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Doc the Hackenbush with holly

@dochackenbush.bsky.social

Hey TIME I fixed it for you
#art #capybara #TIMEpersonOfTheYear

Illustration: a mock up of the TIME magazine cover that should have been - The humble capybara as Person of the Year. Featuring a drawing of an adult and baby capybara standing in shallow water.

December 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM

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✨steph ✨🏳️‍🌈

@iridescentdreams.bsky.social

friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.

November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM

Charlotte 😺

@charlietangy.bsky.social

This is true because the other day I decided to go to the store quickly and my phone didn't ring for the callback D: so I had to set up a return call again! The second time I just sat around at home. Lol

Anne Kirn @houseofdarkly.bsky.social · 13d

Did you know?: you absolutely cannot do anything while waiting for a return phone call. You must sit and contemplate the universe and everything you certainly cannot do because you don't know when the call will happen

November 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM

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hby's stuff

@hby.bsky.social

#pixelart

November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM

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Ethan M. Aldridge

@ethanmaldridge.bsky.social

Hey you

A white stoat wearing an elegant tweed suit with a red vest. He holds a lantern out, autumn leaves swirling at his ankles, while an banner flutters over his head that reads "Unclench your jaw."

November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM

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Zé Burnay

@zeburnay.bsky.social

A look at the creation of "The Electric Tower".

May 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM

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✧˚₊‧Peppermint‧₊˚✧

@yay-peppermint.com

Lil bunnies + flowers! I drew this to be a sticker but it might also become a print! ^^

#cuteart #bunnies #pink

some pink roses and leaves with little bunnies peaking and perching on them

November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM

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Trung Le Nguyen

@trungles.com

Sometimes you’re just from when you’re from.

The Frieren meme where an inexperienced artist has trouble drawing Frieren, a silver-haired elven woman with pigtails and red earrings, from a difficult angle. I offer my own take on her based on how goofy anime from the 90s used to do it.

November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM

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Davis Bickford

@davis.social

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

cinema_nasties 1d
Al defenders are so embarrassing

j.paulmonter 2h
All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good.

drachelbarr & 20h
• ••
Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output.
Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity.
Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention

November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM

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Helen Whistberry

@whistberry.bsky.social

Hope you find some joy today, or joy finds you... either works 🩷

Stylized drawing of a blue jay sitting on a branch with lots of pink dogwood blooms against a black background.

November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM

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⊹ ࣪ ˖ 𝙲𝚈𝙱𝙴𝚁:\\𝙰𝙽𝙶𝙴𝙻 ⊹ ࣪ ˖

@yumemimir.art

poyo! #pixelart

pixel art of kirby on a tiny island with a palm tree. a waddle dee is floating on the water in an inner tube. the sky is full of big clouds and stars.

November 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM

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Stella Sacco

@antlervel.vet

Rip and tear until it is done? No, shred and grind until it is fun, dude 🙂🤙

Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 29d

I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM

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Rosemary Mosco

@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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pikaole

@pikaole.bsky.social

Waaah!!!!

A nest with three baby birds. Two are sleeping, and one is awake and crying.

November 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM

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Aled Thompson

@aledthompson.bsky.social

An alternative version of my crow piece

A crow on a tree stump in the forest in a simulated print style with a limited colour palette of blue, green, purple and brown

October 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM

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demon core vidal

@regretagarbo.rip

ahhhhh this makes me so happy

Hope For The Planet @h4tp.bsky.social · Oct 22

Australia's humpback whales are doing so well that their population is expected to reach carrying capacity and plateau in the near future--they have not just reached but exceeded pre-whaling numbers. For this to happen with such a long-lived, slow-reproducing species is near miraculous. #goodnews

These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.

www.abc.net.au

October 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM

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laura @ ocean city comic con

@lauraillustrates.bsky.social

How many blueberries are too many blueberries?

Illustration of a fluffy white sheep holding a red gingham apron full of blueberries and a single green frog.

October 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli

@banditelli.org

I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB
I GOT A CRAB

October 20, 2025 at 4:18 AM

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Matt Wallaert

@mattwallaert.com

Ok, so this is a very big deal. Let’s thread it.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Oct 15

New York health officials have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus which causes high fever, joint pain and fatigue.

It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)

October 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM

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Adam 🪿

@vexnir.bsky.social

Cozy and stylish ✨

#art #cuteart #gouache

Gouache illustration of a black cat wearing a scarf with various geometric patterns on it. The scarf is in warm shades with some green accents.

October 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social

Yeah everything SUCKS but humans are still silly wonderful beautiful creatures who collaborate with slugs to make videos like this. So. All is not lost.