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Katie Nolan Hales
@ktnlnhls.bsky.social
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Art director, designer, + animator • she/her
https://ktnlnhls.com/
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paulinaganucheau.bsky.social
🔥Repost to ignite. 🔥🖕🧊
January 27, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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keymonster.bsky.social
#resist
An illustration of a hawk holding a banner that says “No one is free until we are all free.
January 25, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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oliviawhen.com
Feel like I'm preaching to the choir here, but it's so important that you call your reps. I'm saying this because are many people in my life who listen to me say this all the time, but ultimately still don't do it.
January 25, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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alexadoodles.bsky.social
There's this idea that floats around that 'silly little art posts' featuring calls to action and the like don't matter.

Art that critiques & draws attention to power is important. Always has been.

Our voices have influence. That's why powerful entities work so hard to censor & minimize them
January 24, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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shoomlah.bsky.social
dustin’ off the ol’ cobwebs at Ready/Sketch/Go’s life drawing session last night!

(eternal thanks to Carmen Quiñones Callahan for being such an amazing model ♥️♥️♥️)
10 min. life drawing sketches of a ballerina in a classical tutu, drawn in blue pencil. 10 min. life drawing sketches of a ballerina in a classical tutu, drawn in blue pencil, including a portrait of the ballerina’s face. 5 min. life drawing sketches of a ballerina in a classical tutu, drawn in blue pencil. 5 min. life drawing sketches of a ballerina in a classical tutu, drawn in blue pencil.
January 23, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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trungles.com
I’m usually so bad at taking my own advice, but I’m gonna hang onto this one because I still feel this way. Art by itself won’t save us by itself, but community can. And I think it will.
trungles.com Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · Jun 11
Not to be unkind, but I am so impatient about the “what’s the point of making my little zines/comics/crafts/art when the world is on fire” sentiments. I get it, but saving the world is not a responsibility shouldered by your art! That’s what being a neighbor, a friend, and hell, a citizen is for!!!
January 21, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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andewitt.bsky.social
year of the fire horse
January 20, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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trungles.com
Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls
Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that. I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport. I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house. I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?
January 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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nbedera.bsky.social
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.

And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”

Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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nbedera.bsky.social
We do not get out of fascism by saving ourselves and turning our backs on others. We get out through solidarity with everyone—especially the most vulnerable.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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weisanboo.bsky.social
The raven, the merchant, and the bodyguard. Decided to ink up an old, winter-y sketch while it's still cold out. 🌨️
January 15, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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housegoblin.bsky.social
feeling real grateful for having the cognitive ability to consciously arrange colors and lines to represent objects and/or ideas rn
January 14, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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cassandrajean.bsky.social
Hey Everyone!!
To celebrate the new Animal Crossing NH 3.0 Update I made a new wallpaper pack of all the joyful parts of ACNH!!
Please check it out and deck out your phone for more ACNH shenanigans! (I also have other icon packs available!)

cassandrajean.gumroad.com/l/krqavv
January 14, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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faithschaffer.bsky.social
I've been reading the Nausicaä manga for the first time 💙 (MS paint drawing)
MS paint drawing- Nausicaä standing and gazing up at the viewer from the forest floor, surrounded by fungi and spores.
January 13, 2026 at 4:39 AM
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lenikauffman.bsky.social
Starting the new year with a renewed hatred for all things Gen AI. So I drew a knight slaying a dragon, can you spot all the hints that the monster is AI? 🌞
January 9, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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neatodon.bsky.social
Canal folk
a digital illustration of an anthropomorphic osprey and shrew standing in front of a narrow boat. It has the traditional rose and castle paintings on the side, and a harlequin pattern near the bow.They are dressed in drab coloured muddy clothes, and each has a wooden pipe in their mouth. There is a diamond pattern border around the image.
January 8, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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kaitlund.bsky.social
"Ruinous Obsession"

The Last Unicorn - I'm obsessed
January 8, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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portfolioday.bsky.social
Look alive artists! The next #PortfolioDay is in one week on Tuesday, January 13th.

Visit portfolioday.art for more info!
Image of the #PortfolioDay mascot Oli holding a paintbrush and pointing up at information that reads: #PortfolioDay! January 13th, 2026 MORE INFO AT WWW.PORTFOLIODAY.ART
January 6, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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moosekleenex.bsky.social
avoid self loathing ✅
your art is special because YOU made it ✅
literally anything you create is better than AI✅
a three panel comic with a character looking at a laptop. the test says 'this artist has a PERFECT style. it looks so intricate yet effortless. the vibes are IMMACULATE. I will continue to be blessed with inspiration and awe at their work, and continue to develop my art, which is also cool and good.'
January 2, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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berneri.horse
naturally the first painting of 2026 has to be a horse!
#art ✧ #painting ✧ #horse ✧ #yearofthehorse
Photo of a square acrylic marker painting. It has white borders, a dark blue background and a red horse in the middle, maybe in a mid floaty jump. The horse has colorful and decorative cloth in its back and some other decorative tack. Colors are red, dark blue, teal, yellow and white. The painting is very stylized. The mane and tail are creamy colored, tail being long and mane mohawk. The blue background is full of yellow stars.
January 2, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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ieafy.bsky.social
glowing grotto 🌱
January 1, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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railroadlion.bsky.social
Pondbacked Salagator 🐊 #Art #CreatureDesign
January 1, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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heathermahler.bsky.social
It’s dangerous out there! Take this!

#happynewyear #lemonpig
Illustration done by me of a little yellow pig, who is actually a lemon holding a penny in his mouth. The text says for luck.
December 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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avivor.com
Happy new year to all the artists who haven't had time, energy, passion, or any other needed resource to draw enough personal stuff to join end-of-the-year memes in 2025. May we find more of all of the above in 2026, as well as compassion for ourselves if we don't!
January 1, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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cassandrajean.bsky.social
Happy New Year 2026!
The year of the Horse 🔥
I imagine him as the bringer of spring. Just perhaps not a very gentle one…

I look forward to another year, I love you all! #art
December 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM