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Hello, It’s a special edition of We’re Here. I’m trying to get my head on straight right now, which I’m sure is the case for you. I remember realizing after the assassination attempt that there was a rationality to my scrolling…I felt like my picture of the future was no longer relevant, and I desperately wanted to have my new one put in place. Of course, scrolling in the hours after a big event doesn’t tend to provide that relief, but it makes sense that I wouldn’t know what else to do. Today, I see people scrolling for similar reasons. Those of us who did not want a second Trump term (it’s a very large majority, but if that’s not you, I’m still glad you like the newsletter) are trying to figure out a bunch of things at the same time: How exactly did this happen? Who should we blame? (whether voters or strategy or candidate or party) What do we do now? I am not a political scientist, so I cannot answer those first two questions for you. I’m sure there will be plenty of interesting analysis coming out of all of the people who think about this stuff for a living and we will never know exactly who was right. But I do have a couple of suggestions for the third thing. First, I’d ask that we all accept that it is normal to mourn an imagined future. I have had this feeling many times in my life, and it is never nice. So, grieve. That is human. Second, do things. I don’t know what those things are, but do things. This morning Katherine said to me, “The trees and the sky and the squirrels and the stars just go on, and that’s what we’ll do.” This reminded me of this bit of an essay on living under the shadow of nuclear war written by C.S. Lewis: “If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking abou…

From todays’s extra edition of “We’re Here”:

haven’t forgotten about this app just been busy😔

hell yeah!

I hope this recent trend of creatives going “Hey! I worked on this scene! Here’s some behind-the-scenes about the process” continues for a long damn time.

Besides the fact that many hard-working people are finally getting recognized for their efforts, I just LOVE learning extra lore about stuff!

flug, with a dent in their head from headphones with text essentially saying "ah well im so glad i spent today listening to music there is so much of it that was a great way to spend my day" the text is being interrupted by larger red text that says "HEADPHONE DENDT" with a large arrow pointing to flugs dented head (i'll be honest it's been a long time since i made this doodle, your guess is as a good as mine on what the back text says, im going vaguely off of memory)

fish

Things I'd like to see come to Bsky:

Bookmarks

Save drafts

Schedule posts

Circles

Private accounts

Colored profile themes/old school customization options

Manual image cropping

Better Feeds integration (native feeds creation support rather than using skyfeed etc)

invested early i see

This idea that getting into arguments on Twitter is somehow noble and valorous instead of a waste of time using a text equivalent of a Call of Duty lobby is pretty funny

nice

so tell me you loove me, cus that’s all i need to hear…….

just go with the flowww~

Hello everyone! I’m an artist who makes a mixture of fan art and oc art! I’m currently growing my product line on etsy, so feel free to check it out! wolfclawdesigns.etsy.com

she showed me what love isss, im acting like i know myself🗣️

happy birthday🎉🎉

i like my cerobly drippy bruh

This platform has been motivating me to draw more in the past few days. In my book that’s already a win

Of course I have friends—they’re called books, plants, and pets.

this app really inspired me to finish drawings i’ve started a while back but never finished-

love bluesky frfr

hell yeah

mmm yes

noooooooo~

that’s the cutest profile pic i’ve seen on here so far🔥

im not too proud with this, but im still pretty new to animating emotes / dances...

saw the deadpool & wolverine movie and it was so good so i animated that one dance that deadpool does

lighthouse !

yes :)

𝓹𝓱𝓲𝓵𝔃𝓪 𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓪𝓯𝓽

it’s nice that retweeting/reposting feels like it actually does something here

on twitter (for the last couple years) it felt like boosting other artists didn’t do anything like it used to

too real😔😔

i deeply despise the tiktokification of pop music. feels like everything in the past few years is all being crafted to have a 30-60 second segment go viral with everything else being an afterthought. especially noticeable with kpop where choreos are as simple and replicable as possible.