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Ranger Bal
@balthazar3827.bsky.social
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Just another Internet rando, trying to make their way in the void.
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rosemarymosco.com
Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
A comic called Animals with Misleading Names. There's an electric eel labeled "not an eel". There's a mountain goat labeled "not a goat." There's a maned wolf labeled "not a wolf." There's a king cobra labeled "not a cobra. Also, snakes are typically self-governing." There's a peacock mantis shrimp labeled "Not a peacock. Not a mantis. Also, not a shrimp." There's a horny toad labeled "Not a toad. Only thinks of you as a friend." There's a mayfly labeled "active through the spring and summer." There's an eastern kingbird labeled "found in the west. Many birds do not recognize its authority."
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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captainjellico.bsky.social
From the look on his face in panel 4, I think Garak was imagining all sorts of 'accidents' that could happen to Captain Jellico. #StarTrek #JellicoTrek #CaptainJollyco
Panel 1 - Jellico: Mister Garak, are you afraid of Santa Claus? Panel 2 - Garak: No, why do you ask? Panel 3 - Jellico: Because rumor has it that you're claustrophobic. Panel 4 - Garak is NOT amused.
December 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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nakou.bsky.social
nothing can put a bigger smile on my face than reading that Microsoft has to scale back its AI ambitions because NOBODY uses copilot.
a screenshot of a reddit post saying that (quoting an article from extremetech dot com)
December 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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jollyjack.bsky.social
I like "every day carry" pouches. I always travel with one of some kind.
Put together an arty one: notepad, sketchbook, pens, ready readers and a clip light.

Put the phone down. Be a creator, not a consumer.
December 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
Wile E. Coyote does not get enough credit for his paintings.
December 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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clordtc.bsky.social
Elden Ring Nightreign is Moomins now.
December 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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amazonmandy.bsky.social
Dragon Empress: the start! I should probably post the sketch that I started this, obviously there were some changes along the way! I do kind of regret shrinking the lower wings so much, but I worried you wouldn’t see the skirt at all....I have to find some kind of happy middle ground w those. cont—
December 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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nilahmagruder.com
Jesse Hamm had the take to end all takes on children's media. "People who disdain writing ‘just for children’ fail to realize that those children will remember what they read, maybe for the rest of their lives. You’re not writing for permanent children; you’re getting an early start on adults.”
December 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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yazagames.com
We can’t afford a $1M trailer slot 😔

But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️

If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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hazelmonforton.com
My “Viggo Mortensen broke his toe when they were filming ‘The Two Towers’” moment is “Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy’s stunt doubles fell in love when they were filming ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’.”
December 13, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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alexadoodles.bsky.social
When the animation students went to go see Promare and the original janked up version of the Sonic movie trailer played. It was euphoric.
December 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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jollyjack.bsky.social
Dead, buried, concreted over and now an AI data center.
December 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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mollinko.bsky.social
Love in the Great Link 🩵
#startrek #deepspacenine
An art piece based off of Gustav Klimt’s piece The Kiss, where a man is embracing a woman by cradling her face with his hands and kissing her cheek, except the drawing is of Odo and Kira from DS9. It is a cacophony of colours and shapes, coming from the bottom there’s planets and stars that form into circles at Odo’s base that settle into squares on his torso. Kira’s jacket has patterned diamonds inside of them. There are tiny blue flowers dotting their faces and gently falling down onto the sky. They are surrounded by a soft dark blue and purple space with many stars and comets.
October 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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apod.shinyakato.dev
🔭 Northern Fox Fires

Image Credit & Copyright: Dennis Lehtonen

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In a Finnish myth, when an arctic fox runs so fast that its bushy tail brushes the mountains, flaming sparks are cast into the heavens creating the northern lights. In fact the Finnish word "revontulet", a name for the aurora borealis or northern lights, can be translated as fire fox. So that evocative myth took on a special significance for the photographer of this northern night skyscape from Finnish Lapland near Kilpisjarvi Lake. The snowy scene is illuminated by moonlight. Saana, an iconic fell or mountain of Lapland, rises at the right in the background. But as the beautiful nothern lights danced overhead, the wild fire fox in the foreground enthusiastically ran around the photographer and his equipment, making it difficult to capture in this lucky single shot.
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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rowanauthor.bsky.social
Anybody feel like giving ME a present this holiday season?

First of all, aww, shucks, you're so kind!

What I want for Christmas is to see folks helping each other through hard times.

Please start with Jay, who has made my online experience better by being a lovely, thoughtful bsky friend.
Thanks!
December 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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captainjellico.bsky.social
It's not often Q is at a loss for words - Part 1 of 2 #StarTrek #JellicoTrek #CaptainJollyco
Panel 1 - Jellico: How does Santa keep track of all the fireplaces he's visited? Panel 2 - Q <mulling the question> Panel 3 - Jellico: He keeps a log book. Panel 4 - Q <probably wondering when Picard gets back>
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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captainjellico.bsky.social
And now the conclusion... Part 2 of 2

#StarTrek #JellicoTrek #CaptainJollyco
Panel 1 - Jellico: My favorite Christmas breakfast is Eggs Benedict served on a hubcap. Panel 2 - Q: Well, they always say “There's no plate like chrome for the hollandaise.” Panel 3 - Jellico, his eyes red. Panel 4 - Q winks.
December 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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apod.shinyakato.dev
🔭 Galaxies in the River

Image Credit & Copyright: Vikas Chander

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Large galaxies grow by eating small ones. Even our own galaxy engages in a sort of galactic cannibalism, absorbing small galaxies that are too close and are captured by the Milky Way's gravity. In fact, the practice is common in the universe and illustrated by this striking pair of interacting galaxies from the banks of the southern constellation Eridanus, The River. Located over 50 million light years away, the large, distorted spiral NGC 1532 is seen locked in a gravitational struggle with dwarf galaxy NGC 1531, a struggle the smaller galaxy will eventually lose. Seen nearly edge-on, in this sharp image spiral NGC 1532 spans about 100,000 light-years. The NGC 1532/1531 pair is thought to be similar to the well-studied system of face-on spiral and small companion known as M51.
December 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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kitchenraptorj.bsky.social
I hate to put myself on blast (we hates it...), but I'm having major surgery on Dec 23 & will be out of work with no paid leave. Support with rent, groceries, or recovery costs would mean so much!

#mutualaid #medicalaid #recoveryaid #gofundme #surgery

www.gofundme.com/f/y8y9e-supp...
Donate to Support Jay's Surgery Recovery, organized by Jay Robertsen
I am having major surgery on December 23rd to remove two large tumors from my right ovary… Jay Robertsen needs your support for Support Jay's Surgery Recovery
www.gofundme.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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sardonicus.eu
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
a shot of a god botherer in a car, next to him on the passenger seat is a skull in an ornate box
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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jeffdeboer.bsky.social
Making the helmet cap for the 16th Century mice from one piece of 25 gauge nickel alloy sheet metal. #jeffdeboer #mousearmour #armourer #metalarts #smallsculpture
December 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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apod.shinyakato.dev
🔭 The Horsehead Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: George Chatzifrantzis

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25121...
Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, this dusty interstellar molecular cloud has by chance has assumed an immediately recognizable shape. Fittingly known as The Horsehead Nebula, it lies some 1,500 light-years distant, embedded in the vast Orion cloud complex. About five light-years "tall," the dark cloud is cataloged as Barnard 33, first identified on a photographic plate taken in the late 19th century. B33 is visible primarily because its obscuring dust is silhouetted against the glow of emission nebula IC 434. Hubble space telescope images from the early 21st century find young stars forming within B33. Of course, the magnificent interstellar cloud will slowly shift its apparent shape over the next few million years. But for now the Horsehead Nebula is a rewarding though difficult object to view with small telescopes from planet Earth.
December 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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redundantz.bsky.social
does anyone have any info or tips about shipping merch with quicksand/oil internationally or to the US?
December 10, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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wysticlipse.art
Tip: Request 3 pictures from 3 different angles and all of them have to have a visible paper with specific text on it. If any of the damage changes even a LITTLE refuse the refund.
geneljumalon.bsky.social Genel Jumalon ✈️ Twin City Con @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 6d
Heads up for all my art friends that have an online store.
December 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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serenamalyon.bsky.social
Luna - watercolour and acryla gouache on paper

A personification of the night sky.

One of my favourite paintings. It makes me miss personal work. Eventually I'll figure out a balance where I can paint just to paint again.

Prints are on INPRNT if your mom would like one for xmas
a personification of the moon in the nights sky - a pale blue woman wearing a cloak of gems. She brings comfort to those who live below.
December 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM