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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Vet month, so I am selling some old and new art at a lower priece. You guys were already so supportive 🙏💚 - Thank you! Small commissions are open too ;) .

photograph of a table full with paintings and prints of mostly fish and insects.

close up of the first photo. one can see a painting of a fish and a bee. on it lies a small round paper with a dog drawing saying "sale for Jettes vet bill"

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ligus has some stunning #fish, #invert and #lizard art available in her Kofi shop right now - some with a little change-of-light twist! 🐟🦎🐙 This fishy would be amazing to hang mounted on a door so that the angle changed and lit up the SHINY ✨

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fine work here, but we really need to raise the fundamental question WHY IS THERE STILL NO PYRAMID EMOJI? *froths at mouth* 🏺

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Souperb thread of hearty Autumn recipes here from @marofthebooks.bsky.social and friends! 🍂🍲

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If your soul is hurting, and it all feels too much, take a moment with Daryll Marie and her mobile bird wellness centre *cough* research vessel. Thank you for sharing your wonderful trip and your feathered shipmates on their journeys, @daryllmarie.bsky.social 💚

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The important parts of this are that they are smol.and cute

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tis time of leaves.Colours change and blur,textures thin as liminal spaces collide.Up to down,falling lightly and turning side on side as decisions are made.Leaves showing how to leave. Uncovering hidden branches of our forms.Strong,still,bare.leaf or leave behind?…🍂#Equinox

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A glittering piece here from Mark Cocker, on the whirl of beauty and chatter that is a large charm of goldfinches among the grasses. Not something you see down here in the exhausted, overdeveloped South East. Enjoy, and thanks for sharing @iand777.bsky.social

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

His Royal Highness of Shiny Boys 😍🐴🖤🤍 #Biglad

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Rebecca Howard, painting changes to land management - even (especially?) where that involves woody decay. Huge, immersive canvasses here exploring the shifted aesthetics of rewilded landscapes - I've wanted to visit Knepp for years, and would love to see this exhib. Good time to go! #GoodGreenNews

theguardian.com

Artist delights in beautiful ‘mess’ and dead trees of England’s rewilding sites

Rebecca Howard spent two years visiting projects and painting landscapes that feature in West Sussex exhibition

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Would makers weep, to see their work rumpled over the mobile earth, so like a carpet shaken out by time's impatient hands to shed the crumbs of a civilisation's leavings. Or marvel that the masters and all their forgotten efforts have passed into dust; only the glory they walked on left to shine.

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The spectacular technical ability of this little being, knowing that they must nibble out the tiny leaf section to enable the fold predictably - then realising it needs a little more nibbled out to do the job, then tightening all the threads. And this, from a tiny creature only a few weeks old. 😍💚

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Blown away by the skill of printmaker, Joshua Miles, whose reduction linocuts are absolutely stunning! More here: joshuamiles.art/scottish-pri...

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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Hummingbird Hawk Macroglossum stellatarum eclosing from pupa found in North Wales (slightly speeded up). Thousands more will be emerging in Britain during the next few weeks, then the moths will migrate down to the Mediterranean where they overwinter.

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🦇 This is the best thread you'll read this year! Thank you for helping Merle 😍

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Splendour from the Black Sea! This Hellenistic diadem transforms gold and gemstones into a miniature mythological scene: a Heracles knot at its centre, surmounted by Nike, the winged goddess of victory, and framed by sea monsters. Dating 250–150 BC, made from... 🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

A gold diadem in a museum display: A knot forms the central motif, made of a translucent red stone and gold. Above it rises the goddess of victory Nike, flanked by two sea monsters. Two rigid gold bands are attached at the sides over hinges. Tassel-shaped pendants hang down from the diadem.

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Shadows upon shadows upon shadows. 🌞🌝🏵️ #SolarEclipse

The Aug 12 2026 solar eclipse at maximum for Kent, through a salad spinner lid as a pinhole calendar and some fennel. Circles of tiny crescent suns are projected onto white card. I'm holding the projection-card in fingers and thumb, and there are fennel flowers photo-bombing. Photo and wafty solar intervention by Xander's Skyscape.

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My Ukrainian neighbours are having another extremely loud party with the cats next door. Three miles away, and I can hear them singing. 💚🦁🥳 Slava Ukraini, you big, brave beauties. #BigCatSanctuary (Images below not of real Kent landscape...)

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Carmen Twillie, Lebo M. - Circle of Life (From "The Lion King")

YouTube video by DisneyMusicVEVO

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Superb news for Hen Harriers on United Utilities land in Bowland - a safe haven is what's needed most. UU chose to not renew grouse shooting licenses from 2023 - it's great to see that this bold, necessary decision is having such great results for them, and for the wildlife that relies on moorland.

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Well, this goddess has a new devotee... Thanks for sharing @xingwu.bsky.social 💚🌳✨

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I love these. For all the abject awfulness humanity is capable of, we can also do this, and I find that to be a glimmer of sea-light in the darkness. Bring on the ingenious whimsy. Thank you Theo Jansen, and thank you @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social for highlighting. #Art #Strandbeest

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The heavy, unmistakable chuggachuggachugga of a steam engine lumbering up the road, modern life a bewildered crawl in its wake, a hot antique waft left hanging in the air. And yes, I still run to see, at the slightest approaching rumble.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A poem of mine for today ~ Lammas ~

We are made of bread
and light, and love that is the song
of a blackbird to the morning, a bat's wings to the night air.
The moon, a scythe, to reap us, the sun, a child that sails away -
we weave a religion
full of fatherless sons
and immaculate women
that only gods may touch.
We have always made our own kings, and tasting hunger, truth has watched, its crow's eye upon the work
of harvest and plough.
To cut the sheaf, then the earth, these dark sods, rich
as blood, raised, but a promise
even as they harden - of hope perhaps, in a seed or the black tips of a hare's ears, in the secrets of our grandmothers.

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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Dragon Maiden（龍女）moves through Chinese mythology as guardian, guide, and daughter of the Dragon King. Her flock is no earthly herd. The “sheep” she tends are water spirits, shimmering beneath her father’s oceanic dominion, carrying the mystery of rivers, rain, and 1/2

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Exciting times - a big chunk of funding committed to restoring ancient woodland smothered by plantations. Power to the people dressed as slugs! Huge congrats to the Wild Card team and everyone who wrote to politicians, chipped in, or indeed impersonated a mollusc. Go, Go, Go! 💪💚 #GoodGreenNews

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Super thread here of Ben's family travels around Europe by train. Looks like a far more interesting and pleasant option than the plane!

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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

If you think photographing birds in flight is difficult, you want to try moths!😅 This is a wonderful Hummingbird Hawkmoth, photographed yesterday from my bedroom window, just as it banked around to change direction!😀😍 Just look at that proboscis 🦋 (The moth looks a bit like a fish doesn't it!)😁

A Hummingbird Hawkmoth banking around with its body turned but its wings and head vertical against a dark blue background of a neighbour's car

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蓮猫 Lotuscat @lotuscat.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

止まる枝を間違ってカモフラージュを失敗したシャクトリムシ。長野県小諸市鴇久保 #虫 Inchworm that messed up its camouflage by settling on a green plant stalk. Tokikubo, Komoro, Nagano #Invertebrate #Insects

An inchworm on a green plant stalk. It is holding onto the stalk with its hind "false feet" and the rest of the body is held straight and rigid. Fingers are placed behind the plant and worm for focus.

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Ligus Doodles @ligus-doodles.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I found a little T-Rex and made her a sweater 🤷🏻

photo of an old plastic pigure of a t-rex wearing a blue, yeallow and pink crochet sweater

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Dr. Sabine Metzger 🦇 @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBatsn #ArtNouveau #French #MullerLuneville Muller Frères VASE WITH A BAT, ca. 1910 Cameo glass

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5809572

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Feast your eyes, my dear people. 😍💙🩷 #birds🦉 Thanks for this absolute treat, @iand777.bsky.social

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If you're in Britain, even if not a church-goer, you can call on the Church to do the right thing. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity for the General Synod to make concrete positive change - to give land back to nature, helping species survive into the future. One more day to add your message!

actionnetwork.org

Synod Vote for Nature!

Join us in making history! The Church of England’s General Synod members have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to support a motion calling for the Church Commissioners to protect 30% of their land...

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Stow the seed packets, and let the seedbank give dividends: hugely encouraging piece here from Prof Carl Sayer, on a meadow's self-seeded journey to recovery. 'Our study shows what can be achieved by a traditional hay cutting approach combined with nature’s brilliant spontaneity.' #GoodGreenNews

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Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Ah, what nostalgia! I love this story, it was one of the first I just kept putting it there because I believed in it so much. And @kaleidotrope.bsky.social did, too.

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Not to mention how dangerous it is for drivers to be mindlessly obeying machine instructions rather than observing the road conditions. Finding your way around (esp on foot) or even getting lost, is a full sensory experience that builds up hafting to one's own turf, a sense of belonging.

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I am now going to be referring to all maps as mapemoundes because why would one not. Map from Latin mappa, napkin or cloth, because that's what they were drawn on in Roman times, and 'Detailed representation of anything' use from 17th Century, apparently. Gods I love Etymonline.

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Search 'map' on etymonline

Search results for 'map' on etymonline

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Reconnecting landscapes and joining up RSPB reserve land for the first time in 60 years - new opportunities for Celtic Rainforest species, wildflower-rich meadows, tempting in Hen Harriers to breed, and working with local farmers on sustainable and regenerative farming. Very #GoodGreenNews here!

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🇨🇦🦀 CANADA DAY CRAB THREAD 🦀🇨🇦 Canada encompasses 3 of the world's oceans, so let's meet crabs from each one. In the Arctic, the spiky king crab friend Neolithodes grimaldii is found offshore (300-5000m depth). Same genus, different species, as the famous baby 1/7 🦑🧪

Stamp from Greenland with a drawing of a red spiky king crab in dorsal view. Kind of wild, it shows the reduced 4th pair of legs.

Text:
KALAALLIT NUNAAT
Peqquk Troldkrabbe
Neolithodes grimaldii
GRØNLAND 400

https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=image&pic=19002&tid=107206

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I am now going outside to loiter around my pea plants because I thought I saw a butterfly that shoudn't be here. Coming over here, looking stunning, eating my pea plants *plants more pea plants for them* 🫛 #bringonthevagrants 🦋

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Did I just see a Long-Tailed Blue butterfly? No photo, but I had binos on it, and have seen them before in Sark. Those pale bars across the buff underside were very clear - what else would look like that? Has there been an eruption into Kent this year? Peas and sweet peas growing within feet.

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Evening magic here from Nicola Chester - enjoy. 💚

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Well, this is the best idea I've heard about in ages! Bat kits available to borrow at public libraries. Well done Alberta Community Bat Program and Alberta libraries! This is a lovely idea to pin to a wishlist, @batconservation.bsky.social? #GoodGreenNews #conservation 🌎 🦇

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This family has a history of destroying priceless natural places. Anyone who protested the destructive golfcourse in #Scotland should be wading in for #Albania. Likewise anyone who loves flamingos, pelicans, seals, turtles, and the rights of people and nature over corrupt money. #flamingorevolution

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Wren mum to wren dad: Honey, the kids are getting so big...? Wood warbler: hides behind nest with juicy tidbits...

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Brace yourself for cuteness. One wildlife photographer's video prompts a research project, prompts outreach to local Tuareg people and hunters, prompts discovery that sand cats are present in Libya, and that their territory needs protection and more understanding. 🌍 #ecology #cats

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‘No one believed it’: how a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya’s sand cat really does exist

Wildlife photographer Mohammed Almuntasir had no idea what he had found until scientists started to get in touch

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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

From the very dark days of the early 80s, when it really did seem the seas of the future would be songless, we have reached a far better trajectory. It's not plain swimming yet - other species still need better protections. But this is wonderful news. #conservation 🌏🐳🐋

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