I’ve been working on a little cartoon series on this exact topic. It turns out even with daily irrefutable evidence, we can still have mass & institutional denial of reality. And oppression of truth. From our most trusted sources. Thank you @davemilbo.bsky.social for this great article. 🧵1/4

Anyone else stop at Gundagai on the drive between Sydney/Melbourne? 🙋🏻‍♀️ A cute old town with architecture that’s fun to capture! #Gundagai #Procreate #ArchitectureArt #Uplift

Anyone else stop at Gundagai on the drive between Sydney/Melbourne? 🙋🏻‍♀️ A cute old town with architecture that’s fun to capture! #Gundagai #Procreate #ArchitectureArt #Uplift

Here's a little Kookaburra I was commissioned to draw, never get tired of them! #drawing #bird #birdart #wildlife #pencilart

I’ve finally remembered to share more of my cricket art on my insta account. So if you like cricket art (and more) popping up in your feed (if the algorithm allows lol), feel free to go give me a follow over there too! @ maddyobart #Cricket #CricketSky #Ashes 🏏

I’m an artist wanting to raise awareness of the current drought in Vic & SA. I have 2 qns: 1. Are there any charities supporting these farms/communities I can direct people to? 2. Are any farmers willing to send me some photos I can use as references for my artwork? I’d love to show real places

Like a pig in mud or a dog with bubbles to catch.

Follow our Issue 15 prose and art contributors: @hidden-grove.bsky.social @spooniessquad.bsky.social @bobbydontbesad.bsky.social @maddyobart.bsky.social @nowhalle.bsky.social

Today is #MEAwarenessDay. Here’s a tiny glimpse into life with this debilitating disease. #MECFS #MissingMillions #MECFSis #MEAwarenessMonth

Me: has a strong desire to embroider cool designs on some of my clothing. Also me: has finger pain that makes needlework a terrible idea. 🫠 #pwME #ChronicIllness #Embroidery #Disability

When you’re clearly longing for spring, even though it’s still autumn 😅 #BloomScrolling #Illustration #Art #Procreate #OnlyBeautifulThings #pwME

Wishbone Words is OPEN FOR SUBS for one more month (until May 31)! Are you a #ChronicallyIll, #Disabled, or #Neurodivergent #Writer, #Author, or #Artist? Visit www.wishbonewords.com/submit to view our sub guidelines and send us your work! We accept #Prose ( #Fiction and #CNF), #Poetry, and #Art.

We need your help to make it a success! We invite all people with ME, Long COVID, and other disabilities to join us! We are sending an SOS to -Save our support systems. Save our science. Save our society. A huge thank you to Jess of @hospmom.bsky.social for this amazing artwork! #Disability

Accessible social media content for #pwME, #LongCovid #ChronicIllness #disability I’m putting together some polls for my Insta stories asking about accessibility needs for those who have them. Eg. prefer voiceover or written caption; music with lyrics, without lyrics or silence?

Meet Bertie. The Aussie Blue-Banded Bee. (And no doubt, the most technical bee drawing you’ll see all day) #InverteFest #Bee #Illustration #WildlifeOz

Happy birthday to Zofia Keilan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) a Polish #paleobiologist famous for a series of Polish-Mongolian expeditions she lead from 1963-1971 to the Gobi desert! 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci There she discovered dinosaurs including the Deinocheirus, plus she & team found the “Fighting Dinosaurs” fossil

Sunday 27th April Pillow Scripters for play writers and players. Monday 28th April The Annex for long form writers. Tuesday 29th April Pillow Writers En Español. Los encuentros son completamente en Español. All 11:00 am PST via Zoom. More info and Zoom link here: pillowwriters.wordpress.com

Storytelling training for #MIllionsMissing! Expert storyteller, Kirsten Ferrell, will lead our community in a storytelling training that will enable us to share our stories in a way that leads to change on April 27th at 12pm PT/3pm ET. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/millionsmi... #pwME

When I use Google now I just automatically scroll past the AI summaries like they’re banner ads

Yesterday I saw an artist who uses teeny miniature figurines & photographs them in/on vegetables etc. And at that scale the ‘landscape’ looks huge. This provoked a heap of ideas of how I could use this concept to both depict #pwME, and be a visual escape especially for bed and house bound people.

My new workshop:small museums for mental health, is now live. I'll teach you how creating small museums alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health & we'll make small museums together 24 May,zoom, recording available afterwards Open to anyone,anywhere workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

Question for blind & low vision people. I’m currently looking into turning my art into clothing merch. And I’m wondering if you like embroidered items? I’m thinking simple line art type style, so the shapes & lines are clear. Thoughts? #AccessibleArt #Disability #Blind #LowVision #TactileArt

When you step into a time capsule in a little country town. These little gems are in Gundagai. A classic stop over town when driving between Melbourne & Sydney. ID: Timelapse of digital ink & watercolour drawing of a row of 3 colourful old style single story houses, each with an awning. #Art

Happy birthday to geologist & oceanographic cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.⁠ 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬⚒️ #histsci ⁠ After studying #geology & math, Maurice 'Doc' Ewing 🧵

Friendly reminder to scientists/science communicators - the images you share (and thus grow followers, trust, credibility upon) are 100-fold better when you use alt-text because they are more accessible to broader audiences. Want to go one step further? Attribute the source! It's the BlueSky way.

The first posy in a thimble I made, to lift my mood during the pandemic. The flowers are all real. When humans look at plants (even on a screen as here) we recover from stress 60% more quickly & the relaxation response is triggered in our brains. Zoom in if you're strung out🌿

Just a reminder that, if your regular feed is feeling all doom and gloom right now, you should scroll the #SciArt feed for a little bit to enjoy beautiful art: bsky.app/profile/did:... If your feed is not doom and gloom right now then, uhhh.. you may want to examine that

Anyone else use too many spoons collecting & photographing autumn leaves today? No? Just me? Let me be a warning to you all 🥴 I'm hoping to incorporate these leaves into my digital artwork. So watch this space! (The veining 😍) #BotanicalArt #Autumn #SciArt #pwME #NaturePhotography #TinyJoys

Critically Endangered Swift Parrot is one of just three migratory parrots on earth. Removal of their habitat has left possibly 500 in the wild. birdlife.org.au/bird-profile... Ref 📷: Kenton Reeder #AColorADaypril #SciArt #Art #OnlyBeautifulThings #AustralianParrot #Art #Procreate #WildOz #Bird

just because we can use AI to make art doesn’t mean we should #Art #Illustration #Artist #OriginalArt #OnlyBeautifulThings

Not following SciArt feed? Why not? Beautiul art that enlightens and illustrates natue and science? Win win!!

Sharing something #Peaceful from my Marshlands series for today's #BlueSkyArtShow Tisha Mark ©2023, Daybreak, oil on canvas, 20"x20" (Sold) #art #painting

I was gonna do one of those AI action figures all my GIS nerd friends are doing but I just like drawing badly more. Any fun and stupid thing worth doing is worth doing imperfectly by hand.

Pear study #digitalart #procreateart

Clouds are cool. Nuff said. ID: digital drawing of clouds with some blue sky #AColorADaypril #SkyBlue #Art #Illustration #Procreate #Clouds

Joining #CripCoop is free - just post your skills and needs using the hashtag, and we can try to find someone in the community who you can connect with for mutual benefit. Find out more about #CripCoop at CripCoop.com. This #playlist explains the ethos in more detail

This project is incredible. Please go look at the works of these severely unwell artists. These are the voices so rarely heard. And so rarely have the platform to share their stories. Phenomenal effort for them to put this together. #ME #MEArt #Disability #Art #Poetry #Photography

2/ "... The government has not yet funded additional ... ME/CFS research and patient support ... I know how much this matters to many Australians." Funding to help Australians suffering with #mecfs is vastly inadequate. People disabled by ME/CFS & #LongCovid vote too, @markbutlermp.bsky.social .

1/ What's happened to Rec 8 of the long COVID inquiry report, which called for better biomedical research & practitioner education funding? Last year, #Australian MP @mon4kooyong.bsky.social asked about the govt's inadequate response to the report:

It's almost as if ##longCovid is a real physical condition that medicine doesn't know how to treat bc they've dismissed/psychologised/gaslit ppl w the VERY similar #mecfs for decades 🤔 This is a US study but the same situation applies here. You have the power to change it @markbutlermp.bsky.social.

I'm one of the 97% of people with ME unable to access the NDIS. It's mid afternoon, I'm still in bed, haven't had anything to eat or drink yet today. I'm struggling to navigate a concept as simple as breakfast, I have no hope of navigating a bureaucratic systemic designed to demoralise like NDIS.

just because we can use AI to make art doesn’t mean we should #Art #Illustration #Artist #OriginalArt #OnlyBeautifulThings

What random places have you ended up sitting/lying down in after your body has crashed? Eg. Sit in shop aisle, lay in ikea pallet. Please let know know in comments! When I’m well enough (lol) I’ll illustrate & share. #Disability #Spoonie #ChronicIllness #pwME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #MECFS

Guineafowl. An African bird found on many Australian farms. ID: digital drawings of a Grey Guineafowl perched on a wooden fence beam, beak open mid call. #AColorADaypril #Grey #SciArt #OnlyBeautifulThings #Art #Illustration #Procreate #Guineafowl #BirdArt #AddBirder 🪶

🚨 Bluesky Hacking Issue 🚨 A thread🧵 I was made aware today of a hacking issue going around on here and they tried getting me too, but I was warned. I have reported and blocked all compromised accounts I am aware of at this time. Those account owners have been warning people here and elsewhere.

There are two Weekly Pillow Meetings every Thursday 2:00 GMT 11:00 PST Choose the Time Zone most convenient for you. All ME/CFS LC sufferers welcome. More info and Zoom link here: pillowwriters.wordpress.com

When you’re mostly housebound, birds coming to you become even more appreciated. These little corellas discovered a feast of berries on this day. #AColorADaypril #White #OnlyBeautifulThings #Uplift #TinyJoys #WildOz #OzBirds #BirdPhotography

Flowers!! #art #illustration