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Anne Kirn
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Plush artist, puppet builder, Supervising Editor @ Jackbox Games, other stuff. I have approximate knowledge of many things. houseofdarkly.com
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Anne Kirn @houseofdarkly.bsky.social · Nov 19
Hi, I'm Anne, aka House of Darkly! Plush artist, puppet builder and merch designer, making stuff for myself and a lot of cool folks for 10+ yrs. By day, I work on party games at Jackbox Games. I like making podcasts and weird genre TV!
🌐 houseofdarkly.com
🛒 houseofdarkly.etsy.com
Fall leaf-filled basket surrounded by fall flowers and full of handmade plush pebbles in different sizes and colors, all soft smiling gray ovals with green fluffy moss on top. Cork with enamel pins of pastel retro tech with happy daces: Apple II, Gameboy, and tape player. Around them are a worm coming out of an apple reading "apple time," some cool ghosts over text "squad ghouls," a happy munching snail with "take it easy" on its shell, and blocky text reading "big mood" Four cartoony puppets of characters from The Adventure Zone: Taako the wizard, Angus the boy detective, Merle the cleric, and Magnus who is visibly larger than the others. They're sharing headphones plugged into an iPod, mouths open like they're excited. Prototype push of Jackbox characters on a bed like they're holding hands: M. Bubz, a water cooler with a tie, shy smile and big red glasses with eyebrows above them on the blue water jug, and the Drawful owl, a flat, sketched looking white owl with somewhat over it eyes and a bra.
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davejorgenson.bsky.social
The Washington Post but it’s ‘The Traitors’
February 4, 2026 at 10:41 PM
houseofdarkly.bsky.social
Everyone's like, oh if you want to move cross-country, just rent, it's cheaper... and I just found an open tab for a place requiring multiple references, a credit score above 725, and minimum 3x income. The rent is $3,125 and does not include utilities 🫠💀
February 5, 2026 at 3:34 AM
houseofdarkly.bsky.social
Which very real bootleg Labubu are you today? Bululu, Babulu, Lababy, or Delulu?
Ebay listing for Miniso Bululu, a white, horned furry plush with a vinyl, human face with enormous pearl eyes and an uncertain baby-like expression. It's fairly cute but the eyes are too big, like a 1970s painting of a crying child. Listing for "Babalu Dangler," and obvious Labubu knockoff in short yellow fur with sort of human feet and hands, bunny ears, and a vinyl face with a toothy smile and either an open mouth or sticking out tongue. One eye is winking and it has kind of angry, comma-shaped eyebrows. If this is the best QC has, they're made very rapidly. "Monster Clip," an entirely plush doll in a seated position, in pink fur with peach feet and face. It has ears between a bear and a kitty. Both embroidered eyes are squeezed closed, and it has an open, surprised mouth like it just ate a lemon. 5 Below used to call them Lababies. "Delulu plush charm," also an obvious Labubu knockoff, this one in black fur with plastic hands and three-toed feet. It has bunny ears and the printed vinyl face is sort of gritting its teeth, with cartoon eyes looking down. Its legs and arms are akimbo or sewn badly, so it looks like it's just jumped off a high dive and regrets it.
February 5, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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lizbushouse.bsky.social
Announcing Localization Lore, a new series dedicated to learning more about the history of video game localization! 🎉Featuring new interviews personally conducted by me, this first entry is on Ys 1 and the people behind its first three English translations. lizbushouse.com/localization...
Title image from the Sega Master System version of Ys 1
February 4, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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ladeedanger.com
Are you an artist interested in creating art for @magic.wizards.com?

Well now we have this super rad portfolio submission tool to submit your best of the best work to, that gets looked at with human eyes! 👀 #wotcstaff

company.wizards.com/en/freelance...
Freelance Art Submissions | Wizards of the Coast
Are you an aspiring Wizards of the Coast artist? Submit your portfolio today for review by our art directors!
company.wizards.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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stringerplz.bsky.social
PAX Unplugged 2025 Goof Banner designs; I finally did my writeup on Club PA for it, so here they are for y'all.
The entire banner is backgrounded in the textures of sliced lunchmeats. At the center, several bundles of sausages surround an image of a very excited looking man in black and white. TEXT: GENDRIZON (The baloney wizard) offers you the best of his cured meats! (pictured meats for demonstration only.) Not amish produced, but raised in authentic "amish-like" conditions. anthropomorphized machines consume, melt, punch, pump, and bite things in the endless pursuit of industry, red to white gradient from top to bottom erasing the images gradually. In text, growing larger as it progresses: "Ever the insects fly / ever the rats do bite; ever they cheat and lie, ever we stand and fight." Collage of bodies, forms, fashions and adaptations; among the images, a Maori elder rendered in oils, a life sketch of a reclining woman, bob hoskins' bare shoulders and chest, a fertility goddess, noel coward in caricature, a prosthetic hand painting a living hand's nails, stretch marks, the Public Universal Friend, dark circles under eyes, corsetry, the Scythian woman's elk tattoo, fred astaire mid-jump, Palestinian historical photo, a person swimming nude. Text: "Make a home in your own body." A horse rearing back in an ancient, empty church, and the words YOU DESECRATE THE HOUSE OF GOD!
January 29, 2026 at 11:15 PM
houseofdarkly.bsky.social
Woke up at 4AM with stabbing pain from trapped nerve in my arm/shoulder, bad enough to have severe nausea. Not bad right now, but feeling uh less than upbeat about many things, so maybe bunnies will be useful to someone
February 4, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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brandtandstein.com
Algorithms have failed artists, so once again I am appealing to the wealthy to go back to the practice of patronising artists so you can brag that your sicko is better than your rival’s sicko
February 4, 2026 at 7:20 PM
houseofdarkly.bsky.social
Can I interest anyone in 3 minutes of baby bunnies with the zoomies? youtu.be/VBzzkAdCl8g
「走る」を覚えた五つ子赤ちゃん
YouTube video by うさぎ村Ch
youtu.be
February 4, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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jackmirkinson.bsky.social
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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jackmirkinson.bsky.social
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
houseofdarkly.bsky.social
Currently debating whether to go to the walk-in clinic about this trapped nerve or whatever, because now the underside of my forearm hurts to the touch like a bruise on top of hurting to rotate my arm :/ Hard to know if there is an actual injury at this point
February 3, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
...horrifying message without context, thank you
Error: entity released
February 2, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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sakura.aegis.cafe
February 2, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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inazumasosa.bsky.social
✨🪙🐀GOLDRATPURSE🐀🪙✨

