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Marci Brinker
@marcibrinker.bsky.social
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maker • artist • animal lover • cat mom • progressive • no AI
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indivisible.org
The only thing that has improved Democrats’ approval rating among their voters has been fighting back against Trump. We cannot afford another “Schumer Surrender.” Urge your Democratic senators to continue holding the line to keep healthcare costs down and protect coverage for millions of Americans.
TELL YOUR DEMOCRATIC SENATORS TO KEEP HOLDING THE LINE IN THE FUNDING FIGHT
With historic healthcare cuts and cost increases looming, Republicans chose to force a Trump Shutdown rather than address the healthcare crisis and limit Trump’s lawless manipulation of federal funds....
act.indivisible.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
marcibrinker.bsky.social
YES!!!
noethematt.bsky.social Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · Oct 28
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
marcibrinker.bsky.social
I didn’t paint for a long time before this year, but I’m getting back in the groove. The world’s a mess, but birds are awesome!
This guy is 10x10 on a cradled panel.
#bird #cardinal #mixedmedia
Painting of a bright red Northern Cardinal perched on a branch, painted over a collage of blue and white paper.
October 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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samanthamash.bsky.social
I am looking for freelance work! I specialize in editorials, book covers, and branding projects

I've worked with the NYT, Scientific American, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, and more and would love to work with your organization too

🪴samanthamashillustration@gmail.com
🪴samanthamash.com
Illustration of a woman with short hair kneeling back on the ground and pulling the string of a bow tight. She is holding a white arrow and prepared to let go. Around her is the Sagittarius constellation that is made of orange and pale yellow stars. The background is a pale peach, the woman is made up of oranges and reds. Illustration of a woman with short hair kneeling back on the ground and pulling the string of a bow tight. She is holding a white arrow and prepared to let go. Around her is the Sagittarius constellation that is made of orange and pale yellow stars. The background is a pale peach, the woman is made up of oranges and reds Illustration of a dark teal seagull flying through the clouds with smaller distant seagulls flying near it. On the center bird's back are icons and landmarks of the Pacific Northwest An illustration of a golden leopard kneeling among round green leaves on a dark emerald background Illustration made for November 2023 issue of Scientific American for a piece called Woman the Hunter. The illustration is of a woman with one arm outstretched and the other holding a spear. Her hair flies behind her. The background is of cave-painting like buffalo, rhinos, antelope, and people hunting said animals
June 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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emilyhare.co.uk
Discovering new beings in the world of Strangehollow. Loads of fun stuff waiting to be brought to life with watercolour now! #drawing #sketch #strangehollow #artbook
June 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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esthervanhulsen.bsky.social
A Siberian Eagle Owl for today’s #artadventkalendar

Acrylics on board
9.8″ x 9.8″ (25 x 25 cm)

#birdart #owlart #Birds #SciArt #animalart #birdpainting #traditionalart
December 15, 2024 at 3:19 AM
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danlehner.bsky.social
it is done
The “peace sign at grave” meme with Cory Booker posing at Strom Thurmond’s grave
April 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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lorraineturnerart.bsky.social
Puffins! A hand embroidered fabric collage. Dyed silk ribbons, cheesecloth, satin and cotton
#fabriccollage
#collage
#textileart
#artyear #embroidery
#ArtShare
#art #sciart #artshow #onlybeautifulthings
#uplift #womensart #artquilt #quiltsky #womensart #daisies #slowstitch #sew #flower
A textile illustration of Black, white and orange puffins on a green cliff with yellow and white daisies. The sky is blue and white and the ocean is blue and purple
March 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
marcibrinker.bsky.social
So gorgeous!
lorraineturnerart.bsky.social Lorraine Turner calicohorses @lorraineturnerart.bsky.social · Feb 2
The background was created with hand embroidery using dyed silk floss and ribbons. The border is a vintage tablecloth. #artshow #artyear #uplift #sew #fabricart #horses #embroidery #textileart #artquilt
#womensart #quilt #workinprogressart #onlybeautifulthings
Textile are of two horses made from yellow, gold, orange, pink, blue and teal fabrics. Only their bottom of heads are shown. The background is a green flowered field of lavender, pink and gold flowers. The artwork has a white tablecloth border.
February 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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nollthere.bsky.social
Thank you @blueappaloosa.bsky.social for the official hashtag for this #SciArt challenge, which will be #EndangArt !
1 art piece for an endangered species per month in 2025 with optional prompts.
Use alt text please, any style/medium/effort welcome, as long as it's human-made!
#ArtChallenge
Graphic that reads "#EndangArt, 12 month challenge, 1 endangered species art piece per month in 2025 with optional prompts." The prompts listed are: January, Arctic and Tundra. February, Un-charismatic. March, forest. April, reptile. May, shoreline and water. June, colorful. July, desert. August, invertebrate. September, bird. October, mammal. November, fish. December, positive news. The image contains faded, retro images of an orangutan and a colorful fruit pigeon.
January 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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palaeosinensis.com
Life advice for the ages. Those doing wrong want you tired and hopeless. But stay angry. And when a chance is in front of you: bite back.

