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Fernando Caire

@botsandmagic.bsky.social

Fuck Darren Aranofsky

First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'

• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War

• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind

• Has SAG voice actors

January 29, 2026 at 6:48 PM

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Lily / Paraply

@paraplyshop.com

Only a few days left to sign up 🌟

Lily / Paraply @paraplyshop.com · 24d

Hey friends!

The first Lelomail theme in 2026 is "Dancing with the Stars" 🌟
You can join anytime in January on patreon.com/paraply to reiceve them :>

Overview of my January rewards on Patreon: An A6 print of animals dancing around a star and holding hands, a vinyl sticker with a mouse dancing on the moon, a vinyl sticker of my mascot Lelo dancing, and a stickersheet with various matching stickers.

January 28, 2026 at 11:51 AM

messymaddydraws storyboard artist

@messymaddydraws.bsky.social

I played the original Bauldrs Gate one and two and oh. My god.

I need more fantasy C-RPG's with smart-ass writing and voice over reactions. Auguugha I loved it

January 29, 2026 at 6:53 PM

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ﾙｶﾋｶﾙ🐌通販中

@hikarunrun0214.bsky.social

ﾉﾎｰ

January 29, 2026 at 6:41 PM

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Mary ⚓️ Celeste

@indyfalcon.bsky.social

my season 1 dvd collection of Mushi-shi is one of my most prized possessions! I used to fall asleep to the soothing sounds of Travis Willingham every night in college. Peak stress relief activity, cannot recommend this show enough!

MangaAlerts @mangaalerts.com · 2d

Kodansha announced they released all 26 episodes of Mushishi Season 1 to watch for free on their Youtube Channel

(Availability limited to English Speaking Countries)

English Sub
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvsA...

English Dub
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXpg...

January 29, 2026 at 6:36 PM

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Certified Good Neighbor

@jcoltkelly.bsky.social

Imagine being a 400th generation rat, thinking you are the apex predator, and then along comes fuzzy Godzilla.

sfstandard.com/2026/01/27/c...

Wily coyote who swam to Alcatraz gets ‘much fatter’ on prison island diet

Officials are monitoring if the canine is preying on the island’s seabirds.

sfstandard.com

January 28, 2026 at 8:03 PM

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PA Epic Fantasy

@bombsfall.bsky.social

gonna be so much face staring off camera at something, slow motion, and insert shots of anything that needs to do something specific

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'

• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War

• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind

• Has SAG voice actors

January 29, 2026 at 6:19 PM

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Natalie Nourigat

@natalienourigat.bsky.social

Looking forward to Hourly Comic Day, on February 8 this year! (And then finishing and posting mine almost a year later, as per my personal tradition)

Cartoonist Cooperative @cartoonist.coop · 4d

Hourly Comics Day has MOVED!

It's the 20th anniversary and we're taking a stand alongside our Black cartoonist members and friends to demand a change to honor Black History Month- draw your comics on the 8th, not the 1st!

hourlycomicsday.com

#hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicday #hcd

"IN OBSERVANCE & SOLIDARITY". Two black speech bubbles with white text read "HOURLY COMICS DAY IS NOW ON FEB 8TH. CARTOONISTS HONOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH. FEB 1 - MAR 1". There is an illustration of a black silhouetted hand raised and holding a pen in the top right, and an illustration of a nib pen and an ink well personified on the bottom right. The nib and ink are bumping fists. A URL at the bottom is "hourlycomicsday.com".

January 29, 2026 at 6:44 PM

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Mallorie Malcontent ✨

@sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social

So much culture war tension stems from the fact that words mean different things to different people. Everyone hears the word radical, and thinks EXTREME. Or with woke, they think that means politically correct.

January 29, 2026 at 6:40 PM

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Ben Siemon

@benjaminjs.bsky.social

90% of my animation friends are unemployed. I'm on hiatus. The value of animation is proven every year. Greenlight new shows! Don't overdevelop. Don't chase trends. You can't chase trends w/ animation! It takes too long! Tell good stories. Take risks."Demon Hunters" was a risk & look how it paid off

Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 2d

Animation ruled streaming in 2025. Again. Nielsen data shows 'Bluey' repeated as the most-watched title across all genres, while 'KPop Demon Hunters' was the most-watched movie, and Seth MacFarlane won the inaugural Streaming Icon of the Year award.
www.cartoonbrew.com/streaming/ni...

