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Ari B

@utahraptor1115.bsky.social
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An overpowered mutant. Attorney in environmental and energy law, artist, award winning dirtbag. Follow me on the instant gramophone- @utah_raptor Find some of my prints for sale here: fineartamerica.com/profiles/ari-bar… More coming soon

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h
The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We love a #hammerhead embodying modern existential dread. Same, buddy. Same. #underwater #underwaterphotography #sharks #bimini #photogaphersofbluesky #photooftheday #scuba
A hammerhead shark in a rendition of the face I make when I hear the teams ringtone (trapped in the horror of distant memories)
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just a Bermuda #Chub Lookin like a predator's grub Chowin down on mollusks, algae And the occasional bug. #underwater #underwaterphotography #photography #photooftheday #photographersofbluesky #photosky
A school of silvery Bermuda Chubs swimming by while little yellow snapper kept trying to get in the god damn frame, it isn't about them!
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Working on a stunning collection of #hammerhead photo bombs, the most photogenic shark in the sea. And they know it. #photography #underwater #underwaterphotography #photooftheday #photosky #sharks #funnywildlife
A beautifully captured portrait of a silver bait fish with a hammerhead out of focus in the back ground swimming towards the fish with its mouth open as if in a toothy carnivorous grin Another perfectly focused portrait of a hammerhead with his annoying friend softly out of focus making a funny hammerhead face like he does in EVERY picture.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of my absolute best friends and I discuss our BMs like we discuss children we've had together and that's the power of female friendships.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh man, same! I feel so validated!
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sunday glumday black and whites in #Birmingham. All this and more (not much though) available somewhere in the belly of this beast, for now; fineartamerica.com/featured/bir... #england #rowhouse #photography #historicbuildings #photographersofbluesky #travel #blackandwhite #photooftheday
A black and white photo of rowhouses in Birmingham, England. The sky is cloudy and the street curves to the right, bringing the houses with it, creating a winding canyon wall of windows and chimneys while a river of concrete flows at the bottom, flanked by the cars parked there like boulders. I am extremely sleepy.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thinking about launching a Senate campaign where my platform is that I've never abused a child and never would, vote for me. And then I'll begin the work of propagandizing the next generation of Americans into being queer nazi-beating commies, as god intended.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I don't know what I'm doing, may I offer you a link? fineartamerica.com/featured/sub... #hustle #virgoseason #photography #underwater #shark #bimini #photographersofblueeky #photooftheday #underwaterphotography
A moody black and white of a nursing shark with such crisp hypnotic eyes you suddenly find yourself wanting to click on the link and buy a copy of the print. Or comment and tell the photographer she's pretty and charming.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I hate "love languages" and think that whole school of thought is a school of idiocy but I do think contemporary relationships would have a better time if we brought that kind of individuated analysis to conflict. My conflict language is clash-of-a-titan and I need a titan who clashes back.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What is the German word for the kind of depression that requires the complete works of Uzo Aduba, stat?
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This week I guess I turned 37 years old but I also don't think people who should be dead as many times over as me have birthdays? That seems correct.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I always retweet the good sister of shred
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Sometimes when I'm up in the wee hours of the morning I think the male loneliness epidemic is the same thing I'm always struck by in the dating scene- there's a prfound and hollow self centeredness to the men of my generation so consistent one must explore the foundations of their upbringing.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Same but then I tried English food. Y-i-k-e-s
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Could we just have one tv channel that plays it happening over and over on a loop?
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
As a gremlin with a protein deficiency, this man is 100% correct.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I, for one, have no remorse for luigi mangione's actions nor do I have sadness for the loved ones of the CEO pseudo-victim. Fuck his kids, fuck his spouse, fuck his parents, fuck his friends, and, most of all, fuck united health care and every mass murderer at their helm.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Anyone else seen Battleship Potemkin?
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The time is 3:53 am and Like a Prayer is aggressively stuck in my head
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Every time I meet someone with even a hint of surprise at the progressive whispers in places like Appalachia and the Rust Belt a fairy appears with a large wooden soap box and swallows fly overhead and unfurl a banner that says "the History of Labor in America and Why It Wasn't Taught."
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My first wood project off the lathe and haha wow. It's made of discard pieces I found here and there, and I used it to gift two earrings I made. Fully aware many mistakes were made, but that's a good education. Love a first pancake. #art #woodwork #idontknowwhatimdoing #artistsofbluesky
A slightly be-fucked wooden box on little brass legs. It's made of maple burl so it's kinda brown gold wood that swirls and has some holes in it, and on top is the raw edge of the burl that looks like a caterpillar melting so all it's little legs are sticking out everywhere. The interior of the maple box that shows a velvet lined inside, the lining is overdone because the artist thought it looked like moss and liked it, ok??
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Struggling with an overly emotional reaction to "repurposing" federal lands for data centers but my dad used to say "today you feel as bad as you need to and tomorrow you get up and try again." Just feels futile.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I got all my vaccinations including whooping cough but still got whooping cough as a teen because my classmates didn't get vaccinated against it and it overcame herd immunity. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Pretty sure the universe has no moral organizing force beyond the inexorable fall to entropy, but being chronically ill is like living with evangelical Christian God: A gigantic centipede skittering across the sky on countless horrifying legs, seeking happiness and gobbling it in its nightmare maw.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The art is just a postcard I picked up on Mount Hood in #aotearoa but the frame I made from garbage wood and garbage glass, and is my first frame. Coming soon, second pancake. #artistsofbluesky #art #hashtagsarehardandweird
A lightly colored round of wood finished into a frame for a painting of a bee landing on a lily. It's fine. Ok even. First pancake. Just wait until I've done it a hundred times, then it'll be something
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Is everyone doing this??? It's time for berries and melon and stone fruit and sweet corn here, and, on the one hand, I'm immunocompromised. On the other hand they are delicious gifts from beloved mother earth directly to my mouth and digestion and I swear I wash em real good but... Should I not?!?!
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Always sad when someone born a man dies a worm. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Fuck this man and fuck his hospitalization. I've got a disabling chronic illness, if I needed a hospital stay I'd get F-I-R-E-D for not notifying my employer. It's not about men's mental health or mental health awareness, he's just a sack of shit that refuses the consequences of his own actions.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Still churning out #Socorro photos, including many of this lil late season lady who came for a chill hang at Roca Partida. #underwaterphotography #underwater #whaleshark #photosky #photographersofbluesky #revillagigedo #conservation
A photo of a whale shark, which looks a lot like a gray spotted coin purse with a shark motor in the back. This one has some cuts on her mouth from some kind of altercation, but is curled at a sassy little angle checking out the camera. She did a couple passes of me and the camera before returning to filter feeding. Whale sharks are staying later and later in the Revillagigedo Archipelago as climate change causes the waters to stay warmer longer. What a horrible ecological nightmare we're going to have to live through. Are living through now, even.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Taking another whack at these salp off the coast of #cornwall. Truly a gelatinous powerhouse of carbon movement through the ocean. Thanks for all the breaths, tunicate friend. #diving #underwaterphotography #underwater #photosky #wildlifephotography #conservationphotography
A chain of salps that look like three condoms were filled with translucent veiny ghost dicks and then were sealed shut, severing the member with bled a tiny bit of ectoplasm, here indicated by a reddish brown area that is actually the salps organs. These guys are a heavy hitter in the oceanic carbon cycle, once again reaffirming the age old truth- "you don't need opacity, just some audacity."
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Reminiscing about days at Aoraki and getting ready to go home to Oakhura for Christmas. What a country, man. #Aotearoa #NewZealand #photography #aoraki #mountcook #landscapephotography #photosky
A landscape photo of Aoraki/Mount Cook in New Zealand. It's a jagged peak packed with glacial ice, flanked by two smaller peaks in the foreground.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
All I want for midterms is leadership by people capable of passing an upper level history final exam. Just one, even.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Saddling up to fight a pharmacy benefit coordinator about my life sustaining medication now costing me $30k a year with private insurance. Say a prayer to the god of mangione and Robespierre for me.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Getting photos off the big camera and getting back to work. So far it's turning out pretty cool! #Revillagigedo #underwater #rays #photography #photosky #eastcoastkin #underwaterphotography #worldoceanday #teamorca
A black and white photo of a Chevron morph mobula ray soaring by what looks like a cliff face. It looks like that because it is. The ray is black with white triangles above the eyes and white stripes on the bottom of the wings and has remoras attached over its eyes and it's very important to remember remoras have very very stupid faces. Like if clogs could have anxiety.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
On the rare occasion a man raises his voice to me in anger, like his anger is the end of the discussion, I am filled with the eternal gratitude that my mom did not raise me to tolerate a man raising his voice to me. I also fill with rage. Hungry, burning rage.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Wrapping up my first liveaboard, the diving was spectacular, I loved the boat and the crew but wowowowowow was I not a cultural fit with the other people on the boat, I kinda felt like Carrie at prom, and I would sure like a consult from someone who has done more of these before I do another.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
On my way home from a week at the Revillagigedo Archipelago to go through my photos and plot a more permanent return to the seaside! #photography #diving #socorro #revillagigedo
A gray scale photo of a scuba diver part way through an underwater cartwheel with her arms up and legs in front of herA selfie of a lady on a boat with a small boat getting towed behind her
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Dance like no one is watching? Eat apples like no one is listening, baby.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The level of enshittification of Google vastly overestimates how good it was at its peak and how unwilling I am to use my local library's resources and an encyclopedia.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Terrible news, I seem to be on a boat full of extroverts. And worse, Australians.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I think if you had to take the bar more than once you should have to disclose to your clients you just ain't that bright (sincerely, an attorney who is currently drunk and passed on her first go)
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I am solo adventuring into the Pacific Ocean for the next ten days, finished the first leg of my journey, and hit an insane wall of exhaustion and loneliness that fueled, I dunno, what do you call it? Some of that PTSD? Bad brain movies. I used to be so brave.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Oh wow here's the thing; fuck politics by social media. That's not a reality I'm ever going to accept and will continue to live my life with the absolutely objectively correct view that social media is made up nonesense solely to entertain you while pooping.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Reclaim gaslighting for surreal jokes and whimsy
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Counterpoint: very cool, very wanted. Show me them jangly danglies boys.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Triggers ain't shit but hoes and tricks
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Aa a chronically ill baddie I find myself accommodating normies way more often than I demand accomodation. Like people who throw up if someone near them is throwing up, people who are squeamish about blood and gore. I don't want to make anyone sick or uncomfy but damn healthy people are fragile.
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah (Kaikoura, NZ) #photosky #sealions #newzealand #kaikoura #photography #sonyalpha
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Ari B @utahraptor1115.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Hanging with #kea in the southern hemisphere, there are only about 7,000 left in the wild and sometimes they congregate at arthur's pass. I love you #NewZealand; the best country in the world and, best second home a gremlin could ask for. #photisky #eastcoastkin #birdphotography #endangeredspecies
A green parrot stands on a road with misty mountains behind it, if has different shades of green and some bright orange on the tail and extremely well defined feathers
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