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#NerdfArters Day 31 prompt: "Nerdfighteria Museum." (It's interesting to look back and see how things seemed to make so much sense in the moment.) #DFTBA
October 31, 2026 at 5:52 PM
kipenyan.bsky.social
Definitely involves this guy (iykyk)
A deflated Mylar balloon of a fish. It is signed by Hank Green and also says DFTBA! with a drawing of a hanklerfish above it
October 28, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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#NerdfArters Day 30 prompt: "Well the light was on." #DFTBA
A low-light photo of the bottom of a plastic cup poking through paper, glowing bright neon pink, blue, and orange like an arcade button. Handwritten text below it reads "PLEASE DO NOT PUSH THE BUTTON AGAIN". A silhouetted finger reaches in from the right, about to push it anyway.
October 31, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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#NerdfArters Day 29 prompt: "Sneezing is not normal." #DFTBA
A high-angle photo of a gray stone Moai-style head statue nestled in a garden bed surrounded by green foliage, evergreen branches, and fallen orange autumn leaves. A folded white facial tissue is directly underneath the statue's large stone nose, making the stoic face look as though it is recovering from a sneeze.
October 29, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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#NerdfArters 2026 Art Challenge bonus pumpkin! To close out my first full month of arting, I carved an unintentionally menacing Pizza John in the driveway while handing out candy. Thank you to the organizers for making this happen! Turns out having a single daily constraint is motivating. #DFTBA
A lit jack-o'-lantern sitting outdoors at night in front of dark garden bushes, with a glowing streetlight, leafy branches, and a neighbour's driveway visible in the background. The centre of the pumpkin is surface-carved and shaded with the iconic "Pizza John" portrait (which depicts John Green's face with glasses and a thick mustache) glowing warm orange. Below the face, the word "PIZZA" is cut completely through the pumpkin rind in block capital letters, shining brightly from the light inside. A smaller striped gourd sits in the shadows to the bottom right.
November 1, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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#NerdfArters Day 28 prompt: "Something awaits for me in the divine for resisting". (Resisting the mundane by pressing my phone against a Halloween store display and playing with the levels until it turns into... something else?) #DFTBA
An abstract, close-up photograph bathed in deep electric blue. Curving, dark surfaces form a narrow, canyon-like passage that sweeps from the bottom right toward a dark vanishing point in the upper left. Parallel rows of glowing pale-yellow LED dots reflect infinitely into the depths along the blue ridges, leading the eye toward a single tiny crescent of light suspended in the darkness.
October 29, 2026 at 3:17 AM
leeleykeel.bsky.social
Watching Hank dftba Green’s latest video and omg he is all of us rn. I had to pause 19 minutes in to type this and r it back 2 minutes to experience it again lol

youtu.be/peXe_nSJh0A?...
What the Hell is Going On with RFK Jr.
YouTube video by Hank Green
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October 28, 2026 at 10:27 PM
realityminus3.bsky.social
SEA-EWR-LHR. We are being deported back to Wales ☹️

I have trading card stories! But we're taxiing now, so, later.

The more I do it the more I dislike flying. I love you. 💙✌🏻 DFTBA 🖖🏻🖖🏻
October 26, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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#NerdfArters Day 27 prompt: "Manhole (the horse)". (This was the first time I ever had to explain to a passing stranger why I was in the street doing a rubbing of a manhole cover with a brown crayon.) #DFTBA
A mixed-media photograph of a toy horse's shadow cast across a brown crayon rubbing of a street manhole cover. The horse is in profile facing left in mid-trot, with one front leg and one back leg raised. Lit by coloured LEDs, the horse's shadow shifts in a gradient from deep reddish-brown at the head and neck, to glowing coral and warm amber through the torso, to cool grey-blue at the hindquarters and tail. Showing through the shadow on the pale blue-tinted paper is the brown crayon texture of the manhole lid: a grid of rough squares across the top and middle, diagonal markings on the left, and the capital block letters "SEWER" along the bottom beneath the horse's hooves.
October 27, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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#NerdfArters Day 26 prompt: "J Scribble World Record". (1 signed book, swung wildly. 1 phone-to-TV camera feedback loop. 1 kids' toy karaoke machine for party lighting. 1 accidental looping arrow icon in the corner because the signing never stops.) #DFTBA
An experimental photograph created using a screen-casting video feedback loop. In the upper-left foreground, an angled book page shows John Green's looping marker signature next to partial bold printed letters reading "...OOD, ...ING" (from the book “Hollywood, Ending”). Behind the page, a television screen repeats the image of the book and signature down toward the bottom right through overlapping camera viewfinder gridlines. Vibrant spots of red, green, and blue light from a toy karaoke machine glow across the paper and screen. Along the bottom edge, the blue-tinted phone camera interface displays zoom buttons and a circular two-arrow flip-camera icon in the bottom-left corner that visually echoes an infinite loop.
October 27, 2026 at 12:19 AM
withane.bsky.social
I’m following along with the Hollywood, Ending Q&A right now & I wish I had people irl to share the emotions with. What a great online community, though! DFTBA
October 26, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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#NerdfArters Day 25 prompt: "Endlings". (Fragments of colour and motion lingering before they fade into memory.) #DFTBA
A horizontal painting on warm peach-coloured cardstock, with loose brushstrokes in white, orange, yellow, green, pink, red, and royal blue. Slightly left of and below the center is a large white flower with sweeping, feathery petals, a cluster of green strokes at its inner base, and a bright yellow center dot. Just above it to the left is a smaller, star-shaped green blossom with a yellow center. Arcing outward around the central flower are long, curved strokes of burnt orange and golden yellow that resemble stems or flight paths. Scattered across the page are wispy clusters of paint that evoke both drifting flower petals and stylized birds or feathers in motion. Several of these clusters pair fanned-out pink, green, or white feathery strokes with dabs of royal blue and tiny accents of bright red and white at their tips.
October 25, 2026 at 3:26 PM
morjax.bsky.social
I did the thing and cast my #Vote early today (secret Pizzamas shirt in tow #DFTBA)!

Make sure you have a plan to vote as well!
October 23, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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#NerdfArters Day 24 prompt: "Gods of Andromeda". (Leftover paints and clay become the fiery chaos of a contested throne, the grounded weight of rule, and a trail of royal purple poison cutting through the court of Agrippah and Gavinth.) #DFTBA
Close-up of an abstract mixed-media artwork. A rough, cracked brown clay sphere rests in the upper left on a surface painted with sweeping, fiery brushstrokes of red, orange, yellow, and white. Across the bottom right, thick blotches and a diagonal trail of shimmering purple glitter paint cut across the warm background.
October 24, 2026 at 8:47 PM
3shashi.bsky.social
Go ahead and make a few videos. You don’t have to upload them yet, just practice with the content you want to create and then upload them if you want.
Courage is being scared, but moving forward anyway 🙂
DFTBA
October 24, 2026 at 2:49 PM
lithelyunshod.bsky.social
@kilnfiendpotter.bsky.social Now that the @desertbus.org 2026 store is live and I have a job again, finally picked up some of your sleeves.
A screenshot of an order confirmation from DFTBA containing one 2026 Desert Bus doubloon and and a pack of Dragon Shield sleeves featuring an homage to Gustav Klimt's The Kiss with Jace and Vraska by Michelle "kilnfiendpotter" Rapp.
October 24, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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#NerdfArters Day 23 prompt: "Smush". (I rolled my kids' used paintbrushes around before we washed them, just to see what would happen.) #DFTBA
A vertical photo taken from a low side angle of an abstract painting on white paper, created by rolling paintbrushes in circles around a centre point. Because of the angled perspective, the concentric rings of paint appear as sweeping arcs stacked from bottom to top. In the foreground at the bottom are thick, ridged tracks of bright blue paint, followed by a curving row of small, dabbed red marks across the white paper. Above that, vibrant green strokes are overlaid with ribbed yellow tracks, curving around a soft golden-yellow centre near the top of the frame, which is bordered along the far edge by bands of green, orange, and yellow.
October 24, 2026 at 1:46 AM
tearsofblood.bsky.social
Turns out it was a couple shirts I ordered from DFTBA lol
October 22, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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#NerdfArters Day 22 prompt: "Imagining Sisyphus". (When a single shake erases the whole mountain, one must imagine the Etch A Sketch artist happy.) #DFTBA
A close-up photo of an Etch A Sketch screen taken in the dark and edited with deep, coppery-amber tones. Near the bottom center, the reflection of a single light source forms a stark, glowing white orb resembling a luminous boulder. Etched dark lines rise above and around the light, combining sharp, stair-stepped right angles down the center with tangled diagonal curves along the sides to suggest a steep, abstract mountainside.
October 22, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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#NerdfArters Day 20 prompt: "The Away End". (Looking in the same direction.) #DFTBA
A top-down view of a concrete surface covered in a light dusting of snow. Numerous tiny bird tracks converge and cluster tightly around a small, dried brown seed pod. Near the bottom, light blue serif text reads: "Of all the unimportant things, [blank line] is the most important."
October 20, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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#NerdfArters Day 21 prompt: "Trousers Rolled". (I put string lights through a rolled-up poster from a family member's Tetraset letter art tribute to Chomsky. The result feels to me like a reminder to cuff my hems and wade into hope.) #DFTBA
A close-up, high-angle view looking inside a coiled roll of white paper. A strand of mini string lights with glowing cyan, magenta, and yellow-orange bulbs runs through an inner loop on the left. The bright pink and teal light shines through the paper, revealing a dense, overlapping pattern of black block letters and geometric shapes. On the right, an adjacent loop of the coiled paper catches warm golden light at its base, with black sans-serif text curving along the inner wall that reads in part: "So you've got two choices, one guarantees the worst will... the other leaves open the... that things might get... se choic…"
October 22, 2026 at 4:30 AM
tonksmoriarty.bsky.social
Finally got my Saturn tshirt & Mola Cult tee from DFTBA, and noticed they both smelt rather menthol-y.

Really odd.
October 20, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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#NerdfArters Day 18 prompt: "Something Worth Knowing". (Not sure if this qualifies as art, but here is some wisdom courtesy of a ten-year-old face-swap algorithm: your face-to-balloon ratio is best kept at one-to-zero.) #DFTBA
A face-swap photo of a man in a floral shirt holding a round mylar balloon. His face has been replaced with a giant heart-eyes emoji graphic, while his actual smiling, bearded face is stretched across the floating yellow balloon next to him.
October 19, 2026 at 10:30 PM
minimarker.dftba.social
Happy birthday Pizza Baby!!! You are so loved and so wonderful! You’re doing great! DFTBA!
October 18, 2026 at 3:27 AM
sarahrohrersy.bsky.social
Pizza Baby! You will do such great things in your life! Your future is so bright and you are very loved. DFTBA Pizza Baby! 💜🍕
October 18, 2026 at 12:51 AM