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Laurel @l4ur3l.bsky.social · 6h

Did the one on the right eat a firefly?

Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 6h

Found this photo on Ben Hauck's FB page. Not sure who took it. Pretty rad though!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 20h

Our friend the Dark-sided Toad lives in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia! They are a small toad, only growing to three quarters of an inch long! (photo by Ehren Eksteen)

A black toad with white splotches along their face and belly! They have reddish patches on their upper forelegs and near the tip of their nose! They have a very tough skin texture, and large oblong parotoid glands!

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · Aug 28

mere-fisc, m.n: sea-fish. (MEH-ruh-FISH / ˈmɛ-rə-ˌfɪʃ)
Image: Fish depicted in a 13th-century grammar text; @worcestercathedral.bsky.social F99, f. 71v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval manuscript illustration of two fish facing away from each other, their bodies mostly vertical but with their tails inclined closer together; a triangle-shaped block of text separates them.

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Laurel @l4ur3l.bsky.social · 7h

In Foundation, why aren’t the Empire clones all the same height?

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becca | they/them @beccaisoutside.bsky.social · 11h

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

photo of a bee covered all-over with bright orange pollen.

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

my neighbor stopped me in the parking lot to say "is that your cat?? he's so handsome and I need you to know I'm obsessed with him" and I looked up and saw this

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG is fucking incredible

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 8h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 22h

Ceramic daruma sculpture by Akemi Maegawa

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Laurel @l4ur3l.bsky.social · 9h

They don’t deserve a reply.

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 18h

there’s something so beautifully American about our democracy’s last line of defense being coronary artery disease

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Marquis Lafayette @renegadesci.bsky.social · 9h

I hope every team he enjoys loses from bad calls.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 10h

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abi @lumperslump.bsky.social · 9h

its dangerous to go alone, take this

My hand holds a pink cosmos flower with a yellow center, offering it to Cheese the fluffy white cat and he sniffs it with a skeptical expression. He’s sitting on a wooden table with assorted legos junk behind him

My hand holding the pink cosmos flower up to the fluffy white cat’s face as he looks out the window

My hand holding the pink cosmos flower out for Cheese to sniff, as Spud the black cat is blurry next to him after trying to bite the flower

My hand holding the pink flower up to Spud the black cat as he sniffs it intently

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 9h

In Guatemala, a country routinely ranked as one of the hemisphere’s most corrupt, idealistic young people using TikTok had boosted a reformer to the presidency.

Nearly two-thirds of the nation’s 17 million citizens were under 30.

How TikTokers and Swifties became political power brokers in Guatemala

They helped get an anti-corruption reformer elected president. But with weeks still to go before the inauguration, some of them are getting arrested.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Laurel @l4ur3l.bsky.social · 9h

🤭

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Laurel @l4ur3l.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t think so.

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Chris Packham @bleedbuild.bsky.social · 11h

Say what you will about Philadelphia, their sports mascots are the best on the planet

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Laurel @l4ur3l.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you so much.

Laurel @l4ur3l.bsky.social · 11h

Anybody have a gift link for this?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

For tofu with crisp edges and custardy middles, give it just 15 minutes under the broiler. The technique is inspired by Nobu Matsuhisa’s miso-broiled black cod. nyti.ms/47c6cxz

Headline over a plate of tofu: Nobu-Inspired Miso Boiled Tofu

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Stavros Svensson Kundromichalis @stavrossk.bsky.social · 13h

Xingxiulong chengi staring you down in the Early Jurassic woods of China. From my #book ”När dinosaurierna tog över”
#dinosaur #paleoart #sciart

Xingxiulong chengi staring behind a tree

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Laurel @l4ur3l.bsky.social · 12h

Sarcastic Shark Art @sarcasticsharkart.bsky.social · 13h

Showing how I mask off the background area & try something a little different than usual.

Used the Copic markers to create a sort of stipple ombre fade.

Blacktip Reef Sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus).

#shark #marinelife #sciart #Reef #nature #fish #fishart #animal #animalart #ArtYear #aquatic

Illustration masked off to apply Copic marker background

Finished illustration of Blacktip Reef Sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus). Marker and Prismacolor on Strathmore gray toned paper.

Laurel @l4ur3l.bsky.social · 15h

Hooo boy.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

youtu.be

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Big Art Thread @bigartthread.bsky.social · 21h

Ceramic sculpture by Vietnamese artist Nguyễn Duy Mạnh, 2010s-20s, whose pottery is inspired by historical patterns and forms, using cutting and fragmenting methods to represent the disintegration of cultural traditions.

Four blue and white ceramic vessels sitting on a small plate. Three have sawed off tops with red-lined openings.

A blue and white ceramic form that appears to have melted into a lumpy puddle, with some textured red underneath the decoration resembling cut flesh.

Two blue and white ceramic sculptures sitting on a small plate, shaped like a large and small hill with curving blue lines. The larger one is sawed off at the top and painted red, with a small opening fold revealing red inside.

Blue and white ceramic plate, with a melted ceramic form in the center with textured blue on the underside.

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DTL’s Halloween Display Name @dtl.bsky.social · 1d

smol bee

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Kevin Wertman @kevin.wertman.org · 22h

Don't want to miss #InsectThursday!

So here's a green orchid bee enjoying a ground orchid that I thought looked really neat. 😊

#photography #bees #flowers #orchids

A bright shiny green bee flies towards the yellow center of a purple ground orchid. Background is blurred light green

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