Sean McKnight
@ynot1989.bsky.social
(He/Him)
Cartographer, Writer, Futurist, multiverse traveler. BLM / ACAB 🇺🇦
Patreon: http://patreon.com/SeanMcKnight
dA: ynot1989.deviantart.com
Beehiiv: https://sean-mcknight.beehiiv.com/
Cartographer, Writer, Futurist, multiverse traveler. BLM / ACAB 🇺🇦
Patreon: http://patreon.com/SeanMcKnight
dA: ynot1989.deviantart.com
Beehiiv: https://sean-mcknight.beehiiv.com/
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Sean McKnight
@ynot1989.bsky.social
· Jan 15
I'm Sean McKnight, I make #maps, #flags, and stories of worlds that never were or are yet to be.
And I'm taking #commissions
#cartography #worldbuilding #alternatehistory #scifi
Gallery: deviantart.com/ynot1989
Patreon: patreon.com/SeanMcKnight
And I'm taking #commissions
#cartography #worldbuilding #alternatehistory #scifi
Gallery: deviantart.com/ynot1989
Patreon: patreon.com/SeanMcKnight
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Anchiornis. Detail from a drawing from 2019.
A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.
(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.
(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
November 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Anchiornis. Detail from a drawing from 2019.
A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.
(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.
(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
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I painted a scene for my personal project. medium: Schmincke Horadam gouache on Arches watercolour paper
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I painted a scene for my personal project. medium: Schmincke Horadam gouache on Arches watercolour paper
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the tip of the spear
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
the tip of the spear
Shame 'Aliens' isn't higher. The universe is, at the very least, teeming with pond scum.
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Shame 'Aliens' isn't higher. The universe is, at the very least, teeming with pond scum.
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Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Gender-affirming care saves lives
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imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like
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Thank you to everyone who followed along! This is all I am contractually allowed to share for now. If this piqued your interest at all you can find links to buy the book here:
www.arielries.com/books/
Or if you'd like to support my other work, consider subbing to my patreon: www.patreon.com/witchy
www.arielries.com/books/
Or if you'd like to support my other work, consider subbing to my patreon: www.patreon.com/witchy
Get more from Ariel Ries on Patreon
creating Strange Bedfellows and Witchy
www.patreon.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Thank you to everyone who followed along! This is all I am contractually allowed to share for now. If this piqued your interest at all you can find links to buy the book here:
www.arielries.com/books/
Or if you'd like to support my other work, consider subbing to my patreon: www.patreon.com/witchy
www.arielries.com/books/
Or if you'd like to support my other work, consider subbing to my patreon: www.patreon.com/witchy
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Looking very regal, not at all corpselike Mr president
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Looking very regal, not at all corpselike Mr president
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Do you ever think how bleak things are in the UK that our best head of government since the millennium was Obama and theirs was Gordon Brown? And that our second best was Biden and theirs was Theresa fucking May?
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Do you ever think how bleak things are in the UK that our best head of government since the millennium was Obama and theirs was Gordon Brown? And that our second best was Biden and theirs was Theresa fucking May?
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If you see this, post your blue art 🔵
June 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
If you see this, post your blue art 🔵
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Women want one thing*, and it's disgusting.
*A next-gen SSTO voidfighter with 20,000 meters per second of delta-v, 4 powerful directed energy weapons, and phase change heat sinks; flown by the hottest and most traumatized trans valkyrie in known space.
@thestarsaredestiny.com
@ethanleroith.com
*A next-gen SSTO voidfighter with 20,000 meters per second of delta-v, 4 powerful directed energy weapons, and phase change heat sinks; flown by the hottest and most traumatized trans valkyrie in known space.
@thestarsaredestiny.com
@ethanleroith.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Women want one thing*, and it's disgusting.
*A next-gen SSTO voidfighter with 20,000 meters per second of delta-v, 4 powerful directed energy weapons, and phase change heat sinks; flown by the hottest and most traumatized trans valkyrie in known space.
@thestarsaredestiny.com
@ethanleroith.com
*A next-gen SSTO voidfighter with 20,000 meters per second of delta-v, 4 powerful directed energy weapons, and phase change heat sinks; flown by the hottest and most traumatized trans valkyrie in known space.
@thestarsaredestiny.com
@ethanleroith.com
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some bonus things, including my new favorite way to cheaply fake volumetric dust/fog/smoke
landscape planes done with Gaea
landscape planes done with Gaea
September 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
some bonus things, including my new favorite way to cheaply fake volumetric dust/fog/smoke
landscape planes done with Gaea
landscape planes done with Gaea
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kept banging my head against a wall trying to restart my ongoing portfolio projects so today i just took a breather and did this little practice... thing
June 27, 2025 at 6:33 AM
kept banging my head against a wall trying to restart my ongoing portfolio projects so today i just took a breather and did this little practice... thing
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Our government is riddled with Russian agents and Russian sympathizers and I still get braindead morons shouting Russiagate at me when I point out this is bad
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Our government is riddled with Russian agents and Russian sympathizers and I still get braindead morons shouting Russiagate at me when I point out this is bad
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i appreciate this administration's willingness to negatively polarize centrist democrats into resist lib mode
guy who hates hegseth because he’s making a kelly ‘28 presidential run more likely
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
i appreciate this administration's willingness to negatively polarize centrist democrats into resist lib mode
This man actually thinks he's gonna be President someday.
The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This man actually thinks he's gonna be President someday.
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The stock market's gains are being overwhelmingly driven by seven Big Tech companies who have invested heavily in AI, which has made tech oligarchs even wealthier.
But when that AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag.
Be warned.
But when that AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag.
Be warned.
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The stock market's gains are being overwhelmingly driven by seven Big Tech companies who have invested heavily in AI, which has made tech oligarchs even wealthier.
But when that AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag.
Be warned.
But when that AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag.
Be warned.
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The Fox News apparatus, which most Dems see as a powerful tool to create an alternate truth bubble for conservatives, has been quite useless at convincing conservatives that inflation is fine, actually
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The Fox News apparatus, which most Dems see as a powerful tool to create an alternate truth bubble for conservatives, has been quite useless at convincing conservatives that inflation is fine, actually
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#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
For those keeping score, this would mean 2026 would see Dems pick up 12 Senate Seats. Which would be the biggest Senate flip since 1958.
Trump’s approval collapses nationwide, turning several deep-red states negative — Economist tracker
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
For those keeping score, this would mean 2026 would see Dems pick up 12 Senate Seats. Which would be the biggest Senate flip since 1958.
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In self-interest but also general interest, folks: Black Friday is coming up, and small publishers/independent creators will always be a better choice than megacorps.
When the sales drop, please remember that!
When the sales drop, please remember that!
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In self-interest but also general interest, folks: Black Friday is coming up, and small publishers/independent creators will always be a better choice than megacorps.
When the sales drop, please remember that!
When the sales drop, please remember that!
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OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8