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Ange @otterange.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Relistening to one of my favorite book series (again) and just bumped into one of my favorite characters, who asks all the best critter questions, the homage to @ethankocak.com

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Ange @otterange.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

My sarracenia are blooming. While I love the pitchers, my favorite thing about these plants are the weird alien looking blooms. Painting them was way more fun than weeding. WAY MORE. Pls excuse the glare one the wet impasto paint.

Heavy impasto painting of a garden scene with sarracenia blooms

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Ange @otterange.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I have a male house wren who staked out and built a nest in one of my garden birdhouses. He’s trying to impress a girl, but I feel I’m getting judged by them for my birdhouse and placement. I mean, it’s got tree coverage, an organic garden (ie: lots of bugs), a water feature, open fields… it’s posh!

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Ange @otterange.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

1/2 How did I never notice the iridescent blue neck on little fence lizards before?! They showed up about 6 years ago ( when I put big stepping stones in the garden, lol). Now I have zillions of them. They are cute AF.

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Ange @otterange.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Photo credit Andy. Dimitri is being sooooooo helpful as I start this little painting for a friend.

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Ange @otterange.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I found this painting in a drawer and took it up as a teaching tool for my student employees and a challenge for myself. It and I are on a relationship break. So far we’ve done our best to remove as much as we can of the beeswax from a previous restoration attempt from who knows when 1/3

Image of a badly damaged landscape painting.

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Ange @otterange.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Volunteered for a “have your pet drawn” fundraiser for the shelter that I foster kittens for. This was my favorite from the morning. Seriously goofy sweet dog ❤️

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Ange @otterange.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I just finished up a pastel drawing of my mother based on an image I took on a trip together. She moved from Canada as a child and was estranged from her family as an adult. Though her native language was French, she was discouraged from speaking it and lost all of it (1/2)

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Ange @otterange.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I’m at the coast for my birthday, indulging in my favorite escapist activities: making things, listening to books, and tending crops and critters in Stardew. Honestly, I’m trying not to torture myself by obsessing about, well, everything. At least for a few days.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Off the top of my head, in terms of degrees of separation I managed to get from myself to *Jimi Hendrix* in "three hops," this is a WILD assertion to make www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Several lawmakers said Thursday that the Pentagon relayed that it did not need to know the identities of those being targeted in the attacks, or if those killed had been trafficking drugs.

“What they told us is they have to show a connection to a designated terrorist organization or their affiliate, and as long as they can show that connection, they believe they are authorized to strike,” Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-California) said in an interview.

But such connections could be as much as “three hops away” from a known drug trafficker, Jacobs told reporters after the briefing.

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Ange @otterange.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Informative video this morning from the great Timothy Snyder: Fomenting Antisemitism open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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Fomenting Antisemitism

Not Combating It

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

another student was disappeared at the University of Minnesota

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Ange @otterange.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

It never gets old seeing the beautiful colors come alive underneath 100 years of grime, smoke, and aged linseed oil. Magically seeing what the artist intended for it to look like. This is just a portion of the painting, and it’s easy to see where we’ve cleaned. We have a long way to go with it yet.

Image of a landscape painting that is partly cleaned.

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Ange @otterange.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I’ve been painting postcards to send to random FWS stations. Last week was fish postcards this week is birds. There are about 10. Channeling my inner do-gooder!

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Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 20/03/2025

Artists are really the backbone of social media, they’re often pulling double or triple duty as shitposters, image makers, and just cool people

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ALT Fish and Wildlife Service @altfws.altgov.info · 27/02/2025

I’ve been dealing with other things and taking a break from screen time and pop online to this! It has a screenshot of my top 5 (hint #3 is my favorite). I am proud to be part of this group. #Resist #AltGov www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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#AltGov: the secret network of federal workers resisting Doge from the inside

Government employees fight the Trump administration’s chaos by organizing and publishing information on Bluesky

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country." The first will be in Phoenix March 5.

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Ange @otterange.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It’s time Dimitri (aka: Mr. Flufferbutter) makes his debut on Bluesky. Behold the floof:

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Michael Snyder @seattlewxguy.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Reminder: When you look at the Weather Channel App and it talks about Warnings, Watches, Advisories, Outlooks active in your area. Those are all done by @NOAA @NWS the National Weather Service. The Weather Channel does NONE of that stuff. Carry on...

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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a cnn map

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a cnn map

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.

A parking lot showing a cybertruck in one spot, next to a car that has built a cybertruck-esque shell around it out of green plastic. It's really hard to describe exactly how silly this vehicle looks next to the green car.

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Queen Gwenevere @queengwenevere.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We interrupt the doomscrolling today for TINY. SQUEAKS. 💙

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

OPM is planning to fire all employees on probation (less than one year of employment). Agencies have until noon on Wednesday to submit a list of probationary employees to the OPM and indicate whether they wish to retain them—though it has been stated that this will not make a difference.

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