Animation Dominates Nielsen's Year-End Streaming Charts

'Bluey' was the year's most watched anything, 'KPop Demon Hunters' took the top film prize, and Seth MacFarlane won Streaming Icon of the Year.

www.cartoonbrew.com

January 29, 2026 at 1:35 AM

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Sloane

@sloanesloane.bsky.social

Happy with the reception of this, and appreciate any cartoonists inconvenienced making an effort not to center themselves and the disruption the short notice caused. HCD is a fun creative exercise but uplifting the Black members of our comic community is far more important!

Cartoonist Cooperative @cartoonist.coop · 4d

Hourly Comics Day has MOVED!

It's the 20th anniversary and we're taking a stand alongside our Black cartoonist members and friends to demand a change to honor Black History Month- draw your comics on the 8th, not the 1st!

hourlycomicsday.com

#hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicday #hcd

January 29, 2026 at 3:36 AM

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Animation Obsessive

@ani-obsessive.bsky.social

Concept art by Hayao Miyazaki for Future Boy Conan (1978), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Nippon Animation

January 28, 2026 at 2:02 AM

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Shannon Strucci

@strucci.bsky.social

Donate to support Keith Porter Jr.'s daughters here- www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo... it was very hard growing up without a dad so I can't imagine growing up without a dad who was murdered by the state

Donate to Support for Keith Porter Jr. Daughters Future ❤️, organized by Franceola Armstrong

On New Year’s Eve, my life was forever changed when my son, Keith… Franceola Armstrong needs your support for Support for Keith Porter Jr. Daughters Future ❤️

www.gofundme.com

January 28, 2026 at 4:38 PM

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Suzanne ✨🌑

@tendermiasma.com

They've upended my life once again and are making me prepare for a forced billing model switch. I was so happy last year when it was frozen. Fuck this so, so hard

doc @docseuss.bsky.social · 2d

I'm begging you not to use apple products. This shit is devastating to creators like me

January 28, 2026 at 7:28 PM

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elia ayoub

@ayoub.bsky.social

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨

@jameelawahlgren.bsky.social

Time for my semi annual reshare of this starter pack of ADs who hire artists!

If you're an AD who regularly hires/commissions artists for commercial work and want to be added lmk.

go.bsky.app/RSV4VwA

January 27, 2026 at 11:13 PM

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Tim Price

@timprice.bsky.social

Sen. Gallego receives tonight’s “Let Him Cook” Award. This is his first win and first nomination.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3d

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller

January 28, 2026 at 3:31 AM

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LIZ 🌟 LOCAL CLOWN

@lizschmidt.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who placed orders over the weekend! 🧡

Still plenty of items available for folks who didn’t grab anything yet! ✨

LIZ 🌟 LOCAL CLOWN @lizschmidt.bsky.social · 6d

- SHOPS HAVE REOPENED! -

Shops have been restocked and are now open to in stock orders! In stock orders take 2-4 weeks to ship, please note there could be delays due to inclement weather. As always, thank you for your support and happy shopping! 🛍️

SHOPS ARE NOW OPEN!
SHOP UPDATE
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January 28, 2026 at 1:12 AM

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Danny Lore

@weredawgz.blacksky.app

I’d place money that they don’t care it lost money bc making the documentary is itself just an offering to trump

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

Amazon’s MGM studios spent tens of millions, but the documentary is projected to make just $1M in its first week.

This comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues and two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. trib.al/Clr03cD

Melania Documentary Flops as Crew Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Chaos

The first lady’s documentary was a mess in production—and now it’s struggling at the box office.

trib.al

January 27, 2026 at 11:09 PM

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Faine Greenwood

@faineg.bsky.social

this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 4d

The @usdot.bsky.social, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”