Do you live in Illinois, New Hampshire, Virginia, or Nevada?* Time to make some angry phone calls! Yes, actual phone calls. And yes, only those states, because the first thing a senator's office does with an out-of-state comment is throw it out. 😑 (* Or PA, though that's Fetterman so good luck. 😒)

#Gnollvember2025 Day 9 - Silly #Gnollvember #gnoll #gnollbard #digitalart #illustration

Missed yesterday but here's today's! Arri's tower-sorceress employer often sends him out shopping for potion and alchemy ingredients. But some of the ways he's learned to detect when something has inherent magic can look a little odd to ohers...

Arri also spent a number of summers being a camp hireling for adventuring parties, and sometimes ended up having to follow them into some worryingly dark places. Gotta make sure the torch doesn't go out... I rather like the lighting on this one.

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Continuing the daily hyenoid bleeting: almost the first drawing I got from @ briarsthorne, almost ten years ago now. This is Arri. He lives in an RPG-ish fantasy world and works part time for a local tower sorceress doing miscellaneous errands. He also plays the gittern a lot and might be a bard.

It is important to remember that elected officials can fail to fulfill their campaign promises for reasons other than 1) conspiracy and 2) insincerity/lack of desire For instance: Governing in a democratic system with checks and balances is hard

Anything that wins is 👌. It's really annoying to have somebody dress up "must appeal exactly to me, personally" as the only workable strategy, no matter if leftist or centrist or whatever. Right now I like both having democracy and shoving every R into the figurative ocean over nearly everything.

But not every part of working the Darkmoon Faire is bad! The smaller patrons are often very friendly.

Bluepaw also sometimes has to deal with Darkmoon Faire patrons who get a little too enthusiastic about the Whack-a-Gnoll game... 😥

Today I made kabocha curry because I had forgotten that cutting up anything in the pumpkin family takes FOREVER.

I've gotten a number of hyenoids drawn over the years, mostly from @briarsthorn , so I figured I'd just start posting one a day. Here's one of the older ones, from my WoW era: Bluepaw the Darkmoon Faire carnie. He's having a bit of trouble with the goblin candy machine at the moment...

Uh oh. Maybe using discounted Halloween chocolate to make cookies with wasn't the best idea? Hopefully this clears up by the end of Gnollvember... (🖌️: @briarsthorne.bsky.social )

No one appreciates frank advice anymore.

So I know I've gone on these types of rants a lot but as someone who does a fair amount of work in this world I would once again like to point out that the key motivation for this "agenda based inclusion" is that companies want to maximize their profits and avoid alienating potential purchasers

This was longer with more swearing originally, but I'll cut it down. Tell me my behavior is inconsistent with my beliefs: Definitely possible! I'll consider it. Tell me I don't believe what I think I do: Are you a literal mind reader? No? Then you're not an authority on my thoughts.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Terraform is perhaps THE most annoying management tool I have to deal with and I resent that it is basically everywhere. And it's not even that it's annoying accidentally. It's annoying BY DESIGN. 😑

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown. Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

The song the office cafeteria is playing has periodic sound effects in it that sound like one of my notifications and 😖

Dear every search function ever: STOP GIVING ME RESULTS THAT DO NOT CONTAIN THE PHRASE I SEARCHED FOR

So happy to finally share this work from February! 🌲🌿 My sable piece for Mustelizine mustelizine.itch.io/mustelizine

One of the lattemongers near me seems to have different staff every time I go in—except for one woman I'm pretty sure is the owner (and lately, her daughter). I kind of wonder what is going on there to cause this.

Trick or Treat! 🎃🍂🍬 #otter #badger #hare #halloween

guys look at this cool endangered mushroom i found in my forest

So local transit just sent me a survey that, among other things, asked why I use a physical card to pay rather than a phone app. And like. Because a physical card won't run out of battery or crash or die if I get it wet??? Also I don't have to unlock it to use it.

The train to Osaka.

Isn't it? I wonder if this has any relation to the fact that the administration isn't Democratic this time around. 🤔🤔🤔

~ for @wolffylegend.bsky.social

When Trump hears what Ronald Reagan said about immigrants he’s going to have DOJ arrest him for mortgage fraud.

Put it on a stick and hold it over a campfire? 🤔

New band Schenectady Synecdoche

At my local produce market, Buy Mysterious Melons season has ended and Buy Mysterious Gourds season has begun.

I'm still annoyed that "make remediations and restitutions" dropped out a while back. 😒

We should have far less “smart” things because most everything about them almost always winds up being way more stupid than not.

"For the honor of Grayskull !" This is my take on what "Swift Wind" from "She-ra" would look like in an alternate anthro universe. Had fun painting this one! high res and alts on my Patreon- bullstorm #furry #furryart #furryartwork #shera #swiftwind #horse #unicorn #MoTU #paint #canvas #oilpaint

I am pleasantly surprised that there are multiple antipode calculators online.

There's a small protest on this corner every weekend but it's rather bigger today. This isn't even close to downtown either.

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

It's big Trump protest day so that means we are mere hours away from my least favorite Bluesky: the Russian disinfo surge. Here's how it works, and what you can do about it. 🧵

Out of curiosity I looked up how they pick a new Archbishop of Canterbury and honestly it kinda makes a papal conclave seem straightforward.

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Loud guy a row behind me in the open office: "Anyway it's time to wrap up. I'll send you the details on Slack." Me: Oh thank God he's done with his meeting - 90sec pass - LGaRBirOO: "Hey everyone, thanks for coming to this presentation. To begin, let's..." Me: 😱😱😠😠☠️☠️

Somebody could say "I wish there were a French bakery near me. I would eat croissants every day." and people would pile on them for being ablist (vs celiac), racist (Eurocentrism), classist (promoting gentrification), elitist (needs disposable income), and liberal (b/c not politics).

Don't talk to me before I have my morning Rarohire Rochi Terochichimomo.

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Trying to read a word doc on my phone. The default viewer is not great so I install the MS Word app. It wants me to log in. To read a LOCAL FILE. That is ALREADY ON MY PHONE. Fuck. That.

Dog.

Story writing tip for amateurs: Fewer words is almost always better. Yes, there are some stylistic effects you can achieve by using more elaborate prose. No, you are not successfully achieving one of them.