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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@luxomancer.bsky.social

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He/them (ENBY) Photographer ( Macros, skies, cats and things). Citizen Naturalist ( INaturalist observation page https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=luxomancer&verifiable=any ) AUDHD. Gamer, cat servant, Mystic Pixie Dream Bear

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · Oct 17

It seems like we have lots of new users. Welcome! I post mostly #photography, and most of that is #Macro of buggies/ #spiders/ #nature, but also #cats, #skies, and random things. Other things get posted too, science, #art, #games, #random thoughts and occasional #silliness.

A photo of the front of a large yellow and orange IO Moth, (Automeris io) next to a very small brown moth of indeterminate species. The IO Moth has fuzzy yellow legs and forebody, it's forewings are yellow with orange and black patterns. The partly visible hind wings are marked with vivid black eye-spots encircled with orange

A fluffy brown and white tabby Maine Coon cat lays on her side, her head pressed against a window in which her wistful face is reflected

A panoramic photo of a super cell thunderstorm rising into the late afternoon sky over a horizon of trees and a housing development in the right foreground.

A macro photo of a Morning Glory flower. White stamens, bearing globular pollen grains emerge from an intensely purple central section, the petals fading to a pale lavendar.

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✨friendship dave✨(this space for rent)📸 @friendshipdave.wtf · 1h

i felt like i uncovered gold at 5 below finding this, i hope this helps anyone looking for it.

picture of the box room 2 room cat noodle bowl

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 1h

That looks so good, and that bowl is adorable 😻

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✨friendship dave✨(this space for rent)📸 @friendshipdave.wtf · 2h

i made shin ramen today at work! i added ingredients at work using the hot bar at the cafe at my job and asking them for a boiled egg and the meatloaf. the bowl was also bought at 5 below. with the chop sticks! soup is good!

the top so i can steam the top and keep it covered it’s also a kitty face and looks cut when it caps the bowl the chopsticks go through the holy

yum yum! the meatloaf was full of carrots and that added to then flavor of the shin ramen the puck JUST BARELY fit in

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 3h

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 3h

Bugs depicted wearing shoes in 1930s cartoons were scientifically correct

Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 4h

Big fan of this weevil's color scheme, pointy snoot, and huge feet!

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black and yellow weevil on a green leaf with long thin rostrum and very large foot pads

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 4h

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 5h

This handsome spood lad is Hamataliwa grisea, a spider in the lynx family Oxyopidae.

#Spiders
#MacroPhotography
#NaturePhotography
#Arachtober

A photo of a gray spider from the low front/side resting on light painted wood siding. The spider looks somewhat like a jumping spider, it has a compact body and a hump like cephalothorax with the eyes clustered around the front. Its body is covered in grayish brown scales and it has spine-like hairs poking out around its body.

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Haley Thiem @haleythiemwx.bsky.social · 7h

Really great article by a great former colleague @tdiliberto.bsky.social on what a weak La Niña could mean as far as snowfall goes this year, and the long term winter snowfall trend across the U.S.: www.climate.gov/news-feature...

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks 🥰

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you 🙏

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks 😁

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 6h

That is cool AF.😍

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Josh Gibson, Ph.D. @drstrangeant.bsky.social · 1d

#microCT scan of the left palpal bulb (male copulatory organ) of a grass spider I found wandering Beckman's hallways last week! 😍(He was on his last legs when he was preserved for the scan). Taken in the Microscopy Suite of @beckmanillinois.bsky.social and rendered in the Visualization Lab.

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 19h

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 1d

thanks! 🥰

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Jill Orme @ormejks.bsky.social · 1d

A Garden Spider with her packed lunch.

#arachtober #invertebrates #arachnids #spider #GardenSpider #AraneusDiadematus #predation #CommonWasp #VespulaVulgaris #GardenWildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders

A Garden Spider on her web, holding the partly wrapped body of a Common Wasp she has caught. She is a large orange-brown spider with small white patches on her back forming a kind of cross shape, and legs ringed in brown and fawn.

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 🤘😁🤘

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 😊

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 😊

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 😊

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks 😁

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 🥰🙏

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 1d

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 1d

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 🥰