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Andy Merrill “Brak” 🐸 ❌👑

@amerrill2.bsky.social

And now, a very Dickensian special guest.

December 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM

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Emilius Duckberry

@emiliusdraws.bsky.social

#3157 A helpful tutorial

A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.'
The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross.
The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'

November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM

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Hard Drive

@hard-drive.net

“Like a starving Snorlax, our fans will gobble up whatever slop we dump into the Poké-trough like the loyal swine they are.”

- CEO of The Pokémon Company Tsunekazu Ishihara When Asked Why Pokémon Legends: Z-A's Entire Lumiose City is a Single Model

October 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM

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eric stirpē

@stirpicus.bsky.social

Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France.
So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness.
There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time.
Good luck, and love as always
K

August 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM

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Shawn Harris

@shawnforcongress.bsky.social

Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.

My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?

July 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term

May 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM

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Sanho Tree

@sanho.bsky.social

Please boycott my country and tell US airlines that you won’t waste money on a ticket to nowhere. Make the airlines lobby the administration to end this fascist madness. They will scream loudly when their lucrative international revenue dries up.

Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · Mar 19

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

March 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM

Mister Grim

@mistergrim.bsky.social

Bought a copy of The King in Yellow, then a copy of Carmilla from the same publisher. These lead to getting a collection of Ambrose Bierce and then a collection of Lovecraft.

I hadn’t ever read Lovecraft but found a few of his works for a good deal.