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Sally Monster @sallymonster.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Hey loves, who here uses bsky.bridgy to bridge to Mastodon? There are loads of people here that I would love to follow from my Mastodon account ( sunny.garden/@SallyMonster ) since thats where I am most active. 💚🧡💜

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Jack The Vulture @jackthevulture.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

learning to trust the process and be brave! Gouache, acrylic marker, gel pen.

Photo of a sketchbook sitting on a wooden surface open to and cropped in on a single page with a painting of a hyena sitting in a pond on it. The hynea is sat to the left, facing right, and lit from the left with bright warm light. Around it are rocks, long green grasses, and a light colored log resting diagonally behind it. The water is greenish. Next to the painting and laying slightly on top of the page to the right is the edge of a paint palette, and above is a small square tip paint brush.

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

We're going to make it through this 🩷💙 Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.

An illustration of a tiger protecting cubs colored in Trans and nonbinary flag colors. Says: "protect trans & nonbinary kids!"

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Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Because I, Leap, am the VERY FIRST BRAVERMOUNTAIN DOG to star in a children's book!!!

The cover of THE DAY LEAP SOARED, illustrated by Olivia When. It's a gorgeous bright colorful illustration of a snowy day with a husky jumping across the middle of the image, a line of dogs on a hillside smiling up at the jumping husky, and a musher in the bottom left corner, holding a dogsled and watching in awe

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

One of these days I need to put together a collage of moths on a white background. There are so many handsome ones. Scaly-legged Pyralids (Subfamily Chrysauginae), Tiger Moth (Loxophlebia sp.), ???, Geometer Moth (Opisthoxia sp.) Tatama National Park, Colombia

A triangular shaped moth with yellowish green wing and a dark colored snoot.

A moth that looks like a stinging insect with clear wings outlined in dark brown, and a yellow body with black at the end of the abdomen.

A green moth with brown patterns on its wings.

A fancy brown moth with orange outlining the hind wings and three eyes spots on each hind wing.

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 22/01/2025

Made an Albatross bookend!

A happy wedge-shaped Albatross bookend inside of a bookshelf.

Holding up the bookend to for scale, it's hefty and made of cement!

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

And a little behind the scenes video for this one, showing which bits are painted vs photo.

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Quince Mountain @quincemountain.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

There are people who would love you and need you.

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Gil Wizen @wizentrop.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

How about some blue spiders? Here is a Brazilian jewel tarantula (Typhochlaena seladonia). This species is now iconic so if you are not familiar with it... you're welcome. A very small tarantula that lives in a makeshift tent on tree bark in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest. #BlueBugs #BlueMonday

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Woodlice take care of their babies until they mature. Here a protective parent rests a flagellum on a baby. #Crustmas Common Shiny Woodlouse (Oniscus asellus)

A larger parent woodlouse standing on a dark brown surface with a small baby woodlouse near its head. The parent has a limb, the flagellum, resting on the baby.

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Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Hi friends... I'm excited to share a very important announcement from BraverMountain Mushing! www.patreon.com/posts/import...

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An Important Announcement! | BraverMountain Mushing

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Sally Monster @sallymonster.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Challah! Ready for French toast in the morning and challah stuffing with dinner.

Golden brown, badly braided, challah loaf.

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Corythoraptor sketch.

Photo of a pencil sketch of Corythoraptor: a feathered dinosaur with a parrot-like beak and large boney crest atop its head. This illustration also includes a large throat-sac, similar to some modern-day birds, used for display.

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D̒͂̕ᵈăᵃn̕ᶰ Ť̾̾̓͐͒͠ᵗe͗̑́̋̂́͡ᵉn̅ᶰtᵗl̀̓͘ᶫe̓̒̂̚ᵉrʳ @viss.hax.lol · 27/11/2024

heh @sallymonster.bsky.social's sweater today is on point

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I've been doing the Conura wasp/Leg Day Bae bit for a few years now and finally someone let me know they got the reference (or at least someone who wasn't my ex, who introduced me to Letterkenny)

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I absolutely cannot pick a favorite jumping spider species, but you are free to do so 👀 #EmotionalSupportSpood

The Attidops cinctipes jumping spider from the quoted post, shot very close to her face as she peers at you over her chonky palps; big wet orbs for eyes, and thick stripy legs bunched around her face

The creature peering over the edge of the boardwalk handrail, looking very small

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D̒͂̕ᵈăᵃn̕ᶰ Ť̾̾̓͐͒͠ᵗe͗̑́̋̂́͡ᵉn̅ᶰtᵗl̀̓͘ᶫe̓̒̂̚ᵉrʳ @viss.hax.lol · 27/11/2024

the final harvest for the year. 2024 was not kind to the pepper plants. we now have enough to do one hotsauce run - now i hafta find mangoes. tricky. the good ones are out of season.

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Sally Monster @sallymonster.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Ok, if everyone is moving over here now, how do I block/mute words/phrases/topics so I can even consider joining in?

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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

What's not being talked about is how Lily Gladstone brought 28 Indigenous Osage singers to the Oscars to sing 'Wahzhazeh' ("A Song For My People"). For Natives it's not about the individual, it's about uplifting community

28 Osage Singers set to sing 'Wazhazhe' from "Killers of the Flower Moon"

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 11/03/2024

Because folks liked my latest pigeon comic so much, here's another pigeon piece! I made this a couple years ago for a sadly now defunct publication called Pipe Wrench. I hope this piece helps spread more pigeon love. #pigeon #bird #comic #cartoon #science 🪶

A comic titled "What is a City Pigeon? By Rosemary Mosco." There's a small pigeon shouting through a megaphone. Panel 1: A banner says "It's a Dinosaur. Like all birds, pigeons descended from dinos." A pigeon roars "coooo" over the silhouette of a dinosaur yelling RARR. Panel 2: The banner says "It's a Dove. A city pigeon or Rock Dove is a member of the pigeon and dove family." A pigeon stands in glorious rays of sparkling light, with a halo over its head. Panel 3: The banner says "It's a Domestic Animal. Pigeons were domesticated millennia ago for meat and fertilizer (poop)." A cow stands in a farmer's field, saying "moo." A pigeon looks up at it and says "coo." Both have just pooped. Panel 4: The banner says "It's a Purebred Pet. Like dogs & cats, pigeons come in fancy breeds." There are three fancy pigeons: A Birmingham Roller, with rusty feathers and splotches of white. A Fantail, with its head pushed back and a huge fanned out tail. A Saxon Fairy Swallow, with a crest and huge fan

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Leslie Levings @leslielevings.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

Work in progress

Unfinished ceramic pitcher decorated with fish and aquatic plants

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 05/02/2024

Wood frog. This year's Valentine's Day comic.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a wood frog stands on a pink background. The text says: "Feeling unlucky in love? Did you know that male Wood Frogs have difficulty perceiving members of their species? Here are some things they’ve been documented trying to mate with."
"Spotted Salamander." The wood frog looks at a large yellow-spotted salamander, with a heart over the frog's head. "Cattail." The frog looks amorously at a large cattail flower or "sausage."
"Green frog." The wood frog looks at a large confused-looking green frog. "Dead fish." The wood frog stares at a large dead fish.
"Live fish." The wood frog looks amorously at a large trout. "Pine cone." The wood frog looks at a large pine cone. The final text says: "Sorry, there's no moral here. I just thought you'd enjoy this fact about frogs."

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Grabby-face Pancake (2022) was very, very large. I had only seen newly-hatched owlfly bebbies beforehand, so this absolute unit knocking on the door of adulthood who turned up in some leaf litter gave me a good surprise. I fed this one a roach snack and released. 🤎 🌿 🪰

Giant flat owlfly baby next to a ruler, showing the creature to be about 2cm in length. They're sort of a pinkish pale green, with little tubercules making a fringe around the roughly football-shaped abdomen. Mandibles are large and curved and sharp.

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MossyPine 🍂 @bymossypine.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

🌱 Rest is productive { #cutearte #art #illustration }

Digital Illustration of two cats sleeping. The text says: rest is productive

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Stieven @stievenvdp.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Bridger formation Part one: Daytime.

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Nighttime on Rota. It's very dark out. I begin to hear scratching at my hotel door. I ignore it, but it continues until I HAVE to know what it is so I cautiously open up, ready to block if it's a rat or feral dog. I look down ...Oh, good evening, sir or madam. 🦀 Yes everything is fine, thank you!

Cardisoma carnifex, brown land crab, standing sideways on a brown floor tile.

Same crab from the back as it turns away from my open door.

