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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 18h

For friendsofabracadaver on tumblr, a Least Bittern! Big thanks once again for the #Waymakers donation. The challenge is over for this year but I'll be wrapping up bird art for donors over the next couple weeks. Much appreciation to all of you who joined in!

🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Digital painting of a Least Bittern clinging to green reeds as it aims downward, watching the water carefully for movement. It has yellow eyes, a very sharp pointy beak, and a mottled gray-yellow-reddish back. The water surface is murky and covered in little green duckweed leaves.

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 17h

For oaky-dokey on tumblr, another #Waymakers donor, a Red-winged Blackbird! This female has herself a cotton candy wonderland in the form of downy white cattails in autumn, lucky her!

Thanks all for your patience as I wrap these up! 🎨🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt

Illustration of a female Red-winged Blackbird perched sideways on the top stalk of a cattail, with the bottom covered in white fluff. She has a pointy gray beak, orange-tinted face, streaked belly, and dark tail. Similar to the males, the wrists of her wings are red, but otherwise this bird could be mistaken for a different species entirely by the unaware!

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 14h

Wow, what a stunning photo! That lighting is so perfect.

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 14h

It’s been such a warm Fall here, but apparently that’s changing tonight!
But for now, we still have a few of the fancy sparrows visiting while they rest up before continuing their journey.
One of my favourites is the Harris’s Sparrow and this one was having a good drink!
#Birds 🪶

A Harris’s Sparrow standing in a small creek with its reflection. Its striped tones of dark brown and tan are lit by the morning sun and the creek is a dark black. There are a couple pink rocks by the creek also catching the sun

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 17h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 15h

I approve this take wholeheartedly!!

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 16h

Hey thanks!!

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 17h

For oaky-dokey on tumblr, another #Waymakers donor, a Red-winged Blackbird! This female has herself a cotton candy wonderland in the form of downy white cattails in autumn, lucky her!

Thanks all for your patience as I wrap these up! 🎨🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 17h

These are soooo hard to see! I get my zoop needs from the much more common Green Herons, haha.

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks! I had a lot of fun with it - and still am as I finish up this fun list of species!

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 11d

As October begins, we contemplate how the sea wind had its way with this now-fungal saint.

scary sea-weathered saint on the church near Hartlepool headland (body of saint is heavily eroded down to a veined or boxwork-like underlying structure of the stone, which looks like weird branching fungus).

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 18h

That's okay! Sharing the art so that more people see it is always helpful, since some of them may be able to donate! I know not everyone can, it's gotten tough everywhere, so spreading the word is always appreciated!

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you! Yeah, wow, 37 donations this year vs last year's 15, with $1650 raised to help bring supplies and assistance to the kids, vs a few hundred in previous years. A huge huge jump, and that's just me, $84,595 was raised in total this year across the whole effort!

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 18h

For friendsofabracadaver on tumblr, a Least Bittern! Big thanks once again for the #Waymakers donation. The challenge is over for this year but I'll be wrapping up bird art for donors over the next couple weeks. Much appreciation to all of you who joined in!

🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 20h

Excellent choice!

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Natalie Dombois @nataliedombois.bsky.social · Jan 13

Time to post one of my favorite old illustrations. :)
I created it for a group show resolving around botanical visuals. During this time I read a lot about the ISS and how they grew plants in there to test botanical behavior, which also sparked dreams about deep space travels.

Female Astronaut surrounded by plants. She's holding a space shuttle.

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Coestar @coestar.live · 22h

famous guy doesn't believe in wheels
appointed head of "department of cars"
now all cars lie flat on the ground
journalists argue whether cars need wheels to move
fossil fuel stock values plummet
executive order mandates all cars to run 3h/day
fossil fuel stock values rocket
everyone dies

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 22h

Question for @aro-frog.bsky.social : you donated for "hummingbird" - any particular species or would you like me to pick? There are 375 hummer species out there and they're all fantastic!

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 22h

Phew! Okay, I am back and mostly rested and quite jet-lagged but it's time to work on the remaining Waymakers birds! You guys really outdid yourselves this year - I think last year, 15 people donated from late August - Sept 30. This year? 37! I have 9 birds in the queue, so enjoy as I wrap them up!

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Bru.ib⭐ @bruib.bsky.social · 1d

😼🙀
Two cats. Two approaches to life.
#Vella #Chella #CatSky #BlueCat

Two cats, one chill and relaxed, the other, with ears back, looking intently concerned.

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 1d

Nature Digital just announced the release date!

I can't tell you how exciting it is to have a digital game available just after our board game launch. Working in tandem with the digitsl team made balancing the game much easier.

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From the boardgames community on Reddit: Four years ago we started a risky (crazy?) experiment and started working on a digital board game before the physical board game was even developed. We're now...

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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 1d

MH1, the ”skull in the rock”, represents a child of between 8 and 11 years of age belonging to the species Australopithecus sediba. This and other fossils from Malapa, South Africa, are approximately 2 million years old. #inktober

Line drawing of a skull of Australopithecus still partially embedded in rock, viewed from right front

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 2d

Quick #FossilFriday #paleoart post: a 2025 redo of my 2019 take on the giant #deer Megaloceros. Palaeolithic art captures some aspects of Megaloceros appearance but the details are not unambiguous: when is a line across a body a stripe, when is it a boundary between colour regions?

Three Megaloceros, a stag, doe and fawn, in front of an ice age landscape, painted in 2025. The bodies of the adults have large blocks of colour, without prominent stripes.

Three Megaloceros, a stag, doe and fawn, in front of an ice age landscape, painted in 2019. The body of the stag has a dark stripe extending from the shoulder to the thigh.

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 1d

is there anything more soothing to draw than grasses twisting in the wind?

in progress digital painting of a little egret in dry grass

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