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Lotta Fjelkegård

@lottassociala.bsky.social

1.8K followers 1.8K following 1.4K posts

Mostly a lurker. Busy reading and learning. Nature. Comics. Books. Science. Bossed around by two juvenile cats. (Disaster pair!) Tries to be as kind as possible. Sometimes I succeed. (she/her) No longer active on Twitter.

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Lotta Fjelkegård @lottassociala.bsky.social · Aug 23

"You can't tell me what I can and can't do!"

I love these magnificent chonks. 🐌❤️

#invertebrates #invert #snail #Sweden #nature

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Roman Snail (Helix pomatia)

Roman Snail in August 2025 by Lotta Fjelkegård

www.inaturalist.org

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 8h

Please tip Ethan a few bucks via his linked ko-fi if you can. He's not asking for this but a living dinosaur just nomped his drawing hand so a coffee or two might help.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 8h

She let me hold her and then ten seconds later she bit the absolute shit out of my hand

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 10h

the way Trump and his administration keep going on livestreams and tv to laugh about this, I can’t really compare it to anything political that comes to mind, only thing that comes to mind rn is a serial killer who writes letter taunting family of their victim.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s victims are now washing up in Trinidad:
“The U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks and missing limbs showing up in its territory.“

A Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes

www.nytimes.com

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 8h

Under the stormy skies this morning.

A grove of golden red aspens with a tall pine. Sagebrush foreground and stormy sky

A variety of Aspen leaves on a wet log. There are raindrops on the leaves

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7h

unbelievable levels of Grandpa is sick and tired of son and grandson arguing at the dinner table energy in this clip

www.youtube.com/shorts/jGsYi...

Mamdani, Cuomo clash in NYC mayoral debate

YouTube video by CNN

www.youtube.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 7h

gaaaaahhhh

adamnyc.bsky.social @adamnyc.bsky.social · 7h

Fascist propagandists are also now hijacking NYC's taxis. hellgatenyc.com/taxi-tv-news...

Taxi TV Is MAGA Now

New York City taxi riders are now served conservative news segments during their trips.

hellgatenyc.com

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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · Nov 15

bringing my fun quiz over from the other website: What Asinine Thing I Call My Cat Are You?

I am PRECIOUS MAN

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

“throw everything at the wall and see what sticks and then push that” has been an enormously successful political strategy for Trump and I don’t understand why many Dems consider it anathema

haunted mentions @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 12h

in general i believe that high ranking democrats should not be trying to guess which stories will break through at all

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12h

My wife’s (in some cases three-time) trump voting relatives have started mentioning the ballroom to me, negatively; anecdata but I’d like to see some high quality polling. I think it’s a mistake by certain elite elected Dems to think this story isn’t breaking thru

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 11h

these are technically year-round neighborhood decorations but it's close enough to halloween that they deserve some love

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 12h

Censorship is bad for America ... and bad for business.

When companies stifle free expression, customers will take their money elsewhere.

Disney+ cancellations surged as boycotts for Jimmy Kimmel's suspension kicked in — here's how big the spike was

Disney+ and Hulu's cancellation rates surged in September as ABC sidelined late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, suggesting that the Disney boycotts worked.

www.businessinsider.com

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Cameron Johnston @cameronjohnston.bsky.social · 24d

The Maleficent Seven is part of Amazon's Kindle Monthly Deal for October, available for the sleep-averting sum of only $1.99!

www.amazon.com/Maleficent-S...

Or £0.74 on the UK site!

www.amazon.co.uk/Maleficent-S...

The cover of The Maleficent Seven by Cameron Johnston, seven scary, silhouetted fantasy figures on a burning background.

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Racket @racketmn.com · 12h

“We're working really hard to make sure that the Native community here feels damn good when they walk through these exhibition halls,” says White Hawk, “and if they do, that means it will feel good for every single person that partakes in this space, and that's what it's meant to do.”

Dyani White Hawk's 'Love Language': Shimmering, Striking, and Even Soothing - Racket

The internationally known, Minnesota-based artist wants you to feel the love—and we do!

racketmn.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

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Kendrick Fowler @kendrickorion.bsky.social · 13h

💯

If I was scared, I’d be a hermit.

I go to work, I visit friends and family, I live my life!

But I do it in a mask b/c it’d suck if a routine trip to buy groceries gave me a disease that ruined my life, or if I were the ruin of someone else’s…and also to make an anti-eugenics political statement

Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 10d

Tired of people seeing me in a mask and assuming I'm 'scared'.

COVID probably won't kill you...this time. But it's gonna do you cumulative harm, every time. It's gonna fuck you up, and then your family and your friends you passed it on to.

Protecting your community from scary shit is just smart.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

(and i think it is a demand that stems from fear more than a rational assessment of the threat environment)

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Moni 💋 @moni.fans · 12h

And 3 years later we still do not have allow lists, so if you follow someone you like and they get added to a list that’s abused *poof* they’re gone

Pronouns Labeling Service @pronouns.diy · 13h

The Joy of Labeling

and general updates on the current state of the labeler

pronouns.leaflet.pub

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 1d

In the mouth of madness

square.link/u/gsHlY5WF

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 15h

A page spread on the unique pocosin ponds of the U.S. Carolinas. From my book PONDS: An Illustrated Guide, Yale University Press, ~Jan 2026.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #pocosins #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #pocosin #freshwater #RedWolf

A book page spread on the unique acid-dominated pocosin ponds and swamps of North Carolina and South Carolina, USA. In addition to temperate-climate specialists like Venus Flytraps and Yellow Pitcher plants, the dense and barely-accessible pocosin are the last refuge of the severely-endangered Red Wolf of the Carolina coastal plains.

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

I’m very happy, and proud of my fellow Americans, at how many (though not enough) are reacting to ICE abuses. I’m also scared for them, because I think this escalates to more government (and government-supporter) violence, to a tipping point.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 16h

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

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Adie @phoebe13.bsky.social · 15h

A lovely autumn morning.🍂🍃🍁🐦☀️
Wishing everyone a relaxing and peaceful weekend.🙂

A Ruby-crowned Kinglet enjoying the morning sun. Taken today at my local garden.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 15h

Post a blue jay for reasons 🪶⚾️

Don’t blue jays look great in October?

A blue jay on a maple tree in my backyard, red and yellow leaves behind him

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 14h

Remember: Vance knows this. Because he could just ASK HIS FUCKING IN-LAWS. But he doesn’t think they’re people.

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 15h

In the aftermath of 9/11 it was dangerous to be brown in public. People were assaulted, shot and even killed for being or looking like Muslims/Arabs in the eyes of chuds around the country. This included Sikhs as in the murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14h

as a recovering alcoholic I find it offensive that people are saying "well he got the nazi skull while he was drunk" okay and? I got blackout drunk and did stupid shit tons of times and I never woke up with a nazi tattoo

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14h

when I visited korea last year I went to haeinsa temple to see the tripitaka koreana, a set of 80k+ wooden printing blocks for buddhist scriptures, made in the 13th century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripita...

Tripitaka Koreana - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 14h

Isopods!! 🧡

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

Ah, locals mention the federal court order here, which also requires agents to wear some identification.

Also, quite an image in here: masked, fully-geared-out DHS agents getting screamed at in a residential neighborhood by some dude who is barefoot and in pajama pants.

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 14h