✨🪙🐀GOLDRATPURSE🐀🪙✨
A GOLD PURSE RAT HOARDING COINS
February 3, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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katiknitt.bsky.social
sorry everyone we at pencil company know you liked pencils, but we can't think of any new ideas for them, so we're discontinuing pencils tomorrow. also, you won't be able to access all your pencil drawings, please burn them, cool
krisdobbinsart.bsky.social Kris Dobbins @krisdobbinsart.bsky.social · 2d
Called and spoke with Adobe customer support and the guy told me Adobe is discontinuing Animate because apparently the company can't think of any new features to add to the program and they feel it's gotten stale.

So they're just GETTING RID OF IT???
February 3, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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aplante.com
winter 💕❄️

#art
illustration of birch tree trunks surrounded by snow and dead leaves. more tree trunks and dead sticks and whatnot fade purple into the background.
February 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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silent0siris.bsky.social
One of the central battles we are fighting today is “we can make things better” vs “no we can’t”- and holding powerful people accountable is a form of making things better.

“No we can’t” has been the winning party for my entire adult life!
evanurquhart.bsky.social Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 1d
Making it make sense: Epstein wasn't a global mastermind. He did not orchestrate a vast conspiracy that led us to today.

He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.
February 3, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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pseudonymjones.bsky.social
wood duck on a big wheel
a drawing of a wood duck on a big wheel
February 3, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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adampknave.com
10yrs ago @djkirkbride.bsky.social @robertwilsoniv.bsky.social @gofrankgo.bsky.social @jordantboyd.bsky.social & I did a 3 part Dark Horse Presents story about a rock band that were also spies. It's never been collected. UNTIL NOW! LASER JOAN & THE RAYGUNS. Prelaunch starts now! Go sign up!
Coming soon: Laser Joan and the Rayguns
A 24 pg one shot adventure comic about an all-female rock band collecting the three stories that originally ran in DARK HORSE PRESENTS.
www.kickstarter.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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sheydgarden.bsky.social
i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter
a handmade marionette monster photographed in front of a snowbank. it has long arms with branch-like hands, a long neck with a false human face & a lower jaw like a sperm whale, & is dressed in all white/off-white lace & rags with pearl accents. watermark says "Ezra Rose" a close up of the face of the marionette with its open jaw & teeth visible below.
February 2, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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luxwinter.bsky.social
I swear to god, I left this cat alone for two fucking minutes with a jar of red beets.

Two. Minutes.

#CatsofBluesky
A white-and-ginger cat sits indoors facing the camera, staring calmly. Bright pink-red beet stains smear across his nose, forehead, and cheeks, contrasting with his clean white fur. Clothes hang blurred in the background, making the cat’s beet-stained face the clear focus.
February 1, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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munespice.bsky.social
just make the thing 🎨 🎶 ✍️ 💃
Spice the frog is on the ground painting a green picture of a frog. Words say: make the art you want to make
February 2, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
#WorldOstrichDay :
#Ostrich in the #Byzantine Diakonikon-Baptistery Mosaic, Mount Nebo, Jordan, 530 CE.
Look how it has the right # of toes - only living bird species w/only 2!
🆔There was an ostrich subspecies native to the Levant & Arabian Peninsula that persisted into mid-20th c.: S. c. syriacus.
detail of the ostrich from the Diakonikon-Baptistery mosaic, walking in side profile with leash around neck, depicted with two toes on each foot
February 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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voicesbyzane.bsky.social
Now you too can play a slowed down version of a game from 20 years ago with no actual level design or enemies and all it costs is a complete collapse of the world economy, biosphere, education system, and multiple entire creative industries.
theverge.com The Verge @theverge.com · 6d
Project Genie is an an experimental research prototype that Google gave @jaypeters.net access to this week, though he may not be using it in exactly the way Google intended.

Here's Jay's version of something like Super Mario 64:
www.theverge.com/news/869726/...
February 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM