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Davis Bickford
@davis.social
76K followers 2.4K following 24K posts
Artist • Game Dev • Engineer

Pug Dad • Husband • ND • he/him

Half of @twigbit.games

Creator of @aimod.social

🔗 My Links!: davis.social

My art-only feed: https://bsky.app/profile/davis.social/feed/aaabpqcklbun6

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · Jan 14
Happy #PortfolioDay 🙂 I'm Davis, an artist who created the Welcome to Bluesky Comic. I'm also an engineer and have created feeds and tools for artists, like @aimod.social. Great to meet you!

🔗👉 davis.social
A digital illustration, a low angle showing Link and Zelda facing away. Link has his hands on his hips, Zelda is tilting her head looking at a map. In the background is Peach’s Castle, from the Mushroom Kingdom. Mario, in his boxers, is jumping angrily from the castle’s bridge toward Link and Zelda. Peach is on the castle balcony looking shocked with her hand over her mouth. A digital illustration of banjo-kazooie in a sketchy and rough style. Digital drawing with traditional appearance. A woman in a loosely fitting dress that covers everything but her neck up and forearms to hands. Her hands are clasped. Her hair is blowing upward and entwined with planets and stars. Her head is upturned and peaceful. She’s part of everything and distinct. #art Digital painting of an ethereal woman shackled in outer space, her head replaced by a black hole. The black hole's radiating energy merges with the cosmos, while dark bands swirl around her body, symbolizing entrapment. The image conveys the idea that absolute certainty is a mental prison, with the woman’s chains and the black hole illustrating the constraints of rigid thinking.
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samthielman.com
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates: "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"--that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation. QT of @avidreader1000 Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no c...
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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thgiantcloudor.dftba.social
It was a great evening for a walk that’s for sure!
A young black and white dog in front of a golden sky at sunset.
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
davis.social
I got a crown on a tooth today. First, and hopefully only, time.

The numbness on half my face and mouth hadn’t even faded yet when I started getting ads for dental implants in IG. 🫠
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
davis.social
I mean, come on
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
davis.social
Gorgeous sunset tonight
A red orange sky at sunset. Long grass in the foreground.
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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davis.social
If you see this, post your bird art 🐦

#birds
A drawing of a cartoony grumpy bird. Ruffled feathers. Adorable.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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secondlina.com
Ballet [1/4]
A cartoon crow looks up at a poster for a ballet studio that includes art of 6 ballerinas dancing and a guide of the first 5 ballet feet positions. The crow marvels that humans can glide on the ground as birds do in the sky. The crow decides to try dancing too, following the illustrated poses on the poster. The crow crosses their legs and bounces.
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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davis.social
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

#Frankenstein @realgdt.bsky.social
Digital illustration in purple, ochre, and white. Guillermo del Toro’s monster of Frankenstein is walking into the ruins of the tower in which he was created.
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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lars.bsky.social
I've been so delighted to learn since starting my website that websites are alive and well, and it has been worth the effort to divest from social platforms as much as possible.
A screenshot of my website traffic for iskotaa.com, showing eight thousand unique visitors over the last 30 days.
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
davis.social
I’m not even gonna say it. How dare he serve up something this obvious.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
davis.social
Has anyone else noticed that new additions to block lists aren’t getting blocked?

I’ve added people to a couple of my block lists but they’re not showing as blocked for me 🤔
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
davis.social
honestly feels more like ADSD tbh
josh.zilberberg & 14h My ADHD is so severe it's AD4K
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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tobyfoxart.bsky.social
Some Zelda fan art for your consideration
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November 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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davis.social
Four panel meme. People ask little old me “where can we see your art?” I reply “bluesky!” They think I’m crazy and talking about the actual sky. I’m talking about my favorite social site of course.
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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smacquignon.bsky.social
#birds #penandink
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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charlenedraws.bsky.social
If you see this, post your bird art 🐦

#birds #ducks
Art of cute ducks with yellow umbrellas and rain boots walking through the rain
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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aplante.com
OHO. BIRD ART, YOU SAY?? i don't even know where to begin #art #🪶
cartoon illustrations of some very round birds. a suspicious red-breasted nuthatch a sweet little snow bunting a shellshocked redpoll a smug blue jay a grumpy cardinal a dark-eyed junco who i imagine is thinking “u WOT m8??”
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
davis.social
If you see this, post your bird art 🐦

#birds
A drawing of a cartoony grumpy bird. Ruffled feathers. Adorable.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reposted by Davis Bickford
kanaratron.bsky.social
If you thought Frankenstein's Tower in the Guillermo del Toro movie looked cool, check out the real-world inspiration behind it...
The Wallace Monument - A towering stone structure in Stirling, Scotland that bares a striking similarity to the tower featured in the film.
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
davis.social
Even though I’m far from Chicago and other ICE hotspots, I can’t shake the feeling that whatever happens to one of us is a message to all of us.

It’s hard to wrap my head around how many people I know—family, old friends—are excusing, even cheering, this kind of thing.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Reposted by Davis Bickford
bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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barbmcquade.bsky.social
Gifting this article from The Atlantic by a judge appointed by Reagan, who is resigning so he can speak out about how Trump is destroying the rule of law. Must read.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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trungles.com
Ovelia 💠
A gel pen drawing of a young woman with long hair in a red cape casts protective magic
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
davis.social
Four panel meme. People ask little old me “where can we see your art?” I reply “bluesky!” They think I’m crazy and talking about the actual sky. I’m talking about my favorite social site of course.
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
davis.social
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. And this is, to be clear, zero in the bush.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing
An end to the shutdown is in sight. A senior Dem Senator tells me there will be more than enough Democrats to vote in favor of re-opening the government tonight. They’ll get a promise of a vote on health care — but nothing more. Most of the Democratic leadership will likely vote against it.
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM