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Karen May 🤿📸

@crittermad.bsky.social
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Retired primary care pharmacist, owned by 3 cats, Geordie living in Wales, Scuba Diver, Amateur Underwater Photographer trying to get to grips with topside, #OM1 wildlife friendly gardener,

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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Playing with coloured lights and a vortex lens - whilst 2 nudibranchs create the next generation- a bit of a different style for me! - Bali 🤿🌊🦑 #underwaterphotography #OM1
Two sea slugs mating, lit by blue and pink light, a vortex lens makes the colours swirl around them
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
We can all agree that I'd look fantastic on a £5 note
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Shaun the sheep nudibranch, this cute ~3mm sap sucking slug lives on green algae in the Lembeh Strait #OM1 🦑🌊
Shaun the sheep nudibranch is a tiny green sea slug with purple tipped protrusions on its back, it has two black tipped antennae and black eye spots - it resembles the Shaun the sheep cartoon character
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
At 14 I could never really understand what my dad saw in Suzi Quattro….
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European Medicines Agency @ema.europa.eu · 23/09/2025
Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women. Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children. Read more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-...
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Use of paracetamol during pregnancy unchanged in the EU | European Medicines Agency (EMA)
Paracetamol medicines can be used in pregnancy, in accordance with official recommendations
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Sunlit goatfish Gota Abu Ramada Egypt 🦑🌊🤿
Two dive boats are moored next to each other in the midday Egyptian sun, causing sunbeams to cascade between them. A school of goatfish shelter in the shade below
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
World Oceans Day #marinelife #photography #underwaterphotography #OM1 🦑🌊 Manta on a Maldivian cleaning station
A manta ray slows down over a cleaning station to allow butterfly fish to pick off parasites and dead skin. He is surrounded by a school of fusilier fish. Maldives
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
A dreamy puffin living in the campion on beautiful Skomer Island #OM1
photograph of a puffin in a field of white campion flowers which are blurred due to the shallow depth of field
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Sedge warbler - not underwater! Skomer Island, Wales #om1 #omsystem
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Clown fish, Maldives #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide 🌊🦑
A clownfish hides within a balled up anemone with its bright purple skirt visible at the edges
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Whale shark off the back of Maldivian dive boat 🦑🌊🤿
Whale shark hoovering up plankton at the surface under the lights at the back of a dive boat in the Maldives
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A male cardinal fish mouth broods eggs at the barge dive site, Red Sea #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide 🌊🦑
A brown and yellow striped fish in the Red Sea - within his open mouth you can see hundreds of silver eggs which he mouth broods.
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A large cabbage coral cloaked in orange Anthias at Satellite Reef off Shark & Yolanda, Red Sea #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
Three yellow cabbage corals like an underwater bouquet are cloaked in a school of orange anthia fish as a diver looks on
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
A long nose hawkish hides him selves in a coral bush, Maldives 🌊🦑#Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
A small fish with a red and white checked body and a pointy nose is hidden in the fronds of a golden coral bush
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Synchronised shoals in Raja Ampat #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide 🌊🦑
A school of blue striped snapper (yellow fish) sweep right to left above a coral garden. Behind them a school of blue fusiliers sweep left to right
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Peek-a-boo! A blennie from Curacao #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide #divesky #marinelife
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Rob Davies @wrexhamrob.pharmsky.app · 06/01/2025
a lovely true story of the need for and celebration of #generalists. Thank you @drjongriffiths.bsky.social Lets celebrate and value generalists GPs, and also others in health pharmacists in GP & community, advanced nurses, physios & others. @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app @jonathanunderhill.pharmsky.app
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Red Sea Reefs - Shark & Yolanda Reef, Ras Mohammed Egypt #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide #marinelife
Vibrant colours of soft corals on a Red Sea reef (pinks, purple, red)
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This was a discarded bottle lying on the seabed in Lembeh Straits Indonesia- two tiny yellow gobies have made their home inside the neck where they are protected from predators #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
Two tiny yellow gobies living in a bottle discarded on the sea floor, Lembeh Straits Indonesia
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
WOW! More than 6,000 people have now completed our Safeguard Democracy survey🔥 Can we get it to 10k to send a proper signal about need to take money out of politics? Fill it in here. democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard Do share! Thanks! 😀
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A survey to make a people-powered plan to safeguard Britain's democracy from leading investigative journalists who write about lobbying and dark money
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Trisha KansasGal @kansasgal71.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
"The country needs conviction politicians, not politicians with convictions," says Kemi Badenoch, who has previously admitted to hacking and vandalising a Labour MP's website, which was an offence carrying a sentence of up to five years in prison #pmqs
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Orbis pictus @czechview21.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Le Mont Saint-Michel #viaX #cfoto Gwénaël Santerre #France
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Throwback to Red Sea 2022. Marsa Shagra House Reef. A lionfish hunting at dusk #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #em10iii #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
An underwater scene, the sun is low in the sky giving the water an eerie green glow. A lionfish hunts for its supper amongst the coral, a sunburst above his head
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House of Le Rouge @frisky9.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
x.com/frisky9/stat... Nurayev is looking for a home after his elderly owner passed. Based in Sydney 🇦🇺
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Nom Nom. A damsell in distress. A lizardfish eats a damselfish whole, Lembeh Straits, Indonesia #underwaterphotography #scuba #scubadiving #underwater #diving #OMSYSTEM #om1 #omsystemom1 #uwphotography #uwphotographer #retrauwt #marinelife
A lizardfish with a damselfish in its mouth
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Batu Rufus Raja Ampat #underwaterphotography #scuba #scubadiving #marinelife #underwater #diving #OMSYSTEM #om1 #omsystemom1 #uwphotography #uwphotographer #retrauwt
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Gorgeous male Bearded Tit! 😍🐦😀 #birds
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
This is Lou Lou. She looks like a little angel but don’t be fooled. She’s just whacked her older brother just because she can! She’s torbie - so tabby markings with all the tortie attitude! #cats #adoptdontshop #rescuecat
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Manta night dive - Maldives. A bright light is shone off the back of the boat at night to bring plankton in, which brings the mantas, and a whale shark - these are barrel feeding #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
2 manta rays barrel feeding at night Whale shark at back of boat
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I’ve pushed the button and deactivated my twitter account - feels liberating! And so nice to see so many people I already follow there, here too - as well as new people to follow ☺️
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Lucky to ‘bump’ into this gang of Bumphead Parrotfish in Raja Ampat - they are so characterful, the big ones slow and steady and definitely in charge, the little ones zipping around #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
School of bumphead parrotfish
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
The stunning reefs of Raja Ampat 🤿 #UnderwaterPhotography #Scuba #wildlifephotography #uwphotographer #uwpics #underwater #ocean # scubadiving #ScubaDiving #Underwater #Diving #olympusom1 #retrauwt
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
My first post 👋 to say Hi! Transitioning from the dark site. Any photog (esp underwater) recommendations? #OMSystems
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