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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 8h

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 6h

I would genuinely like to own this book.

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 7h

If you are at home under a blanket, then yes. I am like you. 😅

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 11h

Aw thanks! I had a head start with a premade bisque ceramic. It is a really fun time if you have access to a shop that does it! I believe in exercising all levels of creativity. 💜

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 11h

It's crazy to me that I didn't know these were native to NA or that they are endangered by poachers! Learn something new every day! I also learned that cultivated varieties sold in reputable plant stores are safe. Please kick all varieties of poachers really hard in whatever place suits. 😌

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 11h

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 14h

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 11h

Oh, should have read further in the thread. I see that a reply has already covered this. Thanks!

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 11h

I had no idea about this! They are commonly sold at plant shops here (Idaho) with branded packaging. Do you know if those are propagated to be sold or are they also poached? I found this that seems to indicate they probably fit the criteria for cultivated specimens www.fws.gov/story/2020-0...

Avoid buying poached Venus flytrap plants | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Venus flytrap is North Carolina’s official carnivorous plant. Throughout the world, it is recognized as an iconic insect-eating plant and is a popular potted plant that has captured our imaginations.

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 11h

My hands were also shaking TERRIBLY the entire time, so doing all of the tiny detail work was a bitt wobbly. Hopefully, it just makes it charming.

ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 11h

Thanks! 🥰

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 11h

I had to rush to finish to get to my therapy appointment on time, so I just noticed I forgot to paint the band around his neck holding the leaves. T_T I can correct it if I need to after firing. We'll see. Maybe it will be a happy little accident.

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 11h

Here is the pre-fired ceramic—little clown ghost with a jack o' lantern votive holder. I turned the leaves around his neck into a colorful clown collar that (not be typical for a pierrot clown though the rest of him is styled after a pierrot). XD As always, glaze will be more vibrant after firing!

A glazed bisque ceramic piece shaped like a large jack o' lantern with a happy face next to a sitting ghost who has a pumpkin around his body. The ghost is painted white with black eyes, nose, and mouth and three black buttons down his front. The leaves around his neck are painted green red and blue. At the tip of his little pointed ghost head, it is painted black to replicate the pierrot clown skull cap. The jack o' lantern is painted in alternating lighter orange and darker orange. His eyes and nose are open carved shapes, but the mouth is painted on in black. He is smiling.

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 17h

As a fellow chronic illness haver, I basically cackle every time my endocrinologist asks me if I have reduced my stress. Like HOW do you want me to do that? 🥴

I am sorry that thing shave been so stacked for you though. That is an awful lot. I hope you both celebrate the heck out of turning in 120k!

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 17h

Today, I shall paint halloween themed ceramics with the small one and sister. Can't stop this party train! 🚂🎃👻🧙‍♀️🧟✨

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 18h

Every year, I give my pumpkins to the neighborhood wildlife (mostly squirrels). I am inspired to try to capture their joy now.

Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 21h

Every year, for the last few years, @fallenlights.net and I get pumpkins to put out with our wildlife cameras.

The process has yet to disappoint.

Night vision wildlife camera image of a raccoon with a pumpkin, staring up into the sky.

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Ashley Hall @ladynaturalist.bsky.social · 18h

Happy #FossilFriday!

Join me and Museum and Outreach Educator MaggieJo Widdicombe via Zoom today for a special National Fossil Day edition of Virtual Fossil Friday all about fossils on public lands! 🌎

🗓️ TODAY
🕘 9 – 10 a.m. MST
💻 Free

👉 Join via Zoom: museumoftherockies.org/calendar/vir...

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 18h

Friday, I will in fact buy a coin.

But also, I’m in love. 🥰

The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 18h

I don’t care if Monday’s dead
Tuesday’s dead and Wednesday’s dead
Thursday, I don’t care it’s dead
it’s Friday, BUY A COIN

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 18h

This is the way

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

I now know thee, thou clear spirit, and I now know that thy right worship is defiance.

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 1d

Me, looking at Magic cards out of curiosity: Holy heck! This is an expensive hobby!

Also me: *looks at another camera/lens*

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1d

a moment of zen. a delight.

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

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

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 1d

Truly, a masterwork of takedowns.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

With receipts!

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‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 1d

Oh no! I hope you recover quickly!

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ghoulorie 👻 @malorienilson.com · 1d

Certainly do not know her

a woman says i don 't know her on a tv show

Alt: Mariah Carey shakes her head and smiles, saying, “I don’t know her.”

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