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Ian Bruce
@ianbrucestudio.bsky.social
Portrait artist, award-winning animator specialising in painting and drawing.

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Only just seen this. New title for the second painting! Thank you!
June 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I just went a pulled a T-shirt out of my drawer. Mind blown. 🍇🍎 Collective amnesia.
June 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Thank you so much for joining today and supporting @freeourfeeds.com
Having you on the call gave me the burst of energy needed to finish the triptych!
May 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Thank you SO much for joining and enlightening us about your journey in creating @blacksky.app - I’ve learnt a huge amount this week
May 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
What’s next? We’re cooking up something interesting with all the amazing chats I’ve had this week. Watch this space 👀

Thank you everyone for your support!
May 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It’s been a thrilling (and somewhat tiring) week but I’m left with a sense that so many people are giving all they can to fight the power of Musk, the far-right & the malign influence of Big Tech over our online spaces, our democracies, our economies & our lives.
May 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Then in a surreal turn of events @markruffalo.bsky.social @johncusack.bsky.social @alexwinter.com & @rosie.com joined me in the final hours to scream at the good billionaires out there to “f*ing do something already and donate to FreeOurFeeds.com
https://FreeOurFeeds.com”
May 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
In the final stretch @rudyfraser.com & @robin.berjon.com provided hope. They described how they’re building the architecture of a new kind of social media - decentralised, community-led & free from billionaire domination. Go donate to Free Our Feeds to help make that possible: gofund.me/e6bb4033
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May 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Luckily Jayde Adams was on hand to give me a well-needed laugh as we speculated about why Musk is obsessed with being funny

Then @cultexpert.freedomofmind.com & Dr Melisa Basol warned us that we need to make sure our friends & neighbours aren’t victims of toxic content on today’s social media
May 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social , Shoshana Zuboff, @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social & Jay Griffiths zoomed out and reminded us what’s at stake if we let the tech bros take too much, as digital authoritarianism looms over us.
May 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
@jonronson.bsky.social told me that Musk might care too much about how people think about him to be a psychopath, @rosie.com and @jemima.bsky.social took me through what might be behind his relationship with Donald Trump - daddy issues anyone?
May 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I was taken on a journey from his traumatic upbringing in Apartheid South Africa, with guidance from @kuminaidoo.bsky.social, to his years trying to make it as what @alexwinter.com described as a “vulture capitalist” in the US
May 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM