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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Thinking how easy it would be to get rich from idiots putting their credit card info into any llm and that I probably will choose to do the right thing instead & not part fools from their money. If you pay through chat GPT and give them your information you deserve everything that happens to you.

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Saturday’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #birdonawire birds on a wire or line and the alternative is #silhouette. I don't have many wires, but I get lots of pretty sunset type silhouettes of our hummingbirds especially. 💓 #birds #photography #hummingbird

A photo of a a silhouette of a rufous hummingbird against a golden sunset with purple and pink clouds being lit up across the sky. The tops of a few pine trees can be seen along the bottom of the photo.

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Hello! I'm Joel 👋. I'm excited to actually do #portfolioday! I'm a disabled/retired Virologist. In my free time, when not resting, I do molecular art (viral models), nature ( #birds & wildlife around my house), & #astrophotography This will act as a new pinned intro organizing virology/art threads:

ArtvsArtist2024 photo. it's a 3x3 grid, totaling 9 squares. From top left to right going through each row:
1. A phot of the Orion galaxy
2. A rainbow version of the Adeno-associated virus 2
3. Dueling female rufous hummingbirds
4. A cooper's hawk sitting on a dead tree branch
5. A poofed up angry hummingbird sitting in a perch
6. A black and white faked sem photo of a Rhinovirus.
7. A mountain meadow with cows in the fall bright yellow and orange aspen trees with snow covered mountains behind them.
8. The wizard nebula
9. A mountain bluebird posing with his back to the camera. Bright blue wings and black strips towards the tips of the feathers, a white chest.

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Everyone meet my beautiful fiery boy Hobbes. As a, Rufous, he's a little firecracker. His energy & charm are infectious & entertaining. Depending on angle his gorget is orange, yellow, or gold & green hue edges due to iridescent feathers #birds #hummingbird #SciArt #photography f/8, 1/4000th,iso8000

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Friends making awesome versions of this, wanted to distract myself from *gestures to everything* I mixed in some #animations, #photography, #astrophotography, #virology #the_color_wheel #art

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Our current science environment is filled with a bunch of frauds and pseudoscience fakes. They are there because people normalized their horrible antivaxx and bad medical science takes.

The throw out the window disagreement meme with the faces of the director replaced with RFK Jr, the man replaced by Jay Bhattacharya Director of the National Institutes of Health of the United States who is making it so we can't get flu or covid vaccines and Monica Ghandi one of the biggest both siders and normalizers of antivaxx ideas and other bad health ideas.

RFK: How do we make america healthy again?
Jay: Make vaccines impossible to approve
Monica: Give credibility to antivax talk points
CDC: Improve education in relevant fields, fund the NIH more, support HIV research, and keep the vaccine schedule as it is because it's safe.

CDC character is seen being thrown out the window.

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

When you finally hit that spot you been trying to scratch for a while. #birds 🪶

A Mountain Bluebird scratching an itch on his head while sitting on the old dead branch of a pine tree. The second frame in the photo the bird has mouth open as he continues scratching, making it look like a sigh of relief.

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Broad-tailed hummingbird and a Stellar's Jay at sunrise are my 2 favorite silhouettes I've made. f/16 1/200 #birds 🪶 #silhouettes

Combination of two silhouettes one of a hummingbird one of a stellar's jay.

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Look how happy this lil man is. Always chirping away. Look at that big chest puff, he's so thrilled he gets breakfast fresh every morning. If I hit the snooze, he's there waiting for me on the beam. Video of him eating in 2nd post f/16, 1/4000, iso 12800 #hummingbird #birds 🪶 #nature #photography

A male broad tailed hummingbird with his chest puffed up looking at the camera happy.

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Brough Milner @broughmilner.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Froggy brings out the green in her eyes. 🐸🐱 #cats #photography

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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Indigo bunting!! This is day two in a row. I’m getting my hopes up for him staying, maybe for weeks, or dare I say it, thru summer like Mr Lazuli did?? This is the 1st view I had from 25 ft away. All that brown, I thought it was a Scaly-breasted munia. 🪶

A view from behind of a mostly brown bird with bits of blue scattered around. It is an Indigo bunting, not common in San Diego county. It is standing on a fence.

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A blue boy for a blue weekend. He showed up chirping in the tree and eventually I got him to come over to me on the porch to sit in the sun for a while and cheer me up. Such a sweetheart. 💙🪶 #bird: Mountain bluebird (Sialia currucoides) ISO: 2500 f/16 1/1000th. #photography #nature

Mountain bluebird sitting on the branches of an Aspen tree in winter.

Mountain Bluebird sitting on a wood porch looking back at the camera.

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Deggn @deggn.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Got some snow up in South Park. Love how it can snow one day and just be super sunny the next.

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Julia Metzger @juliametzgerart.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

MtG: Pilot Token AD: Vic Ochoa Aetherdrift #MTGAetherdrift #art (C) Wizards of the Coast 2025 fresh art from the previews for Aetherdrift :)

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Deggn @deggn.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If you see this, post something orange. One of the many beautiful sunsets up here. The shape of the clouds really caught my eye this night. #mountains #colorado #sunset

Orange sunset clouds over a snow-capped mountain range with a dead tree sticking up in the middle and branches of a pine tree partially in frame from the right side.

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Caio is an awesome person, need something made check them out.

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hello! I'm Joel 👋. I'm excited to actually get to do a #portfolioday! I'm a disabled/retired Virologist. In my free time when I'm not resting, I for fun do molecular art (viral models), nature ( #birds & wildlife around my house), astrophotography (also from home) Happy to meet more art friends ❤️

My pet bobcat, in our field, showing off his light orange winter fur and bright red eyes, sitting on a rock looking directly at me on the porch. He is wondering if I have any trapped rats for him.

My art vs artist from the end of this past year showing off 9 photos. Orion, adenovirus, 2 humming birds fighting, a cooper's hawk, me holding Missy on a feeder, rhinovirus model, Fall field of cows, the wizard nebula, and a male hummingbird.

A field of cows with fall colored aspen trees, bright yellows and oranges, and a snow covered mountain in the background.

A hummingbird flying, wings slicing the air.

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Some mornings the clouds & snow blowing around diffuse the Sun's light in a way that always makes me think of the Eye of Sauron. So I call these mornings, "Sauron Mornings" "His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh. You know of what I speak, Gandalf: a great Eye, lidless, wreathed in flame"

The sun glowing orange and bright through clouds and haze on a snowy field. It looks vaguely like the Eye of Sauron from The Lord of the Rings.

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Fun fact before taking these: He looks very alert in those shots, but in reality it took a while for him to wake up and for most the morning he was actually a very sleepy boy. #bobcat #nature #photography #wildlife

Bobcat with almost fully closed eyes, looking tired, sitting on a rock among some aspen trees

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

New Year. New Friends. Been slowly making friends with this handsome gentlemen. He seems to enjoy the pack rats & bunnies here. He comes right up to the porch & looks in. I'm going to keep him. His murder mittens are so fluffy ISO:25600 f:1/16 Shutter:1/1000 #bobcat #nature #wildlife #photography

Bob the bobcat perched upright, sitting on a rock in a field, looking at me standing on my porch.

Bob the bobcat crouched after having just landed on the rock, looking at me standing on my porch.

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Happy Winter Solstice from South Park 🌨️❄️👋 Time to start building up energy for the new year!

A photo from my porch of a snowy meadow and dark snow clouds obscuring the view of the distance over the mountains.

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A favorite of mine, the Peregrine Falcon. Fast and beautiful bird. Taken near Bailey, Co #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Face off Was one of the first photos I tried to take when experimenting with my new camera in the spring. Got lucky & captured a good action shot of two Rufous hummingbirds doing their little vertical challenge column fight #hummingbirds #birds #nature #photography f/9 1/4000 iso 6400 24-240@94mm

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Deggn @deggn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

POV: Telling your husband @joel-rocketco.bsky.social it was a rough day at work. Me: It was one of those days dealing with people. Him: Was it a no spine day? Me: ... Him: You know like the dog. Me: ... Me: Do you mean a "no bones day"? Him: Yah, same thing Me: I guess a spine is made of bones...

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a man in a black sweater is holding a bottle and has the word wut written on his face

ALT: a man in a black sweater is holding a bottle and has the word wut written on his face

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Deggn @deggn.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Finished the timelapse of yesterday. Beautiful sunrise and some neat cloud movement. Too long to embed so it's up on youtube in all it's 4k glory. Pi Cam2 shot every 15 seconds, going to do today's at 10 seconds to see if it smooths it out some. #timelapse #mountain www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozw5...

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December in the mountains on a sunny day

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Deggn @deggn.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Been experimenting with some timelapse videos. It's such a beautiful view up here I wanted to share. This is the first capture I liked. I got a pi and camera set to take a picture every 15 seconds. Working on a full day but wanted to give you guys a preview. #mountains #sunrise #timelapse #nature

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar 2024 Day 6 A make Yellow Warbler flys between branches in a spruce tree as it forages for bugs. #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

A male yellow warbler, with his orange chest stripes on an otherwise yellow body, takes flight from a green spruce tree branch. Its wings are completely spread out .

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Deggn @deggn.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Defying Gravity - Squirrels "playing" in a fallen tree. Figured it best to post the G rated picture. #wildlife #photography #squirrel

Two squirrels in a fallen trees one is upside down hanging from branch and the other is in the crook of the branch and truck looking down towards the first

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Paul Scott Canavan @paulscottcanavan.com · 27/11/2024

🔥Just 72 hours to go on my Kickstarter!🔥 Please have a look and give it a share!! It's an original roleplaying game where you play as witches fighting back against the church and hunting horrific monsters from Scottish folklore. Help me spread the word 🖤🖤🖤 www.kickstarter.com/projects/pal...

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PALE TIDES: A Game of Folk Horror and Witchcraft

A new horror roleplaying game by Paul Scott Canavan. A pale moon rises. Forgotten horrors stir. Gather your coven and prepare to hunt.

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Missy's daughter was just as patient with people (me) as her mom. She had no patience for the boys always fighting & would break them up herself so she could drink peacefully. I can't wait for them to come back (home). f/10 1/4000 shutter iso @ 6400 #birds #hummingbird #photography

A picture of a female Rufous hummingbird Bird, named Virginia that lives at joel-rocketco.bsky.social 's house, looking directly at the camera.

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Deggn @deggn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Daytime naps are the best. Though they don't look too pleased with my camera clicking away while they are trying to sleep. #wildlife #photography #eepy #bunny #mountaincottontail

Mountain Cottontail sleeping on a rock with ear folded back and eyes closed

Mountain Cottontail sleeping on a rock with eyes opening and ears perked up like it hears something nearby

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Deggn @deggn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

One of our babies that came to hang out for the summer. Miss you guys! #FeatheredFriday #hummingbird #wildlife #photography

Hummingbird in flight with wings straight back

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Deggn @deggn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Had a beautiful cloudy sunset up here the other night. #Sunset

Orange sunset clouds over a line of pine trees.

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Deggn @deggn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Slender Tube Sky Rocket... insert juvenile phallic reference here.

Close up of a cluster of three blooms from a Slender tube sky rocket. Bright pink in color with five petals each.

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Little intro: I’m Joel, an early retired (disabled) Virologist (MSc) & teacher. I write on disability advocacy & a lot about vaccine misinformation. When I'm not resting to heal or trying to stay up on current research (lol so much it'll never happen), I do molecular art, nature, & astrophotography.

Close up photo of a male Broad-tailed hummingbird with a bright red gorget.

A rainbow colored viral model of the Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV-2).

A collage of three space photos, nebulae from left to right are the wizard nebula (SH2-142), the hidden nebula (SH2-140), and The Omega Nebula (Messier 17)

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Deggn @deggn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The neighborhood bald eagle that likes to sit atop the electrical poles. They keep a keen eye out for any prey in the area. #photography #birb #bird #baldeagle #wildlife

Bald eagle flying over a valley with mountains and clear blue sky in the background.

Bald eagle perched looking towards the camera. Another angle of the same eagle looking slightly off to the side and zoomed into just the head that is semi transparent to the right of the original eagle.

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Deggn @deggn.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Another one of my favorites. Was getting a close-up of these purple asters and didn't even notice the guests they had on them. I think they made it turn out out even better! #photography #flora #purpleaster #wildlife

Close up of a group of purple aster flowers with two insects on them.

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I'm going to start using this setting until it becomes an ingrained habit because I am trying to be better about always putting alt text to help people with screen readers. We want everyone to enjoy this site ♥️

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Deggn @deggn.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

First post here coming from the bad place. I'll be sharing my pictures from my Canon R100 I got this year to learn photography. @joel-rocketco.bsky.social has been teaching me. Going to start with my favorite picture of a Stellar's Jay. They don't stay still long. #photography #wildlife #bird #birb

Stellar's Jay in pine tree perched above a single pine cone.

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