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Gatik

@gatik.bsky.social

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🌱They/Them🌱 ✨I’m trying to keep things alive✨ Artist/Writer, care provider ☮️ Lover of little creatures. Studying plants, insects, and people. 🌲🌵🌴🌳🌱🪴👁️👁️✨🏳️‍🌈🌚🌝🏳️‍⚧️✨

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Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · Jan 15

Here is some of my digital art, abstracts, squiggles, and insectoids for your viewing pleasure.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16h

Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility

Meanwhile, two days after a judge ordered the removal of a fence erected by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, barricades were being put up in front of the fence on Saturday.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Zdravka @meliorism-78.bsky.social · 1d

Ghosts of the forest…

A monochrome photo of trees during a foggy morning.

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 1d

One for the #sciart folks! A study from my own photograph of a great golden digger wasp on some goldenrod, in soft pastel on paper painted with watercolour ground (my new favourite way to add grip to my substrate):

a painterly drawing of a large wasp with pearlescent dark blue wings folded, huge dark reflective eyes, golden brown legs, and long dark antenna sweeping like a fancy moustache, standing and snacking on goldenrod blossoms against a soft, out of focus background.

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Guilherme Nunes - Commissions Open!! @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 19h

the chosen capybara

Painting, in a forest at night in a field of flowers a capybara is abducted by an alien ship while two other capybaras celebrate.

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Gelena 🤍🏔️ @gelena.bsky.social · 23h

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Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 21h

It was my immediate reaction also !
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought so

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OBDsity - Bunnies in a Bun Dance @obdsity.bsky.social · 1d

Snooshi: Oh hai, what are you doing down there? 👀

A white rabbit with soft fur and pink-tinged ears peers curiously over the edge of a stone wall, framed by tall bamboo leaves and a cloudy blue sky. The bunny’s inquisitive face and slight tilt of the head give it an adorably curious look, as if it’s discovering the world from its little perch. The scene feels fresh and playful — a moment of gentle wonder in a garden full of green.

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whistling in the dark @candiedreptile.at.app.wafrn.net · 1d

honestly with the way the game's humor is trending i kind of assume this is just going to be a real poster

the meme depicting tiktaalik moving from "their filthy water" to "our blessed ground" and being met with spears, captioned "STOP THEM! 'You missed your chance, pal!' If you see a Horrid Beast evolving, PUSH IT BACK IN," with the Traitorpod drawn over it looking smug.

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Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 1d

It sure looked it
When they opened the door to skull spider world

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Seren🌷 @ieafy.bsky.social · Sep 3

microworld 🦠

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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 1d

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I understood the true fate of Orpheus, that love is a constant terror of loss.

— Kazimierz Wierzyński, A Word of Orphists

art: We Only Come Out at Night — Stephen Mackey, 2014, oil on panel
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Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 1d

I wish the moon would wake up and stare down at us

Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve learned nothing

Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 5d

The mosquitos stole all my blood

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Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 4d

Dirt Dogs don’t die

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Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 1d

Tim Robins from I Think You Should Leave
“I don’t know what any of this shit is, and I’m scared.”

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Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 1d

I started reading this run for that slimy lizard

Absolute Batman cover. Killer Croc lurks in green water, beneath Batman’s shadow.

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 3d

The wingless Sphinx hasn’t notice you…yet. So you still have time to prepare for her riddles

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Guilherme Nunes - Commissions Open!! @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 2d

cat wakes up from a coma and his last years of life were just a dream

painting of a cat waking up in despair from a coma while another cat with glasses looks scared and a doctor cat looks at the scene as if he has seen this movie before

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Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 2d

A guy with the most recognizable tilted eyes

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Rowan MacColl @skulkingfoxes.bsky.social · 23d

Apple Cat

a black and white pen drawing of a black cat on a branch surrounded by leaves and apples

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Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 2d

No more stitches

Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 2d

I’m still here

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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 2d

It might be easier to start listing the things that don’t cause autism

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 3d

Good luck today dingus