iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ryugure @ryugure.bsky.social · 7h

ryu-gure.itch.io/plumworm Plumworm is available digitally now btw 🐛

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💚Elek💚🦎 @elektronxz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Smoke 6 billion cigars 🫡 He's so tuff 🥹

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 10h

cover illustration for the print version of the Prisoners on Dozmary Craig. which will be out this fall/winter. men doing men things, on an island

illustration of two guys, by the sea, one shitless & covered in tattoos, the other has his shirt on & is holding a pen. there are some birds, too

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 16h

Here's a fancy rooster for today's #Whistober... also fits into #boktober and doubles as a coloring page should you so desire! #BirdArt

Digital black and white line illustration of a rooster with very full curved tail feathers walking through a field of stylized daisy-like flowers.

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 15h

I promised #BeeBut and here we go. this Xylocopa is face deep in some morning glory goodness (Ipomea) #macroPhotography #nature #Bees #awe and #wonder #insects

a photo of a black and yellow bee buried face first into a lavender morning glory flower.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this creature is called Rainbow Mite. the little diamond bugs kind of loosely follow them around.

fantasy creature with characteristics of both an insect and a small dinosaur, with a black body and colorful scales. five smaller flying creatures are hovering above or landing on its body.

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ren faire @lathrys.at · 08/10/2026

sharing for the rest of the class

responding sincerely to this even though i don't think you meant it that way. my answer is no, not really. or, well, not on its own in my universe of what paying respect to someone (in this case a woman, but anyone too) means (literally 'looking again' in latin).
i'm not saying expression of desire is bad, i get overwhelmed by it sometimes. being openly, joyfully desirous can be lovely. but there's a way of doing it narrowly which makes seeing another person about yourself, flattening them in the process. i don't want you not to want, but to want *bigger*.
a bigger wanting in your whole being that can coexist with another person's sovereignty instead of overriding it with your lust in a narrow, self-directed focus that makes someone a thing to possess. a wanting so big that you cannot contain it; so big it cannot be held by you for even a moment.
i want you to *see well*. i want you to see women and look again a second time (pay respect) and a third, past the point where your initial impression dissolves. i want you to attend to the women if your life for an uncomfortably long time, and come back to that attending again and again and again.
in seeing well i want you to be seeing what is put on offer for you her, seeing of her what she would endorse, and not just seeing what you wish to take from her. i want you to see in her what she would give you to hold with care and reverence and admiration.
and in loving well i want you to be unmade by her, and to suffer—truly suffer—in the realization that someone other than yourself is as real as you are. in loving well i want you to scream and laugh and cry in agonizing delight that there's someone real in front of you who you can never fully know.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

it's Art VS Artist, but make it all pieces of decorative borders. #artvsartist #art

art vs artists 9x9 grid, but every square around my portrait have a different fragment of a decorative border I did, with skulls, fungi, swords, pumpkin, acanthus, chains, bones and other decorative elements.

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wanted to do a serious painting and record the whole drawing process, just to have an example for the youtube. It ended up taking over 10 hours, so I'll have to do multiple x16 speed edits to make it at all palatable to watch.

Digital painting of a light green path in a forest surrounded by trees on both sides. A creature with aspects of both an insect and a dinosaur is standing on a tree root in the upper left of the image, surrounded by a few smaller flying creatures. The image is painted in mostly warm tones, making it appear to take place in early morning.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

YOU SCOUNDREL YOU FIEND I WILL FIGT YOU IN THE NAME OF THE MOON LIGHT

silly digital drawing of a sailor pink rosey moth, she has a pink dress and red boots and red bow and her big moth antennae are hair

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Impressionable boomers and California wine moms watch Paramount and CNN and Warner and HBO and Discovery. Donald Trump’s media and tech billionaire groupie, Larry Ellison, is about to own all of those networks. Watch this fact-filled short video from Charles McBryde on TikTok:

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Florida is unfair in terms of cool bug access. Practically every outdoor-themed business sells some kind of potted citrus, which are happily egged on and eaten by Giant Swallowtails. Pick up the largest butterflies in North America for free while you get lightbulbs

Three small brown and white Giant Swallowtail caterpillars on some hybrid citrus leaves

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Termitodesmidae is an elusive family of millipede that lives exclusively in the fungal chamber of termite nests where they get to chow down on an all-you-can-eat fungal buffet 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ceylondesmus kistneri in the fungal chamber of a termite mound.

Dorsal (top) and ventral (bottom) view of Ceylondesmus escherichi

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Artists, show how much you've improved in 30+ years - 🦀 edition 1994 vs 2026

blurry phone pic of a kid's drawing of a crab in markers. the anatomy is extremely wonky and stubby but all the anatomical details are there.

portrait of an orange hermit crab in circular, ornate blue frame. the crab is in a snail shell with various worms and bryozoans encrusting its surface.

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videosyncrasy @videosyncrasy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Raven Lyn Clemens @ravenlynclemens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think raven molisee was my favourite steven universe board artist. his expressions rule and the energy he brought to characters like lars, sadie and ronaldo is great

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Raven Lyn Clemens @ravenlynclemens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ed edd and eddy art by raven molisee

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The #sciArtSeptember prompt is star-shaped. 🧪 My lino block print of two Pisaster ochraceus, generally known as the purple sea star, ochre sea star, or ochre starfish, on a bed of kelp, is hand-printed on 8” x 8” (20 cm x 20 cm) delicate white Japanese paper with bark inclusions. A common sea star,

my linocut of two ochre starfish, one purple and one orange on a bed of kelp on speckled Japanese 8” x 8” paper bark inclusions

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Russell Garwood @russellgarwood.co.uk · 15/09/2026

Interested in how species diversity is split between major animal groups? Here is the infographic for you! 🧪⚒️🦀🦑 #evosky

An infographic showing the number of described and estimated species for major animal groups. There are more insects than anything else. Of the remaining groups, arachnids and nematodes are the most diverse.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

look I found some old bugs in my folders #Art #SciArt

rough pencil-like sketches of a mantis from various angles. the main image shows it from the side, the secondary shows a closer shot of the face slightly from higher up, then a frontal face, and the raptorial arm. the text says odontomantis, 2024-12-12 franzanth

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love you love you love you love you love you love @badenddoll.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

screaming abt cockroach maid doll. lying on the floor and rolling around abt her.

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 16/09/2026

he won

"I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!"

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Ripley Arachnid 🕷️🌈🪲🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the fact that bugs also get itchy and need a little scratchy makes me so sad because they cannot feel the comfort of me scratching their lil head

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

for you

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A Black-throated Blue Warbler in my yard (!!!) eating berries from the Devil’s Walkingstick tree For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BirdsWithBerries #birds 🌿

A dark blue bird with white belly and black throat stands in a horizontal branch holding a dark blue berry in its beak. With lots of blurry green leaves in the background.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How upset would people be if I revive this series without the BG colors? People told me the colors set them apart from the usual muted/beige posters. I wanted each one to have its own identity but tbh I ran out of colors lol. Anyway, buyables: redbubble.com/people/franzanth #Art #SciArt

A collage of 9 scientific illustration posters, each one featuring a different group of animals. The groups featured are ostracoderm fishes, nudibranchs, echinoderms, cephalopods, ediacaran biota, trilobites, jellies, spiders, and crabs. the background of each poster is notably saturated with dark vignette in the corners.

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

An unfortunate freshly stepped-on cicada I found on the street made a nice big meal for mama centipede.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

and here we have em, seven invertebrate deities for seven days of #Invertefest could have gotten the styles closer to their cultures, but I'm mostly glad I was able to make new art for it, I had no clue if I was even gonna be able to sit down and draw lol

collage of 7 deities drawn in black and grey digital pen on white with a splash of color each, going from red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink
the deities from top left are:
- Beelzebub, a fly demon covered in grey hair with red eyes and a red floating crown, with a snoot and mouth claws and a stabby looking ovipositor in the back of the abdomen
- Khepri, egyptian scarab holding the sun, orange sun with little orange crown above, little orange human stickfigure body under a sparkly orange carapace, with the large white grey ornamental bird wings with small orange higlights
- Anansi, grey body with a mask drawing on the head/thorax and dots/lines on the abdomen, a golden yellow crown above them and glowing yellow eyes
- Ah Muzen Cab, but as a mayan style bee, with a green crown on top, green eyes and green stripes, modified a bit from the original mayan bee depiction to have 6 legs and 4 wings
- Psyche, a butterfly with greek pattern wings with blue highlights and a blue crown
- ǀKaggen, a mantis with purple dotted wings and a purple crown, the rest of the mantis is grey with white dots
- Ōmukade, the japanese centipede yokai, but they have a pink head and pink crown and are coiled around themselves

