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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 27/09/2026

Judgment: QUITE satisfying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 19/09/2026

I love the show River Monsters for daring to ask the difficult questions, such as: what if a fish was Big

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 29/08/2026

Been kinda offline... my free time this past month has almost entirely been occupied by entertaining this chaotic baby >:3 Her name is Nova wolfiana aff kalisana (fake latin binomial meaning "New, in honor of Wolf, appears to be quite fierce")

our dear late Wolfy who we love and miss very much

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 19/08/2026

I love nature. Love evolution, love natural selection. This is not a criticism or critique. I just feel like woolly giraffes would have been a banger fauna

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 17/08/2026

Went to see some European art at the museum, they had a lot of BNAs from the bible fandom. Kinda got the impression some of them were just doing it cuz of whale commissioners tho and not cuz they were super into it

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Arielle Jovellanos ✨ NYCC K29 @joviellety.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yes! I especially love the way Lynda Barry expresses this idea in MAKING COMICS. ✏️

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Flora do Brasil @florabrasil.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🌱Figueirilha 🌎Dorstenia brasiliensis Dorstenia brasiliensis é uma planta herbácea geófita da família Moraceae (família fig ) e ordem de Rosales, chamada também de Carapiá ou Caapiá no Brasil. 📷 daniel hernández, Elena Ferreira, Mario Oloriz e Guillermo Menéndez

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I spotted my first acorn on the ground this weekend, and you know what that means: time for me to remind you YOU CAN EAT THEM I drew a 20 page comic about harvesting & processing acorns for food! You can download it for free (or get a print copy for not-free) from my ko-fi: ko-fi.com/s/8d34f77329

A vintage photo of a strongman with a poorly-photoshopped squirrel head, carrying acorns and surrounded by acorns. Text reads: Acorns will make you strong!! Read more:

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George @hannahtempler.com · 08/08/2026

good morning you may approach the wizard

tarantula with a bugle chip on its head and a stick in its hands. powerful wizard

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

GIRL SNAKE CATCHER. she makes a snug little income by securing reptiles for traveling shows SHE JUST GRABS THEM (The Washington Bee, Washington DC, November 8, 1902)

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I love how new audiences continue to discover & appreciate this diagram from my 2014 book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (@pegasus-books.bsky.social). Before including it in the book, I imagined, calculated, & drew it, then asked a physicist to peer-review it. Physics, math, & paleontology made fun! 🧪🦕🤮

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 01/08/2026

My husband has taught himself to sound literally EXACTLY like Meatwad from Aqua Teen Hunger Force and this is not a tenable situation for me. Nobody prepared me for the possibility of Meatwad offering commentary in any random conversation without my consent.

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 31/07/2026

😭 It finally happened, I germinated an Aristolochia watsonii. The grower who gave me these seeds, the incredible Gene Joseph, said that even he doesnt get more than one or two out of a hundred seeds and he doesn’t know how to improve the germ rate. Grateful I got this one after months of trying!

Tiny seedling of Arizona native Aristolochia watsonii

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 28/07/2026

had an annoying exchange just now --- me: *mentions haberdashery* husband: [mocking voice] hAbErDaShErY me: whatever. do you even know what a haberdashery is husband: YES. it's a carniceria. for hats

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Andrew @godspeakervortka.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"FEEL FREE TO CITE THE DEEP MAG GIC TO ME."

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 20/07/2026

There's a gigantic house centipede somewhere in my room and I'm going through my rolodex of recent sins trying to figure out which one is the cause of this level of karmic retribution

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Very Little Matters™️ @newsprintmafia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Bluesky Aristolochia fan club meeting starts now with Aristolochia philippinensis. Roll call: @shingworks.com

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 12/07/2026

I love the word “movie”. we should call music “soundies” imo

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 09/07/2026

Saw this in person at the deYoung ~2 decades ago, I still think about it all the time

A group of heavy, brown, stonelike humanoid shapes melding and weaving together, with some parts floating strangely. The Numerous Family, by Max Ernst

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 08/07/2026

Got my biopsy back and I'm neg for cancer OTL been holding my breath for ~2 weeks. good fucking golly

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 08/07/2026

Additional dumdums, including Raggedy Andi who is brooding like 2 dozen eggs very badly at the moment. I respect her for trying so its fine, get it gurl. Irish crème cold brew, the pale quail in the back corner, is 5.5 years old! and still hungry for worms

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 07/07/2026

My brother, who I convinced to plant a native Aristolochia californica: so how will [Pipevine Swallowtail butterflies] find it Me: I think they are just hungry and fuck around until they see it My brother: ...that doesn't sound right but I don't know enough to argue TBH I have no idea either 😬

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 06/07/2026

This has been one of the quietest July 4th weekends in recent memory… you know the economy is bad when the scamps can’t afford to set off explosions the days before and after

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 04/07/2026

One of my favorite backyard lizards, who I hadn’t seen three days and thought was dead, is ALIVE. I was so happy I thought of this ode to my favorite species while taking a shower, lol. With apologies to Gwendolyn Brooks.

