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An unfinished watercolor painting featuring a castle turret ruin, with vegetation to the sides and base, and blue sky above.

Watercolor work in progress, we visited Bancroft Castle recently and it is a lovely location. An excellent place for a picnic or a cosplay photo shoot, with beautiful views and interesting ruins. #BancroftCastle #Artsky #Watercolor

A set of three small papers on a back drop of distressed wood. Each with a small colorful mushroom person holding a sign. One says Fuck DJT, the next says Fungus against Fascists, and the last says 86 47.

More mushroom doodles🙃 #MushroomCore #Cottagecore #ImTiredofThisGranpa #FDJT

BREAKING: At least 59 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn today, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.

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It’s so beautiful, it looks like it would float off the page if you picked it up!

Top: a four by six inch card with a watercolor doodle of a mushroom house with red top Bottom: four two by seven inch book marks with watercolor doodles of a couple different styles of cartoon mushrooms with red tops. Some have white spots, some have black spots, some have thick stems, some have thin stems.

Morning mushroom doodles! #Mushroomcore #cottagecore #artsky

@bluesky moderation is suspending people for posting Kirk's own words which tells you everything you need to know.

A Palestinian boy in Gaza rescued his birds from under the rubble after Israeli forces destroyed Al-Ruya Tower in Gaza City.

A set of three hand painted bookmarks, each featuring five mushrooms in various sizes and shapes, some have white spots, some have black spots, some have striations, or skirts. Each set of five is in a different shade of pink for the mushroom caps.

Experimenting with different sets of paint markers for some mushroom themed bookmarks! #MushroomCore #CozyCore #Booksky

Flat lay arrangement of a book, a book mark, and some markers. The Book is “Deja Brew” by Celestine Martin, and features a fall theme with orange/red/yellow/browns and a cute couple looking into each other’s eyes, the book mark has a picture of plants on shelves with a resting cat underneath.

My next read is Deja Brew by Celestine Martin! I’ve got a cute bookmark to color, so I can match it to the book! #Booksky #DejaBrew #CozyReads

Famine confirmed in northern Gaza, global hunger monitor says Conditions are expected to worsen by September, IPC global initiative says, in a ‘race against time’.

Conditions are expected to worsen by September, IPC global initiative says, in a ‘race against time’.

‘Deaths from starvation in Gaza may amount to war crime’, UN rights chief says <article data-history-node-id="427536" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/deaths-starvation-gaza-may-amount-war-crime-un-rights-chief-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/deaths-starvation-gaza-may-amount-war-crime-un-rights-chief-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">‘Deaths from starvation in Gaza may amount to war crime’, UN rights chief says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">The UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday that the officially declared famine in Gaza is the “direct result of actions taken by the Israeli government”.</p> <p>He added that the deaths from starvation might amount to a war crime.</p> <p>“The famine declared today in Gaza Governorate by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is the direct result of actions taken by the Israeli government,” Turk said in a statement to reporters.</p> <p>“It is a war crime to use starvation as a method of warfare, and the resulting deaths may also amount to the war crime of willful killing,” he added.</p> </div> </div> </article>

‘Deaths from starvation in Gaza may amount to war crime’, UN rights chief says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/deaths-starvation-gaza-may-amount-war-crime-un-rights-chief-says

Israeli data shows 83 percent of Gaza war dead are civilians: Report Leaked Israeli intelligence confirms one of the highest civilian tolls in modern conflicts.

Leaked Israeli intelligence confirms one of the highest civilian tolls in modern conflicts.

The left hand of an adult poses with thumb extended to the left side of the shell of a horseshoe crab. The horseshoe crab shell is approximately the same size as the hand from the front to the end of the pointed tail.

Walking at the beach today and saw this little one’s shell. Amazing creatures even though the underside freaks me out when they are alive. #HorseshoeCrabs

Cover of an ARC copy of Grace Walker’s debut novel “The Merge” the cover features the face of a woman with eyes closed, but the features are smeared as if it is a painting and someone ran a brush through portions of the wet paint.

I received an ARC copy of Grace Walker’s debut novel The Merge, all opinions expressed are my own. An excellent if slightly creepy premise, what would you do if you could merge your consciousness with another person & share a body? review on IG(link ⬇️)
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#TheMerge #booksky

She’s an equal opportunity bigot I guess, appropriating from and stereotyping everyone!😬🫠🫠🫠

Romance Book cover feature an Asian man the title is bento box

The Indigenous one wasn’t the only book, did you see the one with an Asian MC and the title is, I kid you not “BENTO BOX” 💀😬😬

Of KKK members burning crosses. It was a violent threat, and you are being a bigot.

He made a polite request, the bare minimum of a normal response is to ignore it and move on with your life. What is NOT a normal response is to mock and disrespect his culture and engage positively with comments that are slurs. What you did was the equivalent of tagging a Black American in pictures

Normally I capitalize the I but my autofill is sabotaging me today🤦🏻‍♀️❤️

I've donated three prints of CRY,
VOIDBRINGER to @novamali.bsky.social's auction for Gaza.

Please consider bidding, if not for my work, but on the
other talented artists that have donated their time and effort to help in the little ways we can.

Head over to www.32auctions.com/novaandmali2...

Have you apologized to Mason for your harassment yet?

She like/laugh reacted to MULTIPLE anti-Indigenous comments. Similar to how you harrass-tagged an indigenous person in multiple bird pictures. If it was a single reaction I could agree it could have been a mistake. And with all the incredibly disrespectful comments she made after? Nope.

I hold on to my MMPBs like lifelines, so I appreciate this post.

a platform(ex-from Amazon/kindle). We never actually OWN the ebook, but Amazon isn’t able to come to my home and take my hard copy back.

They are much easier to carry around with me, and the nostalgia gets me every time. I am sad that newer books don’t get MMPB editions. The point about ebooks being part of the reason we are losing them is interesting. I prefer hard copies because of how easy it is to simply remove ebooks from

List of laugh reactions to a comment containing a slur, the author Nnedi Okorafor is one of the reactions.

So what thoughts do you have about Nnedi liking and laugh reacting to slurs made in comments about the Indigenous person that made the original request? So far you’ve just blocked and ignored anyone that has asked, so we already know what you aren’t saying.

Basement flood is about 75% cleaned up. It’s still pretty wet, but I have to get the kid to his PT appointment so I’m running the fans and am going to have to deal with the rest later. Oh and we are on day two of a heat advisory, so dealing with all this has been NOT AT ALL TIRING. 🫠🫠😭😭🥵🥵

You know what’s super fun? When you wake up to a flooded basement because the washer’s drain hose popped out of its pipe. SO MUCH FUN! 😐😐😐 #LifeIsLife-ingAgain

A left hand holds a copy of the book “The Unworthy” by Augustina Bazterrica. The cover is mainly black with a woman in dressed similarly to a nun with arms raised in a reverential manner, in shades of white and red.

I picked up my library holds today and started this one IMMEDIATELY. If you enjoyed the unhinged, unnerving, and weirdness that was Tender is the Flesh, you will most likely enjoy this too. So odd, in a fascinatingly creepy sort of way. #booksky

trope graphic with the following captions: "dark, political fantasy", "should we fix broken systems from within, or burn it from without?", "accidental acquisition of a magical child", "toxic lesbians (the bisexual is also toxic)", "weird POVs", "exploring how identity is reshaped under empire", "grump x sunshine", "why do postcolonial societies perpetuate the same crimes of their oppressors: a thesis", "your found family sucks, actually"

graphic of book comps with the following books: the fifth season by NK Jemisin with the caption "unusual POV and political worldbuilding", the traitor baru cormorant by Seth Dickinson and the unbroken by C.L. Clark with the caption "intersectionality of identity and empire", and the jasmine throne by Tasha Suri, with the caption "morally grey characters". the bottom graphic is a quote from cry, voidbringer: "tyranny doesn't happen in the blink of an eye. it is a slow descent, helped by the complicity of those who think they have no power."

3 more months until the release of Cry, Voidbringer! Here's a fun little trope list and some book comps!

Cry, Voidbringer releases 28 October 2025 in the US with @binderybooks.bsky.social, and 6 Nov 2025 in the UK with @solarisbooks.bsky.social. We're almost there!