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OTTOMATON
@ottobulut.bsky.social
Artist of the cartoony sort. Aspiring writer/illustrator of kid lit. Currently deeply distracted by trying to live off-grid on a wet piece of earth.
Http://www.ottobulut.com
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SEATTLE!!!

We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This is going to be a nice evening by my lonesome. Once this fire gets a little bigger I may do some night writing. So fortunate to have these acres of wilderness. We are truly never alone in nature.
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Are we in mercury retrograde or what? Everything seemed to stop working at the same time. Wahhh!
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected 43 days ago.

Republicans still refuse to swear her in because she is the final vote needed to release the Epstein Files.
November 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Seattle friends, do me a favor and vote for Katie Wilson. I want a mayor who's a renter and transit rider like me. I want a mayor who's actually a progressive like the world assumes we have here. We could have a mayor trying to make the city better instead of cowering to cops and developers.
November 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
youtube.com/watch?v=KhEP...
Thanks to @apstrange.bsky.social and guest Jay Shenk for letting us know this existed.
Howard Finster, Southern Folk Artist and Baptist Minister, on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show (1983)
YouTube video by folkartwork
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November 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Working on a one page comic with my 10-y-o depicting an Argentinian #humanoid encounter that happened on my birthday. I am well aware how lucky I am. #albertsrosales #ufo
November 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Decided to use this 1898 grammar book from my mother’s book shelf to finally bone up on grammar. “How fleet is a glance of the mind !” I mean, come on ! That there makes me want to learn about exclamatory sentences !
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Just some beasties
October 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
It’s a weird thing when you google the stranger that sold you an old fountain pen on eBay and discover they are a journalist who is a political dissident in their Turkish homeland. Welp, I guess I’m gonna buy another pen from them.
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Just had my brother look for proof of my G-ma’s dual citizenship. Nice that they recorded her complexion on her certificate of citizenship. 🤮
October 27, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Rainy windstorm. Sleeping is going to be a challenge tonight. I’m not used to the sounds and realities of wind interacting with an evergreen forest. Could a falling tree reach me and my Airstream? Or the new shelter I built to park it under? Sounds like the wind wants to pull the aluminum roof off.
October 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Yay! It’s rough skinned newt season! I will continue my pledge to not consume them lest I die from the most toxic animal in North America.
October 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Only my brother would have a Pope-ener
October 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Someone at work left some of those little red wax-wrapped cheeses in the fridge, so I fashioned some of the wax into a crude miniature Captain Marvel (a Little Red Cheese).
October 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #DV1
“No Kings Day”

😃Friends, thank you for making it Peaceful, Powerful, and Fun. You’re beating the regime’s effort to frame it as hateful and violent.

🙏Stay Safe
October 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM