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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃

@mariannedenton.bsky.social
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past life of limnology & aquatic ecology | living a technicolor life in a B&W world | naturalist • explorer • observer | “pathologically optimistic” | “irredeemable nerd” | always a scientist |

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Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 7h
Jupiter/Moon conjunction #timelapse with bonus moondogs. I'll have full night timelapse up later. This part cried out for a short. #astronomy #astrophotography
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 6h
My phone says this is a Panicled Aster and I thought it said Panicked Aster and I was like “yeah I get it, it’s rough out there.” #BloomScrolling 🌿
A cluster of white flowers with very thin petals and round yellow centers, surrounded by a lush green background of leaves.
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 8h
SuperDog Rex loves his leaves - seems to be almost as good as diving into fresh snow #LeaveTheLeaves 🍂
A brown bridle dog sitting in fallen autumn leaves of red, gold and brown. He has a neon yellow tennis ball
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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 9h
Dainty Sulfur Butterflies have been very abundant this year.
A tiny muted yellow butterfly on a yellow flower.
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Luke Bones 🦴🦴 @lukemeister.bsky.social · 8h
In a June 2020 piece co-authored with New Age mogul Deepak Chopra, he wrote that the pandemic represented “the continued effort of the four-billion-year-old microbiome seeking to put things right.” “The virus is not our enemy—if we let it, it will be our greatest teacher,” they claimed. 🤦‍♂️
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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 9h
Little time-lapse from last night. I don't know what they were doing on that field in the distance, whatever it was, it was loud!
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 10h
So much like the receded shorelines of ancient Lake Lahontan, Pleistocene lake of the Great Basin. Drive through the Basin & Range, and ten thousand years ago wave action created sediment & cobble berms terraced on hillsides - remnants of a vast lake. Just like Gale Crater. Go, Curiosity, GO!
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 11h
Liz Lemon says “myow”
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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#BirdOfTheDay #BlueSkies osprey and bald eagle, rivals in the sky. 🪶🌿
An osprey with talons drawn chasing and warning a subadult bald eagle. The eagle has flipped over in the air, exposing its talons to the osprey and calls at the chasing bird. These species compete for fish, and bald eagles often chase ospreys, making them drop their food. Ospreys also protect their nest sites from bald eagles. 
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
From NASA Ready to shake things up! The LEMS-SP instrument was chosen to fly to the Moon with the CLPS program. LEMS-SP will use a seismometer to monitor micrometeoroids & the abundance of volatiles that drift into the Moon’s thin outer layer of gases. www.nasa.gov/news-release...
A close view of the Moon's surface. Jagged circles of craters dot the gray surface, fading to dark on the left side of the image. One crater in the center is especially pronounced, with taller edges.
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Holding on to the last bits of summer to unnaturally high temperatures to eat autumn’s sagebrush bloom
The face, eyes and antenna of a grasshopper clinging up a sagebrush stem with small yellow flower buds
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 05/10/2026
This story by @tbartelme.bsky.social is a fantastic exploration of the intricate web of consequences that our changing oceans inflict on distant lands -- but the real hero is the local news team based in Charleston, SC that made this story happen.
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A Question Mark butterfly showing off in the garden #invertebrates 🌿 #BugSky
An orange butterfly with dark spots rests on a green leaf in bright sunshine, its wings most of the way open.
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Past few years I’ve been autumnal blessed by a Cat Face Orbweaver (Araneus gemmoides) in my roses. I just discovered her today and love her already. #Arachtober 🌿
A side view looking up of a spiky orange-red and white orbweaver spider on a thorny rose cane.A back view looking down of the patterns on the abdomen of a spiky orange-red and white orbweaver spider on a thorny rose cane.
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Scott Solomon, PhD @scottsolomon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a fuzzy little flannel moth caterpillar making its way about the neighborhood. Also known as an asp, this is the most venomous caterpillar in North America. But boy, are they cute.
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Jim Elser @drlimnology.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A red kayak on calm Flathead Lake waters with sun setting and a grid of small clouds on the sky.
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Birding road trip today. Might count a few Snow Geese today 😂 #birds
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
maybe the best shot i took on the coast this time, although it still doesn't quite capture the reality of the beauty
blue cloud sly band of mist hills reflected water
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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Gift article about the magnificent Burro Lake and how a reporter’s Q inspired Yosemite’s park geologist (Greg Stock- a cool dude) to finally go check it out. Spoiler, it’s likely calcium carbonate scattering from an undetermined source in roof pendant. ⚒️ www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
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The Sierra Nevada’s bluest lake has a mystery even scientists can’t fully explain
At 10,000 feet, deep in the Eastern Sierra, lies a lake that’s intensely, cinematically blue.
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
on the autumn trail yesterday
A three panel collage of hiking pictures. The larger left is a man & dog on a road border by conifers and golden aspens. The right is a stack of two pics. The top is golden aspens and the bottom is a single sierra juniper
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Spacenerd19 @spacenerd19.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Assassin bug on a begonia flower.
Bright green assassin bug in a faintly pink white bloom.
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Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Are we doing October New Year waterflows? My local watershed wishes to contribute this glacial meltwater stream from Tahoma (also known as Mount Rainier), Washington State. Ohanapecosh Glacier -> Ohanapecosh River -> Cowlitz River -> Columbia River -> Pacific Ocean
A photograph of a tiny whitewater rapid in a small stream flowing through the dense, lush vegetation of a temperate rainforest.  The white of the water contrasts strongly with the vivid greens of the foliage and the near-black shadows of the scene.  In the foreground, the water crashes against a large mossy stone as it comes to rest in the pool below.  In the background, a fallen tree covered in moss spans the stream.
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’ve been meaning to ask Husband to adjust the sprinkler water. Until today that is - then a Northern Flicker took a sip, a sparrow dipped in, scrub jays splashed, and robins rolled all over in the puddle.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
don't ever talk to me or my son again
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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owlet about to pounce on a dirt mound.
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
HOW TO BLUESKY: The news is rough out there, plus the US election is coming. So here are some ways to tame your timeline so you see what you want. 1) You can mute words and phrases! Go to Settings, then Moderation and Content Filters, then Muted Words and Tags. Mute for a short time or forever
A beautiful blue sky with big poofs of white clouds. A law is below with a line of green trees at the horizon. But mostly the photo is sky.
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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They've never had to log in to Teams or Outlook.
over a dozen brown bears at brooks falls waiting for salmon
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today is a good day -actually, the best day- to check your voter registration status. Don’t get left behind. Early vote or vote on Election Day, but vote like democracy depends on it. Because it does.
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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Binx "October you say? My time has come!" #cats #becurious
photo of a twelve week old black kitten in semi profile arching her back.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 01/10/2026
not helping, @theonion.com
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy New Year, ya water nerds! From my watershed to yours, may we preserve & protect in-stream flows. My flow this morning? Whites Creek → Steamboat Creek → Truckee River → Pyramid Lake
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Krista Bonfantine 🔥💧 @aridideas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Have you been wondering how the Rio Grande River food web will reassemble after weeks without flow? Me too! Breaking news - 🗞️ the #tardigrades have arrived! 💧🐻 🧪
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy #Arachtober! Thick-Spined Jumping Spider (Tutelina similis) ant snackin’ 🌿🕷️
A bronze metallic looking jumping spider on a green leaf eating a small black ant. Side viewA bronze metallic looking jumping spider on a green leaf eating a small black ant. Top down viewA bronze metallic looking jumping spider on the edge a green leaf eating a small black ant. Top down view
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy spood month, know your spoods #arachtober #InvertebrateShitposting
a doodle in four parts.

top left is a doodle of a jumping spider with massive adorable eyes. text says, a spood.

top right is the butt of a spider that has run off screen. text says, a spood doin' a scoot.

bottom left, a pair of spiders stacked on top of one another, hugging. text says, two spoods doin' a spoon.

bottom right, a spider covered in cloth like a sheet ghost, with speech bubble saying insect populations are experiencing a sharp decline, threatening every part of their food chain, including birbs, spoods, and the agricultural produce they pollinate. the text says a spood doin' a spook.
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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
To kick off #Arachtober - Bronze Jumper with A++ camo skills. #inverts #becurious
macro photo of a bronze jumping spider on a white railing with a small area where the paint chipped off and the brown wood shows. the jumping spider is entirely in the chipped area blending in.
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Gabriel S. Pumpkins 🎃 @gsjphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
a grainy film frame from 1985 showing a moustached man wearing a black cloak and fangs like some kind of dracula

coming up
goblin time
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Chasing Cirrus @drymeadow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jimothy as part of MCU confirmed
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Andrew Warren @andybugguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is so fucking infuriating! Another museum shutting down 😭
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cageyratfish (they) UTC-7 🐟🏳️‍⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
as above, so below
Tall fir trees silhouetted by the setting sun & reflected in the still water of the lakeThe full reflection of the trees in the orevious photo. the water is an almost perfect mirror
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 29/09/2026
Marvellous. Deserves making it bigger to visualise incomprehensibility. Tthe eight or so stars with the six bright spikes are local to our Galaxy. Everything else is a galaxy off in the distance. Each with hundreds of billions of stars. The warping is light from galaxies even further behind 🤯
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Monica V @classyearlgrey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Beautiful rendition of the anthem by my fellow Americans. And good on the Bears.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Those who exile defenseless children from the USA are not the good guys. This generational evil will haunt us for decades.
A screenshot of an X.com post on a white background. At the top, Katie Rogers’s profile name and handle appear beside a circular profile photo, with the X.com logo in the upper-right corner. The post quotes a judge asking whether to request voluntary departure or issue a removal order, followed by a description of 13-year-old Angel crying and saying, “I have no one. I have nothing.”

Below, an embedded post by Priscilla Alvarez describes a Texas courtroom scene involving 25 migrant children and includes a hand-drawn courtroom sketch. The sketch shows a judge seated behind a raised bench between two monitors, with a U.S. flag to the left. In the foreground, several people sit in rows of reddish upholstered chairs facing the judge; microphones are positioned near some of the seated figures. The drawing uses muted gray, tan, blue, red, and brown colors. A small handwritten label near the lower-left portion of the sketch reads “DAVID DE LEON.

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Screenshot of an X.com post quoting a judge and describing a 13-year-old child crying during a removal hearing, with an embedded post and courtroom sketch showing a judge, U.S. flag, and seated attendees.

Transcribed Text:

Katie Rogers
@katierogers

X.com

“Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” The judge asked.

“I don’t know,” Angel, 13, replied before bursting into tears. He stared ahead stoically and continued to cry, eventually saying: “I have no one. I have nothing.”

Priscilla Alvarez @priscialva · 5h

NEW: In a Texas courtroom Monday, 25 migrant children lined the pews — a 9yo rested her head on the table, a 6yo pretended to fly an airplane, and a 3yo played with the mic. Many in attendance didn't have an attorney — and a 13yo was ordered removed. A look inside, thru sketches.

DAVID DE LEON
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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Curious if anybody out there has *diverse* cladoceran DNA they could share? Like, we have Daphnia and Ceriodaphnia in hand but want to capture as much diversity as possible for an upcoming assay. Besides, Bosmina are so cute.
A little Bosmina longirostris, I always thought they looked like tiny elephants.
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NevadaWolf @nevadawolf.northsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chickadee Ridge birds, And the whole bonus experience of hiking to Chickadee Ridge is the fun of feeding the little ones. 📍 Tahoe Meadow, Nevada, US #GrainSocial grain.social/profile/nevadawolf.nor…
In the middle of the pine forest, an outstretched white hand with a long grey sleeve covering the arm supports a small pile of seeds. A grey and white mountain chickadee perches on the end of the fingers inspecting the offering.In the middle of the pine forest, an outstretched white hand with a long green sleeve covering the arm supports a small pile of bird seeds. A grey and white mountain chickadee perches on the end of the fingers inspecting the offering.In the middle of the pine forest, an outstretched white hand with a long green sleeve covering the arm supports a small pile of bird seeds. A grey and white mountain chickadee perches on the end of the fingers, a seed in its beak, and prepares to fly.In the middle of the pine forest along a dirt trail, an outstretched white hand with a long green sleeve covering the arm supports a small pile of bird seeds. A grey and white mountain chickadee perches on the edge of the hand, closely inspecting the offering.
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ready for a hike? Yesterday, we did our “last big” hike of the season. Seemed much longer than it was, and climbed higher than we have all summer.
A hiking trail with mountains in the background. There is a large pine in the center of the photo with a hiking icon on it. A wilderness sign:

DESOLATION
WILDERNESS PERMIT REQUIRED
LAKE TAHOE BASIN MGT. UNIT
FOREST SERVICE
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So many sunflowers
A field of so many wild sunflowers under mountains at sunset
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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Joshua trees are uncommon, with a limited range, and threatened by climate change. Read what scientists are doing to stabilize the species.
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Savitri de Sousa @sdesousa.com · 27/09/2026
This little frog is definitely in the pink, and a sunshade of petals is always fashionable 🐸 🌿 #amphibians #frogs
A small brown and green frog peeks out from between the soft pink petals of a water lily, surrounded by green lily pads in warm sunlight.
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am Groot
A old, tall conifer -not sure of the type- with its branches outstretched. It is on a rocky hillside. There are other conifers in the background. The sky is mostly clear with thin high clouds. The afternoon sun is shining on the tree.
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Public Lands Day! Free admission to national parks, monuments, rec areas and most states observe, too. Go enjoy your public lands! They bring to all of us! #PublicLandsDay
A panoramic photo of big rocks, mountains, lakes, pine forests and a smeary cloudy sky
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