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Molly!

@mollinko.bsky.social

At Akimatsuri in Richmond for the last event of the year until February! 🥳

November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM

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mcc

@dryad.technology

I could try to make moral arguments about spending your Spotify fee on one Bandcamp album a month.

But let's go simpler. It is *so easy* to just switch from Spotify to Tidal, Apple, or Qobuz! You won't barely notice the difference! You can move your playlists! The audio quality is better!

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!

Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.

We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

Stock of Spotify over last month showing sharp decline, from near $700 in value to $615.

November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM

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Star Trek Minus Context

@nocontexttrek1.bsky.social

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're in Picard's ready room. Picard is sitting like a normal guy at a desk in his uniform and across him is a hoighty toighty looking Vulcan lady with a tall hat and some fancy official looking clothing and accessories sitting across from him. Standing with hands resting on the 3rd chair is Mr. Data, in uniform.
Closed caption reads, "Mr. Data, based"

November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM

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Barnaby Edwards

@barnabyedwards.bsky.social

Now we know where all that Spotify money is going. Not to the artists - perish the thought. No, the CEO has invested it all in AI weaponry designed to kill humans. I wish this were a joke.

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Spotify boycott: Artists leave 'garbage hole' platform after CEO invests in AI weapons

Daniel Ek's investments in AI dronemaker Helsing have unnerved artists. One called Spotify a "violent armageddon portal."

www.latimes.com

November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM

marzi 🍀🏹🌙

@marzipanleaf.bsky.social

Iggy is another really awesome artist I met through Vermintide. Her art is always so joyful, wholesome and imaginative, and I know she deeply cares about others' wellbeing, so it would be really cool if anyone is able to help her out right now <3

Iggyness @iggyness.bsky.social · 6d

My mom was in hospital with congestive heart failure and pneumonia. I have to clean and sort out this hoarder house alone while searching for a second job, I do not make enough at my current one to support us. Donations will go towards bills, food, and professional cleaners.

ko-fi.com/iggyness

Buy Iggyness a Coffee

Become a supporter of Iggyness today!

ko-fi.com

November 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM

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Iggyness

@iggyness.bsky.social

My mom was in hospital with congestive heart failure and pneumonia. I have to clean and sort out this hoarder house alone while searching for a second job, I do not make enough at my current one to support us. Donations will go towards bills, food, and professional cleaners.

ko-fi.com/iggyness

Buy Iggyness a Coffee

Become a supporter of Iggyness today!

ko-fi.com

November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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George

@hannahtempler.com

this is such a fantastic example of the transformative power of design when used collaboratively and intelligently. the visual design of this campaign is deep-rooted in history and culture and is thoughtful and beautiful

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 6d

In particular Aneesh Bhoopathy, from the design coop Forge, who designed the identity. A brilliant reminder to *employ human creatives!*

www.curbed.com/article/zohr...

Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo

The bodega-influenced visual language of an outsider campaign.

www.curbed.com

November 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM

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Angus Main

@angusmain.bsky.social

Well done Zohran! And of course the real victor of the day - typography.

Zohran Mamdami’s beautiful colourful typographic posters

November 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM

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aliumfungus art

@aliumfungus.bsky.social

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you deserve friends who treat you with kindness / respect. You deserve friends who assume your intentions are good.

Those friends exist. They're waiting for you, patiently, and won't be upset at the time you took. They'll just be delighted you've arrived.

November 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM

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Inky 𓃥

@inkyblackfire.bsky.social

Emmrook commission for @/saldruiner on tumblr 💙💚💫

#art #dragonage #emmrook #emmrichvolkarin #datv

Emmrich and a mourn watch Rook dancing together in the Necropolis main hall, surrounded by swirls of magic and wisps. They're looking at each other smiling softly.

November 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM

marzi 🍀🏹🌙

@marzipanleaf.bsky.social

All I have to say is I find it amusing that Americans have to cheat at their own favourite pastime in order to win, that's just so beautifully representative of them as a culture

November 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM

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Quinns

@itsquinns.bsky.social

When I say I don't want to have kids but I still want to be involved in their lives, this is what I mean

November 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM

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kuraine

@lena.fyi

exactly 4 years ago, i released my first "tease" for what would become ANOTHEREAL. let's take a look back & also see where the game is at now.

