terridrawsstuff

Every time I open this app, most of what people post makes me want to cry. I agree with 99% of it but I also don’t enjoy 99% of it and I am tired of causing myself pain. So I visit less and less, and I mostly stay quiet because making little quips and being joyful about anything feels inappropriate

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I realize that removing myself as a source of little jokes and pretty pictures means that the internet gets a little bit bleaker and blander in a tiny increment and that as more people like me make the same decisions, little points of light go out all over.

But this place and others like it have become a way to self-injure mentally for so many people and every time I come here, I slip into doing it too. I can’t change anything that’s happening but I can choose not to hurt myself over and over.

I quit Facebook years ago, I don’t post to Instagram since my work will just train AI, and I am using any form of social media less and less. I am gradually disappearing from online spaces. It’s lonely but it feels better than pouring despair straight into my veins constantly.

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c0nc0rdance

@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social

13 Jan

Don't be fooled! This is NOT a venomous snake. It just looks like one. You're looking at a Giant Dead Leaf Mantis (Deroplatys desiccata), native to Malaysia, Philippines & Borneo. These little guys are masters of disguise. This is their "scary sharp-toothed predator" trick, but they have MORE!

12 Jan

Hey other adoptees who, like me, have an amended birth certificate that’s a photo of microfiche with blanks and mistakes from the amendment: we should all order new birth certificates now. They’ll come on official docs that DHS/TSA will be able to recognize as a birth certificate.

amy JUMBO JIBBLE brown🎈(she/her)

12 Jan

I can foresee that adoptees who have weird-looking amended birth certificates, like I do, are going to have problems with authorities not accepting them as legal documents. #adoptees

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@artworms.bsky.social

6 Jan

When I was 23, I saw a bunch of really cute velvet furniture on the side of the road, totally nice. Took it in and a year later a friend’s new gf came to my house and it turns out I’d stolen her entire living room while she was moving.

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

5 Jan

This is the poster above my head in the blood draw room at the hospital

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️

@skwinnicki.bsky.social

5 Jan

Getting advertisements from the “learning app” Nibble, which is apparently made to guarantee you have no idea what a Red-tailed Hawk, Cedar Waxwing, Great Blue Heron, or Downy Woodpecker looks like in real life 🙄 Also, identifying birds is not ornithology (signed, an ornithologist and a birder)

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Tom Cox

4 Jan

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...

@stevelieberart.bsky.social

4 Jan

Whenever I look at an elephant skull, I realize that the images we come up with for dinosaurs are probably wrong. Nobody looking at an elephant skull would guess about that trunk existing unless you’re already familiar with elephants.

Jeanne Timmons@mostlymammoths.bsky.social

Mastodons (and a mammoth) at @tarpits.org & Western Science Center, CA. Belated #FossilFriday. #proboscideans 🦣🐘

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Steve Lieber

31 Dec 2025

PORTLAND: Year 5 of First Friday Office Hours starts this Friday, Jan 2ⁿᵈ 4-6PM at Books W/ Pictures! @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social Bring 6-8 pages of comics storytelling. I'll give you feedback based on my 30 years in comics. Details in the thread linked below: bsky.app/profile/stev...

Steve Lieber@stevelieberart.bsky.social

I'll tell you what works, what doesn't, how to tweak a panel for clarity or impact, tips for saving labor- the sort of advice your teacher at a comics class might offer. I'm not there to hire you, or read your pitch, or introduce you to a publisher. I'm there look at the pages you've drawn.

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Caitlin Gilbert

@caitlingilbert.bsky.social

31 Dec 2025

Replying to @caitlingilbert.bsky.social

You can also use the map in the story to look up vaccination rates in your local schools! This was a HUGE data lift: we reviewed and mapped tens of thousands of individual schools’ data, assembling the most comprehensive public database. And we published this data here: github.com/washingtonpo...

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Jenn Manley Lee

@jennmanleylee.myatproto.social

1 Jan

Replying to @jennmanleylee.myatproto.social

5/ bsky.app/profile/c0nc... I still need to make this my ringtone

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social

A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage. Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word. A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).

@mustachemutt.bsky.social

31 Dec 2025

Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone. #lemonpig

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☀️ Sal ☀️🔞

30 Dec 2025

Btw I never posted this portrait of @erikamoen.bsky.social lil baby gremlin, Tig~ This is also my call out that I love doing pet portraits and if you've been wanting a pic of your lil guy I'd be happy to oblige <3 mustachesal.carrd.co

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franz

@franzanth.bsky.social

28 Dec 2025

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - December 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1JCXz... #Art #SciArt

@jadedfortunato.bsky.social

29 Dec 2025

I woke up with a pressing question: why do the Three Musketeers use swords and not, you know, muskets?

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Jade Fortunato

28 Dec 2025

Replying to @badambulist.bsky.social

Staying in a nazi bar after it becomes a nazi bar just makes you a person who goes to a nazi bar

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James Vincent

@jjvincent.bsky.social

27 Dec 2025

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

27 Dec 2025

Well this seems ominous.

Diana@dianaj.bsky.social

@carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social

26 Dec 2025

I get that there’s a bunch of artists again fleeing Twitter to come over here but I’m also a little bit like “why were you still there?”

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Carla Speed McNeil

25 Dec 2025

illustrationart.blogspot.com/2025/12/rich... Merrrrry Christmas!

illustrationart.blogspot.comRICHARD THOMPSON'S SANTAI love Richard Thompson's modern celebrity Santa. We never actually see Santa because he's always being hustled away by his keepers. ...

francesfeatherstone.co.ukFrom the Perspective of the Angels — Frances Featherstone

24 Dec 2025

I love these paintings by Francis Featherstone. www.francesfeatherstone.co.uk/from-the-per...

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Steve Lieber

@stevelieberart.bsky.social

OREGON: Equal Rights for All is a ballot measure to affirm the right to abortion, contraception & IVF, trans health care, and same-gender marriage in the OR Constitution. Help make sure it gets enough signatures to qualify for the Nov 26 ballot! Sign it: www.equalrightsoregon.com/sign-the-pet...

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Lëspreüh

@lespreuh.bsky.social

Bonne semaine les BG

I’m wondering at the moment how many people I know who have personally met a real reindeer and what their opinion was.

I have met multiple reindeer and my opinion is that they are dumb. If a reindeer could type, they would be leaving YouTube comments.

These are the things I think about when I’m stuck in bed, in between thinking things like “if I take this tape off this surgical wound, will my guts fall out y/n circle one” and “how the fuck do I have to pee AGAIN, maybe they took out my bladder too and forgot to tell me”

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こま9さい

@2buan.bsky.social

い。

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rstevens 👻💨

@rstevens.bsky.social

21 Dec 2025

it’s the shortest day of the year… SO FAR

21 Dec 2025

I just looked at local news and the headline was: “Shortest Day of the Year Arrives: What To Know”

21 Dec 2025

I haven’t looked at the news story but I imagine it’s along the lines of “it gets dark early” and “after this it will get light earlier for a while”

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👻 spoOoOoky frood 💀

@huwupy.kawaii.social

cool, cool cool

Man, I have to say that surviving a near-death experience makes every day a new day in which I think “I am not wearing those uncomfortable underpants ever again, life is short.”

There’s supposedly “AI” in my house security cameras and that’s why I regularly get alerts that there’s a person in my side yard. Only it’s always the BBQ grill.

I mean there’s a possibility that someone is living under the BBQ but I haven’t ever seen them. The AI also constantly tells me that there’s a guy in the backyard and that’s always been my dog, usually taking a crap.

I’m not sure how they trained the AI but if I ever need advanced warning that a four-legged little naked man is pooping near my BBQ, I will be prepared.

I have just heard a Christmas carol that I never heard before to my knowledge, and as far as I can tell, the chorus is “C’mon, everybody, to Santa Claus’s potty” and NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT.

There is a boarded up piece of shit trailer across the street from my house again, and what is remarkable about it is that it’s the SAME one from last month. It just keeps driving away as they start to chain it up to tow, and then it comes right back.

I managed to talk to somebody at PBOT and they said it’s a dance, they can come right back the minute the green sticker wears off in 72 hours if they get away before the thing gets towed.

PBOT will tow it right away if it is in the street even a couple inches. The trailer’s got chained up wheels on the side against the bushes, because I think the shitbird that owns it has had other trailers shoved into the street.

I can’t sleep so you get to hear about my thoughts currently. Suspend your disbelief and imagine I get to go to Christian heaven, okay?

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My question here is: parts of me have left the planet ahead of the rest of me. Do they go to heaven before the rest of me, in this speculative world?

Like is there a director’s chair with my name on it up there, all done up in rhinestones, and in that chair right now there’s a uterus, a gallbladder, some bone spurs and a piece of shoulder blade?

I can’t sleep so you get to hear about my thoughts currently. Suspend your disbelief and imagine I get to go to Christian heaven, okay?