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Laura Mabingi (Laz)
@midearthling.bsky.social
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Laz/Laura. Artist sometimes, various fandoms. Nature lover, hobbit appreciator & pirate enthusiast! Watching #DS9.
They/them, 30's 🇮🇪

☕️ https://ko-fi.com/lauramabingi

💌 https://www.lauramcnameeart.com

🎨My art feed tag: #lazart
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Laura Mabingi (Laz) @midearthling.bsky.social · Oct 21
Hi, I do art! Mostly fanart atm but you can check out my art feed if you want to see more ☺️

🎨Art feed link:
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Frodo with flowers: a remake of Italian Girl with Flowers by Joaquin Sorrolla but with Elijah Wood's Frodo instead of the girl. The style is impressionist. Frodo takes up most of the frame and is facing in profile to the right, looking serenely at some white flowers. His skin tone is warm against all the green paint strokes in the background Galadriel holding the light of Ëarendil in her hand and gazing at it peacefully. The light coming from the phial is bright and causing twinkling patterns and a flare to happen Armand from interview with the vampire as played by Assad Zaman. He his shown in four poses wearing italian renaissance style clothing inostly blue shades. In one of them he is in the pose of one of Da Vinci's annunciation angels. In the largest of the drawings on the page, a little bit of blood is trickling from his mouth as he reaches up gracefully with his hand to touch it. In the other poses he is sitting with his legs crossed looking contemplative and standing as if for a portrait. Cartoonised painting of Ed and Stede from Our Flag Means Death. The are sitting in the luxury of the captain's cabin on a sofa, the large window is behind them and they are framed slightly by curtains. The coffee table in front of them has a vase of flowers, two china teacups and saucers, and a large orange cake on it. Ed and Stede are on the couch, facing each other. Stede is holding a slice of the orange cake in one hand on a plate and using the other to pop a bite on a fork into Ed's mouth. He looks proud of himself and oblivious to this possibly being flirting. Ed looks shocked with wide eyes looking at Stede, and one of his hands is reaching up towards the fork shoved in his mouth. He is wearing his purple t-shirt, the cravat, leather pants and boots and full beard. Stede is wearing his slutty little high heels with the white bow, white stockings with blue breeches, an open frilly shirt and his mustard banyan aka his battle jacket
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qanahmedt.bsky.social
Hello to all my friends, Ramadan Kareem to you and my family.😍🌙I hope you will always be a source of support for us. We need to buy many essential food items in preparation for the holy month of Ramadan. We need your support. Sending you all my love.🙏🙏🙏😍

My link to donate 🔗⬇️

gofund.me/9651728a
February 18, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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tamiwicinas.bsky.social
Happy Year of the Horse! 🎉
Little fat red ceramic horse. Small white ceramic horse. Small black ceramic horse.
February 17, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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thejournal.ie
The government’s plan to restrict social media use for under 16s has been criticised by the Children’s Rights Alliance.

Restricting social media “punishes children for the fixable faults created by the tech giants" who run the platforms, the group said.

www.thejournal.ie/social-media...
Government confirms plan to restrict social media for teenagers
It’s understood Cabinet will discuss measures concentrating on restrictions for under 16s.
www.thejournal.ie
February 18, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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roothflud.bsky.social
It wasn't controversial it was straight up fraudalant disinfo. I will never forget the amount of abuse I got online as disabled person by ppl openly identifying as fine gael members during this period, scum leach lazy not really disabled. The demonisation was the point and fine gael revelled in it.
thejournal.ie The Journal @thejournal.ie · 10h
The 'welfare cheats’ government campaign temporarily weakened belief in Ireland that social benefits help prevent poverty, according to the State’s think tank.
jrnl.ie/6960170
‘Welfare cheats’ campaign weakened belief in social benefits, says ESRI
The controversial 2017 campaign encouraged the public to identify “potential cheats” committing welfare fraud.
jrnl.ie
February 18, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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mtsw.bsky.social
The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires
February 18, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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saribo.bsky.social
I'm so wordy I buried the donation link 🤦🏻‍♀️

ko-fi.com/theleftistco...
February 18, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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valwrites.ca
Hey so this is important. Amazon is removing ALL erotica and new queer books from its Amazon associates program, which seems to be a first step towards delisting these books a la itchio.

This includes my book, your books, and the books you like to buy.

This is bad news, and we can expect worse
February 17, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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ramiismail.com
It's almost time for Ramadan, as Muslims tonight peered to the crescent moon to see if the month of Ramadan starts tonight or the day after. As with every year, I'm starting this thread so that people can ask questions, and learn about Ramadan from one person's perspective of it.
February 17, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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mousketeer.bsky.social
Fuck, and I cannot emphasise this enough, that!

#Cork #SpéirGhorm
February 18, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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nindb.net
Always look at the words they use. It's always a narrative about being left behind, never a value proposition. That's because there isn't one. LLMs are Clippy crossed with predictive text: two things you traditionally switch off if you want to get any actual work done.
billcorbett.bsky.social Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13h
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
February 18, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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aimbutmiss.bsky.social
hi guys I know I haven't been very active lately, and I don't talk about where I'm from often, but the government made some really scary announcements today so I thought I'd share to let everyone know what's happening. here are some posts from twt for context
February 17, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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lanewinree.com
Your food supply chain? Also screwed.

I used to work in IT for a big frozen food supplier. Computer electronics are tied into just about everything that makes a processing plant go.
sexabolition.blog Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 21h
People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
andrewducker.bsky.social Andrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social · 1d
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
February 17, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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caenhillcc.bsky.social
A magical moment with baby donkey George doing a forward roll
February 17, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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sam-starling.bsky.social
hey!!! i made a comic edit/animation of Tiger, Tiger (created by the wonderful @pepurika.bsky.social )

if you like the swashbuckling tales about lovable characters and strange creatures, go read Tiger, Tiger at tigertigercomic.com !!!!!!

youtu.be/V-Fr1lE_S7A?...
Tigers & Teeth | Animated Comic
YouTube video by Sam Starling
youtu.be
February 17, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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peterheadcbe.bsky.social
Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘The trend is irreversible’: has Romania shattered the link between economic growth and high emissions?
Emissions have plunged 75% since communist times in the birthplace of big oil – but for some the transition has been brutal
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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antaisce.bsky.social
Fossil fuels must be phased out as early as by 2029, with "limited to no opportunity for new investments in fossil fuel systems"

Our tax system "supports use of fossil fuels through environmentally harmful subsidies ... This is inconsistent with Ireland’s climate objectives"
news.rte.ie RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d
An Oireachtas committee has heard that Ireland will struggle to meet its national and EU obligations on climate, leading to "a significant call on the public purse"
Missing climate goals risks significant fine, cttee told
An Oireachtas committee has heard that Ireland will struggle to meet its national and EU obligations on climate, leading to "a significant call on the public purse".
www.rte.ie
February 17, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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dreaminerryday.bsky.social
keep canceling your discord nitros
February 15, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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unfamiliararts.bsky.social
A little white cat with a leaf on its head. A silly little idea I just had to make happen. This piece and one other like it will be available this Friday, February 20th at 8pm Eastern time.
A photo of a ceramic cat sculpture. The cat is white and has a green leaf on its head.
February 17, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Here’s an example of a local newsroom actually informing the public about AI (the role of journalism) versus the blatant AI boosterism we’re seeing many other newsrooms engage in to the detriment of the entire profession
akurjata.ca Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 1d
The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could
February 17, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
For #lunarnewyear, a silk painting (ca. 1300) attributed to Zhao Mengfu, depicting the eight faithful horses who took King Mu, “son of heaven”, on his mythical journey to the Kunlun Mountains to meet the Queen Mother of the West: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e... #horse #firehorse
Chinese scroll painting of two horses Chinese scroll painting of a horse Chinese scroll painting of two horses Chinese scroll painting of a horse
February 17, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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trungles.com
“Looking to hire an artist of color” okay but are you gonna pay them well? Are they gonna be the only one on the team? Are you gonna listen and advocate for them when they express concerns? Like, what are you offering a person of color when you want to hire one?
February 17, 2026 at 5:53 PM
midearthling.bsky.social
Ginger hasn't been back after his approx 12 hour stay with us, I'm wondering if he's been grounded for his indiscretions 😅
midearthling.bsky.social Laura Mabingi (Laz) @midearthling.bsky.social · 1d
Some cat drama this evening! Ginger (regular visitor) doesn't seem to want to go home tonight. Another (wayyy bigger) cat showed up earlier trying to get into the house and Ginger has a wound on one of his front legs now. BUT I don't know if thats from the other cat or if he got injured else ways
February 17, 2026 at 5:46 PM
midearthling.bsky.social
LRP is how I wanted to draw them in my head but i wasnt able to!!
February 17, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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dreadfluent.bsky.social
Drawin

#aknightofthesevenkingdoms #akotsk
February 16, 2026 at 9:35 AM
midearthling.bsky.social
These tech oligarchs are all Incredibly Afraid of death—to a level that's frankly unnatural—and they assume we all feel the same as them.

Memento mori, Zuckerberg.
dexerto.bsky.social Dexerto @dexerto.bsky.social · 1d
Meta has patented AI that can run a dead person's account, continuing to post and chat on their behalf

It can message and video call by replicating a user's online behavior using their past data
February 17, 2026 at 1:30 PM