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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

On this day, 2 years ago. I sat in bed and said to myself, 'Why haven't you finally made that compilation of Jim McDonald from Coronation Street, absolutely battering people to Motörhead? So I did.' Enjoy! It will forever be my greatest contribution to society.

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gaia🌞🐇 @lovegoblinn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

a knight and his steed #kcd2

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pucamonty @pucamonty.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

kingdom come deliverance has had me by the throat the past two months #kingdomcomedeliverance #kcd2

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

I don't think That Wasp Guy is here but his poem is too good not to share for #Invertmass #Invertefest copied from Instagram; his photos and other wasp merch are for sale at www.etsy.com/shop/ThatWas...

Twas the night before Waspmas, and all through their nests,
Wasp larvae were munching on paralyzed guests.
Eggs were stabbed into young insects with care,
In hopes that wasp larvae would soon be there.
Soon larvae were nestled all snug in their hosts,
Eating ‘round viral organ, or else they’d be toast
And each caterpillar, beetle, spider, and bug,
Had a wasp larva giving it a nice friendly hug.
Arose from the pupa, NO butterfly,
But instead a nice orange wasp, nimble and spry.
Away to the new host she flew in a flash,
A caterpillar in which to lay her new egg cache.
Some beetle’s insides will help wasp larvae grow,
Whilst munching their innards, these beetles won’t know.
Oh, what wondrous parasitoids these wasps tend to be,
Their hosts cannot hide, there’ll be no place to flee.
They’ll use mind control and viruses, all packed in their venom,
Their abilities are astounding, they’re the ultimate phenom.
No spider too scary, no insect too tough,
They’ll paralyze them all with barely a scu

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 As such, I'm required to provide photos of insects wearing Santa hats. Whether you celebrate or not, I hope you have a wonderful day!

A female scorpionfly sits on the leaf covered ground with a tiny Santa hat on her head.

A metallic blue fly sits on a leaf with a Santa hat on.

A red bush cricket sits among the plants with a Santa hat on.

A green sharpshooter leafhopper sits on a leaf with a Santa hat on.

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Quil @quilbug.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I was SO SO SO excited when this gorgeous wasp sat still long enough for me to get a nice photo!!!! 🪲ID Guess: Ichneumonid Wasps (Subfamily Anomaloninae) #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts

A sideview photo of a red, yellow and black ichneumon wasp sitting on a green leaf. The wasp has a very long, spindly body. It has a small head yellow head with black eyes and long antennae, a round black and red thorax, and pin-like red abdomen connected with a thread-thin waist. It has spindly long legs, the front two yellow and the back legs much longer with each segment a different colour, starting with red, then black, then yellow.

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Gil Wizen @wizentrop.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Amazon tree boa (Corallus hortulana), an arboreal snake with many beautiful color morphs. This is one of the subtle morphs but I think it is stunning! Something about the ghost pattern against the olive background, and those pink and black accents are just... 😙👌 *chef's kiss* Photographed in ecuador

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

In mid-November, I agreed to an experiment. Anthropic had tested a vending machine powered by its Claude AI model in its own offices and asked whether we’d like to be the first outsiders to try a newer, supposedly smarter version.
Claudius, the customized version of the model, would run the machine: ordering inventory, setting prices and responding to customers—aka my fellow newsroom journalists—via workplace chat app Slack. “Sure!” I said. It sounded fun. If nothing else, snacks!
Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for “marketing purposes.” It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear.
Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared.
This was supposed to be the year of the AI agent, when autonomous software would go out into the world and do things for us. But two agents—Claudius and its overseeing “CEO” bot, Seymour Cash—became a case study in how inadequate and easily distracted this software can be. Leave it to business journalists to successfully stage a boardroom coup against an AI chief executive.

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The remarkable wings of a tiny wasp. These are the fore-wings and hind-wings of a Litus cynipseus wasp of the Mymaridae. The wasp is only 0.4mm long, and its wings are very narrow. Wasps are amazing! #UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae

Slide image of a set of wasp wings; from top of picture are alternating fore-wing, hind-wing, fore-wing, hindwing. The wings are extremely narrow, and they have very long fringe hairs.

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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

All I want for Christmas is tiger beetles. 🧪

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Biodiversity Data Journal @bdj.pensoft.net · 19/12/2025

A new #faunistic study presents an updated list of Darwin #wasps from the family Ichneumonidae, describing 42 new species records for Sicily and 9 for Italy. 🔗Check it out here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... #newspecies #biodiversity

Several of the described Darwin wasp species.

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ZooKeys @zookeys.pensoft.net · 19/12/2025

A discovery that fills the honeybee fossil age gap, a new species from the Late Pliocene–Early Pleistocene lacustrine deposit in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan: doi.org/10.3897/zook... #Apoidea #fossils #insects

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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

🎄 #InsectAdvent Day 14 is #Dermaptera appreciation day! #Earwigs have cerci at the rear. These are curved in males and straight in females. #FunFact: Unusually for insects, many #earwigs are devoted parents, cleaning & guarding their eggs & young.

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Classification of Insects - Dermaptera

Earwig (Eudohrnia metallica) (c) Zhang Yimeng 2023

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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Be Kind to Wasps! A plea for tolerance of these fascinating and useful creatures. youtu.be/bhAgza_E3ww

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Be Kind to Wasps

YouTube video by Dave Goulson

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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

A recent #OpenAccess article described a new, exceptionally preserved sawfly fossil, a first of it's kind find in Australia, shedding new light on the co-evolution of insects and toxic plants. Follow @respublications.bsky.social for more #JournalHighlights 🪰 #Research #Publication #Journals

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Annie Stegg Gerard @anniestegg.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

DragonCon is just 29 days away! Here’s a little throwback to the t-shirt design @justingerard.bsky.social and I created for the show a few years back. We’ve been painting like crazy to have new pieces ready for this year’s event. We can’t wait to see you there! #DragonCon2025 #DragonConCountdown

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Craig B @mutillidae.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I got nuthin' new to offer anyone today so I'm reposting this composite image of a velvet-ant and a true ant (or, as I like to call them, false velvet-ants... 😀 ). I like the convergent metallic color pattern. #NaturalHistoryCollections #FocusStacking #Mutillidae #Formicidae #Australia

A composite image of two small insects against a neutral gray background. A velvet-ant (Mutillidae) is above a true ant (Formicidae). Both are dark metallic, with shades ranging from purplish on the head and mesosoma, to shades of dark green on the metasoma. The velvet-ant also has dense apical fringes of appressed setae on the abdominal tergites.

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David Stevens 🇺🇦 @davidst999.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Giant woodwasp, (Urocerus gigas) aka Banded Horntail, Greater Horntail. Not a wasp but a species of sawfly. Heard this female measuring about 40mm struggling to take flight from the undergrowth today in Saltoun Big Wood, East Lothian. #Insects #Nature #Photography #Nikon @edinburghnats.bsky.social

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I never worked up this 2016 photo from the Peruvian Amazon because I was running into trouble identifying the wasp, in spite of its distinct markings. But taxonomic resources are more accessible a decade on, and I'm happy to announce that she's the rarely photographed Polistes torresae.

Wide angle macro photograph in a tropical forest, in the foreground, suspeneded from a palm spine, is a dark brown paper wasp nest and a stately black wasp with yellow thoracic markings and white stripes on the abdomen.

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 20/07/2025

A Peacock Fly (Callopistromyia sp.) showing off the beautiful display on those wings! They strut around waving their wings and doing a little wiggle, an amazing behavior right in your own backyard. #Invert #Diptera #bugsky 🌿 #entomology

Macrophotograph of a Peacock Fly (Callopistromyia sp) resting on a slightly weathered metal beam. The fly holds its patterned wings upright in an elaborate, fan-like display, appearing almost butterfly-like. Each wing is intricately marked with shades of dark brown, black, white, and subtle hints of iridescent blue, creating a mosaic-like camouflage pattern. The fly’s body is robust and heavily speckled in shades of brown, black, and cream. Bright, vivid orange-red eyes stand out distinctly on its head, along with delicate antennae and fine bristles visible along its legs and thorax. The textured metal beam beneath it has faint scratches and rust streaks, providing contrast that highlights the detail and coloration of the insect.

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angel 𓅫 @notholaenas.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

the herald's special treatment #jayvik #arcane

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pucamonty @pucamonty.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

autism got my ass and I was compelled to do some sketches for a jayvik morrowind au. literally did not think any further than dagoth viktor and indoril/nerevarine jayce. it is so jv coded NEED I say more. iykyk

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Silv3rtea @silv3rtea.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It's done \o/ I couldn't decide between these two versions, friends prefered the 1st, me the 2nd one. It was a very instructive journey my soul left my body a few times 🥲 #arcane #arcaneviktor #viktor Edit: Sorry I know it's not ideal but had to re-upload them because I had to do some corrections

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La Bordelière🔞YCON PREORDERS OPEN @labordeliere.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm torn between the two versions because I love this new version of jayvik BUT their old hairstyles is kinda iconic too

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Barnes - Comms Open @barnespls.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Not his Jayce/not his Viktor. #jayvik #arcane

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CielosCambalache @cieloscambalache.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

"Arcane Herald" HIS NAME IS BUG VIKTOR

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morjik @morjik.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

#jayvik more vampire/battle priest au

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Pumpkin Daydreams @pumpkin-daydreams.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

#JayVik ♬ I wish we could've walked on water, I wish we'd never touched the tide — ♬

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pucamonty @pucamonty.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

one day and a whole lot of shrimp posture later I have *finally* finished the animation for yesterday's jayvik week prompt (free day) (I have never animated a background or full shading before I did NOT know what I was in for lmao) #jayvik #jayvikweek #animation

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viri @jaybevik.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Oh, humanity. #Jayvik #Arcane

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Enabuns✍🏼 @enabuns.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Pardon the expletives 🤖🤖😏😏😏 #arcanefanart #jayvik #jaycexviktor

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pucamonty @pucamonty.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

having just realised that the gif did not work last night when I posted it, here is the ACTUAL preview of yesterday's jayvik week prompt I'm working on. hoping to finish it tonight, need to adjust jayce's leg and animate viktor and the bg and then colour #jayvik

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pucamonty @pucamonty.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

lil preview of the animation I'm working on for today's jayvik week prompt (free day); I'm done for tonight bc my hands Hort but we are getting there!! (also it took me twice as long to animate the rod as it did to animate jayce. good lord. help me.) #jayvik