Digital plans for a real linocut. I'm anxiously awaiting a press to make this stuff possible with my RSI in my hands.

#art #tiger #resist #linocut
The image is digital art made up to look like a two color linocut print. It features a geometric twisting snarling tiger. It's flanked by the text "Stay Angry" and "Bite Back" that follows the contours of the tiger.
February 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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mtomsky.bsky.social
Another batch of woodworks shipped out. Campfire with all its hidden denizens of the dark, two unnecessarily aggressive miniature portraits, Afterlife Adoption of an uncaring spirit cat and Willing Sacrifice with its smug sense of martyrdom.

www.martintomsky.com/shop?categor...

#art #illustration
January 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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kcg.bsky.social
It’s been that long? Crap!
knowyourmeme.com Know Your Meme @knowyourmeme.com · Jan 9
On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
January 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
The clearest image of Pluto ever, from NASA.
January 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
And then it all goes to hell.
marleywrites.bsky.social Marley, a Werewolf of Wall Street @marleywrites.bsky.social · Jan 8
A new entry in my Hall of Most Beautiful Sentences: “The meadow became riotous with butterflies, bees, and wasps feasting on a perfumed wildness of goldenrod, milkweed, blazing star.”
— @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, “Absolution”
January 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
marcibrinker.bsky.social
Check this out #artists - it’s a fun monthly project for bird lovers! I need to get back into it for 2025.
birdwhisperers.bsky.social Bird Whisperer Project @birdwhisperers.bsky.social · Dec 30
Bird Whisperer 2025!! 🦉

January: Common Loon
February: Rock Dove
March: Brown-headed Cowbird
April: Giant Kingfisher
May: Talamanca Hummingbird
June: Spotted Munia
Collage of January-June’s birds: Common Loon, Rock Dove, Brown-headed Cowbird, Giant Kingfisher, Talamanca Hummingbird, and the Spotted Munia.
December 30, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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lorraineturnerart.bsky.social
Each tiny scrap and ribbon were snipped and sewn into place including the background. Zoom in to find all of the hidden animals. @bsky.art #artshare #quilt #collage #embroidery #fabriccollage #zebra #sewn #animalart #textileart #fiberart #bskyart #craftivism #crafting #fabric #fabricart #artquilt
Black and white zebras on a blue background with a pink border. All created with tiny snippets of cotton fabric and ribbons. A quilted fabric collage.
December 28, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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emeraldjaguar.bsky.social
Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
marawilson.bsky.social Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · Dec 22
Anyway, AI has already stolen friends’ work, and is going to put other people out of work.

I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.
December 26, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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sabattons.com
if you made art this year, you did well. a sketch, even if it was scrapped ; a poem, even if it was deleted — mattered. you put thought to paper, you engaged with the creative alchemy of turning feeling to something tangible. doesn't matter if you weren't productive "enough." or good "enough."
December 26, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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danielgray.com
Klaus concept art by Szymon Biernacki
December 24, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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nateinthewild.com
On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image.

All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.
December 23, 2024 at 5:02 PM
marcibrinker.bsky.social
Oliver likes to hold my hand. I like it too! 😻❤️🐾 #cats
Close-up of my hand, palm up, with my orange and white cat Oliver’s white paw laying in the palm of my hand.
December 24, 2024 at 3:42 AM
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greybriar.art
A gentle gesture of hope, luck and beauty for the holidays and coming new year. (Mus musculis and Comvallaria majalis. )
A digital drawing of a common house mouse sitting in a frame reminiscent of a snowy window, holding a small bouquet of lily of the valley. 🌿🐡
December 23, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf."

futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
futurism.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:05 PM