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Tony💯

@illphysics.bsky.social

Relaxing on Balatro tonight, maybe some cozy reading afterwards

LIVE ☺️ twitch.tv/illPhysics

a drawing of a girl with pigtails and elf ears wearing a blue scarf

ALT: a drawing of a girl with pigtails and elf ears wearing a blue scarf

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January 29, 2026 at 1:22 AM

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Crafty ❤️‍🔥 Cernunnos ❤️‍🔥 Cooper

@cernunnos.bsky.social

Practice sketch for @aproustian.bsky.social of her very hot 🔥🔥Titan . Thank you again!!! #destiny2 #destiny2art 🍀🖊️

a digital pencil sketch of a Solar Titan from destiny 2 leaping into the air wielding a flaming maul

January 28, 2026 at 8:40 AM

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Norin 🦈 🔜Katsucon

@mahoukarp.com

dragonite express mail 📨
#art #pokemon

Illustration of dragonite from pokemon. They are flying in the sky with pikachu in their bag dropping letters

January 28, 2026 at 4:00 AM

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cyan

@cyanfacade.bsky.social

all the green on this actually gave me a headache

#warframefanart

May 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM

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Mori

@mox-mori.bsky.social

A couple fun drawings of Andreas tonight

January 25, 2026 at 6:18 AM

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✨ Star @ ECCC O-08 ✨

@thestarfishface.bsky.social

"I wanna write! I wanna work on my book!! I have free time so now I should do that!!!"

*Does not do that*

January 26, 2026 at 8:32 PM

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Lot

@lot95.bsky.social

Venus quick with a phone watch out!!! 🤳 ✨

Some of the teammates! Photo victims left to right ➡️
Kai Minagawa (they/them) @scarletteskies.bsky.social
Andreas Farina @mox-mori.bsky.social
Peter Giles @prinn.bsky.social

These are so fun lol Thanks again for GMing! @ferroflesh.bsky.social

January 26, 2026 at 6:37 PM

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Daily Ify Nwadiwe

@dailyifynwadiwe.bsky.social

Something we should all worry about!

January 22, 2026 at 6:27 PM

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Lo 🎨🔞

@lodrawsfilth.bsky.social

There are many reasons to help people. One that I think gets overlooked sometimes is: helping others often helps you. So if you feel like shit, don’t flagellate yourself in the dark. Leave your head a little. Extend some kindness. You can’t do everything, but you can do some things.

A black and white comic page. A person sits at the bottom of a whole, endlessly anxiety rambling to themself. A speech bubble yelling “HELP!” cuts through. The person stands up and peers out the hole, seeing a figure lying injured on the ground with people starting to gather around. The person says “Hold on, man! I got you!” Another person in the corner says “Y’all need water? Bandages?”

January 25, 2026 at 9:42 PM

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Mako @makoredeyes.bsky.social · May 15

I feel icky reblog my art and tell me you like it.
I just called these Dinky Damiens on tumblr. Think we’re keeping that lmao. I like how they look all assembled together on a page
#makodraws #damien-14 #destinyart #destiny2 #destinyoc #aotw

January 26, 2026 at 10:14 AM

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Mako

@makoredeyes.bsky.social

Against all expectations this is still making the rounds on tumblr and it just delights me so much that people like this stinky bastard. (Me too. I love him)

Mako @makoredeyes.bsky.social · May 15

I feel icky reblog my art and tell me you like it.
I just called these Dinky Damiens on tumblr. Think we’re keeping that lmao. I like how they look all assembled together on a page
#makodraws #damien-14 #destinyart #destiny2 #destinyoc #aotw

January 26, 2026 at 8:28 AM

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Prinnjamin but with Del Taco

@prinn.bsky.social

The one who thinks he has scary dog privileges is very much not the scary dog compared to his wife

January 25, 2026 at 7:47 PM

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Kristina Gehrmann

@kristinagehrmann.bsky.social

My assignment for Winona Nelson's SmArtschool class: Choose a favorite book and illustrate a cover for it.

I picked "The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller, and my goal was to capture a similar bittersweet tone as the novel has.

Achilles and Patroclos, standing next to each other in front of a raging fire. Achilles is outfitted for battle and looks wistfully into the distance, while Patroclos ties some laces of his armor, also looking sad. Behind them and above there's the mosaic of a warrior in his chariot.

January 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM

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Edgecrusher

@edgecrusherntb.bsky.social

Riot-control agents info-doc! Hyperlinks lead to credible/scholarly sources for additional background: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

(1/2) #PublicPreparedness

Riot-Control Agents

Image Source: Wikimedia Commons

What They Are, How To Protect Yourself,
and Addressing Common Misconceptions

Written for Minnesota 50501 Street Medics, 01-22-2026

What Is A Riot-Control Agent?
Riot-control agents are chemical compounds that cause irritation, most noticeably to the eyes, nose, and throat, intended to temporarily incapacitate a person or group of people without causing lasting harm. They are also known as “lachrimators” - from the Latin word for tears - or “tear gas.”

A person exposed to a riot-control agent will experience intense, burning pain, especially in their eyes, nose, and throat, watery eyes, runny nose, and violent coughing fits. The pain and helplessness often causes people to panic.

For a healthy adult who is able to remove themself from the source of the riot-control agent, these effects are temporary. They will subside about 15 minutes to two hours after decontamination, depending on the specific agent used, amount of exposure, and the individual’s sensitivity.

If an infant or child, or a person with a respiratory condition, is exposed, or if a person is unable to remove themself from the source and suffers prolonged exposure, lasting injuries and/or respiratory failure may result.

When tending to someone who was exposed to a riot-control agent, priorities are to get them to clean air, and flush their eyes with copious amounts of clean water.

Do NOT use milk, baking soda, maalox, vinegar, lemon juice, or any other fad remedy.

The thinking behind most of these rumor remedies was that riot-control agents are either an acid or a base, and could be neutralized by applying a compound on the opposite side of the pH scale. However, pH is not the mechanism by which these agents cause irritation. The agents bind to pain receptors (OC binds to receptor TRPV1; CS binds to receptor TRPA1) and cause the body’s pain-signaling circuits to get stuck in the “on” position.

The best way to help is to flush the irritating agent away– the less of it is present to bind to pain receptors, the faster the irritation will subside. Other remedies have been shown to be no more effective than flushing with wat…

OC – Oleoresin Capsicum
Oleoresin capsicum, or pepper spray, is an oil composed of a concentrated form of the same chemical compounds that give hot peppers their spiciness (capsaicinoids). This is what we are seeing used against protesters in the Twin Cities most often, with the chemical agent being dispensed from a handheld spraying apparatus.

Image Source: Encyclopedia of Toxicology (4th Edition) on ScienceDirect

Because the compound is an oil, decontamination can be tedious and feel frustrating. Anyone who has touched cooking oil in the kitchen, then tried to give their hand a quick rinse, is familiar with the problem: oil doesn’t dissolve in water. It will take 20+ minutes of continuous flushing with water to rinse the oil off the body.

Adding a drop of baby shampoo to the water may help decontaminate the skin, by breaking up the oil faster than water alone can rinse it off. Baby shampoo should NOT be used in the eyes– only clean water!

Though it may aid the process of removing the oil from the skin, there is no clinical evidence that baby shampoo eases the pain and irritation from OC any faster than flushing with water. It simply takes time for the effects of OC exposure to subside– capsaicinoids that have already bound to pain receptors need to degrade.

One might be thinking: “When it comes to eating spicy peppers, we’re told to drink milk; drinking water only spreads the capsaicin around, while milk relieves the burning. Isn’t this the same compound?”

