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han olliver
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sick/crip artist & writer in minneapolis ⟡ they/he ⟡ hanolliver.com
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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · Jan 13
all of Sahar's accounts have been suspended (again) and she urgently needs us in the midst of severe flooding. Bsky deletes her accounts almost immediately—please continue sharing and sending. the situation is devastating and Odai still needs support to heal from his injury. gofund.me/2a8966ea2
Donate to Urgent Aid for Sahar’s Family – Food, Shelter & Medicine, organized by Sahar Alajrami
Hi world , it’s Sahar Please read this as if… Sahar Alajrami needs your support for Urgent Aid for Sahar’s Family – Food, Shelter & Medicine
gofund.me
hanolliver.bsky.social
quick figure studies
a page of quick figure drawings in reddish pencil, mostly various seated figures bending and folding, lifting their arms, leaning, and stretching the body. there is a blocked in figure in base colors at the end, standing and looking away.
February 13, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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quatoria.bsky.social
They will literally destroy the world before anyone says no to the worst people in all of human history.

Indefensible. Unforgivable. Any action is justified to prevent and reverse this.
marygillis.bsky.social Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 1d
The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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anothersmd.bsky.social
somehow there's an update... and it's not a great look. it shouldn't be the case that the admin react when there's an outcry then just don't change whatever system they've got in place anyway.
Tamer Nahed 𓂆🇵🇸 @Tamer_Alnoaizy The Bluesky platform has truly become a strange and deeply frustrating experience for me. At 3 a.m., I received an email on my official address from them explaining that what happened was merely a technical error, and that my account had been closed due to a platform glitch after the tweet spread very widely and created significant pressure on their system. I was genuinely happy when I read the message. I thought the issue had finally been resolved and that I would regain access to my account normally. But the moment I logged in, I was shocked to find that my account had been suspended again. It was extremely painful… like a door that opened for a brief moment only to be shut harshly once more. Honestly, I no longer feel any desire to use this platform. It feels like there is no real freedom of expression, and that our voices are only allowed to exist as long as they don’t disturb anyone. [the poster uploaded two screenshots, one of an email telling him that bluesky reviewed their decision and restored his account. the second screenshot shows his account has been suspended again] 11:42 AM · Feb 12, 2026 https://twitter.com/Tamer_Alnoaizy/status/2021912820057509913
February 12, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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anothersmd.bsky.social
palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.
Tamer Nahed 𓂆🇵🇸 @Tamer_Alnoaizy BlueSky is one of the worst platforms I have ever dealt with. Within seconds of creating a second account, after my first one was shut down just two days after it was created, my account was closed again. This happened despite the fact that I hadn’t posted anything or followed anyone. I was only in the process of adding a profile photo, yet I received an email claiming that my account was “spam” and that it was “causing harm.” What kind of logic is this? The painful truth is that the account was shut down the moment it became clear it was created from inside Gaza. It seems we are no longer allowed to write or speak about what is happening to us here. They are not afraid of content itself, but of our voices and the reality we carry with us. Millions are spent to silence these voices and to erase the truth. I am exhausted by this platform and by how our photos and videos, which document real suffering, are treated as “violations of community standards,” as if pain itself has become a crime. What is happening is not simple moderation or policy enforcement. It is an attempt to erase our existence and bury the truth. And honestly, this is shameful and unbearably painful. [the original poster has included two screenshots showing the email from bluesky admin informing him that his account has been taken down for being 'spammy, inauthentic or disruptive to users'. it's the standard boilerplate you get when they take moderation action.] 2:45 PM · Feb 10, 2026 https://twitter.com/Tamer_Alnoaizy/status/2021234178461704409
February 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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joandark.com
"Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. If it's a handful, throw it. If it's a fingernail full, scrape it out and throw. Get in the way however you can."

—Rasha Abdulhadi
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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sweetcainmusic.bsky.social
I can confirm this is true and I can also say that the lack of an eviction moratorium is fueling this trend.
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 11:33 PM
hanolliver.bsky.social
anyone else with debilitating pmdd seemingly lose the ability to draw or write (or practice any creative endeavor) 1-2 weeks out of the month corresponding with the worst of it?
February 11, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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lynaiss.bsky.social
Duncan, the regretful | Five of Cups 💧
1/3 zine art for @dragonageannual.art

#DragonAge #DragonAgeAnnual #LynArt
Dragon Age: Inquisition tarot styled piece featuring Gray Warden Duncan from Dragon Age: Origins. With his forehead pressed into his hand and a regretful expression, he is holding a cup that resembles a joining chalice but he is not looking at it. The chalice is tilted down in his grasp, the contents spilling out like a waterfall. Two more chalices are overturned in the background that seems to be melting away. Another two more crowd behind him, upright, and seem like they have gushing water out of them. A part of the landscape behind him is slowly being eaten away by the blight. The illustration mimics Five of Cups tarot card.
February 10, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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404media.co
NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog.

With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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sna1l.bsky.social
venus in capricorn turns four years old this month, so I'm posting the full comic here to celebrate. 1/15
Front cover for 'Venus in Capricorn' by Jules Valera. Drawn in black and white, the outline of their face is barely visible through a flurry of snow and noise. A row of empty white panels lines the bottom of the image. Black page with the outline of a frayed rope net in the middle. A tiny snowflake melts delicately on the edge. Text reads VENUS in CAPRICORN - After the passing of a long, dark season, the reflection speaks.
February 8, 2026 at 9:37 PM
hanolliver.bsky.social
having a brain that’s doing bad 85% of the time should also come with an award like, congrats, you’re great at suffering<3
February 10, 2026 at 6:30 PM
hanolliver.bsky.social
my keys, etc.,
painting of a deck of cards, a teal lighter, and a ring of keys with various things attached, including a bottle opener and a scratched up purple lure.
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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legendofnerd.bsky.social
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults. And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM
hanolliver.bsky.social
comic panels in pencil: three panels, the first of a woman staring at the viewer with her hair braided and pulled back, amidst a forest of dead trees. the second, her back turned walking deeper into the forest. the third, her skirt getting caught in briars. the text reads: "I had met the abyss—I had left behind childish things and let the mirage fade. still, what could I do but return? unwary of thorns, i could fall no further, only go farther."
February 10, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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histoftech.bsky.social
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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shanfiction.bsky.social
My comic ‘EVERYWHERE’ is about a girl who meets a boy in a tulip field 🌷

After losing one of my best friends to s*icide, it was a way of tackling that grief the best way I knew how & how I ultimately approach those who come and go in our lives.

Link to my comic: chainsaw-shan.itch.io/everywhere
Cover for my comic EVERYWHERE. A little black boy sits amongst space and the stars A little Black girl meets a little black boy in a tulip field A close up of the little girl observing the boy The boy looks back at the girl against a black void
February 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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martyfive.bsky.social
“you, me, and other types of ash”
digital (heavypaint) drawing of two of my OCs, Rylan and Diego. they’re sleeping, fully clothed, Diego on top of Rylan. it feels like a quick nap after dinner with intentions to later separate for another work shift. we can see Rylan’s face, but they’re closing Diego’s face with their hands from us. Rylan is wearing a black shirt; their arms have weird and long, elegant scars on them, with circular scars around the elbows and wrists. Diego is wearing a white shirt; he has tattoos on his right arm; there’s an earring in his left ear. there are two simple (red and blue) shapes in the background, one representing the space station and the other, the planet. there are also stars, and one of them is especially bright. it all seems very peaceful.
February 10, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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matthtaylor.com
ive been working on a lot of test and pitch pages the last few months trying to get things moving and finally realized that if i forgo inks in my backgrounds and just paint them i get a final result that im particularly pleased with
one panel from a tbd test page featuring a figure set between two halves of an ocean liner dioramain a glass displaycase. the display and figure are in a long, brightly lit hallway - the promenade deck of the ship these models are based on. the character and display cases are inked, the background is painted digitally with no inks
November 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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rikergoogling.bsky.social
why do we say our passwords out loud now
February 9, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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tamingservice.bsky.social
Announcement, my webcomic is debuting with a short prologue on March 4 :-)

And a first look at some page excerpts from future chapters in the thread. Hope you look forward to it as much I look forward to sharing it. thanks for the support so far!
February 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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haridraws.bsky.social
Diary comics thread for hourly comics day ✏️ intro/9am
#hourlycomicday #MEcfs #ChronicIllness
graphic reads ‘hourly comics day disability diaries’ with a drawing of me (white nonbinary guy w black facial scruff & short green hair) lying in bed looking shattered. Lower text reads ‘hello. I make comics, and—‘ “This year’s my 10 year anniversary of chronic illness (ME/CFS)” - a small cartoon of me with a balloon going ‘wow!!’ then ‘…wait.’ In an inset past year’s comic, I’m going ‘hopefully later I’ll be well enough to draw a little!’ but end up lying still in bed all day - ‘alas’. “*8 years of my illness being “moderate to severe” = mostly bedbound, unable to walk down the street or prepare a meal without collapsing.” “I’ve been making a day of hourly comics every February since I first got ill” (some pics of many years worth of hourlies,w ith me waking up feeling exhausted, too ill to sit up) “It can be hard, but it means a lot to share the reality of my daily life honestly and to hear from others in the same boat. So here’s Hourly comics day 2026” - a small baloon now reads ‘still here!’ next to the same drawing as the first, me now waking up. 9am - “good morning my body feels like it’s been run over by a train’
February 8, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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juliedillon.bsky.social
Adding this drawing to my watercolor painting queue, to start once I finish my current paintings. 👌
A graphite drawing of nude man seen from the side, seemingly tumbling backwards in midair, with some sort of strange organic growths sprouting up out of his chest in dramatic, decorative curves.
February 8, 2026 at 7:18 PM