I'm on Week 4 of The Artist's Way with the reading group @xoruby.com This week it's all about reading deprivation, which our lovely group leader also suggest **content** deprivation! I guess this is me signing out of bsky for a week! 🫡 🚪

Michigan door mat— talk about the Michigan Difference!

Here are a bunch to get you started. If you are unfamiliar with @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social it's a digital magazine publishing short stories and poetry by Black SFFH authors for going on *counts on fingers* 10 years? Good lord. Co-founded it. Won a Hugo. Etc. go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p

"The Familiars" I'm having an Autumn Sale in my shop - 10% off select autumnal items at albaillustration.etsy.com thru Sept 29th - including this print! Perhaps you'd like some new seasonal decor? #blackcat #illustration #autumn #fall #cat

Happy Birthday to Jim Henson, born on this day in 1936.

If you ever forget your pasta shapes, I made you a helpful chart #illustration #drawing #pasta

16 hours left in the Kickstarter! Meet @emblalunae.bsky.social, another member of our wonderful UI/UX team 👋

This is my custom foiled portrait of Twinkie the adorable ginger cat! #cat #art #printart #handmade #commissions #catart

We've reached our Kickstarter goal with a week remaining! Thank you for supporting our mission to build a licensing website for illustrators. What is licensing? Glad you asked!

Visit Ayeola.org to get these stickers! Use code PLUTO for free shipping! All orders placed today will receive a free mini coloring book!

exactly 48 years ago, voyager 1 took the first image of the earth and moon in the same frame from over 7 million miles away.

Here’s some neat moths to help take the edge off.

🎉 We did it! The Armadillo Kickstarter is funded! 🎉 To celebrate, we can finally reveal our mascot's name, as chosen by you. Meet Arlo Strawberry Armadillo, or Arlo for short. This was a true grassroots campaign, and we can't thank you enough. You still have 9 days left if you want to support us!

My heart breaks hearing this story of Soups who sought out therapy only to receive 18 months of questionable treatment and then go to jail because their therapist put a restraining order on them. GOOD Therapy should be accessible to everyone. These lil apps aren’t doing the right vetting.

Oh dang I visited this place while in high school. It was a part of the wildest school trip ever. The bus driver got arrested 😵‍💫

I'm one of the artists at Modern Mouse in Alameda (not the one in the video)! They're amazing and please consider helping them out! They have an online shop, so you don't have to be local: modernmousegifts.com/ #ShopSmall #HelpNeeded #LGBTQFriendly

stressed about the news lately? look at today’s gorgeous new hubble image of a nebula in the large magellanic cloud, the galaxy’s second-largest star-forming region 🌌

hey friends, if you teach comics and graphic novels (reading them or writing them) can you please tell me how you make the readings accessible? do you prefer to type up descriptions of the images in each panel, or record an audio file of you describing them, or something else?

refern shutting down feels like a situation where a hobby app got too big. It's understandable and important to shut down what harm is being generated on the app It'd be very cool if the creator open sources the app to GitHub.

bob's java jive, route 99, tacoma, washington, 1979

We're beginning our week dazzled by these mirrored installations by Song Dong. The artist is known to incorporate household furnishings, garments, and other quotidian objects into monumental, glimmering works. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/song...

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I am so sad to hear Maru, the beloved a Japanese cat who dove into boxes has passed away. On hard days, I loved rolling up in a blanket and watching Maru and his cat siblings Hana and Miri. It’s amazing how much was shared of his life on YouTube. He was a good cat with such a fun personality.

Hey we heard it's Follow Friday…so howzabout you FRIDAY on over and FOLLOW some great new Leaflet publications huh?! 🍃✨➡️ leaflet.pub/discover ⬅️✨🍃

Cricut acquired. About to enter my sticker season 🥳

Art Share for 3k!! Theme is Flowers!! Show me your art that has anything floral going on! Be kind! No Clankers Label if necessary Share and tag!! Enjoy your day.

Considering getting a used Cricut Maker from FB Marketplace. I've been curious of making my own stickers! Any advice on what I should inspect with the machine? I think this is the 2017 model.

Want to learn more about Armadillo? @michelerosenthal.com sat down with Julien to discuss stock illustration, licensing, organizing, and more! Give it a read (or a listen if you prefer audio), and don't forget to support our Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...

Hey, so this is the news. I'm listed as one of the best journalist in my area. However, it's now down to a vote. This is where I am asking for your help. If possible, can I get you to vote for me? Click the link below. Voting is free btw. toledocitypaper.secondstreetapp.com/og/ccc28939-...

Apparently, the scene got upgraded. www.reddit.com/r/dragoncon/...

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I backed Armadillo: Licensing for Human Illustrators. Check it out and support if you can. It’s a fresh take on licensing illustration. Every little bit helps. Take back your power from big tech platforms that treat you as a nothing more than a profit center. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...

I’m one of the ambassador artists for Armadillo Stock and have seen the project coming along over the last couple years and think it’s an awesome idea! Please check out the Kickstarter!

The Armadillo Kickstarter is LIVE! Help us launch a community-built, free-to-use platform for licensing human-made art directly from illustrators! Find out more: kickstarter.com/projects/dialmformichele/armadillo-stock

Tag yourself if you even dare

Make more art! That includes writing. To make art is to be human.

Oh that’s right, I have a Bear Blog 🧸😅 mintii.bearblog.dev

I hope we get to see Barbara as a grandma! ❤️

I loved listening to Snap Judgement's podcast about a potbelly pig that was being cared for during the hurricane and eventually rescued. snapjudgment.org/episode/root...

Deep Dish/Hot Dish 2028

With my old kindle tablet set up as my mobile reference library, I’ve been downloading book after book from the Met. It’s a great resource for artists or students of art history and they have free books on basically any topic you can think of.

Templates cause I hate struggling to find templates for fun challenges I see others do lol I don’t think transparent PNG’s work on bsky, so the second picture might literally just be a white square, so I put the colored one too just in case. #the_color_wheel

“I’m so 3008, you’re so 2000-and-late”

If you need a chicken bag I found the plug.

"it would probably cost the government $10-20 per return are you sure you want a free filling option? 🥺" Yes dummy that's what my taxes ARE FOR. Go take the survey folks and watch out for the leading questions. www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs...

Finished the cover of my first book called 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘹 𝘋𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘴: 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨! OMG it's such a steep learning curve learning how to self-publish! If you have done it, please send any tips! Stay tuned for updates, there will be a Kickstarter! #book #SelfPublish #DetoxDoodles #art

HAPPY FLYTRAP TUESDAY!! Today, we have @alexismwright.bsky.social's incisive essay about the growing trend of white women scammers content, and what that says about who is believed in our society--and who isn't. theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/racialized...

Bluestar - A mother's love

PINK SPACE PICTURESSSSS 💗🌌