERYBODY DANCE NOW
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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ianmcque.bsky.social
Mileships folk
Digital painting, a character from the Mileships book by Ian McQue and Jim Rossignol Digital painting, a character from the Mileships book by Ian McQue and Jim Rossignol
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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ascalaphid.com
season's greasons from Mole and Rat

holiday card collab with my partner
November 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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animalphotorefs.bsky.social
The repository site will always be open-access and free to use: with so much AI noise online now, I can’t put it behind a paywall.

But: this project is not funded. It runs entirely on donations.

Considering joining the Patreon to get sneak peeks of new photos & help decide what taxa go up next!
Get more from Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository on Patreon
Non-AI animal images for art, academics, media, and more!
www.patreon.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
c-rowles.bsky.social
it’s really frustrating that reddit is one of the last websites that still preserves the conversational, shared-interest organization older-web flavor that I crave, because so many people on reddit are such abrasive and miserable people and talking to them makes me feel bad instead of good
November 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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ernie.tedium.co
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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enerjax.bsky.social
My Celes gouache painting from a few weeks back! It was difficult but still worth the attempt 🗡️
Celes Chere gouache that didn’t go as I’d hoped but completing it is better than nothing!
November 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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nicboone.bsky.social
Trapdoor spider, oils, sold

Time to repost this one ;)
November 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social
A Capella Party
Illustration of a falcon, duck, heron, kiwi bird, crow, and other birds dancing to jazz music.
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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a0dbxza.bsky.social
Rodan 1956 空の大怪獸 ラドン
Directed by Ishirō Honda

Born from a volcanic crater, the crimson monster bird Rodan attacks the Earth #filmsky #movies #japan #toho #cinema #空の大怪獸ラドン #本多猪四郎
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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razzball.bsky.social
Don’t know the reason/the reason
Insider Wire # @InsiderWire #BREAKING: X just paused the account location feature for an unknown reason. Fake accts run the X platform and this one’s pretending to be from Israel but it’s India Fake accts run the X platform and this one’s pretending to be from US but it’s Nigeria Fake accts run the X platform and this one’s pretending to be from US but it’s Bangladesh
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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igreggreene.bsky.social
Interested in reading Stephen Graham Jones but not sure where to start? Mother Horror is here with an excellent guide 🎃 ❤️ ⭐
sadiehartmann.bsky.social Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 1d
I did a little reader's guide to @sgj.bsky.social books on my Instagram! Check it out:
www.instagram.com/p/DRXYe7biWU9/
Stephen Graham Jones photo with a buffalo A collage of 20 books by Stephen graham jones
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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cathytuttle.bsky.social
Cities are the best human habitat. Cities are what most of us are drawn to. Not Mars or bunkers in the desert or some AI-fever dream, but cities, in all their creative concentrated exuberance.

Cities are where we can be together, learn from each other, celebrate and build our future life on earth.
brenttoderian.bsky.social Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 5d
ICYMI, this STARTER PACK is my team-up with celebrated climate scientist @katharinehayhoe.com, and it’s full of people & organizations that specifically embrace the overlap between better cities and climate action! Please follow them, and help spread the pack around! #ClimateAction #UrbanistShoutOut
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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theotherhappyplace.bsky.social
Settle down word scramble game
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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sparklemarkers.bsky.social
this is how you lose the dish war
A set of dish scrubbers shaped like a cardinal and a bluebird
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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interrobangbus.bsky.social
spontaneously decided to create a separate IG writer profile for myself which means I can start posting stuff like this without a bunch of bookstore customers yelling at me. anyway go follow me over there if you wish to see stuff like this (@ interrobangbus)
A toilet with two toilet rolls that looks like eyes. It’s the muppet that drinks piss
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Sometimes I put in an absurdly low bid on an eBay auction with the certainty that I definitely won't get it but also a vanishingly slim hope that MAYBE by some miracle nobody else will bid. Anyway that is how I ended up adding this magnificent glass plate negative to my collection! No date/info.
Sepia toned image of a middle aged white woman in dark garments looking at a very fluffy and grumpy looking tabby cat. The cat is standing at the top of a folding wooden ladder, presumably for the purpose of displaying it for this photo because the woman seems to be gently but firmly holding it in place there.
November 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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kodyisover.com
For folks who are newer around here, thanks for following! This is my deal; I make a free to read webcomic about love and grief and cultural expectations of masculinity through my transmasc lens ✌️

#KeepingTime
kodyisover.com Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · Aug 27
There are now 3 full chapters (that's 106 pages!!) of completely free-to-read KEEPING TIME, the queer, slow burn between two former friends and now current bandmates who - for better or worse - fall in love.

#KeepingTime #webcomics

🎸 keepingtimecomic.com
A comic page from KEEPING TIME. Daniel, a Japanese American man, sits on stage at a grand piano and stares out in disbelief at Denver, a blond punk with a neck tattoo who looks equally stunned. A caption title says, "CHAPTER 1: 2:45 AM" A second panel. Denver llifts the lid of a dumpster, while two figures stand behind him in a dark alleyway. A third panel. Denver lights both his cigarette and that of Daniel's. Denver says, "I'm impressed, y'know," while Daniel answers with a, "Hmm?" A final panel. Denver motions towards Daniel with his lit cigarette while Daniel smiles gently.
November 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM