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canyon.mid @zeitpolizei.bsky.social · 17h

I GOT ENGAGED!!!

YIPPEEEEE!!!

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canyon.mid @zeitpolizei.bsky.social · 1d

what if Stef added even more strings to his guitar #deftones #stef

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canyon.mid @zeitpolizei.bsky.social · 1d

coconuts contain cytokinin, a plant hormone that boosts cell division #science #plantscience

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Jerk Douglas @jerkdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

This is a crossover between A Decent Guy's American Dream and @megaflare08.bsky.social 's Jamie Supreme getting some victory dogs after battling the crime guys, who also want hotdog.

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canyon.mid @zeitpolizei.bsky.social · 28d

the malaysian government had been pushin AI this and that for 2 years and now some troll made porn of the cabinet members.
Yeah I hope they've learned their lesson

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Jerk Douglas @jerkdouglas.bsky.social · 28d

This one came out real fun! I have big plans for @sgtcrisis.bsky.social 's Miko. Big enough to not pay attention and draw her incorrectly, and then make a comic about that fact.

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canyon.mid @zeitpolizei.bsky.social · 28d

better be ready for those suspicious consignments

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canyon.mid @zeitpolizei.bsky.social · 28d

I love sunday streams

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Jerk Douglas @jerkdouglas.bsky.social · Sep 11

It's @malberrybush.bsky.social 's birthday! Pant demanded a spread of these for the occasion. Happy birthday!

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · Aug 22

When j-pop, anime, and western fantasy combine - Ultima III for Famicom!

Richard Garriott confirmed several years back that an Exodus anime was made (though unbroadcast) and hinted that he had tapes of it.

#VideoBytes

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My Abandonware @myabandonware.com · Sep 12

New release: Scotland Yard (1998 - Win) - https://www.myabandonware.com/game/scotland-yard-yci #abandonware

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canyon.mid @zeitpolizei.bsky.social · Sep 12

she saved the mansion

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · Sep 7

Beaches might seem barren, but they actually team with life. From my book A Field Guide to The Mid-Atlantic Coast, Yale University Press, a.co/d/6rKgbMQ
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #beaches #ecology

A complex, layered diagram illustrating the multiple levels of organisms and nutrient flow on and within a typical ocean beach.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · Sep 7

A plate on the 19th Century whaling ports of Connecticut, and the Mystic Seaport Museum. From my book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, a.co/d/ffZ6GFP
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #whales #whaling #Mystic

A book spread on the history of whaling along the Connecticut (USA) coast in the 19th Century, featuring my illustrations of a traditional whaleboat, and side views of Humpback, Sperm, and the North Atlantic Right Whale. Photo of the last surviving sail whaleship, the Charles W. Morgan, at the Mystic Seaport Museum.

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Sarah Sketches (COMMS CLOSED) @sarahrsketches.bsky.social · Sep 11

She’s cute no matter what ❤️🩷
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A remake of an older Mareach comic :3
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#mario #princesspeach #mareach

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · Sep 4

Microflora and microfauna of streams. For a new book, "STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide," coming from Yale University Press in 2026.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #rivers #biofilms #microscopic

A complex, multi-photo book plate on the vast array of microscopic plants and animals that inhabit freshwater streams.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · Sep 9

I love summer, and I hate the change of seasons. But eels change in excellent ways, so let's talk about that, instead!

That's right, friends...it's Big Eel Life Cycle Thread time!

Before we start, let's remember that I'm a historian, not a scientist. But I'll do my best. 1/11
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Meme. Drawing of the eels' life cycle, surrounding a map of their migration range, centered on the mid-Atlantic. The drawing shows the evolution cycle:
1. Silver eels spawing
2. Eggs
3. Larval stage
4. Glass eel
5. Elvers
6. Yellow eel
7. Silver eel

The inconsistency in singular/plural drives me a little crazy, because it suggests that eels shift from being multiple animals to one animal and back several times over their lives. Which is silly. Nobody does that. Not even my neighbor, Jim.

Meme text reads:
"There's history in here somewhere"

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · Sep 9

In the fourth of our series of truly weird quantum effects we look at the bizarre situation in which the causal order of events are in a quantum superposition. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/zLrQ50WTWmj

Indefinite causal order: how quantum physics is challenging our understanding of cause and effect – Physics World

Quantum mechanics allows events to occur with indefinite causal order, as Hamish Johnston discovers

ow.ly

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Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · Sep 9

High-mass star-forming region W51A with #JWST MIRI 🔭. #stars

My image processing from today: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:W5...

A bright source middle right. Dark clouds lower right. A crescent-shaped large nebula on the left.

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Walt Watson Astrophotography @waltwatsonastro.bsky.social · Sep 9

Stephan's Quintet (HCG 92) is a compact group of interacting galaxies in Pegasus (~ 290 Mly distant). It is a chaotic grouping with tidal tails and shock waves. Four of the galaxies are interacting while one of them is much closer.

Taken 09/03/25
Exposure: 5 hours
#astronomy #astrophotography

Stephan's Quintet (HCG 92) is a compact group of interacting galaxies in Pegasus (~ 290 million light years distant). It is a chaotic grouping with tidal tails and shock waves. Four of the galaxies are interacting while the one of them is much closer.

Photo taken 09/03/25
Exposure: 5 hours
Moon: none

Equipment:
Telescope: SVBony SV503 102ed
Camera: ZWO ASI533 mc pro
Mount: ZWO AM5
FIlter: SVbony UV/IR cut
Processed in SIRIL, Graxpert and Affinity Photo 2

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ESO @eso.org · Sep 9

Astronomers spot mysterious gamma-ray explosion, unlike any detected before! 💥

Our VLT revealed that its source lies outside our galaxy. Yet its cause is still unknown 🤔 Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2514/

🔭 🧪 ☄️
#extragalactic
#highenergyastro

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · Sep 7

Estuaries: Definition and characteristics. From my book A Field Guide to The Mid-Atlantic Coast, Yale University Press, a.co/d/6rKgbMQ
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #estuaries #Osprey #birds #BirdArt

Diagram explaining the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of estuaries: places where large bodies water near coastlines where freshwater and saltwater mix.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · Sep 7

Structure of a typical stream. From my book A Field Guide to the Connecticut River, Yale University Press, 2024. a.co/d/hIabRmS
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #rivers #Freshwater

A diagram illustrating the typical step-pool-step structure of upland streams running over bedrock.

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Blue the Science Dude @science-dude.bsky.social · Sep 9

The whole universe displayed in a logarithmic map spanning about 20 orders of magnitude. On the left, Earth-sized scales to the largest cosmic distances on the right. (Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi). 🧪🔭 Tip-o-the-hat to @startswithabang.bsky.social medium.com/starts-with-...

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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · Sep 9

Jupiter on September 3rd, 2025.

#Astrophotography

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