The difference is where the fluid is going. When one washes hot peppers down with milk, they are not decontaminating. The fluid is going down their throat, rather than away from their body. Furthermore, the milk is entering the stomach to be digested– not the eyes, where it may provide fuel to harmful bacteria. If one wanted to decontaminate, rather than ingest the spicy food, they would swish water in their mouth and spit it out several times.

CS – 2-Chlorobenzylidenemalonitrile
2-chlorobenzylidenemalonitrile, usually known as CS, is a powder contained in tear gas grenades. The grenade works by rapidly heating a liquid solvent to form vapor, which disperses the powder into the air.

Image sourced from a Minneapolis volunteer.

Like OC, the only reliable remedy for CS exposure is to flush with copious amounts of water. After decontamination, the pain and irritation from CS on the eyes and skin typically subsides faster than that caused by OC. The powder is also more easily flushed away than OC oil.

However, the grenades themselves present additional hazards that handheld spray mechanisms do not. They reach extremely high temperatures to convert liquid to vapor, which presents fire and burn hazards. They are meant for use outdoors, and if a CS grenade ends up in an enclosed space with people present, lethal exposure levels may result.

People should NOT attempt to pick up the hot canisters when they are deployed, even with protective gloves. Materials that are prone to melting, like rubber and polyester, will melt to the skin, requiring extensive surgery. Commercially-available welding gloves are intended to protect the hands from sparks, not from grabbing a chunk of red-hot metal.

Activists have occasionally managed to hurl hot canisters of tear gas, making for compelling photojournalism. Please be aware that their lack of injury is a combination of preparedness and luck. It is not preparedness alone.

The incendiary (heat/fire-producing) compounds in the canisters are usually self-oxidizing, and cannot be extinguished by smothering. They extinguish once the chemical reaction is no longer releasing oxygen to burn.

January 23, 2026 at 3:23 AM

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics

@compoundchem.com

Planning on enjoying a dram of whisky for #BurnsNight? Here's a look at the compounds behind the varying smoky and fruity flavours: www.compoundchem.com/2015/03/31/w...

#ChemSky 🧪

An infographic titled "The Chemistry of Whisky" details the production process and the chemical compounds responsible for flavor. The top section illustrates a six-step journey starting with preparation, where dried barley is ground and husks removed. This is followed by mashing to dissolve sugars, fermenting with yeast to create alcohol, and distilling to increase purity. The spirit then undergoes ageing in oak casks for several years before finally reaching the Bottling stage for consumption.

The lower sections identify specific molecules that influence the palate. Whisky lactones from oak barrels provide woody and coconut flavors. Phenolic compounds like guaiacol and eugenol contribute smoky and medicinal notes. Aldehydes such as vanillin and syringaldehyde add vanilla and spicy aromas. Esters like ethyl hexanoate and isoamyl acetate create fruity scents resembling apples and bananas. Finally, other compounds like phenethyl alcohol add floral notes, while diacetyl provides a buttery taste.

January 25, 2026 at 3:33 PM

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Dredgen Sale ⬛️⬜️🟪

@destinythememe.bsky.social

SWHFTT‼️‼️SUNDAY‼️‼️
90. Old Gods of Chicago

January 25, 2026 at 5:48 PM

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Tony💯

@illphysics.bsky.social

keeping you entertained during the polar vortex with some buildcrafting and clan pms!

LIVE 🩸 twitch.tv/illPhysics

a man with ice on his face is standing in a snowy field

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January 25, 2026 at 1:30 AM

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monstyra

@monstyra.bsky.social

✨✨ My Knights Sticker Club is now open! ✨✨

Available to subscribe to on my Kofi OR preorder months on my Etsy

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If we can get 25 or more subscribers I'll be sending out BONUS STICKER each month with a seasonally changing design.

January 21, 2026 at 12:22 AM

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Marco Rogers

@polotek.bsky.social

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

January 24, 2026 at 8:17 PM