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Veeloxxy Bites

@the-episiarch.bsky.social

Whenever I find out a colleague is using LLM to do literature searches and to "summarise" papers

Screenshot from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End.
Fern confronted by Ehre, flying in the sky.
Ehre: "You don't use ChatGPT or Gemini to help you conduct a literature review?"

Screenshot from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End.
Close-up of Fern, addressing Ehre.
Fern: "I was taught to only use libraries and databases for my literature review"

Screenshot from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End.
Close-up of Ehre, addressing Fern.
Ehre: "That is your graduate supervisor's philosophy, then?"

Screenshot from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End.
Close-up of Fern, addressing Ehre.
Fern: "Yes. She said that it's enough to defeat academics of this era"

January 10, 2026 at 2:50 AM

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Bunny @ OuterWorlds2 Brainrot

@carbunny.bsky.social

Heheh get kissed idiot

January 10, 2026 at 8:41 PM

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SomecallmeJohnny

@somecallmejohnny.com

Stickers you can immediately hear.

A custom sticker in the fashion of Smash Bros GAME! graphic that instead says Gay.

January 13, 2026 at 6:48 PM

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Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂

@littletunny.bsky.social

*slides this across the desk to you* …well?

A very nice picture of my cat and dog. Imagine the cutest, best, most darling little guy to ever exist. And now imagine there’s two of them. That should give you a good idea of what we’re working with here

January 13, 2026 at 9:25 PM

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otava heikkilä

@claystorks.bsky.social

hey #portfolioday! i'm otava, a visual artist from finland who specializes in comics, and i'm currently open for illustration jobs to bring to life your weird, hot, melancholic and dramatic projects. let me illustrate your album cover or magazine spread:
www.otavaheikkila.net

January 13, 2026 at 9:49 PM

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Fran (comms closed!)

@toradh.bsky.social

Hi #portfolioday !

When left to my own devices I mostly draw a webcomic but I’ll be available for commercial and non-commercial illustration work in summer.

🎨 wenzelfranziska.myportfolio.com
✉️ wenzel.franziska@web.de

Girl with a violin and swirly cloth on a violet and off-white bg

dudes in hanfu and peach and pastel colour

lady looking out of a barred window, digital ink in sepia tones

sample comic page with a man in fantasy ancient Chinese clothing and a Tang dynasty inspired shiny dragon

January 13, 2026 at 1:06 PM

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Bob / S.R. Appavu

@bob-artist.bsky.social

Brotherhood of the Orb (1/2)

#comic #minicomic #art

The first two panels of a vertical minicomic with a blue tinted color palette. Panel 1: A row of men in tall, pointy black hats and long black robes stand praying in a circle facing outward. The ground behind them is white and glowing. Panel 2: One of the men, who has a beard and curly hair, quivers as he says to the stern man beside him, “Brother… I can’t hold out any longer.”

Panel 3: The stern man glances toward the bearded man and says, “Pull yourself together! We must protect the orb! It is our sacred duty.” Panel 4: The bearded man hunches over, still quivering, and says, “I… I can’t…” The stern man, still praying, yells, “You must!!”

January 12, 2026 at 7:20 PM

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Olivia Stephens

@oliveoilcorp.bsky.social

Hi #portfolioday! My name's Olivia and I'm a queer Black graphic novelist, writer and illustrator. [horror/speculative fiction focus]

Right now I'm open to comics [writing and/or drawing] + illustration gigs!
olivia-stephens.com

A greyscale illustration depicting a figure holding a rifle while walking under large cottonwood trees. In the foreground, a breeze flows through the long grasses.

Comic page rendered in blue and orange tones. A Black woman stands in the middle of towering trees with large holes in their trunks. She wears a sheer slip dress and looks up at the orange sky. Above her are the words THE SKY HAS A CRACK IN IT.

Comic page rendered in pencil, ballpoint pen, and limited digital color. A woman looks up at a large, terrifying creature made of tree branches and severed body parts. Chickadees perch on the creature's wooden limbs. Blue eggs sit in the nest that makes up the creature's head. The creature lowers its long, blood limb towards the woman's face. She looks fearful at first, before closing her eyes and smiling. As this happens, the captions read: "She will give you your words, but only if you give in return. All art demands this of us."

January 13, 2026 at 1:17 PM

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Mar Julia ➰〰️➰

@marjulia.bsky.social

hi #portfolioday it's been a while -- i'm an award winning illustrator and cartoonist, maker of comics and graphic novels like Brownstone with @samuelteer.bsky.social and along with my partner, sunmi, we organize a queer comics anthology called Datura Magazine 👯

🌎 marjulia.com
🌸 daturazine.carrd.co

Cover of Brownstone showing the main character, Almudena - a young half-white half-Guatemalan teenager - larger than life, leaning on the titular brownstone which her father lives in. On either side of the brownstone are other city buildings, showing glimpses of residents and the neighborhood which is explored in the book.

A poster showing several alligators on top of federal agents reading: CHINGA LA MIGRA at the top and NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND at the bottom.

An illustration of a person taking refuge under a leafy canopy from rain.

Datura Magazine covers featuring work from (left to right): Rosemary Valero O'Connell, Molly Mendoza, and Seosamh Dáire.

January 13, 2026 at 7:22 PM

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theo

@theoplum.bsky.social

January 13, 2026 at 6:01 AM

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theo

@theoplum.bsky.social

new TNP episode is up, ft. lorn's décolletage
www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/th...
tapas.io/episode/3777...

January 12, 2026 at 4:24 PM

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MossyPine 🍂🍄 Cozy Art

@bymossypine.bsky.social

this could be us 💕

{ #cuteart #illustration #cats ]

Digital illustration of two cats, each sitting in their own blanket and holding a controller. They have matching cups and there is a little speechbubble with a heart in the middle above them

February 14, 2024 at 2:34 PM

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue

@crits4cats.org

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

January 10, 2026 at 4:57 AM

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Amy Rae Hill

@amyraehill.bsky.social

A drama in the cosmos viewed by an audience of one 🐱

(something to calm the nerves)

January 9, 2026 at 10:45 PM

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Joshua J. Friedman

@joshuajfriedman.com

Attention Bluesky elders: The artist behind the ANIMORPHS covers is here!

David Mattingly @davidmattingly.bsky.social · 5d

I did flipbooks for all of the Animorphs covers I did, but they appeared in black and white and very small, so I am posting them here so you can see them large and in color. No AI here--just Elastic Reality and painting. You can buy a signed print of this cover here:
www.etsy.com/listing/798775628

January 9, 2026 at 5:13 PM

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Palaeo

@palaeosinensis.com

Life advice for the ages. Those doing wrong want you tired and hopeless. But stay angry. And when a chance is in front of you: bite back.

Digital plans for a real linocut. I'm anxiously awaiting a press to make this stuff possible with my RSI in my hands.

#art #tiger #resist #linocut

The image is digital art made up to look like a two color linocut print. It features a geometric twisting snarling tiger. It's flanked by the text "Stay Angry" and "Bite Back" that follows the contours of the tiger.

February 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM

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Erin Reed

@erininthemorning.com

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!