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

Due to brutal weather (subzero plus bitter cold windchill), the potato and noodle children are staring wistfully outside from a mountain of pillows.

A borzoi snuggled on a couch, his head on a large brown pillow

A golden retriever lying on a couch, looking out an iced up window at snow

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

Getting field shots of marpissa sulcosa boys is rather difficult, but if you're poking around in Florida leaf litter, there's a small chance one is peering up at you from somewhere. 🤎 #Arachtober 🌿🕷️ #EmotionalSupportSpood

Little shy salticid boy, just his face and 2 legs visible, peering up at you from underneath a leaf

The little man under a twig, legs waving at the sky

Top view of the handsome little man, mostly brown but with 2 white stripes down his back and booty

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loren @loren.wiki · 22/10/2023

white throated sparrow keepin an eye out #birds

a brown sparrow with a bright white head, thin black stripes running over it, a bright white throat, and a little yellow patch in front of its eye. it is standing on a branch and looking back at the viewer over its shoulder. the background is a swirl of yellow orange of early autumn leaves

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BERNERI ✧ @berneri.horse · 22/10/2023

🍀 apple season!

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer (Chalybura urochrysia) is a special hummingbird of the Costa Rican forests. #birds #hummingbirds 🪶

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Jon @jondrobny.com · 29/08/2023

Mt Laguna is also home to one of my all-time favorite birds: the Acorn Woodpecker! This time they were busy gorging themselves on the abundant insects flying over Little Laguna Lake, unseasonably filled by the tropical storm 🪶

An Acorn Woodpecker; a small woodpecker with shiny black chest, wings, face mask, and back, white belly streaked with duller black, pale yellow cheeks, a brilliant red cap, pale yellow eyes, and a pointed black bill. Sibley describes their face as "clownish" which is apt. This woodpecker is perched on a chunk of dead wood projected from the lower righthand corner into the center of the frame in front of an out-of-focus blue and black background, tearing apart a huge green dragonfly with its bill.

An Acorn Woodpecker in flight; a small woodpecker with shiny black chest, wings, face mask, and back, white belly streaked with duller black, pale yellow cheeks, a brilliant red cap, pale yellow eyes, and a pointed black bill. It has two prominent white splotches on its wings. Sibley describes their face as "clownish" which is apt. This woodpecker is launching towards the camera from a piece of wood, feet outstretched, wings slightly blurred from motion.

A left-facing portrait of an Acorn Woodpecker framed between a Y fork in a tree with smooth, grey-brown bark; a small woodpecker with shiny black chest, wings, face mask, and back, white belly streaked with duller black, pale yellow cheeks, a brilliant red cap, pale yellow eyes, and a pointed black bill. It has two prominent white splotches on its wings. Sibley describes their face as "clownish" which is apt. The background is out-of-focus oak leaves and splotches of bright, white sunlight.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Encyrtids are important biocontrol agents, pretty much always tiny (biggest one I've found is a few millimeters long), and the most ridiculous, goofy, gorgeous, harmless things. I will get people to love them. 🐡🐝🌿#InverteFest

Aenasius species. Stubby little creature, like a coppery iridescent golf ball crossed with a beetle.

Aeptencyrtus bruchi. A small golden brown little thing; unassuming, other than a bright green emerald jewel on her back between where her wing stubs are. It's not a jewel, of course, but if you put it on a normal creature one could assume you wanted to marry it. But that is just how Aeptencyrtus bruchi do.

Holcencyrtus species. Chonky little thing with full-body iridescence. Thick like an oil slick.

This one is just solid orange. Orange chew candy. With antennae.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Any artists who like creating creatures and need inspiration from time to time, please feel free to peruse my bugs! I would be delighted. For the record, encyrtid wasps are perfect creatures, and you may not have heard of them, because they're tiny, and wasps. But LOOK 🖤 #InverteFest 🌿🐝🐡

Bright red chonky little wasp, with the tiniest wing stubs, false pupils staring. It doesn't look real. It very much is. Metaphycus species.

Tetracnemus species: shiny brown little wasp with the notable feature of her wings being held straight up as she runs around.

Slender wasp with full-body iridescence, long ovipositor, and giant iridescent purple antennae. Tetracnemus species.

Cheiloneurus species. Tiny brown wasp, grooming her truly giant antennae (black with white tips). Her tiny "half" wings held up away from her body.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

✨❤️‍🔥✨

Hand painted yarn bowl featuring something resembling the Heart Nebula and an astronaut with a suggestive pose hanging upside down center of nebula, doing some aerial acrobatics with their tether that leads up and back down to the yarn feed.

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Sally Monster @sallymonster.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Not a fan of putting the bins out in the morning and burning my hands on the handles. Everything above 90°F can do one.

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Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

he let me get a photo with him 🥹/jk

I pose next to a life size statue of Tortoro from “my neighbor tortoro.

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

I'm over the moon to announce we're launching next week on Kickstarter! The highly anticipated sequel, Visionary Vultures 3: Wolves of Land & Sky features 20 brand new designs. Don't miss out on earlybird deals - sign up to be notified when we're live! tinyurl.com/me9r66ac #crowdfunding

Stylized enamel pin designs featuring wolves and eagles, part of a new set launching next week on Kickstarter

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 25/08/2023

GF crispy fish, cabbage & garden jalapeno slaw tacos.

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Sam Giles @gilespalaeo.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Bluesky, meet the Ultimate Palaeontology Cake ™️ (which came second in our department baking contest 😒): a geological time spiral starring a white chocolate cooling earth, stromatolites, trilobites, placoderms, giant insects, cycads, archaeocetes, chalicotheres, and a chocolate crispie bolide 🧪 ⚒️

A photo of a spiral shaped cake taken from
above. The cake represents geological time,
with a red proto-earth at the centre, and
different organisms made out of marzipan and
food colouring for each time period. A
chocolate crispie ball represents the asteroid
at the end of the Cretaceous.

A photo of a spiral shaped cake taken from the
side. The cake is about 60cm tall and 80cm
wide. Different organisms are made out of marzipan and food colouring for each time period. A chocolate crispie ball represents the asteroid
at the end of the Cretaceous.

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D̒͂̕ᵈăᵃn̕ᶰ Ť̾̾̓͐͒͠ᵗe͗̑́̋̂́͡ᵉn̅ᶰtᵗl̀̓͘ᶫe̓̒̂̚ᵉrʳ @viss.hax.lol · 24/08/2023

My company's released a new offering! We call it RTG (realtime guidance) - it lets customers hire us for hours at a time, versus weeks or bigger engagements. If you know a place or a person who it could help: phobos.io/rtg

phobos.io

Phobos Group

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Pan: The Reverist @ok2panic.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

I am absolutely beyond excited about this. 🍽️🍜

Photo of 4 different types of Mass Harina. Fro upper left clockwise, Red corn, Yellow corn, Blue corn, White corn.

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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · 24/07/2023

The Ostiary

A pen and ink shoulder-up drawing of a turkey vulture facing left. Its head has veen replaced by a skull including the scleral ring in leiu of an eye. It is adorned in keys as a symbol for opening new doors into the afterlife. Behind him is a blood-red circle reminiscent of a halo.

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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

I have to pay 2100$ for my sleep apnea device. Please share! It cost 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, stickers, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks & more! Store details below!

5 Oval shaped pins with gold outlines with an oval cutout in the middle with a yellow slideable star:

Spoons: Lavender background
Hunger Scale: Red background
Migraine Scale: Blue background
Speaking vs Non Speaking: Green background

The first one has SHE, THEY, HE on top. At the bottom there's HER, THEM, HIM. White background.

Galaxy and Pastel Galaxy Compression Gloves

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West Coast Birder @westcoastbirder.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

More woody goodness! Northern flicker showing off its 🔥 nape “tattoo!” #birds 🪶

Northern flicker, a North American woodpecker.

Northern flicker, a North American woodpecker with its flame nape feathers displayed.

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Pan: The Reverist @ok2panic.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Awesome! Nice set. I just sharpened my most used shorties this weekend. Might get to the longer knives this weekend but prolly not. 😂

Photo shows an assortment of knives on a bar towel.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

Re: male loneliness, Investing in something creative you love will provide opportunity for community. It's a big-ass world, and someone else loves what you love too. You'll find each other. As long as you're doing the thing for the love of the thing.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Crab is also Airplane (white-banded crab spider boys are delightful leggy things) 🌿

Little orange spider, with 2 pairs of yellow legs clutching the a fuzzy green stem, and his 2 front pairs of legs extremely long and black and spread as wide as they can be

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