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V

@crowknives.bsky.social

Things grey has done for me that make my heart feel so full:
- found the exact same unique, vintage, German polar bear plush that my childhood friend from Egypt gave me on eBay (and managed to do so without any brand name or other clues) and bought it for me

January 7, 2026 at 7:22 AM

V

@crowknives.bsky.social

Some of my favorite greyvo’s over the years 🩶🖤

January 7, 2026 at 7:06 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!

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!

This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

www.erininthemorning.com

January 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM

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Olivia When

@oliviawhen.com

The best season for sleeping. 🌨️

A pale yellow dog is asleep on a yellow couch with only their head resting on the arm next to a quilt. There's a lamp on a wood side table to the left casting warm light. Behind is a window showing snow on trees and a grey sky. The room is a warm brown.

January 6, 2026 at 8:21 PM

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Gillian Branstetter

@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM

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cupofmin

@cupofmin.bsky.social

Commissions for embroidered cat portraits are open! 🍄 Join the waitlist here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Bookmark shaped as a teabag, with a cat embroidered on it.

January 5, 2026 at 2:22 PM

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Mali 💤 @ bday shop sale 💛💛

@sleepimali.bsky.social

You lose one light, you find another 🐇🌿

Watercolour painting of a light bulb filled with lush plants and flowers. Two white bunnies sit in the middle, partially obscured by the greenery. They look very cosy

January 5, 2026 at 5:26 PM

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Shane Bettenhausen

@shanewatch.bsky.social

happy 85th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki

January 5, 2026 at 10:12 PM

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laura is hibernating

@lauraillustrates.bsky.social

new keychains coming soon!!! i really wanted to draw some cute frogs and here they are as promised. 🐸

illustration of six designs for frog acrylic keychains in transparent terrariums: a yellow pacman frog, a red eyed tree frog, a pixie frog menacingly looking at minnows, two white's tree frogs, a desert rain frog looking annoyed, and two tomato frogs with crickets. they are drawn in a cute, flat style and have plants around them in the terrarium. the tree frogs hang out on branches, while the desert rain frog has sand.

January 5, 2026 at 5:04 PM

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shu

@shuyawns.com

🌟 for jojo's pokeparty patreon!!! he's in a lil snowglobe... but this is the cropped ver hehe :p

#b3d #pokemon #art

3d render of a jirachi hovering over a snowman pikachu, with several trees topped with fresh snow in the background. this scene is contained in a snowglobe, with small flakes of glittery snow sprinkled in the background. i'm not sure why this description sounds a little like food.

January 5, 2026 at 11:17 PM

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Sam 🍁🪶

@shrugsyolo.bsky.social

He loves GDQ!!!

January 4, 2026 at 7:02 PM

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Hiimeyu

@hiimeyu.bsky.social

Charline!! I finally get to play her again this week and I honestly can’t wait 🥹💕

[ #ttrpg #dnd #oc #artsky #ocsky ]

Charline the pink skinned Tiefling in her usual blue-purple outfit with one sleeve dropping off her shoulder smiling at the viewer.

January 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM

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Rayleearts @ Realta

@rayleearts.bsky.social

All I know is find shiny, eat chip, violence, and love friends

October 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM

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Gary Alexander

@garyalexander.bsky.social

I'll spell it out: Offering that Maduro is bad but the strikes and kidnappings violated legal procedure, is discursively like closing the back door to Trump while opening the front door. You concede the moral case, and offer a legal one that nobody without a lanyard knows of or gives a shit about.

Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 4d

"Maduro was bad, but" shut the fuck up, you people will never learn.

January 3, 2026 at 1:28 PM

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💖Big Sis Ella💖 Tactical Siscon Action

@moonstruckella.bsky.social

I cannot stress things like this happen because of democratic unwillingness to actually punish anyone who was in power because that would have led to them also seeing consequences for their actions.

So people like Bush get to do this kind of thing and live free and comfy.

January 3, 2026 at 2:41 PM

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Comfortably Numb

@numb.comfortab.ly

"Why aren't the Democrats condemning this?"

The Democrats:

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz @wassermanschultz.house.gov · 3d

My statement on the capture of the brutal, illegitimate ruler of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and need for a transition to democracy:

January 3, 2026 at 3:16 PM

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Rebecca R Helm

@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social

OMG 😭

Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure."

LIFE SAVING!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time | BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

www.youtube.com

September 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM

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progesterin

@erinys.uwu.lgbt

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

January 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM

V

@crowknives.bsky.social

I am very tired of insomnia and of not getting good sleep or enough sleep for weeks at a time. I’m going through some health changes that could also affect my sleep but ugh. I’m so. Tired!!

January 1, 2026 at 11:41 PM

V

@crowknives.bsky.social

First doodle of the new year: a lil slowpoke still celebrating the new year 2025….

January 1, 2026 at 11:30 PM

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晴晴

@sachinteng.bsky.social

Thanks for getting through this year with me. I know it hasn't been easy. I'm grateful for the company. Thank you to everyone who supports my art! I couldn't do this without every single person in my life. Happy New Year~

An art v artist post. A 3x3 panel collage of 9 images, artwork posted in 2025 takes up all the spaces on the edges, with the center panel containing a portrait of the artist.

January 1, 2026 at 2:24 AM

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leon

@leyawn.bsky.social

a post by leyawn

text: where does the new york times even find these people

image: A screenshot of a New York Times update that says: In Grand Central Terminal, Leon Chang, 26, of Brooklyn, said he had not heard of congestion pricing and asked what it was. When explained it was a toll for cars entering Manhattan, he then asked “What do you mean? What is a car?” Walking outside, we showed him a vehicle parked on the street. He gently touched the hood of the car. “You wish to forbid these majestic beasts from entering the city,” he said in a wistful tone. “It is a folly of man. The desire to tame the world around us.”

reply by steve merelman, an editor at the new york times

text: @chrislhayes.bsky.social, you are spreading misinformation attributed to one of our reporters.

December 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM

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Rob Delaney

@robdelaney.bsky.social

This devastating piece describes what it’s like to die of blood cancer. It also describes what it feels like to do so while your cousin is Secretary of Health & Human Services & a ghoul. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...