Poem, reading:

The beam layers.
Sceloporus occidentalis at Der’s back yard.

We real cool. We
Blue duel. We

Rule rock. We
Piss chalk. We

Sun scales. We
Drop tails. We

Jewel-lie. We
Don’t die.

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 03/07/2026

periodic reminder that i'm a gold crab. i live on the beach and pick garbage out of the sand and eat it. i don't know what work or stress is. my life is perfect and i love it

a picture of me, a crab who is golden. a golden crab, if you will.

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Very Little Matters™️ @newsprintmafia.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Was in Arizona over the weekend. Cactus rule, humans drool.

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 29/06/2026

All I want to do lately is grow plants!!! I look normal on the outside but on the inside I'm mentally firing white-hot lasers out of my mouth and eyes thinking about the stupid little seeds I am going to germinate next week

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 27/06/2026

Did my best howler monkey impression for my husband and he wasn’t overtaken by wonder and admiration? Not sure what’s wrong w him

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Hampus Flink 🐷💢 @hampus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀

A digital painting of a crab looking emotional. A human hand reaches into the frame, extending a pair of scissors toward the crab, with the blade facing away from the crab. There is a piece of paper with dotted outlines for cutting on the ground. A text blurb reads "Using a pair of household scissors, do some paper craft together. This thrills the crab"

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Jonas Goonface @jonasgoonface.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Howdy I'm the sheriff of #makeaterriblecomicday

comic of a rascal picking a book out of the library and wanting to make one of their own. The other books yell to also be read, and the rascal is panicked by this mass of unread stories, saying "this library is a graveyard! How will my comic avoid this fate!" The sheriff of makeaterriblecomicday enters and points his gun at the rascal, saying "An unread book is no tragedy! An unwritten book is! create for your own soul, or don't create at all!" the rascal, is still worried about their place in infinity, but the sheriff assures them that inifinity is a scam, the only truth is in the moment, and being forgotten is a blessing. waves saying "read me!" crash on a beach, apreciated for a moment, and forgotten. These comic panels create a sheriff body.

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文一総合出版【公式】 @bunichi-pr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

おはようございます中のヒトです🦀 6月22日、今日は『 #カニの日』。カニ、可愛いですね😊 磯場遊びが楽しい季節です。今週もよろしくお願いいたします！

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 15/06/2026

I’m very annoyed to report that I was sick all weekend for the first time since pre-Covid, not because I don't still mask everywhere (I do), but because I caught something at my stupid dentist visit. The one place I can’t protect myself >X[_______] the injustice!!!

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 12/06/2026

Seeds I bulk-sowed on May 31 are finally starting to germinate... whew

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 11/06/2026

My brother's chinchilla is not feeling well :[ He's a month shy of his 20th bday and I'm a little worried for him. I know he's had a good long life but still... pls give some posivibes to Kitty

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

lunch break with the lads

Assorted North American caterpillars eating their lunches on a branch high over the forest, posed in the manner of that one famous photo of construction workers sitting along an I-beam

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Kiku @ SPX W15A @kikuhughes.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

these are getting weird

comic depicting tesla cars with bumper stickers reading "anti-elon tesla club," "I bought this before elon went crazy," "vintage tesla, pre-madness edition," "absolve me," "absolve me," "tell me i'm good," "tell me i'm not to blame."

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 05/06/2026

Yayyyy @magnoliapearl.bsky.social's Golden Boar is coming back :3 I'm team Boar ofc, but had to include Lion cuz he's been such a little shit lately. Now's a good time to catch up before updates return! www.monster-pulse.com/goldenboar/

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 05/06/2026

The San Diego Cactus & Succulent Society's biggest event of the year is this weekend! Lots of cool plants to look at, it will be an excellent time. www.sdcss.net/2026-summer-... (The info on these flyers is the exact same but I like both colorways so now you have to look at both as well.)

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 02/06/2026

Step 1: Think briefly about superposecomic.com Step 2: Reread Superpose from the beginning for several hours and now it's somehow 10pm, oops

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

you simply can't beat Japanese floral stink researchers for scientific illustration

part of Fig. 1 from Okuyama et al 2025, a paper about the convergent evolution of dimethyl sulfides in plants that attract gross fly and beetle pollinators by smelling like gross stuff. It is a cartoon of a hungry fly being enticed towards a Rafflesia, an Asarum, and an Amorphophallus by a putrid mix of sulfide compounds that smell like rotting carrion and poop. SEVERAL cartoon poops are featured.

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 31/05/2026

Acting like the big dick on campus going outside and yelling at Mysterious Night Noises to stay the fuck away from my quails. I hope the male quails see my dominance and feel emasculated by me

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

this happened all the time during the age of dinosaurs, I have learned from books

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