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Alex A. Pagliuca

@alexpagliuca.bsky.social

A Tumblr post by "laxsara" tells a WWII story about unarmed shells and a note, reflecting on harm reduction and hope.

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the meaning of life is summed up in the story elmer bendiner tells about how when he was a pilot the second world war, his plane was hit with a barrage of anti-aircraft fire from the nazi forces but the crew survived. and how everyone was saying it was a miracle until they investigated the shells that got in the fuselage and found there was no explosive charges in any of them. in one they found a note scribbled in czech, written by the person who had been forced to manufacture the shells, and it just said ‘this is all we can do for you now’.

every time i see someone acting tough online about how harm reduction is pointless and in some convoluted way worse than doing nothing i think about that person in some soul-destroying nazi factory in occupied czechoslovakia removing all of the explosive charges from their anti-aircraft shells and writing a note that they must have known would probably never be read, just to say ‘this is all we can do for you, and we’re going to do it’. _they are trying to make us kill you and we refuse. i do think that maybe it’s all going to be okay.

February 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole.bsky.social

We can easily spare a tenth of England for nature without affecting food production!

20% of our land produces just 3% of our food.

Vast swathes of our uplands are owned by about 150 wealthy landowners who use it for shooting grouse, and set fire to our biggest carbon sink, our peat bogs...

January 31, 2025 at 8:43 AM

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lukelukeluke

@lukelukeluke.bsky.social

Practicing self care by lying on the forest floor until the roots of the trees and mushrooms pierce my body and accept me into their nutrient web

November 2, 2023 at 1:26 AM

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Kate Jones 🦇

@profkatej.bsky.social

Er - recklessly stripping environmental protections? I thought we’d moved past making short term money with long term damage? what is happening? Has Rachel Reeve been replaced by Liz Truss? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

Rachel Reeves expected to back Heathrow expansion as she delivers major speech on economic growth - live updates

The chancellor will also focus on development between Oxford and Cambridge to create a

www.bbc.co.uk

January 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM

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cait (and adonis)

@cait.bsky.social

there is no "defensible use case" for chatgpt. do your own work and use your own brain or fuck off

January 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM

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Meg Adams (ArtbyMoga)

@artbymoga.bsky.social

🌈✨💖

2-panel comic.
First panel: Meg’s Dad asks “why do you always sit so weird?”
Second panel: Meg, sitting weird in a chair, responds “because I’m queer”.
Queer is spelled in rainbow colors.

January 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM

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Dr. Solomon David

@solomonrdavid.bsky.social

Fed up with social media, small frog goes off the grid 🐸

Small frog sits on a grid-like pattern on a picnic area.

Small frog climbing into and under a grid-like pattern on a picnic area. The frog seems to be “going off the grid”. A ribbeting pun, if you will.

January 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM

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Momo - Illustrator & Comic Artist

@momosweetpeach.bsky.social

An Ode to the Artifacts of Inefficiency

Finally uploading more of my work over here. I'm still happy with how this came out and even happier to have finally put it to paper to begin with (it was floating around in my head for three years or so)

October 6, 2023 at 2:24 PM

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altargokart ✨its ash✨

@altargokart.bsky.social

Cherry wood-burned Deer Seraphim for Alix 🦌

January 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM

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BeeSky

@lollibeepop.bsky.social

We're going to make it through this 🩷💙
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.

An illustration of a tiger protecting cubs colored in Trans and nonbinary flag colors. Says: "protect trans & nonbinary kids!"

January 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM

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Momo - Illustrator & Comic Artist

@momosweetpeach.bsky.social

A conversation I had with my best friend about mushrooms

(The book is Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake)

A three page comic, almost entirely in green.
First page.
First panel: A bust-shot of woman is turned away from the reader and small skinny mushrooms sprout in front of her.
"The mushroom book is giving me existential feelings."
"Hm."
Second panel: A head-shot of a person with glasses, relaxing against a pillow. Small white mushrooms sprout across them.
"I would expect nothing less from the mushroom book."
Third panel: Two large brimmed mushrooms sit.
"The "You can't kill me in a way that matters" Not-Plant."
End page.

Page two.
First panel: The woman from the first page returns with a head-shot, facing the reader but looking to the side. Half of her face has morphed into a skull and more mushrooms sprout from the empty eye socket.
"We are inconsequential. Like. Holy shit."
Second panel: A deer's rib cage is shown on the ground with small mushrooms around it.
Third panel: A close up of the person with glasses as they look downward, only one eye visible behind the glasses. Outside of the panel, there are different varieties of mushrooms to the left and right.
Fourth panel: The glasses person sits on top of a giant mushroom with their knees drawn to their chest and arms crossed.
"I want to mean something. At least...for a little while."
End page.

Third page.
First panel: A close up of the woman's hand is shown, adorned with rings. From the cuff of her sweater, more mushrooms sprout.
"You do."
Second panel: A torso shot of both people, with the woman having embraced the person with glasses in a tight hug.
"To me."
End page and comic.

January 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM

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Nature Nurture 🌿✨

@naturenurture.bsky.social

Denethor core

January 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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Goose

@duckgoose.bsky.social

There’s some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for

#art #fanart #LOTR #lordoftherings #illustration #SamwiseGamgee

Samwise Gamgee smiles and walks through a field of sunflowers. He holds out several in his hand towards the viewer.

January 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM

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Dice Witchery ✨

@dicewitchery.com

As a thank you for getting me to 1k, let's do a giveaway for this 40mm tentacle chonk d20!

To enter:
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‼️Ends Jan. 31

January 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM

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lukelukeluke

@lukelukeluke.bsky.social

I reply “hell yeah” to a lot of mushroom photos because when I see a picture of a mushroom a little voice in my head goes “hell yeah” and then I type that and hit send

January 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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dr. hazel 🐇

@hazelmonforton.com

Don’t make me tap the sign.

dr. hazel 🐇 @hazelmonforton.com · Sep 3

Generative AI is not an assistive device because being a bad writer is not a disability.

January 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM

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B. Marcella

@brettpunk.bsky.social

I suppose I should share this one too, it's sold well as a sticker:

A digitally colored ink drawing of Godzilla Evolved roaring next to the words "FIGHT TRANSPHOBIA." The background is a lightened version of the trans pride flag.

January 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM

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Erin Reed

@erininthemorning.com

Surprise Surprise... bathroom laws target cisgender women more often than trans ones, from a simple numbers game there are just so many more cisgender gender nonconforming people than there are trans people out there.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · Jan 23

Fun thread from Bloomberg ace Hill reporter @houseinsession.bsky.social

January 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM

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Mishell Baker merrily

@mishellbaker.bsky.social

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM