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Diandra Mae
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🇵🇷-Texan Illustrator 🖌️✂️🎨 | She/Her | ✨this✨close to wandering off into the woods forever 🏕️ Team#ADHD, so no method to my madness | TX ICE Impact Guide: https://tinyurl.com/TxICE |Portfolio: diandramae.com |
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Diandra Mae @diandramae.com · 12d
I’m so tempted to make this my new avatar. A mom who had no idea how to manage thick, curly hair, and me, who took absolutely zero care of my appearance through the school day? 🤣 What a recipe for disaster!
A digital illustration showing purple poodle child getting her school picture taken with a very 90s-style blue and pink laser backdrop. Her fluffy hairdo has fallen, and her yellow ribbons are coming undone. She smiles, but has random curls poking out here and there.
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am I gonna have to do the royal clause rule against perpetuities run around thing in my own fucking will
September 16, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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BRB googling how to keep this from happening to my estate
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15h
“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”
Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler
Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP
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September 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM
diandramae.com
Hailey kills this cover, and I still love it.
Creep - Vintage Postmodern Jukebox Radiohead Cover ft. Haley Reinhart
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September 16, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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My great great great great grandpappy about to leave behind a widow with 11 children
Crudely drawn scene in the style of the bayeux tapestry showing a peasant calling from his plowed field surrounded by wildflowers to a passing armed noble with a chicken’s head motif on his helmet. Text reads “gvess what:” “what” “chiccen butt.” It is framed by decorative borders depicting crudely drawn goat, chickens, dragons, dogs and a peasant woman mourning a grave.
September 13, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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Great Blue Heron Totem 🪶✨
This one's colour design was inspired by the reduction block print I made last year!

This one has sold but there are more ceramic critters in my shop!
🌿: shop.lioninthetrees.com/collections/...

#art #pottery
A large ceramic sculpture of a Great Blue Heron. It is done with a variety of underglazes to mimic the reduction block print. The block print features a Great Blue Heron done in a bright lime green, a dark teal, and a yellow beak. The sculpture features a gold luster disk on top of it's head as well as a handmade red tassel hanging from it's beak. A stylised illustrated block print featuring a Blue Heron in an oval framed by floral details. Colours used were a teal, lime green, yellow, and a dark green/blue.
September 16, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Throwing my hat into the ring with black creatives who deserve some love.

If you follow me or happen to see this and wanna be included, reply below mmmk😌

And of course, if you don’t wanna be included, also lemme know❤️

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September 16, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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Morning, y’all. 😜
Sesame Street: Oscar ft. Macklemore in Grouch Thrift Shop
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September 16, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!

We're celebrating the talent and creativity of our Hispanic and Latino communities ALL MONTH LONG with 30% off these three titles!🙌
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A colorful background with three book covers, Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales: Lizard Prince and Student Ambassador: The Silver City and The Missing Dragon, overlaid. Text in green and purple text reads: Hispanic Heritage Month Sale! Sept 15 - Oct 15".
September 16, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” - Goethe
September 16, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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Man, people are hilarious. 😆

You can watch a short film about these birds here: www.garretharkawik.com/a-very-large...
Three platforms atop telephone poles hold up three giant hands, each flipping the bird, aka the middle finger. Text reads “A zoning dispute turned into one of Vermont’s most unforgettable roadside displays.”
September 15, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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I'm donating 100% of all jumbo Draw Program pin proceeds to my kids CPS school.

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September 13, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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Many fantasy and sci-fi authors have created compelling fictional religions, but @tkingfisher.com has written the only one I actually want to join.

Let me be be useful. Let me be practical. Let me find ways my skills can serve others in the Temple of the White Rat.
September 15, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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Tell a friend! Tell the group chat! Tell a stranger!
civilrightsorg.bsky.social The Leadership Conference @civilrightsorg.bsky.social · 1d
Millions of eligible Americans aren't registered to vote — and many who think they are may have had their status lapse. Don’t be one of them.

Take two minutes today to check. Then let your friends know to check too!
https://nationalvoterregistrationday.org/
September 15, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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For the 21st year in a row, BLAB! Magazine founder, editor, and curator Monte Beauchamp, alongside Copro Gallery, present THE BLAB! SHOW. Featuring 60+ contemporary artists!

E-mail: [email protected] for more details 💫

Featured: artwork by Travis Lampe: "The Axes of Outrageous Fortune"

#art
September 15, 2026 at 2:30 PM
diandramae.com
*blink-blink*
I *just* logged on.
courtneymilan.com Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d
really did not think that the GOP would be going so hard into pro-bestiality in 2026 as the next culture war front
September 15, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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drskyskull.bsky.social
This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own
Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing
September 14, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire

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reddit comment: Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind? Guillermo Del Toro's reply: My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real. Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know? Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all. Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you. Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand? GDT: The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man. We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear. AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist. And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.” And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
September 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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fyi
Back of a jacket that reads art is not a sport There are no winners or losers Lucas museum of narrative art
September 6, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Hey, folks? If you're an artist (and, yes, writing is art) and think YOU deserve decent pay for your work, don't turn right around and shit on OTHER artists.
welldipper.bsky.social Well_dipper (C2E2 L-10) @welldipper.bsky.social · 3d
So let’s talk about this!! Young artists are being preyed upon by shitty indie authors who think they can get away with not paying artists professional wages. Especially in the age of AI this bullshit infuriaties me like nothing else. Stop taking advantage of artists.
September 13, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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My shop will close TOMORROW EVENING (so, Monday about 7 EST) until sometime in October! My top surgery is this Wednesday so last shipments will all go out Tues. ✌️ Also I’ll see you all in the MFF den!
September 13, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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Probably preaching to the choir, but I want y'all to know I started reading this *immediately* after finishing THE WONDER ENGINE last night, and I'm having the BEST time. I am snickering, cackling, and kicking my feet, and I'm only a third of the way through!
DAGGERBOUND by T Kingfisher
September 13, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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I thought I had bypassed the whole "teen daughter shopping in your closet" thing, but my 16 year old has suddenly decided I am in fact kinda cool. I've lost a pair of jeans, two graphic tees, and two pairs of shoes to the little magpie this weekend. 😅
Mine! Finding Nemo Seagulls Meme
Alt: Mine! Finding Nemo Seagulls Meme
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September 13, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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We've learned about Persian desert-powered ice pits, now let's learn about Iron Age Persian AIR CONDITIONING.

How did people live in the hottest part of the world before you could dial down the thermostat & hope your electric bill gets lost in the mail?

Let's learn about 'badgirs' or wind towers.
Yazd - Badgir - Windcatcher, a tower with poles sticking out at odd angles, decorated in geometric figures atop flat roofs. CREDIT: Alireza Javaheri
September 13, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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This is such a great creation.

If you make videos and might make use of public domain footage, check this project out.
alfie.photography Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 4d
Getty makes a ton of money out of selling public domain footage. Which is crazy. But that’s Getty.

The footage is usually available free elsewhere but it’s hard to find.

Great video that helps you understand where and how to find it.

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I Killed A Business Model
YouTube video by Elroddd
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September 13, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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Hey guys, if you're gonna share that one meme I made like a million years ago on Tumblr, share the original, not the horrible auto-smoothed traced version. Don't smooth out my angry, "it's 11 at night and I have FEELINGS ABOUT ART" hand wobbles, they're part of the piece!
September 13, 2026 at 5:11 AM