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mckelvie.bsky.social
The "Frieren angle" thing, apart from just being delightful, also completely demolishes the pathetic "AI is democratising art" argument. Someone struggling with a difficult drawing received advice from hundreds of strangers who just wanted to help them improve their art.
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
rustykeys.bsky.social
trying to teach my too-smart beast that meowing is a better way to get my attention than jumping onto my drawers and pushing shit off. it's a slow process because unfortunately I do respond to my belongings hitting the floor
A tortoiseshell cat laying on her back on a bed, showing her tummy.
November 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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newo1022.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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xkcd.com
Big and Little Spoons

xkcd.com/3166/
4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: Some people like to be the big spoon. (2) PERSON 1: Some people like to be the little spoon. (3) [two sets of spoons that don’t lay flat against each other, one arranged with the little one on top of the big one, the other with the big spoon on top of the little spoon] PERSON 1: And some brave truth-tellers point out that the metaphor makes no sense because different-sized spoons don’t nest right *either* way. You nest *same*-sized spoons. (4) PERSON: ...And apparently *we* sleep on the couch. PERSON 2 off-screen: Why are you *still* going on about the spoon thing? PERSON 1: Because I’m *right!*
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
rustykeys.bsky.social
I need to get obsessed with a character so I can draw again
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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babeandoak.bsky.social
ALT Text benefits everyone

Alt text helps with accessibility, identifying/explaining elements you might not get to in your posts and makes your posts/work more discoverable - Make sure to toggle it on to “require alt text” in your settings
Writing alt text infographic “WRITING ALT TEXT - IDENTIFY WHO - EXPRESSION - DESCRIPTION - COLOUR INTERESTING FEATURES “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head”
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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kateammann.bsky.social
Be nice to pigeons!🐦
Digital illustration of a pigeon holding a white piece of paper in its beak that says “be nice to pigeons!”.
August 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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kathat.bsky.social
#birds #WorstBirdPic and yes, #PhotoFailFriday

Some birds are too fast and too close for me:

Feral Pigeon
A Feral Pigeon headless climbing on a stone and on the left side out of the picture, left food lifted. The bird has a shimmering violett and green neck, belly is light grey, wings are checkered and with two bars in dark brown and black
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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djamilaknopf.bsky.social
I painted a cat in a drawer. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper
a painting of a white cat lying in a drawer full of cutlery and miscellaneous items
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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rincewind.run
“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d
it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened
igure 3.3. Growth in Incomes at the Very Top, 1917–2006 (in 2006 Dollars) Source: Emmanuel Saez’s computations from IRS income tax statistics, http://elsa.berkeley .edu/~saez
November 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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serebiiotd.bsky.social
On this day in 2005, 20 years ago, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team & Blue Rescue Team were first released. These were the first Mystery Dungeon games and featured you playing as a human turned into a Pokémon

www.serebii.net/mysteriousdu...
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social
It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑

Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.

We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Four shots of a baby giant pacific octopus bouncing around
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
A six-panel comic. In panel 1, text says "People often wonder, why don't I see baby pigeons? Here's where they're hiding:" and there's an egg with an arrow pointing to a question mark, then an arrow pointing to an adult pigeon. Panel 2 says "Pigeons don't nest in trees. They nest in sheltered spaces on or in buildings. This keeps their babies safe from weather and predators." There's a pigeon nesting in a sheltered cavity in the side of a building. Panel 3 says "The hidden babies look like this: like moldy potatoes, but cute" and there are two baby pigeons looking, well, like moldy pink and gray potatoes with yellow fuzz. Panel 4 says "Older baby pigeons hide in plain sight. When they leave the nest, they're adult-sized, but they're still young and learning" and a fledgling pigeon is flying out of a building saying "aaaaaa". Panel 5 says "Here's how to identify these young pigeons" and shows a fledgling pigeon with arrows pointing to these features: eyes may be gray-brown, pale-edged feathers, smaller "nose" (cere), subdued hues, and looks worried. Panel 6 says "Scientifically speaking, though, all pigeons are sweet babies" and there are three very cute round pigeons, a gray, white, and red one, with arrows pointing to them to make things look scientific.
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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xkcd.com
Repair Video

xkcd.com/3163/
Comic. [Person sitting at desk with laptop with machine labeled E-21 making “click click” noises on the floor behind] VOICE FROM LAPTOP: Hey all! Does your E-21 humidifier make an annoying clicking noise? Mine did, but I finally figured out that there’s an easy fix, so I made this video in case anyone else… PERSON AT DESK: Oh my god. Yes. *Yes.* [caption] I know there’s more important work in the world, but I feel like these people deserve, at minimum a statue.
November 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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maym0rin.bsky.social
🌕EMERGENCY COMMS

I don't really want to do this, I hate it, but I have no choice but to open emergency cms. 😢
Something horrible came up and I need to pay off the sudden bills.

🔗Ko-fi Comms ko-fi.com/maym0rin/com....

Starting Nov 10
NO LIMIT SLOTS

Your support and RT are highly appreciated!
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
rustykeys.bsky.social
I need to make some money, would people be interested in creature commissions like this? grey-scale, from what time this guy took me I'm thinking maybe 10 to 15 bucks? I'd really value any opinions.
A digital drawing of a kangaroo rat as the monk class from Dungeons and Dragons, in grey scale.
November 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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moa810.bsky.social
⛰️山海経1：鸓。あるいは鸓鳥。カササギといえば七夕を連想するので笹尾羽にしました。「火を防ぐ」特性は火災避けのことなんだろうけど、耐火性ボディという解釈もいけそう。
🌊Shanhai jing 1: Lei. The four-legged, two-headed dark red magpie. Maybe they save you when you’re suffering from a fire.
#山海経の怪鳥30羽描く #30WeirdAncientBirds #birds
October 31, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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pikat.io
just a lil guy
October 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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fossilforager.bsky.social
Isopods!! 🧡
A vibrant illustrated poster featuring 14 species/varieties of isopods of various colors. They are illustrated on a yellow-vibrant orange background and have numbers with a key describing which species is which.
October 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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mattielubchansky.com
i hate gay halloween…two skeletons??? how would that even work
October 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity

Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity

Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity

Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.

It aids fascism.
October 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
rustykeys.bsky.social
kinda wanna switch to Linux but when I was like 12 my brother briefly set it up on our computer and I fear I'm still as stupid as I was back then. the fuck you mean the taskbar is at the top. that's scary. get it down from there
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Halloween costume ideas for birders.
A comic called halloween costume ideas for birders. In panel 1, labeled easy, there's a person labeled northern cardinal wearing a party hat, a beak, and red clothes, and a person labeled roseate spoonbill wearing pink clothes and a wooden spoon on their nose. In panel 2, labeled harder, there's a person labeled merlin sound ID wearing a big green circle with a microphone modeled after the button on the merlin sound ID app, and a person labeled hybrid green x blue jay wearing a complex costume with a mask and robe and hat modeled after a recently discovered hybrid bird. In panel 3, labeled challenging, there's a person labeled baltimore oriole nest wearing an enormous accurate woven oriole nest suspended from their arms and shoulders, and a person labeled african jacana carrying chicks with a hideous costume of long-toed bird feet hanging from their armpits. In panel 4, labeled hot, there's a person labeled high quality spotting scope who is shirtless and is wearing a spotting scope mask on their head, and a person labeled sexy owl pellet wearing an owl pellet top and bottom with a mouse skull on their head.
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM