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Colin 🧶
@goingproper.bsky.social
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Bi crochet loving he/him. Same username on Instagram.
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Colin 🧶 @goingproper.bsky.social · Nov 15
Hi everyone! I'm hoping to post more on this app again. My name is Colin and I'm a self-taught crocheter. My day job is as a graphic designer and printer, so you might see some of that, too. My non-art hobbies are D&D, isekais, and One Piece.
a dark haired, bearded man with glasses holds a naked crochet doll and looks proud
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askylitocean.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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dmawdev.bsky.social
Someone just asked if our game was woke on Steam.

My response:
October 5, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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quietnovastudios.bsky.social
Careful, it's fast

ko-fi.com/s/bd07bbd756

🧶 #amigurumi #crochet #monster #tocellus #species64 #eye #eyeball #squid #eyeballsquid #art #craft #bsnn #market #alien #alienearth #fanart #eyerene
A crocheted white eyeball squid monster with three green eyes and red tentacles
September 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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dochackenbush.bsky.social
Reject Fascism. Embrace Capybara.
#art #capybara #antifascist
Illustration: two capybaras, one lying prone, one facing the other way but behind and resting his head on the first one’s back. They are bordered by different coloured leaves. Text above in blocky font reads “REJECT FASCISM” Text below in a more rounded, colourful font reads “EMBRACE CAPYBARA”
June 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
goingproper.bsky.social
My day job is as a designer and printer. Why hire me, an actual human, when you can order AI slop on Temu?
bcmerchant.bsky.social Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 17
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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capbaddecisions.bsky.social
and mihawk glued it himself
picture of zoro and perona from one piece. zoro is missing his left eye, a scar covering it and a googly eye glued over where the scar was. Perona is behind him, trying her best not to laugh.
October 30, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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adhdogs.bsky.social
we stand for the flag in this house
August 19, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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tejedoradeniebla.bsky.social
Yor Forger ⚔️🌸

Another pattern test done! And this one it's really cool!! I really enjoyed making Yor and absolutely recommended the pattern!

Big shout out to Mewchi Crochet! 🤗

#crochet #amigurumi #fiberartist #craftsky #yorforger #spyxfamily #fanart
Yor Forger amigurumi, from the anime 'Spy x Family'. In beige, black, yellow and red colors. She's wearing her "job" outfit.
August 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM
goingproper.bsky.social
Morning run to the park
August 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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sonnyross.bsky.social
I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
A decorative illustration of flowers with the caption “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser” with a severed hand with too many fingers
August 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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vexnir.bsky.social
Sunny tangerines ☀️🍊🐈

#art #traditionalart #cuteart #caturday
Traditional art done in marker and colored pencil. The picture is bright and colorful. It shows an orange striped cat climbing a branch of a tangerine tree, sniffing the tangerines growing on it. The picture has checker-flower patterns framing it on the top and bottom.
July 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
goingproper.bsky.social
🦈 Jeff the Land Shark. Pattern by @mundo.dedora. 🧶 #crochet #amigurumi #marvelrivals
A crochet shark wears a yellow safety floatie. The shark also has legs. The shark is squeezed between the bars of a pool next to a sign that reads, "POOL HOURS / ? A.M. - 8:00 P.M." A crochet shark wears a yellow safety floatie. The shark also has legs. It sits on the top step of a pool ladder, near the teal-colored water.
July 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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isasaxonists.bsky.social
Just sent off my granny squares to the #GrannySquaresForGaza project.

The project will have 13000 squares, each square represents 10 Palestinian children. Leo & I made 13 squares w/ our Palestine Solidarity yarn skeins.

Fiber artists continue to amaze me w/ creative acts of love & resistance. 🧶
a number of granny squares with the colors of Palestine. The center granny square has a heart in it.
July 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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afroflower.bsky.social
“Disabled Pride Month means creating spaces in your events for those affected by covid and long covid”

#art
Image Description: Pen sketch of a bunny-eared, oval shaped character wearing a flower on their left ear. The bunny has a large chat bubble reading: “Disabled Pride Month means creating spaces in your events for those affected by covid and long covid” The sketch is dated 7/5/25, with the artist tag “Av” End Image description]
July 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
goingproper.bsky.social
Don't fear the library. Read banned books. Support librarians. Design and printing by me, modeling by librarian @iamwanting.bsky.social
A person with dark hair and glasses stands in a living room. They have their hands on their hips. Their shirt says, "don't fear the library."
July 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
goingproper.bsky.social
AI hurts real artists!
tejedoradeniebla.bsky.social Tejedora de Niebla @tejedoradeniebla.bsky.social · Jun 29
I was checking crochet patterns on Etsy just for fun and half of them were made with AI??? Omg no, F that!!

Thank goodness I know a few designers that I can trust, but all these AI bundles? Yuck.

Just look for free patterns, people. Better free and made by a human than cheap AI crap...
June 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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abigaildisney.bsky.social
www.columbiamissourian.com/news/state_n...
A film about men quilting in a Missouri prison has 'overwhelmed' the system with donations
'The Quilters' on Netflix has prompted such an outpouring of fabric and yarn that donors are urged to give money instead.
www.columbiamissourian.com
June 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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carriecmoney.bsky.social
Me and the boy watching the sacred texts... Thanks @goingproper.bsky.social
A picture of a crochet doll of Sanji sitting in front of a computer monitor showing the One Piece anime on Crunchyroll
June 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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iamrenough.bsky.social
I really don’t know how I churned out all these Yakuza emotes in the span of about two days. I am learning a lot about emotes though and how to make things more readable at a tiny size. Might rework some of the first ones so they utilize the maximum amount of canvas area.
A screenshot of Yakuza emotes drawn for Discord. From left to right, top to bottom: annoyed Kiryu, Majima smiling with a green cap ok (the server logo), Ichiban wheezing, Goromi with a pink heart, nosebleed Majima, crying Nishiki, Saejima with bugged-out eyes, thumbs up Kiryu, blushing Majima, Infinite Wealth Kiryu lying face down, Kiryu and Majima handshake, and Majima’s head with a blue button that says “nut” next to it.
June 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
goingproper.bsky.social
👨‍🍳🚬 A Sanji for @carriecmoney.bsky.social! #crochet 🧶 #onepiece
An amigurumi (crochet) Sanji Blackleg stands on a countertop with his hands on his heart. He's looking at two Ocean Bomb cans with Nami on them. If a crochet guy's nose could bleed, his would be.
June 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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kitsuneart.bsky.social
❤️ Support Human Artists ❤️

Share their work, drop them a kind word, tip their ko-fis, join their patreons...it matters more than you think.

We have to show up for each other while we still can. We have to uplift each other.
Picture of a sticker made by Kitsuneart with succulents around it. Two hands covered in red tattoos of roses, thorns and stars are holding a votive red heart. Text inside the heart says "support human artists".
May 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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carriecmoney.bsky.social
east blue boys and their time in The Chair #art #onepiece
a digital drawing of a tipsy Sanji sitting sideways in a white plastic outdoor chair, with scribbled blue rambling written as the background. a digital drawing of Luffy sitting upside down in a white outdoor chair, staring into nothing and giggling. a digital drawing of Usopp, curled up in a white plastic outdoor chair, with scribbled words as the background. a digital drawing of Zoro, asleep in a white outdoor chair.
January 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
goingproper.bsky.social
🧶Let's find yarn colors in nature! You may notice my spouse's hand in there too - we went lots of places to find unique colors! #crochet
May 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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isasaxonists.bsky.social
5 yrs since we witnessed George Floyd's murder. Lots of us have felt pain & racial injustice but this watershed moment had urgency for our tomorrow. Racial justice continues to be struggle that feels out of reach.

But we continue for our loved ones, each other & for a just tomorrow. RIP Mr Floyd.
A painting of George floyd in a tuxedo and bowtie. On the left and right of him are the words "justice 4 George"
May 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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schillingc.bsky.social
Headline - Nick Clegg: Artists’ demands over copyright are unworkable Strap - The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train AI on copyrighted work would ‘kill’ the industry “Then die”
May 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM