iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Looked at a phylogenetic tree of Leporidae today. Can't believe I've been told my whole life that hares aren't rabbits.

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T. Ashley 🌸 Jenkins @fluttersprite.itch.io · 24/09/2026

The "specific heat" of a substance is the measurement of how hot a particular sample of a substance is, as opposed to how hot that substance tends to be in general

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 16/09/2026

The leaping blenny hops from rock to rock, and can launch itself through the air up to 50 times its body length. You can find them in tide pools, on rocky coasts, and, starting November 7, you’ll be able to see leaping blennies in action at our all-new Ocean in Motion/La Danza del Mar exhibit.

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kaim✰ @kaimti.me · 05/09/2026

wolf mother

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kaim✰ @kaimti.me · 05/09/2026

she’s everything

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clover (creature) ♧ 🔞 @clover-nsfw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

shhh... the plants are photosynthesizing purchased this pattern from PandasCrochetIT, it was a bit tough but I think it turned out nicely

crocheted leafeon lying next to a potted plant

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clover (creature) ♧ 🔞 @clover-nsfw.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

a visitor from the moon! my most ambitious project yet is finally done, created thanks to a free pattern provided by Megan's Crochet Market

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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Serving some major squeeee 😱🥹🥰 ⁠ This adorable baby is the eryoneicus larval stage of a deep-sea lobster. These fuzzy globs float and feed in the water column until they're ready to change into juvenile lobsters and settle on the seafloor. This larva is about two inches long. You're welcome. 😍

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 30/05/2026

If you have nsfw set to "hide" I implore you to set it to "warn". You still won't see anything except for a blurred post Otherwise once they roll out account-wide adult content labeling a whole lot of people including me are going to disappear from your timelines, even our sfw text posts

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Recently celebrated 10 years together with my gf @sheepgore.bsky.social! And as part of a gift, I drew some forms for her shapeshifting fursona. #VittArta

Drawing of three animals with labels, colored and with other features to resemble @sheepgore's sona. The animals are a leather star, a limpet, and a dogshark.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I'm not bigoted, but... how would you feel if your daughter dated a naturalistic substance dualist?

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dotJade @dotjade.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

NEW STICKERS ARE UP FOR PREORDER!! We have a triple-release this time, featuring: fisy Want people to know how much you love Nautili, Planarians, Isopods, or (brave soul) all of the above?? Well now's your chance to really show off! Grab em here ko-fi.com/itjade/shop

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Troutman @robotrowboat.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Boss: Let’s put this matter aside for the time being Me: [looking around nervously] Can only you see the time being? Boss: Huh? Me: Is it standing near me? Boss: Who? Me: [on verge of panic attack] The time being

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Drove plankton from the boat to the lab. Mesoplankton babies are unfortunately way too small for a car seat.

Three plastic jars side by side in the passenger seat of a car. The seat belt is on them, but since they're so short, only the bottom strap is around then.

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Been playing a lot of Rabbit & Steel recently. POV invulnerability refresh lets you backstab Merran's ass during Phase 2.

Rabbit & Steel screenshot of phase 2 of Merran, the Steeltooth Wolf's fight. Assassin Rabbit just landed a 609 (nice) damage assassinate, standing outside the safe zone.

Point of view from behind Assassin Rabbit and Small Mouse. Merran glances back toward the two, as "backstab!! 609" damages, focused on her butt ofc. Damage beams and edge of safe zone circle visible in background.

Same as previous image, but without the damage beams, edge of safe zone circle, and damage indicator. In other words, just Assassin Rabbit, Merran, and Small Mouse.

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📸Prof. Blanc's Sex Safari ~ Part 3 out now! @pkmnsexsafari.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

With its "natural habitat" being research laboratories, Silvally apparently finds trainers familiar enough to be suitable mates! 📸 @triti.bsky.social

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📸Prof. Blanc's Sex Safari ~ Part 3 out now! @pkmnsexsafari.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

A detailed report on this encounter written by @a-vittata.bsky.social can be read here: drive.google.com/file/d/1qZmo...

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01FR - A Vittata.txt

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📸Prof. Blanc's Sex Safari ~ Part 3 out now! @pkmnsexsafari.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Prof. Blanc's Sex Safari 3 is available now! Inspired by Pokémon Snap, Sex Safari is an art and writing collab with a theme of exploring Pokémon's sexual habits in the wild. Happy 30th anniversary y'all 😘📸

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Happy Pokémon Day! Today's the release of the third Pokémon Snap: Sex Safari art pack. Promoting it because I contributed writing in the form of 5 of the field reports! Thank you @albinoraynedeer.bsky.social for organizing, and for enabling my ecology fanfiction. Download the pack at bit.ly/PBSS3!

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Prof. Blanc's Sex Safari 3 - Google Drive

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

There are these two fish at my local aquarium that *always* make me think of that "if a X wore pants" joke. Their section is currently under construction, and I hope they're doing well.

On top is text that says
"If a fish wore pants
would it wear them"
Then, there are two pictures of fish.
One is a blue fish with a yellow section that extends from above its tai, across its body, to its chin, and below, covering the anal and pelvic fins. Below it is the text "Like this?"
The other is a black fish with a white section covering its tail, anal fin, and back posterior fin. Below it is the text "Or like this?"

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Rayne Blanc 🔞 @albinoraynedeer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Pssst 😶‍🌫️ Prof. Blanc's Sex Safari 3 drops on the 27th (yes that's Pokémon Day~) Follow the new Sex Safari BlueSky for updates! @pkmnsexsafari.bsky.social #nsfw #nsfwart #furrynsfw #yiff #feralyiff #pokeyiff #nsfwpokemon

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 20/01/2026

If any of my peers are ever bashful about making stuff or being proud of the stuff they make, I just say "what, you're gonna let the Tommy Tallaricos rule the world?" I extend this to all of you

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Wow, turns out there's a reason all those restaurants cut their tofu into 1x4 rectangular prisms instead of cubes.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

As the guy who's been shouting into the wind against immigration restriction for 10 years, my new fantasy is to be an anti version of Steve Miller. I convince a president to send gov't employees into neighborhoods to set up welcome centers with language/employment services.

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

If "giant Pacific octopus" is too many syllables, you can call it a GPO like the rest of us. I will judge you if you just shorten it to "giant octopus."

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy new year! Especially to my loving girlfriend, @sheepgore.bsky.social! It's my first time drawing her fursona, and I'm happy with how it came out. Hopefully I'll post more art in the coming year!

Biscuit, dog fursona of @sheepgore, and Phi, poster's scaleworm fursona, lying down in a dark-blue void facing each other.
Near the top of the image is upside-down text "By tide and by time"
Near the bottom of the image is text "To another year together"

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a carousel of animals @alteredpanel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

pour over, black (1/2)

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dotJade @dotjade.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

what are some pleasant alternative browsers that arent getting into AI and also dont fucking suck. Easy to import passwords/bookmarks preferred

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

If you can't tell me what's quantum about quantum physics, I don't care about your interpretation of quantum mechanics. That goes double if you mention that damn cat.

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

"END ROAD WORK" signs sound less like a notice that road work stops beyond a point, and more like a demand to stop forcing the road to do work. And if there's one guy who thinks the conditions of road labor are unfair...

The Whomp King from Mario 64, standing on the grass next to a road. He is holding an orange, rectangular "END ROAD WORK" sign.
Next to him, implied to be his speech, is text reading:
"It makes me so mad! We build your houses, your castles. We pave your roads, and still you walk all over us.

Do you even say thank you? No!

End road work!"

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Finally looking up Hashi tips after playing on my own on-and-off for years, and I couldn't find any tips for the *one* thing I still struggle with: solving loops without guessing and testing. :')

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I like ichthyology as much as the next animal scientist, but does the marine lab *really* need a rockfish cult?

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Finished up with my first science conference! Based on what talks were there, 90% of animals are rockfishes, abalone, and clams. Also, people liked my sponge!

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Communism *is* better than capitalism at depicting the spicules of Lycopodina Occidentalis.

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 27/10/2025

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

$Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.$

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

"Forcipiform spicules" did they not call them forceps back in 1893? What next, anisocheliform spicules? Are the macrosclerisize spicules all subtylostyliform spicules?

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Dazure @neoncomet.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It's that time of the year again

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

A couple that have come up in my lab: Flow rate drops regularly. Temperature trial during blob. Phacellophora polyps actually aurelia. And one I spent a couple weeks on: No forceps in lycopodina.

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BFu... Realized I never posted this here! A video I made for people who don't think they are a fish. Also explains cladistics.

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You Are a Fish: An Introduction to Cladistics

YouTube video by Arctonoe Vittata

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I've known I'm bisexual for at least a decade. I've also been with my girlfriend (that I love and who is also bisexual) for 9 of those years, so calling myself bisexual feels unnecessary. But I am bisexual! And this makes it visible. So happy Bisexuality Visibility Day!

A semi-anthropomorphic scaleworm lying curved, colored like a faded bi flag (blue, purple, magenta), and holding a bi flag over his body. At the top is the text "Happy Bisexuality Visibility Day!"

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

If I see one more depiction of a bloated blobfish corpse as if that's just how they look, I'm gonna pop someone's swim bladder myself. They're perfectly fine looking animals when they're not dead and decompressed. What other creature do we do this for???

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Few things make me feel like a real scientist more than using imageJ.

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I should not be allowed to draft Bloomburrow.

A rendition of the art of the Magic: the Gathering card Steampath Charger, from the torso up and facing forwards, with hands together and looking up. Above is the text:
Please Offspring (2) me already
I wanna have *a 1/1 token copy* with you

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

And here is a collage of the campaign's bosses! Metaphorical-biological shadows of what remains of humanity, along with the osprey occultist who wished to capture their power. With the exception of the bird and the colored faces, this was made by liberal image-cutting (hopefully obviously).

A collage of 6 images. 5 are in triangles, each with their point behind the half-circle at the top that contains the 6th image.
The leftmost image features a sitting man in a black suit, with the silouette of his head and hand made of crystal. Behind him is a graph, with text in front. The text, partially cut off, says "buy the dip," "?nd hand?" "bear ?rk?" "?mp a?" and "b?"
The next image from the left features a "SNOY" monitor with three colored, simple, glowing geometric faces on it: one red and shield-shaped, one blue and square, and one green and trapezoidal.
The bottommost image features a short skeleton. Its head is replaced with a marble statue, and it has a pair of colorful wings and a vest that look like part of an old mural. It holds a horn in one hand and a sword in the other, also with that mural appearance. In fancy font on and below the skeleton is text that says "rejoice for your dead gods," "rejoice for the end of history," and "rejoice for the final judgement."
The next image features a large clump of slag in a dark room; part of a skull is visible sticking out of it. Behind the clump is a blue screen with white text, "Core A: 30.5," "Core B: 32.3," "Core C: 00.2," ">ls cmdset," and a couple partially cut off ">run ?" A single light illuminates the room from above.
The rightmost image has a lizard-like creature, with a pair of bird wings attached to its back and a set of 8 octopus arms coming out of the front of its head.
On top, the half-circle contains an osprey, wings spread, with red non-english text on its wings. It wears a blue cloak visible on its back, and an open book floats above it. Text lines the bottom of the half-circle, "PAYDAY-DOOMSDAY-JUDGEMENT DAY-MAY DAY-BIRTHDAY."

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Just saw a flock of 30 something rock doves. A good omen.

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

New DnD campaign, new character. Meet Axrthrra, a brass dragonborn bard who prefers figurative firebreathing, and served as her village's librarian. That is, until the one-per-family town draft begun, and her grandfather saw the training as a perfect way to get the musician to "man up."

A dragonborn with yellow-green scales, outlined in brown. Her head is facing sideways and has a jagged, smiling, open mouth; a half-open coral eye; and a set of three vertical fins on the back. A lavender flower sits between two of the fins. Most of her body is covered by a dark-red dress with a brown strap belt, with a pair of plain gray boots. She carries a light blue-gray, eight-string, triangular lyre with both hands, and is currently playing it. A coral beam of magic extends from the playing hand, wraps past her back, and at its end, carries a dark blue beetle vertically. The beetle is large, about a third or a quarter of the dragonborn's height, and has two glowing pink ovals near where its head meets its body. In the bottom right, next to the dragonborn and below the beetle, is text that reads "Axrthrra Vrnyrishikor, the Voice of Fire" and "& Suimpé Feywarm Giant Fire Beetle".

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The older cohort of bat rays at my local aquarium have been moved out of the touch tank, so they can get used to no pets and regrow their spines in preperation to be released back into the wild. <3

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"The deep sea is scary" Agreed. The high pressure is terrifying. "Deep sea animals are scary" What? Those guys? You could beat up 99% of them, easy. And the remaining 1% doesn't want to eat you, aside from maybe one of those huge squids. I'd feel safer near a Japanese spider crab than a big dog.

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Arctonoe vittata @a-vittata.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The first big roadblock in my thesis describing a new sponge: I can't find any forceps in this damn sponge! We have multiple pictures of them. Where are they???

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 04/06/2025

Birds are real.

A blue robot bird talking to a red robot bird. The blue bird says, "They're saying there's a website." The red bird replies, "What kind of website?" Blue bird says, "Government website. You can report unsafe products." Red bird replies, "Excellent work, Johnson. Excellent work." The text reads: Report and search for unsafe products. SaferProducts.gov

A blue robot bird talking to a red robot bird. The blue bird says, "Did you get the invite to my potluck?" The red bird replies, "Oh! Uh. No. Did you send it?" Blue bird says, "Yeah! Sent it like a week ago. Are you sure you didn't get it?" Red bird replies, "Oh, uh. I'll check. You know sometimes things just go missing in my place. Haha. or, you know, mail might be slow." The text reads: Report and search for unsafe products. SaferProducts.gov

"A blue robot bird talking to a red robot bird. The blue bird says, "All my potluck invites have tracking numbers. I know you got it. Don't bring the mail into this." The red bird replies, "Sigh. Listen, I just..." Blue bird says, "If you don't want to come just check "No" on the RSVP. You don't have to make this awkward." Red bird replies, "Listen, Johnson. It's not that I don't want to come. I love your potlucks it's just..." The text reads: Report and search for unsafe products. SaferProducts.gov"

A close up of a red bird that is fake but believes it is real. The text reads: Ever since I was a chick - a thing I would have been since I am a real bird - I've dreamed of hosting my own potluck. The smell of food in slow cookers and chafing dishes, a home filled with family and friends, the quiet background music of a solid playlist at just the right volume, the laughter of people having an inside joke that I am also inside. That's the dream, Johnson. And the problem is, your potlucks - they're just too good! Who needs a second potluck when the Johnson Potluck always has the best food, and the best music, and Eagle-class ambience? How could anyone else ever live up to that kind of potluck? That's why I didn't RSVP yet, Johnson. I love your potlucks, but sometimes they also make me sad. I just know my dream could never be as good as what you make here in the real world.

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