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 31/08/2026

For the final day of #AuGhost and #InverteFest, a 2 for 1 special! How many insects and ghosts can you count? This doubles as a coloring page, so feel free to download for some coloring fun 💜 #AuGhost2026

Black and white illustration of a bunch of daisy-like flowers drawn in a stylized pattern with serrated petal edges and a cluster of round shapes in the center. There are 5 tiny ghosts hovering around and 4 insects: a grasshopper, butterfly, wasp, and ladybug.

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dendrobaena octaedra going places.

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is a widespread earthworm, introduced all over North America. It’s one of Alaska’s most common worms, thriving there because it can flood its cells with glucose to lower its freezing point. Yet it also seems to handle the hot summers of Appalachian Virginia, and it’s a species I see often here

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The specific name octaedra means “eight-sided” because its eight paired setae (that most earthworms have) are widely separated, giving it an octagonal cross-section. Few other common Lumbricidae have setae like that, so it’s a fairly easy species to identify.

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Earlier this year I was interviewed by the Let's Talk Scicomm podcast - here's the episode where I talked about writing about parasites and drawing them as monster girls 🧪 science.unimelb.edu.au/engage/lets-...

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Researching this book was such a fantastic adventure, seeing firsthand land set free across Costa Rica, Scotland, Ireland, and meeting some of the true heroes rewilding the Earth. So what an immense joy to finally get a (*beautiful*) copy into my hands! Releases September 10th.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

for day 4 of the holy week of #InverteFest we are going to Central America with the Mayan god of bees and honey, Ah Muzen Cab* 🐝 *not depicted as a bee but we gotta get creative here

digital drawing of the Mayan good Ah Muzen Cab, but as a mayan style bee, with a green crown on top, green eyes and green stripes, modified a bit from the original mayan bee depiction to have 6 legs and 4 wings.

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Tam||maT @tamvmat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

#InverteFest 2 I drew a happy millipede #inkart #insects #inverts

A black and white ink drawing of a millipede

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I need to atone for my sins (taking too many vertebrate projects this year) so I'm doing an #InverteFest special - Crabmons give me a word/archetype/whatever and I'll do a crab when I can crabapple & skeleton, prompts by @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social in the middle of a Slay The Spire 2 run

two crab doodles. on the left is crabapple, a red apple sliced in half facing the front as a face, two leaves on top as eyes, two smaller partially eaten apples as claws, apple slices as legs. on the right is skeleton, a crab whose face is made out of a single vertebra with its gaping hole acting as a mouth. on the sides are rib bones as legs, on the front are shoulder blades as claws

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"In the larval stage, peppered moths can change the color of their skin to blend into their settings—even without seeing those surroundings, a new study found." www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/art...

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An insect’s surprising way of seeing, and other revelations

Research points to a greener way to make cement, a therapeutic use for magic mushrooms, and a caterpillar that sees colors with more than its eyes.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Harvest mouse

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

talking about vertebrates like how people talk about invertebrates: I saw a blue jay today! This beautiful bird is native to North America. While its bite is painful, it is nonvenomous & harmless to humans. Unlike most tetrapods, the gray squirrel broods its young internally and gives live birth!

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My personal favorite is the Carolina leaf-rolling cricket:

A shiny orange wingless cricket sure in a tree trunk. Its long thin antennae are many times the body length

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

That's not excessive. THIS is excessive:

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Pink fairy armadillo

An armadillo on its hind legs in a fluffy princess dress. She has white fur and pink scales on her head, claws, and tail.

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