👻 ~happy halloween~ 🎃

blog.radicaldream.land/anothereal-a...

ANOTHEREAL Autumn Update - Happy Halloween!

Four years ago, I released my first "tease" for what was called Project Astray. It was a pretty simply little demo, showing my first attempts at RPG mechanic...

blog.radicaldream.land

October 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM

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Frank Cvetkovic

@gofrankgo.bsky.social

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM

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Yoann Lossel

@yoannlossel.bsky.social

"Lilith in the Valley of a Thousand Sculptures"
Mixed media: coffee, graphite, and gold leaf on Arches paper.

The first piece to surface from the Labyrinth.

In pale marble, she carves a tree.
The Golden Serpent coils nearby — patient, watchful.

[ENGLISH ALT-TEXT]
A surreal artwork in warm sepia and gold tones.
A masked woman, Lilith, kneels on a wooden scaffold and carves a marble wall covered with the relief of a tree heavy with fruit. A golden serpent winds around her, its sinuous body catching the light. Below, the fragmented head of a colossal statue lies half-buried in stone. Thin lines of gold run through the composition like veins of memory, linking Lilith’s gesture, the serpent, and the fallen face. The atmosphere is quiet, sacred, and timeless.

[FRANÇAIS TEXTE ALTERNATIF]
Une œuvre onirique aux teintes sépia et dorées.
Une femme masquée, Lilith, agenouillée sur un échafaudage de bois, sculpte dans le marbre la façade d’un arbre chargé de fruits. Autour d’elle, le Serpent d’Or s’enroule, son corps lumineux suivant le mouvement de la main qui taille. En dessous repose la tête brisée d’une statue colossale. De fines lignes d’or traversent la scène, reliant le geste de Lilith, le serpent et le visage effondré. L’atmosphère est silencieuse, sacrée, hors du temps.

October 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM

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Inky 𓃥

@inkyblackfire.bsky.social

I feel so bad for not celebrating a decade of Fight the Tide, Vermintide is The Game of all the times to me, can't believe it's been 10 years

#vermintide #art

A digital portrait of Markus Kruber from Vermintide wearing armor and a black hat

A digital sketch of Kruber hugging Bardin earnestly

Kruber hugging Saltzpyre with a wide smile on his face. Saltz has an expression like he's being tortured

October 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM

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vasarru 🌴✨

@vasarru.bsky.social

A good Robit, for @sacroix.bsky.social 🤖

October 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM

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Jasmine ☕🍂🎃

@jazzylea.art

We're coming up on the holidays fast and a lot of people are going to be food insecure soon. If you can, please donate to local food banks and pantries in your area. Below is a great 🔗to find food banks, but definitely look around for local pantries as well!
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

October 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM

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Ayla Meridian

@aylameridian.bsky.social

All these paintings of Esoterica from the Bluestone Desert and the River realms are available as prints up in my #Inprnt store! They're on sale right now!

www.inprnt.com/gallery/ayla...

An assortment of objects: a hammer with a shark design, a wing, a weird black and gold spiky objects, a dark mauve cube with cracks, a weird spiky sea creature type thing with tentacles, a goat-head hammer, a brass bauble with holes in it, a brass hand. All surrounded by a dark mauve wiggly line that sort of borders it.

1. Tactical Assault Chrysalis
A golden chrysalis of Yarerin manufacture. When the correct words are spoken with intention, the chrysalis spawns a number of magical insect-like sprites that will attack at the command of the speaker

2. Bluestone Cluster
A cluster of bluestone, can be used to empower almost any spell

3. Necklace (with secret compartments)
4. Golden Oracle Spores
A lichen-like lifeform that continuously grows upon a small stone. When ingested by an Oracle it has psychedelic effects that allows the oracle perceive various times and places they have connected with…

5. White-Gold Seal
The highest level of seal that is given out by the Yarerin. El-Ithaïa keeps hers wrapped in a peice of parchment that has a message written by Yare Ninetheth himself.

6. Her Father’s blade
Netherin make, truly ancient.

7. Her mother’s seer’s pipe
For various Oracle rituals, such as scrying and truthseeing

8. The Hand of Yare
Given to El-Ithaïa by Yare Ninetheth himself. The blade is made entirely of bluestone and will therefore never require sharpening. In battle occasionally will act as if it has a mind of its own in defense of its weilder

1. Lirran Eye pendant: fish and eyes are common iconography in the Lirran faith. The fish is often modeled off of river fish local to the origins of such items. The eye is the standard Eye of Lir - a symbol associated with both the Goddess Lir, the River itself and the first Archking of the River Realms.
2. Knife with carved bone handle: A brass (brass is a very common metal in the River Realms and neighbouring domains) with a bone handle carved to resemble a pointed ear hare - a common creature inhabiting the Midnight Valley.
3. Lirran Petals: Petals are the names for coins of smaller denominations used in the River Realms. These ones are made of copper (featuring Lirran religious iconography), brass (featuring the crest of the Archking), and silver (featuring a cameo of the Archking Lothair II).
4. A brass sickle: wooden handled brass sickle used for harvesting herbs and other plants.
5. Leather pouch with bone fastener: a simple leather pouch with a stamped decoration featuring the Eye of Lir fish icon. This sort of pouch would be attached to the waist with thick but soft string usually tied in complex knots (the knots usually have some meaning and religious significance to the wearer)
6. Wooden Flute and case: a simple wooden flute, a common instrument found in the River Realms. Flute based music is very popular in the common traditions of music as well as courtly music.
7. Feather from a Kingfisher-like bird: a wing feather from a bird that mostly eats fish, which it catches by swooping over a body of water and catching small unsuspecting fish.

1. Vial of Holy Water: containing water blessed by high priestesses of Lir in a process that takes decades. The water has mild healing properties and can assuage minor injuries such as sprains and cuts as well as minor infections. Though Lothair has no use for it himself, he keeps it for sentimental and spiritual reasons initially and later, for the benefit of El-Ithaïa.

2. The Canticles: the Holy book of Lir, it contains stories and psalms from the ancient history of the Iremeians all the way back to their origin on the other side of the Threshold on the Island of Irem - a time when Lir was not a River Deity, but an Ocean Godess.

3. Coinage of the River Realms: coins of various value carried by Lothair upon his departure from the River Realms. They are forged of silver and brightbrass and therefore have inherent value. They feature various religious and state iconography, including a bust of Lothair himself from the middle period of his reign as Archking of the River Realms

4. Leolinian Lily: blessed/enchanted to prevent its wilting. Almost all of the great noble houses of the River Realms have a cultivar of Lily associated with them. The blue-tinged Lily of House Llameryn-Leolinius is easily the best-known. A perpectually drooping variety of the Leolinian Lily was developed specially for Lothair during his reign.

5. Eye of Lir forehead pendant: Many Lirrans wear an eye pendant on their forehead in reverence of their Goddess, Lir

6. Faith: Lothair’s sidearm. Features his personal crest on the crossguard (a three-legged Leolinian Lion holding the Chalice of St Edrienne). The quillons feature Eyes of Lyr. The grip is decorated with a representation of St Edrienne of Effrene, of the Order of the Silver Chalice. Made of Brightbrass.

7. Penance: A large two handed sword belonging to Lothair. It features lily decorations and more Eyes of Lyr along with the crest of his house: a Leolinian lion holding the Sword of King St Lothander

July 20, 2025 at 1:32 AM

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Inky 𓃥

@inkyblackfire.bsky.social

Done 🐎🛡️✨

#minipainting #wfrp #warhammer
Model by reconquerdesigns

A picture of a painted miniature of a knight

October 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM

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InkyInGreen 🏹

@blackwallmancer.bsky.social

Dragonling 🧶

Smol! (7"/18cm tall), very squishy, and in pretty trans flag colors.

Pattern by sweetpeaplush

#crochet | #amigurumi | #dragon | #plush

A photo of a crocheted dragon plush held in my hand outside, with leaf-covered grass in the background. The ami has a soft pink body with blue spikes going from the top of its head down to the tip of its tail, white claws, white wings, and white horns. It has floppy ears and black eyes. I this photo, it is facing the camera. The colors in this photo are slightly warmer than in irl; the colors in the next photo are accurate.

A photo of the same dragon ami being held in my hand, but turned to face the viewer's right. The tail is partially visible behind a wing.

October 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM

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cait (and adonis)

@cait.bsky.social

personally i think it's understandable for video games to be expensive but if they're expensive they need to be good and the people who make them need to get paid and treated well

October 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM