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Mantis🦇

@hawklobster.bsky.social

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Birder - Animist - Wood Witch 🦆👁️🪶 Into this house, we’re born Into this world, we’re thrown

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 14h

'Hooray!' Inktober day fifteen #joncarling #inktober2026 #hooray

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 10h

Shelia Robertson (1925-1987) 'A Cat called Pumpkin' 1961. #Linocut #Caturday

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Three panel comic. Panel 1: a little dog is sleeping on a couch, kicking its paws. A person says, “look! The little kicks!” Panel 2: in awe of the cuteness, the person continues, “what do you think he’s dreaming about?” Panel 3: in the dog’s dream, the pup is wearing a captain’s jacket, holding tightly to a wooden ship on stormy seas. In his other paw, he is gripping a harpoon as an enormous vacuum cleaner breaches violently from the water.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“I am right here,” said Frog.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12h

Some fresh edits from my best baby coot experience thus far. #SpookySeason 🪶

a baby American coot swimming in the opposite direction zoomed in on its face, I mirrored this so it made this post look better but originally they're both swimming the same direction. I don't know if it's the same burn or not but it's a different shot

A parent looks down at a baby American coot. In the upcoming frames they do feed something but you can't see what it is in this in the upcoming frames they do feed something but you can't see what it is in this

Two babies looking up at one parent wantingly

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12h

Frances Macdonald ( 1873 – 1921), prominent Glasgow School artist, whose design work was a huge feature of the British Art Nouveau style from the 1890s until the early 20th century #WomensArt ##GlasgowGirls

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 9h

🖼️ Jane Dignum

Otter swimming with fish in water, linocut.

Mantis🦇 @hawklobster.bsky.social · 20h

Latest find. Comment any # 1-440 & I’ll share the page. #witchsky #thebookvillage #antiquarianbooks #occultbooks

A large & heavy encyclopedia. It is yellow & black with red trim text:

“AN ENCYCLO PAEDIA OF OCCULTISM
A COMPENDIUM OF INFORMATION ON THE OCCULT SCIENCES, OCCULT PERSONALITIES, PSYCHIC SCIENCE, MAGIC, DEMONOLOGY, SPIRITISM, MYSTICISM AND METAPHYSICS
THE COMPREHENSIVE ILLUSTRATED TREASURY OF OCCULT KNOWLEDGE FROM ALL TIMES AND PLACES
More than 2500 entries and articles
BY LEWIS SPENCE”

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

🖼️ Sarah Bays

Wren perched on a wall with foliage in background, painting.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

🖼️ Rebecca Kinkead

Painting of black bear sat in long grass, autumn colours.

Mantis🦇 @hawklobster.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“Welcome home” 🌀 #portal #upstateNY #synchronicity

A blue doorframe holds a brightly painted door with the # 169. It reads, “welcome home”

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

'Rabbit Lady' Inktober day fourteen #joncarling #inktober2026 #lady

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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 15/10/2026

I got this tonight, one foreground and one background video. The background footage is at 30%, captured in the same minute on a tripod. The crop jumped to the right of the frame during the background footage. Fun guys! 🪶 🐦‍⬛

Mantis🦇 @hawklobster.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Autumn on the rail trail. #TheCatskills #nature

Foliage on the rail trail, a white barn to the left & mountains in the distance

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A young female Northern Cardinal perched along the nature trail. I like her red eyebrows.

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

An Eastern Chipmunk getting ready for the colder months with cheeks stuffed with leaves to bring back to the burrow.

Mantis🦇 @hawklobster.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Dreamy Bastet showing off her monstrous thumbs. 😆 #caturday #polydactyl #catsofbluesky

A green-eyed tortie cat lounging with her paws crossed, exposing a very large thumb

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

'He likes to toss seeds to the birds from his favorite stump' Inktober day twelve #joncarling #inktober2026 #toss

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A Tufted Titmouse, my favorite bird, perched along the nature trail.

Mantis🦇 @hawklobster.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#Squashtober featuring spaghetti squash, caprese style. Mama mia. #food #vegetarian #freshproduce

Spaghetti squash with mozzarella, tomato, & fresh basil

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Artwork by Katja Lang, contemporary German artist based in Berlin #WomensArt

Sketch of a tiny central lone human figure in a vast flat and bleak landscape

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 13/10/2026

Suncrow. 🪶

Mantis🦇 @hawklobster.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#Squashtober featuring last night’s acorn squash. #freshproduce

Acorn squash halved and stuffed with spinach, rice, & white beans, oven roasted & topped with lemon, fresh basil, & Parmesan. Still atop parchment paper.

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

'The Rescue' inktober day eleven #joncarling #inktober #inktober2026 #rescue

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A Black-capped Chickadee watches the Swamp Sparrows chase each other around.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Mitjili Napurrula is an Indigenous Australian painter from the Northern Territories #WomensArt

Colourful painting with stylised repeated leaf morifs, dots and orher significant forms on a white background

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Frog and Toad went for a walk. Toad did not trip over a rock. He did not bump into a tree. He did not fall in a hole.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

'The Fairytale Bird ' by Gerda Luise Schmidt, 1900.

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Coral King @rocketcoral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A burnet #moth enjoying a delicious birds foot trefoil 🌼🦋😍

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

'Her Mystical Friend' inktober day ten #joncarling #inktober2026 #mystical

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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A witch goes to a pizzeria, but she can’t stop thinking about her cat, who stayed home.

A painting of a skull wearing a witch's hat in front of a plate of pizza and wine, with a thought bubble suggesting a calico cat.

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

They built it anyway

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

https://www.instagram.com/rustycartoons?srtk=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel is titled “things that are spooky”. We see a book of hexes, a skull, candles, a pentagram in blood, and vampire teeth. Pointing off panel we see a speech bubble that says “I love it”.
The second panel is titled “things that are cute”. We see a strawberry cake, a boba drink, a bunny plushie, and a cute notebook and pen. Again, we see a speech bubble pointing off panel that says “I love it”.
The third panel is titled “things that are spooky AND cute”. We see a row of cute decorative ghosts.
The fourth panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, completely freaking out at this combination.

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A Ruby-crowned Kinglet waves hello! 👋

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

'Ram Magic' inktober day nine #joncarling #inktober2026 #ram

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anubis With A Weird Bike, Joanna Karpowicz, 2017.

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Mantis🦇 @hawklobster.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars
of light,
are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment,
the long tapers of cattails
are bursting and floating away over the blue shoulders
of the ponds, and every pond, no matter what its
name is, is
nameless now.
Every year everything
I have ever learned
in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side
is salvation, whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world
you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
Mary Oliver
In Blackwater Woods

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘The Ghost Story’ by Alfred Bestall, 1930.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Golden Flight Of Swans, Catherine Hyde.

Three swans in flight over autumn trees abd river, a person walks by the river, dawn sky with moon or sun, painting.

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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel, we see a pair of ghosts. The first ghost says, “Let us make love, my darling.”
In the second panel, we see see the second ghost’s face, blushing. It says, “Here? In public?”
In the third panel, we again see the pair of ghosts together. The first one says, “No one can see us, we’re ghosts!”
In the fourth panel, the title reads “the cat”. We see a cat looking up at them.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And all the next day Toad read poems to his seeds.

Toad stands on a rock, reading poetry to his seeds.

From "The Garden"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

'The Stinky Garden' inktober day eight #joncarling #inktober2026 #stinky

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The turtle laughed. The lizards laughed. The snake laughed. The field mouse laughed, and Frog laughed.

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toonholechris @toonholechris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Our turn

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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Bluespotted Ribbontail stingray has strikingly colorful electric blue spots. It uses its venomous tail to defend itself from predators. #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #ocean #stingray #scuba #eastcoastkin #photography