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monica
@willowescapee.bsky.social
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materials researcher/STEM education artist
Chaotic freelancer and doodler
working on my 🇩🇪
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katedollarhyde.bsky.social
heartening thread here. there is real, meaningful work we can do to protect our communities, we can learn how to do it from each other, and we don't have to do it alone.
margaret.bsky.social Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 27d
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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kr00bs.com
Gaza soup kitchen just opened its 14th location and are accepting donations! ⭐️🥫🍲
decafdraws.bsky.social Decaf @decafdraws.bsky.social · Jan 13
Coverage for Gaza has died down recently, so I wanted to remind folks that lots of people are still struggling. The Gaza Soup Kitchen opened its 14th location recently, and they are accepting donations. If you have some money to spare, please consider sending some spare funds their way.
Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun
Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza
www.gofundme.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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driftwoodwolf.bsky.social
it's my birthday today! as always all I really want is for more ppl to see my art, so a repost would make me very happy 💖
January 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
willowescapee.bsky.social
the Bennett family of Green Creek in the style of Joe Cappa

Haha, You Wolves
Three young men and their mother drawn in the flat style of Joe Cappa (Haha, You Clowns). One man is sitting at a desk facing the viewer. His mother stands behind his desk chair. On the left a young man in a grey hoodie has his arm around her and smirks at the viewer. On the right a young man stands politely, grinning at the viewer. The man sitting down has his hands clasped at his chin and looks at the viewer. All of them have blond hair and blue eyes, except for the man sitting down, whose eyes are red. Their mom did a heck of a job raising those boys.
January 6, 2026 at 7:10 AM
willowescapee.bsky.social
this morning i ventured out early to relieve a stranger of his parsnips...very animal crossing
A bag of parsnips sitting by my feet on a sidewalk A pile of parsnips on a table
December 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
willowescapee.bsky.social
every time I see a "sustainability" person use a genAI image on LinkedIn, i lose yet another precious braincell
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
willowescapee.bsky.social
my holiday hot take: have a christmas gift survey. I had no idea what to get my in-laws, and they were happy to list some things they would actually use on a survey. this also saves me from making homemade gifts no one wants.
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
willowescapee.bsky.social
Nathan the poodle says trans rights are human rights
A crochet bandana in the colors of the trans pride flag, in stripes of light blue, pink, white, pink, and light blue. The stripes are in granny clusters surrounded by a border of the same colors, with ties in white A tan poodle wearing the trans pride bandana, facing away from the camera. He is in a warmly yet dimly lit room, sitting on a pillow, while disco ball reflections dance around him.
November 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
willowescapee.bsky.social
cyndaquil says trans rights are human rights
A crochet Pokemon, Cyndaquil, a little porcupine like character, stands in front of a projection of the trans flag. Cyndaquil's flames are in the colors of the trans flag - white, pink, and blue
October 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
willowescapee.bsky.social
i have a lot of respect specifically for the person who went to the pendulum concert last night in full fursuit
October 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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danteshepherd.bsky.social
Here is a comic on the use of AI in education that @makinaro.com and I made for Chemical Engineering Education. Maki's art is otherworldly in this one, and I'm very pleased to have gotten this published in the journal.
a Drawn to Engineering comic for Chemical Engineering Education Worst-Case Scenario written by Luke Landherr drawn by Maki Naro Panel 1 STUDENT working on a computer. Smoke in the background. STUDENT: … actually, if I just enter in the right prompts, I can get this AI tool to solve all this work for me! STUDENT: And that’s before I even get into any writing assignments… STUDENT: The professor will probably want more accurate answers, after all. Panel 2: PROFESSOR working on a computer. Smoke rising from fire in a green hilled background. PROFESSOR: So there’s all these problems to write and this student work to review, but… PROFESSOR: … actually, I could just feed this AI tool the right prompts and have it do the curriculum design and evaluations for me! PROFESSOR: The students will probably appreciate unique problems and faster feedback, after all. STUDENT at left, PROFESSOR at right. Circular arrows reflecting that the computers are doing all the work between them with no human involvement, surrounding a data center with smokestacks. Panel Two: STUDENT and PROFESSOR shaking hands with environmental consumption being revealed. TEXTBOX: This is the worstcase scenario for AI in education. STUDENT: Thank you for a great semester. PROFESSOR: Thank you for a great semester. TEXTBOX: All the learning and teaching self-contained within the AI tools, with no real human involvement. Panel Three Different PROFESSOR and STUDENT talking together, a back and forth to help showcase the continued learning and teaching together. Brighter colors. TEXTBOX: Let’s be clear, there are real possibilities for AI tools in both teaching and learning. AI tools can be great at helping develop codes for complex mathematical solutions, and can also allow for an all-hours tutoring tool for additional student support. And as an educational community, we need to consider what the best potential of these tools are, for all involved parties. TEXTBOX: But it is a potential slippery slope in rationalizing what is acceptable from all involved. And that is before we consider the devastatingly huge environmental cost in using AI, a somewhat ironic factor when we work to increase instruction in sustainability at the same time. TEXTBOX: So let’s work together in figuring out best approaches using AI. And let’s be careful to find the best limits at the same time.
October 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
willowescapee.bsky.social
im in poland rn and one channel has a sign language interpreter in the lower corner that uhh unfortunately also gets covered by ads sometimes

real #accessible, folks
A large TV shows a channel in Poland. OP does not understand Polish so cannot translate the ticker tape, but the scene shows a woman working at a food service place and scooping food from a metal tray into a plastic container. In the lower left corner is a woman superimposed onto the image who is supposed to be giving sign language interpretations of what is happening. However, she is blocked by an advertisement for what appears to be tires that appeared in her exact position. Her hands are covered and only her face is visible.
October 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
willowescapee.bsky.social
A commission of the Portland OR metro (TriMet) map as dragons 🐉
Portland, OR TriMet map with the colored metro lines replaced with dragons. They are adorned with details specific to Portland, such as the yellow line dragon having antlers from an iconic sign and a trident tail, similar to the Portlandia trident. Several dragons have horns that resemble bicycle handlebars or local bridges.
October 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
willowescapee.bsky.social
Hello friends 🏳️‍⚧️ I'm sending out stickers to anyone who donates 10€ or more to my friend's FFS GFM. If you donate, DM me the receipt + a mailing address, and I'll send you some stickies. 20€ or more and I'll also write a thank-you on a duckie postcard

Gfm link: gofund.me/7ad22a198
A postcard of a duck surrounded by gold and an oval sticker lie on a dark wood table. The sticker says "No Chance for Intolerance" with a capybara holding a small trans pride flag and a gator with a torn up Nazi uniform in its jaws. The header from my friend's gofundme that says "Mia's FFS Journey: Becoming Visible & Safe" by Mireya Nadalet. A picture of her smiling at the viewer is below the header.
September 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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noethematt.bsky.social
Stolen from an Animorphs Facebook group.
A teenager turning into a bird, Animorphs cover style "Getting raptured? No thanks I'm getting raptored"
September 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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driftwoodwolf.bsky.social
my sh0p is back up w/ new prints, pins, quicksands, etc.! technically this is a big announcement, but I haven't put together a consolidated graphic (it does not please the ocd brain) so stay tuned for separate promo posts in the coming days 🥺 driftwoodwolf.storenvy.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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visceralhit.bsky.social
Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button
August 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
willowescapee.bsky.social
cant believe this made onion headlines. they find unexploded WWII bombs in cologne like once a month 🙈😅
theonion.com The Onion @theonion.com · Jun 9
Cologne Evacuated After Discovery Of Unexploded WWII Bombs
theonion.com/cologne-evac...
“All I’m hearing is no line at the Lindt Chocolate Museum.” Austin Herrera, Gelato Thickener
June 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
willowescapee.bsky.social
My favorite illustrations from Dream Week in 2020. I still looove this sunset palette to death
A shadowy figure stands under a huge orange stone arch under a star-speckled night sky. Sitting on the stone arch is a neon outline of a scorpion, as if the Scorpio constellation descended from the night to watch the shadowy figure. A huge red wolf pokes its head out from behind a tree. The wolf stares at the viewer with big stylistic purple and yellow eyes and has a wide, curved smile with sharp teeth. The wolf is adorned with filigree and plant patterns in purple, orange, and pink. The wolf stalks in a dark forest of purple trees. Two humans float in space. One, dressed in a hoodie with the hood up, embraces the other, looking at them with gentleness and assuredness. The other, in a hoodie with the hood down, looks at their hands, which hold a small glowing flower. The two are surrounded by a ring of fire formed by two comets. An eye motif shedding a tear sits above them. The piece is colored in warm oranges, yellows, and purples. A yellow dragon with its wings fully spread flies over the desert at night. Behind it, a rock formation juts out of the flat horizon. The clouds in the sky are purple and tinged with yellow light.
June 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
willowescapee.bsky.social
Bi Articuno | 2020

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
The Pokemon Articuno, a large ice bird, looks towards the viewers with glowing eyes and its wings spread. One wing is blue, one is pink, and the center of Articuno's body is purple, like the flag for Bisexual Pride. Articuno is set against a dark clouded background with a diamond ice crystal glowing above it and its tail, in Bi pride colors like the flag, billowing out with geometric crystal shapes around it.
June 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
willowescapee.bsky.social
If you see this, post a #dragon 🐉

2021 art of Tessék, one of my oldest and most favorite moody OC guys
A bipedal dark grey dragon with large orange wings stands menacingly with a glowing heart in his chest and orange and blue shapes framing him A heraldic-like drawing of a dark purple dragon with orange wings in a running pose on all 4 feet. He is staring at the audience and hissing. His skin is full of stars. A black bipedal dragon with large orange wings sits moodily, back facing the viewer, with his head turned towards the viewer. His visible green eye is shining, and colors are jumping from his presence against a light grey background. A reference of Tessék the dragon, a bipedal dark grey dragon with large orange wings. He has two forms - a standard form, with longer limbs, bigger wings, and a sterner expression - and a tender form, a smaller, chubbier, more chibi form with stubby limbs, small wings, and big green eyes. His tender form holds a tulip magnolia branch in bloom
June 5, 2025 at 6:11 AM
willowescapee.bsky.social
Heartwarming | 2021
A pigeon made from various geometric shapes and designs in shades of bright orange and bright blue. It stands against a dull grey foggy background with a light snow falling. It breathes out a puff of mist as it looks down at its heart, glowing yellow in the darkness
June 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
willowescapee.bsky.social
I haven't felt motivated to make and post digital art in a long time. But I've been looking back at my older work, and a lot of it I still enjoy quite a lot. I think I will be sharing more of my old art to hopefully find the spark to create again.

The World | 2021
A yellow lion like creature stands in a heraldic pose in the middle of a blue background. The creature looks fierce and holds an arrow shrouded in lightning in its mouth. The image is framed by a purple frame with rounded corners showing symbols such as a bale of wheat, a bird, a flower, and spears. The blue background contains a small portion of the earth below with a sky full of clouds and stars above.
June 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM