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zillahsmith.bsky.social
Zillah
@zillahsmith.bsky.social
380 followers 330 following 270 posts
I do art, mostly science-y and nature-y stuff. I used to do tattoos. Lexington, KY. I hate AI. I love science and critters and motorcycles and you. I co-host an insect podcast called There Will Be Bugs. (They/them) www.zillahsmith.com
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dpulera.bsky.social
One week until my carbon dust course starts. There are still some spots available. This technique combines drawing and ‘painting’ using a dry brush to apply layers of ground dust to achieve realistic 3D illustrations. #SciArt, #NaturalScienceIllustration #CarbonDust
October 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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davis.social
You’re never too old to start drawing.
October 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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stage7.bsky.social
Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️
The Bisexual Manifesto: We are tired [the rest is redacted].
September 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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joolia.bsky.social
this exists it is called thinking
Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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racheline.bsky.social
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
zillahsmith.bsky.social
Hi come to costumed figure drawing in beautiful Lexington Kentucky! 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 6-8pm. (I used @trueref.bsky.social for reference :)
Flier for pay what you can costumed figure drawing at the void sake in Lexington Kentucky. The next sessions are Sept 23, Oct 14, Oct 28, Nov 11, Nov 25, dec 9. All sessions are 6-8pm. The poster depicts a woman with dark skin holding a sword, she is facing away from the viewer and looking over her shoulder.
September 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
zillahsmith.bsky.social
Important: today my cat did a 10/10 perfect loaf and followed it up with a little shrimp pose. 🍤
Lucy, a black cat with green eyes, sits in with her little feeties tucked under her like a loaf of bread, looking directly at the camera. A top down photo of the same black cat laying on her side with her head tucked and her back feet curled around her like a shrimp. She is a perfect beautiful creature. The very tip of her tail is white, like a magicians wand.
September 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
zillahsmith.bsky.social
I did the wildlife one :) you could channel your righteous anger about, you know, everything, into purchasing some nice art with important messaging. If you want. I’m not your boss.
sarahmackattack.bsky.social Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Sep 10
Hi I know we're all talking about something else at this particular momennnttt, but can I interest any of you in educational posters?

I've got 'em in a pack & seasonal lightning bugs too!

It helps support SaS and makes it easy for you to spread important messages in your community!

SquidFacts.net
A poster hanging on a brick wall that says Leave your leaves for lightning bugs! with lightning bugs on new purple asters . There's too-small-to-read text in a box with the heading Lightning bugs are struggling to survive, help them thrive by taking these actions. The actions are: 1) Leave your leaves. Lightning bug babies live in fallen leaves. When we send away our leaves, we kill the babies! Leave your leaves on the ground, or pile them in a corner. 2) Don't use Pesticides. Pesticides kill lightning bugs! Cut them out of your yard care routine. 3) Turn off the lights. Lightning bugs need darkness to communicate. 4) Tell your friends! Our actions become much more powerful when we take them as a community. Get your friends and family involved too. 4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
September 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
As we enter fall, it's so important that we tell everyone to leave those leaves! Mads Torres designed a poster to help us.

Lightning bugs are one of the most charismatic insects we've got. Actions we take to protect them protects many insects!

Get some to hang in your neighborhood!
Squidfacts.net
A poster hanging on a brick wall that says Leave your leaves for lightning bugs! with lightning bugs on new purple asters . There's too-small-to-read text in a box with the heading Lightning bugs are struggling to survive, help them thrive by taking these actions
September 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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esqueer.net
Oh my god, Trump actually got the NRA to come out to defend trans people owning a gun.
"Graphic from the NRA with a red border and dark blue background. White and yellow text states: 'The NRA supports the Second Amendment rights of all law abiding Americans to purchase, possess and use firearms. NRA does not, and will not, support any policy proposals that implement sweeping gun bans that arbitrarily strip law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights without due process.' The NRA logo is at the bottom. The tweet caption reads: 'The Second Amendment isn’t up for debate.'"
September 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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pikaole.bsky.social
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Two-panel comic First panel There's a laptop and a mountain of paperwork. Second panel An axolotl is looking at it, doing nothing but just drinking coffee.
September 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
zillahsmith.bsky.social
Hey so uh, dozens of countries refusing to ship anything to the US, that’s pretty bad right? Like not in a consumerism way but in a no-contact-with-the-outside-world way? At the same time he’s occupying cities? And Internet ID laws? That’s all pretty bad, right? Right?
August 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
zillahsmith.bsky.social
I finally had a chance to hatewatch the Ice Cube vehicle War of the Worlds and it is hypnotically bad. Amazon product placement? Bad. Out of date references? Bad. Written when they assumed NASA would still exist and women would work there? Bad. Just terrible all around. A must watch.
August 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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rossignol.bsky.social
We're definitely entering an era where the Internet is so hollowed out, so untrustworthy and compromised, that real world interactions, things identifiably done by human beings, will take on greater value and purpose.
August 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
We've got 35 sets of these posters left.

This project came from my evergreen frustration with our important messages getting trapped on social media algorithms.

Good stuff for posting on your local community bulletin board, classroom, office door, etc!

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4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
August 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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cait.bsky.social
when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe
August 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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llewellynrose.bsky.social
i love gay art made by gay people
August 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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amandajealous.bsky.social
Isopod says Trans rights!
#bug #comic #comicoop
Four panel comic in a square 2x2 format, color scheme yellow, green, and grayish-blue. A person sits sadly by themselves in lush environment. A Pillbug approaches the person’s hand. The person picks up the Pillbug. The final panel shows the Pillbug in their hand and the Pillbug says “Trans rights. 🏳️‍⚧️"
August 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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kaye.zone
I’m terrified of the city and I need a robot to write my emails for me. I’m the strongest toughest little conservative soldier there ever was
August 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
zillahsmith.bsky.social
I literally can’t look at a seal without thinking of that arrested development bit where buster looses his hand.
Open sketchbook with a painting of a seal floating in a kelp forrest
August 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
i think straight men can get laid if they have like a lot of pictures of bugs maybe? like in their wallet
August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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flyingtrilobite.com
I don’t care if it’s the South Park guys making fun of Trump, generative AI still sucks and I won’t applaud it.

The funnier bits are the collage-animation anyway.

#NoAI
July 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
zillahsmith.bsky.social
Every now and then I’ll open this app to find a bunch of new notifications when I haven’t posted in a while and it always makes me nervous. But it’s usually people being real nice to me. ❤️
July 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
zillahsmith.bsky.social
I got to make some cover art for your new favorite podcast!
duckfeedtv.bsky.social Duckfeed @duckfeedtv.bsky.social · Jul 25
We're ready to reveal the new cover art for Best Quality Vacuum, our show that starting on August 2 will be covering Better Call Saul episode by episode. The art is by the wonderful @zillahsmith.bsky.social and we really love it.
Podcast cover art featuring a black and white drawing of Gary and Kaye working at a Cinnabon, a la Gene's shitty job on Better Call Saul. Gary looks miserable and is holding tongs. Kaye is making the best of the situation, but probably shouldn't be holding that cinnamon roll with her bare hands.
July 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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realphantomhours.bsky.social
Meme, upper text: The Myth of Artistic Freedom Man says: I want to draw it Woman says: I want to see it MasterCard and Visa logos say: I DON'T! Bottom text: ISN'T THERE SOME RANDOM PAYMENT PROCESSOR YOU FORGOT TO ASK?
July 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM