Staggering harm is being done to #language learning in Higher Ed. No oversight or strategic thinking, with cold spots now present. Petitions alone this week in response to closures: Nottingham · Change.org Leicester · Change.org #edusky #langsky @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

how do we as a society convince people with power to use it for good? I'm kind of serious here. like, I look at and hear about people who do kind, generous, clever things and it makes me feel so great. I feel impressed by those people. how do we make that the norm? the thing to aspire to?

craving some dark fantasy / supernatural books, if you have recommendations, please im begging you!!! big plus if its also queer

🔴⚔️8.8k ART GIVEAWAY⚔️🔴 ✨Join the giveaway for a Full Render Portrait! ✨ 🔴RULES: 𒇔 Follow me. 𒇔 Share this post 𒇔 Comment with your OC 𒇔 Tag friends (optional) Ends when I reach 9K! ✨ Good luck everyone and thank you so much for supporting my work. ❤️ #art #artgiveaway

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Born to art FORCED TO WORK AND WORRY BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS GETTING MORE EXPENSIVE EVERY SECOND AND EVERYONE IS A PRICE-GOUGING BASTID

Spinosaurus Swimming with Fishes ❤️🐟 #berensart2025 #paleoart

Go volunteer for a progressive launching a “hopeless” campaign against an extremely entrenched incumbent currently squatting in a safe Blue seat. The worst thing that happens, is that you drag the incumbent to the Left. Best case? Zohran Mamdani, who was polling at 6% in January.

DRAGON FIRE (1989) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 32” x 20” After I submitted my concept sketch for the cover of SUNRUNNER’S FIRE by Melanie Rawn, I realized that the anatomy of the dragon’s wings was inconsistent with the structure on the other covers I had done for the series. 1/3

Sewing Influencers Aren’t Immune From Glorifying Overconsumption. And it really bothers me. Just saw a post of a woman who made no less than 20 new garments last month. All from new fabric. It’s giving ‘I’m super environmentally friendly and driving my own car everywhere is totally fine’.

Shop Update 🌙 New stickers are now available in my shop! All stickers are now 30% cheaper, some of them costing as little as 1.45 Eur! Prices for holographic stickers start at 2.39 Eur, and international shipping is a little over 2 Eur 🫶 #Stickers #Journaling #LGBTQIA+ | #Art

Happy Bi- [acrylic painting] -sexual, -tch, -rthday This is what the Birthday reward looks like for members of my mail club 🥰🎂 #TraditionalArt #Painting #SnailMail | #Art

We found out John Smith had died in 1994 when I was in the computer room making campaign materials for the Labour team in the middle of our one.

Bunch of sparkle chikkins just showed up. They were pecking around and Mayo, the white one, started shit and my SisFace said, "typical white male privilege." Bwahahahaha Mayo is sort of a dick, sorry to say. He still travels with his Mom, who sometimes corrects him with a squawk and a peck.

10/10 take. No notes.

“Here at Bluesky, we love to ignore feedback from the majority of our user base and instead try to distract with some inane topic. We are definitely different from Twitter.”

The University of Nottingham has announced the suspension of all Modern Languages and Cultures (MLC) programmes from September 2026. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The AI Coca Cola ad is a bunch of old wank, isn’t it?

More examples!! I'm currently doing something similar to the fourth one as a commission. #Commission #commission #examples #digitalart

#Commissions are open and with available slots, ma'dudes and chicks!! I do mostly CI-FI and Fantasy, couples and fanart. But basically, if you need a battle pose, I'll do it too. I leave a few extra, less flashy drawings I have, just for you to have more ideas. (First one (yellow) is still a WIP!)

To read more about how the "University of Little England" is selling its students short, go here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Strike action returns on Monday with a big ol' picket line to kick things off. We will see you there. #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

It's not just music and language courses- it's 48 courses across the university. But here's the thing- our UCU colleagues at other universities (like @Cardiffucu.bsky.social) have faced the exact same threats, fought back, and won. So we can too.

A story in two posts XD But now y'all get to see Sena's amazing linework! I haven't told them yet, but I keep copies of all the linework of my stuff so I can look at it over and over because I really like their linework :D Bottom right is one of mine, Blake and Ythendria again ;P

Also a good time to check ALL of your Bluesky moderation settings A couple of them were put into "Hide" without my action

Looking at the list we've been sent in the staff newsletter, it includes the entirety (I think) of modern languages undergrad teaching. I feel sick. Ashamed, even. I rave about how good the course is. So what if it's less than 5% of students? I now really feel worthless as a graduate.

Got the editors' blessing to share this news. My chapter "National Socialist Black Metal & the Usurpation of Greece and Rome" will appear in the forthcoming volume "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by Helen Roche and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social!

Completed on Mum's bungalow. Nice to have something finished, but now the real work starts, I guess. But I am too tired right now. I *really* want to be writing up Monday's WFRP session but there's no point in starting. Going to go to bed and read instead.

I think me reposting this broke the UoN printers :S

My entry for Vrising art contest with OC vampire wives ✨ #art #oc #ocsky

I made the fucking printer zine

This is especially the case when you can get such an easy win by paying Pedro Pascal a bazillion dollars to dress up as Santa in the Coke truck and immediately have the entire internet love you and forget every bad thing you've ever done.

☁️If you see this, post your art with clouds! ☁️

Commission work done for Nadia! ⚔️ #commissionart

Star Wars and The Dark Crystal. I want my freakin' jedi gelfling! JEDI GELFLIIIING!!! #jedigelfling #gelflingjedi

⚡🦋Let's go #monday🦋⚡ ⚡💥 #selfpromo 💥⚡ 💣 #artshare 💣 🤘🤘 Like and repost 🤘 🤘 ❤️‍🔥Spread some love❤️‍🔥 ☠️NoAI☠️ 👽Tag your friends👽

I have resumed shipping pins to the US again. Order 4 or 5 to get free delivery, so buddy up and save some dollars. proudscience.etsy.com

You should totally buy some of these, I did and they look FANTASTIC, they're on really nice paper and Amelia makes such lovely parcels. My parents are going to have some raised eyebrows this Christmas.

Moral panics and the like come for everyone eventually. ALWAYS listen to the first affected.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you want to commission art for winter holidays, you better start doing it soon to be sure you get it on time

Hey y'all! I'm trying to get access to VGen. They want a certain amount of engagement from the community to prove that you're a legit artist, so please consider sharing this! I need 20 RTs and 100 likes to get a code. TYSM! For anyone interested: VGen.co/Jannockjess #VGenCode #OCart #digitalart

hiiiii just a little reminder that i have a print shop!! i will spare everyone the sob story but the last month or so has been especially brutal on me financially and emotionally and i could really use the support if you’ve got some to spare!! thank you!!!! ♥️♥️♥️

For @middaydolomite.bsky.social, whose blog emails suddenly started going into my LiveJournal folder. No reason why: NO LiveJournal emails have gone here since 2016, so why these have (when they have none of the parameters), I do not know. But it IS funny, largely because it's all the same person XD

Huevember 1/6: Black Eyed Susan This is a portrait painting challenge but naming them after the flowers I pick is easier 🙂‍↕️

Unwell :'( Done really well for the last 2 days and now I've got a headache, nausea, diarrhoea :( I've managed to drink something but I think I'm going to go back to bed. Don't have too much to do but annoyed :(

Sea dragons and sea horses

You will be ABSOLUTELY STUNNED to discover that the “flaggers” are a nationwide coalition of racists and crooks.

I don't really talk about stuff like this but every time I use it I think about how much I love it and how I *should* share with others One thing I hate about menstrual products is the amount of WASTE, along with other things. I had been eyeballing cups for years This was the one I finally got

Good morning, my monsterfuckers! Your character's eye is swollen shut. What happened? Luka rubbed her eyes while in her lab, and something on her hands irritated it. Now she has to wait for it to calm down Jas probably got punched by Astrath, either in a spar or because Astrath thought he'd dodge