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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 9h

Trying to manifest my dream bike by picking up a fancy new Crane bell last night, up at La Bicicletta north of the Beltline Trail. #BikeTO #bikesky

Still in the black packaging, a polished copper dome of a bell, super shiny with me and reflected trees and sky in it. “E-Ne bell” by Crane, from Japan.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 23/09/2026

No birds, but I randomly recorded a couple of cloud timelapses at lunchtime today

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 20/09/2026

Cycled in the Don, as a way to say good-bye to my Dad, whose ashes were interred yesterday. Found 3 old railway spikes after following a blue jay. Will give them to my sisters. Wiped out on my bike, bruised and scraped. Found out shortly after I had a flat. A strange day. #BikeTO #TOphoto

Thunderdome bridge over the railway line. A fitting spot where our paths meet. Railway for dad, bike path for me. He worked with trains and was obsessed with them all his life.

Image of blue bike on rusted steel bridge over a railway line flanked with green trees.

3 old rusted railway spikes strapped down with a blue bungee to my bike rack.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 18/09/2026

Welcome to the #TOphoto Feed! Photography of Toronto, Canada. Currently an open Feed: use hashtag #TOPhoto for your work to appear. 🦝 No AI 🦝 SFW, please 🦝 Use Alt text 📸 Let's see your best photos 📸 Tap the 3 dots at top-right to Like and Pin the Feed 📸 bsky.app/profile/flyi...

An early morning photo of the lyrical white and red Cherry Bridge on Cherry Street, from when Biidaasige Park was under construction. The dark blue water is still and an almost perfect reflection of the bridge can be seen. I am not a professional. iPhone 11 Pro.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 17/09/2026

Okay, PM Carney. After Trump’s latest temper tantrum, it’s time. It’s time to #RecallTheRyans

Canadians Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling together wearing tuxedos. Photo by Chris Polk/Getty Images, 2016.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 06/09/2026

Descending into Thunderdome. (Sorry for the shaky cam, I don’t have a Go-Pro) #BikeTO #bikesky #Toronto

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 01/09/2026

#SciArtSeptember Day 1: “Malachite” Xenorhipus jewel beetle (detail) 2012, digital #GlendonMellowArt 🎨🐡🧪 Making-of post: glendonmellow.com/blog/2012/06...

The head of the jewel beetle in cool green tones similar to malachite. Elytra has amber and purple speckles. Brown legs.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 29/08/2026

Fantastic time at Critical Mass yesterday. Toronto wants bike lanes. Not just the ~1,200 cyclists in the protest. All the families, restaurant-goers, old guys outside cafes, people high -fiving from their cars. Toronto is a cycling city whether Doug Ford likes it or not. #BikeTO #Toronto #Bikesky

The crowd at the start, sunshine and cyclists ready to roll on Bloor. Blur added.

The crowd near the end, twilight on the viaducts, lens flares and blur.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 27/08/2026

Excellent 35 km ride after work today with friends along Lake Ontario. #BikeTO #Bikesky

Strava map. Downtown Toronto to Biidaasige and Tommy Thompson park along Lake MF Ontario.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 24/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky in your camera roll

View down the wet wooden traintrack bridge, metal sides, green trees beyond. Everything slick with rain, sky bright and misty over the trees.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 22/08/2026

Calculating God, By @robertjsawyer.com , featuring @romtoronto.bsky.social in the story. (Cover art by Lui Junwei) #CelebrateCanada

Cover of novel. Hugo and Nubula award winner. A man with silver hair leans on a Parasaurolophus skeleton, arm outstretched lik the Sistine Adam; next to a crab like alien in front of the Royal Ontario Museum, and a jellyfish alien floats above.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 20/08/2026

You know what happens when I don't promote the SciArt Feed, asking for Likes? Growth mostly flatlines. I feel like I push it too often, but _talking about it_ is the main way to help it grow. (FWIW, it's not monetized beyond the odd Ko-fi support to me generally.) Graph from @bluefacts.app . 🐡🎨

Graph from Bluefacts, showing growth from about 4k likes to 4.7k likes. A couple of bumps where I've pushed it.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 12/08/2026

I'm Glendon Mellow, a Toronto-based illustrator, and sometimes writer & health industry marketer. I work in oil, pencil, ink, and digital, with a focus on evopunk and evo-bio subjects. I also design rad dinosaur tattoos. Deinosuchus skull. Procreate, 2022 🐡🎨 #artshare #GlendonMellowArt

Side view of giant fossil crocodile skull, sepia tones and cracks. Digital coloured pencil with white chalk. Toned ground with vignette darkness drawn in to heighten drama.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 12/08/2026

🧬🖌️19K ARTSHARE!🖌️🧬 Thanks everyone! And I hope you Like the SciArt Feed, too! bsky.app/profile/did:... Let’s see: 🧬Intro 🧬Your art & shop 🧬SFW 🧬No AI or NFT 🔥Science or nature art if you have it! (Not mandatory) I’ll repost until midnight EST!

Darwin Took Steps
Oils, 2008
Portrait of elder Darwin with a staircase growing from his forehead. The “I think” tree like sketch is next to him. Lots of browns.
Added text: “ARTSHARE @flyingtrilobite.com”

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 11/08/2026

Flying Trilobite, dark. Digital, 2014. Banner for The Flying Trilobite blog, running since 2007. glendonmellow.com/blog #GlendonMellowArt 🐡🎨🧪 #b&wart

Black background, dark grey vertical lines, and a mottled watercolour in grey of a trilobite, with scratchy drawn mechanical batlike wings. Digital, 2014, glendonmellow.com.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 11/08/2026

Congratulations, Babe&Oak! And thank you for the B&W Feed, I love it. 🖤🤍🖤 Here's a #B&Wart #sciart winged trilobite in honour of your 19k. 🥂 I'm Glendon Mellow, a Toronto-based science artist, and admin of the SciArt Feed. 💀Portfolio: glendonmellow.com 🐡SciArt Feed: bsky.app/profile/flyi...

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 04/08/2026

@karenho.bsky.social I have this one. For some reason I can’t seem to copy the link on iPhone or iPad. It’s in my profile page too.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 30/07/2026

Adding the "Seems like AI slop" reporting option on LinkedIn is not only brilliant, it's probably also an act of desperate self-defence against the volume of slop on this platform. It's legit, this is a screencap I just took. #NoAI

Screencap of my LinkedIn, showing a post with the reporting drop down open, and "Seems like AI slop" as an option.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 29/07/2026

Fossil Fruit-Bat Trilobite time lapse in @procreate.com . Ink and digital, ~2020. Field Guide: glendonmellow.com/fieldguide #GlendonMellowArt 🐡🎨🧪

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 29/07/2026

Here’s the Fossil Fruit-Bat Trilobite original drawing. Ink, 2019. Field Guide: glendonmellow.com/fieldguide #GlendonMellowArt 🐡🎨🧪

Scratchy drawing of trilobite with bat wings and same scientific notes as above. Wings partly on the crease of my sketchbook.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 29/07/2026

Paralejurus artibeus, the Fossil Fruit-Bat Trilobite –from The Field Guide to Flying Trilobites Ink and digital, ~2020. Field Guide: glendonmellow.com/fieldguide #GlendonMellowArt 🐡🎨🧪

In a spotlight in a dark corner, a brown trilobite with skeletal bat wings bends and flaps. Scientific notes on the image: Paralejurus artibeus
Notes
-Large eyes for night hunting
-Claw-tips on wings to aid in coral crawling

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the '90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 26/07/2026

The SciArt Feed now has over 4,700 Likes, and is the # 33 almost Popular Feed on Bluesky! Thank you everyone who is sharing with their communities! 🐡🧪🎨🩺 A feed of over 1,600 artists engaged in science, with no AI. An oasis, a classroom, a gallery. Pin & Like here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 24/07/2026

Update: if the SciArt Feed gets 40 more Likes, it will be the #33 Most Popular Feed on Bluesky. A feed of visual art about science, (with no generative AI allowed 🥳). Tap the link below, then tap the 3 dots at the top to 🩷Like and 📌Pin the Feed (not the pinned post). bsky.app/profile/flyi...

A screencap of the top of the SciArt Feed 🐡 with the 3 dots circled in green and an arrow, in the top right.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 23/07/2026

Test for USA journalists: You’re in a desert walking when you look down, and you see a tortoise. It's flipped over on its back. Then the tortoise vanishes from view, out of the hot sun. No one can find it, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?

Actor Dave Holden administering the Voight-Kampff Test in Bladerunner. Smoky room, he's in a suit with slicked hair with an unusual machine in front of him featuring an arm with a glass lens. His chair says Tyrell Corp.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 23/07/2026

If the SciArt Feed gets 60 more Likes, it will become #34 on the Most Popular Feeds on Bluesky. A feed of visual art about science, with no generative AI allowed. Tap the link below, then tap the 3 dots to Like and Pin the Feed (not the pinned post).🐡 bsky.app/profile/flyi...

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 16/07/2026

Today is worse. I’ve never seen numbers like these in Toronto. Sky slightly clearer though. #Toronto #ClimateChange #EosinophilicAsthma

Purple alert, for my neighbouring street, and full-gas-mask-dirty-purple alert Toronto overall. Same for near my work at U of T. 360 US AQI, “Hazardous”.

Trees and the very orange sun, some cloud texture unlike the unrelenting yellow yesterday.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 15/07/2026

The light outside right now. Wore a mask to take these pics. #Toronto #ClimateChange

View of a dull yellow sky and dark trees from my yard west of downtown Toronto, 11:05 am.

Another view of a dull yellow sky, a bit brighter facing west and dark trees from my yard, looking over the veggie patch west of downtown Toronto, ~11:05 am. - fence and cement path down the left and metal archway lend perspective to the scene.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 15/07/2026

Eosinophilic asthma powers activate! Oh Oh damn #Toronto #ClimateChange

IQ Air screenshots from two datasets. Markham Street, west of downtown in Toronto with red and a score of 177; and a dataset of 21 sensors for Toronto labeled 192. Both “Unhealthy”

This is due to Ontario wildfires caused mainly by USA pollution changing our climate.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 14/07/2026

Made myself an iced long espresso and sprinkled some egg nog spice on the crema so I can pretend it’s not 45°C degrees with the humidex. #Toronto

Too-close fish eye view of my Balzac’s Stratford mug and creamy espresso with cinnamon and nutmeg. The mug has an illustration of a hand holding a skull-cup filled with steaming coffee.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 10/07/2026

Got new progressive lenses so everything feels like a bouncy castle when I move my head

B&w photo of my face. 52 year old salt and pepper stubble, short hair at the side kinda silver, dark hair on top. Dark frames. Can’t tell here but they’re black on the front, and the arms are dark cherry red to match my flame Doc Martens.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 04/07/2026

RULES FOR MY BLUESKY ACCOUNT NUMBER ONE

On a green metal pillar, a yellow diamond sign with a stick figure running from a bird of prey swooping down talons out. Underneath is a red “WARNING” sign

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 02/07/2026

Receipt on the use of gen AI on the @gandersocial.ca goose image. From a LinkedIn convo. "We don't use AI except when we still use it" is their answer. tinyurl.com/gander-ai-go...

Glendon:
Is there any chance you will replace the gen AI images on your website with human-made ones? Maybe go the extra step and take a strong stance against gen AI content? It's going to be difficult to get Canadian artists and writers to embrace the platform if you're all-in on AI. I want to like you guys.

Gander:

Glendon Mellow we actually stopped using gen-AI images in our marketing about a year ago now. Aside from the goose which was an illustration by our ceo and on which he used AI filters to give it an “old print” style.

Our new branding has been out for quite a while, and uses no AI. Though the last remaining piece is the update to our website, which is coming soon. We’ve largely been focused on standing up the app and network so it’s taken a back seat.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 01/07/2026

This Canada Day I hope we become a more progressive nation, and remember what real strength is. #CanadaDay #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦

Tall grasses with seeds against a bright blue sky and white clouds.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 01/07/2026

(Left) Here’s @gandersocial.ca a month ago saying they’ve stopped using Gen AI in marketing (Right) Here’s @gandersocial.ca using gen AI in marketing this week Whyyyy

Screencap.
Me: is there a different stance on gen Ai images coming along with a revamped site?

Gander account: yup — we stopped using it

29 days ago

Gander post June 29th:

While we don’t technically launch until Canada Day…you can still go ahead and join Gander now. That’s the super-duper official part.

(Meta data image of the Canada geese flying that they’ve said was an illustration by founder Ben Waldman “tuned with AI” to look like an old ink drawing. )

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 29/06/2026

Yesterday’s 100 km ride got me a lot closer to catching up on my distance goal for the year. My goal is typically to bike as many kilometres as the year, so 2026 km. My best was like, 3,500 km or something when I was out of work over the summer several years ago. #bikesky #StravaCycling #BikeTO

Strava distance goal and graph. The goal is a straight diagonal line up for the year, but I get less km in winter, so am behind.

Data:
Current: 963 km
To go: 1,062.8 km
Behind plan: 35.8

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 28/06/2026

52 years old and I still have it in me. 100 km done today. 🚴🏼‍♂️ #CyclingLife #Bikesky #BikeTO #AsthmaticCyclist #GranFondo

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 25/06/2026

Serious question: are paleoartists not using hashtags anymore? I've added a ton of hashtags so the SciArt Feed will pick up artists' work even if they don't use 🐡 or #SciArt. I'm eager to find low-friction ways for artists' work to appear in the Feed. Feedback welcome. #paleoart

3 columns of hashtags (and I've added more since making this graphic):

#SciArt
#LuxArt
#Scientificillustration
🐡
#MedArt
#SciVis
#Afrofuturism
#MedicalAnimation
#SciViz
#AnimalArt
#Medicallllustration
#SpaceArt
#Animallllustration
#NatureArt
#SpecEvo
#ArtSci
#NatureJournal
#SolarPunkArt
#BioArt
#Nature Journaling
#STEAM
#BirdArt
#PalaeoArt
#SundayFishSketch
#BirdGlamour
#PaleoArt
#VisualSciComm
#BotanicalArt
#PaleoStream
#WildlifeArt
#DataViz
#SciArtPortfolioWeek
#Wildlifelllustration
#Dinovember
#SciArtSeptember

#GraphicMedicine
#SciComm

#insectArt
#ScienceComic

#InverteFest
#Sciencelnk

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 21/06/2026

Back from the annual solstice ride with friends. #Bikesky #BikeTO #Toronto

Across the water, the Toronto skyline including the iconic CN Tower, with setting sun peeking out from behind tall buildings seen from the east looking west. Dramatic clouds underlit with sepia orange and cream tones against the fading blue sky lend drama to the scene.

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