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Erika Sampaio

@erikailustra.bsky.social

It's officially my birthday!🥳🎉
As a gift, could I ask you to share my work? I would be very grateful!
#ocart | #characterart | #fantasyart

November 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM

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سيف | 🇵🇸

@chanafehs.bsky.social

‼️CALL FOR HELP‼️

I really hate to do this but I’m at the end of my rope since he’s started feeding my art into ai now:

If you have a tumblr, can you please help me report and put attention on my racist stalker?

November 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM

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Hall Of Mirrors Artworks

@homartworks.bsky.social

URGENT PLEASE.

This is my last day off. Grace period up tomorrow so we have to do this BEFORE I SLEEP TONIGHT

Stuck at 820/1740 needed to pay the rent. If we can't we'll get issued a pay-or-vacate and have to pay an extra $400.

I'm exhausted. It's been a weekend of fear. PLEASE HELP OR BOOST! 😭

Hall Of Mirrors Artworks @homartworks.bsky.social · Oct 4

So. October!

Still coming back from Covid and adjusting to a strenuous part time position.

Our 10th wedding anniversary is on the 10th. We never had a honeymoon and we had a tiny flash wedding.

If we could make Progress towards the full goal in this first week of Oct, it would mean the WORLD.

Support Hall Of Mirrors Artworks ❤️

Become a supporter of Hall Of Mirrors Artworks today!

ko-fi.com

November 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM

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𝔰𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔪𝔞𝔶 𝔦 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔰ö𝔪𝔢 ö𝔪𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔰

@buriedinembers.bsky.social

aging Cassandra has been living in my head for a while now, it is time to set her free

#dragonage

September 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM

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❄️ A Random NPC ❄️

@a-random-npc.bsky.social

The wolverine feral form!!! I love the druid forms so much.

World of Warcraft @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com · Oct 2

Aspiring Haranir mains sound off in the comments 🗣️🗣️🗣️

The image to the right shows various Haranir Druid forms.

The image to the right shows a full male and Haranir standing in armor. The bottom of the screen shows the icons for classes, including Warrior, Hunter, Rogue, Priest, Shaman, Mage, Warlock, Monk, and Druid.

October 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM

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Buttart

@buttart.bsky.social

tomorrow is my bday... if u feel like celebrating, u could:
1) donate to pcrf.net or any Gazan fundraiser, it would mean a lot to me
or
2) draw a picture of Swinub and show me... he's my favorite...

September 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM

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𓆝 cafe 🏳️‍⚧️♿️

@cafeesh.bsky.social

bisan is calling for another global strike for tomorrow: thursday, august 21st!

as always, please do what you're safely able to in order to limit your spending, call into work if you can, be as loud & disruptive as possible, & support this strike! share posts & spread the word!

#freepalestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Philippe K - Amish 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇱 🇸🇩 🍉 🇵🇸 !!SAVE GAZA!! @thunderbirds3.bsky.social · Aug 18

Bisan Owda -" CALL TO ACTION: Let it be the biggest Global Strike
This is our collective duty to stop a genocide, it’s the minimum but it makes the needed change!" #Gaza #Genocide

August 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM

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Leaf

@handle.invalid

I'm obligated to post this every time, as a fellow Leaflet.

July 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM

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saba sabaton

@sabato-n.bsky.social

📖 #OurUnendingJourney 37: By Her Grace

Read on Namicomi

July 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM

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muri

@petitepasserine.bsky.social

the slaughter's mine, oh, blood and viscera divine

[ #art #oc #vampire ]

June 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM

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🌴The Boss California🌴

@oj-mcmuffins.bsky.social

please share and donate to Lubna and her kids!!! www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-es...

June 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM

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💫 manaduke 💫

@manaduke.bsky.social

(wip) Picking at a pngtuber model for a future pathfinder oc >:Ic

June 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM

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Geology

@geologytime.bsky.social

Humor... for a tough crowd

#geology

May 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM

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Molly Shah

@mommunism.bsky.social

We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first.

You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

[CLICK here if you would like your name added to this letter]
النسخة العربية من هذه الرسالة متاحة أدناه.

Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza

The signatories of this letter are all members of the Bluesky community, many of us have actively participated on the platform since its inception. We came to Bluesky because it was a breath of fresh air, a place that felt different from many of the other social media platforms. The lack of a central algorithm, the ability to build and use custom feeds, and the lack of penalty for link promotion contributed to an environment that allowed diverse and interesting voices to find their footing and community on Bluesky. While some of the signatories of this letter have had no issues with speaking their mind publicly on Bluesky, unfortunately that is not true for all the signatories because many are Palestinians currently living in Gaza.

These Palestinians are journalists, artists, engineers, teachers, grandmas, entrepreneurs, a man who owned an ice cream shop, a pediatrician who has been featured on CBS Morning News, aid workers, architects, waiters, pharmacists, students–and perhaps most essential to the backbone of Bluesky, posters. All of these people provide unique and interesting voices to the Bluesky community. However, unlike the other signatories of this letter, these Bluesky community members have struggled to keep their accounts on the platform. Most of them have lost multiple accounts and/or have had their accounts labeled as spam. Some cannot even make an account without it immediately being removed from the platform.

Gazans undertake immense efforts to simply be on Bluesky. Sometimes, they walk for miles just to have access to the internet. They scale rooftops where they are exposed to potential military attacks just for the opportunity to get better cell signals–one signatory of this letter tragically lost her brother this way. They use what little money they have to pay …

Gazans have also been aggressively targeted and unfairly reported by bad actors. Many accounts openly encourage the reporting and targeting of any Palestinian. Several groups exist for the express purpose of looking for Palestinian accounts to report.

We believe Bluesky owes Gazans, and the entire community who benefits from their voices, a greater duty of care especially in the context of the horrors they are enduring. We ask Bluesky to implement the following changes:

Provide information on all Bluesky-affiliated websites in Arabic that explains the rules and expectations of the site in clear language.

Investigate the accounts that are mass-reporting Palestinians on Bluesky. The mass reporting of Palestinians on Bluesky is a group effort to render the platform a hostile place for a community based on their ethnicity. As such, it is racism, and should be understood as such. Reports against Palestinians who have broken no community guidelines must be understood as racism, and the accounts that submit those reports should be disregarded in the future.

Many Bluesky users encourage Gazans to tag or reply to them, and this is not always understood as unwelcome behavior. If an account is reported as Spam for tagging or replying to others, treat only reports from the tagged/mentioned account as legitimate, seeing as they were the only ones who received a notification.

Send emails regarding disciplinary action every time it is taken. Gazans do not always get an email explaining what they did wrong, and those that do are required to parse a language they do not speak in order to understand their violation. Have these emails contain an easily visible link to information about their violations in Arabic.

Respond to appeals in a timely fashion, many Gazans simply never hear back from Bluesky after they appeal a decision.

In addition to removing Gazans for alleged spam behavior, Bluesky has also sometimes indicated that they are deleting an account for being a scam or …

End IP bans on any account from Gaza and allow them to make new accounts where they can comply with Bluesky rules and continue to be valued members of the community.

We understand that even if all these changes are made, many Gazans may still violate Bluesky rules in the future, but we hope that Bluesky will abandon their punitive approach to these violations and instead embrace an attitude of education, cooperation and community care– one that works to ensure people in Gaza can participate in a way that keeps their voices heard.

We also call on the Bluesky community to help and support these accounts however they can. We want to continue to build a healthy community with better community members and this cannot be done if Gazans continue to be shunned. We can use this as an opportunity to show how to protect all vulnerable groups in the future.

We hope that Bluesky does not follow the path of other social media platforms and instead forges ahead with a different philosophy. After all, that is the reason so many of its users are there. Bluesky's ethos of "No Caesars” should apply to all members of its community.

[To add your name to the list of signatories, click here.]

May 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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attila

@haqistan.net

Boost and donate to Mona 💕💸🍉 #GazaVoices #GazaAid #MutualAid #HelpSky #FreePalestine

𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒂 𝑯𝒊𝒋𝒂𝒛𝒊 🇵🇸🫒𝑰𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒛𝒂 @monahijazi.bsky.social · May 19

At 15 years
I lost my father to brain cancer.His life could have been saved, but Israel denied him the chance to get treatment abroad

Now, I’m fighting to survive with my children.
GoFundMe stole $7,200 of my funds💔😡
still need $3,579 to reach $7k

Please help heal what Genocide has broken😢💔
Here💸

May 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM